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.......
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.
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.
First up an FG1 of 74sqn.
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.
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
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)
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.
Yeap! Argintine Kfir's!
Firsts up the bog standard Kfir C2.
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
And last but by no means least.
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,
