theplasticsurgeon

I've just completed my Airfix Horsa. At Jet Age Museum we have two members who flew Horsa IIs during Operation Varsity crossing the Rhine, and are constructing a replica Horsa nose section http://www.jetagemuseum.org/HorsaHeritage.aspx One pilot, Ken Plowman, autographed the box for my kit, and gave members a talk about his wartime service a few months ago. Very exciting as he landed without flaps, and the nose broke clean off his Horsa. Fortunately no casualties. Hence I built mine as an AS58 Horsa II, airborne, steep angle of descent, without flaps - Brace for impact, this is going to be a rough one! For a flying mode, you'll need pilots from another kit - mine came from an Anson. I know the fuselage section changed for the AS58 - but went with the kit. Also for the AS51 Horsa I, the windscreen needs two extra frames - to give 8 panels in front of the pilots. Four panels of the kit is correct only for the Horsa II. Best of luck for your build.

Plumduff-Plus - 8000lb cookie, and crutches for 6 500 pounders! And bulged bomb bay doors. That bomb is leftover from a previous Lancaster build.

So today I've framed the canopy - an drilled portholes into the escape hatches. and closeup and

Today I found this page, with all the answers: http://www.lancaster-archive.com/lanc_bomb_loads.htm AND this picture of my Lancaster: http://s591.photobucket.com/user/Lancaster-Archive/media/WP%20Source/DS842-1.jpg.html

Today I installed the cockpit, nose dome and flight engineer. Cockpit, with flight engineer installed. Top Turret: I've got a 4000lb cookie from a previous Lancaster, so what else would be carried with this bomb? Would that be mixed with incendiaries?

Started working on the turrets tonight. Up front: And down back.

Fitted the undercarriage tonight: and

And decals are where she gains her identity . . . Not finished yet - but downhill from here.

Airbrushed green. Masking removed. I'm quite pleased

Academy 1/48 model

Masked up ready for airbrushing the green tomorrow. That's thinly sliced insulation tape to define the edges, and Maskol to mask the brown areas.

Masked and airbrushed brown.

A bit more work on engines, covers and undercarriage. Fitting the outer engine cowlings is a bit of a mare!

A bit more assembly, and airbrushed the undersides tonight. Hoping to remain with you thru to the end now.

Well I'm back with you and have pushed on a bit further. Wings last week and power-eggs tonight.

I did a build of a XX900 Red Flag Buccaneer in the Less Than a Tenner GB last year. http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234954295-tims-brick-finished/ One of those overpainted with brown/sand over the green/grey camo. No aftermarket anything required, just box contents from the Airfix 1/48th RAF Buccaneer. Pics will return on Friday, when my photobucket bandwidth quota is reset for the month.

This was a Liveries Unlimited set - hence no longer available mainstream. Around the time I built this there was an article in Scale Aircraft Modelling where someone built it with USAF Medical Airlift markings.

Well, I'm not fully released from Jet Age - just on parole at the moment. Enough for me to complete the fuselage like this. And just found this photo of undecarriage bay detail.

If you can find decals, you could convert to this VC-9C Presidential transport. Liveries Unlimited decals, and a small aerial added at back of stabiliser bullet.

Shamefully for me - no progress. Very busy with other projects, this one is still there on my workbench reminding me that she exists. Colour scheme will be the White/Grey scheme depicted on the nose art - huge thanks to HGBN for sending me the painting page of instructions. I will be back!

Just to make your day Armando - here's one I built around 1990. I built this Airfix 1990s mould GR7 earlier this year. The one thing I noticed about the Esci model is the frame between the fixed and sliding portions of the canopy isn't vertical.

DH Venom just flew over my back garden - heading North. Probably a Sea Venom as the plan view of the jet pipe area was Vee shaped.

Those are the decals in the Airfix kit. No aftermarket in that baby.

If only!

Sadly - I'm having to put this build into a holding pattern. I've been given the responsibility of a very new Airfix product for Jet Age museum - with a VERY ambitious deadline. I should be back with you by mid-October.