Graham T

Yay, God is in his heaven & all is right with the world!

That's annoying.

Is that a development of the Klingon cloak?

Nice pics....try building a Typhoon in the configuration shown in that first shot & entering it into a competition! (Oh & that Tornado is Italian. not Spanish but I expect you know that!)

Gosh I remember building this back in "1900 & frozen to death"! Wasn't bad as I recall, "but then, I was very, very drunk"!

Looks like you're going to be doing a proper job on this, keep posting (& as I've said before, I LOVE the girl in your sig !)

Looking good. I over looked the matter of the canopy breakers on mine. May have to go back & revisit them!

That's going to be nice. I think the RN scheme really suits the Meteor.

That's a nice job Stephen. I've just picked up a Hobby Boss B for which I've got the Skyraider decals & am awaiting their correction sets.

Title says it all!

Yes it is. IIRC it's for a visual ground inspection on single seaters - possibly it is accomplished from the back seat on twin seaters like the D/N? I'm kicking myself for forgetting to add the mask for the small "pop-out" lamp on the starboard intake!

If it's real, then surely he's landing VERY short! I temper this opinion with the fact that I am not a pilot!

Oh @+****, I was aware that they existed on the real thing but NOT that they were on the sprue - bloody instructions. Ithrew out the box & used sprues yesterday & unfortunately, the bin men came yesterday afternoon so I was unable to retreive them. I'll remember them for next time when I build an "N"!

Off all the Caberras in all the air forces in all the world.....what are the chances?

Nice model.....and you've really gotta love Babblefish translations!

Got a similar problem with the current Etendard project. I got the kit off ebay a while back & it looks as if the previous owner had taped certain parts together for a test. The Cellotape has gone yellow with age & the residure resists all attempts at removal short of sanding!

I built this model a couple of years back & it's a real beauty (tried building the CA offering but can't get the fuselage together so it's been pushed to the back of the queue). Anyway, it's featured in a gallery over on ARC (http://www.s205409446.onlinehome.us/Gal4/3401-3500/gal3486_Canberra_Tarran/00.shtm) & late last year, I received an out of the blue email from a former RAF Canberra (& Vulcan) pilot, complementing me on the build. The serial no was unclear in the photos on ARC but once he'd furnished me with a list of the B2's he'd flown, I was able to confirm that it was one of his! Now as most of us know, space for finished models is at a premium so inevitably, some models "roll of the end of the shelf" after a while. While I would NEVER have junked this kit, I felt the best possible place for it would be with the man who flew it. I recontacted him offering it as a gift & he was thrilled. Nice feeling. He also relayed to me the following amusing tale: "I look back on my Canberra days with great affection and am still in touch with both my navs of two tours together. There was so much freedom of action in those days. Nobody would believe it now ! When 32 Sqn was reformed as a bobmer Sqn at Akrotiri in Cyprus in 1957 we were told after about 6 months that we were to have a royal standard. Much thought went into preparing for this event and my boss personally drew up and had expensively printed the menu for the formal dinner without consulting the caterers or anyone else. It started with canteloupe melon and a couple of weeks before the event he discoverd that melons were out of season in Cyprus. Thus he told me to have an aircraft fitted with a bomb bay pannier and go and buy sufficient melons for the dinner. I asked him where we should go for this and he told me to get on with it and leave him to loftier considerations ! So we set off, first to Tripoli in Western Libya where there were no melons. Then to Kano in Nigeria -nothing. So we then flew right across Africa to Uganda (Entebbe) again without success. From there we went to Nairobi, South to New Sarum in Rhodesia and then back to base via Aden, Sharjah in the Gulf, and Habbaniya in Iraq arriving at Akrotiri after 10 or 12 days away with no melons ! God knows what this venture must have cost the RAF, we just chose our own destinations, didn't pay a bean anywhere and signed chits for all the fuel, food and accommodation. The whole idea of doing anything like this nowadays just wouldn't be possible let alone be believed ! The finale to this saga was with the Accounts section from which we had drawn a modest sum to cover the cost of the melons. At every destination en route we converted all of this into local currency but, of course, were unable to spend any of it. When eventually we handed back a pile of dirty notes there was slightly more than we'd started with which threw the accountant officer into absolute panic which became fury when we suggested he buy us a beer with the surplus ! Strange folk are accountants. I magine trying to get away with this today!!

