Ive been restoring one of my oldest whiffs. It suffered a major accident a few months ago so i decided to rebuild and repaint it. Heres a few shots of it now its got its new decals on. Still got a few things to do with it before its finished.
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this model was oringnaly built for a 15 foot long carrier deck diorama built a year or two before Tom started this site up. So yep its a bit long in the tooth lol. And yes its based on ye olde (and rare) Matchbox T 55 kit
And now for something a little differnt. A Toom!
Some of you may remember The F-4HL i built in 2006. That one was Fleet Air Arm. The HL was a proposed version that would have been able to operate of HMS Victorious and the American Essex class flat tops. A bigger wing, stretched airframe for bigger Rolls Royce engines ect ect ect. This model was started by Thorvic along side my original one, but he never compleated it and passed it over to me so I could clone the wings and airframe plug for a conversion set (didnt sell to well). i finaly used one of the spare wing sets to compleat the build and I also started a third one that will be in US navy markings. I chose the RAF for this one as I already had a Royal navy one. This one is a ground pounder pretty much in place of the Tonka.
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Its based on the Matchbox kit with a few bits robbed from various Tornado kits.
And finaly one ive been doing for my club's Scale model world display.
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Its the Italeri kit with the old Airfix Top gun mig decals
Excellent job :thumbsup:
Great stuff!
I love the Sea Lightning. Shame that one never saw the light of day.
Those are some very nice clean builds there Martin. I especially like your all black Top Gun MiG markings. Pure eye-candy!
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Brian da Basher
Lovely kits all three Martin. I'm especially keen on the Lightning swinger. I was planning on doing something similar just before I discovered this site, I'd bought BSP Fighters & thought 'godda build that!'. I picked up two 1/48 Lightnings with the idea of the delta wing version & donating it's wings to the swinger, hopefully so I could get them functioning.
It was just as I was getting back into modelling, took me a while, but I realised I needed to walk before I could run! So the projects gone on the indefinate back burner, I might do it in 1/72 now the Trumpeter kit is out. May be some time before I do it, but I'm sure I will some day.
Nice. The VG naval Lightning looks so much beefier than the real thing and the Phantom looks like Wayne Rooney with that new nose! Thankfully the F-5 is sleek in the black scheme, but I think F-5s would look sleek however they were finished. Apart from RF-5ETigereyes (just before somebody jumps in with that suggestion!). ;D ;D
I mentioned another stretched Toom....................
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Im not happy with some of the decals so they will more than likly be removed and replaced.
Martin you are so.......I was going to say disturbed,but will settle for prolific.......................yep prolific and just a little disturbed. LOL
Nice ones mate.
Coming from u allan, that's quite a compliment LOL
Some nice work there, especially the RAF Tomb.
Sweet ! Love the RAF F-4....the underwing stores really do it for me as well !
:cheers:
Love all Phantoms! Wish I could bring myself to hack apart two to make an elongated one :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
Make more!!!
Both toom's are now prety much finished.
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yes that does say USS Hancock on the side.
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And for once ive finished an RAF ground pounder that isnt wearing 9 sqn markings....16 sqn this time around.
Yet another F-4....this time pretty much OOB. Lets see who's first to spot whats whiffy about it.
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pretty much on the nail there Dunc.
Italeri F-4J/S kit in the markings of 892sqn Fleet Air Arm, operating off HMS Queen Elizabeth (CVA01) mid 1970's. the squadron badge is the original 892 badge, before they adopted the Omega.
Oooh! She's a beauty!
Very niiiiice. :thumbsup:
Really nice! I didn't recognize that as an F-4S without the intake antennas (had to look under the wings).
Me like all Phantoms!!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
well it it is an S trying to pass as a J after all lol.
and heres a pic of the bird with full war load.
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So its a Phantom F Mk-1 of 892 squadron, fleet Air Arm. operating from HMS Queen Elizabeth some time in the mid 1970's.
Why F-1 rather than FG-1? simple, the Navy wanted its Phantoms for CAP work not ground pounding, thats what the Buccaneer was for.
And heres were the decals for the Italeri F-4S went to............
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This is an F-4L of VF301 based at mirimar in 1983. An americanized F-4K. Apparently it was looked at. Of course its a Matchbox kit.
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AND a in Ferris colors!!!
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Great stuff :ph34r: Can't have enough F-4s
Most excellent, Martin!
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Brian da Basher
Quote from: Taiidantomcat on January 20, 2010, 07:25:35 PM
Great stuff :ph34r: Can't have enough F-4s
Absolutely agreed! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
The two aquatic canberra's are on hold for now (got bored of em ) so heres another one. (https://www.whatifmodellers.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whatifmodelers.com%2Findex.php%3Faction%3Ddlattach%3Btopic%3D28276.0%3Battach%3D48365%3Bimage&hash=b9e6c611e114c3a63c51731c8e536e3e95161fe4) photo shamelessly pinched from the Cosford show thread.thanks to brother narses for the photo :)
Its an Airfix mash up. The fuss is the Airfix B-57, with the wings pinched from yee olde Airfix Canberra B(I) 6. So its powered by RR Avons rather than the usual B-57 American engines. The decals came from the same B(I) 6 kit. It also has the Gun pod from the B 6 kit :) althou you cant see it or the hard points under the wings :)
The B 57 wings will find their way onto the rest of the afore mentioned B 6 at some point.
where did you get the canberra with the hull? :wub: i want one :wacko:
Quote from: Black Knight on April 18, 2010, 10:17:59 AM
where did you get the canberra with the hull? :wub: i want one :wacko:
I know a man that can.
are they solid resin? and are they expensive?
at the moment I belive they are not on sale, the one i got was by pure chance. And yes its solid resin
Thanks, i'll look out for one :thumbsup: got a nice idea for one :wacko: and the b-57 looks great ;D
Your hull and float Camberras are wonderful. Please finish them someday for our enjoyment... :thumbsup: ;D
been a while since i finished a build.
Im back to my Dakota fixation.
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Very reminiscient of the Ju252/352. They made a trimotor Dakota didn't they with a Dart turboprop in the nose?
That is Sweet! I love the look of it. Bravo!! Plus, you've given me a big idea for a biplane DC-3 ;D
That was the Tri Turbo three.
With P&W PT6's not darts.
I used a cloned copy of the nose section from Classic plane conversion set on this build
I like the Canberra seaplane - I like your choice of big floats - makes me feel better about my choice of big floats on my Me262
and I like the tri-motor - very Ju 352
nice work on all of them
Just a little suggestion on the Canberra seaplane, the load cg on a Canberra coincides with the front edge of the main wheel bay, or about three feet in front of the main wheel axles. I've noticed that the step in floats is usually just a little behind the cg point. I would move the floats further forward from where you have them Martin. See the below pics for what I mean. But I like the Flying boat version --- hmm!!
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Love the trimotor Dak! :thumbsup:
Regards,
Greg
Ref The afore mentioned Ashton.
it doesnt qualify to appear on here........Its real.
taming being the correct word for it lol
The Fuselage parts where so badly warped, you could have used them as massive cork screws. It took six weeks of the hot water treatment to get them as near as damn it flat. super glue and some very heavy duty clamps did the rest.
The Dak is super cool ! Really changes the look of her, eh ?
:cheers:
The Ashton is fast approaching completion. It doesnt really qualify for here, but a quick look wont hurt :mellow:
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Gulp!
That was a MAGNA resin? That's a serious Lazarus job you've done there OGL. :thumbsup:
you aint kidding .
This monster was determined to fight me all the way during construction.
I believe the Ashton's fuselage still exists, someone at Air-Britain had taken a photo of it not long ago (IIRC)
Quote from: kitnut617 on March 04, 2011, 02:05:38 PM
I believe the Ashton's fuselage still exists, someone at Air-Britain had taken a photo of it not long ago (IIRC)
Yes, it's at Newark, in remarkably good condition, apart from the lack of wheels, engines and wings that is. :angry:
Nice model, close but not 100 % to the real thing. Don't get me wrong, I like it.
Gondor
close enough for Government work lol
Quote from: Gondor on March 04, 2011, 02:18:06 PM
Nice model, close but not 100 % to the real thing. Don't get me wrong, I like it.
If it was a 100% to the real thing it would be made from aluminium, have four jet engines and be FAR too big to fit into OGL's house!
And it would fly too............ ;D
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Quote from: Gondor on March 04, 2011, 02:18:06 PM
Nice model, close but not 100 % to the real thing. Don't get me wrong, I like it.
If it was a 100% to the real thing it would be made from aluminium, have four jet engines and be FAR too big to fit into OGL's house!
And it would fly too............ ;D
Correct response! :thumbsup: ;D
"Is it accurate?"
"Nope"
"Why not?"
"'Cos it's seventy-two times too small and made of plastic."
Good job on that Martin. Magna and NMF :banghead: :banghead:
Excellent job Martin. Public showing (of the Ashton!) at any time soon?
;D ;D
Quote from: kitbasher on March 05, 2011, 04:49:21 AM
Excellent job Martin. Public showing (of the Ashton!) at any time soon?
;D ;D
Even thou it isnt finished yet, The Ashton made its public debut today at the Peterbrough show. On the Coventry & Warwickshire stand. And it attracted a lot of interest. The Whiff stand was next to the Cov stand so I could keep an eye on it.
Quote from: kitnut617 on March 04, 2011, 02:05:38 PM
I believe the Ashton's fuselage still exists, someone at Air-Britain had taken a photo of it not long ago (IIRC)
Wouldn't swear to it, but wasn't it at Woodford for a while? There was a faded blue and silver fuselage down the side of the heritage centre when I started there, then one day I noticed it was gone, but I don't know what happened to it.
did it look like this?
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these were taken at Newark last September
The pic I've seen it's closer to the building behind it in your third pic Martin.
Nice one OGL. :drink: :bow:
And neatly twisted backstory too. ;D
Nice one Martin :thumbsup:
Been a bit of a gap since my last entry on this thread.
First up. The Douglas DC-5. British Airways placed an order for 8 in early 1939. A deposit was paid and registration's were reserved. Unfortunately a little fracas called the second world war kicked off. And the deposit was taken over for military contracts.
Heres what they may have looked like had the war not got in the way.
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Next is a Czech airforce CH-47A. The story here is that in the late 70's Vietnam decided to sell off its fleet of CH-47's that it inherited from the former RVNAF. Czechoslovakia saw the Chinook as rather useful so acquired most of them. They managed to operate them with out spares support from the west until the cold war ended. after which Boeing was more than willing to support them, they were later upgraded to a hybrid CH-47C/Chinook HC-1 standard.
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Now they are nice Martin :thumbsup:
Who's kit is the DC5 ?
Its the Planet models kit Chris ;D
Love the AEW chopper ! That kind of stuff always gets me thinking...great work on the DC-5 too, such a neat looking aeroplane. Reminds me of a Botha.
And that Chinook looks pretty thirsty !
:cheers:
Quote from: Martin H on February 25, 2013, 03:03:45 PM
Its the Planet models kit Chris ;D
Thought it might be, good job with her
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been a while since i finished a build.
Im back to my Dakota fixation.
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This I like :wub:
Still on the Roterey wing kick......................
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FIGAS (Falkland Island Government Air Service) Sikorsky UH-34T. One of two captured H-34's pressed into service with FIGAS almost as soon as the ink was dry on the surrender documents. Flown out to Hermes by Wessex pilots and repainted with a stange mix of shades to make this rather bright scheme. They were used for a number of years and were finaly sold to American warbird collectors in 1990.
Of course the Argintine never had or deployed any rebuilt UH-34s................The real FIGAS captured chopper with this reg was a UH-1D.
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Prior to gaining their licence to build what we now know as the Wessex, Westland started off building the Seahorse for the Royal Navy. This one is a Westland Seahorse HAS-3 in the standard ASW scheme of its time. Most were recycled through the factory to Wessex standard during the mid 1970's, but some lingered on into the 80's with reserve and training units.
Both are the Italeri kits. The UH-34 has the turbo conversopn From Mel Bromley's S&M resin range. The SeaHorse HAS-3 is the Italeri Wessex HAS-3 with the spare nose off the UH-34 ;D
Clever 'mix and match' pair there OGL, I like them. :thumbsup: :bow:
Will they appear at Cosford?
they should do ;D
There's some good treatment available now for this rotor fetish thing Martin, they don't use the sock and brick anymore ;D
Nah, seriously mate nice models :thumbsup: See you at Cosford
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There's some good treatment available now for this rotor fetish thing Martin, they don't use the sock and brick anymore ;D
Nah, seriously mate nice models :thumbsup: See you at Cosford
no its a bar of soap in a sock now due to the h&s nazis :lol:
A couple of better photos.
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Quote from: eatthis on April 01, 2013, 04:20:06 AM
Quote from: NARSES2 on April 01, 2013, 03:53:41 AM
There's some good treatment available now for this rotor fetish thing Martin, they don't use the sock and brick anymore ;D
Nah, seriously mate nice models :thumbsup: See you at Cosford
no its a bar of soap in a sock now due to the h&s nazis
.....but it's a 2kg bar of soap!
Quote from: Rheged on April 02, 2013, 03:04:25 PM
Quote from: eatthis on April 01, 2013, 04:20:06 AM
Quote from: NARSES2 on April 01, 2013, 03:53:41 AM
There's some good treatment available now for this rotor fetish thing Martin, they don't use the sock and brick anymore ;D
Nah, seriously mate nice models :thumbsup: See you at Cosford
no its a bar of soap in a sock now due to the h&s nazis
.....but it's a 2kg bar of soap!
hell yeah
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Quote from: Martin H on February 18, 2011, 03:31:55 PM
been a while since i finished a build.
Im back to my Dakota fixation.
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This I like :wub:
great stuff beatiful work.
OGL....great stuff.....!! Is the chinook one of th bargains you got at Crewe...??
nope its first public outing (and that photo) was at Crewe.
Saw some of the egg whisks in the flesh yesterday. Photo's don't do them justice. As I said to you Martin, you've gone up a level or two :thumbsup:
heres another egg wisk ;D
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some of the lads saw this in my work in progress box at Cosford, half built.
Its a Westland Wessex HAS-5 of 820NAS operating off HMS Blake just prior to the Falklands punch up.
Basically this is a trash hauler turned into a "Pinger" It even has a hatch in the floor for the dunking sonar ;D
Italeri All the way here, with some markings taken from a Microscale sheet.
Great helos Martin! :thumbsup:
Enjoying these Wessex builds Martin, I've always liked it despite the fact it's face can turn milk sour. The RAF yella ones used to pass by our village regularly when I was a kid. One landed in a paddock right next to me when I was doing my paper round, and took off again promptly, no one ever believed me.
one more Wessex to go from this batch of whiff's then three more egg wisks (one for Project canceled), then maybe back to fixed wing for a while.
Quote from: Mossie on April 10, 2013, 01:56:44 AM
Enjoying these Wessex builds Martin, I've always liked it despite the fact it's face can turn milk sour. The RAF yella ones used to pass by our village regularly when I was a kid. One landed in a paddock right next to me when I was doing my paper round, and took off again promptly, no one ever believed me.
Did they at least buy a paper from you? :rolleyes:
Lovely helos Martin. This whirlybird 'fetish' is getting to be a bit of an epidemic on here ain't it?? LOL
Three more furious palm trees tonight ;D
First up is the Last of the Wessex builds (for now).
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This is a Wessex HU-3 operating out of Singapore during the Confrontation. This one has been armed with a 50cal on an improvised mount to act as an escort/fire support boat for the other Junglies of the squadron. Italeri Wessex HAS-3 kit here, minus the ASW gear and gaining the hardware from a UH-34D kit. Decals and paint job from the Italeri Wessex HU-5 kit.
Next!
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Army Air Corp Bell Iroquois AH-1B. Normaly found patroling the Belize/Guatemala border. Hence the rocket pods. in 1982 two of the 8 aircraft stationed at Belize airport were shipped as flight deck cargo by HMS Exeter (RN west indies guard ship) to Ascension for onward shipment south to support SAS operations on the Falklands. The wrap around cammo was modified by the under side being painted black once trans shipped under a Chinook from Exeter to HMS Bulwark.
Italeri UH-1C kit built oob but with a new paint job and decals :) Might be more British Hueys from me in due course.
And last but by no means least.................
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Here we have a Bristol Type 192AEW. The real Type 192 evolved into the Belverdere used by the RAF. The type was also looked at by the Royal Navy for both ASW and AEW duties. This model is based on a verbal description of the AEW version mentioned during a conversation with TSRJoe. Allowing me to do something for the Project cancelled SIG theme for Telford. AEW projects. Airfix Bristol 192/Belverdere kit with a resin radar pod for a Skyraider AEW from Magna resins.
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Here we have a Bristol Type 192AEW. The real Type 192 evolved into the Belverdere used by the RAF. The type was also looked at by the Royal Navy for both ASW and AEW duties. This model is based on a verbal description of the AEW version mentioned during a conversation with TSRJoe. Allowing me to do something for the Project cancelled SIG theme for Telford. AEW projects. Airfix Bristol 192/Belverdere kit with a resin radar pod for a Skyraider AEW from Magna resins.
And what is the theme for the Project Cancelled SIG and the What-If SIG this year for Telford?
Gondor
It says it in the text lol.
AEW Projects
That AEW Belvedere makes SO much sense, and it looks great too. :cheers:
It's one bitch of a kit so you did some really good work there OGL. :thumbsup: :bow:
Agree completely with what Kit has said :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Are there any technical specs on that Bristol Type 192AEW Martin? It looks like something the RN could've done with down in the Falklands ----
LOVE that AEW Belvedere, it looks absolutely amazing.
Quote from: kitnut617 on April 16, 2013, 08:21:49 AM
Are there any technical specs on that Bristol Type 192AEW Martin? It looks like something the RN could've done with down in the Falklands ----
As I said in the text. All I had to work on was a verbal discription, if any one has the details it would be TSRJoe ;D
Quote from: Martin H on April 15, 2013, 02:22:40 PM
It says it in the text lol.
AEW Projects
Right.... I better get cracking with that Fairly Spearfish I have and my AEW DC-10 :thumbsup:
Gondor
My first post Scots Nationals build.
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RAF Lockheed C-130A Hercules C mk-1. Of 98 squadron based at Lyneham in 1962.
Ordered as part of a joint RAAF/RAF C-130A purchase, The RAF acquired 15 of these early "Roman nose" A models (XN985-999). Lockheed was so keen to secure the order. They talked the USAF into delaying their own deliveries to allow the RAAF & RAF to get their birds early.
Operated by 98 sqn out of Lyneham, they spent most of the 1960's flying between the UK and Singapore, Hong Kong, Gan ect supporting UK forces east of Suez, a job they performed very well. How ever, it took the RAAF to show the Brits just how to use a Herk properly while operating their own A models in support of Commonwealth forces in Borneo.
This led to a larger RAF Order for what became the C-130K Hercules C Mk-2/3 for use as a tactical transport. The older Herks soldered on well into the 1980's and gave sterling support moving all sorts of cargo down to Wideawake for operation Corporate. The lack of in flight refueling prevented them heading any further south, apart from 2 aircraft that supported the covert transfer of 24 ex RAF TSR-2's to the SAAF as "payment" for South Africa's secret help during the punch up on the other side of the south Atlantic.
Post Falklands, 5 airframes were taken in hand for modification and received an extra pair of drop tanks between the engines to give them just about enough legs to make Port Stanley from Wideawake. Classed as C Mk-1A's the 5 modified aircraft were the last of their kind in front line RAF service, The remaining 10 C Mk-1's were transfered in 1983 to the RAuxAF and served with 620 (county of Northamptonshire) squadron out of RAF Polebrook untill replace by hand me down C Mk-2's in 1989. The 5 C Mk-1A's ended their days as crew trainers and finally bowed out in 1992.
The model, is the Italeri C-130E/H kit with the Oz Mods C-130A resin set and the Roman nose from Blackbird (its a direct rip off of the DB resins nose). Decals are from the Kit (national insignia) and rest from my decal box.
The serial number does not exist. It was taken from a block of unused numbers at the end of the XR range that suited the back story and the time frame for first deliveries. Why 98 sqn? simple, they were a Thor IRBM squadron from 1959 to 1963, and then Canberra's untill 1976, then disbandment. So it was easy to rewrite their history.
Nice one Martin. :thumbsup:
Excellent stuff OGL, and the backstory is the work of a master. :thumbsup: :bow:
So that's 1/72 scale then? About time we had a few larger models on the SIG stand......... ;D
yeap gods own scale Kit. And dont you worry, ive done quite a few larger aircraft for the SIG over the years.
Red Arrows support C-130K
RAF B-52D in Antiflash and a Blue steel under each wing
SEAC Messerschmitt Giggant.
RAF C-97A Strato Freighter.
SAAF Victor B-1.
SAAF Nimrod MR-1.
USAF B-49C in the SEA night scheme.
operational Phase 6 Vulcan B-3. (as a black buck)
all in 72nd scale
in fact dating from 2008 heres the Stratofrieghter C Mk-1.
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Meet one of 18sqn's Boeing Stratofrieghter C mk-1. these came with the loaned Washington B-1's but were paid for out right to give the RAF some heavy lift assets. they served long and hard in RAF service with all but one being re engined with RR darts and converted into tankers. this one was the sole unmodified bird, named "the survivor" as a result and transfered from 18 sqn to 8 sqn at Lossimouth to serve as a trainer for Shackelton AEW 3 crews (yes i said AEW 3). She was returned to 18 sqn ownership when the shacks retired, and is now preserved out side the sqn HQ at odiham....Along side a slightly more better known and younger Boeing built Bravo November.............
Hm, odd, I've been to Odiham countless numbers of times but never noticed the Strat. I must have been looking in the wrong direction every time I passed it........ ;D
Perhaps a few more of the BIG ONES might appear on the stand now and then? We do seem to have majored on smaller models recently.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I'M the idiot who built the world's biggest 777..........
That's really, really good Martin and I'm glad to see you seem to have recovered from your attack of "rotoritis" ;D
I never even knew there was a "Roman Nose" version :banghead:
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That's really, really good Martin and I'm glad to see you seem to have recovered from your attack of "rotoritis" ;D
I never even knew there was a "Roman Nose" version :banghead:
Yeap it looks a little odd without the readr nose, its as it its had it squished in a fight with a Beverley or taxied to close to a hanger and screaped off the tip of its nose ;D.
Nice looking model Martin, we'll have to do an alternative Transport Command if we can get Lee to ever finish his V-1000 !!! :thumbsup:
For those who didnt know, I was volunteered for a few builds for the The project cancelled sig display for SMW 2013.
The Bristol 192 AEW was the first (and smallest) build of the three ive been lumbered with.
The following will is the largest.
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This is Lockheed Warningstar AEW Mk-1 XR965. Of 8 squadron, based at RAF Lossimouth in the late 1960's.
It would seem that when Dennis Healey went Stateside to beg/plead for Phantom's, F-111's and C-130's. He also had 12 EC-121's on his wish list. A number of which were sitting gathering dust at the Boneyard. However, Uncle Sam wasnt so keen to part with them so Healey went with out.
This is what they might have looked like had Healy got every thing on his wish list.
The kit is the Heller warning Star kit build out of the box, but with decals from the recently rereleased Shackelton decal sheets from Aeroclub.
The serial comes from a gap in batches of Folland Gnat T-1's. So as far as I know was never issued to any type.
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This monster fought me every inch of the way. First off when I sealed the fuselage halves, it tuned out to be a tail sitter, even with over 200 grams of lead in the nose. So I resigned myself to it needing a tail stand. Then a few days later while taking it down stairs to do some work on it in the garden, I lost my grip on it and it went bouncing down the stairs. cracking it wide open and causing other damage. Thankfully no parts went missing, So I set about repairing it. and used the opportunity to increase the ballast in the nose. An extra 200 grams of lead went into this pain in the rear.
the paint job wasn't all plain sailing either. The Halfords Primer and the Xtracylic Dark Sea Grey didn't like each other that much. so there two whole bottles worth of Xtracylic DSG on this build!
And then the decals. Dunno were John Adams gets them printed, but they wernt to keen to stay in place even with the models having three coats of Klear before it went anywhere near the decals. A top coat of klear over the decals sorted out all bar the serial on the other side to the first photo. It went missing! I found it stuck fast to my thumb! And of course I dont have a replacement.................Yet.
And being a glutton for punishment, I started a Super Conni along side the Warningstar. althou thats on the back burner for now.
You could be said to be a glutton for punishment OGL....... ;D
But it looks GREAT, well done indeed. :thumbsup: :bow:
What do you mean Lumbered !!!! :o (i wouldn't do a thing like that now would i :wacko: )
Slight addition to the timeline to set the context the Warning Star was actually intended for the East of Suez role for use from the new mounting bases in the Indian Ocean that would have replaced our former Garrisons as they gained independence. They would have still been head quartered in the UK and would have acted as a stop gap (instead of the Shackletons) whilst a home grown solution was developed. That's why it has the white cabin roof as per the Shack MPA rather than the actual Shack AEW2 as those were no longer needed for use in hot climates.
Nice build and certainly looks the part :thumbsup:, and it certainly had its trials and tribulations for what was an OOB build !!!.
I take it the Super Connie is on the back burner whilst you try something a little more conservative in size and hopefully without the added stresses ;D
Nice one Martin :thumbsup: It is a big bugger
Well it may have been a pig to build but it's a looker now it's done: nice one Martin! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Certainly looks good in those colours Martin. :thumbsup:
Pretty! Looks very good in this livery, well done!
Should have had Griffons...? ;)
Quote from: Dizzyfugu on July 01, 2013, 04:38:12 AM
Should have had Griffons...? ;)
Would have been way under-powered, at least a 1000 hp less on each engine. Now Sabre VII's maybe -----
Heres the 3rd and last 1/72nd scale AEW builds for this years Project canceled SIG theme
The Lockheed EC-130K Herculese AEW Mk-2K. Based on the real Lockheed FASS project
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With the entry into service of the Nimrod AEW 3, the RAF decided it also needed a cheaper home grown AEW platform for use in the south atlantic. Lockheed and Marconi's put in a joint bid offering to mount the Nimrods radar system onto a number of existing RAF C-130's. The RAF/MOD gladly took up the offer, as it ment no new aircrew training or new maintenance facilities. eight airframes were selected and converted by Marshalls with a joint Marshalls, Lockheed and Marconi team.
This is XV179 in the markings of C flight, of 8 squadron based at RAF mount Pleasant around 1988. It was decided to fit the eight airframes out as duel role AEW/Tankers. Carrying the same wing mounted IFR pods used by the USMC KC-130's. This freed up the RAF's VC-10s to remain in europe for NATO work.
There were no more than 4 aircraft in the Falklands at any one time, the remaining 4 were in the UK either under deport level maintenance at Lynham or training with the rest of 8 squadron at Lossimouth and later Waddington.
The model is the Italeri kit with clones of the Cammet Nimrod AEW conversion modded to fit. There is a lot of putty on this beast as would be expected when adding such large lumps of resin.The IFR pods are from the ESCI C-130 kit. The decals are a mix of real C-130 and Airfix Sentry decals for the squadron markings. the Falklands coat of arms under the cockpit is from a Matchbox Phantom kit. The paint job used is mainly Gunze/mr color rather than my usual Lifecolor/Xrtacylics.
AWESOME! :thumbsup: :bow:
Heh - I remember seeing that in Marconi ads from the early 1980s - nice one Martin! :thumbsup:
Quote from: Weaver on September 01, 2013, 02:38:53 PM
Heh - I remember seeing that in Marconi ads from the early 1980s - nice one Martin! :thumbsup:
Believe it or not that advert helped to spark my interest in whiffery. This has been one of those builds ive been wanting to do for years, just not had the ability or assets (ie resin conversion set) to achive it. Untill now.
Top banana, OGL!
And 3rd AEW build this year? That's just showing off, Martin. ;)
Brilliant.. look forward to seeing this at the Show
Excellent work. Strangest looking C-130 I've ever seen.
Love that Hercules , Martin , definately a "should have been ", great build.
Andrew
Excellent work Martin, the herc strangley looks rather good in the Hemp and LAG scheme :thumbsup:
And thats another one to the Project Cancelled AEW display, TSRJoe and me really need to get our skates on and get build completed :banghead:
Very much looks the part Martin, quite smart in hemp! :thumbsup:
Quote from: Thorvic on September 02, 2013, 12:29:54 AM
Excellent work Martin, the herc strangley looks rather good in the Hemp and LAG scheme :thumbsup:
My thoughts exactly - nice build Martin :thumbsup:
Quote from: NARSES2 on September 02, 2013, 07:34:16 AM
Quote from: Thorvic on September 02, 2013, 12:29:54 AM
Excellent work Martin, the Herc strangley looks rather good in the Hemp and LAG scheme :thumbsup:
My thoughts exactly - nice build Martin :thumbsup:
Add my agreement to these. Also, looks strangely natural with those whopping great domes, too. Weird! :thumbsup:
:cheers:
Guy
Surely you mean "naturally strange"? ;D
Regards
Keith
Quote from: Martin H on September 01, 2013, 02:42:58 PM
Quote from: Weaver on September 01, 2013, 02:38:53 PM
Heh - I remember seeing that in Marconi ads from the early 1980s - nice one Martin! :thumbsup:
Believe it or not that advert helped to spark my interest in whiffery. This has been one of those builds ive been wanting to do for years, just not had the ability or assets (ie resin conversion set) to achive it. Untill now.
You and me both Martin ---- I've been looking at my 1/72 Airbus A310 and giving it the treatment, seen something about it in Battle Flight (or was it Vulcan's Hammer)
Very nicely done too :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Yes...I just love looking at that Herc ! I was wondering in the other thread about the wing tanks...and now I know !
well now SMW13 is out of the way. AEW builds 4 and 5 can now be added to the thread. Both were built to fill gaps for models that we knew few weeks in advance wouldn't be done in time by those who had offered them.
first up Build 4.
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Taken from Chris Gibson's Airstaff & AEW book. The RAF has wanted the E-3 since the system started development. They came up with a cunning plan to get the E-3 on the cheap (or so they believed). They put forward the idea that the MOD acquire a number of the then soon to be retired British Airways Boeing 707 fleet (the ones with RR Conway engines) at a knock down price. Then mount the E-3 dish and systems. Some bean counter in Whitehall worked out that the Conway would be a very expensive engine to run and maintain, so the idea was kicked into the long grass.
The kit is the old Airfix 1/144th Conway 707 kit with the Dish and legs from a 2nd hand Revell E-3 kit I had been given a few years ago.
Build 5.
Now this monster was something of a speed build. It was started 3 days after the Glasgow show, and the last bits of paint touching up finished 3 days prior to SMW.
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Due to the Frieghtdog 1/144th kit, I dont think this one needs much of an intro.
TSR Joe was ment to be doing this one for SMW, but was unable to complete his build. So I was suppled with some resin bits for the nose and upper and lower radar domes. And I started throwing an Academy C-97 kit together. I added a set of white metal undercarriage from SAC, as this beast weighs a ton. The cockpit was formed using a heavily modified spare canopy from an Airfix valiant. It isnt perfect by a long shot. But for an unplanned last moment high speed build its adequate.
But what are you going to do with the REST of the Valiant? ;D
simple, you get two canopies in the Airfix Valiant kit.
Those Boeing AEW beasties do look better in the flesh than they do in photos, so very well done to those who have built them - especially the 1/72 versions.
Still looks like a Sperm whale to me though.
Nicknamed 'Moby' by the RAF crews that flew one, could one have been shot down over the Baltic by a MiG-21 armed with 'Ahab' air-to-air missiles?
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Nicknamed 'Moby' by the RAF crews that flew one, could one have been shot down over the Baltic by a MiG-21 armed with 'Ahab' air-to-air missiles?
LOL....good one !
Nice builds. Love the 707. I was wondering what those little things were sticking out out the engines....Conways !
Great builds, love them! ------
Did you use a conversion for the Conways Martin? I've seen one somewhere but I can't remember where now --
nah its a conway powered aircraft in the old Airfix kit. Its not my normal scale, this one is 1/144th :)
But yes there is a 72nd scale conversion set from some outfit in Germany.
Quote from: Martin H on November 11, 2013, 11:41:24 AM
nah its a conway powered aircraft in the old Airfix kit. Its not my normal scale, this one is 1/144th :)
But yes there is a 72nd scale conversion set from some outfit in Germany.
That'd be Classic Airliners I expect. Some DC8s had Conways too.
Quote from: PR19_Kit on November 11, 2013, 11:47:25 AM
Quote from: Martin H on November 11, 2013, 11:41:24 AM
nah its a conway powered aircraft in the old Airfix kit. Its not my normal scale, this one is 1/144th :)
But yes there is a 72nd scale conversion set from some outfit in Germany.
That'd be Classic Airliners I expect. Some DC8s had Conways too.
Were those the lot at the show next to two-six with the 1/72 Boeing 727 resin kit and working on the 1/72 BAC 1-11 ?
Quote from: Thorvic on November 11, 2013, 01:12:08 PM
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Quote from: Martin H on November 11, 2013, 11:41:24 AM
nah its a conway powered aircraft in the old Airfix kit. Its not my normal scale, this one is 1/144th :)
But yes there is a 72nd scale conversion set from some outfit in Germany.
That'd be Classic Airliners I expect. Some DC8s had Conways too.
Were those the lot at the show next to two-six with the 1/72 Boeing 727 resin kit and working on the 1/72 BAC 1-11 ?
That's the guys, yes (or maybe Herren ;D) They do good stuff and it's usually unobtainable elsewhere but it's pretty darned expensive.
Good Lord someone built a flying submarine!
Brilliant builds ,
I hope my 1/72 Academy C-97 builds are as good as yours . Got my own theme of AEW/AWACS aircraft going .
Thanks for the pics .
Now that I've actually read the post properly, I can really see the Valiant canopy ! looks right at home !
Nice work.
:tornado:
The first post SMW build is now under way.
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It got started at tonights Bedford club meeting.
Good greif you jumo straight back on the wagon with the Lonewulf Sidetack conversion to the Airfix SHAR2 kit !!! :blink:
Looking good so far :thumbsup:
Does that ever look good ! Lonewolf Sidetrack eh ?
:cheers:
Does that come with the T2 tail already, or do you have to get that from elsewhere?
I'd say it comes with....as it's 18 pound for the set. And it says so.....looks absolutely stunning. Definitely want one ! I think as soon as I get these Boomerangs done it's going to be Harrier time. :thumbsup:
http://www.lonewulfmodels.co.uk/view_product.php?c_id=21&sc_id=51&p_id=3153
This one one I was going to scratch build for SMW this year but ran out of interest. Might finish it anyway to see how well my build compares against the conversion set. So far I am using the Xtrakit FA2 with a Heller/Bobcat T4 tail.
Gondor
Love the wing tip floats, Martin ;)
I noticed a completed Sidetrack on one of the club/branch/SIG stands at SMW.
I saw that one as well, on the Shropshire stand I think.
I think I need one of those conversions for this below, it's my Sea Harrier F.13 or F.14 (haven't decided yet) but the idea is it's an AEW of sorts.
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That looks good :thumbsup:
You just need to finish it now ;D
Like so many of my models, yours seems to have been
Waiting a while to get finished :cheers:
Personally I think they get better if one lets them 'Age' ;) :drink:
Before one 'Finishes' them :blink:
Regards
Keith
You're right Keith, I've got too many that are ""nearly"" done. Like someone else here, so many ideas and not enough time ----
Also got a Lonewulf Side-track Harrier underway, not a bad conversion set either as designed for the Airfix Sea Harrier FA2 kit so the cuts required are along panel lines, recommended :thumbsup:.
Hopefully we may see Martins completed example by the weekend, should the painting go to plan ;D
Well Geoff has finished his sidetrack Harrier. Mine still has a bit to go .
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Plus heres a non whiff ive made a start on.............................................
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ooooh Tie Defender :thumbsup:
heres another view of the Tie Defender
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Quote from: Martin H on January 09, 2014, 01:06:46 PM
Plus heres a non whiff ive made a start on.............................................
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If that isn't an out-&-out whiff I don't know what a what-if is then ---
That Tie Defender is wild !
Love that Sidetrack Harrier. The more I look....the more I like !
:cheers:
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Quote from: Martin H on January 09, 2014, 01:06:46 PM
Plus heres a non whiff ive made a start on.............................................
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If that isn't an out-&-out whiff I don't know what a what-if is then ---
Exactly mate.Martin's referring to the Swiss Chalet in the background I think :rolleyes:
Wot? You mean Star Wars isn't a documentary!? :o :banghead:
:cheers:
Guy
Oh I LOVE the TIE Defender....Where did you get it?? Of course, the harrier conversion looks pretty damm good as well..
it was an ebay win from a guy in Canada a few years back.
For all intents and purposes Im calling the Sidetrack Harrier finished. (still a few small bits and bobs to do but close enough for Government work)
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And a few pics of something else ive been working on over the last few months. Now about 85-90% complete.
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For those thinking id been cured of roteritus.....think again! ;D Theres another one about 50% complete on its way as well.
Hmm, OK. So that's an FAA piston engined S-58 then?
correct ;D
Come out well Martin :thumbsup:
Looking good, nice to see another SideTrack SHAR finished :thumbsup:.
What colours did you use on the SAR Wessex ?
Quote from: lancer on January 10, 2014, 11:39:38 AM
Oh I LOVE the TIE Defender....Where did you get it??
Looks almost like two AMT TIE Interceptors bashed into one? Nice idea and concept :thumbsup:
Quote from: Thorvic on January 13, 2014, 07:44:22 AM
What colours did you use on the SAR Wessex ?
RAF Blue-grey out of a rattle can from CJ aerosols. and Scarlet red from Valejio.
The first full 2014 build.
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Lightning F-2A. The C.O's aircraft of 85 sqn based at RAF North Luffenham 1972.
85 never flew Lightnings. Their last fighters were Javelins. They ended up as a Bloodhound squadron.
The new(ish) Airfix kit with decals from the kit and various Modeldecal sheets.
Smart tie..... (sorry) ;)
always one joker lol
They look good and like the Lightning.
I keep hoping FineMolds will release a Tie Bomber. And an A-Wing and a B-Wing and a 72nd Snowspeeder but who knows.
Great builds.
Wow ! You've been a busy boy ! Love the Harrier....I gotta get off my duff and get one of those. Just looks so neat. Mean, or something....
The chopper looks great too ! Very subtle. I was going to ask if it was real, but then I figured it out.
Love the Lightning :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Quote from: NARSES2 on March 04, 2014, 06:58:08 AM
Love the Lightning :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Is it me or is the weapon pylon on backwards?
Gondor
Quote from: Gondor on March 04, 2014, 12:13:19 PM
Quote from: NARSES2 on March 04, 2014, 06:58:08 AM
Love the Lightning :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Is it me or is the weapon pylon on backwards?
Gondor
as per the instuctions
Time to take a look at one of the oldies in my collection................built around 2002-2003
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One of the first models I did using acrylic paints. And to date the only non sci fi AMT kit ive built. despite having a load of em in the stash.
This one is still around, in very deep storage some ware up in the loft.
She looks good like that ! Definitely more interesting than an all-metal example.
:cheers:
Quote from: Captain Canada on March 11, 2014, 04:46:58 PM
She looks good like that ! Definitely more interesting than an all-metal example.
:cheers:
Don't know, sometimes they look good in nmf.
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Taken at Commiesfest in 2012, not mine.
Martin,
Love the camo on your version, very B-52ish.
Are you thinking of taking your B-49 to the Cosford Show by any chance Martin?
nah shes covered in way to many cobwebs lol
Yes, the NMF one looks pretty good too ! Especially all 'propped' up like that !
:thumbsup:
That B-35 does look good, I've got plans to add guns to the turrets too. I've read somewhere that the tail cone behind the gunner's position was supposed to have a group of four .5's there, B-52 style ---
Quote from: kitnut617 on March 12, 2014, 10:34:17 AM
That B-35 does look good, I've got plans to add guns to the turrets too. I've read somewhere that the tail cone behind the gunner's position was supposed to have a group of four .5's there, B-52 style ---
That's mentioned in the intructions, at least in the AMT version anyway, but they don't give you the guns on the sprues!
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Quote from: kitnut617 on March 12, 2014, 10:34:17 AM
That B-35 does look good, I've got plans to add guns to the turrets too. I've read somewhere that the tail cone behind the gunner's position was supposed to have a group of four .5's there, B-52 style ---
That's mentioned in the intructions, at least in the AMT version anyway, but they don't give you the guns on the sprues!
I thought I had read it somewhere Kit --- I've got the AMT boxing, times two --- :mellow: one will be an RAF Grand Slam carrier
Quote from: kitnut617 on March 12, 2014, 03:11:44 PM
I thought I had read it somewhere Kit --- I've got the AMT boxing, times two --- :mellow: one will be an RAF Grand Slam carrier
That'll be interesting, you'll have to change the whole bomb bay arrangement to get a Grand Slam in. As standard it's got four quite small bays.
You may see an RAF one earlier than that too.......... ;)
Oooh I like the idea of a big flying wing Grand Slam carrier....will it be scale-o-rama'd ?
:cheers:
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Quote from: kitnut617 on March 12, 2014, 03:11:44 PM
I thought I had read it somewhere Kit --- I've got the AMT boxing, times two --- :mellow: one will be an RAF Grand Slam carrier
That'll be interesting, you'll have to change the whole bomb bay arrangement to get a Grand Slam in. As standard it's got four quite small bays.
