Jump to content

Sten Ekedahl

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    670

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Sten Ekedahl

  1. Sten Ekedahl
    Beautiful Bill! But looking at the model and comparing it the the photo of the real thing, I get the impression that the kit mounting brackets make the aerials sit too low. I.e. the vertical supports seem to be too long. Looking at the real aircraft, the aerials look to be at the same level as the engine exhaust. On the model they look to sit lower than the bottom of the engine nacelle. Admittedly neither the photo of the real aircraft, nor the photos of the model, are taken from the perfect angle to judge this. So I might be wrong in my interpretation of them.
  2. Sten Ekedahl
    I have built two British Phantoms (both before the release of the Fujimi kits, that's how old I am). On the first I just substituted the radome with the one from the old Airfix Phantom. With the second I grafted the forward fuselage (cut line just behind the cockpit) from an ESCI kit, to the Matchbox kit.
  3. Sten Ekedahl
    If faced betweeen the choice of a Matchbox kit or an MPM/Special Hobby/Azure kit, of the same subject, my choice would easily be the latter every day of the week!
  4. Sten Ekedahl
    There was a very good build article on the Hallam vac kit, in the old magazine Platic Kit Constructor.
  5. Sten Ekedahl
    Yes they are present on the 1/72 kit too.
  6. Sten Ekedahl
    Back when I was a wee lad, the instructions for the Airfix srs one and two kits in plastic bags, motivated me to work really hard on my English lessons in school, especially the history notes on the back of the instructions. They sort of became extra English lessons for me. They also taught me how to convert those weird alien Imperial units for length, weight and speed, into much more logical and understandable metric units.
  7. Sten Ekedahl
    Andreas, here is your Rose turret, and ABC aerials too: http://www.relishmodels.co.uk/paragon-designs-1-72-raf-100-group-lancaster-stirling-and-halifax.html
  8. Sten Ekedahl
    Thanks! That's what I suspected.
  9. Sten Ekedahl
    I was recently told the the RAF IDS Tordnados were always parked with the wings swept forward becasuse of the fin tank (which is in use), unlike the German and Italian versions which do not have this feature.
  10. Sten Ekedahl
    Will follow this with special interest. I've got the CMR (or is it Planet Models?) kit of the Mk.II waiting in my stash.
  11. Sten Ekedahl
    Have been looking at my Trumpeter 1/72 Sea Fury for a while. Since I will give it the "full Eduard treatment", I have decided to build it with folded wings. That raises the question about what the interior coulour of the wings, visible at the fold, was. In b/w photos it is clearly a light colour, but the question is which one: natural metal/silver paint, sky, or yellow primer? Any answers greatly appreciated.
  12. Sten Ekedahl
    The only problem is that the Alley Cat stuff might be difficult to find, since the company ceased to operate just over a month ago. Hopefully it will reappear in the future under a different label after everything has been sorted out. (This is as much as I know right now. Someone else might be able to fill in with more updated news.)
  13. Sten Ekedahl
    I have successfully used the combination of ordinary kitchen alu foil/Microscale Metal foil adhesive for masking canopies. Appy and then trim with a new and sharp #11 scalpel blade along the frames. When the masking is removed, the paint edges are very sharp.
  14. Sten Ekedahl
    True, we real modellers never follow the instructions - if we read them at all.
  15. Sten Ekedahl
    That's usually known as modelling.
  16. Sten Ekedahl
    Bought a set of those SBC's at Telford some years ago. They're excellent!
  17. Sten Ekedahl
    We lost a SwAF Super Puma in a similar conditions at night just off the west coast of Sweden some seven or eight years ago. Four crew killed, only the rescue diver (a conscript airman) survived.
  18. Sten Ekedahl
    Thank you for your answer, Smudge. It kind of makes sense.
  19. Sten Ekedahl
    Once heard a story that in the ops room for visiting squadrons at an RAF Phantom base, there was a sign posted that read: NOTE Jaguar pilots may NOT use afterburners when taxing.
  20. Sten Ekedahl
    Is that bright natural metal finnish on the MG magazine on the RNHF Swordfish, the authentic finnish from "back then"?
  21. Sten Ekedahl
    I built this kit many years ago (still one of my best models built). Used the excellent Flightpath set, and some of the Airwaves PE (their air brakes are gems, albeit were very fiddly to work with). Afterwards I regret I didn't correct the gear legs. IIRC I found the main wheel size incorrect (can't remember if they were too small or too big) so I substituted them with wheels from (I think) a Matchbox Phantom.
  22. Sten Ekedahl
    A couple of years ago, I bought a decal sheet for one Magister, printed by the Czech company MPD (Mini Print Decal). Sheet number is 72561. The aircraft is T9752 used as a squadron hack by S/Ldr. Jan Klan, CO of 312 (Czechoslovak) Squadron RAF, during May and June 1941. The aircraft has some nose art on the starboard side, and small Czech roundels on each side of the fuselage beneath the front cockpit. A/c in normal paint scheme: DE/DG top and sides, yellow underneath. Don't know about the availability of these decals today, but a good alternative if you can find them.
  23. Sten Ekedahl
    This project reminds me on one of Wren's cartoons in the old magazine Air Enthusiast: To guys are looking at a Nimrod flying past, when one of them says: "You know, if you cleaned up that design, it would make a nice airliner."
  24. Sten Ekedahl
    Looked at your stash, very impressive - and very similar to my own stash (apart for the German stuff). But one kit that really stuck out and hit me with a big wave of nostalgia, was the LS kit of the Mitsubishi Ki-109. I bought that kit (and quite a few more), and later built it, in the spring of1969 from the original Squadron Shop on John R, Hazel Park MI. At the time I was an exchange student at Ferndale High School, MI. As a matter of fact, the model still resides im my display cabinet, although it has lost one aileron over the years.
  25. Sten Ekedahl
    Real modeller don't read the instructions.
×
×
  • Create New...