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It's not the way, @veg
The problem is that this badge is supposed to look like it was designed in the mid-20th century. For now, I'm looking for a ready-made one, but from what I can see, both the Bentley R-Type and the Daimler Majestic Major V8 did not have such badges on the rear of the car. But I only see photos, and you know these cars organoleptically - you grew up in their company. Hence my question.
Because it's not a problem to find a modern "450" or even "4.5 liter" badge from a Mercedes or Cadillac - I want it to fit a body from 70 years ago. If I don't find a ready-made one, I'll design and print it in 3D.
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Michael
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It's not that simple, @Neddy - it has to look like a badge from +/- 70 years ago.
And no 4.6 there - it has to be "4 1/2 litre" or possibly "4.5 litre". That's why I'm bothering Britmodellers, because only you had such cars at that time...
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Michael
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I'm building a full-sized restomod with a British body and an equally British (I know it was born in Buick) Range Rover V8 4.6 engine. And I'd like to emphasize it with an equally British "4.5 litre" badge, or even better "4 1/2 litre".
There aren't many cars like that - the Bentley R-Type and Mk.VI and the Daimler V8 Majestic Major come to mind. The question is, did any of them have such a badge on their body?
A bare "4.5" from a Mercedes W108 280SE looks terribly Teutonic, and I don't really feel like modifying badges from a Rover P5B 3.5 litre or a Daimler V8 2.5 litre. Does anyone have a better idea?
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Michael
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Actually I have two stashes - one in my flat and the other in the garage of my classic cars a few hundred metres from home. And I don't feel like going to the second one right now (check your watch
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And in my home stash I only have a dozen jetliners, half of which have fuselages without holes for windows, three have holes, but the manufacturer (Revell) doesn't provide windows, and only three (Zvezda) have windows. Of these three, the A320 has the largest windows (2.8x1.9mm), but these windows are not rectangles - rather something like a speedway track. The Tu-154 has rectangles, but tiny ones (2.3x1.7mm), and the B737 has rectangles that are a bit bigger (2.4x1.8mm). And since the transparent sprue is common to several B737 boxings, I have about 50+ unused windows left - if you give me your address in PM I can send them to you. Maybe one of our BM buddies also has a Zvezda B737 and can help you in your trouble, too.
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Michael
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Dieda, please 🙏: either Polish Field Howitzer or Polska Haubica Polowa
Mixing languages in technical vocabulary can lead to such tongue twisters as sottomarino nükleer – nosiciel bärare van mísseis termonucleares suborbitaux mit mehreren warheads
Although a similar result can be obtained in a single language - for example Langstrecken-Allweterabfangjagdzweisitzer.
But German is specific in this respect
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Michael
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2 hours ago, Work In Progress said:
The 605 was a few litres larger in capacity, effectively a bored-out 601...
Exactly 1,834cc (some 5%) larger, as it was just 4mm bored out with no change of stroke.
Something like Opel Rekord CIH 1900 and 2000cc🚗
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Michael
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17 minutes ago, PatG said:
In the Augsburg Eagle book by William Green, albeit quite old, it says that the Dora was fitted with the DB600 engine....
Believing in data from books published 40 or 50 years ago can end similarly to trusting weather forecasts - with going out into the snow in beach flip-flops.
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Michael
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I can't tell you much about A/B/C/R, because the last time I had contact with them was a good 40 years ago. But when it comes to D/G, there are two good tools on the market - Fujimi and Academy. Basically, they only differ in that one is consistent with the drawings from those (roughly 50%) sources, according to which the Ju-87D is 11.50m long, and the other with the half, where it is 11.05m.
And for 20 years, nobody has had the time to go to Hendon (where the only preserved specimen stands) and measure how much it really should be.