You may see an RAF one earlier than that too.......... ;)
Well the plan for it (RW stuff now) was for the B-35 to carry two semi-recessed Grand Slams, I've got a 3-View of it somewhere but do you think I can find it when I want it. Considering that a B-29 could carry two Grand Slams, it should be much easier for the B-35 (out of interest, the B-36 could carry four Grand Slams)
Back to Phantoms for the 2nd build of the year.
And the idea for this one came from Spinners strike fighters thread.
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Yes a Phantom FGR-2 in the markings of my favorite RAF fighter squadron, The Mighty 5. A total act of heresy, but after seeing Spinners 5sqn toom screen shot it just had to be built.
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And here it is along with the 85 sqn Lightning F-2A that I did last month. Now carrying its Firestreaks.
The Phantom is the Fujimi FGR-2 kit, built OOB. Althou I swapped out the kits sneb pods for the sidwinders from a Fujimi Phantom FG-1 kit. Why? 5 sqn is not a groundpounder squadron! They hunt Bear! ;D or at least thats what they should be doing these days.
Looking good there especially the pair of familar yet slightly different squadrons :thumbsup:
Nice one Martin
Doing a Wooksta there eh! Martin -- I'm looking and looking at it and couldn't see what you had done. Not really into what squadron flew what myself ---
Mind you here's a question, I've been reading that the RAF comptemplated buying the F-15 (two-seater B with Brit equipment), do you think they would have got the grey/green camo too ?
I thought F-15s dissolved if you DIDN'T paint them grey.............. :banghead:
Doesn't appear so Kit ;D
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Quote from: kitnut617 on April 01, 2014, 09:17:40 AM
Mind you here's a question, I've been reading that the RAF comptemplated buying the F-15 (two-seater B with Brit equipment), do you think they would have got the grey/green camo too ?
I would think that they would have been in the same boring grey scheme the Tornado F-3's wore.
F-15 in Barley Grey --- hmm! think on this I will --- ;)
Depends on when mid-late 70s then still a chance of dsg/dg over lag, but with them being grey in USAF service they would have likely entered service in an ADV scheme
Another Phantom. And this idea has been done before by one or more of the UK lads. Either Nigel Bunker and/or Lancer.
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Yes its an F-4E in RAF plumage.
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Namely 6 squadron. And rigged for ground pounding. The weapons fit is pretty standard for an RAF toom, as is the paint job.
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Its the Italeri kit built OOB bar the sneb pods and the strike camera fitted in the forward left hand sparrow bay. The decals are a mix of Xtradecal and model decal sets.
There are two more tooms in build. but thats enough said about them for now :wacko:
The 'other' Brit F4E is mine. But it' got a grey overcoat I'm afraid. Did it a few years ago, I thought it might be a bit of a head turner. I DO like in the Green/Grey cammo scheme....Nice one Martin
Love your RAF Phantoms Martin ! Mmmm....Phantoms in RAF camo..... :wub:
Love the 5 Squadron bird. Those Anglo Phantoms look just too right. I knew I should have grabbed that old boxing Hasegawa RN Phantom for 8 dollars today !
:banghead:
The grey one will be making an apperance at Hendon next month. Martin, how about we display both of the 4E's?? Really confuse the hell out of people..
sounds good to me
A few weeks late with the next two................
More RAF Phantoms.
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McDD RF-4E Phantom FR Mk-4. Of 2 squadron RAF, RAF Germany 1978.
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McDD F-4E(UK) Phantom FGR-5 of 1435 flight RAF Stanley. Falkland Islands 1986.
Not a Phantom lover but they do look smart. Nice work Martin
Quote from: philp on March 03, 2014, 07:37:56 PM
They look good and like the Lightning.
I keep hoping FineMolds will release a Tie Bomber. And an A-Wing and a B-Wing and a 72nd Snowspeeder but who knows.
Not quite finemolds............
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Resin kit by Multiverse models. click here for their home page. (http://www.mvmodels.biz/home.asp)
I had this on display at the Avon/Thornbury show on the Coventry & Warwickshire stand.
I have their E wing fighter on the go along side a few other whiff builds that will see the light of day soonish
As for the Snowspeeder. I managed to pick up a 2nd hand Retrokit example at last years Avon show.
Lovely Phantoms Martin ! Especially the Falklands bird....looks awesome in that scheme and that's such an evocative time/ scenerio.
:cheers:
A few new ones.
This time targets.
first up some German heavy metal.
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Yes its an E100. With the proposed Auft B turret. And in the markings of the West German Army in the 1960's.
The turret is a resin replacement for the original in the Dragon kit from an outfit called Modeltrans.
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Here is the E100 Auft B along side a much earlier Auft A. Just to show how different the turrets are.
Next up was a complete mystery to me, as I had never heard of this one before Thorvic pointed it out on Ebay.
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the US The Hunter concept tank, dating from 1955, this vehicle was never built, it only got as far as the drawings stage
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The running gear and lower hull is pretty much a standard M-60.
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In the turret was meant to be two 105mm unguided rocket launchers and it was supposed to fire 14 rockets before being reloaded!
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Oh yeah! its a resin kit from Cromwell.
That is some heavy metal there ! Never heard of that Hunter before....pretty neat looking machine !
:cheers:
nice looking treads boss.
the E100 is strangely modern looking ( like great big slabs of chobham modern)
the Hunter is utterly Sci Fi if you'd have made up a book name and said it was energy weapons, id have been none the wiser.
That Hunter is new to me.
So the crew had to dismount to reload ? Same as the Marine's Ontos ?
not from the drawing that happens to be posted on the secret projects forum. (spotted by Thorvic, Just like the model lol)
This monster carried around 90 rounds internally, and each tube was fed by a 7 round mag, reloaded from inside the hull.
The entire rear body work dome was hinged to allow easy access for reloads, engine maintenance or emergency bail out.
Right, cheers Martin
Like the tanks Martin, that Hunter looks straight out of Sci-fi. :thumbsup:
Nice ones Martin. That semi trailer job is just weird :blink: Still they love their trucks & trailers in the US so I suppose they had to make a tank into one ? :rolleyes:
time for a three ship formation build...............................
All three came about because of a brainstorming session between myself and Thorvic as we headed home from Glasgow in my car.
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This counts as a canceled project, as there was a refernce to a two seat strike fighter Lightning variant for the RAAf listed in the Putnams book on English Electric. No details given,but this is my take on it. Matchbox Lightning T-55 with various bits and bobs from odds and ordnance added.
next up is a single seater.
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if you look carefully just above the serial number you should be able to see who she belongs to ;D
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FRADU Lightning F-6N. High speed "bad guy" for the Royal Navy radar's to target on exercise.
Once again a Matchbox kit built OOB bar the "threat emitters" on the missile racks.
And last but by no means least.
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The Brits should recognize the color scheme. A certain Sea Vixen that still graces our skys used to carry it.
Its a Target drone. Or more correctly a Lightning D-6. The black pods on the overwing pylons and the missile racks contain the various black boxes so this beast can be remotely controlled.
Again a Matchbox kit built pretty much OOB.
We'll be snided out with Lightnings at Telford. :thumbsup: :bow:
LOVE The D-6! :wub:
Good grief we were only discussing this as we drove back from Glasgow a week last Sunday in some rather iffy weather. I know he told me he had started them last week but i didn't expect all 3 to be completed within a week !!!! :bow:.
Must admit i too like the Drone the best :thumbsup:
Shouldn't the FRADU one have a light right in the centre of the radome for the Navy gunners to aim at, like their Hunter 11s? :lol:
fair point Kit LOL. Well it certainly wouldnt be needing the old radar in there now would it?
I have a few more drone ideas knocking around, but more on those as and when I get around to building them ;D
Great stuff Martin ! Love the Lightning trio, but my fave has to be that giant tank thing. I like that, and in fact wouldn't mind building one of my own. Also a big fan of the Vertol. Funny how stuff like that just happens !
:cheers:
It was interesting how many were drawn to the Lightning Drone at the Bolton Show last Sunday. it was eye catching and drew them into to looking at the others more closely :thumbsup:
Missed the Lightning drone. So tasty. Methinks there needs to be one on this side of the pond.... ;)
Quote from: Scooterman on January 30, 2015, 05:25:28 PM
Missed the Lightning drone. So tasty. Methinks there needs to be one on this side of the pond.... ;)
Feel Free Brad ;D
Almost done with this one, I just need to acquire a suitable stand for it.
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This is the Sharkit Douglas D1186. carrier based (I kid you not!) cruise missile mistel.
Ive been working slowly on this one since June 2014.
It had its first public outing today at the Crewe show. Pity I dropped the bleedin thing as we were packing up!
So its now been repaired and is waiting a little bit of paint touching up to get it back to were it was first thing this morning. On the plus side I located a suitable base/stand for it at the show :thumbsup:
And seriously awesome it is too! :o :o :o
Goodness KNOWS how the USN intended to operate something this huge off a carrier, even if it was going to be the largest carrier ever at the time.
If I remember the Sharkit box, the carrier was just a huge flat top with now't else upstairs ?
Quote from: NARSES2 on February 23, 2015, 07:57:49 AM
If I remember the Sharkit box, the carrier was just a huge flat top with now't else upstairs ?
Is that a ship or a woman your describing ;D
The Carrier in question was CV-58 USS United States which was a huge flat top carrier with no Island
It's difficult to believe but the USN Spec. that produced the D1186 design eventually resulted in the Skywarrior! :o
well its now been fully repaired after its unscheduled heavy landing yesterday. And the damaged areas have been repainted as needed.
Its also now on its stand.
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Looks a LOT better than it did the last time I saw it. The stand really suits it too. :thumbsup: :bow:
How cool is that ? Lovely. Must get a lot of looks/ questions regarding this ?
:wub: :tornado: :cheers:
That was quick! :thumbsup: If I'd done that I'd still be crying.....
Quote from: Weaver on February 23, 2015, 08:40:13 PM
That was quick! :thumbsup: If I'd done that I'd still be crying.....
That's probably why, if you had done that then it would probably have ended up on the shelf of doom, to be forgotten about and eventually scrapped as bits go missing or are robbed. Considering Marin has the Peterborough show this Sunday the incentive was to get it finished get it mounted on its stand and see if he can wow another load of punters and get them considering What-if and Cancelled Projects :thumbsup:.
It does look rather tasty but it does leave the questions as to how on earth this was to be operated from on-board a carrier :-\
Carrier my big fat hairy donkey. That thing was surely designed to be operated from a cave.
A Bat Cave to be precise...
It's very nice. I like it a lot.
Quote from: Thorvic on February 23, 2015, 11:41:47 PM
It does look rather tasty but it does leave the questions as to how on earth this was to be operated from on-board a carrier :-\
Absolutely. You do wonder what they were on ?
Apparently they designed a trolley thing to move it around the carrier deck, but it doesn't say if they used the trolley to launch it or not. If so, did it go off the end of the cat and get scrapped immediately, or did they stop it before it got to the end? And I can't see them having a lift that would be anywhere NEAR big enough to get it below deck, not to mention that every launch would mean they'd HAVE to lose the lower half as it has no gear!
One way and another you can see why it never got to the hardware stage, but it's great that Renax and OGL bought it to life. :thumbsup:
Looks great Martin, quite a monster in 1/72. :wub:
I managed to borrow the book that that machine is on the cover of once, The Incredible Attack Aircraft of the USS United States. It sounds like a sensationalist title, but it's pretty accurate! All sorts of weird and wonderful stuff.
So Gerry Anderson was not very far off in his designs after all!
I bet some carrier captains saw that and said, "Not on my ship"!
Nice work!
Quote from: Mossie on February 24, 2015, 08:52:25 AM
I managed to borrow the book that that machine is on the cover of once, The Incredible Attack Aircraft of the USS United States. It sounds like a sensationalist title, but it's pretty accurate! All sorts of weird and wonderful stuff.
I seriously do think that post WWII government's of all countries just kept their various design teams busy on projects like this just in case a cold war turned hot. After all the money spent on these paper designs was relatively small compared to having to reform those teams from scratch again, especially before the wide spread availability of computing power. Also you never know what might have come from the various doodles. Indeed a lot of realistic proposals probably did. If they did then on balance it was a sensible choice. However as the war years drifted farther away then budget pressures would have seen an end to that type of thing.
Just my thoughts.
Chris
Some people have noticed that my output of whiffs has dropped off recently.
Why?
Heres why..................
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The Fantastic Plastic SA-43 Hammerhead from Space Above and Beyond. One of my favorite Sci fi fighters...... The model is decaled up as "Pags Payback" the personal mount of Lt Cooper Hawks. The main color is Halfords Vauxhaul Silver-grey. A color Im toying with using again when I finally get around to building an F-35.
Second reason
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The F-302A from Star Gate SG1 and Star Gate Atlantis. A Black sun resin kit. And its a big bugger! The decals are for the 3rd "non cannon" option in the kit. ie the 1st Star fighter wing USAF.
Im slowly building up a collection of Sci Fi fighters and shuttlecraft in 72nd scale. Next up is another Tie fighter variant and a Chig fighter from Space above and Beyond.
Nice stuff Martin.
I have the Caprica Fighter and the Flying Wing from Raiders of the Lost Ark in my resin to do pile. Also have a resin Viper Mk II but just picked up the plastic kits (2 72nd fighters in the box) so will probably put the resin version in the for sale pile, which I need to get posted sometime soon.
Funny you should mention the Viper II. I also have an almost completed resin kit, that has now been mothballed considering that I also have aquired the Mobius injection molded Viper II twin pack.
Those are some pretty wild ships ! Love the F-302.
I was just reviewing this thread looking for the Sidetrack Harrier, and there is so much here to enjoy. It looks like our modelling interests are very similar.
:cheers: :wub: :drink:
Where is this twin pack of Viper Mk.2's you speak of?
Quote from: nighthunter on March 04, 2015, 09:07:43 PM
Where is this twin pack of Viper Mk.2's you speak of?
Its a new release from Mobius. I got mine via Starship modeler.com
ive dropped down to 1/144th scale for this latest build. It still a work in progress but getting there.
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This the Vickers Viscount MR-1. Built by combining the S&M models 1/144th viscount kit with their new resin MPA conversion. I understand the type is covered in Chris Gibsons new MPA projects book.
Just wait till you see the MR-2 ;D :wacko: ;D :wacko: ;D
The viscount isnt the only thing to be worked on this easter break.
Next up "Think Russian!"
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Yes it's a Firefox! Namely the Anigrand kit built oob.
And finaly a sci fi build.
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The Alliance resins Galileo shuttle craft from Star Trek the Final Frontier.
Both the Firefox and the Galileo are 1/72nd scale.
Quote from: Martin H on April 06, 2015, 09:54:58 AM
Both the Firefox and the Galileo are 1/72nd scale.
If ever there was a statement absolutely DESIGNED to wind the JMNs up, that's it! :thumbsup: :bow: ;D :lol:
Great models, congratulations! :thumbsup:
Quote from: Martin H on April 06, 2015, 09:54:58 AM
Both the Firefox and the Galileo are 1/72nd scale.
What is the meaning for "scale" here? The dictionary might say this is the ratio model/real, but... do that apply to model/"true fantasy"? :lol: ;D
well its what it said on their boxes ;D ;D
Quite the mix there !
Love the Firefox, but that Viscount is just wicked ! Love that one.
:cheers:
well the Viscount was finished in time to appear on the S&M resins stand at Cosford.
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I also picked up a few other 1/144th conversions from Mel (S&M resins) at the same time as the Viscount.
The first two are now done
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The Vickers Vangaurd MPA as found on page 132 of Chris Gibsons new Nimrod's genesis book.
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Vickers VC10MR scheme B for OR350 as seen on page 129 of Nimrod's Genesis.
And a group shot
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There is a 3rd 1/144th build almost done. Its another VC10MR.
Super stuff OGL, and pretty darn fast too! :thumbsup: :bow:
Some nice stuff there Martin :bow:
The VC10MR is an intriguing looking aircraft for sure
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Very good builds Martin ---- but they sure knew how to ugl-fy a nice looking plane
Wow....3 beauties right there ! Great job. Love MPA a/c
That VC10MR is gorgeous :wub:. Just makes me want to commit blasphemy and do it up in a two tone grey German IDS Tornado Marine scheme :wub:
Quote from: Martin H on April 21, 2015, 02:03:33 PM
well the Viscount was finished in time to appear on the S&M resins stand at Cosford.
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I also picked up a few other 1/144th conversions from Mel (S&M resins) at the same time as the Viscount.
The first two are now done
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The Vickers Vangaurd MPA as found on page 132 of Chris Gibsons new Nimrod's genesis book.
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Vickers VC10MR scheme B for OR350 as seen on page 129 of Nimrod's Genesis.
And a group shot
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There is a 3rd 1/144th build almost done. Its another VC10MR.
Saw the trio of MPA's last night as Martin called in on his way to Scotland, and they do look rather neat. the Vangaued and VC-10 are really tasty :thumbsup:
Not so much building this week. But I have managed to finaly finish two 72nd scale builds that got posponed while I worked on the 1/144th MPA's
Both new tool Airfix lightnings. And both have been subject to resin conversions.
First photo is a group shot.
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Yeap both export birds. Working on the assumption that the UK won the sale of the centary.
The national insignia, serials and unit badges came from an old Italeri F-104G kit.
First the German Lightning F-1.
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Airfix Lightning F-2A with the allycat F-1 conversion. New Fin, Belly tank and wings. This looked like it was going to be an easy conversion as the parts look great in the box. The wings and fin. No problem! The belly tank how ever was a right PITA to fit.
Second the Dutch Lightning FGA-6.
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Airfix Lightning F-6 with the Freightdog Lightning FGA conversion. Althou I swaped the bombs for a pair of Bullpup ASM's.
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As you can see the Belly tank is a bit bigger than the standard F-6 tank and has the pylonsfor the Bullpup's are mounted on some rather hefty winglets just aft of the main gear.
Compared to the F-1 conversion the FGA set was a walk in the park. The belly tank fitted great and needed very little filler once in place.
Is that an optical illusion with the German one's wing and fin looking a lot bigger Martin ?
optical illusion Robert.
Quote from: Martin H on May 03, 2015, 12:45:02 PM
Not so much building this week. But I have managed to finaly finish two 72nd scale builds that got posponed while I worked on the 1/144th MPA's
Both new tool Airfix lightnings. And both have been subject to resin conversions.
Who makes the conversion set to backdate the Lightening to the short tank version Martin?
Gondor
read the captions below the pics. ;D
Its an Allycat conversion, dont thinks its currently available.
Quote from: Martin H on May 03, 2015, 03:18:10 PM
optical illusion Robert.
It looked like it had a ""big"" wing ;D
Very nice job on both though :thumbsup:
All of your planes look great but the first shot of the Viscount had me asking "Is R2D2 peeking out through the top"?
Nice work on the Lightning's Martin :thumbsup: The German one is particularly impressive :bow:
Quote from: Gondor on May 03, 2015, 03:39:51 PM
Quote from: Martin H on May 03, 2015, 12:45:02 PM
Not so much building this week. But I have managed to finaly finish two 72nd scale builds that got posponed while I worked on the 1/144th MPA's
Both new tool Airfix lightnings. And both have been subject to resin conversions.
Who makes the conversion set to backdate the Lightening to the short tank version Martin?
Gondor
Sword do them all (I think) as complete kits now though.
Quote from: Martin H on May 03, 2015, 04:18:35 PM
read the captions below the pics. ;D
Its an Allycat conversion, dont thinks its currently available.
Missed the phrase that gave the info for some reason :banghead:
Gondor
I dont normaly do WIP photos. But what the hell! ;D
Im back to Phantoms for the next pair of builds.
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Both kits are from Fujimi. The over all extra dark sea grey bird is an FG-1, the cammo and yellow bands bird is an early FGR-2 kit.
Now to show their undersides (and biggest clue to what im doing with them......................First the FG-1
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Yes! Target tugs!
each will be gaining the target kite/drouge unit that comes in one of the Hasegawa weapon sets.
Looking good like the upper bands on the RAF one, Should look interesting with the Targets fitted :thumbsup:
Oh that's a good one: I've never yet seen those target sets actually used! :thumbsup:
Love the Lightnings and the MPAs! :bow:
Quote from: Weaver on May 07, 2015, 07:08:54 PM
Oh that's a good one: I've never yet seen those target sets actually used!...
My thoughts exactly.
The target tug Tooms are finished.
First the senior service with the FG/TT-1. Serving with the FRADU and operating out of RNAS Yeovilton. hence the tail code letters.
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And now thw RAF FGR/TT-2. Serving with 100 squadron alongside their Canberra's in the early 1970's.
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Group shots.
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Those are just gorgeous. Love the British Phantom. Great ideas, both !
:cheers: :tornado: :wub:
Phantoms.... :wub: :wub: :wub:....I love Phantoms, and that yellow/black stripe scheme is simply delicious. Very brave and highly successful :thumbsup:.
Jeepers, those targets are HUGE! We're they carried on outriggers from the drop tanks? It looks s strange way of doing things.
Super modelling as usual OGL, we'll soon be able to have a SIG display purely of Frightenings and 'Tooms. ;D
Gorgeous and oh so right :wub:
Nice work Martin
I've never been able to actually believe those targets in that box. They just look as though someone put a dart in the box to play with people's minds. :blink: First time I've ever seen them used
Quote from: NARSES2 on May 13, 2015, 07:17:40 AM
First time I've ever seen them used
You and me both Chris. Ive seen a few photos of JASDF F-4EJ's carrying them but im not sure who else may have used the system.
Well the US Navy NATC at Pax River used them, at least in one instance.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:F4D-1_with_towed_target_at_Andrews_AFB_1960.jpg
When I built my DF-6B http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,32652.0/highlight,df-6b.html
I tried to fit the Hasegawa target to it but the fore/aft boom was not long enough, and surprisingly I did not have enough time to fix it.
Jim
Quote from: Martin H on May 13, 2015, 08:47:57 AM
Quote from: NARSES2 on May 13, 2015, 07:17:40 AM
First time I've ever seen them used
You and me both Chris. Ive seen a few photos of JASDF F-4EJ's carrying them but im not sure who else may have used the system.
Looking through McDonnell F-4 Phantom
Spirit in the Skies I have found the following
pg 105 An MN ANG F-4D in Grey Grey colours
pg 139 A Japanese F-4EJ of 305th Hikotai, another picture appears on pg 317
I am sure I have seen pictures of both German and Greek aircraft using them, no idea where though :banghead:
Gondor
Quote from: Gondor on May 13, 2015, 03:29:51 PM
I am sure I have seen pictures of both German and Greek aircraft using them, no idea where though :banghead:
Gondor
I'm currently reading my May issue of SAM and they have an article on Greek F-4's and mention the use of the dart target during the HAF annual gunnery competition in 2005
sounds like the RAF and Fleet air arm could be the only toom users where the dart would be a whif
Two more finished this weekend. Although one is real world.
First up, the whiff.
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When 19 and 92 squadrons traded in their Lightning F-2A's for F-6's to keep the RAFG Lightning wing in operation at Guterslough, BAC reworked the retired F-2A's into PR-2A airframes. Enougth for one sqaudron were shipped back to West Germany to provide a cheaper reeci platform than the then current TSR-2's serving with II(AC) squadron, based alongside their former users at Guterslough. They served well untill replaced in the mid 70's by Phantom FR-4's.
Underside view with the recci pack showing
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The kit is the Airfix F-2A, fitted with a resin test shot recci pack that may well be coming soon from odds and ordanace. Cambell passed over the test shot to TSRjoe at the Scots Nationals, who inturn handed it to me as im on a bit of a lightning kick at the mo. And it has NOT been cloned, before any one asks. As requested by Cambell and Joe.
Now the real one.
Just in time for the UK release of the Airfix Swift FR-4.............................
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This is one of the batch that escaped to the US, and was imported via eBay. Built OOB and wearing the 2nd option on the decal sheet. Namely II(AC) squadron based at Jever in 1956.
The model will be on the SIG stand at the Northern show along side the Lightning PR2A and the Phanton FR-4 (RF-4E) as a II squadron line up. Ive still got to build the TSR-2 ;). The idea being it will have people looking for whats "wrong" with it when its 100% real ;D
Lastly a photo of the II squadron line up
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Quote from: Martin H on May 31, 2015, 11:58:56 AM
When 19 and 92 squadrons traded in their Lightning F-2A's for F-6's to keep the RAFG Lightning wing in operation at Guterslough, BAC reworked the retired F-2A's into PR-2A airframes. Enougth for one sqaudron were shipped back to West Germany to provide a cheaper reeci platform than the then current TSR-2's serving with II(AC) squadron, based alongside their former users at Guterslough. They served well untill replaced in the mid 70's by Phantom FR-4's.
Hm, why does that backstory sound familiar? ;D
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,39534.msg655143.html#new (http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,39534.msg655143.html#new)
Quote from: Martin H on May 31, 2015, 11:58:56 AM
......untill replaced in the mid 70's by Phantom FR-4's.
And there's a hint for some future Whiffing if ever I saw one. ;D
Great minds and all that ;D
And ive already built the Phantom........as seen in the last Photo ;)
Great shot of all three....
Love the look of the Swift. Looking forward to getting my hands on one !
:cheers:
Martin they look gorgeous.
Quote from: Martin H on May 31, 2015, 11:58:56 AM
The model will be on the SIG stand at the Northern show along side the Lightning PR2A and the Phanton FR-4 (RF-4E) as a II squadron line up. Ive still got to build the TSR-2 ;). The idea being it will have people looking for whats "wrong" with it when its 100% real ;D
And I love the way you think :wacko:
Swifts always look French to me. I'd like to see one in NMF with Armee de l'aire roundels.
Quote from: zenrat on June 01, 2015, 01:41:54 AM
Swifts always look French to me. I'd like to see one in NMF with Armee de l'aire roundels.
I'm sure that could be arranged. If Airfix deigned to let us get the kits of course!
In the latest SAM someone's built one, OOB of course, and reckons the so-called 'mould error' isn't actually there.
Quote from: zenrat on June 01, 2015, 01:41:54 AM
Swifts always look French to me. I'd like to see one in NMF with Armee de l'aire roundels.
Well I had thought French, but in a desert scheme. I don't do NMF, painted Al yes, nmf ; no
time for another Phantom
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This is XS747 a Phantom F-2 (F-4C(UK) ). Of 92 squadron RAF circa 1965, Based at RAF Bruggen.
In the early 1960's the USAF started to adopt the F-4C into front line service. They noticed that the royal Navy was looking at the navy's F-4B as a possible replacement for the home grown Seavixen. The Airforce brass came up with the idea of promoting the Phantom (mainly aiming on the F-4C) as a NATO standard combat aircraft. The DoD was very keen on the idea and arranged for both the B and C models to be made available to other NATO member states at a very reasonably discounted price, so long as the aircraft where used primarily on NATO taskings.
Italy and West Germany got in first, with the UK being the third customer for a small batch of 25 C model aircraft for use in the air defence role over the UK zone of West Germany. The RAF being the RAF, had to have their birds be a little different from the standard.
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Their F-4C(UK) variant was wired for British built ordnance. Mainly Redtop misslies in place of the more usual Sidwinders, and Firestreak's instead of the Sparrow's in the belly missile troughs. They did keep the standard Vulcan cannon pod though. They also insisted that the retractable refueling probe from the F-4B be fitted as well, in affect creating a B/C hybrid. The Royal Navy on the other hand opted for a completely off the shelf purchase for their F-4B's (Phantom F-1)
19 and 92 squadrons traded in their Lightning F-2A's for the Phantom F-2 in 1965. In keeping with fighter command practise at the time the undersides were painted in high speed silver rather than the Light aircraft Grey most other RAF Germany squadrons used. The Lightning carried on with the home defence role. So, apart from a few attrition replacements no other F-4C(UK)'s were built. But they proved very popular in the RAF and paved the way for a much larger Phantom buy later on when the F-4E(UK) started to enter RAF service in the mid 1970's.
This was a bit of a weekend build. I started nailing it together on Thursday evening and the final coat of varnish went on around midday Sunday.
The kit is the Fujimi F-4C built pretty much oob. The model had already donated its ordnance for some of the other Phantoms I've already built, Hence the idea of loading it up with Firestreak's and Redtop's. All of which are from various Matchbox Lightnings that have been built over the years. The paint work is a mixture of Gunze sanyo for the upper dark sea grey/ dark green cammo, and Halfords Audi Aluminum for the undersides. Decals are from various Airfix Lightning, missile markings and national/squadron insignia. Fujimi Phantom FGR-2 sheets for the phantom specific markings and modeldecal for the serial numbers. Which in turn come from a small unallocated batch.
I did consider doing this one in over all Audi Aluminum, but that changed for cammo/high speed silver once I chose 92 squadron markings.
I would have thought that Radar Red Top would have been better for the under-fuselage weapons.
Nice build otherwise :thumbsup:
Gondor
agreed. But Seeing as I had a ready supply of standard redtops and firestreaks..............................................
Blimey Martin, I guess that's what you call 'tooled up'!
It does look as though it's out for a stroll in some of the murkier parts of town that's for sure.
Nice one Martin
Quote from: Martin H on June 14, 2015, 01:42:33 PM
agreed. But Seeing as I had a ready supply of standard redtops and firestreaks..............................................
Cut off the dome of the Redtop seeker and give it a point and you have the radar version.
BSP Hypersonics, Ramjets & Missiles page 35
Gondor
i know exactly what the radar redtop/blue dolphin looks like.........................................
Gorgeous. Love the camo and the weapons load. Nice work !
:cheers:
Quote from: Martin H on June 15, 2015, 08:22:45 AM
i know exactly what the radar redtop/blue dolphin looks like.........................................
My apologies, I intended the information for others following this thread, not to imply that you lacked such information. :banghead:
Gondor
That looks great Martin! :thumbsup:
Quote from: Gondor on June 15, 2015, 02:15:52 PM
Quote from: Martin H on June 15, 2015, 08:22:45 AM
i know exactly what the radar redtop/blue dolphin looks like.........................................
My apologies, I intended the information for others following this thread, not to imply that you lacked such information. :banghead:
Gondor
No worries.
Martin, that is a really daft idea.
PERFECT!
:thumbsup:
Jim
Bloody hell! Has it really been 7 months since the last build from me?
any way.
the 1st completed build for 2016.
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What if the British Airways 707 fleet lasted long enough to get repainted in the Landor scheme?
This one started almost 12 months ago after a brain storming session involving one Kit Spackman. The real BA 707's never wore the post privatization Landor scheme. Kit and I wondered what they might have looked like if they had.
He then went off and created suitable decals for such a build. and held on to the art work pending me getting the build underway. The build finally got going in the summer. Kit duly produced said decals and got them to me. It then sat on a shelf around 75% complete while I was sidelined by Airfix lightnings and work issues. (see the personal update thread in the SIG area)
Fast forward to now. While im between jobs, ive kept some progress going build wise, including finally getting this one finished. Airfix Boeing 707 kit built oob, with decals custom made by our own Kit Spackman.
The Landor scheme suits the 707 really well, such a pity BA didn't do it for real.
That model needs to be sneaked onto the Airliner SIG's stand at a forthcoming show OGL. ;D :thumbsup:
That looks great! Makes me wonder what a Comet in that scheme might look like? :rolleyes:
Next pair of builds.
These are my first builds started this year.
Back to the Airfix Lightning again ;D :thumbsup:
First the group shot
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1st one.
Lightning F-2N. 29 sqn RAF late 1960's.
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This is the Airfix F-2A kit built oob, bar the Freightdog Genie nuclear air to air missile set.
The idea for the antiflash scheme is borrowed from a build the Wooksta did years ago. How ever i slightly tweaked it to have a bare metel underside.
I was orginaly going to re work the squadron bars into antiflash pink, but looking at V force squadron markings showed most of then retained full color unit badges. so I ditched that idea to keep the build simple. The serial is from a so called black out block.
This one could also count as a project. so it may make appearances on the PC sig stand as well as ours.
2nd build, this time purely a whiff.
Lightning F-6 (MLU). 5sqn RAF, Binbrook 1997.
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What if the radar issues with the Tornado ADV took longer to sort out than they did. This is my take on a "quick and low cost" (yeah right!) update for the lightning, to keep it going a few more years while we wait for the Tonka ADV project to get its act togeather.
The MLU involved increasing the internal fuel load and replacing the old overwing ferry tanks with supersonic rated replacements. War load was enhanced by adding underwing hard points to allow another pair of missile rails to be fitted, and replaceing the original pair of 30mm adens with a single 27mm mauser, via the Tornado program. The radar was replaced with the same unit as the navy's Seaharrier FRS-1. In theory allowing the ugraded Lightning to be able to deploy Sidewinders, how ever they were only normaly fitted with winders for airshow appearances, as the RAF had a plentifull supply of Red top and Radar red tops for its remaining Lightnings.
Enough upgrades were carried out to allow both 5 and 11 sqaudrons to to keep going at full strength, plus a few extras for the LTF. A few T-5's were also involved. however they did not get the increased fuel tankage, but got the radar and weapons updates.
The belly tank rework is thanks to a Freightdog Lightning FGA set.
Radar Redtops (again from Freightdog) on the main missle racks.
Underwing pylons as per the Saudi and Kuwaiti Lightnings (from odds and Ordanance) with redtops (Freightdog again).
Paint job and most of the decals as per the kit instructions. Bar the squadron markings. They came from an old Modeldecal sheet.
Oh! you may have noticed the overwing tanks dont look right. Youed be right, they got "updated" as well. They are the out board drop tanks from an Italeri F-4E and they have been reversed as well.
Both builds have had the nose probe replaced with a metel replacement from Master model of Poland. They show up on ebay fairly frequently and look a lot better than the kit one.
Although i prefer the F.6, that's excellent work on both!! :thumbsup:
Nice!! :thumbsup:
The refuelling probe on the F6 is on the opposite side............
Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 24, 2016, 02:23:09 PM
The refuelling probe on the F6 is on the opposite side............
and? ;D not on this one it aint
Love 'em both ! The -2N just looks right, defo one for the idea bank. I really like the 6 as well. Just looks right !
:cheers: :bow: :wub:
Nice work on all 3 Martin, particularly like the F-6 (MLU) :thumbsup: - has there ever been an ELU ; end of life update ? :rolleyes:
Swear I flew in that 707 when I flew BA's charter airline to Kenya in 79 ? Fooled me for sure, my first thought was "what's wiffy with that ?" :banghead:
Quote from: Martin H on February 24, 2016, 03:07:51 PM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 24, 2016, 02:23:09 PM
The refuelling probe on the F6 is on the opposite side............
and? ;D not on this one it aint
I was just commenting on a difference, not criticising.
Quote from: NARSES2 on February 25, 2016, 01:03:39 AM
Nice work on all 3 Martin
This is why it's good to come back and read the comments after you post ! Thanks for the head's up Chris, I'd have missed that one !
Looks right at home in those colours, and as you say Chris, believable to the point where it looks like a model of the real thing !
:drink: :bow:
Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 25, 2016, 05:57:02 AM
Quote from: Martin H on February 24, 2016, 03:07:51 PM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 24, 2016, 02:23:09 PM
The refuelling probe on the F6 is on the opposite side............
and? ;D not on this one it aint
I was just commenting on a difference, not criticising.
I know Kit. Hence the smiley. ;D
Quote from: NARSES2 on February 25, 2016, 01:03:39 AM
Swear I flew in that 707 when I flew BA's charter airline to Kenya in 79 ? Fooled me for sure, my first thought was "what's wiffy with that ?" :banghead:
The old BA scheme was similar, replace the fin top blue section with red and delete the coat of arms and the red cheat line and you almost have the original livery. Altou from memory, the privatized Landor scheme looked very smart and business like, where as the older state owned scheme it was based on looked rather dull and shabby. (to my mind anyway)
Quote from: Martin H on February 25, 2016, 06:23:07 AM
Altou from memory, the privatized Landor scheme looked very smart and business like, where as the older state owned scheme it was based on looked rather dull and shabby. (to my mind anyway)
Right on! :thumbsup:
The Landor scheme was the high point in BA's various schemes to my mind. Since then it's been down hill all the way.
Bizarrely their wonderful 'To Fly, To Serve' advert doesn't feature a SINGLE Landor schemed aircraft! :banghead: :banghead:
It's still a great vid though, especially the last few seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XozHLoqwp_4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XozHLoqwp_4)
Quote from: Martin H on February 25, 2016, 06:23:07 AM
Quote from: NARSES2 on February 25, 2016, 01:03:39 AM
Swear I flew in that 707 when I flew BA's charter airline to Kenya in 79 ? Fooled me for sure, my first thought was "what's wiffy with that ?" :banghead:
The old BA scheme was similar, replace the fin top blue section with red and delete the coat of arms and the red cheat line and you almost have the original livery. Altou from memory, the privatized Landor scheme looked very smart and business like, where as the older state owned scheme it was based on looked rather dull and shabby. (to my mind anyway)
I'm going to see if I can find my photo's of that holiday now and look for it. It was my first long haul trip and they dropped us at the end of the runway in Mombassa and we had to walk to the terminal so I took loads of shots ;D A German charter landed after us but as it was just after the terrorist attack on German tourists out there they gave them the one terminal berth, understandably. Only problem with the half mile hike was the taxing aircraft and the fact that when we had left Gatwick it was snowing so I had a sheepskin on......it was 100F plus :blink:
Quote from: NARSES2 on February 26, 2016, 06:08:44 AM
Only problem with the half mile hike was the taxing aircraft and the fact that when we had left Gatwick it was snowing so I had a sheepskin on......it was 100F plus :blink:
Hehe, I had the opposite problem when I took a quick week's break in Majorca back in 1979 or so.
We flew in there by Spantax Convair CV 990 Coronado (drooool.....) only to find it was SNOWING as we landed at Palma! All the pics they took as we walked down the airstairs were ruined as all you could see was the snow!
Two more finished. Both were started in the 2nd half of last year.
I started nailing this one togeather at the end of last August.
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This is the General Aircraft GAL38 Fleet Shadower carrier borne long range patrol aircraft. Its the Akatombo resin kit. A very nice build for what is in reality a Garage kit. Based on the good build experiance I had with this kit, I went and aquired his Blackburn B20 flying boat.
In real life a single prototype was built, but the project was discontinued as it was very much a niche single role aircraft.
The paint job is a fairly standard Fleet Air Arm scheme and the markings are for 825 sqn flying off HMS Campania. In reality 825 was a Wildcat squadron.
Althou it does look a bit like a 4 engined heavy, its quite small. The next pic has a Spitfire alongside to show how it compares size wise.
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Next one.
The Freightdog SARO SR-177 strike/reconassance fighter. Colins most recent offering of the SR177, built OOB.
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You have a few options with this kit. Either the recci version with the belly pack as a duel fuel/camera bay unit.
Or as I did the nuclear strike version with a single Red beard "target marker". The wing tip pods are unguided rocket pods.
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Squadron markings are for Treble two squadron (222 sqd) RAF serving with RAF Germany sometime in the 1960's. In reality I beleave treble two was a 2TAF Hunter squadron.
Lovely work. I particularly like the Fleet Shadower. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Aircraft_Fleet_Shadower)
Yup must say I like the Shadower as well :thumbsup:
Looked at a couple of Akatombo kits before, just wondered what the delivery time is like though ?
I got both kits via Coopers models in the US before they disapeared from the scene. So no idea Chris
Quote from: Martin H on February 27, 2016, 04:02:19 AM
Or as I did the nuclear strike version with a single Red beard "target marker". The wing tip pods are unguided rocket pods.
Ah yes, so if there are any 'escapees' from the Red Beard blast you can go back and zap them with the unguided rockets, yes? ;D :lol:
Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 27, 2016, 12:18:30 PM
Quote from: Martin H on February 27, 2016, 04:02:19 AM
Or as I did the nuclear strike version with a single Red beard "target marker". The wing tip pods are unguided rocket pods.
Ah yes, so if there are any 'escapees' from the Red Beard blast you can go back and zap them with the unguided rockets, yes? ;D :lol:
Something like that Kit ;D
The intresting bit is did they use the rocket for QRA launch or to get the hell out of dodge once the delivery was made ?
Quote from: Thorvic on February 27, 2016, 01:59:38 PM
The intresting bit is did they use the rocket for QRA launch or to get the hell out of dodge once the delivery was made ?
According to the blurb on the instructions the rocket motor was to be removed from the strike versions, with the space taken up for more fuel tankage.
Nice work Martin ! I like the Fleet Shadower, and am glad you placed it beside the Spit for a pic, as I'd be one whom would think that it was a heavy !
Love the 177 as well. Love anything in that camo, but that is just such a neat looking aeroplane. Love the load as well.
:cheers:
Very nice, very unusual subject (and not a whif type either).
Every day is a school day - never heard of Akatombo until now. Their Bristol 188 looks nice.
Just catching up with this thread, having seen the latest ones in the fle...plastic at Crewe. :thumbsup:
All excellent stuff: the Fleet Shadower is a lovely little thing. Having the observer in the nose and the pilot up top like that reminds me of the Potez 75 COIN job where the idea was that the former would control SS.10s.
Love the 'White Lightning' too! :thumbsup:
Ive not been so active the last few months since starting the new job. Im still getting used to the new shift pattern and working out what spare time I now have.
However. There has been some model activity, all be it sci fi.
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The new(ish) Bandi Incom T65 Xwing. built oob. I built it to kinda get my modelling mojo back on track, it then opened a pandoras box so to speak..............
as it was followed by a 2nd X wing.
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Which in turn caused me dig out a long stalled resin build I picked up on ebay abouth 18 months ago.
