Gary West
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Not sure still but most likely, either.........Lightning F6, Lightning T5, or Canberra T4
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What a fantastic collection - British aviation heritage basically. I've got a photo of my Dad helping restore that Thor missile somewhere.
Thanks for posting these.
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Whilst the model looks good... that 'wet' effect on the apron is brilliant!
C'mon admit it John, you spilt your coffee right? Granby schemes can be very hit or miss - you hit this one though.
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Do check out the rest of his pictures.
A Whirlwind with floats - never seen that before
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Looks like one of the reviews held at Yeovilton?
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I don't think I will risk brushing future on. I can just imagine a Client coming back in five years time saying I paid you £*** and it's terned yellow
So use that as the excuse to get another order from your client
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and then BRUSHED Klear on as opposed to Airbrushing it on, worked a treat.
That's the difference Mike - I brushed mine on too
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God I hate you Phil - what a job sitting at home making models all day. Bloody nice that Hunter - love the weathering too, just right
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I always thought it would make sense to give 29sqn (the OCU/training unit) mostly twin seaters, 17 a mix, and then 3 and 11 could have mostly singles and maybe one or two twin tubs....
Well that would follow what has always happened to single seat fighter units. 17 sqn's days are numbered - as the OEU anyway. Their services wont be needed for too much longer I wouldn't have thought. Be interesting to see if the squadron badge becomes adopted elsewhere?
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or give it a quick blast of Kleer with your air brush.
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Like the fully loaded F2 and BMF Starfighters always look great - nice kits.
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Your doing tht kit proud John - lovey craftsmanship there.
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And nobody can tell me the Meteor T7 and Vampire T11 look better than the singe seat examples.
Well for the Meteor I can
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Hndsome cockpit Jens. Like your detail work
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Its incredible to think an aircraft could be lost this way, but its happened more than once, as I recall 1 or 2 Harrier losses in the Falklands conflict were due to similar accidents - could be wrong about this? I'm sure I read that somewhere though.
I am happy to be corrected, but I dont think thats true - Harriers were lost on the Atlantic Conveyer when she was hit with an Exocet (Thanks France :w***: ) and a couple were lost in accidents/bad weather. I'd love to know more aout Harrier losses in 82 though.
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I use needles where I can but where the Pitot is fairly complicated, I tend to add a RBF sleeve to cover the needle up - what remains exposed at least looks natural metal.
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Cool ... Where do I get these from
Looks like a nice set of handy tools to have around
Sean - You can buy these from arty shops or alternatively Scale Aircraft Models advertise a version in most months editions - that is where I got mine from. What ever you get make sure its flexible so you can wrap it around curves etc.
Re panel lines - apart from Jens suggestion. you can also use good old needles - I clamp one in a modelling knife handle and re scribe that way...dont forget your Dymo tape too! Because Dymo tape is self adhesive, you just stick it to the surface of your kit and the raised profile of the tape gives you a nice steady guide to scribe against.
Good hunting
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...things like the Gripen and Rafale have been operational foe years and here we are just catching up?
I think the Rafale went into operational use around the same time as the Typhoon - certainly not years earlier and the development timescales were roughly the same (France was considered to join the Eurofighter programme but as usual.....)
Didn't know if you meant the Typhoon or the T1 itself - I suppose at the end of the day any fighter can only really be measured on it's performance in a war or exercise scenario, and it's probably a bit early for that. Just nice to see the RAF at last has a fighter that offer great agility as well as speed and power.
although it's taking an age to come through, which seems to be the way for modern jets. Better that than unleash a buggy, untested jet on the unsuspecting pilots though, I suppose.I agree - although there is still tension in the world, we no longer have the Cold war threat pushing for "in service" asap dates.
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So are these Tea bags going to be any good then?
Meaning????????
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No pics to show, but I notice 3 squadron are now the proud owners of 2 T1 aircraft. Love those 2 seaters
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That Tamiya tape is wonderful stuff
Nice Navy brick Mike -
Like Bill, I too am after the JP5. I got the JP3 a couple of months ago, also the T7 conversion - both off Ebay. Any JP5's going spare............
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but I do have a question , how the hell to you re-do the circles on top of the fuselage ?
Not too difficult Sean - I have SAM's flexi metal rule thingy which has lotes of templates for squares and circles. I'm not there yet, but I'll use that with a needle to scribe them.
Sorry Bill - for every one I rework I easliy buy 20 new ones
Not really sure what you mean Mike, but hazarding a guess I'd say no thanks
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Having enjoyed finishing my reclaimed Lightning recently, I just started on another old reclaim. I built this 16 years ago as an FGR2 of 1435 (Flaklands) Flt originally but set about stripping it down a couple of weeks ago.
Unlike my Lightning, stripping the paint of this one was hard work and almost every panel line has had to be rescribed, not to mention the rivet heads. Again quite limited to what I could do in the pit, because it's all assembled.
Started with the front coming and built a HUD unit (which stil needs to be finished) and added some cabelling. Then added cabeling behind the Navs seat and added some bits and pieces inside too (none of this gets seen when the seats are in
)Lastly, I built up the Navs avionics set up as I noticed from reference images that the middle canopy section is fully occupied, and mine wasn't. A few pics.......
quids in.
Nice Navy brick Mike
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1/48 Harrier twin seat conversions
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Oo oo my fav subject
A little bit of experience - I built the Maintrack T10 conversion a fair few years ago, and this is God awful. No interior detailing what so ever, but that is out there too on Ebay.
I have the Heritage T8 in 1:48, which is built awaiting some cockpit detailing. (see link below I posted on ARC early last year) Not bad, and I would recommend this.
ARC T8
I also have the Heritage T10 awaiting to be built. Heritage conversions aren't bad (given they are/were the only option) and they do have some interior detailing too - but of course a little styrene here and there and it would look half decent. The ALITALIANE version, I have only seen on the Internet. Shaun started a WIP thread on ARC...see below, and this uses the Alitaliane conversion.
ARC T10
Gary