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Absolutely immaculate rendition of a beautiful aircraft

Magnificent!!

Lovely!!

Wow!! Great idea!

excellent model of the brute!!

Outstanding!!

Thankyou folks!!

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Thank you gents for your encouragement!!

1/72 "Lift Here" Resin Indian Navy, Shorts SA 6 Sealand, Cochin 1953. The Shorts Sealand has a special place in the heart of Indian Naval Aviation. The type was the first aircraft to be inducted after the establishment of the Directorate of Naval Aviation and training of Indian Naval Aviators. An order for ten of these amphibians was placed in 1952. The first Sealand INS-101 was handed over on 13 Jan 53 . The aircraft arrived in due course of time by February . The last of the Sealands arrived in Oct 53. The FRU, or the Fleet Requirements Unit was commissioned on 11 Mar 53 on the Sealand under the command of Lt Cdr YN Singh who had flown Martlets with the RN off Malaya.. The FRU used to operated from Cochin's airfield at Willingdon Island, then known as INS Vendurthy II which was soon rechristened as INS Garuda. The Sealand was in service for ten years until 1963, when it was phased out as new aircraft were inducted in service. The aircraft was phased out in 1965, after just over 12 years of service. Today a lone Sealand IN-106 survives and is on display at the Naval Aviation Museum, Goa . Fairly easy kit with huge detail but needs careful alignment of wing, engines and empennage. Windows are Testors clear glue. Decals are Bright Spark and Spares. The diorama is the kit box inverted on a picture frame with a printed tarmac and hand-painted sea wall. the sea is tissue crumpled and stuck with water and glue. then painted and layered with Future and then added with random stones and wood from the garden.

Oh Bugger!! Yes all these were Cyrillic!!

Yes all the ones built by HAL had english. However, bought out items like the gun sight, radar controls, ADF, R/T, IFF, the Undercarriage and flaps control panel, Ejection seat controls, Oxygen, the Compass. Rxternal stenciling was all english.

The MiG 21 FL was simply the PF with the broad-chord fin (5.2 sq m) the first model to have it, and was given a new product number Izdeliye or Type-77. It had the derated R-13-300 engine, ADF without DME and no capability to carry the radar homing R-2s AAMs.The tail chute was dorsal ie; at the base of the fin and not below the engine. Also, it retained the forwarded opening canopy that was designed to encapsulate the pilot during supersonic ejections. It was the "Sports model" of all the versions. India received 197 FLs of which 38 were flyaway and the rest were built from 1966-74.

Really Good Troy, Lots of work there!!!

Thanx gents!!

This is the Aeropoxy Resin 1/48 Gnat Mk I/Ajeet (Invincible). After building roughly 270 Gnats at HAL and its outstanding performance against Pakistani Sabres and F 104s the Gnat was upgraded by adding an extra indoard hardpoint on each wing to take extra payload including Soviet UB-16-57 Rocket pods, a new Martin Baker Mk 9 seat, new avionics and fuel in the wings. The aircraft was rechristened the 'Ajeet" (Invincible) and was built from 1977 to 84. I chose to do it as an Ajeet from 2 Sqn "Winged Arrows" from the early 90s just before retirement at Kalaikunda. The model had to be converted by using two extra inboard pylons and UB-16-57 Russian rocket pods and modifying the seat to a Martin-Baker Mk 9. I used a salt spray over silver and then painted the camouflage of Russian green and Olive by Vallejo followed by careful sanding to bring out the silver. The crest and numeral '2' on the rudder are hand-painted with a decal numeral in the crest. National markings are Bright Spark and serials by tally Ho. The model shape is a bit short on length and the undercarriage had to be modified to get the sit more or less right. took a ton of steel balls in the nose. Pics of the real aircraft by Peter Steinemann.

Museum quality!! Well done!!