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Its a garage kit, so I have no idea who did it. And for those who have no idea what it is. Its the Earth Defence DIrectorate star fighter from Buck Rogers in the 25th Centuary.
Now the star fighter was orginaly intended to be the Viper in the original Battle star Galaxtica. So you can guess what happened next.............
a pair of Mobius (Remake) Vipers fell onto my bench.
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I should say I also managed some work on a pair of whiffs that I started back in March. More on those once I finish them.
Love the Starfighter. I enjoyed Buck Rogers except for that irritating little robot.
Dinky or Corgi did one. Could this be moulded from that?
I think the EDF Starfighter is one of the Fantastic Plastic resin kits that are now OOP.
Quote from: Thorvic on May 25, 2016, 03:16:16 AM
I think the EDF Starfighter is one of the Fantastic Plastic resin kits that are now OOP.
No it isnt. I missed out on those. This one was a garage kit I found quite by chance on ebay. Its only five parts. (engines, wings and a solid space frame. Oh! and shouldnt forget the home made decals that came with it.
Quote from: zenrat on May 24, 2016, 05:42:03 PM
Love the Starfighter. I enjoyed Buck Rogers except for that irritating little robot.
First series was ok, when they went into space it went all pear shaped. Mind you Col Wilma was anyway :wub: :wub: :wub:
Great stuff !
I had a diecast Buck Rogers fighter as a kid. I used to carry it in my binoculars as a 'mothership' and when I opened the binocs it would launch.
It's funny how good the old school Battlestar fighter looks. The newer one just looks cheesy to me ?
Wow... :wub: haven't seen anything from buck rogers for quite a while... :wub: i love that fighter! That sure brings back memories! :thumbsup:
That's a point, those are all Starfighters we grew up with as kids from the late 70's early 80s , how come apart from the Space Above & Beyond Hammerheads that we haven't had anything since on TV or Film that's really caught our interests. Only the new Star Wars Ep VII ships are updated versions of the originals, most of the Star Wars prequel stuff was forgettable or uninspiring apart from Obi Wans Jedi fighter in Ep II. Has CGI special effects killed the creativity to some extent because they don't look real ?
Good point Thorvic. I did like the insectoid craft in Lexx. When was that made?
Maybe its because Space Opera has gone out of fashion?
Other than in Anime of course.
Which reminds me, the 1/72 Van Ship & Vespa kit is being re-released.
It's worth mentioning that the spaceships in the Original Trilogy, Battlestar Galactica original series (from which the reboot's Viper Mk2 is derived), and Buck Rogers were all based on the art of late great Ralph McQuarrie. He had previously worked as an illustrator for Boeing, maybe that's why even the most fantastic of his concepts were somehow "tangible".
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As for later space operas with starfighters, there was Wing Commander. The ship design in the games was pretty cool because it heavily borrowed directly from the aforementioned classics, but in the film, however, the Terran starfighters were too plainly sawed-off BAC Lightning cockpits with minuscule fuselage and wings, as if a few square metres of plywood had ruined the film's budget. Oh well, even sleek starfighters wouldn't have saved that film - dumping the compressed plot of the entire franchise into a single movie, making sure only the most worn tropes were used, and adding poor man's Jedi Knights on top of that did that already. Or the fact that it's an incoherent mess of ideas: at times, space battles are fought as a not-submarine battle, but seconds later it's the Age of Sail all over again and spaceships exchange broadsides at point-blank range. For some reason, pilots are again used as cannon fodder (well Space: Above and Beyond was also guilty of this) and supposedly, a few jerrycans can carry enough fuel to completely refuel a spaceship that's an aircraft carrier IN SPAAAACE.
Back to a few whiffs.
First up is a Eurofighter Typhoon F-2 of 5 squadron RAF. This is what 5 sqn should be flying! not that glorified biz jet called the Sentinal!
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Its an Italeri kit built oob, with a pair of asraam's added from a Hasegawa weapon set. The squadron markings (bars and Sheild) are home made.
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It would normaly be wearing a two letter code, but ive left it off as thou its an airframe thats just been allocated to the squadron.
And to follow........ We have ...................A Phantom!
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This is my take on a 1969 McDD project to improve the toom even more. By fitting it with the wings and some of the systems from the then upcoming F-15. I decided to finish it as an F-4G rather than an E as Ive wanted to do a spoof wild weasle for a while.
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The base kit is the Bilek boxing of the Italeri F-4E/G kit, with the wings taken from an Italeri F-15E kit. The main gear bays were also taken from the base kits scrapped wings.
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The toom has been ongoing since easter. The Typhoon was started about 3 weeks ago. Both have been fun builds to keep me occupied ;D
Both look very nice! :thumbsup:
Quote from: Thorvic on May 26, 2016, 01:13:49 AM
That's a point, those are all Starfighters we grew up with as kids from the late 70's early 80s , how come apart from the Space Above & Beyond Hammerheads that we haven't had anything since on TV or Film that's really caught our interests. Only the new Star Wars Ep VII ships are updated versions of the originals, most of the Star Wars prequel stuff was forgettable or uninspiring apart from Obi Wans Jedi fighter in Ep II. Has CGI special effects killed the creativity to some extent because they don't look real ?
Babylon 5's Starfuries were pretty good. So good, in fact, that NASA sent a team to have a chat with the designers because there were considering something similar for manned maneuvering vehicles. These were also the first spacefighters that I can remember that flew somewhat like real spacecraft, in that they would cheerfully fly backwards and/or stop dead in space. The BSG reboot picked up on this very nicely.
Like the Typhoon and the Phantom Martin! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Quote from: Weaver on August 05, 2016, 09:06:39 PM
Like the Typhoon and the Phantom Martin! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Very much so, shows grey can look good :thumbsup:
Nice work. :ove the look of that Phantom....took me a sec to figure it out in the first pic !
Good point about the sci-fi stuff Geoff. Makes sense to me.
:banghead:
Update time. And this time there's a much larger number of builds than normal.
First up is a Lightning I started back in January.......
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A Sea Lightning FAW-1. of 899 squadron Fleet Air Arm, operating off HMS Eagle circa 1964.
This is a real mash up. The wings are the Freightdog VG set. The aft fuselage is an Airfix F-6, the forward fuselage is an old Airmodel Vacform conversion suitably hacked up to fit the new tool Lightning. It also has the extended belly tank from the Freight dog Lightning FGA set. And the canopy is a Pavla vac form replacement (intended for the Sword T4/5 kit)
My original Sea lightning (see the first page of this thread) served as a refernce for this build before it moved to its new home in the What if? sig display case at the Midland Air Museam at Coventry airport.
The next three pics show the airframe before and after the model was "bolted" togeather.
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Next up a Trio of Fujimi Spey Phantoms.
These are intended for a Project Cancelled sig theme concerning the proposed east of Suez Mounting bases.
Firts pic the group shot.
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First up an FG1 of 74sqn.
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According to records held by the national achives at Kew. 74 was put forward as one of the units to be considered to take on the then soon to be ex Royal Navy Phantoms. In the end they went elseware and 74 had to wait untill the RAF brought a batch of ex USN F-4J's to get its hand's on Tooms.
Second. Another FG1. This time of 43sqd.
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Any one who knows their RAF squadron historys will know that 43 realy did operate the FG1. And this model is almost 100% real world. Apart from she is rigged for carrier operations :wacko:
Again thanks to documents at Kew, 43sqn was ear marked to be the RAF carrier airgroup re-enforcement squadron. Ie to augment the FAA's front line toom fleet when needed.
My intension is to eventully mount this model on a base showing it sitting on a catapult. despite its lack of aircrew sitting in the cockpit.
The final toom (for this update at least)
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An FGR2 operated by 60sqn based at RAF Aldabra circa the mid 1970's.
In reality the last fighters flown by 60 sqn where Javalins based in Singapore. They then moved onto Helicopters and for a while flew Pembokes as the RAF Germany comms squadron. However they were considered as a possible Phantom squadron when the mounting base project was under consideration.
And finaly two that arnt British.
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Yeap! Argintine Kfir's!
Firsts up the bog standard Kfir C2.
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This an Italeri kit built and painted OOB, with suitable markings taken from an FAA Mirage III sheet from Condor decals.
The idea being that the FAA might have been able to aquire a batch of C2's to replace some of the Daggers that where lost over the Falklands.
The serial is taken from a Mirage III and was intended to confuse any British spies keeping an eye on the FAA post Falklands ;D
And last but by no means least.
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A Kfir R2. The IDF converted a small number of Kfir C2's into reconassance birds.
Lets say that my fictional FAA Kfir purchase included a pair of R2's as well.
This is a Hasegawa kit fitted with a resin nose conversion from AML. The real R2's wore the same two tone grey scheme as their C2 stable mates. So this one is in the same scheme as the Italeri C2 build. Again the markings are from the Condor decal Mirage III sheet,
Particularly like the Sea Lightning Martin, great work :bow:
Very nice work: that Sea Lightning looks great. :thumbsup:
As I understand it, the Kfir was one of the types that the FAA actually did try to acquire post-'82.
Oh deary deary me Martin.
The complete Inspector Morse collection. :o
Quote from: JayBee on September 23, 2016, 11:38:45 AM
Oh deary deary me Martin.
The complete Inspector Morse collection. :o
Oh them? they belong to my dad.
Quote from: Martin H on September 23, 2016, 11:59:35 AM
Quote from: JayBee on September 23, 2016, 11:38:45 AM
Oh deary deary me Martin.
The complete Inspector Morse collection. :o
Oh them? they belong to my dad.
Yeah right.
:rolleyes:
Quote from: zenrat on September 24, 2016, 03:55:36 AM
Quote from: Martin H on September 23, 2016, 11:59:35 AM
Quote from: JayBee on September 23, 2016, 11:38:45 AM
Oh deary deary me Martin.
The complete Inspector Morse collection. :o
Oh them? they belong to my dad.
Yeah right.
:rolleyes:
Nope he's right Martins stuff is in his own room or the loft he uses the sideboard in the guest room as its clear space and has the better natural light. He's barred from storing stuff on the top as he's already taken over two room in the house ;D
Quote from: Thorvic on September 24, 2016, 05:10:21 AM
Nope he's right Martins stuff is in his own room or the loft he uses the sideboard in the guest room as its clear space and has the better natural light. He's barred from storing stuff on the top as he's already taken over two room in the house ;D
make that three if you count the small box room/office :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: ;)
OK. I accept the explanation. :o
Quote from: JayBee on September 23, 2016, 11:38:45 AM
Oh deary deary me Martin.
The complete Inspector Morse collection. :o
Better not include pics of my complete Buffy collection then :angel:
Great work Martin ! What an excellent update...I didn't want it to end ! Love the Sea Lightning. The Phantoms are gorgeous ! Who doesn't love a British Phantom in that camo ? Well, except for that one guy. But we won't tell him :thumbsup:
its been a while since I last posted up a build.
Well heres the in progress shots of one im working on at the moment.............Welcome to project Hub cap.
Its the Squadron Haunebu II kit built OOB. Im also doing it in the same camo colors as per the kit, but to my own freesyle pattern.
As you can see in the first pic. Its a big bugger!
And if your wondering where the pics were taken. Its in the back office of the gate house at work.
Yeap my employer and the client have no problem with me building at work on nights and/or at weekends. To their mind it shows im not likely to be sleeping while on shift.
Why project hubcap. Well the diameter of this monster is barely a few mm less than the diameter of the hubcaps on my Prius!
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Quote from: Martin H on March 19, 2017, 06:31:41 PM
Why project hubcap. Well the diameter of this monster is barely a few mm less than the diameter of the hubcaps on my Prius!
Ah, but does it have an electric motor as well? ;D
It sure is big though! :o
Nothing like an ecologically friendly death-ray-armed Nazi flying saucer.... ;)
some more progress shots of the Hubcap............
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the underside showing the tweaked undercart..
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As you may be able to see, I've been playing around with highlighting the panel lines on the underside. I'm not quite sure it sits that well on this beast so I've left the upper surfaces alone for now.
And finally a family photo.
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The smaller saucer is the Wave kit of the Haunebu I. Just shows how big the Haunebu II really is as a 72nd scale model.
Hi Martin, good work with the Camo of the Soucer. :thumbsup:
That's looking good.
Quote from: zenrat on March 27, 2017, 12:57:17 AM
That's looking good.
True :thumbsup:, but would it be impolite to mention the snowmen in the background ? Does this confirm the secret Antarctic Base conspiracy theories ? ;)
Oh come on Chris. Surely you know that Snowmen only live at the North Pole.
:rolleyes:
Quote from: zenrat on March 28, 2017, 02:59:28 AM
Oh come on Chris. Surely you know that Snowmen only live at the North Pole.
:rolleyes:
Are you sure about that ? Have you been to Antarctica ? So very few have been into the interior that we have no real idea of what lives there :mellow: ;) Probably went with Capt Scott or at least some bored members of the party probably created some ;D
In all seriousness when I did a cruise down there I was stunned by the amount of wildlife in the waters and on its shores.
Quote from: NARSES2 on March 27, 2017, 06:05:20 AM
Quote from: zenrat on March 27, 2017, 12:57:17 AM
That's looking good.
True :thumbsup:, but would it be impolite to mention the snowmen in the background ? Does this confirm the secret Antarctic Base conspiracy theories ? ;)
I couldnt possibly comment on such matters ;) :mellow: ;) :mellow: ;)
Quote from: NARSES2 on March 28, 2017, 06:12:17 AM
Quote from: zenrat on March 28, 2017, 02:59:28 AM
Oh come on Chris. Surely you know that Snowmen only live at the North Pole.
:rolleyes:
Are you sure about that ? Have you been to Antarctica ? So very few have been into the interior that we have no real idea of what lives there :mellow: ;) Probably went with Capt Scott or at least some bored members of the party probably created some ;D
In all seriousness when I did a cruise down there I was stunned by the amount of wildlife in the waters and on its shores.
It's the penguins. They attack on sight. No snowman can survive the combined mob attack of a well coordinated waddle*. They surround them and herd them into the sea where the Leopard Seals get them.
I'd love to visit Antarctica. I get the feeling i'd come away depressed about humanity.
*I had to google it but it is indeed a waddle of Penguins. On land. In the sea it is a raft.
Quote from: zenrat on March 29, 2017, 03:27:53 AM
*I had to google it but it is indeed a waddle of Penguins. On land. In the sea it is a raft.
;D ;D Some of the people who came up with these collective nouns definitely had a sense of humour :bow: A group pf Rhinos is a crash :thumbsup:
well for all intents and purposes Im calling this one finished.
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How do you know which is the front?
It looks terrific, and HUGE too! :thumbsup:
Ahyup, nice work there. :thumbsup:
Come out well mate :thumbsup:
It just doesn't look right with the guns. Sorry, just doesn't look right.
I haven't looked at this thread of nigh on 3 years, you certainly have been busy Martin, and some very nice pieces.
Chris.
Gread work Martin I love It.
Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 29, 2017, 12:16:32 PM
How do you know which is the front?
It looks terrific, and HUGE too! :thumbsup:
Having seen it the plastic at Cosford today, it IS huge too!!!! :o :o :o :thumbsup:
Ok update time. Just in time for the Scots Nationals this weekend.
first a Trumpeter Wyvern.
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This was one of a pair of kits that I aquired from Brother Narses last year. The other one is a compleate kit so is reserved for a RW build.
This one had donated part of its war load to one of Chris's other projects, so was earmarked for whiffing.................
As you can see she is in Indian Navy marking, lifted right out of a Hobbyboss Hawker Seahawk kit.
Next a few VTOL's
First up a two seat Harrier II............
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This is an old Airfix Harrier T-10 kit. One of a pair I started and got bored with around ten years ago.
I finaly dusted them off and this is the first to emerge from the loft. Its been rehashed into a Royal Navy ground pounder (aka Harrier S-14). with the rear seater retasked as a WSO for the sniper pod hanging off the belly pylon.
The 2nd T-10 is being built as a T-10 but in Royal navy markings, under the idea that the Navy was able to take over the full Harrier fleet when the RAF put the knife in to the Harrier community over here.
next up is a converted GR-9, that is now upto AV-8Bplus standard as an F/A-12.
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This is a Hasegawa kit built prety much OOB. It doesnt show so well, but this one is in a metalic grey scheme. Not quite the same as the F-35 but almost. The idea being the Navy repainted its "new" F/A-12's in a similar scheme to the soon to arrive F-35B's to get the pilots used to the scheme in question.
The model is rigged for airdefence with a pair of ASRAAM's and four Meteor Mid range AAM's instead of Aim-120 AMRAAM's.
Third is a real one.
Namely ZM137, the UK's first F-35B
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The simple but not so easy to find Fujimi kit built OOB, with Uk markings taken from an Xtradecal set.
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I started this one early last year, but got side tracked. I dusted it off to finish in time for the Scots nationals, to sit along side the two Harriers. the paint job used Hataka paints for the correct metalic grey shade.
Finaly there's these two.
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A bit more can be found on TSRjoes own Spot on models thread.
Very nice work, love the F/A-12! :thumbsup:
Wyvern looks excellent.
:thumbsup:
Quote from: zenrat on April 27, 2017, 04:15:15 AM
Wyvern looks excellent.
:thumbsup:
Does indeed, glad she went to a good home :thumbsup:
Some nice work there Martin.
Must admit I'm not a fan of the F.35 it just doesn't look right to me and indeed almost looks unfinished because of the different finishes used on panels etc. No idea how effective it is however just going on looks.
One question regarding the seemingly increased use of "black and white" national markings. Given modern combat ranges and guided weaponry, does it make any difference ? Or am I missing the point somewhere ?
Quote from: Martin H on April 26, 2017, 10:47:30 AM
I started this one early last year, but got side tracked.
Me too ;D (Fujimi model to)
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Lovely builds though Martin
The Wyvern is excellent! Love it! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Love Frankenstein's Sea Lightning, good use of surplus parts! Not very often these days you see anyone building an Air Model vac. Enjoy the Scot Nationals.
Colin
Not a build update. But an update of what ive been upto model wise in the last few months
In short I reached peak stash at home. ie no more room for any new kits or even less room to move about in the loft, where my work bench and spray booth are along side the stash.
A soulution was needed rapidly, not only to clear space in the loft, but also to keep the peace with mum and dad. Mainly Mum :wacko:
After some local research and requesting of quotes etc. Im and now the proud renter of a 20 ft ISO Containor located a few miles from home. About half the stash and some other bits and bobs have now been relocated.
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This as much as I intend to locate for now, as i whant to maintain plenty of room for me to move around in.
now for a few shelf shots, just to make people jealous :wacko: :wacko: :wacko:
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excuse to poor quality of the pics they were taken using my smart phone.
Now I hope I can get back to building
WHAAAT? :o
EIGHT Swifts, ELEVEN TSR2s and SEVENTEEN Lightnings!
Planning on some extensive building then OGL?
Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 30, 2017, 12:00:07 PM
WHAAAT? :o
EIGHT Swifts, ELEVEN TSR2s and SEVENTEEN Lightnings!
Planning on some extensive building then OGL?
You forgot the 56 phantoms of various flavors lol
Quote from: Martin H on August 30, 2017, 12:34:01 PM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 30, 2017, 12:00:07 PM
WHAAAT? :o
EIGHT Swifts, ELEVEN TSR2s and SEVENTEEN Lightnings!
Planning on some extensive building then OGL?
You forgot the 56 phantoms of various flavors lol
By the time I'd got to the seventeen Fightenings my eyes had stopped working............. :o
Good start, so how many rows of shelves will you need for the remaining 4/5ths of the stash? :wacko:
Quote from: Thorvic on August 30, 2017, 02:23:31 PM
Good start, so how many rows of shelves will you need for the remaining 4/5ths of the stash? :wacko:
LOL 4/5ths. ;D ;D ;D that would be true if it was Joe's stash
the plan is that 50-60% of the stash will be relocated in total. the rest will remain in the loft. Although another row of racking down the middle was brefly considered at first, leaving just enougth room for some one who is stick thin walk through side ways :wacko:
I've seen worse stocked model shops.
Hope it doesn't get damp or too hot in there.
Quote from: zenrat on August 31, 2017, 02:26:58 AM
I've seen worse stocked model shops.
Hope it doesn't get damp or too hot in there.
Too hot? In the UK? :o :o
Quote from: rickshaw on August 31, 2017, 02:42:29 AM
Quote from: zenrat on August 31, 2017, 02:26:58 AM
I've seen worse stocked model shops.
Hope it doesn't get damp or too hot in there.
Too hot? In the UK? :o :o
Sorry, yes. What was I thinking.
:banghead:
UK temperature jokes aside, Damp and temperature are something to be aware of ( either hot or cold). as Condensation will make a mess of the shelf's, and encourage mould etc, Also make sure to check in case of rodents, don't want anything getting nibbled.
But another of our UK Strategic kit stash's being moved to a secure off site bunker :wacko:
This will worry the international kit strike planners. ;D
Flippin' Ada Martin :o :o
Quote from: Steel Penguin on August 31, 2017, 04:27:05 AM
UK temperature jokes aside, Damp and temperature are something to be aware of ( either hot or cold). as Condensation will make a mess of the shelf's, and encourage mould etc, Also make sure to check in case of rodents, don't want anything getting nibbled.
But another of our UK Strategic kit stash's being moved to a secure off site bunker :wacko:
This will worry the international kit strike planners. ;D
A couple of serious points. As mentioned above condensation is possibly a serious problem with steel shipping containers. If you can't line it with plywood, leaving an air gap, then don't stack the boxes tight up against the wall. My niece uses a couple as showroom space for her equestrian doo-dah business and my brother lined them after initial problems.
Secondly. What's security like ?
I'd be very interested in the cost. Either chat at SMW or could you e-mail/PM me ?
Cheers
Chris
Quote from: NARSES2 on August 31, 2017, 06:32:46 AM
Flippin' Ada Martin :o :o
A couple of serious points. As mentioned above condensation is possibly a serious problem with steel shipping containers. If you can't line it with plywood, leaving an air gap, then don't stack the boxes tight up against the wall. My niece uses a couple as showroom space for her equestrian doo-dah business and my brother lined them after initial problems.
Secondly. What's security like ?
I'd be very interested in the cost. Either chat at SMW or could you e-mail/PM me ?
Cheers
Chris
The box ive rented has been fitted with plenty of air vents to allow for reasonable ventalation. The next door naibour pointed them out to me as he stores a vintage raceing car in his. The t&c's are quite lax. You can do prety much what you like to the insides bar storing anything perishable, chemicals, illegal subtances and firearms.
,
Security systems on thes site are better than where I work. CCTV coverage is excellent, and access is via a swipe card to open the gate. Allowing 24hour access. Theres an ANPR system at the gate so they know whos been in and out at what ever time.
Its a multi use site, There are two seperate garages, one for HGV,s and another for cars and vans, there are a fair number of owner/driver HGV,s that park there when not working. theres a small coach company operating from there as well, and the site owners also operate a self drive van/light truck hire firm.
No wonder I can't get hold of some kits, OGL has them all!!!
On a side note though, if you alternated your shelving on one side between long side against the outside wall and the short side against the wall then you could increase your storage without hampering too much your moving around.
Gondor
Glad ventilation and security has been thought about Martin :thumbsup:
Ok, the stock take is now more or less finished. :o
The total stash now stands at 2,399 1/72nd scale aircraft kits.
Of that total 1,168 are in the container.
The remaining 1,231 are still in the loft.
I havent included my sci fi and small scale armor stashes.
the spread sheet Ive been using for years has proved its worth keeping tabs on that lot. :thumbsup:
I still wont be getting much if any building done as the loft is in need of some TLC to sort out a few issues we uncovered moving the stash about. Nothing big, but better to get it sorted sooner rather than later.
My goodness, that's a few kits. I might be interested in how your spreadsheet is laid out so that I can perform a stock take at some point which will help me decide what to move into the loft.
Gondor
You'll never live long enough OGL, just like me. ;D
Quote from: PR19_Kit on September 29, 2017, 03:26:02 PM
You'll never live long enough OGL, just like me. ;D
I've probably reduced my stash by 50% over the last couple of years, with more to go, and I still won't live anywhere near long enough :o ;D
Must admit the spreadsheet I did all those years ago (on Lotus123) is still worth it's weight in gold. :thumbsup:
Quote from: PR19_Kit on September 29, 2017, 03:26:02 PM
You'll never live long enough OGL, just like me. ;D
Dont I know it LOL
Look at it it this way, It may be worth something when/if I get to retirement age (meaning if HMG stops increasing the retirement age for my age group). Im looking at it as a small extention of my pension.
Quote from: Martin H on September 30, 2017, 03:15:14 AM
Im looking at it as a small extention of my pension.
Funny that, I think the same way. ;D
Quote from: Martin H on August 30, 2017, 12:34:01 PM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 30, 2017, 12:00:07 PM
WHAAAT? :o
EIGHT Swifts, ELEVEN TSR2s and SEVENTEEN Lightnings!
Planning on some extensive building then OGL?
You forgot the 56 phantoms of various flavors lol
Good guy!
:drink: :drink: :cheers: :cheers: :party: :party:
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: Martin H on August 30, 2017, 12:34:01 PM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 30, 2017, 12:00:07 PM
WHAAAT? :o
EIGHT Swifts, ELEVEN TSR2s and SEVENTEEN Lightnings!
Planning on some extensive building then OGL?
You forgot the 56 phantoms of various flavors lol
I was just reading that at RAIT this year they was a couple of Phantoms on display, Greek ones IIRC
Quote from: PR19_Kit on September 30, 2017, 05:32:56 AM
Quote from: Martin H on September 30, 2017, 03:15:14 AM
Im looking at it as a small extention of my pension.
Funny that, I think the same way. ;D
Those were my thoughts as well :thumbsup:
Last build before I stop all model activity before Telford.
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My 2nd Target drone. Namely a QF-4E in UK service.
With the RAF having run out of Lightning D-6 drones, and the Fleet of Phantom D-2's getting smaller and smaller, the MOD started looking around for a replacement target drone. As it happened, the USAF was introducing the QF-16A into service for its full size target requirement. That left a fair number of now redundant QF-4E and G airframes looking for a new home. Plus there was a still plentifully supply of E birds at the bone yard that could either be converted to drones or reduced for spares.
A deal was soon struck between the DOD and MOD for the supply of an initial batch of 20 QF-4E's plus a further ten F-4E's as spare parts donors. The fleet was quickly delivered to RAF Llanbedr to be used along side the few remaining spey toom drones. the first six to arrive were repainted in the standard RAF drone colors of Yellow over bright red. After that all remaining QF-4E's retained their former USAF paint jobs with RAF roundels in place of the star and bars. The "new" aircraft did not receive UK military serials, they retained their former USAF serials and were simply identified by a number painted on the intake splitter plates.
Numbers 1 to 6 spent most of their time acting as chase planes rather than as targets. They became quite popular on the UK and European air show circuits along side the two remaining Lightning D-6's that were also retained as chase planes.
Two further batches were delivered from the bone yard, with the last batch being 30 unmodified F-4E and G's that were converted at Llanbedr using the same rig as the previous Phantom D-2 drones. Four D-2's survived to retirement, one as the Llanbedr gate guard the others found their way into private hands and remain as regular performers at airshows across Europe. The QF-4E is still in use although number 6 (seen here) has now been put on display at the RAF museum, Cosford. Several stateside war bird collectors have offered to buy a number of E models off the MOD for preservation. Something the MOD is seriously considering as a potentially lucrative short term income stream. As for a replacement, the MOD is quietly looking at the QF-16, a few of witch have been trialed along side the Phantoms at Llanbedr.
The model is the Bilek boxing of the Italeri Phantom kit. with a turned brass pitot probe. The paint job was Xtracylic RAF SAR yellow and Red arrows red.
Decals are from various sources from my decal stash. in the real world the serial used is actually off an F-4D. I used it mainly due to a lack of F-4E sheets in my stash (without robbing one of my various toom kits of its decals)
Impressive Martin :thumbsup: Particularly given how difficult it can be to get a good, even coverage with those colours.
Great work :thumbsup:
as per the Merlin magic (http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php/topic,44672.msg793145.html#msg793145) thread. here are the pics plus a few others of my Merlin Trio. Explainations in the above named thread :mellow:
Merlin HAR-5
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EH-101 Heliliner, Bond Helicopters SAR.
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The two SAR birds togeather.
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Merlin HM(U)-1
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<EDIT>. Images resized for easier viewing
That's a really neat trio Martin. Well done mate :thumbsup:
Very nice Martin, the Cormorant is way overlooked IMO
Merlins look great! :thumbsup:
Quote from: kitnut617 on December 25, 2017, 08:06:19 AM
Very nice Martin, the Cormorant is way overlooked IMO
No the Petrel is the really over looked one :thumbsup:
Quote from: Thorvic on December 26, 2017, 02:06:39 AM
Quote from: kitnut617 on December 25, 2017, 08:06:19 AM
Very nice Martin, the Cormorant is way overlooked IMO
No the Petrel is the really over looked one :thumbsup:
I agree and I'd make a comment there Geoff but it'd get political ---- :-X :-X :-X
Quote from: kitnut617 on December 26, 2017, 04:58:35 AM
Quote from: Thorvic on December 26, 2017, 02:06:39 AM
Quote from: kitnut617 on December 25, 2017, 08:06:19 AM
Very nice Martin, the Cormorant is way overlooked IMO
No the Petrel is the really over looked one :thumbsup:
I agree and I'd make a comment there Geoff but it'd get political ---- :-X :-X :-X
I wouldnt be supprised if either Geoff or Myself have a crack at the Petrel at some point.
All three; stunning builds! :thumbsup: :bow: :thumbsup:
Quote from: Martin H on December 26, 2017, 05:17:41 AM
Quote from: kitnut617 on December 26, 2017, 04:58:35 AM
Quote from: Thorvic on December 26, 2017, 02:06:39 AM
Quote from: kitnut617 on December 25, 2017, 08:06:19 AM
Very nice Martin, the Cormorant is way overlooked IMO
No the Petrel is the really over looked one :thumbsup:
I agree and I'd make a comment there Geoff but it'd get political ---- :-X :-X :-X
I wouldnt be supprised if either Geoff or Myself have a crack at the Petrel at some point.
It's my understanding that a Petrel is just a Merlin, maybe with some Canadian avionics thrown in ---
Well that would make it an easy repaint job then
Yet another Merlin! Almost there with this one. :thumbsup:
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Well the JMSDF do use Merlins, all be it ones with ramps (CH101 and MH101)
This is the SH101..............
I like it. :thumbsup:
Mind you it needs wings. :wacko:
OK so what do the characters on the tail say ?
Does look neat Martin, although I tend to agree with Jim :angel:
Quote from: NARSES2 on January 16, 2018, 01:15:35 AM
OK so what do the characters on the tail say ?
Does look neat Martin, although I tend to agree with Jim :angel:
I believe it "Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force"
Here it is finished at today's Bolton show
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Any way. Another egg beater to show off.
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RAF Seaking HCC-3. of 72sqn based in Cyprus as the personal mount of the Air Officer Commanding, Near East.
Fujimi HAR-3 kit with all they window options opened up, plus an extra one added for good measure. It has a full airliner seat set up inside, courtesy of a donated scrap Airfix Shorts Skyvan. (Cheers Joe).
This was meant to be a UK version of Marine One in a way. In this case it would be Kittyhawk one if it was carrying HMQ. I chickened out of trying the Royal flight scheme. So went for an AOC's personal ride. It will also be gaining drop tanks in due course
Cheers for the explanation mate :thumbsup: ....although I should have guessed :banghead:
Nice pair :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
well time for a quick up date.
As has been said in the Modelcollect thread, I got one of their new 1/72nd scale P1000 Ratte land cruisers.
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Well work started on the running gear first, each unit has working springs. this thing can be built with a fully operational susspention.
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And some paint work on the lower hull and associated bits.
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Then the turret gets my attention.........yes I went there! its carrying all three 11inch tubes. Im calling this the AuftB version :wacko:
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Here is the turret after a few coats of RAF Medium sea grey......It looked close enougth to a pale(ish) battle ship grey to me.
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And here it is as on tonight. The hull isnt glued togeather as yet, thats a lot further down the line.
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At the model club tonight one of the guys brought in his newly finished Trumpeter 1/16th scale T-34. The 72nd scale Ratte is only a fraction smaller! theres only milimeters in it!
Next up is mounting the running gear to the hull and starting to put together 1068 track links :banghead:
My intention is to have this monster sitting on its tracks before I join the upper and lower hulls.
GASP! :o :o :o
Gasp indeed!
Quote from: loupgarou on May 09, 2018, 06:10:47 AM
Quote from: zenrat on May 09, 2018, 03:20:25 AM
Gasp indeed!
I second that!
I'll third it !
I started to count the road wheels etc and gave up. As for the track links, 1068 ? How long is that going to take ?? :o
Looking at the sheer size of that thing, I reckon the thread needs renaming.
'A LARGE work in progress' perhaps? ;D
Zoot!
Martin that thing is huge.
but looking good so far. :thumbsup:
Chuffin' nora! :o
You need to start a new Ratte SIG, that thing'll take up a whole table on it's own!
The mind is positively boggled if you try and imagine this beast in 1/35 scale. :rolleyes:
Quote from: NARSES2 on May 09, 2018, 06:14:38 AM
I started to count the road wheels etc and gave up. As for the track links, 1068 ? How long is that going to take ?? :o
144 road wheels Chris.
12 units with 12 road wheels each. and each unit took around 45 minutes to build in total. There are over 40 parts in each compleated unit. Including 6 metal springs.
As for the track links, its three sets of track for each side. So your guess is as good as mine for how long it will take. :wacko:
I want to see someone do the BergeRatte.
Quote from: The Wooksta! on May 09, 2018, 02:45:49 PM
I want to see someone do the BergeRatte.
Dock yard crane in place of the turret prehaps?
Obviously one could modify this kit to portray the crawler that took the Von Braun moon rockets from the assembly building to the launch pad at Peenemünde. But that would be a RW build...
Quote from: Martin H on May 09, 2018, 02:51:36 PM
Quote from: The Wooksta! on May 09, 2018, 02:45:49 PM
I want to see someone do the BergeRatte.
Dock yard crane in place of the turret prehaps?
Perhaps, or the large yellow gantry crane that's still on the old Harland and Wolf site ? Samson and Goliath. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_and_Goliath_(cranes) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_and_Goliath_(cranes))
Best of luck with those track links Martin :thumbsup:
Here we go again. Up date time,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, :thumbsup:
Running gear and tracks in place. upper hull placed on for visual effect
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And now fully buttoned up.
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Next up it the upper works paint job once the secondary armament mountings are in place.
That is certainly very impressive Martin :thumbsup: IMHO, it looks mainly like the ancient siege equipment that you see from centuries ago, I wonder if this was the result of Stalingrad or other such battles.
As an aside, does anyone know what the reload time is for guns that big ?
More the result of Hitler getting one of his nads shot off. Very Freudian.
Quote from: kitnut617 on May 19, 2018, 06:24:23 AM
As an aside, does anyone know what the reload time is for guns that big ?
In the Royal Navy the final type of battleship guns were about 1 round every 50 seconds, but it depended on the turret and ammunition configuration. I'm not sure at all how it would have worked out in this configuration and this mounting.
Would the Tallboys go all the way through and explode underneath or would they go off inside?
I'm having trouble visualising the size of this oh glorious leader. Would it be possible to hav a picture with something we know the size of to give some context. A 1/72 aircraft for example.
Thank you.
Quote from: kitnut617 on May 19, 2018, 06:24:23 AM
As an aside, does anyone know what the reload time is for guns that big ?
My sources tell me that one round per gun per minute was about right for a prolonged action. An idle thought, would the recoil if all three were fired together have unfortunate effects on the turret/tank mechanisms?
Quote from: Rheged on May 20, 2018, 09:15:51 AM
Quote from: kitnut617 on May 19, 2018, 06:24:23 AM
As an aside, does anyone know what the reload time is for guns that big ?
My sources tell me that one round per gun per minute was about right for a prolonged action.
Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa-class_battleship#Main_battery) sources the 16"/50 Mk7s on the Iowas as 2 per minute. For a tracked operation, I'd probably go 1/minute. Fire three rounds, creep to the next position and repeat :wacko:
How's your sanity after all the links?
Quote from: Rheged on May 20, 2018, 09:15:51 AM
An idle thought, would the recoil if all three were fired together have unfortunate effects on the turret/tank mechanisms?
It'd surely have unfortunate effects on any 'Poor Bloody Infantry' who happened to be within audible range when it fired! :o :o
Quote from: PR19_Kit on May 20, 2018, 12:48:05 PM
Quote from: Rheged on May 20, 2018, 09:15:51 AM
An idle thought, would the recoil if all three were fired together have unfortunate effects on the turret/tank mechanisms?
It'd surely have unfortunate effects on any 'Poor Bloody Infantry' who happened to be within audible range when it fired! :o :o
....and it would need close infantry support otherwise a couple of plucky chaps with a big steel bar could creep up on it, stick their bar in the works and immobilise the whole thing. Perhaps the Panzer-Oberkommando would have formed Tauber Infanteriebataillonen to provide support?
Quote from: zenrat on May 20, 2018, 05:02:53 AM
I'm having trouble visualising the size of this oh glorious leader. Would it be possible to hav a picture with something we know the size of to give some context. A 1/72 aircraft for example.
Thank you.
No problem. :mellow:
Take one dicast Panzer IV whirlwind quad flak........................
(https://imageshack.com/a/img922/933/wucXkJ.jpg)
Then place said flak unit alongside the monster....................
(https://imageshack.com/a/img921/5732/v0Ca9f.jpg)
Hmm, yes. Thank you.
Got it now.
Wow.
Quote from: Rheged on May 20, 2018, 09:15:51 AM
Quote from: kitnut617 on May 19, 2018, 06:24:23 AM
As an aside, does anyone know what the reload time is for guns that big ?
My sources tell me that one round per gun per minute was about right for a prolonged action. An idle thought, would the recoil if all three were fired together have unfortunate effects on the turret/tank mechanisms?
I'm still trying to work out how many support vehicles it would need to cart more then 10 minutes worth of ammunition ? It's actually beyond impractical and my brain just won't accept it :o
Quote from: zenrat on May 20, 2018, 05:02:53 AM
Would the Tallboys go all the way through and explode underneath or would they go off inside?
Go all the way through I would have thought. But you'd only need a near miss to turn it over, did I mention it's impracticability ?
Quote from: NARSES2 on May 21, 2018, 06:29:00 AM
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Quote from: kitnut617 on May 19, 2018, 06:24:23 AM
As an aside, does anyone know what the reload time is for guns that big ?
My sources tell me that one round per gun per minute was about right for a prolonged action. An idle thought, would the recoil if all three were fired together have unfortunate effects on the turret/tank mechanisms?
I'm still trying to work out how many support vehicles it would need to cart more then 10 minutes worth of ammunition ? It's actually beyond impractical and my brain just won't accept it :o
Quote from: zenrat on May 20, 2018, 05:02:53 AM
Would the Tallboys go all the way through and explode underneath or would they go off inside?
Go all the way through I would have thought. But you'd only need a near miss to turn it over, did I mention it's impracticability ?
It's been recorded that at least one Tallboy had a perfect hit on the Tirpitz (the last attack), but I can't remember if it went all the way through. In the Dam Busters book I've read (the full version), after an attack on a submarine pen, the boffins went to inspect the results of the Tallboy/Grand Slams. One had hit the pen dead center (the idea was to hit just to the outside of the walls), they found that the bomb had only just penetrated the 16 odd feet of re-enforced concrete before it exploded, everything inside the pen was squashed against the interior walls and the huge blast doors were bulged out like an inflated balloon. I would say that depending on what armour thickness the top side of this monster was to be would determine whether the Tallboy would go straight through it. Keep in mind that the Lancaster couldn't get to the altitude that Wallis had designed the bomb to be dropped at, it wasn't until they started testing with a B-29 that the bombs were reaching the speeds that they were designed for.
Quote from: kitnut617 on May 21, 2018, 07:17:33 AM
It's been recorded that at least one Tallboy had a perfect hit on the Tirpitz (the last attack), but I can't remember if it went all the way through.
IIRC it did, and exploded underneath the stern, wrecking the steering gear and props too. But then more of them either hit or near-missed and did her in for good.
Still a few bits to do, but almost there with this bit of Tallboy bait.
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Yes its in the scheme some of the Kriegs Marine capital ships wore early in the war. Thats because it's crew are all ex KM Surface fleet, and treat their new mount as a ship not an AFV! Not far of the mark when you think about it. Its a land based monitor after all :mellow:
Woo yeah!
:thumbsup:
OMG, this thing is HUGE... :blink:
Quote from: Dizzyfugu on June 06, 2018, 03:36:38 AM
OMG, this thing is HUGE... :blink:
Yup, even Teddy looks gobsmacked :o
Love the idea of it being in Kreigs Marine colours :thumbsup:
Ja big Land ship have you build i like it :thumbsup:
Camouflage-wise, I'd be inclined to paint it brick red with lots of little grey rectangles...
At its size you can rather paint a complete small village on its flanks... ;D
Quote from: Dizzyfugu on June 25, 2018, 03:05:21 AM
At its size you can rather paint a complete small village on its flanks... ;D
With a meadow on the top side complete with grazing cattle, a babbling brook and a milkmaid.
Time for something a little smaller than the Ratte. A lot smaller!
And in keeping with RAF 100...............................
Introducing the Westland Puma HAR mk-2, of D flight 202 sqn. RAF Lossimouth 1994.
