Rickoshea52
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This is the bits box, it contained blanks, blade socks and tail rotor gust locks amongst other stuff. I think it just sits on the floor in the aft cabin before the fuselage tapers up to the tail boom.
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Great work. These Eduard Mig-21’s kits are really nice to build.
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Oh yeah, troop seats! What a pain they could be to fit, good job we had the Swiss Army crash axe at hand to manipulate them into their fittings. The dirt on the floor boards looks effective and in the typically correct place where smelly pongoes would tramp their muddy boots.
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How did you achieve the concrete floor?
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All that resin will have it weighing the same as a brick!
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Very nice work. Sea King next?
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The photos of the Ulster museum Puma are your guide. The floor is black but a layer of laminated wood panels coated in non-slip light grey paint were fitted throughout the cabin (the cockpit was not covered in grey panels). In the NI std role the folding panel around the load pole often did not have a wooden board over it. These wooden floor panels were removed at every 28 day (I think) servicing and repainted With non-slip paint and refitted with black bodge tape the seal the edges.
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14 minutes ago, bar side said:
Hi yes I still have a oo gauge railway & used to make lots of card buildings. So basically this is a scaled up take on that. I have paid for & downloaded Scalescenes stuff from their scratch builders yard before. Do you remember when they used to have a free shed building on their site? I downloaded that & adapted it in to a very long she’d for my railway. Great that you pay to download & then print as many as you like. And to whatever scale you want. So I worked out to go from 1/76 to 1/48 I needed to enlarge x1.6. So that’s what I did to get my papers sorted
There was also a freebie in some magazines. I like the versatility of the kits and the opportunity to create endless buildings from one download. Many of the kits can be adapted to military airfield uses.
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If you weren’t already aware, Scalescenes do card buildings for model railways but also a scratch builders selection of brick paper, tiles, doors and windows, it looks like you may have some of their stuff in one of your posts above.
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Great result. Shame I won’t see it at model club.
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1 hour ago, Graham T said:
Beautiful build (but that isn't Suffolk in the background! 😄)
They’re on detachment to Lossiemouth. 😎
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Here are some of the Preiser ground crew figures that I have used in the past. Obviously these have been painted to suit a mid-80’s and later period but I have done others in RAF blue overalls for my Lightning ASF diorama, in theory you could paint these figures in KD shades for other theatres of operation
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All done. A very enjoyable kit but there are some delicate details that need careful handling. I used Xtradecal sheet X72307 for the aircraft serials and unit markings and stencils from the Airfix kit. The seat belts were pinched from an Eduard set for the old tool Buccaneer but the other details for the IP etc didn’t fit.
Paints are from Mig Ammo - 205, 206 & 207 as included in their A.mig 7203 set; I found these to be very fragile and easily damaged even with a couple of dots of Pledge floor gloss. The only weathering was a panel wash.
In the end I decided not use the Air Graphics CBLS panniers or the kit rocket pods and painted the bombs from the kit as inert/practice bombs, I made some more from the Airfix Phantom kit but had trouble with paint adhesion on them and couldn’t be bothered to re-do them, I also found them to be a slightly different shape.
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I think this is just about done, the only thing missing is the grab handles for the ejection seats, I made the rookie error of fitting them early on then broke them off and only retrieved one of them.
Ill take some better photos in the daylight and post them in the RFI section.
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My source tells me RAF P-8’s have been flying on ops in the N Atlantic for several weeks now.
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37 minutes ago, giemme said:51 minutes ago, Rickoshea52 said:
I have used this set from Preiser with good results.
Thanks Rick - that link leads to a 1/144 scale set though. I believe the 1/72nd version is this one:
Yes, they also do them in 1/48 I believe. The 1/72 are part number 72520.
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I have used this set from Preiser with good results.
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Close to the finishing line now.
In a change of plan I’m going to use the kit bombs painted as practice/inert weapons painted using VMA faded PRU blue with a few drops of dark sea blue added to get a shade close to the real thing
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I have spare Tiger’s head decals from the Hasegawa boxing with orange head on the black/yellow bars if you want them.
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“ ten minutes on google will find you all the pictures you need”
I have searched high and low on the Internet with no luck at all.
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47 minutes ago, speedy said:
I’m slightly stumped on this item, so need your help please. Instruction #13 item 16, the box section piece that’s fitted to both sides. Can somebody tell me what this is and is it correct. I’ve got one photo from tarlucan and if it’s the same thing I can just make out a holy front side. Can anyone shed some light please.
53681D22-AC6D-4278-BE37-3C0BACF873FC by Stephen Priestley-Dean, on Flickr
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As far as I know the white and grey scheme was as delivered from new so pre-dates the fitting of the IFR which was introduced around the time of the Falklands Conflict for the MR fleet deployed for that campaign, they were also in the hemp over light grey paint with large dark blue/red roundels.
By the time 51 relocated to Warrington they were most definitely in hemp over light grey with large subdued pink/light blue roundels which were later replaced with a smaller roundel at Major in the mid to late nineties. Be aware that 51 lost XW666 during a flight test which resulted in XV249, a stored MR2, being converted to R1 as a replacement.
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I just spotted this on the Airfix website, they’re doing bundle packs. Last week Hornby were doing a hamper that included a train set and a load of other bits to get enthusiasts into the hobby.
https://www.airfix.com/uk-en/wwii-classics-pack-1.html
https://www.airfix.com/uk-en/1-48-wonders-pack-2.html
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Mig 25 RBT Colour
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ICM do a version of the Mig-25, just google the instructions for their kit to find the paint code - Revell 371 pr Tamiya XF-80 is what I found.