Hey, I found these in the attic!

[The Rat]

Spent some time over at my folks' place today while the car was getting a new timing belt just up the road, went rabbiting around doing inventory on the old stuff and thought I would show you all that I have actually done stuff in the past.  ^_^

First up, the Otaki C-5 Galaxy in 1/144th


And here it is beside the old old old Hawk 1/72nd Swift


And a little closer on the Swift


If I see any of those Swifts I am going to grab them even if I need to knock over the nearest bank for cash. They are crude - no landing gear, flat deck cockpit with pilot's head and shoulders, engraved markings (which I simply hand-painted, they don't look so good close-up!), but I've heard that the outline is quite accurate, and I am certain that the nose contours are waaaaaay more accurate than the spurious needle-nosed version that Czech Master recently issued. I don't know about the positioning of the panel lines, but they are delicate. In my humble opinion, if this kit was re-issued with some updating and after market bits available it might find a willing market.

The only real mods I did were to cut out the cockpit deck and insert a crude seat with yer standard Airfix pilot in it, and I thinned the exhaust hole down from the two-foot thick scale it was originally. All this was about thirty years ago, so I think I could do better now. I'd like to try a whiffer with side-by-side engines.

[John Howling Mouse]

That Galaxy looks sweeeeet.  And it's just sitting in some attic now?

Aw maaaaan!  

[Captain Canada]

I agree with JHM......sweet !

Look at those sexy lines...Mmmmmm......

 

[The Rat]

Look at those sexy lines...Mmmmmm......

They don't just look sexy. When you pick it up you get the impression that you're not simply holding it, but fondling it, with every supple curve leading your fingers to stroke its...  

Gulp...

Gotta RUN!

[Ollie]

Good show Ratty!

 

[The Rat]

Now this is interesting. There's a boxtop illustration on Dave's Web Shop which shows it with landing gear. I don't remember there being any at all, so I guess my memory is fading faster than I thought.  


And that Galaxy was painted with rattle cans by the way, can't remember whose, but I was very pleased with the result. Just about everything was a pleasure, the fit was good, the 'fiddly bits' like wheels were not really fiddly at all, surface detail was restrained, and I think it captures the lines very nicely.  

[nev]

Rat, that Galaxy is awesome    

I'm just amazed no one has mentioned how it should be in leafy roundels  ^_^  

[Patrick H]

Fantastic Galaxy Rat, shouldn't leave it hidden away in the attic like that



Patrick

[retro_seventies]

i'm with the boys ratty - your galaxy is gorgeous, so keep her out of the attic...

nice boxy picture frame, maybe a blueprint of the c-5 for a background (or a mirror is the underside looks as good as the top) and put her somewhere she can be seen...

my brother has an phantom that i did that way, hanging in his shitter back home as we speak...