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As you can see some scrote from the Fleet Air Arm has defaced the markings on the cabin door.................................
This one started as a little light work to keep me occupied while displaying at the Small space sci fi model show at the start of July.
The next pic shows how far I got with it while at the show.
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As you can see its an old Airfix kit with a resin/white metal conversion set from Whirlybird.
Here it is a few days later at the local model club meet.
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The Intakes and sand filters are resin clones of the parts in the Heller boxing of the Airfix kit. The winch is from an Italeri Couger kit (the Swedish SAR boxing).
Yes, that is a super Puma in the back ground more on that when its finished................
The basic configuration for this build is the same as the now retired Portuguese SAR Puma's
And once its had a few hours in the spray booth.
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Paint wise, the Yellow is CJ aerosols BS 365 Golden yellow (Aka RAF SAR Yellow), the black is Halford satin black primer, the rest is mainly Lifecolor acrylics.
This how she appeared after a short session at work on Sunday 22nd.
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And now once the decals are on..............
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The decals came from a new Xtradecal Seaking sheet. It keeps the Seaking HAR-2 serial as well, as if the RAF went for Puma's for the SAR role they wouldn't have had the Seakings...................
Nice one OGL, that looks the part very well. :thumbsup:
Like it. Very good.
:thumbsup:
Still on this helicopter thing I see ;D
That looks really good mate :thumbsup:
Nice Puma! :thumbsup:
Wasn't me, might think it :wacko: but didn't do it ;)
Very nice! Some great paint work!
Quote from: Thorvic on July 31, 2018, 09:27:57 AM
Wasn't me, might think it :wacko: but didn't do it ;)
Prove it! ;D ;D ;D :wacko:
Yes still on the helicopters. they are easier to move around gate houses when working on them on Nights or weekend shifts.
Quote from: Martin H on July 31, 2018, 11:31:00 AM
Quote from: Thorvic on July 31, 2018, 09:27:57 AM
Wasn't me, might think it :wacko: but didn't do it ;)
Prove it! ;D ;D ;D :wacko:
Yes still on the helicopters. they are easier to move around gate houses when working on them on Nights or weekend shifts.
Now why do I get the feeling such actions are done with chopper sound effects when nobody's looking ;D
Quote from: Thorvic on July 31, 2018, 11:27:03 PM
Quote from: Martin H on July 31, 2018, 11:31:00 AM
Quote from: Thorvic on July 31, 2018, 09:27:57 AM
Wasn't me, might think it :wacko: but didn't do it ;)
Prove it! ;D ;D ;D :wacko:
Yes still on the helicopters. they are easier to move around gate houses when working on them on Nights or weekend shifts.
Now why do I get the feeling such actions are done with chopper sound effects when nobody's looking ;D
;D ;D ;D
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Quote from: Thorvic on July 31, 2018, 11:27:03 PM
Quote from: Martin H on July 31, 2018, 11:31:00 AM
Quote from: Thorvic on July 31, 2018, 09:27:57 AM
Wasn't me, might think it :wacko: but didn't do it ;)
Prove it! ;D ;D ;D :wacko:
Yes still on the helicopters. they are easier to move around gate houses when working on them on Nights or weekend shifts.
Now why do I get the feeling such actions are done with chopper sound effects when nobody's looking ;D
;D ;D ;D
im sayin nuthin :rolleyes: :mellow:
A little fixed wing thing this time............
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This is the Spitfire Rammer "Panic fighter" from Lonewulf. Its a compleat kit. However I replaced the undercarrage and the prop with those from a scrap old tool Airfix Spitfire Ia.
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I started this one must be two years ago now. There were several issues that caused me to loose interest, mainly to do with the paint job.
It finaly found its way off the shelf of doom back into the spay booth earlier in the summer and achived "close enougth for Government work" status.
Loooooove to see some resurrected builds coming to completion.
Quite the nutty contraption, there!!! Great work!
Another Spitfire. This time an Airfix PRXIX built OOB (ish)
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Yes Royal Rhodesian Air Force.
Why? Because I could. Only for TSRjoe to mention a ref that they wanted them with the mk22's that they did have.
This build was a gate house special, built over a few night shifts. It then sat on the shelf of doom for a few months fully painted, while I worked out who's markings it was going to get.
Its got the later style RRAF roundle with the single assegai as if they lasted well into the 1960's
You may well see a theme developing here sortly.......................
Good stuff there OGL, the Rammer is exceptional! :thumbsup:
Rhodesian PR19? Been there, done that...
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But yours is silver.......... ;D
I did a PRU Blue one in the earlier markings, and there's two unfinished in both PRU Blue overall and a two tone scheme over PRU Blue. Both need serials so I may come knocking in a few weeks for some custom decals for them and several other things!
I can't find anything in Air Britain's Spitfire International on Rhodesia wanting PR19s - it does mention Egypt wanting PRXIs and FRXVIIIs - and for my money, the scheme Martin's gone for is too late for anything delivered to Rhodesia as they got their Spitfires in late '51 (incidentally, the F22s they got wore a very light grey and not the aluminium scheme so often depicted). The Thai PR19s did wear that scheme as they were from ex RAF stocks and delivered in 57, I think.
Like all of those, especially the SAR Puma. :thumbsup:
Funnily enough, I was just toying with the opposite concept: the Anglo-French helo deal falls through, so the RAF gets Commandos/Sea Kings in place of ALL it's Pumas.
Very neat Martin :thumbsup:
Now don't ask me why, but for some reason my brain thinks that Spitfire Rammer should of been in that Dr Who episode that involved Spitfires in space ! No idea why, just put it down to the nights getting longer :banghead: ;)
That's one of my favorite episodes. That whole arc was fun.
Quote from: The Wooksta! on September 30, 2018, 03:13:50 PM
I did a PRU Blue one in the earlier markings, and there's two unfinished in both PRU Blue overall and a two tone scheme over PRU Blue. Both need serials so I may come knocking in a few weeks for some custom decals for them and several other things!
I can't find anything in Air Britain's Spitfire International on Rhodesia wanting PR19s - it does mention Egypt wanting PRXIs and FRXVIIIs - and for my money, the scheme Martin's gone for is too late for anything delivered to Rhodesia as they got their Spitfires in late '51 (incidentally, the F22s they got wore a very light grey and not the aluminium scheme so often depicted). The Thai PR19s did wear that scheme as they were from ex RAF stocks and delivered in 57, I think.
Whos to say they wouldnt have repainted em later on......................................
True, but the Med Sea Grey uppers are designed to hide over the haze of northern Europe, not a tropical or semi desert nation like Rhodesia. More likely they'd either be stripped back to the bare metal (see above) or go to a dark earth/dark green upper scheme such as the scheme worn by the F22s in their later lives. That's one I've got to finish...
But look at the RAF PR stuff in Malaya - that's in the MSG/PRU Blue scheme. Yes, but these have been rotated in from Europe, whereas most aircraft in the Malayan theatre - not too dis-similar terrainwise to Rhodesia - ended up in a silver dope scheme. The last Mosquito flight, RAAF Lincolns, RAF Hornets, etc. All silver.
to quote the honrable member for Tyneside North.
QuoteMFM
;D ;D ;D ;D :mellow:
OK. Back to Helicopters again........................................... :wacko:
First up is a hanger queen that's been sitting around since December last year.
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A Merlin HC-3 as per the original wooden mock up that was used in a lot of the promo photos Westlands did back in the late 80's / early 90's.
Its in the late 1990's raf cammo scheme for choppers. And is wearing 33 sqn markings.
Italeri Kit with model decal decals and mainly Hataka paints.
Next a fresh of the work bench 4 day build.
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Westland Seaking mk-25, operating in the anti shipping role off the Dutch carrier Karel Doorman (the 4th and only non British built Invincible class VTOL carrier) around 2005. Revell kit with decals robbed from various Lynx UH-14 kits and a Modledecal set. The penguins are from a Hasegawa weapons set. Gunze sanyo and Life color paints all the way on this one. There may well be a Dutch SeaHarrier joining this bird in due course...................
Last one is another hanger queen from earleir in the year.
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A westland-Sikorsky WS-70 Seahawk HAS-2 of 815NAS operating off HMS Richmond in 2000.
Italeri SH-60B kit built OOB, A horrible kit to build. with hobbyboss Lynx HMA8 decals. Any other H-60's I build will be either Hobbyboss, Hasegawa or Fujimi kits!
Those look great, bud!!! HC-3 is my fav. :lol:
Quote from: Martin H on October 26, 2018, 12:54:35 PM
Westland Seaking mk-25, operating in the anti shipping role off the Dutch carrier Karel Doorman (the 4th and only non British built Invincible class VTOL carrier) around 2005.......................There may well be a Dutch SeaHarrier joining this bird in due course...................
Oh very good! :thumbsup: ;D ;)
Should we expect a model of the Karel Doorman (from the Airfix Invincible of course) at some stage?
Quote from: PR19_Kit on October 26, 2018, 01:44:24 PM
Should we expect a model of the Karel Doorman (from the Airfix Invincible of course) at some stage?
Not from Me LOL. I dont usualy build floating targets.................
Yeah I like the Sea King too. Penguins make a lot of sense for the Dutch. The Germans used 4 x Sea Skuas on their Sea Kings, but then they had to deal with flocks of missile/torpedo boats in the Baltic and up the Norwegian coast, so the more rounds, the merrier. The Dutch tended to concentrate on Atlantic operations, where they'd be dealing with larger ships, so the bigger warhead and longer range of the Penguin would be more use.
Mind you, you could carry Exocets on Sea Kings...
Quote from: Weaver on October 26, 2018, 02:37:30 PM
Mind you, you could carry Exocets on Sea Kings...
And Sea Eagles....
Very, very nice Martin :thumbsup:
Masking in particular is extremely neat
I've always wondered how you paint helicopters with open cabin doors. Surely when you spray the body the paint must blow into the cabin so it would cover the interior so then you need to get in there with a brush - very fiddly. Or is there a way to plug the doorway when coating the outside?
Having painted and detailed the interior before putting the fuselage halves together I put tape around the doorway perpendicular to the outside surface. I then plug the hole in the middle with a piece of sponge. This keeps the paint out.
I'm not sure if I made myself clear explaining that but a similar technique (albeit with a smaller opening) can be seen on the cockpit of this I-16.
(https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4896/32214315218_d27792106e_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/R5EMzU)Geebeeski WIP 28-11-2018 (https://flic.kr/p/R5EMzU) by Fred Maillardet (https://www.flickr.com/photos/156376527@N06/), on Flickr
Quote from: Nick on November 29, 2018, 01:39:46 AM
. Or is there a way to plug the doorway when coating the outside?
Umm! temporarily put the door in the hole :-\
Quote from: kitnut617 on November 29, 2018, 05:32:22 AM
Quote from: Nick on November 29, 2018, 01:39:46 AM
. Or is there a way to plug the doorway when coating the outside?
Umm! temporarily put the door in the hole :-\
Yup, suitably masked of course. You can usually use the tape to temporarily attach it as well :thumbsup:
Mind you as I still brush paint it's not a problem I often have to face
Quote from: NARSES2 on November 29, 2018, 06:21:51 AM
Quote from: kitnut617 on November 29, 2018, 05:32:22 AM
Quote from: Nick on November 29, 2018, 01:39:46 AM
. Or is there a way to plug the doorway when coating the outside?
Umm! temporarily put the door in the hole :-\
Yup, suitably masked of course. You can usually use the tape to temporarily attach it as well :thumbsup:
Mind you as I still brush paint it's not a problem I often have to face
The brotherhood of the hairy stick is (thankfully) still alive and flourishing.
Quote from: Nick on November 29, 2018, 01:39:46 AM
I've always wondered how you paint helicopters with open cabin doors. Surely when you spray the body the paint must blow into the cabin so it would cover the interior so then you need to get in there with a brush - very fiddly. Or is there a way to plug the doorway when coating the outside?
Deluxe products "tackywax" is your friend there. It helps with a temporay way to tack the door inplace for painting............
Quote from: Nick on November 29, 2018, 01:39:46 AM
I've always wondered how you paint helicopters with open cabin doors. Surely when you spray the body the paint must blow into the cabin so it would cover the interior so then you need to get in there with a brush - very fiddly. Or is there a way to plug the doorway when coating the outside?
Paint round the door frame in the colour you are doing the airframe then tack the door in place using maskol. seals the hole allows the door to match the fuselage around it and then it can be popped off and the maskol removed. Simples.
Quote from: Thorvic on November 29, 2018, 11:30:31 PM
Quote from: Nick on November 29, 2018, 01:39:46 AM
I've always wondered how you paint helicopters with open cabin doors. Surely when you spray the body the paint must blow into the cabin so it would cover the interior so then you need to get in there with a brush - very fiddly. Or is there a way to plug the doorway when coating the outside?
Paint round the door frame in the colour you are doing the airframe then tack the door in place using maskol. seals the hole allows the door to match the fuselage around it and then it can be popped off and the maskol removed. Simples.
That as well........
Quote from: Thorvic on November 29, 2018, 11:30:31 PM
Quote from: Nick on November 29, 2018, 01:39:46 AM
I've always wondered how you paint helicopters with open cabin doors. Surely when you spray the body the paint must blow into the cabin so it would cover the interior so then you need to get in there with a brush - very fiddly. Or is there a way to plug the doorway when coating the outside?
Paint round the door frame in the colour you are doing the airframe then tack the door in place using maskol. seals the hole allows the door to match the fuselage around it and then it can be popped off and the maskol removed. Simples.
Quote from: Martin H
Deluxe products "tackywax" is your friend there. It helps with a temporay way to tack the door inplace for painting............
Thank you chaps, it makes sense now. I could always use a piece of card or styrene if I don't have the door. Do you think that blu-tack would work instead of tackywax or maskol?
Only if you're using acrylics & it can still take a bit to clean up, sometimes.
Quote from: Old Wombat on November 30, 2018, 08:50:59 PM
Only if you're using acrylics & it can still take a bit to clean up, sometimes.
Agree. Blue Tack can be very useful, but little bits of it can hang on rather tenaciously. So be prepared to spend some time with a sharp cocktail stick
Me too, I used to use it for landing gear wells but it's a b*gger to get out of fine details. One trick is to use a larger blob of blu-tack to remove stubborn bits with a rolling, dabbing or rubbing motion. You can tease it into a point to get into trickier to reach bits.
Belated congratulations for the (beautiful) Spitfire Rammer! May I photopaint it into a Zwilling Twin-Rammer?
Quote from: Tophe on December 10, 2018, 10:17:47 PM
Belated congratulations for the (beautiful) Spitfire Rammer! May I photopaint it into a Zwilling Twin-Rammer?
No problem Tophe :D
Thanks!:
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For a suicide fighter, a two-seater is more efficient, avoiding false bailing out pretending of an engine jam without witness... :-\
Quote from: Martin H on October 26, 2018, 12:54:35 PM
There may well be a Dutch SeaHarrier joining this bird in due course...................
Ho hum, well I did say that didnt I....................... ;)
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A Hasegawa SHAR that i picked up 2nd hand in a bag and no instructions. Built OOB, bar the Model alliance Orpheus recci pod. (shortened by 10mm to fit the centreline).
Paint work is Gunze sanyo, and decals from the spares box.
Pass the Dutchie!!! :mellow: :mellow: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Very nice, I wish we'd replaced the Karel Doorman with an Invincible class in the 1970s instead of giving up on carriers.
and another done........................
This one started after finding a DHC pamphlet on the Twin Otter for the RAF at SMW this year.
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One of the pages shows proposed armament options.
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Que a lot of brain storming between me, Geoff and Joe...................
Geoff started nailing a Matchbox/Revell kit togeather for an un armed version, while I ordered a load of AS11 Anti tank missiles from Shapeways for a tooled up version. I realy wanted six to match the artwork, but settled on four as they were priced at £8 a pair plus shipping.
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In the end we ended up with this.....
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a better shot of the things that go "Woosh! Bang!"
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And now the question of why 6sqn? Simple I wanted to insult a fighter squadron by down gradeing them to a light but tooled up trash hauler outfit, and seeing as its lugging anti tank missiles the flying can openers it is............... :angel:
This was a Revell boxing of the Matchbox kit, The tooling hasnt aged to well. There was a fair bit of cleaning up to be done while building.
Paint is a mix of CJ aerosol rattle cans and Gunze sanyo. Decals are a mix from the spares box.
some other pics of this beast
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There may be another one of these from me with the cheek mounted Zunni pods in the new year.
Nice one Martin, that's quite a find about the RAF requirement (or was it just a proposal)
Quote from: kitnut617 on December 30, 2018, 11:12:07 AM
Nice one Martin, that's quite a find about the RAF requirement (or was it just a proposal)
I suspect it was just a proposal from DHC.
And now for what is going to be my last 2018 build. And its back to where the year started. A furious palm tree............
The Westland 532 Couger HC-1, of the Army Air Corps. Dated around about now.
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An Italeri kit build OOB with a noticable deliberate omission. (lets see who spots it first)
This one was started along side the RAF SAR Puma I did back in the summer. But it stalled as I kind of lost interest in it untill yesterday............
This idea is a stripped out Army combat assult chopper to carry an infantry section into action. Something the Army currently has to look to the RAF to do for them.
God stuff, Martin, thanks for sharing.
RAF Twin Otter? Why not - a Twin Pioneer replacement perhaps.
As for the Cougar, the main undercart is sans sponsons, going all Lynx AH9 on us.
Neat pair Martin :thumbsup:
Great Twin Otter Martin.
I like the Cougar: that's very credible, and I always thought the right solution for the RAF/AAC was to slowly replace the Puma with Cougars on a squadron-by-squadron basis during the 1990s.
Right I know its March, but heres the first few builds I've finnished for 2019..................
First up a hanger queen thats been sulking on my shelf of doom for 2-3 years,
Fairchild Argus Mk-1, of the Royal Rhodesian Airforce. from the late 1950's, early 1960's
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This is an old Lagato kit. Originaly it was going to be a real world Thai airforce bird. But as you do when building I got bored half way through and put it to one side.
Then I got interested in the Rhodesian bush war. And after a little dig around the old interweb I found a guy in South Africa who does his own range of decals covering a multitude of African subjects including plenty of Rhodesian subjects. Mav decals is the name. Click here (https://www.mavdecals.co.za/) to see the web site. These are laser printed and need a coat of varnish before using so I used the fairchild as the test bed for the decals, hence why the Thai option went the way of the dodo. Must say the decals went on well, and I was quite impressed with them.
Still on the Rhodesian kick...................Onther hanger queen, dating from last summer.
Rhodesian Airforce Swift FR-5, circa the early 1970's
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Airfix kit built OOB bar the paint job. Decals lifted from an Xtradecal export Hunter sheet.
third Rhodie build.............
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Dornier Do27. A Huma kit built OOB, Again in the UDI era markings for the Rhodesian Airforce. The decals are from Mav decals.
Forth...............
another Dornier.
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This is the Revell boxing of yee oldee matchbox Skyservent kit. Colors and decals are as per the Do27. The eagled eyed amoung you may spot the tail wheel is a bit meater than the normal kit one. Blame the carpet monster! Im saying the Rhodesians fitted heavier units to better withstand the bush conditions these birds would have been subject to.....................Im also thinking that the spatted main gear would almost certainly have earned the skyservent the kickname of the Stuka! I know its not a Junkers, but its German so to airman it would be close enougth.
And finaly. Another swift.
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Swift F mk-4 of the Chilian Airforce.
Airfix FR-5 with an Allycat F-4 conversion. I say Allycat as they do the set now, This one came from Colin when he issued it for a short while.
This one was started a few months before the Rhodie FR-5, and wasnt that easy a conversion to work with. Ive manged to hide most of the crimes on top, but it shows under close inspection of the underside. This one has had a change of end user as well. It was originaly going to be Swiss, then I was going down the Rhodesian road, then finaly settled on Chile yesterday. Decals from the same Hunter sheet at the scheme used on the FR-5
Group shot.
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Martin, you might want to check out Aircraft in Miniature's website, Neil Gaunt does a lot of Rhodesian decal schemes. He's originally from there apparently ---
Quite nice, thank you! Love them Rhodesians.
Nice work :thumbsup:, so how many are you going to finish today ;)
And the U-Wing? Who's colours is that getting? :wacko:
Quote from: scooter on March 12, 2019, 03:44:19 AM
And the U-Wing? Who's colours is that getting? :wacko:
Havent decided that yet :wacko:
Neat collection Martin, particularly like the Argus :thumbsup:
Three more finished.................
First up an Dassault MD322 Flamant of the Royal Rhodeasian Airforce from the mid 1960's
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This is an Azur kit built OOB. Yes the As11 ASM's came with the kit. These things were used in the coin roll by the French in Algeria. Even thou they are realy nav trainers and light transports.
When I first saw the kit a few years back at Telford it just screamed Rhodeasian at me........... I started this at the same time as two Dorniers that are shown in my last post. This being a short run kit it needed more TLC while building.
You can see by the little prop under the trailing edge that this thing is a tail sitter.....even with 40-50 grams of lead under the cockpit floor. Size wise the Flamant is about the same as a Pembroke or Twin Otter. I have two more of these in the stash. Another MD311, and a MD315 light transport, with a solid nose.
Next a pair of Hanger queens.
Time to head Down under.
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Vought F-8H Crusader of the RAN.
This was an old Ecsi kit that I started and got bored with about three years ago. I dug it out yesterday and started to throw paint at it. I couldn't quite make up my mind while painting it, would be a real world build or a whif? Then Geoff / Thorvic planted the RAN seed in my head, so here it is.................
And last but by no means least.......A Kiwi.
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Cessna A-37B Dragon fly of the RNZAF.............
I cant remember when this one got started, must be at least 6 years ago. Its an old Hasegawa kit with a few missing small parts that I picked up 2nd hand. I used it this weekend as a test bed for some MRP acrylic paints that I bought to try out at the Bolton show. The kit had no decals so an old set from a matchbox strikemaster sorted that out.........
LOVE that Flamant, it looks really good with those AS11s under the wings, however incongruous they seem at first glance. :thumbsup:
And the two 'Down Under' jets are good too, that A-37 looks like it flew all the way from the US non-stop with all those drop tanks! :o
Good work Martin. I particularly like the Dassault.
FYI according to what I have read on the F-8 when the wing is up then the slats and flaps are down.
Really nice stuff Martin, but I do really like the Flamant even though at first glance it does look incongruous with the AS-11's :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
See you seem to work in 3's like me ?
Quote from: zenrat on March 30, 2019, 05:22:19 PM
FYI according to what I have read on the F-8 when the wing is up then the slats and flaps are down.
The flaps down a little. As for the slats. They wernt molded on the kit. Other wise they would be there............
Quote from: Martin H on March 31, 2019, 06:32:06 AM
Quote from: zenrat on March 30, 2019, 05:22:19 PM
FYI according to what I have read on the F-8 when the wing is up then the slats and flaps are down.
The flaps down a little. As for the slats. They wernt molded on the kit. Other wise they would be there............
There's an aftermarket outfit that makes a replacement wing with everything drooping down -- Wolfpack
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Wolfpack-1-72-F-8-J-P-Crusader-Flap-Down-Set-for-Academy-Resin-Detail-WP72026-/141960076596
OK time for 2019 build number 8.............
And the first large aircraft for the year.
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Lockheed L400 Lightweight Hercules. of 40 sqn RNZAF around 1979.
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A real Lockheed project for a "light weight" Hercules aimed mainly at the civilian market. Now had this model been built I suspect it would also have been of interest to the military market, possibly as a "cheaper" C-130 option. Hence the RNZAF markings...............
Italeri Kit with a suitable "cut and shut" job on the wings and reduced main gear, two wheels instead of the normal four. Yes Mr Spackman! I reduced the wing span on this one...............
MRP paints for the cammo, Lifecolor mainly for every thing else. Decals robbed from an Airfix boxing of the Italeri kit.
2 engines instead of 4? It seems so perfect I was not sure of my memories... ;) :thumbsup:
Quote from: Martin H on April 17, 2019, 08:59:57 AM
Yes Mr Spackman! I reduced the wing span on this one...............
WHAAAT? Shudder.................... :-\
The model look REALLY good though, most impressive. :thumbsup:
"Well, I think it looks like a giant lavatory."
It's alreet, I'spose. The lack of the two engines had me fooled for a moment. "The old strange parcel routine."
Nice work Martin. Must admit I was thrown a little at first
Nice one Martin :thumbsup: I read about the two engine variant too ---
Great build Martin. I'm so used to seeing four engines though that my brain can't quite recalibrate!
Two engines are just not enough power, put a third in the nose!! :wacko:
Quote from: kerick on April 18, 2019, 12:48:20 PM
Two engines are just not enough power, put a third in the nose!! :wacko:
In Best Yoda voice..............Think on this. I will!
Quote from: kerick on April 18, 2019, 12:48:20 PM
Two engines are just not enough power, put a third in the nose!! :wacko:
Some thought to this concept I have given.
Much depends on the engines in question. If they are the bog-standard Allison T56 turboprops at 4,500 shp each, then perhaps a third is appropriate; but if one were to substitute Rolls Royce RTy32 Tynes at about 8,400 shp each then two will probably suffice. That said, a trimotor Hercules would be an interesting machine.
At least a prop mounted in the nose will keep the pilots cool!
I like it! It's like a husky Transall. :lol: :lol:
I thought at first that I was looking at a Transall - until I saw the nose. :)
By the bye, if you're going to put a third engine on it, why not do the BN Trislander thing and put the third engine on the fin?
Quote from: TheChronicOne on April 19, 2019, 05:59:55 PM
I like it! It's like a husky Transall. :lol: :lol:
Its not husky, its big boned. :wacko:
Quote from: scooter on April 22, 2019, 03:32:00 AM
Quote from: TheChronicOne on April 19, 2019, 05:59:55 PM
I like it! It's like a husky Transall. :lol: :lol:
Its not husky, its big boned. :wacko:
I do love my BBWs! (Big Boned Wings, of course.) ;D
Quote from: TheChronicOne on April 22, 2019, 07:31:18 AM
Quote from: scooter on April 22, 2019, 03:32:00 AM
Quote from: TheChronicOne on April 19, 2019, 05:59:55 PM
I like it! It's like a husky Transall. :lol: :lol:
Its not husky, its big boned. :wacko:
I do love my BBWs! (Big Boned Wings, of course.) ;D
What ever else would we think you meant? ;)
He's into Dianne Abbott... God help him.
Quote from: The Wooksta! on April 22, 2019, 08:15:20 AM
He's into Dianne Abbott... God help him.
That's out of order, you've gone too far...
And time for two more Rhodesian's.
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Mirage IIIE in Rhodesian service. Rigged for ground pounding.
This one is based on a claim made by a news paper in a neighbouring country that the local Airforce had shot down a "Rhodesian Mirage" during one of the RhAF's many cross border air strikes. Apparently the reply from Sailbury was "If only! Just think what we could do if we did have the Mirage"
Revell kit with a mix of decals from various sources.
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Vautour IIB RRAF165 of 5sqn RRhAF as it alooked when it arrived in country on delivery from the factory in 1959.
What if the Rhodeasin's bought French rather than UK hardware? Prehaps the Vautour in place of the Canbera?
This idea was surgested by TSRjoe after he saw the pics of the Flamant, and a few more French types will possibly follow this one in due course.
The model is the Azur kit built OOB. with decals robbed from various sources. I can remember watching this kit coming off the moulding machine when I visited the MPM factory many moons ago. Ive finaly got around to building one!
Both builds finished in the run up to the Scots Nationals. Photos taken at that show last weekend.
Awesome!!! Those look good.
And, I don't know who Dianne Abbot is. I guess that's probably a good thing. ;D ;D
Quote from: TheChronicOne on April 29, 2019, 02:27:56 PM
And, I don't know who Dianne Abbot is. I guess that's probably a good thing. ;D ;D
A British member of parliment.
:thumbsup: I have a hard enough time being sick to death of our own politicians. ;D 🚽🤐
Quote from: Martin H on April 29, 2019, 02:34:45 PM
Quote from: TheChronicOne on April 29, 2019, 02:27:56 PM
And, I don't know who Dianne Abbot is. I guess that's probably a good thing. ;D ;D
A British member of parliment.
She's a thick leftie do-gooder with a fat arse and a superiority complex. I recall the clueless bint arguing policy with some social worker on Newsnight - she was right, living in her Westminster bubble, whereas the social worker, who'd worked on the streets and knew the conditions, was wrong. I detest the woman with a passion, even more so now I learn of her support for the IRA in the 1980s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWeKGFaK0Z8
We have plenty of those here, male and female.
I do like the Vautour Martin :thumbsup:
Makes me want to get one of mine out and build it ;D I've had this half idea in my brain ever since they came out of what would have happened if the Brits and French had come to an agreement and the Canberra had been used by both airforces when altitude was required and the Vatour by both in more low level roles ? Never got around to finalising it for some reason ?
Quote from: Martin H on April 29, 2019, 02:34:45 PM
Quote from: TheChronicOne on April 29, 2019, 02:27:56 PM
And, I don't know who Dianne Abbot is. I guess that's probably a good thing. ;D ;D
A British member of parliment.
Ah - I apparently confused her with Dawn French ... :)
Quote from: NARSES2 on April 30, 2019, 06:13:12 AM
I do like the Vautour Martin :thumbsup:
Makes me want to get one of mine out and build it ;D I've had this half idea in my brain ever since they came out of what would have happened if the Brits and French had come to an agreement and the Canberra had been used by both airforces when altitude was required and the Vatour by both in more low level roles ? Never got around to finalising it for some reason ?
It does look good.
I also have one in the stash. It might become South/Latin American.
Quote from: Scotaidh on April 30, 2019, 12:30:07 PM
Quote from: Martin H on April 29, 2019, 02:34:45 PM
Quote from: TheChronicOne on April 29, 2019, 02:27:56 PM
And, I don't know who Dianne Abbot is. I guess that's probably a good thing. ;D ;D
A British member of parliment.
Ah - I apparently confused her with Dawn French ... :)
There really is no answer to that :rolleyes: ;D
Quote from: NARSES2 on May 02, 2019, 06:13:22 AM
Quote from: Scotaidh on April 30, 2019, 12:30:07 PM
Quote from: Martin H on April 29, 2019, 02:34:45 PM
Quote from: TheChronicOne on April 29, 2019, 02:27:56 PM
And, I don't know who Dianne Abbot is. I guess that's probably a good thing. ;D ;D
A British member of parliment.
Ah - I apparently confused her with Dawn French ... :)
There really is no answer to that :rolleyes: ;D
I know which one i'd rather have round for tea.
I've actually met both
Quote from: NARSES2 on May 03, 2019, 06:34:02 AM
I've actually met both
Are you offering this as evidence for the prosecution or the defence?
Quote from: Rheged on May 03, 2019, 08:27:50 AM
Quote from: NARSES2 on May 03, 2019, 06:34:02 AM
I've actually met both
Are you offering this as evidence for the prosecution or the defence?
Well lets just say that in both cases my previously held views didn't change ;)
Quote from: NARSES2 on May 04, 2019, 02:04:32 AM
Quote from: Rheged on May 03, 2019, 08:27:50 AM
Quote from: NARSES2 on May 03, 2019, 06:34:02 AM
I've actually met both
Are you offering this as evidence for the prosecution or the defence?
Well lets just say that in both cases my previously held views didn't change ;)
Chris, that is a very diplomatic answer!!
ok time for a few more.............. :mellow:
In order of completion.
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Harrier T-10 for the Fleet Air Arm. Airfix kit that was started ages ago. Then sat part built in a box for 8-9 years. This one was realy finished in 2017, but I had missplaced the drop tanks, so it went back onto the shelf of doom. Then a few weeks ago the tanks reappeared....................Ok the back story for this is that when the RAF pulled the plug on the Harrier, the Navy manged to get the fleet transfered compleatly to their control. Not sold to the Americans as spares.....................................
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Lockheed C-130E-30. USAF military Airlift command in the 1970's.
A very old Airfix kit fitted with a stretch conversion from DB resins. Considering the conversion was made for the Airfix kit you would have thought it would fit. Like hell it does! Theres filler all over this bugger. This was another hanger queen, having been started around ten years ago. I lost the will to live with sorting out the fit issues with the resin plugs, so it sat gathering dust untill I had finished the L400 lightweight herk.
It was always going to be a USAF bird using the decals from a later boxing of the same kit. This one was going to be one I would try and sneak onto the USAF sig stand one day. As it happened it was one of three herks I took up for the Tyneside show and Haydn the USAF sig boss saw it on our stand and said he liked it, but god help us if it ever appeared on his stand! LOL
next
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Lightning F-6 of the RCAF. Based in the UK at RAF North Luffenum. Airfix kit started back in 2017, little bits and bobs were done with this over the last two years and it finaly got its decals on a few weeks ago. and today I dug out an old Hasegawa weapon for the Falcon's. In reality RAF North Luffenham had an RCAF Sabre wing based there, I think they were the last flying unit based there before it became a training station and overspill for Whittering and Cottesmore. So it fits to have a Canadian Lightning wing based there as well.................
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Vampire T-11 of 5FTS at Oakington in the early 1970's. Airfix kit built OOB apart from the paint job. Decals are OOB as well.
Assuming that the Vampire trainers lasted longer in the RAF than they did, some may have gained cammo.................
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Hawk T1 of 764NAS based at Lossimouth 1978. Italeri kit with decals robbed from my decal stash and a Navy Hunter set.
This one was started around 6 years ago, but was put to one side and left semi built untill two weeks ago, I dusted it off and finished assembly at work.
I had forgotten what I was going to do with it in the first place, so after a short brain storming session with Geoff B. It was decided to go Navy.........then this afternoon as I was about to start decaling it, Geoff mentioned that the pic I sent him of the build minus decals screamed Irish Air Corps to him.........to late! I was going ahead with the Navy...................But an Irish Hawk might be added to my ideas list.
Goodness Martin, you have been a busy person. :thumbsup:
All of them look great OGL. I specially like the Navy T10 and the Hawk. :thumbsup:
Quote from: JayBee on June 09, 2019, 02:02:36 PM
Goodness Martin, you have been a busy person. :thumbsup:
Just a bit Jim.
Thats 15 compleations since March 1st
Nice little collection, there! :thumbsup:
I like the Herc. :thumbsup: I built and destroyed an Airfix (moulded in tan, with a bloodhound & landie) when a youth. I'll build another one day.
My favorite is the twin-boom Vampire :thumbsup:
Quote from: Martin H on June 09, 2019, 04:16:11 PM
Thats 15 compleations since March 1st
What 1st March 2010 ? Flipping heck Martin that's some rate of build :bow:
I particularly like the last pair of trainers, Hawk especially :thumbsup:
That DB conversion you used on the Herk is a real dog of a job, and later Flightpath took it on without changing anything and made the same assertion, that it was designed for the Airfix kit! :o
I've been working on one for 5 yrs or more now, and as you say it's a REAL putty eater. :banghead:
Quote from: zenrat on June 10, 2019, 04:33:16 AM
I like the Herc. :thumbsup: I built and destroyed an Airfix (moulded in tan, with a bloodhound & landie) when a youth. I'll build another one day.
Funny you should mention the Tan plastic. Thats what this one was in. It was a 2nd hand buy, missing the landi and bloodhound. In fairness the kit on its own is quite good. the conversion was the PITA.
Quote from: NARSES2 on June 10, 2019, 07:04:51 AM
Quote from: Martin H on June 09, 2019, 04:16:11 PM
Thats 15 compleations since March 1st
What 1st March 2010 ? Flipping heck Martin that's some rate of build :bow:
I particularly like the last pair of trainers, Hawk especially :thumbsup:
A lot of em were part started builds taken off the shelf of Doom Chris.
Quote from: Martin H on June 10, 2019, 07:58:01 AM
Quote from: zenrat on June 10, 2019, 04:33:16 AM
I like the Herc. :thumbsup: I built and destroyed an Airfix (moulded in tan, with a bloodhound & landie) when a youth. I'll build another one day.
Funny you should mention the Tan plastic. Thats what this one was in. It was a 2nd hand buy, missing the landi and bloodhound. In fairness the kit on its own is quite good...
Not the way 12 year old Fred built it. I think i was still twisting parts off the sprues and working to the theory that the more glue I used the better it would be.
I certainly didn't paint it until after it was all put together and had the transfers in place.
Quote from: Martin H on June 10, 2019, 07:59:23 AM
Quote from: NARSES2 on June 10, 2019, 07:04:51 AM
Quote from: Martin H on June 09, 2019, 04:16:11 PM
Thats 15 compleations since March 1st
What 1st March 2010 ? Flipping heck Martin that's some rate of build :bow:
I particularly like the last pair of trainers, Hawk especially :thumbsup:
A lot of em were part started builds taken off the shelf of Doom Chris.
Still some rate of finishing Martin. I'm trying to slip one part started in with every two fresh starts and I'll still struggle to hit double figures in a year. And I'm retired ! ;D
Quote from: PR19_Kit on June 10, 2019, 07:14:08 AM
That DB conversion you used on the Herk is a real dog of a job, and later Flightpath took it on without changing anything and made the same assertion, that it was designed for the Airfix kit! :o
I've been working on one for 5 yrs or more now, and as you say it's a REAL putty eater. :banghead:
I've got a project C-130 I'm about to start (soon-ish), and I'm going to use the -30 fuselage plugs. What's the issue with them please, so I can get a heads-up. I'm going to use an Italeri/Testors/Airfx boxing of the C-130.
The cross-sections wrong at the base for a start. I wrote it up in my 'Virtually Whiffed Herk' thread back in 2012 here: https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=35417.0 (https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=35417.0)
I've made no progress on it so far as Dave's widow said she'd rather not have the model. I expect I'll finish it for me eventually, but it'll be a while.
Thanks Kit --- it looks like I was following your progress quite closely :o I had forgotten all about it :rolleyes:
Quote from: kitnut617 on June 11, 2019, 10:44:26 AM
Thanks Kit --- it looks like I was following your progress quite closely :o I had forgotten all about it :rolleyes:
So had I............ ;D ;)
three more done. Thats 19 so far this year.
Westland Whirlwind HAS-9. HMS Endurance, South Atlantic 1972.
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If this build was on wheels it would be 100% real world. use the floats from the base kit and you have whiff.
Italeri UH-19 kit with the Rotercraft HAS-9 conversion and decal set. Mix of Gunze (dayglo) and CJ aerosol (RAF Blue/Grey) paints on this.
Im not sure if any UK Whirlwind ever used floats operationaly. Might have done in trials thou.
This build was started at the Smallspace sci fi show at the begining of the month. Just like the RAF SAR Puma from last year.
Another long term hanger queen. Eurocopter Dauphin. 815 NAS RN/FAA. Ships SAR flight HMS Queen Elizabeth 2019.
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This build started around 5-6 years ago, and was going to be a real world bird leased to the Navy for 2nd line support work.
The ball started rolling again as I was spraying the dayglo on the whirlwind HAS 9. I had far to much paint in the airbrush. So this one got rapidly dusted off and masked up. There was a choice of end user with this one. another but later Ice patrol bird or plane gaurd duties for Big Lizzy. Lizzy won!
Old Matchbox kit with a resin nose from S&M models. Gunze paints all the way on this one.
Yet another hanger queen. Shorts Seamew MR-2 of 269sqn, RAF Ballykelly. 1956.
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One of the older Magna resins Kit. Started about 18 months-2 years ago. It stalled when i found the kit was missing its nose part. Soon enougth Geoff B lent me his Seamew kit to clone the missing part. That kit has since been transfered to my stash as Geoff no longer wanted/needed it.
being a typical Magna kit it needed a lot of work. Hence why it kept getting put to one side.
It was always going to be an RAF MR-2 thou. Originaly leaving the field clear for Geoff to do a Navy AS-1. Momentum finaly picked up a bit just after the Coventry show so here she is. Gunze dark sea Grey on this. Decals from various sets from the decal box. The codes and squadron badge came from a 1/144th scale shackleton sheet from S&M models that i picked up ready for this build at this years Cosford show.
Odd looking aircraft the Seamew, especially with its fixed gear.
Just wondering about the Squadron codes though. I'm sure I've read somewhere
that Red and White Squadron numbers were for 4 engined Aircraft ie Shackleton/Lancaster in the maritime role
and green and white for twin engined like the Neptune.
All of which begs the question (assuming its not a flight of fancy on my part :rolleyes:)
what colours for a single engined aircraft like the Seamew?
Regards
Keith
Good stuff Martin. I particularly like the Whirlwind.
:thumbsup:
Yeah I like the Whirlwind too: that's a really neat way of getting a Whiff. :thumbsup:
Quote from: zenrat on July 17, 2019, 04:00:54 AM
Good stuff Martin. I particularly like the Whirlwind.
:thumbsup:
As do I :thumbsup:
Given its flight characteristics, I believe that Eric (Winkle) Brown and several test pilots had got a soft spot for the Seamew..........the Goodwin Sands!
Great stuff!!! The Seamew... wow!!! That's cool. Looks like a cross between a Carvair and a Gannet. ;D
Quote from: TheChronicOne on July 17, 2019, 08:12:08 AM
Great stuff!!! The Seamew... wow!!! That's cool. Looks like a cross between a Carvair and a Gannet. ;D
It was a most unsuccessful attempt to be a poor man's Gannet. It was described in one source as a "camel amongst race-horses". The handling characteristics of the Seamew were abysmally poor. Arthur Pearcy wrote "only Short Brothers' test pilot Wally Runciman seemed able to outwit its vicious tendencies and exploit its latent manoeuvrability to the limit."..................but I agree, it looks remarkably interesting.
