TheBaron Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 11 hours ago, Scimitar said: 2 on Nightbird only. Gubbins is a camera fit for filming weapons release as 986 7 and 8 were built for trials with the then RAE (and A&AEE too ?) Bettter shot. Oh. Oh my. So undeniably handsome that I may have found a build-subject. A prog-rock Buccaneer! 'Harlequin', very early Genesis... Relishing this thread Bill. 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 I shall buy shares in madking tape first thing tomorrow 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 (edited) 13 hours ago, perdu said: I take it Nightbird was an allweather night bombing development I see the different radome too, laser? 'Nightbird' XV344 an ex Navy S.2C, was used for various trials, but essentially yes, thermal imaging / FLIR and latterly (LRMTS) laser designation & TIALD (just in time for GW1) trials. The RAE also used an S.1 XN923. So between XN923, XN975, XT272 with the Tornado GR.1 nose, XV344, XX887, XW986-'988 (all three of these special build had the wingtip camera stations) there are plenty of schemes and fits to choose from! My favourite was definitely XW986 and '988 in the green white and yellow finish. Buccaneer S2C XW988 A&AEE RAF Fairford RIAT1991 by Stuart Freer - Touchdown Aviation, on Flickr PS the books 'Forever Farnborough' and Adrian Balchs' 'Testing Colours' are excellent musts for modelling references for MoD PE, RAE, A@AEE, DERA etc aircraft. Edited January 14, 2018 by 71chally 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 14, 2018 Author Share Posted January 14, 2018 2 hours ago, TheBaron said: Oh. Oh my. So undeniably handsome that I may have found a build-subject. A prog-rock Buccaneer! 'Harlequin', very early Genesis... Relishing this thread Bill. Glad you are enjoying this exposition of Buccaneering beauty But you better hurry on up, I have a S2 in a box on a shelf near me And that one impresses me mightily too 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 22 minutes ago, perdu said: I have a S2 in a box Just the one? 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Nice detailing again Bill. I may run out of likes due to all these wonderful Bucc piccies. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 2 hours ago, 71chally said: plenty of schemes and fits to choose from! 21 in this line up and several subtle differences in nose colours and green camo position. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Very nice, end of service line-up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 Outter wing inserts look great - some superb micro engineering there! Roger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 2 hours ago, 71chally said: end of service line-up? Queen's birthday flypast June 1993. Operated from RAF Manston 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 14, 2018 Author Share Posted January 14, 2018 (edited) Nothing much doing this day but I did, as planned, get into the garage and put the moulds on my vibrating table set-up and fill them with Scarva Moulding Latex I'm unsure how much time the latex will need to cure in these temperatures but I hope we will have results to check in the morning As well as the wing folds there should be Gannet fuel tank halves to use, the finlets for the Gannet elevators tailplanes which I had to nick orf of the Eastern Express Gannet, acos the Frog/Novo one has lost hers in the mists of time Now it is time to order more Scarva latex, all gone now But the new resin arrived last week, phew Edited January 14, 2018 by perdu Bill got his controlling surfaces wrong oops 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 14, 2018 Author Share Posted January 14, 2018 Just popped into the casting shop/facility All hardening nicely, phew I could probably demount them now but hey, its cold down there Tomorrow is another... 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Ranger Posted January 14, 2018 Share Posted January 14, 2018 On 8/31/2017 at 16:23, perdu said: The thingmyjig is supposed to keep the alignment of the thingmy all shipshape? Actually, it's spelled "thinga-ma-jig" (that is, it is spelled that way here in HM's Former Colonies). A derivative of "whatcha-ma-callit." Related to "whatzit." 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 Just now, Space Ranger said: Actually, it's spelled "thinga-ma-jig" (that is, it is spelled that way here in HM's Former Colonies). A derivative of "whatcha-ma-callit." Related to "whatzit." Thank you for that valuable clarification It seems I mislaid many a dash in many a thread, I hope Her Former Maj of the Colonies will forgive my treatment of the beautiful tongue I confess I do not hear dashes in whatchamacallit, I 'spect I will get sent back to' the Correctional' At Scunthorpe, like the time when.. Well THAT is for another forum, in another place 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 Compared to what the "former colonies" do to our beautiful language, your little faux-pas (note hyphen!) is totally irrelevant! Ian 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Courageous Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 7 hours ago, limeypilot said: Compared to what the "former colonies" do to our beautiful language, your little faux-pas (note hyphen!) is totally irrelevant! Ian is posh, he says 'hyphen' and not dashes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 Hy-phen I allus kinda thunk it were a reference to lady stuff wot I dint orta mention in public Things you learn when cutting paper huh... