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  1. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    That's marvellous job on that golden oldie and it still captures the 'look' of a Land after all the years. Well done.
  2. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    Wowsers! you have managed to salvage a splendid model from the ancient FROG re-pop. I do admire the fact that you have managed to retain all the gazillions of rivets and so preserve the prime feature of the old kit. Definitely worth a big tick of approval from me. Hope your health issues are resolved soon.
  3. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    Absolutely stunning and makes me think I should stick to butterfly collecting!
  4. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    That is just superb and in tiny scale too! Well done Vincent! I am halfway through the Formaplane 1/72 'kit' although it has stalled as I wrestle with the over-attenuated thinness of the wing to fuselage joints - perhaps i will get on with it again having seen your magnificent job.
  5. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    Lovely job on that one and an inspiration to pull mine out of the stash - its here somewhere!. Love the paintwork and subtle finishing - nice one.
  6. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    Nice job on that ancient kit, especially getting those under stripes so neat. The vac canopy is a huge improvement on the semi-lucent chunk that was the original. Well done.
  7. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    Wow, they are really lovely and I am glad I put my 180 in the stash before you snaffled the remaining world supply!! Such a great variety of schemes all beautifully done - well done and I presume you have your own decal-printing firm? Hoping to do mine as an RAAF hedge-hopper.
  8. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    Fabulous bit of scratch-building there Adrian. Great to see the techniques of the late, great balsa-basher Alan W Hall in action again. Did you think to make two so you could do the rather pretty civil scheme as well? heh heh!
  9. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    Thank you for that information Libor . I have long admired your models as I do book reviews for Hyperscale and get to see the great work you do for Valiant publications. Keep it up.
  10. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    I can only echo the praise of others Libor - a truly lovely rendition. I have one of the kits in the stash. Can you tell me if you applied the dark colour first on the top and then sprayed the fine net of light colour, or did you apply the darker splurges to a light background?
  11. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    That is a wonderful job on one of the prettiest two-seater jets around - well done. Just a question: It might be an optical illusion but is the deck behind the rear cockpit slightly flattened when all my photos, the box lid and inspection of the real thing here in Australia seems to show that it is quite rounded? I'm about to order a couple of these kits and am puzzled.
  12. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    Ah Mr Adey, you have a much better memory than this 'grey-hair' from the Antipodes! Thanks for pointing that out. I have actually opened the bag with the intention of hopefully starting the model OAMF ( On Another Modelling Forum). I also recall that FROG kits were pretty widely available when I lived in Sydney in the sixties and early seventies, but were getting scarcer after I moved to my current town in the mid-seventies.
  13. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    And that is probably exactly (?) when I got mine in its plain card box.
  14. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    And was the FROG Wellington used to produce the Vickers Viking kit by Maquette? Checking the parts seems to back that up.
  15. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    Apparently the box I recall was the Eastern Express production of the FROG kit as shown on a recent posting on Hyperscale. So the kit must have been produced in the Eastern Bloc after the demise of the company in the UK and the sale/gift/business decision to pass on the moulds to the Soviet bloc countries, Novo being the main and earliest producer. I wonder how many Venturas did make it out?
  16. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    A kit I have not seen mentioned in this topic ( although I have read through about 3/4 of it) is the Ventura. I believe it was one of the last kits they worked on and a limited number got out into circulation but few were in 'proper' boxes. I have one that I picked up some time in the 80s and it is bagged but in a plain cardboard box , the same size as the ones used for the EE Lightning and Buccaneer. It has no instructions or decals although these were available in those mixed sets that were widely sold in packs dover the last thirty years or so. The parts look pretty good, with some flash on one sprue and featuring those raised panel lines we all love(d to hate?). I do not believe that it formed the basis for the Academy kit. Any ideas or comments?
  17. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    Excellent re-build of a lovely little kit Jonners and you should be really pleased with how that one turned out. I hope all is well in your neck of the woods and that you are staying safe - We are in God's Own Country down here in Oz and have started to have club meetings and even a show in the next few weeks. Getting plenty of plastic over the bench but can't be bothered stuffing around with third party servers when it comes to posting images so I am just a looker-onner on BM I'm afraid. Prefer the simpler OZ-based site, but always keep an eye on the great work that you chaps in Britain are producing.
  18. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    Simply scrumptious Bill - i love it!
  19. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    Great set of images Jorge, but if you look carefully, you will notice that the exhaust stains do not come over the wings from the outermost exhausts on each wing - very clear in the images shown. The outer exhausts were below the centre-line of the wings so they exited and stained the nacelle and under wings and not over the wing as you have done in your model. Your photos clearly show 6 sets of stains while there are 8 exhausts. I'm not being critical but as a judge in many competitions it is a point I look out for as it is a common issue and is included here for your information anyway. Your model is still a lovely bit of work and I admire your skills.
  20. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    That is a very impressive build. Your transparencies are a work of art alone, and the riveting sets the model apart from most builds I have seen - well done and a reward for perseverance. When you build your next one, please note that the outermost exhausts stains go under the wings and not over the top - just line them up with the wing and you will see why, and look at any photos from the war-time. Great build despite that little glitch.
  21. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    That is a stunning model, especially with the fuselage extensions. Is it normal to have just one prop feathered on its own? I would have thought that all four would be feathered, or have you done this to add interest and for artistic license, as you are certainly a great modelling artist.
  22. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    That is really lovely and an inspiration for me to get back to my Contrail vac-form version which is 1/2 done. Nice decals as well.
  23. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    Excellent modelling skills and fantabulous painting Heather - deep green envy from here in the Antipodes. I have exactly the same three kits in the stash with the same decals to build exactly those three aircraft so I found this an excellent post and some inspiration. Thanks you.
  24. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    Me again! I have also just dug out the Aircraft Illustrated Special on the dH89 and in the centre is a couple of nice photos of G-AHKV with some descriptions of the "sophisticated array of radio and navigation equipment, including a Bendix SCR269A Automatic radio compass and Ekco VHF and three other pieces of radio gear, including a fan market receiver"This put too much of a load on the electrical system and "the port Queen III was modified to drive a 1000W generator producing 24V" The photo shows a different setup behind the pilot and extra aerials and an acorn fairing above the cabin. The altered area behind the pilot is shown in the photo from the Tomahawk Kid above.
  25. Horatio Gruntfuttock
    OK Dave - a quick search revealed the following issues - Aeroplane Monthly November 1990, March 1994, and April 2004 as likely candidates. Have you hunted through ABIx files as they may have a host of stuff? And you are a member!.
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