Fascinating stuff, thank you. It's completely new to me. I love weird stuff like this.
I do remember a cartoon, it could have been Wren, that explained the high position of the cockpit in the Seamew. Apparently, their Lordships at the Admiralty required the Stearsman/Pilot to be able to stand at "the wheel" while steering the ship. The cartoon was brilliant, if I ever find it I will post it for all to enjoy>
The Helmsman? ;D ;)
Quote from: JayBee on July 17, 2019, 09:35:47 AM
I do remember a cartoon, it could have been Wren, that explained the high position of the cockpit in the Seamew. Apparently, their Lordships at the Admiralty required the Stearsman/Pilot to be able to stand at "the wheel" while steering the ship. The cartoon was brilliant, if I ever find it I will post it for all to enjoy>
I seem to remember reading that about the Blackburn Blackburn
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two more finished...........
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CAC JF-17/FMA Pulqui III of the Argentine airforce in 2018.
This one could count as a cancelled project.
You may recall from a few years ago that Argentina was talking to the Chinese about local production for the JF-17 Thunder. This was all part of the wide ranging arms deal that was being talked about. But came to nothing in the end. They are now looking at the South Korean T-50 / FA-50 to replace the old Skyhawks.
Trumpeter kit with a mix of kit and Condor decals. I started building this in 2016, it then sat gathering dust until yesterday................
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Boeing Vertol KV107 III-5 / Seaknight HU-3 of 771 NAS based at Culdrose in 2006.
This one has been on the cards for a while but I didn't start it till last Saturday at work. A Royal Navy SAR Seaknight has been on my radar since I built a commando "Junglie" CH-46 a few years back.
Fujimi kit of the Japanese SAR version built OOB with a new pant job, decals robbed from an xtradecal Seaking sheet.
Interesting Martin, not an aircraft I was familiar with. Looks a bit "Grippen'ish" to me ?
I do like the Seaknight :thumbsup:
Quote from: NARSES2 on August 31, 2019, 02:26:04 AM
Interesting Martin, not an aircraft I was familiar with. Looks a bit "Grippen'ish" to me ?
Funny, that, I was thinking EXACTLY the same, and trying to work out where the Gripen kit stopped and the rest began.
But I know naff all about these modern Chinese types. :(
Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 31, 2019, 03:20:01 AM
Quote from: NARSES2 on August 31, 2019, 02:26:04 AM
Interesting Martin, not an aircraft I was familiar with. Looks a bit "Grippen'ish" to me ?
Funny, that, I was thinking EXACTLY the same, and trying to work out where the Gripen kit stopped and the rest began.
But I know naff all about these modern Chinese types. :(
It has alot of F-16 in it. It is supposed to be a joint Chinese/Pakistan project. And is so far used only by the PAF. The PLA has no real interest in it, as it is seen in China as purely an export type.
It is rumored that Pakistan "lent" one or two F-16's to the PLA so the Chinese could have a play around and reverse engineer any parts that they took interest in. Much to Uncle Sam's displeasure of course..............
Last one before Telford. And the 20th compleation this year.
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Shorts Tucarno AOP-2 of 73sqn RAF, some time in the 1990's.
I was recently informed by a well known (to me & others on here) researcher and occasional modeller who resides in an undisclosed location north of Hadrians wall that a recent trawl through the national archives unearthed a document that indicated that the RAF looked into useing the Tucarno in the forward Air Controler role.
que a quick (by my standards) build. An Airfix tucarno was dug out of the stash and away we went...........
The NATO green/Litchen green paint job was done with Hataka acylics. The Tiald pod on the centre line came from an old Airfix Tonka kit, the gun and zuni pods are from SAAF boxing of the Revell Augusta A109, sitting on pylons robbed from yee olde Airfix Skyraider.
Markings are a mix of kit decals and Modeldecal sets, primarily a vampire sheet that donated the 73 sqn markings. A unit that hasnt been in service since the 1960's
Neat Martin :thumbsup:
Quote from: NARSES2 on November 05, 2019, 06:28:35 AM
Neat Martin :thumbsup:
Wot 'e seez :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
I've got a project going that will be something like that Martin.
Looks good!!! She means business! "I Shorts Tucano....... but I did not Shorts the deputy!"
Quote from: TheChronicOne on November 05, 2019, 09:33:51 AM
Looks good!!! She means business! "I Shorts Tucano....... but I did not Shorts the deputy!"
<facepalm>
:banghead: :banghead:
Very nice Martin, one of my favourite turbo prop aircraft, and one with teeth too. I have 2 build as such for my Honduras airforce, with more to come :thumbsup:
Chris
Quote from: Scotaidh on November 05, 2019, 02:06:18 PM
Quote from: TheChronicOne on November 05, 2019, 09:33:51 AM
Looks good!!! She means business! "I Shorts Tucano....... but I did not Shorts the deputy!"
<facepalm>
:banghead: :banghead:
;D ;D :angel:
:thumbsup:
Tucano = tricycle u/c Mustang.
Quote from: TheChronicOne on November 05, 2019, 09:33:51 AM
Looks good!!! She means business! "I Shorts Tucano....... but I did not Shorts the deputy!"
I used to like that song....probably give me nightmares now :wacko: ;) ;D
I got it stuck in my head the ENTIRE WAY THROUGH my Tucano build. :banghead: ;D
And my first build of the new year is...........................
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Spanish Navy Sea Harrier FRS-1.
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Italeri Kit Build OOB but with the paint job and Decals robbed from an old Esci AV-8A kit (Same base kit as the SHAR) Paint work is a mix of Lifecolor acyrilics and Halfords rattle can
Nice work!
Nice, simple scheme that really looks good on the Harrier :thumbsup:
Quote from: kitbasher on November 05, 2019, 03:01:07 PM
:thumbsup:
Tucano = tricycle u/c Mustang.
Most definitely!
Looks very nice.
Well done.
Nice! :lol:
Took a moment for the cogs to click into place, looks good. Indian GR.1/AV.8A next???
AN RAF SHAR might work well too.
Martin - sorry to hijack your thread, but can you DM me about the Crewe show ASAP please?
Love the Spanish SHAR - that's so logical: say they'd waited a bit longer before getting their AV-8As or if the AV-8B-IIplus got delayed or cancelled.
Along the same lines, you could do an Italian Navy SHAR to go with it, then have either or both upgrade to the F(A).2.
Kit - there was a late '70s proposal to sell Harriers to China which would have had SHAR airframes but with a tin nose containing nav/attack avionics (presumably a Jaguar-ish fit).
Simple but good looking, nice work! :thumbsup:
Beauty job on the SHAR. :wub: :thumbsup:
Cheers guys. :thumbsup:
Back story is that Spain wanted to update its Matador fleet. So the public were sold the story that they were to be rebuilt as Sea Harriers as a "cheaper" alternative to buying new builds all as part of a NATO upgrade package. In fact the reverse turned out to be the case so New builds were provided with the original airframes traded in, Hence why the SHARS had the Matador identities as part of the scam. Most of the Matadors were updated to GR-3 standard and sold on to an undisclosed export customer.
The SeaHarriers served Spain well, often being seen sharing deck space with their British and Dutch sisters. And were later sold on to Thailand along with their new light carrier as new AV-8B's came on stream. The fact they were New built airframes rather than conversions only came to light when the British national archives published the documents after declassification under the 30 year rule. Much to the annoyance of the Spanish MOD.
I've built way to many of the Esci/Italeri 1st gen Harriers. I can build em almost blindfolded.
I have got at least three or four more Harrier / SeaHarrier ideas in the planning stages. One is linked to the Spanish SHAR, the others aren't :mellow:
India does figure in my plans, but the GR-1 Idea wasn't it. But it may now be hijacked, tweaked and added to the list :thumbsup:
Here's a few that I'd planned on doing but long since abandoned:
GR1 Harriers refitted with the AI23 radars and Firestreaks/Red Tops from the scrapped Lightnings in the mid 70s and used as QRA in Germany - easy to hide in forest clearings.
Post Falklands - Sea Harriers bought to cheaply upgrade RAF Germany in a similar capacity.
One of my Harrier planed builds comes from the first set of Royal Thai Navy decals I bought which used a side view of a Sea Harrier for decal placement so I will be doing that useing an ESCI kit.
Gondor
Quote from: The Wooksta! on January 12, 2020, 02:28:52 PM
Here's a few that I'd planned on doing but long since abandoned:
GR1 Harriers refitted with the AI23 radars and Firestreaks/Red Tops from the scrapped Lightnings in the mid 70s and used as QRA in Germany - easy to hide in forest clearings.
Post Falklands - Sea Harriers bought to cheaply upgrade RAF Germany in a similar capacity.
They test-fired a MARTEL from a GR.1 that had a 'radar' nose on the original cockpit/front fuselage shape:
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There you go, it's got a toenail in reality...
That Martel looks HUGE hung under the Harrier's wing. :o
Could it VTO like that?
It shouldn't be that much bigger than a Sea Eagle.
Quote from: PR19_Kit on January 14, 2020, 07:56:47 AM
That Martel looks HUGE hung under the Harrier's wing. :o
Could it VTO like that?
Well the SHAR one was tested with twin Seaeagles..........The test bed was shot down in the 82 punchup. The Argies found the added fire controls in the wreckage and had a major panic attack thinking we had deployed the missile down south.........
Quote from: Martin H on January 14, 2020, 11:36:34 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on January 14, 2020, 07:56:47 AM
That Martel looks HUGE hung under the Harrier's wing. :o
Could it VTO like that?
Well the SHAR one was tested with twin Seaeagles..........The test bed was shot down in the 82 punchup. The Argies found the added fire controls in the wreckage and had a major panic attack thinking we had deployed the missile down south.........
Oh yes, so it was, thanks for reminding me. :thumbsup:
It's mentioned in John Farley's 'A View From the Hover' book and the aircraft still had his scribbled notes aboard it when it was shuffled off to Yeovilton!
Quote from: PR19_Kit on January 14, 2020, 07:56:47 AM
That Martel looks HUGE hung under the Harrier's wing. :o
Could it VTO like that?
Indeed, it does look somewhat incongruous.
Great stuff. I had to look a few times at the Harrier and then check the web lol.
I actually had a whole list written down about a bunch of builds here. Seems I missed a bunch during those periods where I have vanished !
Thanks for the Harriers pics as well. New to me !
Quote from: Captain Canada on January 15, 2020, 11:11:38 AM
Thanks for the Harriers pics as well. New to me !
That big radar nose photo is the first time I've seen that too ---- but a question, what is a
DB Harrier ?
Quote from: kitnut617 on January 15, 2020, 12:01:26 PM
That big radar nose photo is the first time I've seen that too ---- but a question, what is a DB Harrier ?
'Dunsfold Built' perhaps?
But more likely 'Development Batch' I think.
Quote from: PR19_Kit on January 15, 2020, 12:56:57 PM
Quote from: kitnut617 on January 15, 2020, 12:01:26 PM
That big radar nose photo is the first time I've seen that too ---- but a question, what is a DB Harrier ?
'Dunsfold Built' perhaps?
But more likely 'Development Batch' I think.
Cheers Kit
Quote from: kitnut617 on January 15, 2020, 12:01:26 PM
Quote from: Captain Canada on January 15, 2020, 11:11:38 AM
Thanks for the Harriers pics as well. New to me !
That big radar nose photo is the first time I've seen that too ---- but a question, what is a DB Harrier ?
Development Batch, the easy way to spot them other than the serial numbers is the slightly flatter cockpit sides just in front of the engine intakes
Gondor
Quote from: Gondor on January 15, 2020, 02:16:18 PM
Quote from: kitnut617 on January 15, 2020, 12:01:26 PM
Quote from: Captain Canada on January 15, 2020, 11:11:38 AM
Thanks for the Harriers pics as well. New to me !
That big radar nose photo is the first time I've seen that too ---- but a question, what is a DB Harrier ?
Development Batch, the easy way to spot them other than the serial numbers is the slightly flatter cockpit sides just in front of the engine intakes
Gondor
Thanks Alastair :thumbsup: Looking at the photos again they look a bit stubby too, are they actually Kestrels? or something in between ? I've got a Heritage Aviation Kestrel which looks a bit like that. That would make the Martels look huge.
No, Kestrels had a different wing shape and a few other things too.
Kestrel on top, Harrier underneath.
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A few yers ago at Model Expo Swap and Sell someone had a large box full of cheap Airfix carded kits including more than a few P1127s. I wish i'd snapped up some for whiffing.
Quote from: zenrat on January 16, 2020, 02:22:05 AM
A few yers ago at Model Expo Swap and Sell someone had a large box full of cheap Airfix carded kits including more than a few P1127s. I wish i'd snapped up some for whiffing.
I still have one in The Loft, still in its 'never been opened' plastic bag.
AND a Heritage Models Kestrel as well, complete with the dinky little Tri-Partite squadron decals.
Time for build number 2 for this year.
Its another Phantom!. Well its been a year or so since I last did one...........
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Doesnt look to whiffy from this angle does it?
Ok maybe this pair of views may help..........
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Still not sure?
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And some build shots to show up the main modification.
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OK its an F-4EJ Kai II of 302 sqn JASDF. dated in the last ten or so years.
This one has had more of an upgrade than the real F-4EJ kai upgrade. In truth I've used elements from two proposed Phantom upgrade packages to create this hybrid upgrade. Namely the Boeing Super Phantom and the Israeli full Kurnas 2000 upgrade.
The base kit is a 2nd hand Fujimi F-4EJ kit. Paint job and decals are as per the kit. I've been itching to do the so called "Maritime" scheme for a while. :mellow:
The belly pannier is the most visible aspect and is from the Boeing upgrade, which never progressed past the drawing board due in part to lack of customer interest. It was meant to act as a conformal fuel tank and avionics bay. My one was made from lamination's of plasticard and miliput caved to shape.
The eagle eyed amount you will also have spotted the burner cans look different. You would be right, this beast has had what the Israelis intended for the Kurnas. Swapping the original J79's with F404's from the F-18 Hornet. The Kurnas 2000 prototype did test fly a single F404 to prove the concept, but the idea was dropped to reduce costs. The cans used came from an Aries resin set I acquired for this build. In real life they are a smaller diameter than the J79 so there are gaps........but deliver more grunt for less fuel burn than the J79.
I've also robbed an idea from a previous build from one of our own. Namely FAR148.
The wing tanks are those used on the Mirage 2000D. These are resin examples from Heritage aviation that I had been holding back for just this sort of build.
The weapon load out is all local Japanese hardware from a Hasegawa weapon set.
Nah, doesn't look right ... Not enough stencils! :wacko:
Actually, Martin, it looks pretty damned good! :thumbsup:
I sussed the Mirage 'bulgy' drop tanks, but missed the belly pannier entirely. :banghead:
I love the 'If you've got it, glue it on' mentality you've used there OGL. :thumbsup:
Right on!!!
Looks good Martin :thumbsup:
I love whiffs like this, fantastic job Martin :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Quote from: Martin H on August 30, 2019, 12:18:46 PM
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CAC JF-17/FMA Pulqui III of the Argentine airforce in 2018.
This one could count as a cancelled project.
You may recall from a few years ago that Argentina was talking to the Chinese about local production for the JF-17 Thunder. This was all part of the wide ranging arms deal that was being talked about. But came to nothing in the end. They are now looking at the South Korean T-50 / FA-50 to replace the old Skyhawks.
Trumpeter kit with a mix of kit and Condor decals. I started building this in 2016, it then sat gathering dust until yesterday................
Belated congratulations! :thumbsup: I did not know this plane/model and I am happy to discover it (maybe I should come more often in this part of the forum)... :-\
now its time for 2020 builds numbers 3 & 4.
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Cessna 172 Skyrocket serving with no 5 AEF Taversham airfield Cambridge circa the late 1980's.
AEF = Air Experience Flight. an RAF unit tasked with giving experience flights to Air Cadets. Around the 1980's there were 10-12 AEF's dotted around the UK. normally sharing their aircraft with the local University Air Squadron. Why did I chose 5 AEF? that's the unit I did most of my cadet flying with in the 80's. On Chipmunk's and the RAF's sole Beagle Husky.
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Cessna 172 Skyrocket float plane serving as a station hack at RAF Gan in the mid 1980's.
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What if the RAF didn't go for the Bulldog as a Chipmunk replacement? What else might they have gone for instead?
Both of these are old Edai Cessna kits that were picked up at the recent Halifax show.
Paint jobs are a mix of Halfords, Hataka, Vallejo and lifecolor, markings are from various Modeldecal and xtradecal sheets.
Quote from: Martin H on March 07, 2020, 12:44:16 PM
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Cessna 172 Skyrocket float plane serving as a station hack at RAF Gan in the mid 1980's.
LOVE it! :wub:
But was there anywhere it could fly to before it ran out of fuel? ;D
The Cessna's are looking cute, both of them!
:thumbsup:
David aka 63cpe
Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 07, 2020, 01:32:42 PM
Quote from: Martin H on March 07, 2020, 12:44:16 PM
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Cessna 172 Skyrocket float plane serving as a station hack at RAF Gan in the mid 1980's.
LOVE it! :wub:
But was there anywhere it could fly to before it ran out of fuel? ;D
Of course! It just kept flying round the island.
I understand from an old friend who used to be based there that the days high-light was to go for a walk around the airfield perrimeter.
The Cessnas are great Martin. :thumbsup:
What you could do now is put the floatplane hack into a water dio with S&M's Gan Recovery Stalwart conversion... :thumbsup:
Love me some good Cessna action. :mellow: :mellow:
Pretty Cessnas, Martin.
Cessnas are lovely Martin.
What are the clear parts like? they can be thick and opaque on those kits.
Martin, you've only had those kits a couple of weeks :o
They are both tremendous mate, well done :thumbsup:
Chris
Quote from: zenrat on March 07, 2020, 11:51:26 PM
Cessnas are lovely Martin.
What are the clear parts like? they can be thick and opaque on those kits.
Yeap they were thick, but clear enougth with a little distortion in places. Nothing I couldnt live with thou.
Great work on all of them birds but that Phantom... :wub: :bow: :bow:
Quote from: Martin H on March 22, 2020, 11:42:55 AM
Quote from: zenrat on March 07, 2020, 11:51:26 PM
Cessnas are lovely Martin.
What are the clear parts like? they can be thick and opaque on those kits.
Yeap they were thick, but clear enougth with a little distortion in places. Nothing I couldnt live with thou.
Thanks Martin. Good to hear some of them can be acceptable.
Loving the Cessnas! :wub:
The Phantom is excellent but the Cessnas are just the dogs parts!!! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
SOOOOOOO stealing that. Sorry.......not sorry! ;D ;D ;D
A few more done, 2 new builds and a pair of long term shelf of doom residents finally escape...............
New builds first. More Cessna's
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Cessna O-1 Bird Dog AOP-1. British Army Aircorps someware in the Middle east in the 1960's.
This one very nearly hit the wall while it was being painted. The xtracrylics light stone reacted quite badly with the Gunze Light aircraft grey and RAF dark earth. I manged over a few weeks to deal with it to a degree. I'm still not to happy with it but is close enough..............
oh look! another Rhodesian!
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Both are old Airfix kits. The UK one is OOB bar the paint job, The Rhodesian bird is armed to the teeth. The RP pods were CMK add ons for the Special Hobby Fouga Magistair, the bombs are locally made lightweight anti personnel bombs that were taken from an S&M Provost kit that I did as a real world RhAF build a few years ago.
And the two Dog's together......
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And now the Hanger Queens.
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The Fairey Desert Fox. Of 6 sqn RAF based in Palestine in 1938.
A Long term Hanger queen, the main build of this model happened at least ten years ago, but new and shiny projects distracted me until I dusted it off a few weeks ago and started throwing paint and decals at it..........
Matchbox Fairey Sea Fox float plane converted to a land plane for RAF use. It reminded me of one thing modelling wise. I dislike building Biplanes!
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Fockewulf FW 190 D-15. General Adolf Galland's personal mount in the post war Luftwaffe.
A planet Models resin kit that I picked up at the 2nd Eday show I went to in Prague. That must have been around 12-15 years ago.
This one was started not long after I brought it, and got to about 95% done, then as with the desert fox, I got distracted. And then missplaced the wheels and prop............These resurfaced around the same time I restarted the Fox.
In reality Galland was kept at arms length by the post war Luftwaffe. the fact he was in the wartime high command ment he was considered toxic politically.
Nice builds Martin, particularly like the Rhodesian Bird Dog
Cheers Chris, those Airfix Bird Dog's arnt bad little kits for their age.......
And now for a kit that is bang upto date..........
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This the new (ish) Hasegawa Mil Mi-24 UAV kit. Built 100% OOB.
As far as I know its a whiff in a box. You get a full Mi 24 Hind E kit plus the resin cockpit plug and sencor ball.
I've been on leave since last weekend (didn't cancel the time I booked for the Scots Nationals) I started this on Friday while waiting for my main project (Fine molds YT1300 Millennium Falcon) to dry off and the last fiddly bits went on this morning.
I've also knocked out another hanger queen. Pics likely to happen tomorrow once the last bits of ordnance get hung on to it........
Looking good!!! I love them little bird dogs.
It seems to be the season for cleaning off the Shelf of Doom. A lockdown in the Springtime will do that for you, I guess. :)
These are all looking very good. I particularly like the Fairey Desert Fox.
The lack of canopy makes that UAV look even more evil for some reason :unsure:
Quote from: Martin H on April 26, 2020, 02:19:59 PM
I've also knocked out another hanger queen. Pics likely to happen tomorrow once the last bits of ordnance get hung on to it........
I lied. Theres two ex hanger queens tonight.
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McDD A-4B Skyhawk S Mk-1 of the Fleet air arm. based on HMS Centaur in the mid 1960's.
This is one of the six American built A-4's acquired by the Royal navy, the rest were built under licence by Armstrong Whitworth in place of the now cancelled Hawker Seahawk order.
And after a decent stint as a trails aircraft was brought up to the then current configuration for RN Scooters and issued out for front line use, the update was roughly akin to the A-4E.
HMS Centaur served until 1968 when she was sold to the Dutch to replace their previous carrier, Becoming the 3rd Karel Dorman.
The RN scooter force carried on in service operating off Centaurs sisters, Bulwark, Albion and Hermes well into the 1980's. Even seeing A-4 on A-4 combat in 1982 over the Falklands along side the then new Sea Harriers operating from the new VTOL light carrier HMS Invincible.
This one XE289 now sits quietly in a corner of the flight deck display at the fleet air arm museum enjoying a well earned retirement.
Italeri Kit with some resin bits (shorter intakes, and gear doors), and other stuff robbed from a doner kit. Decals are a mix from my decal stash. This one was started about 2 years ago along side a 2nd example that was being built OOB. Both were intended to be RN birds the 2nd was to be as they appeared in this back story over the Falklands.
As it happened I put them to one side for one reason or another and then lost the box with the remaining bits, Gear doors, pylons etc.
I then went about acquiring doner kits for the scooters and made use of the time I had off in the past week to get at least one of them finished.
2nd hanger queen
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BAe Hawk 100 LCA (Light Combat Aircraft) of the Lithuanian Airforce in 2012. A direct competitor to the Czech L-159 LCA these single seaters were quick and dirty conversions from 2 seaters for those air arms seeking a cheap and simple combat type. The rear cockpit tub was simply plated over after the tub had been gutted of anything not required.
The Lithuanians were given a rather hefty discount to buy the Hawk over the L159, which had been considered a shoe in considering the long use of 1st gen Albatross trainers since Independence from the old USSR. BAe has spent the last few years fending off claims of down right dirty tricks to score a sale. Something they vermently refute.
How ever the Hawk has been well received by the LAF and is deployed along side the NATO air policing force over the Baltic and can routinely be seen shadowing Russian aircraft operating near to Lithuanian airspace. Hence the air to air weapons load out.
Another Italeri Kit built OOB bar the removal of the rear bang seat and the hole left being covered with thin plasticard.
Two British shades of grey (Light Aircraft & Medium Sea) make up the paint job. Decals are from a Blue rider sheet (for an Albatross!)
This one was only on the shelf of doom for a few months. I simply got bored and moved on to newer build. Ive built so many of these Italeri Hawks that I can throw them together in less than an hour before throwing any paint at them...............
And lastly a peek at this leave periods main build...............Not a whiff but you cant win them all :mellow:
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Yes the Fine Molds Falcon is finished. Im not that good at weathering hence why she looks quite clean compared to how she appears in the films................
904 parts and 84 decals done over 7 days............That rear upper deck has nearly 200 parts alone, alot of them are bleeding tiny! But in the end its was a holy grail kit and I've had a ball building it.
I like the Skyhawk Martin, it is very similar to an idea I have for a Hasegawa A-4j that I have. I bwas going to do that fleet air arm but with fuel tanks and a scratch built C.O.D pod on the centre line. Mine will be in service during the late 60's.
Chris
Quote from: Martin H on April 26, 2020, 02:19:59 PM
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Quote from: NARSES2 on April 27, 2020, 06:30:42 AM
The lack of canopy makes that UAV look even more evil for some reason :unsure:
It gives the Hind a sort-of "
Alien" alien look.
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PS: Just remembered that the Czech's have already done a great scheme for this;
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I do like the Skyhawk Martin :thumbsup:
You may like this one as well then Chris.
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Skyhawk T Mk-4. 759sqn FAA, NAS Brawdy in the 1960's.
Following on with the Single seat Skyhawk, Armstrong whitworth took out a further licence to build the two seater when they started to appear on the scene. The Royal Navy saw the trainer as a no brainer, it would kill several birds with one stone. Advance trainer, carrier qualification training, weapons training, inflight refueling etc. And if needs be the UK built examples were fully combat capable for a small drop in range thanks to the extra seat.
Hasegawa kit built pretty much OOB. Gunze paint job and decals robbed from a Naval Hunter sheet.
The crew ladder came with the kit so it would have been rude not to use it...............
The outboard pylons will gain some hardware in due course, once I've cast them up. Namely UK practise bomb carriers.
Quote from: Martin H on April 29, 2020, 02:14:44 PM
The outboard pylons will gain some hardware in due course, once I've cast them up. Namely UK practise bomb carriers.
If it's early ones your after Martin I may have a couple of spares from a CMR Buccaneer
Gondor
Skyhawk trainer looks great Martin. Good job.
:thumbsup:
That's very nice Martin, and looks absolutely right. Mine won't have such a brightly coloured plumage though, I am thinking extra dark sea grey over sky, or sea grey over light grey similar to that of the sea vixen. I will have to do my homework on colour schemes and time periods before I do mine. :thumbsup:
Chris
Quote from: Martin H on April 29, 2020, 02:14:44 PM
You may like this one as well then Chris.
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I certainly do Martin. :thumbsup:
The Skyhawk is such an attractive little aircraft to start with that it makes an excellent canvas for most schemes.
That two seater looks great, as do most 2 seat variants of their single seat brethren. But your Skyhawk 2 seater's REALLY smart. :thumbsup:
I recall having an argument with the late Fred Henderson in the pages of Air International about 2 seater Skyhawks a zillion years ago, but I can't remember what kit was about now. ;D
Another Hanger queen finished Yesterday. This one has been sitting on the shelf of doom since early 2016.
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Royal Navy SR177. A freightdog kit built OOB, With the only addition being the outer pylons and the radar redtops (both via Colin). It was built along side the RAF nuclear strike boxing that Colin did. But for various reasons it got put to one side. Then as tends to happen on my work bench the ziplock bag with the remaining bits (Stores, gear doors and intake ring) went AWOL.
These resurfaced again when I was on leave at the end of April, so it got moved to the front of the que to be finished.
As you might be able to see she has the HMS Centaur tail Marking. That was one of the kit decal options and seeing as my recent single seat scooter was marked for the same ship..............It now has a ship mate!
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Ironically, I found a Whirlybird vacform and one of Colin's early resin ones a few days back.
The 177 suits F.A.A. colours :thumbsup:
Very nice Martin , and stop putting ideas in my head!! ;D
Ahhh man, these are great!!!! :wub:
Tidy builds all, Martin :thumbsup:
OK three more done.
I'm calling this the Falklands strike package............
first up is the group shot.
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First solo shot, the single seat Bomb truck
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Skyhawk S Mk-2 operating off HMS Albion someware in the south Atlantic April 1982.
This was started at the same time as my previous single seater, and suffered an identical fate of a stint on the shelf of doom. Re started at the same time as its shelf mate. But this one opened a Pandora's box as the other two scooters in the first pic were quickly thrown together to join this one. You will note the pair of 500 pounders on the centerline TER and a single BL755 cluster bomb under each wing.....
Speaking of which...........The top cover
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Skyhawk F/A Mk-3. Operating off HMS Hermes (still with cats and traps) same place and time as the S-2. You might just make out a white spec under the cockpit. This one has a scooter kill. Well I did mention some Skyhawk on skyhawk action with the S-1 build from a few weekends ago. ;) I'm saying the F/A-3 were basically bog standard S-2's but wired to take Aim 9's on the outer pylons. During the Punch up down south the enterprising chaps on Hermes painted the noses of their birds Black to try and fool the opposition into thinking that some of the UK skyhawks were equipped with Blue Fox radar. As a result the Hermes scooters spent a fair bit of time on CAP sorties. and escorting the bomb trucks.
Speaking of bomb trucks...........the two seater.
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Skyhawk S Mk-5. Also operating off Albion off the Falklands.
The Falklands conflict was to my knowledge the first time the Uk used LGB's in anger. Towards the end of hostilities RAF Harrier GR-3's deployed LGB's on certain missions. with the targets being marked by ground observers (aka the SAS).
In this case the S-5 is a dedicated special mission bird tasked primarily with night attack, Precision (LGB) strike and SEAD with the Shrike ASM.
This one is loaded out with a pair of 500lb Paveway's and a Pavespike pod on the centreline to give the back seater something to do......
All three are Italeri Kits, The single seaters are A-4M's and the two seater is of course an OA-4M. all built pretty much OOB, Not the best kits of the A-4 out there but ok for what I had in mind here.
Paint jobs are over all Extra Dark sea Grey from a rattle can mixed by DJ aerosols to the correct BS formula.
The war loads are from various sources via by spares box. The 500 pounders, BL755's and the pave spike pod came from Airfix Phantom, Harrier GR-5 and Old tool Buccaneer kits. the decals are robbed from various Modeldecal Falklands sheets. some of the roundels are unfortunately out of register. I didn't spot it until after the matt coat went on...........
Every thing else is primarily from various hasegawa weapon sets.
Just for the sake of it. The original pair that started this scooter fixation...........
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And the whole damn lot of em together
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Nice Martin :thumbsup:
Oddly enough I was musing on getting one of the new tool Airfix Scooters today next time I put a Hannants order in.
Very nice Martin :thumbsup:
Chris
Lovin' those Brit Skyhawks! :wub: :wub:; :wub:
Damn, you've made me want to whif a Scooter!
Quote from: kitbasher on June 19, 2020, 01:11:58 PM
Damn, you've made me want to whif a Scooter!
The recent Airfix tooling is a nice little kit and you've got the time now ;)
Quote from: kitbasher on June 19, 2020, 01:11:58 PM
Damn, you've made me want to whif a Scooter!
Oh go on! You know you realy want to..................
Quote from: Martin H on June 20, 2020, 10:51:45 AM
Quote from: kitbasher on June 19, 2020, 01:11:58 PM
Damn, you've made me want to whif a Scooter!
Oh go on! You know you realy want to..................
Well I have a FROG A-4K waiting for whiffery but not in the way your Scooters make me want to whif one. My ESCI A-4 is earmarked for a real world build so maybe a cheap and cheerful second hand one is what I need.
Very good looking bunch of Scooters! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Sweet!!!
And another pair done.
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Two Airfix Phantom FG-1's.
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Phanton FG-1 of 809 NAS Fleet Air Arm. Operating off HMS Duke of Edinburgh (CVA02) around 1983.
Wearing a version of the medium sea grey / light aircraft grey scheme that the SeaHarrier FRS-1's wore for a short time before going back into overall Extra Dark Sea Grey.
Gunze paints for the most part with a mix of kit and after market decals to suit.
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Phanton FG-1 of 43 sqn RAF operating off HMS Ark Royal in the mid to late 70's
Now ive already done one carrier rigged 43 sqn bird. That was a Fujimi kit. But considering one of the display options with the Airfix kit allows you to fold it up and have every thing down................
This was the "Black Mike" RAF boxing of the kit and 43sqn was the alternative decal option............Job done!
Again Gunze paint job as per the Navy bird above.
I may just rob a set of crew ladders from yee olde Matchbox kit at some point.
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Very smart work OGL, the pair of them. But I do like the folded one, very nice. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Absolutely love the RN Scooters! One of my favorite Whif themes ever. I think I've done three of them over the years. Love seeing all of your s together.
Quote from: Martin H on June 30, 2020, 02:27:09 PM
I may just rob a set of crew ladders from yee olde Matchbox kit at some point.
I take it that you have a set of ladders to hand, if not I have a spare set you can have.
Gondor
Love the Phantoms and All the scooters Martin! :thumbsup:
I've still got two more RN Skyhawks on my to-do list for when the mood strikes.
I particularly like the one with folded wings Martin :thumbsup:
Cool Phantoms!!! I'm with Chris, the foldy wings and nose cone are awesome! It's odd... as a builder, I don't like doing those features but I love seeing it when others do it... :unsure:
And another 2 done...................
Bad guys (from a UK point of view) this time.
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Mig 29 Fulcrum operated on behalve of the RAF by Hunter aviation from RAF Scampton, summer 2020.
Used as a high speed "bad guy" this is one of four Fulcrums the Uk aquired from the Ukrainian Air Force. (3 single seaters and a two seater)
The single seaters were amoung those that were caught on the ground at Belbeck airbase in the Crimea when the little green men appeared. The Russians stripped them down and shipped them back to their owners once the dust had settled as they were in storeage when the take over went down so were of no further use to the airbases new inhabitents.
The Ukraine had little use for them either, as they were working with just their Flankers and Frogfoot's. So they were considered as on the market.
The RAF had seen their pals across the pond using a small collection or Soviet/Russian hardware for DACT so enquired about the surplus Fulcrums. The Ukrainian airforce were more than happy to strike a deal. So with a full rebuild to airworthy condition, a repaint into a more Russian cammo job and some crew training the four airframes joined the RAF.
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Hasegawa Fulcrum (Ukraine Airforce Boxing) built OOB with akah and Hataka used for the paint job. Decals from the kit and the decal stash.
Next one. Back to the 1982 punch up down south. :wacko:
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Argintine airforce Northrop F-5E Tiger of the 6th Fighter Group during the Falklands conflict.
In reality the 6th group used IAI Daggers and along with the rest of the airforce and Naval aviation combat units fought with a level of determination and courage that earned the respect of their conterparts.
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Thanks to a 1970's vintage book called the Arsenal of Freedom I found out that the Argintines tried to buy F-5E's but for various reasons the sale didnt progress. This what they might have looked like had the deal gone ahead...............
Italeri F-5E/N kit with Hataka paints and Condor (of Argintina) Decals. The winders and mk-82's as well as the TER's they are sitting on are all from Hasegawa weapon sets.
Think they may well get blown up on the ground by Bricks from Eagle during Operation Garden Sprinkler...
Quote from: The Wooksta! on July 11, 2020, 02:53:27 PM
Think they may well get blown up on the ground by Bricks from Eagle during Operation Garden Sprinkler...
I had similar thoughts while doing the paint job. although the RN Scooters I did earlier figured in my version.
Now for a break from fast jets.................And the Royal Navy!
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Yes, back on helicopters for a short while.
First of the three.
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Westland SeaKing HAS-2 of 42 sqn RAF. Based out of RAF St Mawgan in the mid 1980's.
Before being forced into the merger that created Strike Command, Coastal command started looking for a replacement for its fleet of Shorts Sea Mew's used in the inshore MPA/ASW roles.
Soon to enter service with the Navy, the Westland built Seaking seemed to fit the bill. But as is the way with their Airships the brass took an age to decide on placing an order. So long in fact that Coastal command had gone and the Mk-2 was just about to enter navy service.
So The HAS mk-2 joined the RAF.................in a combat role!
Now 42 sqn was due to get the new Nimrod MR-1 but much to their horror they were re tasked as a helicopter MR/ASW unit by the powers that be.
They were one of three ex Shackelton units to receive the Seaking. Head quartered at St Mawgan alongside the OCU the squadron had 4 detached flights based along side SAR helicopter flights covering the Irish sea up to the Scottish border, the Bristol channel and the western approaches to the English channel including the Channel Islands (for occasional visits). the other units covered the rest of the UK coastline. The airframes retained the ability to operate off the navy carriers, something that proved usefull in 1982.
42 carried on with the Seaking, swapping its mk-2's for mk-5's up until the seakings retirement. Expecting to get the Merlin in its place.........
Fujimi Kit built OOB with a RAF Dark Sea Grey paintjob. decals from the kit and the stash.
Number two.
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Westland lynx HMA-8 of B flight 224sqn RAF operating from RAF Gibraltar circa 2006.
With the Seaking fullfilling the home based inshore MR/ASW role their airship also looked to cover the few remaining overseas bases that required close in MR/ASW cover. In some of these locations the Seaking might be considered over kill politically and practically. So a smaller platform was looked for. The Lynx was in Navy service and doing its job well, so it made sense to place and order for the basic HAS-2 variant. As with the seaking they remained fully navalized bar a few comms system changes. By the time they where ready for service only one squadron was deemed necessary. so seeing as one of the detached locations was going to be Gibraltar. The airstaff resurrected 224sqn who had last operated Shackleton's out of Gibraltar in October 1966!
The fleet was constantly upgraded to keep pace with the Navy's efforts ending up with the HMA-8 variant.
Head Quartered at RAF Akrotiri 224 maintained a watch on the waters around the Sovereign base areas on Cyprus and also maintained the RAF presence at Gibraltar, with the occasional deployment to Malta when requested/invited by the local government. The crews tended to remove the cabin door windows they claim for better ventilation in the hot climate they are based in. The squadrons maintainace flight has come up with removable mountings for GPMG's or LSW's to be deployed from the open windows.
The RAF mk-8s have out lasted their Navy sisters but it is expected that the Wildcat will replace them in time.
Now this was a shelf of doom resident. The longest term resident in fact. 16-18 years! The idea for the Airforce ASW lynx came about while I was putting the sea king together. so it got dusted off and finished.
Airfix kit build OOB (I think this was meant to be a real world build originally) decals robbed from other Lynx kits and decal sheets, with the squadron badges coming from a 1/144th Shackleton sheet from S&M decals.
Number three, was also going to be early Mk-2 sister for the Mk-8 above but some of the maritime parts were AWOL from the kit!
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Westland Lynx HCC 3 of 32sqn RAF, based at RAF Nothholt in the early 1980's.
One of four VIP/Utility transport Lynx used by the Metropolitan Comms squadron (AKA 32sqn) based on the HT-3 trainer version used by the RAF, and among the earliest of the type to enter service.
Used when the Gazelle was to small and the Puma to big. These nippy little hotrods were a common sight around greater London and the home counties for years. Moving the great and the good all over the place, and even on occasion riding shotgun for the Wessex and later the S-61N's of the Queens flight when more luggauge carrying capacity was required. They very nearly wore the Queens flight livery when the QF and 32sqn were merged. But it was decided to keep them in their old colors. They were finally replaced by leased civilian Sikorsky S-76's in the early 2010's despite being among the Oldest members of the Lynx family in UK military service. They out lasted their slightly younger trainer cousins by a good 10 years!
Revell boxing of the old Matchbox kit. Although sold as a Naval lynx, the parts for the Army version remained in the kit. Hence why this one was re tasked as a VIP bird rather than a HAS-2 when parts were found to be missing.
Rattle can paint job. and decals from the spares stash.
This was a quick build, taking all of 2 days from box opening to last coat of varnish.
All VEEEERY interesting OGL, and wholly believable, in your usual fashion. :thumbsup:
I do like the idea of the RAF having a close inshore MR/ASW tasking, it makes much more sense than having a Nimrod cruising along the 12 mile limit line.
White/Grey lynx looks very good.
:thumbsup:
Very nice Martin. My favourite is the HMA-8 :thumbsup:
Very nice egg beaters Martin :thumbsup:
Chris
Time for a more mixed bag of an update. Not a single UK build to be had this time around.
First up three Grumman cats.
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Aeronaval Grumman Panther. no prises for guessing what campain shes operating in..........
You will note she isnt wearing the usual cockade that any self respecting Aeronaval aircraft would normaly wear. Im saying its had a new rudder fitted to replace a combat damaged one. And is waiting for a quiet moment for the paint crew to correct the omission.
Hasegawa kit built OOB. Decals robbed from various sheets from the stash. Vallejo for the midnight blue and rattle can RAF SAR yellow for the stripes.
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Dutch Navy Grumman Cougar. A simple swap for the Hawker Seahawks they realy had.
Hasegawa kit again OOB. Decals from a Dutch decals Kon Marine set. Gunze for the paint job.
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Grumman F-14J Tomcat. JASDF mid 1980's.
The Tomcat was in the running for the order that in the end went to the Eagle. This my take on what they may have looked like had the big cat won the contract.
Old Academy kit. Certainly not the best kit of the F14 out there. A bit clunky inplaces and the fit was so so. The paint job may look early F-14 but it was subtly tweaked. The light gull grey upper surfaces were done using the correct shade for an early air to air eagle Which is a tad darker.
Decals robbed from an old Hasegawa F-15J kit. Paint job was a mix of various paint firms.
