Here is the replica in 1/48 scale
of the Royal Thai Airforce Breguet 14b served in RTAF from 1919-1937 designated
as Bomber Type 1. Licensed built aircraft were manufactured by the
RTAF
factory as well as Several variation to suit each particular task.
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The model was from Hitech kit
which I bought and kept it for quite sometime. The quality of
moulding is a typical of short-run kit, you can expect what's waiting for
when the you decided to start the work. Lots of effort were poured into this project-filing,
filling, surgery, drinking(?)etc.,
with big bowl of patience. Don't be frustrated by my comment if you're about
to grab this kit from the shelf as my modeling skill is still in the amature
class in order to get it done in the right shape. Cockpit was entire scratched
as well as simple engine detail. Put those parts together was another exciting
moment. Gone through that stage you can see the plane that look more like
the plane!, next prepare for the paints.
This model is depicted the
machine which carried special marking on both side of the
fuselage. Those marking was applied after the name of a person or a group whose
purchased or donated an airplane to the airforce. In this example, donated
by the governor of the eastern region. The word written in Thai read "Jaow
praya (oldtime ranking equivalence to "Lord"(?) I guess)
Apaipubate" and had a frog in the middle-I handpainted them and wrote the
donator name by using 0.1 white ink rotting drawing pen. Whole aircraft was
painted dark green. Unfortunately only existed pics are black&white so I
took a guess again, just as we like it to be. Rigging the bi-plane is always
a bitter threat to most low flying hour modeler and this was my second that
still not satisfy to myself but that the best I could bare. The
finished model looked fairly near to the real aircraft in the ref. picture
to me and that's it. Happy modeling & New Year 2007 to every of you
guys.
Chokchai
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