Found this yesterday - Cessna 421

[general]

I may be the last to know this. Was anybody else aware of Gremlin?
Over on another site I caught a post about GA a/c, on a whim scrolled down the list and . . . Huzzah! There it was; a Cessna 421.

I've been pondering a kit for 141 Flt since the 80s but had no clue anyone made it. A short trawl through various merchants -

www.hannants.co.uk/search/index.php?adv=1&product_category_id=&product_division_id=&manufacturer_id=8035&product_type_id=&code=&scale_id=&keyword_search=&setPerPage=25&save_search_name=&save_search=

and I can tick another box on my RNZAF to-do list.

The halcyon days are returning.
There's a Vildebeest, s/thing I'd never have conceived.

Regards

Ross 'The General' McArthur

[Tony]

Aug 14, 2011 0:30:53 GMT 12 general said:

Was anybody else aware of Gremlin?

Nope.
Interesting find though. Have you back-ordered one?

[Bruce]

My 421 is a Gremin kit I got of E-Bay - only it was the 425 turboprop, so I built new Nacelles for it. Mixed resin / Vac kit, quite tricky to get a nice result.

[general]

Mac, not yet. Have to do some extended recce for intel. When I get one I'll definitely give a shout out on contents.

Cheers

Ross

[Bruce]

This is my 421 - it was the first time I used inkjet decals for the cheatlines so the colour isnt right, but its not bad.



Be warned - the gremlin kits are quite a lot of work. The resin is quite brittle and needs a bit of clean up, and fittings such as the UC legs, which have wire reinforcing threaten to break very easily. The whole cabin top is a clear vacform which is tricky to trim to fit nicely, and gluing it on is quite an exercise. You cant use plastic cement as that doesnt work with resin, and white glue isnt strong enough as the joint needs to be filled and sanded. Cyano will cloud the plastic, so 90 second epoxy is about all you can use. As the vacform is very thin and flexible, it tends to float outwards all the time.
It does come with handy pre-cut masks for the windows (Although the windscreen masks arent quite the right shape) which work quite well - put the masks on before gluing the vacform cabin top.

Other than that, its quite a good looking kit.

[agalbraith]

Nice model Bruce!!!

Cheers
Anthony

[general]

Way to go, Bruce!

Sounds like a real brumbie that needs roping and tying then.
Quite looking forward to it, to be honest. I've pottered around enough with vac kits and conversions there doesn't sound anything out-of-the-ordinary.

'Build it. . they will come . . '

)

Regards

Ross