JWM Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 (edited) Hi, This is my recent model, not from archive I finished it few days ago. This is Dh 82 Tiger Moth of Air Abulance Unit in Australia Laverton at end of 1944 (A17-543). Profile from Czech book "Ilustrovana Historie Letectvi " (Illustrated history of aviation) No 8, Z. Hurt, P.Kucera, O.Charles, 1992 via wing palette. The conversion is acratch built, decals from drawer. I hope you will like it, Comments welcome! Regards Jerzy-Wojtek P.S. I am about to finish another Tiger Moth in RAF markings - soon I hope at RFI. Edited July 26, 2017 by JWM Switch to Flickr 39 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manipled Mutineer Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Fascinating build! I like it very much. Would be interested to know a bit more about the aircraft. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 That's very impressive conversion work! Martin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonL Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Excellent work. Used to live just down the road from Laverton (Geelong) and was an occasional visitor to the RAAF Museum at Point Cook. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted January 24, 2015 Author Share Posted January 24, 2015 (edited) Thank you Manipled Murtineer, Martin and Simon for nice comments Perhaps it could be intersting for someone if I post also photo or two from the conversion of fuselage. Here it is: You may see some details of inside here. The windscreen was cut from a rear part of canopy of Avia S-199 (a bit bulbed version of Me109 K canopy) and main transparent parts was cut from two *EDIT* ventral (is it a righ term for bottom?) gunner canopies of urecognized kit (looks like Italeri?) *end of EDIT* ...Cut out part of Avia canopy is on left wing on above photo. Then it was set together like this: Quote Would be interested to know a bit more about the aircraft Something can be read here: http://www.airwaysmuseum.com/Connellan%20DH82%20VH-BIW.htm Best regards Jerzy-Wojtek Edited July 26, 2017 by JWM Switch to Flickr 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOUSTON Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 BEAUTIFUL Tiger Moth.. I am impressed ... AWESOME .... BRAVO... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luis Alfonso Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Hi Jerzy!!!! Congratulations for another gem to the collection's crown!!! I really was impressed how you take anything and, makes me believe you are one off the "Midas King Club" of modelers that shares his presence, tiem and efforts here with all of us. I have never seen before this nice plane was converted to ambulance that way, so, thank you very much also for the knowledge shared here. Its nice to know you are a prolific modeler and hope we can watch many more of your masterworks. Also, was wondering which kit you have used. Without a doubt, its so nice to see how your "Old School" modeling skilled works have nothing to envy to any Tamigawa model. Congratulations!!! Thank you very much for sharing, Cheers!!! Luis Alfonso 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
russ c Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 Great job on the conversion, nice work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted January 24, 2015 Share Posted January 24, 2015 An interesting subject.Nice build too! Hope this will be of some inspiration to those wishing or signed up to the Tiger Moth STGB. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 Thank you Russ, Luis Alfonso, Paul and Houstone for nice comments! Also, was wondering which kit you have used. Luis, obviously this is new tooling from Airfix...I have also Tiger Moth from AZ, but since I am doing second one (more typical - but not the the very end - you will see it soon) I would like them to be different only there where they should be. Hope this will be of some inspiration to those wishing or signed up to the Tiger Moth STGB. Paul - what about the same but in 1/32? Cheers Jerzy-Wojtek 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted January 25, 2015 Share Posted January 25, 2015 Paul - what about the same but in 1/32? Cheers Jerzy-Wojtek That would be brilliant! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted July 26, 2017 Author Share Posted July 26, 2017 On 25.01.2015 at 11:30 PM, Paul J said: That would be brilliant! Paul - thanks for comment (sorry that so late..) . Any progress on that? Regards J-W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horatio Gruntfuttock Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 Great job on an interesting real-life conversion of the Tiggie. Nice to see some lateral thinking when finding the bits to do the conversion - well done. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted July 27, 2017 Author Share Posted July 27, 2017 Many thanks Horatio J-W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamant Posted December 3, 2023 Share Posted December 3, 2023 Hi J-W, Very nice build. We will also do it now for our Tiger Moth series. Very nice build!! Cheers Santiago 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MACALAIN Posted December 4, 2023 Share Posted December 4, 2023 Nicely done. Alain 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted December 4, 2023 Author Share Posted December 4, 2023 On 12/3/2023 at 7:55 PM, diamant said: Hi J-W, Very nice build. We will also do it now for our Tiger Moth series. Very nice build!! Cheers Santiago Hi Santiago, Thank you! I have noticed your series on DH 82s . Impressive as always - perhaps I will try one Queen Bee in return 9 hours ago, MACALAIN said: Nicely done. Alain Many thanks. The De Havillnads I have constructed in early 2015 were my last models where I did rigging with stretched sprues, then I "discovered" the EZ which makes this duty much, much better... Regards J-W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamant Posted December 4, 2023 Share Posted December 4, 2023 1 hour ago, JWM said: Hi Santiago, Thank you! I have noticed your series on DH 82s . Impressive as always - perhaps I will try one Queen Bee in return Hi, That would be great!!. Thank you. There will be more than 50 Tiger Moth. There are some less known which I have discovered now. Cheers Santiago 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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