Javelin Engineering Turbocat Puts Aero-Home Leisure Living Within Every Family's Reach
Get new excitement, new enjoyment, new comforts, new luxury while travelling the free skies of Victoria. Travel independently with a Javelin Engineering Turbocat Aero-Home, the sales leader.
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Fly when you want, where you want, as you want...with every convenience and comfort of your own home. It's the free and easy way to travel...to go hunting, fishing, touring, or for leisurely retirement living.
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Here are just a few Turbocat leisure living features:
1. Amphibious capability vastly expands the choice of landing sites
2. Rolls Royce AE2100 turboprops provide power with economy at world class sound and emission levels
3. Multi zone climate control
4. Fully equipped galley
5. Hot and cold running water
6. Shower and lavatory
7. Flush toilet with waste holding tank
8. Wall-to-wall carpeting
9. Sun lounge with leather upholstered 360 degree swiveling recliners
10. Thoroughly overhauled, rebuilt, re-sparred and updated Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina airframe with 5-year, 80,000 km warranty
11. Four-way adjustable bucket seats for pilot and co-pilot
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By day or night a Javelin Engineering Turbocat Aero-home is a luxury traveling lodge...a fun place to lounge and watch the world fly by. Nap-time can come and go as the family travels at cruising altitude. Mothers and grandmothers handle a Turbocat with ease, enjoy taking their turn at the controls. There is no problem – Turbocats have automatic pilot. Powerful engines melt away the kilometers.
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Go with Javelin Engineering – Victoria's largest Aero-home manufacturer with more than 200 dealers nationwide.
TURBOCAT IS WORTH WAITING FOR!
With apologies to Winnebago.
The Model:
Academy 1/72 Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina with resin nacelles from an Ozmods C-130J conversion set.
Airfix Fairey Rotodyne props.
MOST impressive!!
Agreed, this is very cool :thumbsup:
I'm ........in............awe.......... :wub:
Strinking paint job......just awesome!
:thumbsup:
David
Thanks folks.
Ok, I'm sold.
When can I take delivery of one? Will it land OK on the Severn with the tide out? Can I moor it in Lydney Harbour? ;D
Can you land it on the Yarra or on the Merri at Cup time?
:wub: :thumbsup:
Quote from: comrade harps on January 18, 2017, 03:39:14 AM
Can you land it on the Yarra?
As the Yarra is reputed to be the only river in the world with a reverse silting level (all it's silt is at the surface, not the bottom), you'd need to do that with the wheels down! :thumbsup:
Looks good indeed, great stuff! :thumbsup:
...and another stunning work of art :wub: Almost missed this one 'cos I saw Javelin in the title (where's the imogee for yawn?). :thumbsup:
My Dad said the other day that what we do is not art :o. Should see the stuff he puts on his walls (where's the imogee for pi**ing myself laughing?).
Me likie!
Great model, lovely finish :thumbsup:
I love it. I just love it. Bravo!!!
Noice. :thumbsup:
Are the frame-less bubbles available as an option? ;)
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With drink holders!
Thanks folks.
Good pic Jon. You'd want good AC sitting under that in the sun.
Frameless blisters are available from someone with much more patience than me.
As swimming in the Yarra is illegal I suspect landing a plane on it is also frowned on.
I am now sitting here imagining flying it under the Westgate Bridge as peak hour traffic queued above me...
The text I cribbed directly from a 1969 Winnebago brochure. Available to download as a PDF from here. (https://winnebagoind.com/product-resources/product-information)
Here are more pics. I realised I was obsessing too much about getting the whole aircraft in the frame which coupled with 640 width pictures meant peering at the screen.
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Just visible here are the swivelling leather recliners (Airfix Ford Trimotor).
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Paint is car touch up paint and Vallejo acrylics and the curves were all masked with Tamiya bendy masking tape.
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Very elegant! :thumbsup:
Despite what the Librarian's dad says; that, me old mate, is a work of art! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Very nice. I like the color combination, too. :thumbsup:
Thank you all very much.
Ironically Guy, due to it being bigger than the shelves it has become the first build to be hung on the back wall of the newest display cabinet.
The green is Golden Olive and the blue is RAF Azure. Both Vallejo acrylic.
What a beauty ! I can only imagine touring around in one. Love the colour scheme and the new engine/ prop combo.
:thumbsup:
Thanks Cap'n.
Belated congratulations! :thumbsup:
Brilliant :thumbsup:
WOW Fred, where do I sign!! :wub: :wub:
You have built something that has been passing through my cheese like grey matter for a few years now, and made it far more plausible than I could have imagined. I am a sucker for sticking turbo props on old birds, and this is absolutely brilliant.
Chris/
Thanks folks.
Chris. I've got another two of those engines left... :o
Then another one needs to go on the production line me thinks, maybe a maritime patrol bird for somewhere, or a fire bomber?
Chris
Daaaaaaaamn!!! This is fantastic! I love it! A flying motor home....... . and the finish is glorious. Top work, bud! I'm ready to move in today!
Thanks Brad C.
Chris - I think not. I've done it once, that's enough. I'll use the engines on something else.
Quote from: zenrat on February 25, 2017, 07:33:23 PM
Thanks Brad C.
Chris - I think not. I've done it once, that's enough. I'll use the engines on something else.
Where has your sense of adventure gone Fred ;D They would look pretty good stuck on a DeHaviland Caribou also.
Chris.
You didn't have to do the PSR to get the flat nacelles to blend into the round engine mounts.
:banghead:
;D
Quote from: zenrat on February 27, 2017, 02:47:41 AM
You didn't have to do the PSR to get the flat nacelles to blend into the round engine mounts.
:banghead:
;D
I scratch build most of my turbo prop engines Fred if the engines I have don't fit right. I blank off the original engine mounts, glue a short length of plastic tube on to this, for the propeller, and another smaller diameter one underneath it, for the air intake then use scrap plastic and putty to build up the general shape and then sand the final shape in, simples.
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Here's some I did earlier.
Chris
a very beautiful seaplane ! :thumbsup:
Thanks Eric.
Interesting camo Chris.