Now a Mig
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Mig 21SMT of the Chilian Airforce in the Mid - Late 1980's.
The Soviet union did try and sell the Fishbed to Chile in the 70's going so far as to offer them with a heavy discount. The military coup put paid to the deal going ahead.......
Fujimi kit built OOB with a paint job similar to the early PVO flankers. An Akan early flanker paint set was used on this bird. Decals from an FCM decals south american T-33 / P-80 sheet.
And last but certainly not least............
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Lockheed CL282 "Proto U-2". A paper project that led to the U-2.
This one goes back a fair few years now. It was one of the many unfinished builds from the late Joe Cherrie Snr (TSRjoe's dad)
A good number of these unfinished projects were handed out around a small group of us who knew the old boy well. This sat gathering dust in a bag on my work bench for ages untill I felt i was upto doing it justice. Thankfully Joe snr had built and painted the launch trolly saving me that job. Ive no idea what the base kit was, possibly the old ESCI/Italeri F-104 kit. With wings robbed from an airfix U-2.
Origianly this would have been finished in Joes old "wooden" display model style with painted on control surfaces and canopy. I decided to remove the solid canopy and replace it with a clear only. a Bang seat was shoe horned in as well. Paint job is Halford Audi Aluminium and decals from various sources via the stash. Its marked as the third test example of the program.
All excellent work OGL, but I bet you can predict my fave. ;D
The CL282 looks a DREAM! :wub: :thumbsup:
Excellent work all round Martin :bow:
My favourite is the Cougar I must admit, but the Tomcat has a special appeal as well. Looks very neat in that quite "simple" scheme.
Well done mate :thumbsup:
Wow very impressive especially the Mig-21 :thumbsup:
Nice work, and a nice tribute to Joe Snr in getting his project completed. :thumbsup:
It's a good feeling when you can accomplish something like that.
Outstanding work here. I really dig the Tomcat!!
Oh look I finished on on Telford Eve. I normally cease all build activity in the week leading up to Telford, to allow for packing the display up for transport from the Northants Swamps to the darkest depths of Shropshire.
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Another Dutch Navy build. Sea Harrier F/A-2 shore based when not at sea at NAS Valkenburg in the Mid 2000's. In this case deployed to the Baltic states to take a turn at the NATO Baltic air policing mission. Hence the full AMRAAM load out.
This is a follow on from the Dutch Sea Harrier FRS-1 I did back in December 2018.
Airfix Kit built OOB with the belly AMRAAM pylons being Freighdog items. Paint job is mainly CJ Aerosol rattle cans, RAF Dark Sea Grey over all, with Medium Sea Grey for the nose cone. Simply put the reverse of the scheme mainly used by the Royal Navy.
Decals are a mix of the kit and spares box.
Well done :thumbsup:
Very nice!
Excellent, and very plausible too.
I had a customer just across the fence from Valkenburg, but I missed seeing the Sea Harriers. :(
They would have been aboard the Invincible-class carrier HMS Karel Doorman most of the time :wacko:
Quote from: Hobbes on November 06, 2020, 09:33:03 AM
They would have been aboard the Invincible-class carrier HMS Karel Doorman most of the time :wacko:
Glad you remembered my original back story Harro :thumbsup:
Kit you seem to have a habit of missing things with wings. I do beleave you also missed the 18sqn C-97 gateguard at Odiham once..............
Quote from: Martin H on November 06, 2020, 10:26:08 AM
Kit you seem to have a habit of missing things with wings. I do beleave you also missed the 18sqn C-97 gateguard at Odiham once..............
I did, yes.
I always seem to be in the wrong place at the wrong time...............:(
Neat one Martin :thumbsup:
Quote from: PR19_Kit on November 06, 2020, 11:11:12 AM
Quote from: Martin H on November 06, 2020, 10:26:08 AM
Kit you seem to have a habit of missing things with wings. I do beleave you also missed the 18sqn C-97 gateguard at Odiham once..............
I did, yes.
I always seem to be in the wrong place at the wrong time...............:(
Could it be that the brim of the hat is constricting his view..........or just that his mind is set on higher things?
Quote from: Rheged on November 07, 2020, 06:41:55 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on November 06, 2020, 11:11:12 AM
Quote from: Martin H on November 06, 2020, 10:26:08 AM
Kit you seem to have a habit of missing things with wings. I do beleave you also missed the 18sqn C-97 gateguard at Odiham once..............
I did, yes.
I always seem to be in the wrong place at the wrong time...............:(
Could it be that the brim of the hat is constricting his view..........or just that his mind is set on higher things?
All of the above............ ;)
and another Maritime Harrier.
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A SeaHarrier S Mk-3 of 803NAS operating off the then very new HMS Invincible around 1979-80.
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In simple terms the SeaHarrier S-3 was a navalized Harrier GR-3. Intended to give the Fleet Air Arm a dedicated VTOL surface vessel attack / Strike - Reconnaissance asset. leaving the FRS-1 to consentrate on Air Defence as its primary role.
The S-3 replaced the "Laser nose" of the GR-3 with a small surface scan radar optimised for guiding Martel air to surface missiles. Although the S-3 was more than capeable of providing close air support for troops ashore as and when required. As was proved very well in the south Atlantic in 1982.
803sqn had previously been a Buccaneer unit and retained their blue-grey codes and serials, However they experimented with a "Low Viz" version as seen here on XZ974. (the first of the initial batch of 14 production airframes)
Base kit is an ESCI boxing of what is now the Italeri Harrier GR-3 kit. Decals are a mix of various harrier sheets robbed from the spares stash, the codes and serials are home made, and were the result of a failed attempt to color match the correct shade of blue. I also had issues with color density on lighter color versions. I almost gave up on them before opting to go down the "experimental low viz" back story. The 803 Squadron markings on the tail are from an Xtradecal Buccaneer sheet.
The weapons load out was aided by using the gun pods that weren't used from the base kit of the Dutch SeaHarrier F/A-2 build. The martel, winder (plus launch rail) and ecm pod all came from the last issue of the old tool Airfix Buccaneer, The drop tank being the only thing used from the base kit. Oh! the launch rail the martel sits on was a sea eagle unit also a left over from the Dutch F/A-2 build. The nose cone was replaced with the front section of a droptank off a Matchbox Hawk 100 kit that ive had lurking in the spares box for ages.
Yes, that looks the part very well. :thumbsup:
And the backstory works as well, they should have done it................
That's come out very well Martin :thumbsup:
Marvelous Martin :mellow: :mellow:
Quote from: chrisonord on November 14, 2020, 10:56:23 AM
Marvelous Martin :mellow: :mellow:
Wasn't he the guy who beat Alan Minter for the Middleweight crown back in 1980 ? Oh no that was Marvin Hagler :angel: ;D
Quote from: Martin H on November 06, 2020, 07:39:47 AM
Oh look I finished on on Telford Eve. I normally cease all build activity in the week leading up to Telford, to allow for packing the display up for transport from the Northants Swamps to the darkest depths of Shropshire.
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Another Dutch Navy build. Sea Harrier F/A-2 shore based when not at sea at NAS Valkenburg in the Mid 2000's. In this case deployed to the Baltic states to take a turn at the NATO Baltic air policing mission. Hence the full AMRAAM load out.
This is a follow on from the Dutch Sea Harrier FRS-1 I did back in December 2018.
Airfix Kit built OOB with the belly AMRAAM pylons being Freighdog items. Paint job is mainly CJ Aerosol rattle cans, RAF Dark Sea Grey over all, with Medium Sea Grey for the nose cone. Simply put the reverse of the scheme mainly used by the Royal Navy.
Decals are a mix of the kit and spares box.
To quote Goldmember, noice!
Quote from: NARSES2 on November 15, 2020, 05:49:40 AM
Quote from: chrisonord on November 14, 2020, 10:56:23 AM
Marvelous Martin :mellow: :mellow:
Wasn't he the guy who beat Alan Minter for the Middleweight crown back in 1980 ? Oh no that was Marvin Hagler :angel: ;D
I thought that was Belting Brian....London :-X :-X
Chris
Ok! Its now March 2021 and the first build of the year is finaly done.
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Yes another Harrier...............This is very much a follow on to the Spanish SHAR-1 I did back in the early months of last year.
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A Sea Harrier FRS-1 of the Thai Navy around 2006.
These Thai fighters were ex Spanish navy aircraft sold on to Thailand as part of the contract for the then new light carrier the Thai's were having built in Spain.
Their new owners were told by the Spanish that these were not true Sea Harriers but were rebuilds of their original AV-8A's. In fact as the Thai's found out from British Aerospace soon after aquiring them they were true Sea Harriers, the Spanish were keeping up the story that had been sold to their general public that the Harriers were being reworked as a cheaper alternative to buying new...........Which turned out to be incorrect. To keep The Spanish governement quiet the Thai's played along untill the story broke when the UK declassified the documents involved much to Madrids displeasure. Hence why they were marked up as AV-8A's by the Thai navy.
Yet Another italeri Seaharrier built OOB but with a new paint job (Gunze) and decals for a Thai AV-8A off a Wolfpack decals sheet.
The paint job uses a best guess (By Wolfpack decals) for what the correct FS colors are. As the real birds were re painted in localy mixed versions of the FS grey shades used some time after arrival in Thailand.
Very very nice Martin.
To my mind it needs a Sharkmouth!
Particularly neat in that scheme Martin :thumbsup:
Ho hum, I have one of those planed, different shades of grey for mine now :banghead:
Gondor
Very SHARp builds, Martin :thumbsup:
In the small print of yesterday's UK Budget forecast the CoE has allocated an extra £1 for the purchase of a new "Book" from that well know retailer "Poundstore" ;)
Quote from: NARSES2 on March 04, 2021, 06:22:12 AM
In the small print of yesterday's UK Budget forecast the CoE has allocated an extra £1 for the purchase of a new "Book" from that well know retailer "Poundstore" ;)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
You can tell I'm off work.................Another Harrier build done.
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Here we have a U.S. Marine Corps AV-8Aplus Air defence optimised 1st gen Harrier. Of Marine attack squadron VMA542.
The U.S. Marines had been watching the progress of the Seaharrier from the programs get-go, and after the Falklands conflict the USMC decided it needed its own Air Defence variant of the AV-8A to provide top cover for their ground pounding versions.
After a few months of talks with British Aerospace a deal was struck that would see the Brits supply 60 new SeaHarrier noses sections in kit form that could be assembled and installed onto existing AV-8A's in the U.S.
The Blue Fox radar would also be licence produced Stateside to give the impression of maximum home made content in the "new" aircraft.
At first it was decided that rather than form dedicated Air defence squadrons, each existing Harrier unit would be a 50-50 split of standard A models and what was now being called the A plus model. In practice the role split varied from squadron to squadron while the plan was in operation.
The first "new" aircraft rolled off the assembly line in 1984, and all 60 airframes had been reworked by 1988, three years after the replacement AV-8B had first entered service. The arrival of the Harrier II freed up more airframes for conversion, so another 90 kits were acquired and the selected aircraft rolled through the conversion program. this left the Harrier II to cover the close air support mission and the A plus to provide topcover. Although the mixed squadron idea was dropped and dedicated units of each version formed due to the technical differences involved.
The A plus gamely held the close airdefence role until the type finally bowed out as the new B plus model entered service.
A few escaped abroad namely 3 to Spain as attrition replacements for Seaharriers lost in accidents, and 12 loaned to the Italian navy so they could gain experience in VTOL operation before their own B models arrived.
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Seen with my recent Thai Shar.
Another Italeri Shar kit, with a few bits robbed from an Esci AV-8A kit to tweak it from the standard seaharrier look. IE no RWR on the fin, and that socking great blade aerial on the spine. The paint job is the standard 3 tone grey scheme used on the B model with the decals from various sheets from my decal stash and the AV-8A kit that donated its fin and aerial.
Another Harrier is likely to be done tomorrow. This time a 2nd generation bird.
I like it, AND the backstory too. :thumbsup:
How much of your stash are Harrier kits OGL? ;)
Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 04, 2021, 02:26:03 PM
I like it, AND the backstory too. :thumbsup:
How much of your stash are Harrier kits OGL? ;)
27 of all flavours remaining
Around half the number I have of Phantoms...............................
Quote from: Martin H on March 04, 2021, 04:12:28 PM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 04, 2021, 02:26:03 PM
I like it, AND the backstory too. :thumbsup:
How much of your stash are Harrier kits OGL? ;)
27 of all flavours remaining
Around half the number I have of Phantoms...............................
So I guess we'll see a slew of 'Tooms soon? ;)
Quote from: Martin H on March 04, 2021, 04:12:28 PM
27 of all flavours remaining
Around half the number I have of Phantoms...............................
Jeepers, that's AMAZING! :o :o :o
Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 05, 2021, 03:06:44 AM
Quote from: Martin H on March 04, 2021, 04:12:28 PM
27 of all flavours remaining
Around half the number I have of Phantoms...............................
Jeepers, that's AMAZING! :o :o :o
That's one word for it ;)
I like that Martin, it looks very smart in that scheme :thumbsup: Although I swear I saw Arnold Schwarzenegger flying it in True Lies the other evening :mellow:
Quote from: NARSES2 on March 05, 2021, 06:05:17 AM
I like that Martin, it looks very smart in that scheme :thumbsup: Although I swear I saw Arnold Schwarzenegger flying it in True Lies the other evening :mellow:
That would have been one of these Chris ;)
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An AV-8B Harrier II of the Indian Navy any time in the last 10-12 years.
Back in the early 2000's India was looking to replace its aging carrier with a rebuild of a Russian Kiev class light VTOL carrier into a mini version of the Admiral Kuznetsov. About halfway through the work the shipyard in Russia more than doubled the price, thinking they had the Indians over a barrel as they had already paid out massively for the original contract. The Indians called the ship yards bluff and walked away. leaving them with a half compleated ship nobody wanted.
This left the Navy with a problem, their carrier wasnt getting any younger and it would take years to build their own. Then around 2008 the Brits made them an offer. The seaHarrier had already been retired and the RAF was about to axe its own Harrier fleet. The offer was the immediate sale to India of HMS Ark Royal which had just come out of refit to replace the ageing ex Hermes.
The Ark was ideal as it was built around operating SeaHarriers. The Indian Top brass started thinking bigger. and also asked about HMS Illustrious and the soon (as they thought) to be available RAF Harrier GR-9's.
The sale of Lusty post refit was readily agreed. But, They were told that the Harriers had already been sold to the Americans as spares doners. But after a quick chat with the U.S. a new deal was struck. The USMC really wanted to put the ex RAF birds into service as they were better kitted out than their own birds. In exchange for new deal allowing the ex UK Harriers to be put into service (as the AV-8D) the U.S.would "trade in" 24 AV-8B's and 6 TAV-8B's that could be sold as is to the Indian Navy. This turned out to be ideal for all concerned. And after a quick refurb at BAe Warton the new Indian Harrier II's embarked on the now ex Ark Royal for the journey to her new home. This now left what to do with the old Indian Sea Harriers. Enter Thailand. They had been very happy with their ex Spanish Seaharriers and were eager for more. After a little horse trading between Bangkok and Delhi the surviving first Gen Indian Harriers were sold to Thailand, some to enter service the rest as parts doners.
Hasegawa AV-8B kit built OOB. Paint job is over all RAF Medium Sea Grey, as per the last scheme the Indian SeaHarriers wore before retirement.
Decals from a CtA sheet of first gen Harriers. and the odd looking air to air missile of the the outbord pylons is the Isreali Pyhon IV. The Indians have been known to use some Isreali hardware recently. Plus it makes a change from the usual Aim 9.
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Are you running out of grey paint yet Martin ? :angel:
No, seriously, another neat one for the collection :thumbsup:
Nah! still got loads of grey to use up...................... :mellow:
And the first non VTOL build of 2021 coming up........
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Introducing the Douglas A-26B Boston FB-7 of 4sqn RAF circa 1949-1952.
Despite having a surplus of home grown Mosquito's for the light bomber role, their use was pretty much limited to Europe as the wooden airframes had a nasty habit of delaminating mid air in humid climates of the far east and eastern Africa. Needing something that was not going to spontaneously disassemble itself at 8,000 feet the RAF turned to the Americans to see what they had to offer in the form of light bombers while the UK cracked on with developing the Canberra into a useful workhorse.
Douglas came up with a very cheap offer of re furbed A-26 Invaders that had proved themselves over Europe and elseware. The RAF as always was strapped for cash and liked the sound of "Cheap", enough to sign up for three squadrons and an OCU's worth of airframes.
Realising that these aircraft were most likely to be used for keeping natives in line in various imperial possesions, the RAF reused the old Douglas Boston name as future news reports that "RAF Invaders" had attacked insurgents in "XYZ territory" was likely to be read as very bad PR..................
Italeri Kit built OOB. This kit was given to me by the Wooksta several years ago, and I couldn't quite work out what to do with it.
When I started working on it ,it was going to be a real world U.S. A-26. But the idea of a post war RAF bird entered my head and away it went.
Paint job is Halfords black primer for the undersides and CJ aerosols medium sea grey for the upperworks. Decals from Modeldecal and the kit.
Very nice OGL and wholly plausible too. :thumbsup:
Didn't the RAF really have a few A-26s for evaluation at one time? But probably not painted grey.............
Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 06, 2021, 12:30:34 PM
Didn't the RAF really have a few A-26s for evaluation at one time? But probably not painted grey.............
I think your right Kit. Im sure the A-26 was looked at, even if only to keep up with what was new from across the pond
Quote from: Martin H on March 06, 2021, 11:54:49 AM
Nah! still got loads of grey to use up...................... :mellow:
And the first non VTOL build of 2021 coming up........
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Introducing the Douglas A-26B Boston FB-7 of 4sqn RAF circa 1949-1952.
Despite having a surplus of home grown Mosquito's for the light bomber role, their use was pretty much limited to Europe as the wooden airframes had a nasty habit of delaminating mid air in humid climates of the far east and eastern Africa. Needing something that was not going to spontaneously disassemble itself at 8,000 feet the RAF turned to the Americans to see what they had to offer in the form of light bombers while the UK cracked on with developing the Canberra into a useful workhorse.
Douglas came up with a very cheap offer of re furbed A-26 Invaders that had proved themselves over Europe and elseware. The RAF as always was strapped for cash and liked the sound of "Cheap", enough to sign up for three squadrons and an OCU's worth of airframes.
Realising that these aircraft were most likely to be used for keeping natives in line in various imperial possesions, the RAF reused the old Douglas Boston name as future news reports that "RAF Invaders" had attacked insurgents in "XYZ territory" was likely to be read as very bad PR..................
Italeri Kit built OOB. This kit was given to me by the Wooksta several years ago, and I couldn't quite work out what to do with it.
When I started working on it ,it was going to be a real world U.S. A-26. But the idea of a post war RAF bird entered my head and away it went.
Paint job is Halfords black primer for the undersides and CJ aerosols medium sea grey for the upperworks. Decals from Modeldecal and the kit.
Supernice!
Very smart in that scheme. :thumbsup:
Quote from: Mossie on March 07, 2021, 04:40:14 AM
Very smart in that scheme. :thumbsup:
It is indeed :thumbsup:
SWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET.
Quote from: Martin H on March 06, 2021, 01:24:23 PM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 06, 2021, 12:30:34 PM
Didn't the RAF really have a few A-26s for evaluation at one time? But probably not painted grey.............
I think your right Kit. Im sure the A-26 was looked at, even if only to keep up with what was new from across the pond
3, in fact, and IIRC were natural metal.
And nice build, Martin :thumbsup:
'Tis rather nice! :thumbsup:
That Boston is very nice! I can see them replacing the Bristol Brigands out East too, what with their propensity to fall apart mid-air too.
I like that A-26 Martin, very smart :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
(I might just "borrow" the idea, I've got the Italeri 'K' in the stash) ;)
And now the next one for this month of Furlough.....
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A Brewster SB2A-4 Buccaneer of the Dutch East Indies Airforce. Just prior to the Fall of Java.
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This is a Special Hobby kit built 100% OOB. The last decal option is for a "fictitious" Dutch scheme. So no prizes for guessing what option I went for....... :mellow:
For those wondering the UK called it the Bermuda. Using them mainly as target tugs.
Paint job is Halfords white primer for the underside and Gunze for the uppers. It doesn't show to well in these photos but it is in a dark green and brown disruptive cammo scheme on top........
This kit looks quite daunting on the sprue, with a good 60-70% of the parts count being inside the cockpit and Gunners tubs! I chickened out and acquired the peewit masking set for this kit, theres a lot of "Glass" on this bird.
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And here it is with an interloping real World Airfix TBD-1 that was also finished today to give an idea of how big the Buccaneer is.
Looks good in Dutch, Martin! :thumbsup:
(PS: So does the Devastator. ;))
Massive and beautifully built machine, that one! And an inadvertent flashback for me.
One of my first builds as a kid was the Matchbox Buffalo in corresponding Dutch East Indies scheme. I got the idea from reading a very nice but somewhat sad youth novel about a Dutch pilot being overrun by the Japanese invasion, being cared for by indigenous javanesians, saving his life and raising his awareness of the racism embedded in the colonial system.
Now, 40 years on, I can't remember neither the novels name nor how it ended, but I remember I liked it a lot, and that I kept thinking on it for a while after having read it.
Ah well.. Back to plastics..
Buccaneer's come out very well Martin, as has the Devastator :thumbsup: :thumbsup: Well done mate
Must admit the kit has been sitting in my stash awaiting somebody to bring a masking set out for it, thanks for letting me know they have ;) :thumbsup:
A bit more modern this time.....
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An Eagle F Mk-2 (F-15D) of 5sqn RAF. Based at RAF Binbrook around 2012.
Basically, what if the Tonka F-2/3 just didn't work out. Would the UK have joined the Eagle owners club as a result?
This is my take on what the F-15 may have looked like in UK service. I'm working on the RAF sticking with two seaters for the air defence role and not taking on any single seaters. Meaning the F-15B would have been the Eagle F Mk-1.
an old Hasegawa F-15C/D kit built OOB with a suitable UK paint job of Light Aircraft Grey undersides, Camouflage grey (aka Barley Grey) uppers and a Medium Sea Grey nose cone. Paints were mainly from the Hataka range.
This one had been sitting around on the shelf of doom about 80% done for at least 7-8 years. And was always going to be British. I just got distracted by other ideas and it fell by the wayside.
Beautiful, and right up my alley!
I like the look of that OGL, and it's pretty plausible too. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Tidy :thumbsup:
Personally I think we may have ended up with Hornets had the ADV Tornado been axed.
In 1980 McDonnell-Douglas visited at least one Phantom base to plug the F-18 and the resident jocks were impressed by what they saw.
Interoperability with Canada plus no AAR-related rejigging of the Hornet were seen as positives.
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Very neat looking Martin :thumbsup:
Yeah! :thumbsup: love that Eagle Martin ----
I started one some years ago, I used a Tornado F.3 nose on it and revised the nozzles, I ought to get it finished --- :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
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......... I ought to get it finished --- :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
A mantra for many of us..... :(
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Quote from: kitnut617 on March 19, 2021, 07:11:03 AM
......... I ought to get it finished --- :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
A mantra for many of us..... :(
The funny thing is, it's almost done --- :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
I do like an Eagle. Good work Martin. :thumbsup:
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Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 19, 2021, 08:05:32 AM
Quote from: kitnut617 on March 19, 2021, 07:11:03 AM
......... I ought to get it finished --- :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
A mantra for many of us..... :(
The funny thing is, it's almost done --- :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
Ive being saying the same thing about this one for its entire time on the shelf of doom.......
And another three done.
Back to the 1940's for the first two,
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A Captured Messerschmidt Bf-109X of the enemy Aircraft flight, RAF Collyweston.
This is the RS models kit built OOB using this particular boxing's 2nd option. IE a Captured bird in RAF marking.
The kit went together fine but the canopy is far to wide for the airframe, meaning the fit of the canopy is crap!
Vallejo paints for the most part with Lifecolour for the remainder.
Next, what has to be one of my top five favorite aircraft of all time. The Lysander.
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A Westland Lysander I of the Estonian Airforce circa 1940.
Apparently Estonia did order Lysanders just prior to the Soviet take over. The airframes are reputed to be the ones that found their way to Finland.
A Matchbox kit Built OOB with a paint job of over all Halfords Audi Aluminium and decals from a Kora set that I acquired direct from Kora at an Eday show when it was still held in Prague. This scheme was option 2, option 1 was in standard RAF cammo, But I wanted this one to stand out from the crowd Lysander wise.
And finally
A trip Down under
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What if the RAAF & RAN didnt use the Vampire and Mb326, but had the T-33 instead?
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A RAN FAA operated Lockheed T-33 Shootingstar from around the mid 1970's
Yee oldie Hasegawa kit with decals from a 30 year old Model art sheet for an RAN MB326.
This one has a lot of paint on it. I over did the primer and coats of white by quite a margin. The primer, the Aluminium and white were all Halfords. The blue came from the Hataka range.
The kit itself is certainly showing its age, I'm sure the tooling is older than I am by a few years. It needed quite a bit of PSR to get the thing to look half decent before throwing paint at it.
A triple whammy there OGL. :thumbsup:
All three of them look the BUSINESS, specially the T-33.
Me too, I like all three, especially the T-Bird. :thumbsup:
Hasegawa T-33A Shooting Star moulds date from 1969.
So not quite as old as me.
Looks good Martin. I've got one in 'strayan service planned but you beat me to it.
Very nice triple Martin, particularly like the 109X :thumbsup: Did mine in Japanese colours, problem is it looks real world :rolleyes:
T-33 will certainly stand out on a table somewhere in the hopefully near future ;)
T-33's a winner in my eyes! :mellow: :thumbsup:
A little nearer(ish) to home for the next one.
Including real world builds this is the 11th build thats been finished in March so Far.
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A Swiss Airforce F-20A Tigershark of Fliegerstaffel 19 around 2008-2010.
This was very much a weekend build. It was started Saturday Afternoon and was finished this Monday evening.
The Hasegawa F-20 kit with a repaint and decals taken from the Italeri F-5N kit I did as an Argentinian F-5E last year.
Gunze for the most part on this one. with the AGM65's coming from one of the older Hasegawa weapon sets.
Prodigious output, sir :thumbsup:
Eleven builds?!? You've outdone my last five years already, and in style!
The F-20 is beautiful and so natural it makes you wonder why the Swiss just didn't buy them for real.. Or did they now? ;)
Quote from: Pellson on March 23, 2021, 01:08:03 AM
The F-20 is beautiful and so natural it makes you wonder why the Swiss just didn't buy them for real..
Totally agree :thumbsup:
Quote from: kitbasher on March 23, 2021, 12:26:52 AM
Prodigious output, sir :thumbsup:
Its called making sure I dont get bored while im off.
Ive had the formal notice from the NHS that shielding is no longer required as of March 31st. With the way my shift paterns work I'll be back at work as of April 7th.
T-33...... ah man.. I love it. Simple but adequate aircraft (which I love... I love trainers especially) and a treatment with colors I like and a great what if. The F-20 is just badass.... I love that one, too.
Great builds Martin, glad you are marking constructive use of your furlough, i.e. reducing your container's stock! One year of lock down and I am yet to start anything, while the stash keeps getting bigger...
Colin
March build number 12.
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The Budd RB1 Conestoga. As they may have appeared had the type entered U.S.Navy service.
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The Budd RB1 / C-93 was found to be underpowered and some what of a gas guzzler. Which dropped its intended range down to 700 miles with a full load. By the time most of the bugs bar the lack of grunt from the engines had been ironed out the war had moved on and there were plenty of C-46 & C-47's to go round causing all orders (200 US Navy, 600 USAAC) to be cancelled. Leaving a grand total of 20 aircraft built. But It helped pave the way towards what is now the standard lay out for military transports. Most found use post war with what became the Flying Tiger Line. Some ending their days in central and south America.
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The Anigrand kit Built OOB bar the paint job. Gunze for the paint work and decals are a mix from the kit and a set of old Matchbox Privateer decals.
And yes it would be a tail sitter with out the two "Jacks" you can see just in front of the rear ramp.
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And here it is with build number 13. The Mikro Mir Kalinin K-12 Bomber.
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I'm cheating here, this is a 100% OOB build. so isn't a whif. But could be considered a Cancelled project as the type fell out of favor while being test flown when its designer (Kalinin) was purged.
Woweee, LOVE the Conestoga! :thumbsup: :wub:
I didn't know anyone did a kit of it, and it looks terrific in USN colours.
The Kalinin is great too, so unusual to see. :thumbsup:
Love both. The Conestoga looks even more odd in Navy blue. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 27, 2021, 08:55:09 AM
Woweee, LOVE the Conestoga! :thumbsup: :wub:
I didn't know anyone did a kit of it, and it looks terrific in USN colours.
Yup really suits the scheme :thumbsup:
Kalinin looks really neat Martin :bow: What's the kit like to build ?
Quote from: NARSES2 on March 28, 2021, 06:17:12 AM
Kalinin looks really neat Martin :bow: What's the kit like to build ?
Not bad for the most part. The engine cowlings are a bugger thou. There are 4 parts to each one, the inner wall parts make the internal diameter to small to fit the engine thou.
With hindsight I would have left them out, I ended up increasing the diameter with scraps and putty. I would have also held off fitting the control surface mounting brackets until after the decals were on. I was going to use the big sheet of "feathers" that come with the kit for the stylized bird paint job the machine wore for its first public outing. having the brackets in place would have made the job a nightmare trying to get those decals to sit right. hence leaving em be.
Thanks Martin
OK Although builds 14 and 15 are real world I'm going to show them here anyway.
First up is the new ish Airfix Victor. In the SR-2 configuration with 543 sqn around 1971.
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Built 100% OOB. Paint job is a mix of Halfords white primer and gunze for the medium Sea grey and dark Green. Decals are the third option in the K-2/SR-2 boxing of the kit.
The open bomb bay with the extra fuel tanks and recci pod the Victor SR-2 carried.
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Now why did I do an SR-2? The answer is simple.
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Its in honor of this guy. His name was Dave Stephens, a long time friend and some times mentor over the last 20-25 years. Unfortunately he lost his fight against Covid on November 14th last year.
He spent his last six months in the RAF in 1969 on 543 sqn as an air wireless tech corporal.
He joined as a 15 year old boy entrant in the 1950's and worked on Anson's, Varsity's and Sycamores in the UK. On Air sea rescue boats in Northern Germany and Andovers & Hastings on the far east comms flight out of Singapore before being posted to Wyton. originally vetted to go on 51 sqn, they refused to take him on when it became clear he only had six months service left. So he wound up on 543 instead.
I started the build back in the Summer of 2019, with the intention it would be given to Dave to sit on the desk in his study. AS sometimes happens, these things keep getting moved to the back of the list, and work on it was very on-off, and very nearly ended up in the bin once I heard of his passing. It will now do the rounds of the shows once they restart on the Coventry & Warwickshire or Bedford and district club stands.
Those on here who know me, know all to well that I choose my friends very carefully. Its fair to say Dave was at the top of the list. It was a privilege to be his friend.
And lastly another Harrier (the 7th in the last 15 months)
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An Esci kit (again!) Built as a GR-1. Marked up as a civi registered demo bird used by Hawker Siddly to demonstrate the type to the Swiss in 1971.
Gunze all the way for the paint job, Decals from the Vingtor demo harrier set.
Always so nice builds. :wub:
I am so very sorry for your loss. Covid is such a cruel and unnecessary way to go and too many of us have lost friends and family during this last dog of a year. Your Victor is excellent and touring it is a very nice way of honouring a good friend, and to remember him by.
I think you should show the Victor on the Whiff SIG stand OGL. Then we can all watch the JMNs trying to figure out what's Whiffy about it, and snigger to our hearts content. ;)
Sad to hear about Dave, you've mentioned him in the past a few times, but I didn't realise he'd been struck down by Covid. :(
Victors a really nice build Martin and a fitting tribute to another victim of this horrible disease. :thumbsup:
Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 30, 2021, 05:21:39 AM
I think you should show the Victor on the Whiff SIG stand OGL. Then we can all watch the JMNs trying to figure out what's Whiffy about it, and snigger to our hearts content. ;)
The thought has crossed my mind. It would fit Daves sence of humour as well.
Ive done it once before at a Tyneside showwith an Airfix Swift when they were just about out.......
Quote from: Martin H on March 30, 2021, 12:46:08 PM
The thought has crossed my mind. It would fit Daves sence of humour as well.
Ive done it once before at a Tyneside showwith an Airfix Swift when they were just about out.......
When you showed one of your 'All lightning' displays I plonked my RW F2A in there as well, and it had EXACTLY the desired effect. ;D ;D ;D ;D
Builds 16 & 17 coming right up. Tonight's offering falls into the Little & large group.
First up Little
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This is the Stout Aerocar II light aircraft.
Avis kit built 100% oob. with an over all dose of Halfords Audi Aluminium.
This has got to be one of the smallest builds I've done in years, aircraft wise. This thing is tiny!
Here's a photo of it with one of the Cessna's I did last year just to give an idea of how small this thing is.
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Next. Large.
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To follow on from the Budd Conestoga build, I have also tackled the competing aircraft from Curtiss.
The C-76 Caravan. This time in USAAF markings for a certain event that occurred in June 1944. Although not quite.
It hardly shows in the photos but there is a small U.S. Civilian registration under the tail planes. This is a preserved warbird. Apart from the serial number, it is in the markings worn by the C-47 "D Day doll"operated by the Commemorative Air Force.
Compared to the Budd, this thing wasnt a ground breaker. Wooden construction rather than the Budd's Stainless steel. No ramp for loading this time either, the nose on this thing swung up to load/unload.
Anigrand Kit built OOB with a tweaked version of the kit paint job. (You cant miss the invasion stripes!) Gunze for the paint work. Markings robbed from a Kits at War C-47/AC-47 set. The serial number was the only kit decal used.
Unlike the Conestoga build this isnt a tail sitter. I went well over board with lead on this one. It weighs a ton!. I'm gussing theres around half a pound of lead in the nose of this monster. Drop it on you foot and you will certainly know about it!.
Lovely Stout twin-boomer! :wub: :thumbsup:
Love all of these! The Stout looks great - I just ordered one from Scott's Model Shop on ebay.
Really nice work on the pair of them Martin, but given the general thickness of Anigrand's resin I feel sorry for the shelves that the Conestoga and Caravan go on ;)
Quote from: NARSES2 on April 02, 2021, 06:07:52 AM
Really nice work on the pair of them Martin, but given the general thickness of Anigrand's resin I feel sorry for the shelves that the Conestoga and Caravan go on ;)
Compared to Magna Models big kits*** Chris, Anigrand are lightweights ;D ;D ;D
*** I've got one of their Short Belfasts in the stash ---
Quote from: kitnut617 on April 02, 2021, 07:02:59 AM
Quote from: NARSES2 on April 02, 2021, 06:07:52 AM
Really nice work on the pair of them Martin, but given the general thickness of Anigrand's resin I feel sorry for the shelves that the Conestoga and Caravan go on ;)
Compared to Magna Models big kits*** Chris, Anigrand are lightweights ;D ;D ;D
*** I've got one of their Short Belfasts in the stash ---
True Robert. ;D I completely forgot he did a Belfast, it must weigh a ton ?? I've only built his smaller kits
And the last one for the Furlough period. I'm back in work as of the the 7th April.
That's a grand total of 19 builds (14 Whiff's, 4 real world and 1 Sci fi) over a period of 41 days.
That's around 1 build for every 2.157 days.
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The Supermarine Seagull ASR-1. In service with the Maritime Operational Training Unit based at RAF St Mawgan around 1958.
The Seagull was rejected by the Royal Navy as they were heading down the path of Helicopters for the ASR/Plane guard role.
The RAF on the other hand still was interested in the type for its close in MPA/ASR role. The Seagull fitted the bill in their Airships minds and two squadrons were equipped with the type. They were replaced by the Seamew MR-2 in the MPA role and Whirlwinds in the rescue role.
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This is an Olimp/Pro resin kit. Built OOB with a new gunze paint job of over all Dark Sea Grey, Decals from various sources via my decal stash.
Thanks to feature this rare plane that I had forgotten.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_Seagull_(1948) reminds me the story, mainly that this 1948 prototype came from a project of 1940 corrected in 1944 (this was a warbird, completed after war).
And thanks for the inspiration! ;D
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2 engines like a Catalina but avoiding the need of external floats!
Quote from: Martin H on April 05, 2021, 02:40:30 PM
That's around 1 build for every 2.157 days.
Blimey! At first I read it as if you were keeping my pace. Then I realised you werent referring to one kit in more that two thousand days..
Lovely Seagull as well.
Splendid job OGL. :thumbsup:
I always thought they should have persevered with the Seagull, and you've just proved it. I've had the Whirlykits version for some time now and keep on wondering how to do an in service Whiff, and you may have triggered off more thoughts on the matter. ;D
That's better than Dizzy pace! :o
Your time-machine must be better than Thomas' by a good 50%, Martin! ;D
Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 06, 2021, 03:39:25 AM
I've had the Whirlykits version for some time now
I to have tat kit and was only looking at it over the weekend wondering what to do it as. Was musing on BPF but then had a reality check with it being a vac-form and put it back into its nest.
That's come out really well Martin :thumbsup: I've built a couple of Olimp/Proresin kits and they've always impressed me.
2021 build Numbers 20, 21 & 22 are done......
Considering it happens to be July 4th. Its fitting numers 20 & 21 are Yank. :thumbsup:
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DH Mosquito B IX. 8th Airforce.
Concerned by the horrendous losses being suffured by the 8th over Germany, The top brass came very close to pulling the plug on daylight ops. Until an enterprising officer noticed that the Mosquito carried in terms of weight the same bomb load as a B-17. But with only two crew.
An experiment was put forward that borrowed mossies be trialed in place of some B-17's on a few raids. Early results showed that flying in formation didn't give much in the way of benefits thanks to there being no defensive armament. So a further experiment was tried, basically using the mossies high speed to its best advantage and use them to tackle the more awkward targets. This showed promise. So a full bomb group was re equipped with purpose built mk IX's on reverse lend-lease. They took on the missions that would likely cause high aircraft losses if flown by heavy bombers. Forgoing the bomber streams and going in at low level in small groups and multiple directions. They also took on the pathfinder role as well. working along side the RAF's 100 group. They soldiered on until the end of the war in Europe. plans to re equip other groups were not carried out thanks to the lobbying of Stateside manufactures and senior officers wedded to the heavy bomber concept.
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Revell boxing of the old Matchbox kit with a new paint job (Gunze) and decals from a 1/144th B-17 set from Kits at war.
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Martin RB-51C Lancer of the 10th TRW based at RAF Bruntingthorpe in 1960.
My take on the B-51 had it entered service. I used the markings from an old Altmark B-66 decal sheet. I choose the 10th TRW thanks to the local connection to me as I live less than 20 miles away from Bruntingthorpe. As a recce bird I'm saying this beast carry's the camera's in a bomb bay mounted pod. That saved me having to drill out camera ports through the thick resin walls of this kit.
Anigrand resin kit built and painted OOB, but with markings lifted from the aforementioned B-66 sheet.
And lastly a return to a UK subject.
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A Folland Flounder IA serving with the British Pacific Fleet, late 1944 - early 1945.
Yes, this is a Unicraft kit. See! they can be built. With enough patients and elbow grease.
This is a big beast. Its similar in size to a TBM Avenger.
Markings taken from an Xtradecal Barracuda sheet, and the rear turret is from the MR-2 boxing of the Airfix Shackleton.
One thing I will say about the kit. Igor has started using decent resin at long last.
That said it still needed a lot of effort to get it anyware close to what I considered half decent. The vacform canopy and bomb aimers windows were ok but were clearly "smash molded" rather than properly vac formed. The turret part was a basic clear dome and no use what so ever. hence why I "stole" the mid-upper twin 20mil turret from the Shack kit. Igor used to supply resin plugs to allow you to make your own replacement clear parts if needed.
It would be helpfull if he started doing that again.
A worthy collection, Martin!! All well constructed, with a remarkably plausible Mosquito backstory. Well done!!
Ooooer! Especially like the RB-51. Wasn't there an old 50s gung-ho movie starring William Holden that featured the (so-called 'real' world) XB-51?
Quote from: kitbasher on July 04, 2021, 02:22:52 PM
Ooooer! Especially like the RB-51. Wasn't there an old 50s gung-ho movie starring William Holden that featured the (so-called 'real' world) XB-51?
Yes there was, and for the life of me, I can't remember the title right now.
Martin, the Folland Flounder, did it have fix u/c ?
Quote from: kitnut617 on July 04, 2021, 02:49:32 PM
Martin, the Folland Flounder, did it have fix u/c ?
It certainly Did.
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Quote from: kitbasher on July 04, 2021, 02:22:52 PM
Ooooer! Especially like the RB-51. Wasn't there an old 50s gung-ho movie starring William Holden that featured the (so-called 'real' world) XB-51?
Yes there was, and for the life of me, I can't remember the title right now.
Towards the Unknown (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049870/).
Oh I do like them Martin, well done :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Particular kudos for the Flounder :bow: :bow:
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Quote from: scooter on July 04, 2021, 02:40:55 PM
Quote from: kitbasher on July 04, 2021, 02:22:52 PM
Ooooer! Especially like the RB-51. Wasn't there an old 50s gung-ho movie starring William Holden that featured the (so-called 'real' world) XB-51?
Yes there was, and for the life of me, I can't remember the title right now.
Towards the Unknown (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049870/).
