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melvyn hiscock

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  1. All, apparently, now sorted with extras. A good result. Thanks Gary
  2. Hi, I have a small problem finding crosses for above and below the wings on my WNW Fokker DVII. in order to grr one before the sold out I got the Goering boxed but the crosses don’t have a white surround, not unless you include the complete airframe ive seached my decal stash and have nothing but do have swapsies from my Albatross ‘Bavarians’ and some left over from a Gnome Sopwith pup and the Le Rhone camel. I also have some Aeromaster 1/48 which I know are 20+ years old but if you can use them I have Dr1 and Alb Dv i just need four crosses thanks chaps Melv
  3. And just for help http://memorial.flight.free.fr/Strutteruk.html
  4. Including the Memorial Flight Association on if I remember correctly
  5. I do have to declare an interest in Aviation Historian. The managing editor is a friend of over 30 years and was one of my Best Men when I got married. I also wrote a LOT for Aeroplane when he was in charge. However I agree that it is perfect for the niche it has found. I could get more coverage from Flypast or Aeroplane but I don’t think they have the gravitas of AH.
  6. I found a pilot but he had two left arms i did remember i have remains of the ground support set which includes some pilot figures. you clan have them in the same deal as I got them. A donation for Macmillan or any other good cancer charity and they are yours
  7. I am doing one from the Lifelike sheet. I was going to do the Memorial Flight one but I had a nice month in a hospice and cane out just wanting to finish one without too much faff, too much faff he says and then starts (wrongly) five colouring it ans adding all those bas**** rib tapes. They were easy on my 1:1 scale Rearwin Cloudster but in 1/32....... I’ll put some photos up for general derision later but it has been hard getting back to modelling. I can’t get upstairs to where I used to do it so we have had to rejig the tiny room on this floor. the good bit is that the extra movement I’ve been doing has helped build the strength as I was very, very rough when I went into the hospice in November. ive also managed to get a couple or articles written for the excellent ‘Aviation Historian’ not only edited by one of my oldest friends and one of my best men (I had two, I’m greedy) but it is a fantastically diverse and well -researched magazine. Watch out for PR Spitfire’s that weren’t but should have been and the history of the blue and white striped Albatros DVa that was included in WNW Bavarians.
  8. I may have one. It depends on if it has the requisite number of arms.
  9. I was using the faded five colour and I have just finished the covering. I have a tiny amount left but it is lucky I don’t have to cover the tail.
  10. Well, I can *just* manage to get the covering out of two packs and don’t need to buy a third but that is only because I am not covering the tail (Jasta Boelke, black and white divide) now to let it harden and do all those rib tapes......
  11. All the time I was recently in hospital manfully avoiding my imminent death (much closer to the truth than the flippancy of that remark might suggest) I was anxious to get back to my WNW DVII. I was going to do this in the colours of the Memorial Flight one, but decided to take an easier route and do one from a Lifelike sheet. I bought lozenge and found there was not enough for a complete airframe so bought another sheet (kerching). now, being fit enough to have moved ahead I have started wallpapering it and guess what?, TWO SHEETS do not give enough to cover the whole airframe. this is even without covering the tail, as that is Jasta Boelke so black and white. it looks like HGW are getting more money, and I thought using aviatik would have been expensive. why can’t I buy it on a roll like the originals? Melv
  12. Yes thanks, I’d found the top one. The main cockpit is ok, it is the radio and nav station behind I’m after
  13. Hi Since I am slowly getting towards the completion of my WNW DVII, my hypothetical PR Spitfire to illustrate a magazine article is in primer (can I brush Vallejo or should I spray with distilled water) I thought it was about time I started thinking and the next project. youncan tell by this that I am improving slightly health wise. So the intention is Trumpeter C47 OOB except for rudder and wheels, as ZA947, our much beloved BBMF Dak. I will be doing the panel in grey, as it is now, and can find some pictures of the cockpit but I have nothing on the bit between the but where the guys that stay with the aeroplane sit, and the bit where the disposable load sits, again well documented. It’s that bit in between with radios and the bar and all that is. I’ll make it up out of the box, it is how each bit is coloured. The destructions are none too clear. thanks in advance. oh, by the way, I still have a Goering to get rid of, pay the postage, he’s yours. rocket pods and sidewinders from the 32nd Hunter, again, postage and they’re yours. In both cases a few bob to a cancer charity would be appreciated.