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Michael
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On 6/10/2025 at 1:59 AM, Geoffrey Sinclair said:
Warwick C.I, ASR.I, ... C.III - Double Wasp R-2800 ...15ft diameter
Warwick II - Centaurus VII ... 14ft 9ins diameter
It's great, @Geoffrey Sinclair, that you managed to get this data in numerical form, because on all the Warwick blueprints I know of, after converting the scale it came out to 14ft 8in for the R-2800-engined Mk.I & III and 14ft 3in for the Centaurus-engined Mk.II & V. Thus on the drawings also the British four-bladed ones are a few inches smaller than the American three-bladed ones. Great thanks again👏
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Michael
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The question may seem strange, but I have been intrigued by this topic for years. Especially since yesterday I came across this formulation in en.wikipedia.org: Initially, the Iowas carried the Vought OS2U Kingfisher and Curtiss SC Seahawk, both of which were employed to spot the battleship's main gun batteries – and, in a secondary capacity, perform search-and-rescue missions.
Logically, it would seem that these were initially Kingfishers, and then (from spring 1945) Seahawks. But the "and" used in this sentence suggests that both types existed simultaneously, probably in a 2+1 arrangement (Iowas had 3 seaplanes as standard). I know Wiki is not a perfect source, but logic is not always followed, too. An additional aspect is Yamato (a potential equivalent of Iowa), which certainly had E13As and F1Ms on board at the same time.
So does anyone have any data (preferably a photo) indicating the simultaneous presence of OS2U and SC-1 on Iowa board, or was it just that one day in 1945 when Kingfishers were lifted by crane to the shore and Seahawks were transferred on board?
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Michael
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I bought an otherwise excellent Platz Curtiss C-46 kit, but the civilian plane (Alaska Airlines) for which I have decals had 3-blade paddle propellers, and the kit only includes 4-blade Hamiltons, typical for wartime military versions. Has anyone come across aftermarket paddle propellers for the C-46 or do I have to copy the Roden DC-6 or CV-340 propellers in resin?
I have a similar problem with Viscount - the FRsin kit contains no more and no less than 32 blades (16 rounded and 16 squared-off) for individual gluing to the spinners (what a stupid idea!). But due to the typical FRsin problems with injection pressure, only 7 round and 5 angular ones are usable. So a similar question: does anyone know of an aftermarket propeller set for the Viscount or do I have to buy an S&M kit just to use its (perfectly good by the way) propellers?
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Michael
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Great job. However, there is one problem with the 1:72 F-100s - each of them looks credible and is undoubtedly an F-100.
Only when you put them next to each other the main u/c wheels look like they were transferred from an agricultural tractor: one took the front ones, the other the rear ones
Luckily you replaced the wheels with the right ones 👍
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Michael
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Dutch parcels within EU are VAT- and customs-free. And according to the Postnl webpage the 500g parcel fee is E11, rising to E14 for the 1000g one.
Of course the shipment fares offered by the shop can be higher.
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Michael
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Q2 ends on June 30, and the July leaflet for distributors has already been released and still no word on Albatros D.III.
Something is rotten in the state of... Eduard...
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Michael
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Marvellous result 👏
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Michael
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Looking through photos of "saloon car" racers from 50 years ago I found such an interesting fact and I would really like to know how it happened. Namely, on the legendary MGC GTS "Mabel", which in the hands of Hopkirk and Hedges won 10th place in Sebring 1968, there are simultaneously (yes, on the same fender, a few inches apart) Castrol and Shell stickers. We all know how fiercely these companies competed with each other, hence my question: who provided oil for the BLMC team in this race - Castrol or Shell? And how on earth is there a competitor's logo next to this supplier?
What's even better, the same situation appears on the Escorts Mk.2 RS1800 of the Zakspeed team in 1976. Both the Finotto/Mueller car, starting in the ETCC as #27, and the car of Armin Hahne (#33 in the DRM series) also have Castrol and Shell logos next to each other. Does anyone know the circumstances of this conjunction?
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Michael
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17 hours ago, georgeusa said:
Great work on the Grumman pair of aircraft. (Yeah I know the TBM was built by General Motors, but a license build from Grumman design).
To be precise, both TBM and FM are General Motors products - Grumman did not manufacture tall-finned Wildcats at all.
Nevertheless - excellent work.
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Michael
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14 hours ago, Graham Boak said:
As for it being a local in-service modification, this appears to be yet another of these myths arising from ignorance.