Ah yes, the Gilbert XF-120, or something similar.
At the time I'd produced a scrapbook with all the USAF F-, B-, C- numbers etc, and refused to believe they'd have suddenly shot up from F-107 to F-120.
But of course they didn't............. ;)
I like all of those Martin, can't pick a favourite. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Well done. :thumbsup:
The Lancer would be my favourite, with the Mossie coming a close second.
Builds 23-25 are now done. 26 & 27 aren't far behind.............
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Estonian Spitfire mk1. late 1939 - Early 1940.
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New tool Airfix kit that was liberated from my dads stash after he lost the box and decals.
the paint job is Vallejo. which didn't quite turn out how i was hoping. IE RAF dark earth and dark green. you almost have a two tone brown cammo scheme here, not that it shows to well in the photos....Decals are from Kora acquired at the same time as the Lysander set I used earlier in the year.
Now back to Phantoms.
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Phantom FGR-2 of 92 squadron. RAF Bruggen 1976.
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A Toom in the over all NATO green top surfaces scheme worn by the Lightning F-2A's of 19 & 92 sqns in Germany.
I replaced the highspeed silver undersides with the standard light Aircraft Grey. This perticular aircraft did serve with 92sqn in 76 for real, all be it in the normal disruptive cammo scheme.
Fujimi Kit built OOB. Xtra decals for the squadron marking and serials. CJ aerosols rattle can for the NATO green and LAG.
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Phantom FG-1 of the Dutch Navy around 1978.
Yet another Maritime Dutchman from me.
In the 1970's the Dutch acquired Phantoms for naval use despite not having a carrier big enougth to handle the Phantom. An arrangement was made with the Royal Navy to allow the Dutch Tooms to operate off the UK's 3 phantom capable carriers (Ark Royal, Queen Elizabeth & Duke of Edinburgh)
Normally the Dutch would join the carriers for NATO missions. But they did occasionally travel further afield when the odd "fly the flag" deployment traveled well out side of the European theater.
Rumors of Dutch Phantoms being onboard the Queen Elizabeth when she sailed for the Falklands are vehemently denied by both UK and Dutch government's despite Argentinian claims to the contray. Claims seemingly backed up by the sighting of a pair of alleged Dagger kill markings on Phantom 121 when she attended an Airshow in West Germany in 1983. These markings were hurriedly removed when the press found out.
A press release afterwards claimed the marking had been applied as a Joke by British aircrews who where also at the show. Hardly any one believed the press release...........
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Another Fujimi kit. In the standard Dutch Navy fighter scheme of Extra Dark sea Grey over Sky. Dutch decals for the roundels and serials. The kit supplied the rest bar the sneb pods which were lifted from the FGR-2 kit used for the 92sqn build.
A quick group shot of all my Dutch Navy Fighters.....
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There are two more Phantoms to follow. Another 92 sqn bird and a ground pounder.
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Owwwww, the Dutch Phantom is lovely! Very credible too of only they had a (or several) lager aircraftcarriers.
Marvelous! :wub:
Cheers!
David aka 63CPE
Nice work Martin :thumbsup:
yep, excellent! :thumbsup:
All very smart, Oh Glorious Leader. Especially the SHARs. :thumbsup:
The second pair of Phantom's are now done.
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Phantom FGR-2 of 12 sqn RAF.
Based on a real proposal to equip RAF tooms with the Martel for the anti shipping and precision strike roles.
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This one is carrying a pair of TV guided Martel's. one on each inboard pylon and a datalink pod on the centreline, as per the proposal.
Fujimi kit built OOB with the Martel's, datalink pod and the launch rails all coming from the last boxing of the Old tool Airfix Buccaneer.
Decals are a mix of a xtradecal Buccaneer sheet and the kit decals. Paint job was CJ aerosols rattle cans for the most part.
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Phantom FGR-2 of 92 sqn RAF Germany late 1970's/early 1980's.
In the real world before settling on Medium sea grey / barley grey / light Aircraft Grey and small low vis markings as the new air defence paint scheme. The RAF tried out over all Light Aircraft grey with full sized low viz markings. Even the squadron badge was Low viz.
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so, apart from two very subtle tweaks this would be a real world build. But, back date the fin so it doesn't have the RWR pod on top and paint the nose cone in medium sea grey and you have a whiff..............
Fujimi kit built oob with decals from an xtradecal Phantom sheet. Paint would mainly CJ aerosols rattle can light Aircraft grey.
Great Tooms. :thumbsup:
How many Phantoms have you got now Martin ?
Looking good mate :thumbsup:
Quote from: NARSES2 on August 18, 2021, 06:27:03 AM
How many Phantoms have you got now Martin ?
Looking good mate :thumbsup:
More than most Airforces these days.
Quote from: Martin H on August 18, 2021, 10:46:31 AM
Quote from: NARSES2 on August 18, 2021, 06:27:03 AM
How many Phantoms have you got now Martin ?
Looking good mate :thumbsup:
More than most Airforces these days.
That's not difficult :rolleyes:
Gondor
Quote from: Martin H on August 18, 2021, 10:46:31 AM
Quote from: NARSES2 on August 18, 2021, 06:27:03 AM
How many Phantoms have you got now Martin ?
Looking good mate :thumbsup:
More than most Airforces these days.
;D ;D
three more done........
First up another old hanger queen.
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Hawker Hunter T-8M of the Fleet Air Arm circa 1992.
This model was never intended to be finished. It was a test mule. Some of the old hands on here may recall that time there was a feeding frenzy for tandem two seater Hunter conversions. Which led to me borrowing a Maintrack conversion off Kit and cloning it. Jim B smash moulded a load of canopies for them and the frenzy was sated for the price of the materials used. Then Rickshaw approached me and asked if I would be willing to send a few sets of just the resin parts to him down under as he wanted to see if he could make the set fit the then new Revell kit. a few sets headed south and a couple of months later a small package arrived in the swamps of Northamptonshire with a compleated master. This duly fell into a tin of RTV and around a dozen clones were made. A number (I cant remember how many) with canopies from Jim were sent back to Rickshaw. the remaining few are still gathering dust in my loft. The model in the photos was the first one out of the mould and was only built to make sure the resin fitted the Revell FGA 9 kit as intended. And that's how it sat for a good number of years until I got my hands of the vacformer that used to belong to Cambel of Odds & Ordnance. I still had a few of the resin canopy plugs lying around so these were used as I learnt how to work the new toy. I dug out a pair of bang seats from the spares box, cut out one of the new canopies and found the remains of the rest of the Revell Donner kit and got started on getting this old girl finished. I had a nose cone off an airfix Seaharrier F/A2 left over from the Lonewolf Sidetrack harrier conversion so I filed down the nose to match up with said nose cone to make it into a Navy T-8M.
Paint work was CJ aerosols rattle can Extra Dark Sea Grey. The rest was a mix of Lifecolor and vallejo. Marking were from a fantasy print shop maritime Hunter set. The ACMI pod is from one of the more recent hasegawa weapon sets.
Now a pair of 3d prints.
first up a target.
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This is apparently the A41 Turtle assult tank. It was printed by a guy who is selling a number of tank projects on EBay in the UK.
It was printed in transparent resin and looked bleedin awful when it first arrived. I think the maker rushed it a tad as the undersides looked decidedly ropey and the side skirts are warped. A coat of halfords black primer made it look a lot better. the details moulded into it suddenly appeared in view. I broke out a bottle of xyracylrics British Army Bronze green that was hanging around and some gunze metalics to add some color.
Decals are from a revel boxing of the old matchbox Sherman Firefly and the post war reg was from an old BW models set borrowed from my dad.
And now the one you have all been waiting for..........
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The Gannet models Saro P187 heavy interceptor. of 11 squadron, RAF.
this arrived on my door step on the 14th of september along with three other sets from the F155 series of projects.
It was on the workbench withing an hour of arrival and the basic Assembly was all but done by the early evening. The following day I started throwing paint at it. Yes I'm sure I could do a better job of the joins, this was a classic "kid with new toy" moment. I wasn't hanging around!
All the cammo colors were CJ aerosols rattle cans, which sped things up no end. the bulk of the paint work was done by the end of the day with only a bit of patching up here and there needed. It then sat for three days while I was on shift. And today it first got a wash in Johnsons Klear. then on went the decals which came from a number of Lightning sheets. the serial number (XN627) is from a vacant block of 21 numbers so ideal for my purposes. The gloss varnish was still tacky when the photos were taken.
A word to the wise for those getting one of these. It will need nose weight. It sits quite nicely on its main gear with out ballast with the nose gear about 3-4mm off the ground. Using the drainage holes in the back of the nose cone I filled it full of lead shot. That shifted the CofG enougth to put the nose gear onto the deck. Spreading the models weight across all three gear units once the nose was attached.
This thing is huge!
Here's a shot of it with one of my Freightdog SR177 builds for comparison
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It's alreet, I'spose. Mine's definitely not 11 sqn now.
I'm sure we can sort out some space for a Gannet Scale Models mini theme at Telford?
Quote from: The Wooksta! on September 19, 2021, 12:22:15 PM
I'm sure we can sort out some space for a Gannet Scale Models mini theme at Telford?
I dont see that being a problem :thumbsup:
Ah c'mon Martin, all this is just showing off!
Quote from: kitbasher on September 19, 2021, 12:42:36 PM
Ah c'mon Martin, all this is just showing off!
Well thats now 32 builds finished this year. 8 more to go to equal last years 40
Quote from: Martin H on September 19, 2021, 12:26:38 PM
Quote from: The Wooksta! on September 19, 2021, 12:22:15 PM
I'm sure we can sort out some space for a Gannet Scale Models mini theme at Telford?
I dont see that being a problem :thumbsup:
That's as well as the Lockdown Specials theme as well of course. ;D
Love it! Thanks for sharing the build - that's the first one I've seen finished up. I'm still mired in house renovations so don't have a bench and this is a particularly cool vicarious modelling treat. Mind if I reuse your in-progress and finished pictures on my assorted business pages?
Quote from: Lost Cosmonauts on September 19, 2021, 01:35:34 PM
Love it! Thanks for sharing the build - that's the first one I've seen finished up. I'm still mired in house renovations so don't have a bench and this is a particularly cool vicarious modelling treat. Mind if I reuse your in-progress and finished pictures on my assorted business pages?
help yourself mate :thumbsup:
I love your Saro P187 model! :wub:
It inspired me a F-16 derivative - see https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=39083.510
Cracking work Martin :thumbsup:
I particularly like the Turtle. I assume it's 1/72 ?
Quote from: Martin H on September 19, 2021, 12:49:22 PM
Well thats now 32 builds finished this year. 8 more to go to equal last years 40
You've got a key to Dizzy's Tardis, haven't you ? ;D
He's stacking the shipping containers.
Quote from: The Wooksta! on September 20, 2021, 01:13:27 PM
He's stacking the shipping containers.
There's a few on my family's farm up North going cheap for rent if needed. Might be a bit far to travel when you just want that one small part to finish a model though ;)
Quote from: NARSES2 on September 21, 2021, 07:24:15 AM
Quote from: The Wooksta! on September 20, 2021, 01:13:27 PM
He's stacking the shipping containers.
There's a few on my family's farm up North going cheap for rent if needed. Might be a bit far to travel when you just want that one small part to finish a model though ;)
I doubt I'll be renting any more 20 footers any time soon. I'm paying through the nose for this one :o
And the price of a 40 footer is double what I'm paying now. Thinking ahead I checked the pricing when the first couple to 40's were delivered.
Quote from: Martin H on September 21, 2021, 08:26:54 AM
Quote from: NARSES2 on September 21, 2021, 07:24:15 AM
Quote from: The Wooksta! on September 20, 2021, 01:13:27 PM
He's stacking the shipping containers.
There's a few on my family's farm up North going cheap for rent if needed. Might be a bit far to travel when you just want that one small part to finish a model though ;)
I doubt I'll be renting any more 20 footers any time soon. I'm paying through the nose for this one :o
And the price of a 40 footer is double what I'm paying now. Thinking ahead I checked the pricing when the first couple to 40's were delivered.
We rented a 20 footer when we were moving house as we had to get out of the old house because it was already sold, but with the deal bogging down on the new place we didn't know how long we would be looking for an alternative new home. So we bought the container outright as it only cost the same as 9 months rent. The container comes in very handy now ---
But you have to have somewhere to put it...................
Quote from: PR19_Kit on September 21, 2021, 01:30:58 PM
But you have to have somewhere to put it...................
There have been a few jokes in the family about me parking one or two 20 footers in the back garden. Much to mums displeasure..........................
A few years ago they were giving 20 footers away. My brother has a couple on the farm, bit battered but do there job
AIU the price of containers has gone through the roof over the last 2 years, Covid changed transport patterns which changed where containers ended up and disrupted the flow of empty containers back to China.
Quote from: Hobbes on September 22, 2021, 02:29:14 AM
AIU the price of containers has gone through the roof over the last 2 years, Covid changed transport patterns which changed where containers ended up and disrupted the flow of empty containers back to China.
Same with Project National Sword, the Chinese government clamped down on imports of contaminated materials and badly run recycling centres which blocked the import of many wastes to China for recycling. Lots of the containers came to the West with consumer goods and went back with bundled recyclable plastic but now there is nothing to go back with.
https://resource.co/article/china-starts-national-sword-campaign-target-foreign-waste-smuggling-11689
We once had use of a 40' container (known as The Bunker) which had previously been used by a gun club. We found it had a false wall at the back. The resulting secret compartment was however empty.
Quote from: zenrat on September 22, 2021, 04:21:59 AM
We once had use of a 40' container (known as The Bunker) which had previously been used by a gun club. We found it had a false wall at the back. The resulting secret compartment was however empty.
Pretty disappointing, eh? ;)
Quote from: Pellson on September 22, 2021, 05:02:57 AM
Quote from: zenrat on September 22, 2021, 04:21:59 AM
We once had use of a 40' container (known as The Bunker) which had previously been used by a gun club. We found it had a false wall at the back. The resulting secret compartment was however empty.
Pretty disappointing, eh? ;)
Absolutely. You find it, you start imagining all sort of things you'll find in there and then...
Quote from: PR19_Kit on September 21, 2021, 01:30:58 PM
But you have to have somewhere to put it...................
Yes you're absolutely right --- we have nearly 5 acres to park it in ;D
First three of the new year done. One whiff, One cancelled Project and one real.
First the whiff. the Ossies are gonna love this one...........
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A transavia Skytruck VP-FAJ serving with FIGAS (Falkland Islands Government Air Service) around 1983.
The small FIGAS Islander fleet was destroyed during the 1982 conflict and to speed up getting the service back up and running post war the net for replacements was cast far and wide as Islanders were in high demand and therefore not so easy to replace like for like.
A pair of Skytrucks were found lurking in an old hanger someware in the middle of noware by a roving UK air attache touring the outback while on leave from the UK embassy in Canberra. Knowing that the foreign office had issued a request for embassies world wide to keep an eye out for potential replacements the presence of these two odd balls was passed up the line. The price was found to be reasonable and both airframes were in good condition just needing a basic service to get them back in the air. They were flown down to the coast to be loaded as deck cargo onto RFA Sir Bedivere for shipment to Port Stanley. On arrival they were painted in the bright High visibility scheme used on the two captured helicopters pressed into FIGAS service. Officially they were tasked with survey/mapping work but spent most of their time on the Milk runs out to the various settlements dotted around the islands. VP-FAJ even found itself spending a few months on loan to the British Antarctic Survey filling in while their Twin otter was back in the UK for heavy maintenance. After a few years new Islanders were sourced and duely replaced the two "trucks" as the locals called them. One was put on display at the old Port Stanley airport but was scrapped 7-8 later as is was suffering from the local climate. The other appears to have disapeared, no one seems to know what happened to it after retirement. Rumor has it it found use as a hen house at a homestead south of goose green.........despite no record of it sale out of service being found.
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This is a sharkit resin kit built oob. Paintjob is xtracylic Red Arrows Red and the reg and titles are from a South Atlantic sheet from S&M Decals.
Now the project cancelled.....
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The gannet Models AW58. This has been left bare in terms of markings as it will be joining the AW projects collection at the Midland Air Museum. Joining the collections company made wooden display models and at least two of Thorvics scratchbuilds........
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And here is is with the 3rd model finished as a size comparison.
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Yes its a Matchbox F-101F Voodoo built 100% OOB. This came about while looking for a new build to start back in late November. I decided to build a type that Ive never built before. And the Matchbox Voodoo fell into the category. I went one step further, I had a few of these knocking around so I'm doing two more. One of each option in the original boxing of the kit. So theres a USAF RF-101B is the SEA scheme and an RCAF CF-101B on the way as well. The choice of type was aided by the fact I have good access to a 1/1 scale F model Voodoo at MAM up the road at Coventry Airport.
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All 3 look great (but I'm very chuffed with how nicely the AW.58 has turned out and that it'll become a museum exhibit) - well done!
Mind if I reuse that image again in the customer build galleries elsewhere?
LOVE the Skytruck, and the AW58 looks AWESOME! :thumbsup:
The AW58 could possibly the most swept aircraft ever! :o
You can see hints of the PR19 in there too......... ;)
Quote from: Lost Cosmonauts on January 28, 2022, 01:18:08 PM
All 3 look great (but I'm very chuffed with how nicely the AW.58 has turned out and that it'll become a museum exhibit) - well done!
Mind if I reuse that image again in the customer build galleries elsewhere?
Feel Free :thumbsup:
The Skytruck is without a doubt the absolute Dogs B*&^%$£s. :thumbsup:
Fantastic Martin. :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
A most impressive and believable Skytruck.
Beauty little 3some! :thumbsup:
Well done :thumbsup:
Quote from: Martin H on January 28, 2022, 01:02:26 PM
First the whiff. the Ossies are gonna love this one...........
The twin-boom lover is also loving your pink Skytruck, thanks for having made it! :thumbsup: :wub:
Top builds, Martin :thumbsup: thanks for sharing 👍
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Nice builds Martin, particularly like the Skytruck :thumbsup:
As an aside you may want to peruse the March edition of Airfix Mag (it dropped through my letterbox this morning). They've got Coventry and Warwick's featured in their Club Scene piece but have cocked up some of the contact details. Apparently you meet on Dartmoor ! So unless you've all been sent down they've cocked it ;D
Martin, does the AW58 have anything to do with the Hans Multhopp designed RAE Transonic Research Aircraft, it looks a lot like it
Quote from: kitnut617 on January 29, 2022, 06:43:42 AM
Martin, does the AW58 have anything to do with the Hans Multhopp designed RAE Transonic Research Aircraft, it looks a lot like it
In short. No idea
Quote from: kitnut617 on January 29, 2022, 06:43:42 AM
Martin, does the AW58 have anything to do with the Hans Multhopp designed RAE Transonic Research Aircraft, it looks a lot like it
I based it and the delta on this article from the Aviation Historian magazine
https://m.facebook.com/TheAviationHistorian/photos/a.373230642754786/2670939556317205/?type=3&source=57
Quote from: NARSES2 on January 29, 2022, 05:59:58 AM
Nice builds Martin, particularly like the Skytruck :thumbsup:
As an aside you may want to peruse the March edition of Airfix Mag (it dropped through my letterbox this morning). They've got Coventry and Warwick's featured in their Club Scene piece but have cocked up some of the contact details. Apparently you meet on Dartmoor ! So unless you've all been sent down they've cocked it ;D
I know some of the lads might look like they have escaped from dartmoor but not knowing their geography is unforgivable as far as the mag staff are concerned
Nice stuff but I am really interested in how the build went on the Skytruck as I have been thinking about grabbing one for myself?
Quote from: philp on January 29, 2022, 01:04:11 PM
Nice stuff but I am really interested in how the build went on the Skytruck as I have been thinking about grabbing one for myself?
It was quite straight forward to build.
Not much room for nose weight thou. This thing will tail sit at the slightest excuse.....
Quote from: Martin H on January 29, 2022, 10:55:33 PM
Not much room for nose weight thou. This thing will tail sit at the slightest excuse.....
Ahem, making it a tail-sitter would have been very whif... ;)
This year is proving to be a more sedate year for me build wise.
2022 build number 5 (the 2nd whiff of the year) coming up
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The Bae Hawk T-2, of 63 sqn/1 TWU based at RAF Brawdy around the early 1990's
This is The new Freightdog Hawk T-2 conversion using the Revell Hawk T-1 as the base kit. Built as per Colin's instruction sheet.
for those also doing this conversion. Be advised! its a tail sitter regardless of how much ballast you cram in. I added a discrete wire prop just behind the gun pod to counter the issue.
Paint job is the NATO green over Litchen green scheme worn by the RAF's harrier GR-5's. Decals are for a camouflaged Hawk off an Xtradecal Hawk set. Drop tanks and gun pod from the base kit, the practice bomb carriers are home cast items I happened to have lying around. I have other plans for the Sabre missiles that came with the conversion.
I like it :thumbsup:
That looks really good in 'GR5 Green' OGL . :thumbsup:
I've always wondered why the RAF didn't use that colour more often, it suited the tactical environment well.
Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 30, 2022, 02:28:54 PM
That looks really good in 'GR5 Green' OGL . :thumbsup:
It does indeed :thumbsup:
Ok its been near on 4 months since my last build was finished.
Its been a rather busy time with work. Having been heavily short staffed for more than a year, we worked with our management to reorganise the site compleatly. Dispite all that I did manage to sneak away for a week to the south coast for some RnR...........
Things have started to settle down a bit now. So I may get some loft time again.
Any way ive manged to get a few builds done. Mostly paint jobs but one has had some surgery. So 1 chopper and 3 trainers coming up.
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Westland WS365 Ocelot AH-1 of the Commando Brigade Air Squadron, operating off HMS (Formaly RFA) Argus in the Med around about now.
A dedicated scout/light attack chopper for Royal Marine use based of the WS365 Dolphin. the forth Ango-French helicopter project. (Hint: there maybe more Dolphins to follow)
The kit is the Dreammodels Z19 Chinese army attack chopper, with a suitable repaint and rearmament to UK specs. Ie Brimstones and RP pods.
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BAE Hawk T-1N of the Fleet Air Arm circa 1988. 10 Hawk T-1's were transfered to the navy from RAF stocks , Officaly used by FRADU but normaly found being used by desk jockies to keep up their flying hours at Yeovilton. They were repainted in the Navy's version of the standard RAF trainer scheme of the time with the red replaced by roundle blue.
Italeri Kit that i aquired 2nd hand ages ago. mix of hataka, lifecolor and rattle cans for the paint job Decals robbed from an xtra decal hawk sheet for an over all gloss black FRADU Hawk from the last few years.
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Hawkersiddley Dominie T-1. Operated as a Navigation trainer by the Fleet Air Arm. Based at Culdrose in the 1980's. Again ex RAF stocks handed over to the Navy and used in place of the Jetstreams they realy had.
Yee Oldee Airfix kit built OOB. with asuitable color swap for the fish heads. Decals from the kit with a few naval additions from my decal stash.
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Hawkersiddley Dominie T-2 Weapon systems trainer. Orginaly used as trainers for the Firestreak missile system used on the Seavixen's. These later found other uses once the firestreak was retired from service. A few went to the RAe for use as testbeds, but most of the 12 built wound up with FRADU normaly used to play bad guys for the ships of the fleet to practice their anti air skills on. This one is lugging a pair of ALQ188 jammer pods (as used by FR aviation/Cobham Falcon 20 in real life) each was a differnt version to make thing more awkward for the intended customer. They also retained their old radar sets to help confuse the "target" even more.
Airfix Kit again. This time with the Freightdog Weapon system trainer conversion. Hence the dity great hooter of a nose. THe ALQ188 pods , one came from a Hasegawa weapon set the other was a model aliance part. Paint job was overall Dark Sea Grey from a rattle can. with halfords Audi Aluminium for the shiny bits. Decals again from the kit with the roundles reolaced by xtra decal replacements and suitable naval odds and sods from the decal stash
all 4 models were started in May. Ive tinkered around here and there with them as and when ive had a chance. the heat of the last few weeks didnt help either as it was way to warm in the loft for more than fleeting visits.
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Magic stuff OGL, LOVE that Dominie T2. :wub: :thumbsup:
Quote from: PR19_Kit on August 19, 2022, 09:46:20 AM
Magic stuff OGL, LOVE that Dominie T2. :wub: :thumbsup:
What Kit says, Martin 👍
I've got the conversion in the stash ready to build at some point (my idea for it dovetails nicely with OGL's) but I could have sworn the radome wasn't THAT pointy!
Lovely Dominies Martin, I had thought about using the Navy colours too (blue stripe one), for my P.1154 nose conversion after looking at the M&E Astazou Jetstream conversion's decal sheet.
That is a very believable and remarkably well executed offering.
Particularly like the Ocelot Martin :thumbsup:
Pity the Weapons Trainer Dominie set is not available from Colin, should be easy enough to scratch a suitable noe for a different version if I wanted. As usual, simple yet efective conversions Martin :thumbsup:
Gondor
I like the Ocelot a lot. I wasn't aware that the Z-19 "borrows" Dauphin elements, but it makes pretty sense. An Aéronavale attack helicopter might have been even more plausible with this basis!
Quote from: Dizzyfugu on August 23, 2022, 06:37:43 AMI like the Ocelot a lot. I wasn't aware that the Z-19 "borrows" Dauphin elements, but it makes pretty sense. An Aéronavale attack helicopter might have been even more plausible with this basis!
You only have to look at the tail section and the engine deck to see where they came from. And seeing as China produces the Dauphin under licence.........Its fair to say thay are going to milk the design for all its worth.
Aircraft recogntion was "my thing" when I was a cadet back in the 80's. It was the sort of detail you were expected to notice, from a photos with a smudge for an aircraft on it with only 3-4 seconds to view the image.
Love the Hawk and Dominie builds. Currently making an Airfix Hawk, really wish I'd done the T.2 conversion using this rather than the Revell one!
Colin
Love those Martin, I particularly like the FAA hawk and Dominie. Blue looks good on them.
Red Arrows could do with using armed Hawks after the Bank Holidays shenanigans :angel:
Red Arrows Bird Strike (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-62712450)
:angel:
12 bore might be more practical Mossie ;)
There's a whiff idea, modification to the gun pod. :thumbsup:
Quote from: Mossie on August 31, 2022, 10:37:25 AMThere's a whiff idea, modification to the gun pod. :thumbsup:
Use a Punt Gun instead :wacko:
Gondor
Given the state of the public finances, the RAF would be lucky if the can lease some spud guns...
Quote from: Gondor on August 31, 2022, 10:44:33 AMQuote from: Mossie on August 31, 2022, 10:37:25 AMThere's a whiff idea, modification to the gun pod. :thumbsup:
Use a Punt Gun instead :wacko:
Gondor
Fire that and you'd end up going backwards ;D
Quote from: NARSES2 on September 01, 2022, 06:24:05 AMQuote from: Gondor on August 31, 2022, 10:44:33 AMQuote from: Mossie on August 31, 2022, 10:37:25 AMThere's a whiff idea, modification to the gun pod. :thumbsup:
Use a Punt Gun instead :wacko:
Gondor
Fire that and you'd end up going backwards ;D
If you avoid the bird stike it's a result :thumbsup:
Its been a very slow year build wise compared to 2020 and 2021. However. 3 coming up.
1 proper build and two restorations from the collection of the late Venrable Mike McEvoy.
First the build.
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A Royal Navt F/A-18E Super Hornet (Hornet F/A mk-5) of 803NAS fleet air arm on board HMS Duke of Edinburgh (CVA02) around 2012.
Italeri Kit which looks great in the box. But was a bit of a pig to build. Armament (4 of each, AMRAAM, ASRAM and Meteor) from various Hasegawa weapon sets. Decals from my decal stash. Paint job is Tamiya Medium sea grey rattle can and a touch of Gunze Dark sea Grey for the nose cone.
Why 803? You might beable to see the 803 sqn hornet badge just under the cockpit. 803's badge has been a Hornet for ages but was last seen on their Seahawks before being dropped when they moved onto the Buccaneer.
The next two now. These were both from the Mike McEvoy collection. Both are amoung those of Mike's builds that are now part of the SIG's collection.
First up was a "quick & dirty" preservation job. Ie. damaged decals were replaced like for like and then the whole thing was varnished and matt coated to keep it as Mike finished it. Warts and all!
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Its a Supermarine 559 Interceptor. One of four 559 builds Mike turned out. Its the Fantastic Plastic kit.
Ive retained two of the four as part of the SIG's collection, The other two have been rehomed. The second example is waiting its date on my workbench, its decals are in good nick but its in need of one hell of a clean before it meets Johnsons Klear and a matt coat. Theres a bit of a spoiler alert for the next one to the left of the photo.........
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No prizes for guessing what it is. Its the Planet models kit of the Dornier 31. This was a compleat rebuild from the ground up. Its fair to say it wasnt one of Mikes best but he was proud of it.
It came to me in a bit of a sorry state, time and Mike Storage meathods hadnt been kind to this old girl.
What follows are a few photos of the work in progress to bring this one back to life.
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AS it came out of its storage box. Doesnt look to bad here, but pay close attention to the under carrage. They were bent to hell and back.
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Especialy the nose gear!
Thankfully after checking my own unbuilt Planet models kit of the type It turns out the U/c legs are white metal. That made straitning them out a lot easier.
It was also missing all bar two u/c doors, my own kit came to the rescue again by giving me the parts to clone in resin as replacements. My kit also provided a repacement set of vacform cockpit canopy parts thanks to there being 2 sets included in the kit. Mike was a free hand painter and didnt tend to mask off his canopies. And thanks to using enamale paint, it ment the originals were beyound my abilities to save.
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To start with the model was taken apart, a job made easier thanks to Mike being very sparing in his use of superglue when he built it. This photo shows it under reassembly. The ballast was removed which was most likely the cause of the u/c nose leg buckelling to the degree it did. It was replaced with half the weight of the original ballast with lead shot.
Time to throw paint at it next.
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Over all Halfords black as a primer. it ended up with 3-4 coats of black as is the way with PSR.
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Then a few coats a Halfords Nissan Blaze Silver before it got its u/c fitted back in.
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and finaly ready for a few coats of Klear before the decals go on.
And finaly decal time, for the most part taken from a 1/144th Revell E-3 kit. The size was ideal.
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Followed by another coat of Klear to seal the decals in then a bast of rattle can Vallejo semi-Matt varnish. Once all that was dry the windows were filled with clear drying pva.
I went for NATO marking as opposed to MIke's original Tripartite squadron markings as the Do31 was born from a NATO requirement. Plus I was lacking in Tripartite sqnd markings, with out robbing from a now rare Aadvark models Hawker Kestral kit that hides deep in my stash.
All in all, it took around 2 months on and off to get this bird back to show condition. Telford Here she comes!
Nice work on the Do 31 Martin :thumbsup:
I may get one as a Christmas present to myself
Gondor
Very nice work
:thumbsup:
Nice restoration Martin. :thumbsup:
Good to see Mike's work living on, well done OGL. :thumbsup:
And the Hornet looks good too, even though I don't really like Hornets................the jet ones anyway.
Excellent work, especially on the Dornier Martin :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
It's really good to see Mike's legacy in safe hands :bow:
I'll be looking at restoring one of the other 559s at some point within the next 6 months, along with the 1121.
Nice work with each, Martin, and - as others have said - good to see Mike's builds being restored.
Maybe add pics of both to the Mike McEvoy Tribute Build thread?
I agree. It must be on display next week too.
Its been quite a while since I last finished a build. Looks like im going through an extended fallow period since over dosing on builds in 2020 and 2021.
So anyway, heres my first build of the year to reach compleation.
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This is the AMP kit of the Sanger Silver bird "anti podal Bomber"built OOB, with the only additions being the swastikas.
Paint job was mostly Halfords rattle cans for the satin black and Audi aluminium the rest was mosly Lifecolor and/or Gunze.
The last pic has a Fw-190-D15 to show the size of this thing. Its not as big as it looks in the various artwork that does the rounds.
Looking good Martin, lovely finish that's for sure :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Interesting size comparison with the 190, must admit I thought it was far larger. Proves the old adage that you learn something new every day :thumbsup:
Not a fan of the Wunderwaffe but you've done an excellent job, there, Martin! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Very smart, OGL :thumbsup:
You're right, much smaller than box art suggests.
Like the post-war Federal Germany FW190D-15. It's a concept that would look equally good in an NMF finish.
I very nearly bought a Takom Silbervogel, then put it on my Christmas list but missed out. How's the AMP kit to build? It definitely looks good built up.
It's alreet, I s'pose, but captured markings would look so much better.
It does look good, but I do have to agree with the Wooksta/Lee about the captured markings, but which ones. Russian, Americsn, British. The latter with Winkle brown at the controls ?
French. ;)
If I'd got hold of one, I'd envisioned it in US markings. Possibly in a diorama of some kind. Saying that, French markings are viable as Sänger worked with them post war and if the will was there, maybe they could have built it in the 50's.
Fame at last Martin ?
April's Phoenix Scale Aviation Modelling has a photo of your 73 Sqd Tucano on the IPMS pages. Taken at Nantwich, looks very good mate :thumbsup:
Quote from: Mossie on March 30, 2023, 11:17:06 AMI very nearly bought a Takom Silbervogel, then put it on my Christmas list but missed out. How's the AMP kit to build? It definitely looks good built up.
For what is to all intents a short run kit, its not bad at all, not much if any in the way of locating pins and theres a lot of butt joins involved in the assembly.
I made a few mistakes in the contruction here and there, hopefully most are hidden out of view. But with a steady hand and plenty of time its can make a decent build.
For a possible comparison build Im toying with digging out one of the takon pair I picked up from Hannants at SMW last year.
For the markings choice, I went with OOB because I liked the scheme.
I don't have a problem with the choice despite my family's history. For those who don't know, there was a German Jewish branch to my paternal grand mothers family that disappeared between the mid 1930's and 1945.
We have no idea what realy happened to them. But no trace of any of them post war has been found yet. Its a good bet a concentration camp was involved though.
As an Irony, My Paternal Grand father worked for Kodak all his working life, even returning to his own desk during the war once he was in uniform. He was involved in processing the film footage of the liberation of Belson.
I have no issue with modern Germans, I lived in west Germany for 4 years in the 70's while dad was a combat engineer with the BAOR. I certainly don't blame them for what went on between 1933 and 45.
I also have no issue with using historically correct markings. To my mind hiding certain symbols because of their part in history is to deny history itself. To butcher a well known quote. "If we fail to learn from history's mistakes, we are damned to repeat them."
Of course. Others are entitled to disagree with my point of view. If we all slavishly followed the same view point we would be no better than the
<insert your prefered historical boogey man here> were.
I agree with your view
I would agree with your view Martin, although captured markings do also add interest. I have struggled with my conscience to do Luftwaffe what-if items in my range, it does make me a bit uncomfortable about just how popular they are, but then again so does German WWII armor. Your AMP model looks great, I haven't looked at the Takom one but the CAD I've seen shows Space Shuttle style tiles on the underside, which is a bit iffy.
Colin
Quote from: Freightdog862 on March 31, 2023, 12:08:03 PMhaven't looked at the Takom one but the CAD I've seen shows Space Shuttle style tiles on the underside, which is a bit iffy.
Hmm tiles? That might just fit one post war idea thats been floating around my head since picking up the takom kits. I can confirm that there are no moulded on tiles on the AMP kit.
Quote from: Freightdog862 on March 31, 2023, 12:08:03 PMYour AMP model looks great, I haven't looked at the Takom one but the CAD I've seen shows Space Shuttle style tiles on the underside, which is a bit iffy.
Don't you mean "whiffy", Colin? :wacko:
I'm totally opposed to the current "Das Reich ist das Beste!" BS but I do believe that genuine period markings are appropriate for period aircraft/armour/ships/etc., even whifs.
My father, who lived in an occupied country & fought the Nazi Germans as a resistance fighter, was opposed to the banning of the swastika (1) because it wasn't a purely Nazi device &, actually, had/has peaceful connotations in other cultures, and (2) because banning something always makes it more interesting to various fringe elements, hence the "Das Reich ist das Beste!" BS proponents.
I go along with him, he was a much smarter man than I.
I agree with you Guy .. yeah I'm half German but that's got nothing to do with this at all neither has it got anything to do with the fact my mum had family who fought against the Allies in WW2 ..dad to come to think of it but this is purely an accuracy thing for me .
If it's German and from WW2 it's gonna have the right markings .
My dad lost a large amount of family in the war to the Allies from bombing..that didn't stop him making me a Spitfire and a Hurricane when I was a kid complete with British markings.
Like you said mate the swastika is a symbol and it's been around for probably over a thousand years and it's been used by a heap of different peoples including the Japanese..Celts..Jews..Christians..Hindus even the Aztecs used their version of it and there's more still.
The Germans took it as their symbol when in fact they just stole it from many other users who used it for centuries before.
Bleedin ell! has it realy been 5 months since my last build?
Ok most of the following doesnt realy belong here. But its here as proof I havent stopped building.
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Colonial Landrams from the original Battle star Galactica film/pilot episode.
These are 1/72nd 3d printed kits from Cozmic scale models. Both built OOB, but are awaiting what few decals they need.
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72nd scale CVR(T) Sabre from Cromwell models. The Sabre is a Scimitar fitted with the slightly smaller Turret from retired CVR(W) Fox armored cars.
Built OOB and painted with Tamiya rattle can for the green and Lifecolor for the black and every thing else.
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again 72nd scale. Ajax. the long overdue replacement for the CVR(T)'s. If they can get the damn things to work properly. This could end up as a canceled project if HMG cans it.
Again a Cromwell kit. Built OOB. And also a mix of Tamiya and life color for the paint job.
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3d printed 72nd scale Trojan armored Engineer vehicle from Badger 3d creations. Ment realy for wargaming but looks the part. This consisted of 5 parts for assembly.
Again a mix of Tamiya and lifecolor for the paint job
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Another badger 3d creations model. This time the Terrier Combat Engineer tractor. All be it this one is a compleat single part print.
Paint job as per the Trojan.
Last of the targets......
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This is the Hippo BARV. This is what replaced the venrable Centurion BARV's. Based on a converted Leopard 1A5 hull. 8 of these beasts where built. 4 for the UK and 4 for the Dutch.
Another 3d print but this time from a chap in Poland I found on Etsy. Only 3 parts to assemble for this one. Paint work as per the Trojan and Terrier.
And now for something a little different................
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The Takom 72nd scale Iowa class 16inch forward gun Turret. With turned steel aftermarket gun tubes from an outfit I found on ebay from China.
This thing was a paint magnet. The lighter haze grey was tamiya rattle can the rest was Gunze, and it soaked up a shed load of paint. There should be a fair bit of etch brass on this as well, but I just couldnt get it to work. So gave up and called it quits. otherwise a fairly easy build.........
And finaly to go with the Iowa class theme.
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Takom 72nd scale 5inch/38 dual purpose mount. These are the secondary battery for the Iowa's and also the main gun armament on many mid-late war US navy Destroyers.
This kit was given to me by Geoff B (AKA Throvic on here) as it came as an extra in the Takom 1/700 scale Fletcher class Destroyer. Knowing I had the 16inch turret he felt I could give it a worthy home.
Only one shade of paint on this. Over all Tamiya Haze Grey.
Nice! In particular the vehicles, methinks! :thumbsup:
Despite being in the "wrong scale" for armour ... :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Progress is progress Martin :thumbsup:
You built most of them at Freshwater :mellow:
Nice to see them all finished, but you should really pose the Landrams next to Viper for context (well you have palpitaions if i mention the Colonial shuttle kit which carried them :o )
Okie dokie, two more targets. Both are 3d prints and still in 72nd scale.
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This is the German/American MBT-70 in West German markings. Model from Badger Creations. Paint work Tamiya Modern Olive Drab with a mix of life color, Gunze and velljo for the rest.
Decals robed from a mix of revell 72nd scale post war german armor kits.
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Next up a real odd ball.
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This is the T10 Sherman mine roller. A project that never made it into service.
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Model from PlayMoreIt3D (same guy as the Hippo BARV) on Etsy. Same basic paint work as the MBT-70 with the decals robbed from an Airfix sherman, whose tooling is likely a lot older than I am.
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Never seen one of the T10s in 1/72 before... bizarre thing.
Hi Martin, the images from your last two posts don't appear to be coming up? Says they can't be found :-\
I'm seeing them. :unsure:
Reminds me of the collection at Woolwich before they were moved due to a housing project.
Like those. Could do with the T10 to sort out my lumpy lawn.
Quote from: Mossie on September 17, 2023, 11:51:02 AMLike those. Could do with the T10 to sort out my lumpy lawn.
Same here, tho' more so tilling the moss and what grass we have into the soil for fresh planting of native plants
Still doing small scale targets............
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The FV4202 Medium tank No2. aka the 40-ton Centurion.
A test bed developed by Leyland Motors around 1955-56.
It helped in developing what ended up as the Chieftain.
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A little 3d print I found on ebay. various acyilc paints for the paint job.
And now bang upto date.
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The Genral Dynamics Abrams X concept demonstrator.
This thing has just about every "new"idea in tank warfare added. including a crewless Turret. The 3 man crew all sit in the front hull with the commander and the gunner sitting either side of the driver.
The real thing is in a snazy pale grey and black scheme, I opted for what it might look like as an in service machine. Which is highly unlikely to happen. This thing must have been at least twice what an M1A2, or the upcoming M1A3 are likely to cost per unit.
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This is a Cromwell resin kit. the hardest part to build was the weapon station ontop of the turret..........All 5 parts of it :thumbsup:
Hataka paints for the most part here.