Thanx Troy, So, Tiger 331. Almost all (99%) of IAF Spitfire F/FR Mk XIVs were clipped winged low back examples all, being handed down from RAF Sqns converting to the XVIII or P-47. NH 848 was a low back FR Mk XVIIIe which was re serialed as HS639 and served withe last IAF Sqn, No 14 "Fighting Bulls" till Sep 1957. No evidence exists to show hat any of the 22 odd Mk XIVs left after independence carried the Chakra though. Also, all Mk XVIII s were full winged. If you don have access to my book, here's a relevant extract; One problem which did arise in service was localised skin wrinkling on the wings and fuselage at load attachment points; although Supermarine advised that the Mk XIVs had not been seriously weakened, nor were they on the point of failure, the RAF nevertheless issued instructions in early 1945 that all F and FR Mk XIVs were to be retrospectively fitted with clipped wings. Thus clipped wing Spitfire XIVs began to arrive in the South-East Asian Theatre in June 1945 (No. 11 Squadron RAF), too late to operate against the Japanese. The aircraft equipped with cameras were designated FR XIV and were built with both ‘C’ (Universal) and ‘E’ type wings. One restriction placed upon Mk XIVs equipped with the extra fuel tank in the rear fuselage was that they were not supposed to fly above 15,000ft (4,572m) with the tank full because of centre of gravity concerns. Late production F XIVs were cleared in January 1945 to operate in the fighter-bomber role carrying 250lb (113 kg) or 500lb (227kg) bombs, and a 30 or 90 Imp gal (136 or 409 liter) overload tank. Alternatively a J-type winch for towing targets could be carried. In total, 957 Mk XIVs were built, over 430 of which were FR Mk XIVs. Mk XIVs were exported to Belgium, Indian and Thailand. A total of 134 F/FR XIV were purchased in 1947 for the Force Aerienne Belge/ Belgische Luchtmacht (Royal Belgium Air Force), which remained in front-line service until December 1952 and were finally retired in 1954. Nos 1, 4, 6, 7, and 9 Squadrons of the Royal Indian Air Force flew approx 175 Spitfire Mk XIVs still with RAF serials. The type was retired by the re-titled Indian Air Force in the early 1950s. In 1950 a total of 30 reconditioned F/FR XIVs were purchased for the Royal Thai Air Force from RAF stocks in the Far East. They were used until 1955 before being withdrawn from service. Here's the RIAF AFO on the Chakra, note the last line. A.F.O. (I) Tech 1/48 AIR FORCE ORDERS AIR VICE-MARSHAL S. MUKERJEE, O.B.E., CHIEF OF THE AIR STAFF AND AIR VICE-MARSHAL COMMANDING, ROYAL INDIAN AIR FORCE. No. 1 Air Headquarters New Delhi, the 30th April 1948 1. National Markings for Aircraft Aircraft Indication Markings:- As specified in A.F.O. (I) 357/43 are cancelled and the superseded the new markings detailed below. The National Markings for R.I.A.F. Aircraft are to be shown in roundels consisting of ‘Asoka Chakras’ on wings and the fuselage and tricolor flashes on the fin. 2. Asoka Chakra is to be made in navy blue color and drawn from a dimension in relation to hub diameter:- Diameter of outer circle of the Chakra will be eight times the diameter of the hub. Width of the rim will be half the diameter of the hub. The hub and the rim will be connected by twenty-four spokes. The width of the spokes at the rim-end and the hub-end to be one eighteenth of the diameter of the hub. At one third of the length of the spokes, from the hub-end, the width of the spokes will be three times the width of the spokes at the ends. Thus the spokes will be uniformly reducing in width from the maximum width at one third the length to both the ends. On the inner sides of the distance and between the spokes, stiffeners are shown which are to be drawn of semicircular areas of diameter equal to half the distance between the spokes in that the straight side of the semicircular area to coincide the inner sides of the rim. 3. The tricolour flash will consist of a rectangular area divided into to vertical rectangles in different colours and is to be constructed as:- The width (taken as base) is to be divided into three parts such that middle part is one fourth of the total width and the outer two parts of equal length i.e., the outer pairs are each one and a half times the length and middle part. Vertical lines are to be drawn from the dividing points and width such that entire area is divided into three vertical rectangular areas. The leading rectangle is to be coloured in Saffron, the middle in white and the rear in dark green. Height of the flash to be 24 inches, which may be lesser if the fin area does not allow this. 4(i) Chakras are to be painted on the upper and the lower sides of the wings in case of monoplane aircraft. (ii) In case of biplane aircraft the Chakras are to be painted on the upper side of upper wings and lower side of lower wings. (iii) Chakras to be painted on both sides of the fuselage at appropriate place just behind the trailing edge of the wings such that sufficient place is left available to write aircraft Code letters and paint the International Ambulance Red Cross if required in case of Ambulance aircraft. (iv) Flash to be painted on the fin in vertical direction such that the Saffron colour is towards the leading side and green on the trailing side aircraft. Note:- In Dakota Aircraft Chakras to be painted directly above the junction of Tail Unit and Fuselage, and the code letters painted on top of the flash on the fin. 5. Dimension of National Markings. - The sizes of Chakras and the flashes to shown in the following table. The sizes for single seater fighter are those shown for medium sized Aircraft and the large size for transport and bomber Aircraft. The sizes may be selected according to the space available on the fin, fuselage and the wings. 1. PAINTS:- Roundels:- i. For metal surface. Stores Reference 33B/813, colour identification. Blue specification No. D.T.D. 752. ii.For Fabric surfaces. Stores Reference 33B/392 colour identification. Blue specification No. D.T.D. 83A. Note:- Where the roundel is not distinctly visible on camouflage paint a yellow base is to be given from colour identification on yellow stores ref. 33B/179. The circular yellow base should be of 3 inches bigger diameter than the diameter of Chakras. A Pic of the IAF museum's Mk XIV

these are the ferry tanks, 1200 l, came with the kit

does anyone have a scan of the instructions pls?? got and old box with no instructions!! cant find any on the www as well!! Regards LS

Thanx, Not really, everything fitted well, decals were a fright, just fell after a while!!

Italeri 1/48 Nesher Israeli air force, 117 Sqn Hornets, Hatzor, flown by Glora Epstein, Yom Kippur war Oct 73. 1990 kit, raised panel lines. All acrylic and chalk pastel .Decals stuck with white glue and water mix. panel lines with HB pencil and pastel shading.

Magnifique!!

Beauty!!

and a very small nitpick, It was Palel not Patel a strip in the Imphal valley