Romeo Alpha Yankee

Cheers Adrian, It feels painful but may well be worth it in the end. Some more work this arvo, I borrowed the landing light insert (or part of it) from the Christmas tree Airfix kit, it looks like the clear part will fit with a little putty. The Frog wing is thinner than the Airfix one. I prepped the resin engines that came in my kit and have repurposed the Airfix props. I finally added some lengths of tub to the leading edge intakes to beef them up and reshape them a tad.

Time for an update, I had to file down the top seam areas behind the cockpit as the Airfix part is a couple of mm less wide than the Frog cockpit area. With a bit of gentle persuasion, i.e. tape, clamping and superglue I got the Airfix windscreen part to fit the kit. After it all set I took to it with a file and wet and dry. Beginning of the clear part carnage The backend did not go together to well either, nothing a little superglue and filler won't fix In the end the front end looks OK, under some paint you won't know the difference After a couple of rounds of sanding it is looking Beaufort-ish

Clamping heaven! some heavy duty reinforcing going on there. Yes, mine is a Doyusha kit.

Nice one Dave 🏆 You will never see me rig a build, seems a tad complicated!

Ed, thanks for the input. When I painted it I noted on ADF Serials it had been painted camo ( with no reference shots). I found a picture of another impressed type (can't recall the type) which looked to me overall Foliage Green over grey (well it looked like grey!) so I assumed the Vega could be painted the same.

Here is one that has been languishing on the SOD for about 4 years and started back in 2019. Here is the original build thread I managed some paining of fuel tanks and the leading edge slats that have now been installed. In one of my recent moves the nose gear leg broke so and I could not find the missing section so I dove into the spares and found an Italeri nose gear leg that has been installed

After other distractions this one is getting attention again. I have added some guns and the clear parts. The fun part now starts with masking it up

This is the original tooling of the 1/72 Airfix C-130 kit. I have built it as a USAF HC-130N CSAR aircraft or as the USAF puts it "the only dedicated fixed-wing Personnel Recovery platform in the Air Force inventory". To build the HC-130N I added a added consoles and cabinets to the cockpit, Tasman Models AN/ARD-17 Aerial Tracker Radome, inflight refuelling Hose Reel units from Flightpath and propellers from an Italeri C-130 kit. I also added the observer windows in the main cabin, the recover system rails and flare chutes on the upper ramp door and various antennas as seen on the aircraft. The HF antenna wires are Eziline. The decals are from the C-130 Herc sheet by Caracal Models and walkway outline decals from an Italeri AC-130 kit.

Airfix HC-130N USAF

And it is finished

Main decaling commenced Since these images were taken I have finished off the decaling and am now attending to adding the gear doors, nav lights and HF Antennas It should be complete tomorrow!

Dennis, I am working on a Ju-88, Frog Beaufort and an Airfix C-130 at the moment, its a wonder I get anything finished!

Walkway decals going on, I am using a set from an Italeri AC-130H that was converted to a C-130J-30 that were not used on that build.

I haven't seem one of these built in a while ( and yes I have seen the all seasons of the series and have the DVDs ). Any progress Ernie?

Anymore done Julian?

Looking good Dennis, looking forward to seeing it finished 🏆

Nice to see a beast like this getting attention Matt, the refurb is coming along really well. I have a 1/100 747 and DC-10 in the stash, that is about as big as I will build I think! (though I would love a 1/72 747 )

Nice scheme and nicely finished Jelle 🏆

This one has been waiting to be finished for a while, I started it as an isolation build when we moved to Adelaide 2 years ago. I got it mostly painted with a decals to come. I had trouble finding images of the ramp area and of the top of the aircraft to see whether the walk ways were painted a different colour and it stalled. So the story so far..... I started with a donated kit which was an original tool Airifx C-130. The previous owner had started to convert it to an AC-130A so I had to de-convert it. I added some walls and consoles to the cockpit Test fitting with original wings, I ended up using the wings from another kit as the tank slots had been filled on this kits wings and I wanted to add the fuel tanks. I replaced the kit props with some from an Italeri kit Assembly and filling In the paint shop That is where it got to. Today I did some more painting and think it is done. The walkways were done as well as the exhaust areas under the wings I was dreading doing the black strips around the fuselage bands (which was another reason preventing me moving forward with this one) and thought about painting them. I found another build on line where they were done it with decals, fortunately I had some decal strips in the stash and used them and they worked out OK. So now it is onto the finishing stage of decals and adding the last parts; the gear doors, HF antennas and anything I may have knocked off during the paint process.

WOW! , great job Steve 🏆

Painting begun And test fitting new cockpit

Turns out the 'lamb' kit is missing parts so it is a no brainer now. The donor kit Some surgery to take the Airfix cockpit I'm thinking of robbing other parts from the Airfix kit such as the props and the turret area.

Only with older difficult to build models, The Frog Beaufort I have started will most likely get the treatment

Ooh! I forgot about this one in the stash as well, at least I have 12months or so to decide what to build.

Dave, the two kits are 80% assembled (quite poorly), lots of seams and glue everywhere. Some painting and props are glued in place, I was going to try and resurrect one of them and sacrifice the other for other good deeds