silverkite211

Wow, that's not even close. It just amazes me that you can have three manufacturers of the same subject, with the same information about sizes and dimensions and yet nt only not come close to the others offering, they can't get the measurements to match the actual object.

I;m a litle late to this but I was wondering something. Would the canpy from a Monogram P-51B kit work?

Am I correct in thinking that the crash bar attached to the access door is red?

My apologies. Try this. https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/search?type=Westland+Wessex+HU5&operator=Royal+Navy&date_taken=&information=&exact=true&tag_fields=[]#google_vignette It worked for me just now, I hope it works for everyone else.

He said in an interview once that that was one of his favorites.

www.abpic.couk/search.php?q=WestlandWessexHU5&u=type

This is the Monogram T-28, ca 1973, with some tweaks. I carved away the molded in engine and replaced with one from the spares box. I also separated the windscreen from the canopy, as well as the canopy frames so that I could have both of them open. The kit came with a pilot sitting in the forward seat with an empty seat in the rear, so I scratch built new seats and a control stick. The decals were dried out and totally unusable, so I scavenged up a couple instrument panel decals and used them. I made exhaust pipes from plastic tubing; it was easier than trying to drill out the molded on ones. Nothing too major. I couldn't help myself, however and as a proof-of-concept exercise I made the retractable landing gear work. Anyway, not one of my more extensive jobs, but it's "my" T-28, like no other Monogram Kit of it anywhere. It's intended to represent a Ravens FAC Trojan, hence the lack of markins. Thanks for looking, be kind with any remarks.

Someone, I can't recall who, did a photo etch cockpit. Truthfully, you won't be able to see much when it's all closed up anyway, since by then cockpits were being painted black. The larger issue you might want to address is the cowling; it is too squared off in profile. If you can find a Testor's Bearcat you can swap the cowl out, it is a much better looking part.

This another shelf sitter that I happened to finish at the same time as my Spitfire Mk IX. This is the Monogram Mirage 2000 kit, Monogram brought out this kit as the prototype, for this boxing of the kit they simply made new decals. I made some alterations to the kit; I deleted a couple of probes only seen on the prototype; I altered the vent on the top of the fuselage from the rectangular shape of the prototype to the triangular shape as used on production aircraft, I added the vents located at the upper wing root, added formation light panels to the vertical stabilizer, enlarged the radome from the smaller and more pointed style seen on the prototype and added a pitot tube to the tip. I also modified the pylons to be able to switch from the Exocet missiles to a pair of drop tanks from a scrapped Heller Rafale. I also scratch built the refueling probe. The blue paint color was mixed by eye.

Yes, you are correct, it was 92, not 19 squadron. I realized my error later and hadn't gotten around to correting my mistake.

Thank you. If I had had a Wing Commander's pennant in that scale I would've used it.

Robert Stanford-Tuck, "Johnie" Johnson, Clive Caldwell. What the three great men have in common? They all had personalized aircraft with their initials, instead of squadron codes. I do not, by any stretch of the imagination equate myself with those aces, Along those lines, however, I did this. As the line in the song by the Grateful Dead goes, 'what a long, strange trip it's been'. This started life many years ago as a Hasegawa Mk VI, with a High Flight conversion to make a Mk IX, the conversion consisted of a replacement nose, oil coolers and pointed rudder, I reshaped the wingtips, switched the cannon and gun barrel positions, scratched up cannon breech bulges, rescribed the gun access panels and elevator hinge line to the later style with larger mass balance horns and to cover the incorrect style of wheel hubs made winter/muddy field style covers. It came out simply awful; I never allowed anyone to see it and there it remained for many years until I decide to strip off the paint and remake it into "my" Spitfire, those are my initials on the fuselage. During the makeover I broke off the antenna and pitot tube and scratch-built replacements, I also added the IFF antenna at the same time. Now, I realize that there actually was a 19 Squadron Spitfire that had those codes, I plan on actually building that aircraft some day in the future. So, there we are. Be kind and thanks for looking.

I built the Monogram 1/72 scale EF-111 and hung it from the ceiling of the hobby shop that I was working at and received many compliments on it. One of the regular customers, an ex F-111 pilot pointed out that I had installed the nose landing gear bay and consequentially the nose landing gear the wrong way, 180 degrees opposite of how it should be. Noticed it right off. At least he was polite enough to wait until it was just he and I in the shop to speak up.

Nicely done! That came out really well!

I corrected the title of the thread. My apologies for any confusion that I may have caused.