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 6 hours ago, Courageous said: Ian is posh, he says 'hyphen' and not dashes... Me Ole' man was born in Portobello Road, can't get much posher'n that guv! Ian 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 On 1/14/2018 at 11:26 AM, perdu said: But you better hurry on up, I have a S2 in a box on a shelf near me And that one impresses me mightily too 'Tis your thread it appeared in Bill so I reckon that natural justice gives you first dibs. T'would be an awful thieving magpie that took such a bauble from another bird's nest after all.... 1 hour ago, limeypilot said: Me Ole' man was born in Portobello Road, can't get much posher'n that guv! Not Mr. Gruber? It can't be... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 Rainbow pavements too? Got to love Peruvian bears 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 On 14/01/2018 at 11:15, 71chally said: 'Nightbird' XV344 an ex Navy S.2C, was used for various trials, but essentially yes, thermal imaging / FLIR and latterly (LRMTS) laser designation & TIALD (just in time for GW1) trials. The RAE also used an S.1 XN923. So between XN923, XN975, XT272 with the Tornado GR.1 nose, XV344, XX887, XW986-'988 (all three of these special build had the wingtip camera stations) there are plenty of schemes and fits to choose from! My favourite was definitely XW986 and '988 in the green white and yellow finish. Buccaneer S2C XW988 A&AEE RAF Fairford RIAT1991 by Stuart Freer - Touchdown Aviation, on Flickr PS the books 'Forever Farnborough' and Adrian Balchs' 'Testing Colours' are excellent musts for modelling references for MoD PE, RAE, A@AEE, DERA etc aircraft. I will always remember looking down from Caraeg Cennan castle in the Black mountains and watching XW988 as she flew in and out of the valleys below. Martian 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 On 1/14/2018 at 11:15, 71chally said: 'Nightbird' XV344 an ex Navy S.2C, was used for various trials, but essentially yes, thermal imaging / FLIR and latterly (LRMTS) laser designation & TIALD (just in time for GW1) trials. The RAE also used an S.1 XN923. So between XN923, XN975, XT272 with the Tornado GR.1 nose, XV344, XX887, XW986-'988 (all three of these special build had the wingtip camera stations) there are plenty of schemes and fits to choose from! My favourite was definitely XW986 and '988 in the green white and yellow finish. Buccaneer S2C XW988 A&AEE RAF Fairford RIAT1991 by Stuart Freer - Touchdown Aviation, on Flickr PS the books 'Forever Farnborough' and Adrian Balchs' 'Testing Colours' are excellent musts for modelling references for MoD PE, RAE, A@AEE, DERA etc aircraft. She looks black, white and yellow in my monitor Stunning too but not green and yellow with the white 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 (edited) Definitely extra dark green, yellow and white (as was XW986 for a shorter period) Bill, just shows how we can't always trust photos for colours. Anti dazzle are is black. I like the way that the pilot had the air brakes open so that it would fit in the frame of that picture better! edit, you can see the green in this shot a bit better, https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8721/28340199374_a6a5753995_b.jpg ...and just for the hell of it, lovely top side view which is what Martian probably saw! Iain C. Mackay - Air Britain Images Edited January 15, 2018 by 71chally 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 15, 2018 Author Share Posted January 15, 2018 I believed it James, even seen a picture a few years back that looked greener but how the hell would you get a believable colour match for a model paint I'm inclined towards the camouflaged fin one for my S2 😊 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Ranger Posted January 15, 2018 Share Posted January 15, 2018 49 minutes ago, perdu said: I believed it James, even seen a picture a few years back that looked greener but how the hell would you get a believable colour match for a model paint I recall seeing, in an old issue of Scale Aircraft Modelling, that green described as one of the two Luftwaffe WW II greens: RLM 70 or 71, but can't remember which. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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