JosephLalor

Thanks Pat. With the Kit you built as a kid GB fiasco still very fresh in my mind I figure I'd better extract digit (and my Canadair CL-215 out of the stash). I want to start this one towards the right end of the GB period.

Made me think it was a P-47N for a second! Cracking model though.

Magnificent!

Just noticed this. I can certainly make out some of the Irish ones. The fort giving its name to the bay in the northwest is Dún na nGall - Donegal. Dark Pool is still called that now pretty much. Dubh Linn -> Dyfflyn -> Dublin. The name refers to the old confluence of the rivers Poddle and Liffey. The former flows near me in Harolds Cross. Strictly speaking the modern city is downstream on the Liffey and its Gaelic name is Baile Átha Cliath.

There was a period where Humbrol 123 actually was a slightly greyish dark green, at least the stuff in the 10 ml acrylic pot was at any rate. The old Humbrol Authentic postwar EDSG was green as well.

Interesting to see this technique returning for panel variation. This is how it was done in the old days when Rub'n'Buff was your only man if you wanted to go beyond silver paint for natural metal finish, but you didn't want to go as far as aluminium foil. Some modellers used dark green as the base coat for the strip round the exhaust fairing.

She contributed to the Sulk LP as well I recall, and is now a professor at Ontario College of Art and Design.

Got them nicknamed Rodent I recall

Very nice indeed. Here am I, a son of the Ould Sod myself, and I never knew until now that the Argosy had any Irish operators.

CMYK is Cyan Magenta Yellow Black I think

If you're seeking to model any variant of the Jetstream including the 3M from the Airfix kit, one of the things you would have to do is move the window from the door to the rear of the main window strip. That can be seen from the underside photo of G-AWBR, Dave Fleming's photo above and in the still from Col Straker's arrival in UFO. Graham also mentioned some other mods on my thread in the 'Kit you built as a kid' GB: shortening undercarriage doors, reshaping ventral fin, small fairing at leading edge of tailplane root.

I'd forgotten about the Belphegor. I think it's still the only jet-powered biplane/sesquiplane ever built.

Well spotted on the registration, Troy, I wouldn't have noticed. What would mark it out as a -3 for me in side view would be the absence of the oil cooler under the nose.

Good stuff. Thanks to you and Georgio.

Nice work, including dressing up the box canyons that are the kit's blast troughs. What colour did you paint the cockpit? I'm never sure if Macchi cockpits were Verde Anticorrosione or Grigio Azzurro Chiaro.

Looks like there are bits or DFW Floh and Link Trainer in there Put me in mind also of the later Caproni Campini N.1

Wondering how I managed to miss this one. Excellent job, I shall be stealing liberally for mine. Looking at your pictures of the model in its seascape, it's easy to see where Hood's reputation as a wet ship came from. I gather her freeboard was much reduced from that of her original design.

I think the aircraft that owed most to the Fairey IIIs was the Gordon.

That's a risk you run with very old waterslides. You either get very fine ridges, or myriad fine but very visible cracks, like on the sheet from my Welsh Models VC-10. My fault I think for not building a kit that I've probably had for 20 years if not more.

That's an excellent build, Adrian, very neat.

I need to look it up, but off the top of my head, Sea Search aircraft had olive drab upper surfaces and white undersurfaces.

There have been a couple of previous discussions about fluorescent paints on this site

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That's the business. Thanks for reminding me that I have one of those kits, and the means of finishing it in the Aer Lingus dark green top livery.