  14. Xt of P, if you have not heard from me by next weekend, pm me. Coming out of hospital after a month is pretty busy! happy to help though Melvyn
  15. When I get home from hospice on Tuesday I’ll look to see what I have. Bear with me. I’m making the DVIIF so I think I might be able to help
  16. Hi, i need a jpg copy of side fuselage drawings for Spitfire IX, T9, and high and low back 14/18/19. these are to the the basis of new artwork to illustrate an article on some Spitfire designs that perhaps should have made it. I would use my copy of Dutch Spitfires, but can no longer get upstairs where it is in storage due to my cancer. it is a fun story, bourne out of a conversation between Viv Bellamy and Jeffrey Quill when making BofB in 196* and the story needs airing. these are just for me to scribble on to show the artist, so please help. i can be emailed melvyn’at’ melvynhiscock.com many thanks Melvyn ps, still battling the cancer but nearly lost it July. Not giving in yet!
  17. It was at the School of Special Flying, at Gosport, where the system of flying training we all use today was pretty well invented. It is worth looking into the work they did (and the lives they saved) under Robert Smith Barry. Instructors were allowed their own aircraft to hone their skills, as if the instructors could not fly to the edge of the envelope, how could they teach pilots to avoid it safely. This Pup was used by Harold Balfour who became Secretary of State for Air in World War Two. It is a great model of a surprisingly significant aeroplane. much better than my attempt....
  18. Thanks for the comments. i don’t have a lot of memory about it, which is good, but I do remember on night’s disturbed sleep trying to work out how I am going to be able to mask the DVII Fuselage with the lozenge and the stripes. mostly it was really boring with horrid food and quite a lot of pain. since I have been home (just over two weeks) I’ve been resting, well, not running up and down stairs to make models, and getting the hated index done on the guitar book, which has progressed in my absence with help from some fantastic people who were not only there for me, but for Caroline. once again, I got saved by the good people from the acute oncology ward at Queen Alexandra Hospital and being lucky that we got me here in time. So, the Hunter is done save for the serials, the Spitfire just weathering, the DVII is waiting for me to work out which order to finish it in (and to try and fin the Lo! Marking) and my SPAD needs upper wing roundels (pigmented dope not paint like the lower wing, so the white section is cdl.), the correct CHD badge for Dolan and a possible serial. and I need to get fitter thanks again for the nice words
  19. Update. the Hunter build nearly outlived me! i am still waiting for 1/32 white serials but meanwhile spent a few days in intensive care through Sepsis. Luckily I don’t remember a lot about it, but poor Mrs H was called in twice. Not nice. That was about a month ago and all a blur. Recovering slowly and getting the guitar book finished, as it is too close to leave, and then should be able to get back to modelling soon. The WNW DVII was going well and I was about to start drawing masks for my SPAD, the DVII and, of course, I could do the Hunter. The worst bit now is the fatigue. The infection obviously took it out of me as it came pretty close (Blood pressure at one point of 5) so shedding that is har enough but the painkillers and antibiotics are all hard work. but, I am alive and therefore consider myself very fortunate. The modelling can wait as there are a lot of people who are in much worse condition than me.
  20. As I slowly grind through The pile of stuff in the bench (just waiting for serials for my Neville Duke Hunter, some masks for my Memorial Flight Spad - which would arrive much quicker if I ordered them, and my Memorial Flight DVII which I am really enjoying) thoughts are going to what next. It will either be the ICM Sea Glad as Faith, or the Trumpeter Swordfish. Both will get done, but I need some help with the Swordfish. I had already decided it will be NF389, the Lee on Solient one, as I grew up seeing this at various air days (third Sat in July). Both ‘389 and LS326 were used, and flown, in the film and I’d like to get 389 at that time. Later she got stripped a bit, repainted for DDay 50, but I would like that EDSG/slate/sky scheme I saw at so many shows. I am also wondering If there would be any air frame changes. Melyn
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