Oh no, we're not going the way of Hyperscale & their endless debates about the colour behind the P47 windows!!! My guess would be the usual airframe colour - "others may know more"!

Blimey, nice work!

No problem Antoine, with you guidance I think I got all the VISIBLE differences although I now wish I'd added the outboard wing pylons for some AAM's as most photos seem to show them fitted. The silvering is annoying & I should have handled it better; the decals are actually very, very good!

Thought that'd tickle your fancy Bex! I'm actually sitting here at the keyborad, pondering whether I should recontact the chap in question & offer to present it to him as it appears in his log! (BTW, what's happended to your dad's pic? Not showing up).

I also lurk over at ARC & a while ago I sent in an article for their gallery on the Aeroclub Canberra. See it here: http://www.s205409446.onlinehome.us/Gal4/3..._Tarran/00.shtm I was just replying to a post over on ARC about the Bruce Barrymore Halpenny book & it reminded me of an email I received last year from an ex-RAF Canberra pilot who had seen the article, concerning the incorrect colour of the station nose flash on the model I had built. "No names or pack drill" so I'm sure he wouldn't mind me posting his comments as follow, but the real point of my post is that he actually flew the a/c I'd built! With all the a/c, units & pilots, what are the chances!? Anyway here's the text...note how he states that the Harland & Woolf examples seemed quarried rather than built! Wow, that was quick ! Thank you so much for the modelling info. I'm not much of a modeller and don't have your skills but will look out for the Airfix Canberra appearing on the market as my old (40 years old !) model is now minus several bits. I wonder what sources Bruce Barrymore Halfpenny used. The only colours he got right were those of 12 and 101 Sqns and you say he quotes these as being at Marham. They were all at Binbrook ! In fact, 101 was the first squadron to get the Canberra and converted straight from Lincolns on the Station. 617 was the next. All except 50 Sqn eventually converted to the Mk6. Marham housed 115, 207 and 214 Sqns. In the Canberra's heyday there were Squadrons at Binbrook, Hemswell, Coningsby, Marham, Honington, Wittering, Cottesmore, Scampton, Bassingbourn, Weston Zoyland, Waddington, Gutersloh,Laabruch, Bruggen, Wildenrath,Geilenkirchen and Akrotiri. I flew 3 tours and almost 1200 hours on this aircraft with 617, 21 and 32 Sqns before moving on to the Vulcan and loved it. It was a delight to fly, was almost viceless and could outmanouevre at high altitude all the current fighters of the time. On the debit side it was numbingly cold and after about 45 mins at operating height ( above 40,000ft) everything in the cockpit was covered in rime. This one got used to in the dismal climate of England but in the Far East you were soaked through by the time you started the engines and soon afterwards everything you wore felt like frozen cardboard ! The little tins of orange juice which we were issued with had to be drunk within about the first 2 hours or they became solid !! Couldn't make out the tail number of your super model but the B2's on the Squadron from my log book were : 995, 965, 986, 113, 854, 916 and 108. Generally they were black and grey and English Electric built but a few were green and grey camouflaged and built either by Handley Page or Avro. You could always tell a Handley Page built Canberra because on the ground it sat in a tail down attitude. God knows why ! All of our (later) B6's were built by Short and Harland at Belfast. I say "built" but they appeared more to have been quarried. They were awful, no two were the same and we had so many problems with them that we had a Shorts rep with us permanently for about 6 months and I'm afraid we gave him a hard time ! Sorry for rambling on. Good luck with your modelling. Finally, I attach a photo of me and my crew showing the red 617 flash although this was after we converted to the B6.

Verilly thou hast produced a pretty bang on job! What scale? Hasegawa 1/48??

Hey, Harlow, you're just down the road from me in Stortford! I used the 13 squadron decals off that sheet - didn't find them too good (basically too thin so the underlying colour showed through). Didn't know Flightpath offered ALARMS; I'll have to pick some up.

Nice work. Model Alliance decals? Paragon add-ons?