I am not sure if this was a local in-service modification. On the Ju 52 production list the last 11 aircraft for South Africa and the last 4 for Swedish ABA airlines have the designation 3m sa1 (or 3m sai), which no other aircraft on the list have. And the Swedish ones (called 3m vai in another source), by a strange coincidence, also have R-1535 engines, mounted parallel to the fuselage...
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Michael
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5 hours ago, Graham Boak said:
Later aircraft have slightly longer cowlings with cooling gills and (perhaps?) a smaller diameter. It says nothing about any re-engining: the Twin Wasp was a much more powerful engine and it seems an unsuitable choice.
But we are not talking about the "real" Twin Wasp (R-1830), which is indeed an engine of a slightly different weight and power class than the Hornet/BMW 132, but about its baby sibling - the R-1535 Twin Wasp Junior, used as a replacement for the compact Bristol Mercury in the Fokker D.XXI and G.I, Bristol Bolingbroke or Miles Master Mk.III.
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Michael
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21 minutes ago, stevehnz said:
I think you're probably right Michael. I was relying on memory. You'd think I'd know better.
But on the other hand, such a 600hp R-1340 would be a retrograde step from the 800hp R-1690. I'm afraid that both of our guesses are off, i.e. yours is better, because the first 5 South African Airways Ju-52/3m (with spread out engines in Townend rings, ZS-AFA/AFD, delivered in 1934-35) did indeed have Hornets https://www.avcom.co.za/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=183911
But those 11 with NACA cowlings (ZS-AJF/AJJ, ZS-AKY, ZS-ALO/ALU, delivered in 1937-38) probably had Wasps - however not 9-cylinder R-1340s, but 14-cylinder R-1535s. At least the gear casing looks identical here
as here:
After being impressed into military service in 1940, eleven were given SAAF serial numbers from 660 to 670, with only #660 being of the old 1935 type and the remaining ten of the new 1937/38 type.
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Michael
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1 hour ago, stevehnz said:
I'd forgotten about the SAA aircraft with the Hornet engines, it really does change their look, in a good way I reckon.
Are you sure that the Ju 52/3m sa1 had Hornets? A standard BMW 132 (e.g. from the 3m g) is not much more than a licenced P&W Hornet, and here the engines seem to be much smaller
https://www.airhistory.net/photo/351348/SE-AFD - I would rather bet on the P&W Wasp R-1340, while the three-blade propellers suggest the geared ones.
But the most interesting thing is the mounting of the outer engines parallel to the flight line, and not spread out like in the standard 52/3m g - this detail (and the fairings on the wheels) probably changes the SAAF (ex-SAA) Junkers silhouette the most.
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Michael
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It's a strange story with this G-ABHG. It wasn't a standard A.19 Cloud, but the only A.19/2 built with (allegedly) twin fins and triple rudders. I say "allegedly" because both in the photo of this example in its original monoplane configuration with three AS Lynx engines https://www.graptolite.net/Facta_Nautica/varia/Delfin.html and after the conversion to an inverted sesquiplane layout with two much larger PW Wasps http://www.jaapteeuwen.com/ww2aircraft/html pages/SARO A19 CLOUD.htm - I can still see the standard single fin
Does anyone have any other photos of this oddity?
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Michael
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A request, or rather two, although somewhat related. The first concerns Oxfords from 173 and 244 Sq. RAF. Are there any photos of these aircraft or are the serial numbers known?
The second concerns eight Oxfords: PG933/951/952/981, PH232/233/239/250 - is their wartime (i.e. pre-May 1945) fate known? Any information would be very helpful.
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Michael
A "4 1/2 litre" or "4.5 litre" badge from a British classic
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OK, @Noel Smith, that's a good lead. I just still don't know what to look for, in other words I don't know if any car ever had a badge like that.
Daimler probably didn't, Lagonda definitely didn't, Bentley definitely didn't, and others?
And that's the main reason for my post - not "will someone sell me such a badge" but "does anyone know that such a badge even existed".
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Michael