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The Wooksta!

May 15, 2005, 05:43:35 PM
The 1990 edition of Derek Wood's "Project Cancelled" made mention of a Lightning F1A equipped with nuclear tipped Genie AAMs.  This is one I've been wanting to do for a while, so I made a start last year by taking an old Lightning I did years ago and stripping it.

Then, like so many of my projects, it was stuck to one side.  Last week it was dug out and I did some more work on it, enough to get it finished.  And it is, apart from the Genie missiles.


nev

#1
May 16, 2005, 01:23:53 AM
mmmm, Lightning....  :wub:

Whats with the lack of refueling probe tho?
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May 16, 2005, 04:14:21 AM
There was a Lightning written off cos a tech spilled some Mercury inside the cockpit
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#3
May 16, 2005, 05:16:16 AM
oooh nice!  :wub:  

Jeffry Fontaine

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May 16, 2005, 02:16:22 PM Last Edit: February 07, 2009, 11:44:39 PM by Jeffry Fontaine
That is nice work so far.  One thing that has me puzzled though is where1 did you manage to locate 1/72nd scale Genie's?  The only kit I recall that had a pair of those in smaller scale was that old box scale release of the F-101B from Monogram.  Does Hobbycraft offer Genie's in their 1/72nd scale F-89 Scorpion kit? 
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#5
May 16, 2005, 02:34:54 PM
FYI the recent Revell Voodoo has them Jeff.

Jschmus

#6
May 16, 2005, 09:20:56 PM
The old Hasegawa 1/72 AAM set has Genies in it.
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#7
May 16, 2005, 09:30:26 PM
Mercury spillage?  Is that a Britush technical term?  Having spent untold hours wriggling on my belly like a reptile cleaning up mercry spills it sure conjures up images of wrack and ruin, but I'm confused!
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#8
May 16, 2005, 11:13:04 PM
Mornin' Lee

Nice Lightning... "When it's right... it's right" Dunno who said that but it prolly had your model in mind !

So what's next... ? Hunter with a tac nuke balanced by a long range tank ?

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#9
May 16, 2005, 11:36:26 PM
She looks good in that scheme Lee - very unusal and almost like a test bird.

So how many Lightnings have you got now ?

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#10
May 17, 2005, 01:14:05 PM
Great stuff there Lee, as always.

Like the look of the lightning in anti flash - makes me wonder what many different types would look like painted that way.  I'm pretty sure that it was you with the f-105 painted that way, and she was a beauty too...

 
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Patrick H

#11
May 18, 2005, 01:12:48 AM
Nice Lightning Lee, looks good in those anti flash colors



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#12
May 18, 2005, 05:04:37 AM
Mercury spillage can and will be fatal to an airframe. It causes savage intergranular corrosion that permeates between rivetted joints and causes fatal structural failure in aircraft.

How bad is it?

Well, a 4 month old Airbus A330 was written off a few years back due to a spill of mercury from a cargo in its holds that had not listed the material. It is THAT bad.
I can easily believe that spilling mercury in a cockpit would write off the aircraft.

Cheers (and good looking model as well Wooksta)

Tony

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#13
May 18, 2005, 06:41:38 AM
Lightnings are gorgeous, but in anti-flash?!?!?!  :wub:  :wub:  :wub:

And stop obsessing over the roundel size, will ya? Jeez, he's going all bloody JMN on us.  :P  
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#14
May 18, 2005, 12:44:04 PM
Looking good, Wooksta!

I've got a similar, nuclear armed Lightning in sight, but it will have a semi-recessed missile in the belly, and no landing gear......

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