klubman01

Nicely put together. Great photos as well.

Welcome aboard.

Wow!

Welcome aboard!

Great model of an overlooked machine.

Classy model. The mutt's nuts!

Of course. How silly of me to miss that.

Indeed, spirals. I didn't notice initially. Still a good piece of work, though.

It is, as MR2Don said, "poetic license" by Hasegawa. It is not politically correct to show tobacco sponsorship, even though it is historically correct. Fortunately, the aftermarket manufacturers have recognised this, and the correct decal are available from the likes of Renaissance, etc.

But not in that configuration. At Silverstone it ran single headlamps in small housings, and a higher set wing - the "sprint" race configuration. The lower wing was specifically for Le Mans, along with twin headlights in the large lamp housing.

Looks good. It should really have the Silk Cut logos on the side. Should look like the image above. Sorry to criticise an otherwise beautiful model.

Once that blue paint is on it looks really good. Great work on the detail parts.

Well, that looks different! I understand the principle of swirl to reduce noise. It's one of the reasons for the scalloped cowling on the B787. I'm not sure how this will apply to large turbofan engines where the majority of the thrust (up to 85% in some engines) is generated by the bypass air. The exhaust gas stream on a RR Trent, as an example, produces very little thrust.

Looks great, nice work.

Nicely done.

Looks like a very nice model of the best looking Spitfire.

Really lovely finished article. Well done.

Nice!

It's actually the legs of Snoopy, from Peanuts. He sat through a hole in the Nav station roof (where the sextant would be positioned for star shots). Snoopy wore the old style googles and flying helmet, as seen when the cartoon had Snoopy versus The Red Baron. I don't know if Snoopy still flies in PA474. It's difficult to tell from photos as he was only about 8 inches tall. Quite why he was there I never found out. Trevor

I stand corrected. Thanks for the info. As luck would have it, and for reasons I don't understand, I found a photo (that I took in 1990) of the Nav's position when looking through Sqn Ldr Leach's book, so there's good! As much as I can tell, it's all original equipment apart from the UHF/VHF radio and IFF box which is positioned just above the parachute pack at the bottom right of the picture. As we only flew VFR, navigation was by map and stopwatch, plus large landmarks. The radio and IFF was the only modern kit. Hope this helps. Trevor

A point of correction, if I may. The tailwheel is from an Avro Lincoln (RF398 to be precise). In 1965 PA474 was at RAF Henlow, and in preparation for the flight to RAF Waddington it was discovered that the original tailwheel was cracked. It was swapped with that from RF398 which was parked next to PA474. This information is from "A Lancaster at Peace" by Sqn Ldr RE Leach, published by the Lincolnshire Lancaster Society. Trevor (former BBMF Flt Engineer, 1990-91)

Great piece of footage. Some very interesting aircraft, such variety.

Welcome to a friendly and helpful group.

You and me both!

Very nice model, well done. Many years ago I built an Indian Air Force T2 from this kit. IIRC, it went together really nicely. I also used the PP air brakes. It may still be up in the loft somewhere.