The thing I wonder about with Crewless anything is, what happens if something very simple goes wrong? If you have space to fit someone inside that turret to fix a breakdown then why move them out of there in the first place other than potential crew safety? If there is no room to fit someone inside, how the heck is anyone going to fix it and where are they going to fix it and how much of a workshop will they need?
As you said Martin, probably never going to enter production, just a "what we can do" demonstrator.
Gondor
Quote from: Martin H on October 19, 2023, 09:38:43 AMStill doing small scale targets............
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The FV4202 Medium tank No2. aka the 40-ton Centurion.
A test bed developed by Leyland Motors around 1955-56.
It helped in developing what ended up as the Chieftain.
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A little 3d print I found on ebay. various acyilc paints for the paint job.
And now bang upto date.
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The Genral Dynamics Abrams X concept demonstrator.
This thing has just about every "new"idea in tank warfare added. including a crewless Turret. The 3 man crew all sit in the front hull with the commander and the gunner sitting either side of the driver.
The real thing is in a snazy pale grey and black scheme, I opted for what it might look like as an in service machine. Which is highly unlikely to happen. This thing must have been at least twice what an M1A2, or the upcoming M1A3 are likely to cost per unit.
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This is a Cromwell resin kit. the hardest part to build was the weapon station ontop of the turret..........All 5 parts of it :thumbsup:
Hataka paints for the most part here.
Hya Martin,
I have been looking at Cromwell armour kits and there are several that I would like, only peoblem being I have read the owner is very difficult to do business with. What's the script please?
Quote from: chrisonord on October 19, 2023, 01:08:18 PMHya Martin,
I have been looking at Cromwell armour kits and there are several that I would like, only peoblem being I have read the owner is very difficult to do business with. What's the script please?
In short I dont deal with Gordon directly. I get them as and when they appear via AMS. A Glasgow based trader who appears to have gained his trust,
Click Here (https://www.ams-paints-and-accessories.co.uk/) for their web site. They only have a limited number in stock at any one time, and its first come first served.
Ive been dealing with them for over a year now, and have no complaints at all.
Quote from: Martin H on October 19, 2023, 03:41:46 PMQuote from: chrisonord on October 19, 2023, 01:08:18 PMHya Martin,
I have been looking at Cromwell armour kits and there are several that I would like, only peoblem being I have read the owner is very difficult to do business with. What's the script please?
In short I dont deal with Gordon directly. I get them as and when they appear via AMS. A Glasgow based trader who appears to have gained his trust,
Click Here (https://www.ams-paints-and-accessories.co.uk/) for their web site. They only have a limited number in stock at any one time, and its first come first served.
Ive been dealing with them for over a year now, and have no complaints at all.
Thanks Martin, much appreciated. I will give the website a coat of looking at.
I like the look of that FV4202 :thumbsup:
Nice work there Martin
Three Post Telford reveals. All were finished at least a week before the show, as I followed by usual pre Telford practice of stopping all build activity in the week before the show.....avoids any unnessasry stress or risk to my blood preasure level.
First up a pair of 3d printed American Targets in 1/72nd.
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On the left is the AE phase 1 heavy tank concept from the 1950s. and on the right is the T54 E-1 heavy tank prototype from the late 50's / early 60's
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The AE Phase 1 came from a German maker on Etsy. And it is easliy one of the best quality 3d prints ive seen so far. this thing was a pleasure to build up. Yes it is a kit.
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The T54 came from a Chinese outfit called S & S models off Ebay.com. This was also a kit, but not as many parts as the AE.
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Both were painted using Tamiya rattle can for the Olive drab, and decals were robbed from an ECSI M48 for the AE and an ESCI/Italeri M60 for the T54.
And finaly what is only the 2nd aircraft I have built this year.
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This a Supermarine Spitfire Courier. a resin conversion mastered by our own TSRjoe. He calls it the Scarab.
Its made to fit the old tool Airfix Spitfire mk1 kit, however. I used a new tool Airfix kit as thats what I had in the stash. It does fit with a little fettling of both the rsein and doner kit.
I came back from the Glasgow show with the first two out of the mould. And with SMW in mind its jumped the to the top of the build list.
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The canopy was vac formed by me on the machine I aquired from Cambell several moons ago (he of odds and Ordnance fame) as joe provided a suitable plug for the canopy.
The rest came from the doner kit bar the prop which was robbed from an old tool Airfix Tigermoth..
Paint was a mix of of gunze (upper surfaces) and vallaio (trainer yellow). Decals from the doner kit.
You may notice that the cockpit is bare on this one. That was purly to get this done and dusted as soon as possible. Joe tells me follow up casts will have at least seats included.
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My next Scarab (when I get around to it) will likely be a post war Civil bird.
I'm planning something Navy and Acklington for mine.
Nice builds Martin :thumbsup:
The Scarab looks like a supercharged Percival Prentice, but smarter! :thumbsup:
What's the idea with the twin sets of tracks on the AE tank?
Some great work in the smaller scales Martin ! The targets are really something. I'm a big fan of the Centurion and Chieftan, so welcome any insight into their little known development aspects. And thanks for the heads up on the makers, something to have a look at.
Want a Scarab!
It's a well-known fact that a pair of Scarabs wwere operated by The King's Flight from 1947 to 1952.
Quote from: kitbasher on November 15, 2023, 06:27:30 AMIt's a well-known fact that a pair of Scarabs wwere operated by The King's Flight from 1947 to 1952.
.....in the glorious blue/red scheme! :wub: :wub:
Nice set of tanks again. 3D is really starting to take off, I'll look out for them.
Quote from: PR19_Kit on November 15, 2023, 06:31:40 AMQuote from: kitbasher on November 15, 2023, 06:27:30 AMIt's a well-known fact that a pair of Scarabs wwere operated by The King's Flight from 1947 to 1952.
.....in the glorious blue/red scheme! :wub: :wub:
Indeed. As was the similar pre-WW2 de Havilland Comet Moth once owned by the then Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII then Duke of Windsor) when I get round to it!
Still on the 1/72nd Targets. I appear to have hit apon a rich seam of ideas and projects concerning them, mainly thanks to various 3d printed ranges I have unearthed online.
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The ill fated M247 Sgt York Anti aircraft gun system. a 1980's M60 based project that just wouldnt work as intended. With modern electronics it probaly would work now.
This is a 3d print from China from one of several sellers on ebay.com (dont bother looking on ebay.co.uk, you wont find them)
Tamiya rattle can for the olive drab and decals robbed from yet another Esci M48.
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M1 TTB Abrams. That stands for Technology Test Bed. Another Chinese 3d print.
This thing was an early(ish) "what can we do with the M1?" A 1st generation crewless turret. It was built and tested but not taken any further. The single example is preserved at the cavelry and Armor museum at Fort Benning.
Again Tamiya rattle can for the drab. But unlike the sgt York no klear coat for decals, as there arnt any on this one. Hence why it looks a slightly differnt shade of OD.
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The sgt York and the M1 TTB togeather.
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British Army (2nd Royal tank regiment) Challenger 1 fitted with the experimental Falcon 2 crewless Turret. well, almost crewless. the Commander and Gunner sit inside the turret basket with the gun and auto loader system between them.
The Falcon turret project was intended for the Jordainian Army to upgrade the then new ex Brtitish army Challys. Or as they are known in Jordan, the Al Hussain. The turret was tested both in the UK and Jordan, but not carried forward by the Jordainains due to costs. There was a previous Falcon 1 as well, that was also tested on the Chally and also on old Jordainian Centurions which are known localy as the Tarqic.
Revell Chally 1 built and painted OOB, with the Turret coming from Shapeways. It wasnt cheap!
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Heres the Chally with two real world builds. Both are 3d prints the Centurion BARV came from Poland via Etsy and the Ferret is from a UK trader on ebay.
there are another seven 3d printed targets on the bench, mainly waiting for decals and quite a few more on their way from various points on the planet. (mainly China)
So no end in sight to this affliction for targets.
Nice armour Martin :thumbsup:
And a few more...........
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This is the FV4005 Stage 1. A 183mm (7.2 inch in old money) tank destroyer prototype, Intended to be an IS3 killer.
The type is better known via the Stage 2 with its bloody great turret. rather than the open mount seen here on the Stage 1.
After many years sat out side as a gate guardian at Bovington, the sole surving FV4005 Stage 2 is currently subject to a restoration to running order being covered on youtube.
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This is an old Cromwell resin kit I picked up quite a few years back. Paint work is rattle can for the deep Bronze Green, with Gunze, Life color and valejo for the rest.
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Next up another Chinese 3d print.
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The Mantletless Turret test bed. Mounted on a Centurion. Also known in some places as the Centurion Action X.
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This was heavily involved in develepment of what became the Cheiftain. The turret still survives in a rather sorry state sitting in a corner of the overspill carpark at Bovington Tank Musuem.
Tamiya Rattle can for the NATO green, with Gunze and Life Color for the rest.
And lastly all the way back to the Great war.
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The Medium tank Mk C (Male). A prototype that never saw action as far as I can tell.
This was a resin kit I found at a previous Scale Model world. The trader in question was Dutch.
Paint work was mainly Valejo with the tracks and machinguns being painted in Gunze burnt iron.
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Wow you've been a busy boy ! Love all this armour, especially the classic stuff like the Centurion whifs. Cheers
Quote from: Martin H on December 18, 2023, 12:07:11 PMAnd lastly all the way back to the Great war.
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The Medium tank Mk C (Male). A prototype that never saw action as far as I can tell.
This was a resin kit I found at a previous Scale Model world. The trader in question was Dutch.
Paint work was mainly Valejo with the tracks and machinguns being painted in Gunze burnt iron.
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Those machine gun(?) sponsons look...awkward
Quote from: scooter on December 18, 2023, 02:55:39 PMThose machine gun(?) sponsons look...awkward
They do, dont they.
Quote from: Martin H on December 18, 2023, 03:02:24 PMQuote from: scooter on December 18, 2023, 02:55:39 PMThose machine gun(?) sponsons look...awkward
They do, dont they.
Was the RTR planning on drafting garden gnomes to man them?
I like the FV4005 Stage 1 in particular. With a flippin gun like that I think I'd prefer an open to the elements feel rather than an enclosed turret if I was the poor sod manning it :angel:
With the Medium C it would be interesting to see how they planned to use the MG turrets/sponsons ?
Hoping to get down to Bovington next year.
I do like the male Hornet, always had a soft spot for WWI armour.
Quote from: scooter on December 18, 2023, 05:00:25 PMQuote from: Martin H on December 18, 2023, 03:02:24 PMQuote from: scooter on December 18, 2023, 02:55:39 PMThose machine gun(?) sponsons look...awkward
They do, dont they.
Was the RTR planning on drafting garden gnomes to man them?
They may have been looking to borrow Gunner Harold "Lofty" Sugden from the Royal Artillary, refered to as "Gunner Shorthouse" by the battery sargent major
Brits of a certain age will recall It aint half Hot mum......... and Gunner Shorthouse played by the late Don Estelle. And of course the late, great Windsor Davies as the Sargent Major.
I've tried desperately to forget that rubbish for some years.
Quote from: The Wooksta! on December 21, 2023, 12:52:54 PMI've tried desperately to forget that rubbish for some years.
Oops... well, in that case it calls for more of your favourite tipple, then... and you have the added reason/excuse of The Season... :thumbsup:
Happy to help with the suggestion! ;)
And the first few compleated for 2024. All 3d printed targets in 72nd scale again. Only the Prototype/Cancelled projects this time.
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The High Survivability Test Bed - Light. Better know to those of a certain age group as the Stingray tank from GI Joe.
Chinese 3d print off ebay again. Paint is a mix of Tamiya rattle can, Gunze and lifecolor. No decals on this one as per the sole example built, still knocking around in a museum stateside.
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The VT1-2 weapons carrier. An attempt at a modern Jadgpanzer with a pair of 120mm tubes. Based on the running gear of the failed MBT-70. One of two built the other, the VT1-1 carried a pair of 105's instead of the 120's. The VT1-2 is currently on display in the Panzer museum in Munster.
Yet anothe 3d job from China. Paint work is Hataka for the most part. Decals robbed from the remains of a revell decal sheet from a leopard 2.
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The M8 Buford air portable mobile gun system. aka a light tank. Intended for the 82nd airborne to replace the M551 Sheridan. In the basic config shown here it was just about air dropable from a C-130. Fine if you only want protection from splinters and small arms fire. The up armored version was to heavy to drop so would need unloading from a Herc the old fashioned way.
The project was Cancelled before any could be depolyed with the 82nd for real.
Yeap another 3d print, this time from Badger 3d productions here in the UK. AK paints for this one.
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The C-RAM Centurion. This thing, or at least the trailor mounted version has seen some combat testing in Afganistan. It is rumored the truck version is high on the wish list of new toys for the Ukrainians.
Another Badger 3d productions print. Mig/Ammo for the bulk of the paint job.
I also finished off a number of real world 3d prints along with these:
British army Mastiff and Foxhound MRAP's, US Army M9 armored combat excavator, Austrailian AS21 Redback IFV and M1074 Joint Assault Bridging System. All from Badger 3d.
Also an M50 Ontos and an M56 Scorpion from various Chinese ebay traders.
That C-RAM Centurion certainly shows you what 3 D printing can do. Nice collection Martin :thumbsup:
Nice targets again. :thumbsup:
Video about the M8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRTj_23qC24
And one about the M10 (which is absolutely definitely not the same thing they cancelled 25 years ago): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfVeoI3euvQ
Looks like my no more models until I have finished the house is going out of the window :banghead: . Again :-X
Very nice builds as per Martin.
Nice :thumbsup:
Quote from: chrisonord on February 06, 2024, 10:30:20 AMLooks like my no more models until I have finished the house is going out of the window :banghead: . Again :-X
Very nice builds as per Martin.
Dont !!! focus on the house, that 3D stuff can drag you in and become all consuming, just ask Martin :wacko:
Work on the house so you can build more rooms to put kits and models in!
Quote from: Thorvic on February 06, 2024, 02:57:19 PMQuote from: chrisonord on February 06, 2024, 10:30:20 AMLooks like my no more models until I have finished the house is going out of the window :banghead: . Again :-X
Very nice builds as per Martin.
Dont !!! focus on the house, that 3D stuff can drag you in and become all consuming, just ask Martin :wacko:
Haha, I am getting there, the model room is going to need a lot of shelving doing for sure.
Wondering when we'll see 3D printed houses ;) :rolleyes:
Quote from: NARSES2 on February 07, 2024, 07:12:26 AMWondering when we'll see 3D printed houses ;) :rolleyes:
They are working on that and there are lots of protatypes that have been built. Lots of videos on YouTube.
Gondor
Finaly found some time to finish some thing.........all be it more targets in my usual 72nd scale.
This time a D day tribute trio. Two real world, one whiffed.
4th June 1944, In a field someware in deepest darkest Kent Operation Fortitude is in full swing.
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760 along with many others of its kind are doing a grand job. sitting there in that field, doing nothing apart from looking like a tank park ready for a trip across the par de Calias (as some in Berlin beleaved)
Yes, its an inflateable Sherman. It is a 3d print that came with decals from China that I found quite by chance on Ebay.com. The subject matter was quirky enougth to grab my attention and aquire an example.
Tamiya rattle can all the way. This model came with various "gun" barrels in various degrees of Droop. I went for something slightly mid range...............
Next
Mean while at an embarcation port someware in the English south west............
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I'm calling this the Sherman Lobster. Of 2 troop, 1st Lothian & Border Yeomanry. 79th Armored Division (Hobarts Funnies) . These would see action in the Caen area later in the campain.
Well, if the Crab used the flail, im sure the 79th would have come up with a suitably similar name to the Crab for a mine roller.........
Again a 3d print. This time from Badger 3d creations up there in Yorkshire. Tamiya rattle can again for the paint, decals (for a Crab) from a Stardecals "British special shermans" sheet
In reality this is a Sherman M4A3 fitted with the T1E3 mine roller. A few did see action with U.S. Forces in Europe. None found their way to UK forces as far as I can tell. We relied on the Crab flails.
And lastly.
Also at an Embarcation port in the South west.
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Meet Edna. A Sherman BARV of the Beach group (79th Armored) soon to go ashore at Juno beach.
Another 3d print, this time from Poland via Etsy. I have the same guys other BARV kits so I can now do a line up of all three UK BARV types. (Sherman, Centurion & Hippo)
Edna appears to be one of the few surviving and still running Sherman BARV's doing the rounds of the UK vintage vehicles rallies.. Or at least one of her sisters is marked up as her.
Again good old Tamiya rattle can for the most part and decals from the same sheet as the Lobster.........
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Magic stuff OGL! :thumbsup:
I love that BARV. :wub:
I'm loving the inflatable. :wub: :thumbsup:
Some neat stuff there Martin
Quote from: zenrat on June 05, 2024, 05:36:32 AMI'm loving the inflatable. :wub: :thumbsup:
I agree, that inflatable is great :thumbsup:
Gondor
I'm curious how one 3d prints whatvis essentially a balloon... :unsure: :wacko:
Great models again Martin, especially the inflatable Sherman. Quirky. :thumbsup:
The inflatable is quirky and cool. :thumbsup:
Did the suspension come as a complete transfer?
Quote from: Rick Lowe on June 06, 2024, 01:47:39 AMDid the suspension come as a complete transfer?
Yes it was. They were quite thick.
Took a fair amount of micro set and micro sol to bed down anyware near acceptable.
That inflatable Sherman is wondrous! I never even thought about someone producing something like that, but now I'm hooked, and I normally couldn't tell one end of a tank from another. Decoys were an integral part of warfare, and it's a wonder, at least to me, that we haven't seen models of them before. There were also many decoy aircraft, it would be great if someone would turn out a few.
Quote from: The Rat on June 06, 2024, 09:30:03 AMThat inflatable Sherman is wondrous! I never even thought about someone producing something like that, but now I'm hooked, and I normally couldn't tell one end of a tank from another. Decoys were an integral part of warfare, and it's a wonder, at least to me, that we haven't seen models of them before. There were also many decoy aircraft, it would be great if someone would turn out a few.
Potential future GB theme?
Btw agree with you about the decoy Sherman, great little model.
My first non armor build of the year!
A science Fiction What if no less...............
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This is what was originaly intended to be the Star trek shuttle. Designed by Matt Jefferies. It lost out to the shuttle trek fans know and love, when AMT offered up their new design for a generic space craft kit to the studio for free, all they wanted in return was the model rights to the show. AMT even paid for the full size prop to be built.......A no brainer from the studios point of view.
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This is a 3d printed resin kit from Cozmic 3d models. built OOB with my take on the paint work. Ie what colors I had to hand that were close enougth. The decals came with the kit.
I picked the kit up directly from Cozmic at the small space scifi show last month. It wasnt cheap but there is a lot of resin in the box.
It is ment to be 1/72nd scale but It does look a tad big to my eyes. The size of the chairs and the like inside look way over sized for 72nd to me. But no biggie, its an interesting addition to my Trek small craft fleet.
interior pics included ;D
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The interior is set up parts wise so the model can have internal lighting for those who are that way inclined.
This was something of a speed build, I started it at 11am this morning and was applying the final coat of satin varnish around 7pm. The paint dried rapidly due to it being a tad warm in the loft where my work bench lives.
Well done :thumbsup:
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Looks neat Martin :thumbsup:
Good work, Martin! :thumbsup:
And fast :o ... You're putting a challenge out to Dizzy at that pace! ;)
Very nice.
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A much better design than the one they used.
That's awesome Martin, the kit looks great and you've done a grand job of it. :wub:
Quote from: zenrat on August 15, 2024, 04:21:37 AMVery nice.
:thumbsup:
A much better design than the one they used.
It is. One of the other reasons it didn't get built is the curves were complex to create and pushed the cost and timescale up considerably. The design used had the benefits Martin mentioned, but also the flat paneled design was quick, easy and cheap.
Quote from: Mossie on August 15, 2024, 06:22:46 AM. The design used had the benefits Martin mentioned, but also the flat paneled design was quick, easy and cheap.
And NBC and Paramount were
notoriously cheap at times when it came to TOS.
Back to aircraft...........some would say at long last!
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A Hs Hawk T-1 of 738 NAS Fleet Air Arm based at HMS Goldcrest (Brawdy) around 1979. Used in the same role as the co-located RAF 2TWU. Ie, introducing newly minted pilots to the use of weaponry.
This is a Revell kit built OOB with decals robbed from various FAA Hunter sets, and the kit it self. Paint work is a mix of Halfords and Gunze for the most part.
And now for they one that was in part my gateway drug into the what if? / Project Cancelled world.
Any one remember this book? Publised in 1985 by Salamanda, writen and edited by Bill Gunston.
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I got my copy just after it was published via one of the many postal aviation book clubs that did the rounds in the 70's & 80's
Well, take a good look at the fancy bird in the middle of the art work................I have wanted one of these since the first day I saw the cover and the large full color 3 view on page 14/15.
It was Bill Gunston's own take on what he described as an ASTOVL fighter that "the author would be willing to pay his taxes for" (ASTOVL, thats Advanced Short Take Off Vertical Landing for those wondering)
Many moons later our very own TSRjoe introduced me to a master he was making, low and behold it was what has always been my holy grail aircraft wise. I badgered him incesantly to get it molded but he kept stalling saying he wasnt happy with this or that about it yet. Finaly last year he started working on it again. and this summer he cast a small number up. three of them found their way to me via Geoff B (Thorvic) who also got at least one example for himself. Two of the three sent to me had issues, but nothing I couldnt handle. the 3rd example was for me to pass on to the Accidental Loggie whos late father had also seen the master many moons ago and wished to add one to his own collection.
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My first build of the type had large airbubbles in the rear of the airframe and the trailing eges, I could have left them be and be done with it but they would have been weak spots. So I drilled into them and flooded them with vallejo putty. then let it cure for several weeks. I used around half a tube of putty, as the cavity in the rear of the model was quite large.
Now to start adding on the rest of the parts.......not that there is much to add.
Photo taken at the Small space sci fi show at Hanslope village hall. I usualy put on a small sci fi/whiff display.
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The undercarrage was robbed from an old esci Harrier kit, the wheels were scraps that Joe had sent with the model in case they were usefull. The landing gear and weapons bay doors were all to be cut from plasticard. Thanks to Thorvic for mine, He did me a set at the same time he Did some for his own example he was cleaning up at the time.
I took my example to the Avon show along with Dominc's example to hand over. que much brain storming mainly between Kit, Dominic and myself as to a name for the type. Using the loggic that the two previous VTOL types had bird of prey names, Kestral & Harrier. We came up with calling it the Buzzard.
A few weeks later I started throwing paint at it (after adding a bang seat from the spares box (no idea where it came from) and attaching the smash molded canopy Joe had also provided, along with resin plugs to do my own if needed.
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First off, primed in rattlecan Medium Sea Grey. This showed up a good many pin hols to fill. Once that was sorted, anoth coat of MSG, then onto the final colors
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I decided to veer off from going all the greys as per the books art work. This to my mind is an air to air bird, but would still likely be forward deployed along side ground pounding Harriers and the like. SO considering the time frame it would likely enter service (had it exsisted) NATO green over Litchin green it was. The nose cone got a quick splash of Dark Sea grey as well. Tamiya rattle can for the NATO Green, CJ Aerosols for the Litchen green, Gunze for the DSG.
Decals came for the most part from an Xtradecal Harrier GR1/3 sheet with an example of a GR3 that flew a test version of this scheme. The rest came from the remains of a Revell Harrier GR7/9 sheet (serial number and cockpit markings etc, and Model decal for the underwing serials. Which were only added to break up the bare sea of litchen geen.
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After a couple coats of satin varnish........the end result
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and with the book that started it all.
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And finaly a few size comparison shots
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Oh yeah! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
The Buzzard really looks the part in that green, magic stuff OGL.
It'd look good standing alongside the S-F Predator once I've finished it too, a 'Beauty and The Beast' scene, eh?
That's come out well Martin :thumbsup: as has the Hawk :thumbsup:
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The Buzzard. Take an F-16, rotate the fuselage, place the cockpit in front of the intake. Blend in the intake. VTOL/CTOL - one can choose and modify as necessary. Bazinga!
Now then, do I hack away at the ESCI F-16B in the disposal box or the Hasegawa F-16N in the stash?
Much better looking than an F-35.
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Impressive on both accounts. :thumbsup:
Excellent work there Martin!
If I'd known you were going to Hanslope I would have come and joined you. It's always a good little show.
The stealth plane looks a lot like the EDI drone from Stealth. Nice work on bot of them Martin. :thumbsup:
Great job on both! :thumbsup:
A few more finished.
Some more Hawks first.
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Revell Hawk with Freightdogs T2 conversion. Set up as a RN FRADU aircraft, the captive winder and the jamming pod are out of a hasegawa weapon set, the inboard light pod and baggage pod are Odds & Ordanance FRADU pods. Paintwork is mainly Gunze dark sea grey, decals from various Hawk and Naval Hunter sets. I also modified the gun pod to be another baggage pod. as was done IRL.
The next one is based of some black and white artwork found in a 1980's book on training aircraft writen by Roy Braybrook.
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A De-navalised Goshawk for the USAF. I dont doubt that the hawk/goshawk was looked at by the USAF. The artwork may well have been part of the sales drive for all I know.
Italeri T-45 kit built OOB with the naval parts removed or omitted. Gunze again for the paint work decals robbed from various kits and my decal stash.
Still with trainers but now with more grunt.......
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This is a SeaLightning T2. the trainer for the Navy's swing wing FAW1's. These trainers served the shore based type conversion role, sea bourne training was conducted on dual control FAW 1T's at unit level.
Based on the export Lightning T55, these had the full belly pack altough in this case the pack from the F2A rather that the F6 (no gun pack), They retained the inflight refueling equipment as that was all part of the conversion course. Plus extending the range never hurts in a Lightning. The type was unarmed, weapons training would take place again on FAW-1T's
No prizes for guessing its a matchbox kit.
This was some what of a hanger queen, I started building this 7-8 years ago. even got the dayglo paint on it back then. I cut out the front of the belly pack and replaced it with spare F2A parts from an Airfix F2A kit that had been converted into an F1.
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Pic of the underside to show the Belly pack.....
Then I kinds lost interest in it and it sat on the shelf of doom till this weekend. I still had the rest of the model easy to hand so I started throwing paint at it once I had masked off the dayglo stripes. rattle can Light aircraft grey over all, standard RN trainer scheme in the late 60's & 70's. Decals from various Lightning (mainly Airfix) scraps in the decal stash as the kit decals had long since gone awol. not that they would have been much use as most stenciling would have been in arabic.......
And lastly a fighter.
This was also a hanger queen but for no where near as long as the Lightning.
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Gannet models English Electric P8 Super Lightning. Build OOB, with paint work mainly via Halfords rattlecans. Decals from the decal stash and the treble one squardon marking from an oldish S&M decals lightning set.This was the 2nd gannet kit I built after the SARO P187. Cant recall why I put it to one side but its done now. The only change I made was replacing the supplied redtops with Odd & Ordanance items, as the supplied missiles were about a 1/3rd to short.
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Nice 👍
You're right about Gannet's Red Tops, but when you look at the drawings Alastair used to inform his kit design you'll see that the depicted Blue Jays (as they were known during F.155T deliberations) are pretty stumpy. The resultant Gannet missiles match the drawings.
Some neat stuff there Martin :thumbsup: even if there isn't a propeller in sight ;)
Well done :thumbsup:
another rest period, another Hawk build.
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BAe Hawk T-1M, used by 899NAS in the mid 1990's to replace its ageing Hunter T-8M fleet of SeaHarrier radar system trainers.
A small number of these were rebuilt from some of the original batch of RAF T-1's when it was decided to replace the Hunter T 8M's with something that wasnt as long in the tooth. This occured around the time when the SeaHarrier fleet upgraded to F/A 2 standard from FRS 1.
Fitted with some eliments from the export 100 series, with a new nose profile to carry a miniture version of the F/A 2's radar purely for training purposes. These aircarft were unarmed, how ever they could carry captive Sidwinders and latter on captive AMRAAM's. Once the SHAR's had retired the T 1M found further work with FRADU and on various Trials within the M.O.D.
A fairly quick build. Italeri Hawk 100 with its nose replaced by a resin replacement from Air Graphics for the South Korean Hawk Mk-59.
Gondor used the same nose on his Isreali hawk several moons ago. It kind of planted the seed for this one. Altough at the time I was thinking RAuxAF rather than the Fleet Air Arm.
Originaly this was going to use a standard T1 airframe but then it would look very much like a repainted Korean Aircraft as they lacked the RWR on the fin. So a hawk 100 took its place for this nose job.
Tamiya rattlecan Medium Sea Grey all over with the nose , fin tip and RWR reciver painted Gunze Dark Sea Grey. decals from the spares box for a SeaHarrier F/A-2. The serial and other Hawk related bits off a sheet from an old tool Airfix Hawk.
I have a few more Hawk ideas and as this year is the 50th aniversary of the first flight.............well, it would be rude not to.
Very well done! Will it be at Telford?
Quote from: zenrat on August 15, 2024, 04:21:37 AMVery nice.
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A much better design than the one they used.
Agreed!
Ah yes, the Hawk T.68
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Well as it's the 50th of the Hawk I better bring mine to Telford with me. I shall also bring the F/A-45 along as well.
Gondor
Looks good Martin :thumbsup:
Very nice Hawk collection! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Last one before telford.
lets start with a little history.........
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Now this is one of my oldest whiff builds that still survives. I built this mash up of an Italeri T45 Goshawk and a Matchbox Hawk 200 around 1998(ish). It was built as part of the same project that spawned my first VG Sea Lightning (see the very first page of this thread for that beast)
Ive toyed with redoing this one for years since. But never got around to doing it.
And I still havent because it now has company........In the shape of this one.
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This time around its a mash up of yet again an Italeri T45, matched with the Airgraphics Hawk 200 conversion, intended for the Airfix Hawk 100 kit.
The resin parts fit the Italeri plastic quite well. I also robbed a few parts from an Italeri Hawk 100 and some spare bits (drop tanks and outter pylons) from a Revell Hawk T1.
As for the load out, the winders came from an Airfix Seaharrier F/A2 kit and the penquins are out of a Hasegawa Weapon set.
Paint is my usual mix of Gunze and life color. Decals are from the decal stash apart from the squadron badge on the tail. That was home made and is for a very obsure Fleet Air Arm Unit that disbanded in 1945. namely 788NAS. It was formed in Ceylon around 1940 and served in various roles untill it disbanded in 45, still in Ceylon while using Bueaforts and Defiant Target tugs.
Seeing as my "other" hobby is archery, once I saw this badge which I stumbled on quite ramdomly while looking up some thing else up on Google it just had to be done.
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A shot of old and new togeather.
Im Calling this the Seahawk rather than reuse the Goshawk. In this case the SeaHawk F/A-1 version. The yanks arnt the only ones to reuse aircraft names...Tornado, Typhoon, Tempest any one?
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Both will be at Telford (the old ones first visit since 2000) along with as many of my whif Hawks as I can unearth before the show. This year is the 50th year since the Hawks first flight so a whiff line up is very appropriate.....
Quote from: Martin H on November 03, 2024, 11:04:58 AMLast one before telford.
Im Calling this the Seahawk rather than reuse the Goshawk. In this case the SeaHawk F/A-1 version. The yanks arnt the only ones to reuse aircraft names...Tornado, Typhoon, Tempest any one?
I'm still waiting to see "Hurricane" make a comeback.
Quote from: scooter on November 03, 2024, 11:26:27 AMI'm still waiting to see "Hurricane" make a comeback.
It nearly did once, but a while back.
IIRC the Hawker P.1121 was going to be called the Hurricane initially, but thanks to Mr. Sandys it never happened.
Not sure that reusing the names Hurricane, Spitfire, or Lancaster, would go over well. Retire those names, and honour their service.
Quote from: The Rat on November 03, 2024, 05:35:11 PMNot sure that reusing the names Hurricane, Spitfire, or Lancaster, would go over well. Retire those names, and honour their service.
Agree with that.
I haven't seen the name Churchill come back as a tank name, so there's precedent.
Nice ones, Martin.
I do like Hawk 200s in any guise. Always regret selling on my Matchbox kit.
Nice one Martin :thumbsup:
Quote from: The Rat on November 03, 2024, 05:35:11 PMNot sure that reusing the names Hurricane, Spitfire, or Lancaster, would go over well. Retire those names, and honour their service.
Well officially they are still in service, given that the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight is part of the RAF.
This is another one of those threads I need to stay on top of ! So much to catch up on and enjoy !
Targets-always lovely to see armour, specially small scale and obscure armour ! I remember reading about the M8 when I was a young teen. Always loved the way it looked, and the idea of it being air droppable.
The C-RAM is incredible. I want one with axles/ spinning wheels so I can play with it.
The Star Trek shuttle is cool, and thanks for the insight into the craft in the series.
The ASTOL is really cool. Kind of ugly, kind of not.....looks decent from most angles tho. And I've always been a fan of the Harrier in that colour.
The Hawks are all sweet as well. Love the US one. The Goshawk just always looked tough. And your new single seater looks spot on ! That radar nose and those penguins. Very nice !
Quote from: NARSES2 on November 04, 2024, 06:14:30 AMNice one Martin :thumbsup:
Quote from: The Rat on November 03, 2024, 05:35:11 PMNot sure that reusing the names Hurricane, Spitfire, or Lancaster, would go over well. Retire those names, and honour their service.
Well officially they are still in service, given that the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight is part of the RAF.
Good point. :thumbsup:
first two compleations of the year. Back to targets for these.
Both 3d prints out of China.............
First the odd ball.
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Meet the Falcon. Tracked anti tank drone carrier. I have no idea what nation this is from I assume the U.S. but i could be wrong.
I spotted it on ebay and it was weird enougth to cause me to buy it.
and some pics of the drone
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and the other one. Not so totaly weird this time
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This is the STT Excalibur air portable 105mm light tank/fire support vehicle. Intended to be moved by air in Kit's favorite RAF transport, the Beverly more can info can be found on youtube
Thanks to thorvic for finding the video
Seen here with an Fv432 as a size comparison
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Both tese were done in just under a day. Being 3d prints the bulk of the work was the paint work. Which for the most part was tamiya rattle can NATO green. These also gave me something to test out the set of Ammo paint marker pens that I picked up at Telford for the small details etc. .....I like em they worked a treat.
Weird they certainly are, but I quite like the look of the STT Excalibur. I can just envisage one of them crammed in the back of a Bev too. :thumbsup:
Quote from: Martin H on February 16, 2025, 04:33:39 AMMeet the Falcon. Tracked anti tank drone carrier. I have no idea what nation this is from I assume the U.S. but i could be wrong.
1950s America. Check the unshaven guys!
http://blog.livedoor.jp/janome_gotyou/archives/36579247.html
Quote from: tahsin on February 16, 2025, 09:04:21 AMQuote from: Martin H on February 16, 2025, 04:33:39 AMMeet the Falcon. Tracked anti tank drone carrier. I have no idea what nation this is from I assume the U.S. but i could be wrong.
1950s America. Check the unshaven guys!
http://blog.livedoor.jp/janome_gotyou/archives/36579247.html
Nice one :thumbsup: tell me a lot cheers
Looks like i need to paint some windows of the "drone"
Interesting Martin, especially the Drone Carrier, although weird might be a better word to use :rolleyes:
Quote from: Martin H on February 16, 2025, 04:33:39 AMThese also gave me something to test out the set of Ammo paint marker pens that I picked up at Telford for the small details etc. .....I like em they worked a treat.
Good to hear :thumbsup:
time for a few more compleations....Again 3d prints.
First up the aircraft
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The gannet models DeHaviland DH117 for the F155 requirement built OOB bar replacement resin redtops.
Paint job in mainly various rattle cans and decals from the decal stash.
and on to yet more targets. Back to the 1940's this time.
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On the left we have the Williams Amphibious vehicle, amd on the right we have the Baker 4x4 "jumping Tank" armored car.
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There seems to be more info online regarding the Williams compared to the Baker. Links for what I have found below.
Williams Vehicle page. (https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2-us-williams-amphibious-vehicle/)
Baker Jumping tank page (https://warwheels.net/Baker4x4JumpingTankIndex.html)
I love those "tanks"! I wonder if you can fit the crew in the William' wheels!
Where did the model kits, if any, of the 'targets' come from?
Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 27, 2025, 11:05:51 AMWhere did the model kits, if any, of the 'targets' come from?
3d prints from various traders on ebay from China kit.
They look pretty darn good, I thought they were IM kits! :thumbsup:
I like the DH-117 - looks like a cross between a Voodoo and an enlarged L-39, with Starfighter intakes. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Quote from: Rick Lowe on March 27, 2025, 09:39:02 PMI like the DH-117 - looks like a cross between a Voodoo and an enlarged L-39, with Starfighter intakes. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
It's a rather good-looking beast, bigger than you may think. There's two or three others on the forum and they've all scrubbed up well.
That's a SERIOUS radome on the DH117. :o
Nice work there Martin :thumbsup:
Quote from: Rick Lowe on March 27, 2025, 09:39:02 PMI like the DH-117 - looks like a cross between a Voodoo and an enlarged L-39, with Starfighter intakes. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Ditto, quite the attractive beast.
Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 28, 2025, 02:19:33 AMThat's a SERIOUS radome on the DH117. :o
Yes - much like the Sukhoi Flagon.
Some of your strangest armour kits yet Martin, they look great. :thumbsup:
DH.117 looks good too. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 28, 2025, 02:19:33 AMThat's a SERIOUS radome on the DH117. :o
Nah, regular size, but the chaps had some paint left in the bucket, and, well, you know they just couldn't resist. ;D
It's like having a little bit left in the airbrush, and you start looking for something to use it on instead of pouring a few miserable drops back into the bottle. I'm sure we've all done that.
only a week to go to the Scots Nationals in Perth.
So a fair number of new builds to show here from the last month or so...........
First up a Trio of jags.
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So we have two Gulf war Gr1's from Italeri and a Jaguar International from Hasegawa.
All three built OOB with the Desert cats having decals from a model decal sheet and the Hasegawa bird using the kit decals. Paint work was Hataka for the Desert cats and Mig-Ammo for the Jag International.
What makes them whiffs is whats hanging under the wings (also above in the Internationals case)
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On this one we have JP233 (short) pods for use on anything other than a Tonka.
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And JP233 (long) pods on this one. I aslo change the mission markings on this one to give it more ground pounding mssions, the real a/c carried out quite a bit of recci work.
The short pods are basicly the forward section of the Tornado carried units fitted with a tail section.and armed with the Anti personal sub muntitions The long pods are the rear section that have recived the same tail section and armed with the heavier concrete busting rounds.
At one point in the early developement of the what became the JP233 various versions were looked at so that various types other than Tornados could deploy them.
The down side to these versions is that it would take two aircraft to carry out the work of a single Tonka on a JP233 mission. So I can see why the other vesions didnt enter service.
The examples here are resin casts that I mastered myself. They may join the Odds & Ordanace rage in the near future. I built these two jags to see what they looked like mounted on to something other than a Tornado....
The Jag international is OOB bar stealing a spare drop tank from one of the Italeri kits.
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It is carrying Freight dog Sabre air to surface missiles on the inboard pylons and SRAAM pods on the over wing pylons. The Sneb pods are from the kit.
This build was a long term shelf of doom resident having been started around 8-9 years ago. I cant remember what the orginal plan for it was so here we are.......
Next up something a little smaller.
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A Fujimi Alphajet also built OOB. again to see what something ive been working on looks like finished.
Decals from the kit, and I aquired the correct Gunze paints as per the instructions.
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The pods on the inboard pylons are the add on's. in this case Matra combination rocket and practice bomb pods.
I found these on a drawing in an old Salamanda book called Modern Air Combat by Bill Gunston and Mike Spick. This drawing was for a Luftwaffe Alphajet with a vast selection of things to hang on it. One was this pod that realy caught my eye. So i started messing around with some exsisting O&O bits and a UK practice bombe pod I had lying around.. Again these may join the O&O range at some point but they still need a bit of work as they are still a tad rougth.
Now for the last one
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This is the Gannet English Electric P8 two seater. Built OOB bar once again replacing the wing tip hardware. In this case Matra 530's from PJ productions that I picked up at Telford many, many moons ago
Halfords for the silver, Vallejo for the red. Decals from an Xtradecal Lightning sheet for 56 sqn.
Very nice Jags. :thumbsup:
Nice work Martin :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Two underrated aircraft, Jaguar and Alpha Jet, good to see them. :thumbsup: P.8 is nice, the Matra missiles are an unusual touch. :thumbsup:
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Very nice as ever Martin. Are you going to make those SRAAM pods available , as some of those could be a useful addition to some of my future projects. :thumbsup:
Quote from: chrisonord on April 22, 2025, 10:59:45 AMVery nice as ever Martin. Are you going to make those SRAAM pods available , as some of those could be a useful addition to some of my future projects. :thumbsup:
Nope. They are Freightdog items as per the discription.
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Bit of a fan of the Jag, & that trio is very nice! :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Quote from: Martin H on April 23, 2025, 01:22:21 AMQuote from: chrisonord on April 22, 2025, 10:59:45 AMVery nice as ever Martin. Are you going to make those SRAAM pods available , as some of those could be a useful addition to some of my future projects. :thumbsup:
Nope. They are Freightdog items as per the discription.
Half asleep when reading your post. I didn't see any on his site last time I looked though, which is a shame.