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I thought about that…but didn’t want to over do it…in the early days Safe seemed to polish/clean their aircraft 🤣 The transparencies are all from the kit, I used the masks provided with the kit and treated them afterwards with a bit of the old ‘future’ 😉

It’s fairly easy build, you need a razor saw to cut out all the resin bits, you also need to sand or fettle away at the cabin windows or the openings in the fuselage a little as the fit isn’t perfect. It’ll need some filler on some of the joints, particularly the fuselage otherwise it’s a good, fairly simple model. I added rotating props 😉

I've built the Fly 1/72 Bristol Freighter in Civvies...Its ZK-BEO, Straits Air Freight Express (SAFE Air) 2nd Bristol Freighter which was purchased from the RNZAF. The livery is the earlier Safe Air paint job from the early 1960s. The final pic you can almost hear (or is it physically feel 😄!) Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr

I've tried to recreate the sense of a working Cessna 180, flying with New Zealand's Southern Scenic Airways during the 1960s. SSA operated out of Queenstown and serviced the lower South Island including Southern Lakes and Fjordland. I've completed my (Khee Kha) Cessna 180 as ZK-BUQ with packets of timber attached to the under-wing hard-points (stolen from an Airfix Bird Dog) as if she was flying these in to provide building materials back-country huts or maybe repair damage to walking tracks . Incidentally SSA later became merged with Mount Cook Airlines Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr

Twins Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr

I finally completed this model, it took a while to organise the white decaling Here is my Execuform Lockheed Electra built as ZK-BUT "Spirit of Tasman Bay" belonging to Trans-Island Airways (New Zealand) in the late 1950s. The build thread is here: 1I7A0511 by Harry Follas, on Flickr 1I7A0509 by Harry Follas, on Flickr 1I7A0543 by Harry Follas, on Flickr 1I7A0544 by Harry Follas, on Flickr

a few more inter-war types that served the RNZAF (makes an interesting size/shape comparison ) Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr

This is the Kora kit in 1/72. Not too bad a build for a limited production Eastern European kit, not many hassles..JUST LOTS OF RIGGING...SIGH!!! Quite good detail though with resin and photoetch components. It makes up as a great inter-war RNZAF aircraft, I've built it as a very well used 2nd-hand (ex-RAF) pilot trainer used in NZ. Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr

just be a little careful when trimming out the vacform bits, the plastic may have become slightly brittle 😉

It’s the 1/72 Special Hobby kit

They’re not too bad…the gear on the Lockheeds are spindly anyway…but hard to say whether they were moulded in the loaded or unloaded position 😉. Photos online show similar ‘ride heights’

I've been thinking of doing this one for some time...shame the kit has yellowed vac-form cockpit transparencies, otherwise it came out quite well This is a well known paint scheme for some...NC14999 has been seen in USA, NZ, UK and Europe Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr Untitled by Harry Follas, on Flickr

1944-45, South Pacific…4 of them were pressed into service flying supplies and personnel from NZ to pacific islands and the backline in the Solomons (hence no armament). Postwar the operation and aircraft were passed onto the new NZNAC (National Airways Corporation) and kept flying until early 1950s. here is a bit of the back story https://rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/17382/wartime-rnzaf-sunderlands

I built this up and modified this build from the 1/72 Italeri Sunderland III kit. The aircraft has fared front and rear turrets and extra pax windows added. I've had quite a bit of fun with it, quite a bit of scratch-building including a generic front cabin with folding canvas seating. My subject aircraft is a well worn NZ4102 "Tokomaru" from the "Flying Boat Transport Flight" that has just commenced having its vertical tail stripped of camouflage (lots of photos show it flying around with bare tail feathers). 1I7A9705 by Harry Follas, on Flickr 1I7A9739 by Harry Follas, on Flickr 1I7A9737 by Harry Follas, on Flickr

I most recently flew in the right cockpit seat in a Goose in Alaska during 2018...yep, noisy but wonderful ! lovely sound of 2 roaring R-985s in full stereo! I'd have to say that a DHC Beaver would possibly rival it for noise and on tha similar topic the PBY Catalina is definitely louder and more damaging to the ears in the cabin due to the prop-zone (and super-sonic prop tips) occurring just behind the cockpit