Wez
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Hi Don.
I think you might just be confusing the Vampire with the Sea Venom kit they did.
That was basically the old Frog kit with a vacform canopy,new decals,whitemetal bits and a good set of plans.
It was by Premiere and done in conjunction with Tasman
AFAIK they didn't do a Vampire T.11,but I could be wrong y'know.
Mark
It was the old Frog Sea Venom - I've got a couple in the stash, the upgrades were simple but effective - transfers were good too. I don't think there's any way a Merlin kit would ever be marketed in such a way - they're just way too basic, they resemble the subject insofar as they're vaguely the same shape!
In addition to the Vampire T.11 we REALLY need a new Venom/Sea Venom.
Regards
Wez
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Well, I am not one to pore for hours over kits and plans looking for things that are "wrong", I am firmly in the "if it looks right, it is right" camp. However, one look at that fuselage and the belly tank stuck out like a sore thumb. The rear fuselage may or may not be an issue, too hard to tell at this stage. Of course, I hope I am wrong on both counts and I will still get one whatever.
BTW, no comment on the artwork - 23 Squadron in grey/green. Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this a 5 Squadron bird that was painted up in the early 80s for some sort of anniversary? Interesting (surprising?) choice for the box art.
Nev,
I agree with you - it IS to hard to tell at this stage, these are only test shots and the photos may not show the sprues in their best light. If the crticism is justified hopefully Trumpeter will take note and address the issue but until we get the sprues in our grubby mits we may not know for sure.
Regarding the coulour scheme - yes you are correct, I believe IIRC, it was for the 25th Anniversary of the Lightning - it was featured on the cover of the first ever copy of Scale Aircraft Modelling that I bought. It's a valid scheme nonetheless although somewhat unrepresentitve - maybe a 5 or 11 Sqn jet would be more appropriate.
Definitely want one of these big babies though, never thought I'd see the day, however, I am more excited about the prospect of seeing new mould Lightnings in 1/72nd scale (I could buy more of them)!
Now then, where are my Modeldecal sheets?
Regards
Wez
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Goodyear wheel wells would have been Gloss Sea Blue (wouldn't they Bruce? )
Dave,
This is certainly the case of the FAAM Corsair KD431. Incidentally, I can't heap enough paraise on the book on KD431 - both interesting and extremely useful as a modelling resource, a treasure trove of information on FAA Corsairs.
Regards
Wez
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Paul Bradley says his put up a fight...mine nearly won!
Phil - looks good
How does this baby fight? Queensbury Rules or Downright Dirrty Bar-Room Brawling? Got one in the stash so I'd like to know.
Regards
Wez
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Haydn,
Good job - looks well done
I was thinking of doing just what you've done but then I saw the Xtradecals were on the way for the TA-7C so I thought I'd wait...
Any snags with the kit?
Again, superb effort.
Regards
Wez
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Excuse me Wez.....Is Father Jack the priest in your avatar?
Yes Rodrigo - I changed it from "London Calling" by the Clash whan I saw that Clashcityrocker had beaten me to it!
In the words of Father Jack "bottom!"Back to the Invader - Shaun is that the 1/72nd Italeri/Revell/MPM beastie or the Monogram 1/48th baby?
Now for more Father Jack
"Fek!"
"Drink!"
"Nuns!"
"Knickers! Women's Knickers!!"
Regards
Wez
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Richard,
Fantastic narrative - definitely more food for thought!
Don't want to be a party pooper but Wokkas don't have a forward left door - just a fairly large escape hatch through which bullet chuckers various are pointed!
What colour scheme are you thinking of for the Wokkas? In that time frame they would have been dark green and dark sea grey uppers with black lower surfaces but as this is a What If they could have been anything! Just a thought though, the Mk.1 Wokkas used to leak oil like a sweetheart, we had a lot of trouble getting the ARTF to stick to certain areas during Gulf 1 (under the engines and the underside behind the doppler aerial).
Looking forwards to the next instalment and the next profiles - as I'm off to sea in a couple of days I can wait.
Keep up the good work!
Regards
Wez
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Fantastic work Shaun - very well done indeed and as for the rest of the line-up faultless!
Regards
Wez
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Got to agree with you there Giorgio i had the Merlin He280 may as well have had a cube of plastic a piece of sand paper and some plans in the box.
Dek.
Yeah,
I have to say that I felt the same way about their Spitfire XII - it was similar to a Spit in that it had wings - ish!
From what I've seen, if you can afford it go with the CMR item, failing that the Aeroclub item (I've been waiting years for John to reissue that one)!
The good old Vampire T.11 - we seriously need a mainstream kit of this beauty - so many colour schemes!
Regards
Wez
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Hi All
High Speed Silver (HSS) was used on various RAF/Commonwealth a/c 1950's (1960's- ish)
It was a 50/50 ratio of Aluminum and Clear cellulose Dope paints.
Question: does anyone have a suitable paint type they might recommend other than
painting good old Humbrol Matt Aluminum (Hu 56) and Clear gloss ?
Thanks in advance
Alan
Alan,
I'd say that "good old Humbrol Matt Aluminium (HU56) and clear gloss is too dark, I've found mixing good old Humbrol Silver Fox (HU11) and a light grey in roughly about a 50/50 ratio to be a better approximation. It was certainly a mix reccommended in the early days of Modeldecal and it looked pretty good to me - having said that anything I built using that paint mix has long since gone to the great spares box in the sky (well the loft actually).
HTH
Regards
Wez
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For my part I'm still looking for some good pictures of the Gannet COD Mk.4 cockpit arrangement, including the passengers compartiments that are for sure different from those of the AS.4 aerial observers compartiments.
Regards
V.P.
Me too!
Regards
Wez
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Far too complicated for me to understand anything.
Wadda ya mean? You are French, you complicate everything!
Wez
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Do you mean a Scots engineer Wez, or did he build whisky distilling equipment?
I wuzzant being provacative - oh no!
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Je ne sais quoi what?
Scotch engineer - unit of power named after him.
Wez
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Je ne sais quoi what?
yeah!
That's the one!
Wez
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Many years ago, when I were a lad in the 70s, I was a staff cadet on an ATC Air Experience Flight. Our Chipmunks had the four-point harness while they were painted in the light grey/dayglo scheme. I recall that this was referred to as "Q-type", and the straps were blue or black. Then they went off for refurbishment. The refurbished aircraft wore the new (then) red/white/grey scheme and had black 5-point harnesses which were referred to as "Z-type". Whether this was official or not I know not, but it was pretty general.
Yup!
That's largely how I remeber it too - similar time frame I guess!
The point is these things have a habit of being referred to within the user community as one thing but appearing in official liturature as something else - I know I used to write mods for the RAF and always had to balance the vernacular with the official "nomenclature" - or name as we humans call it!
Regards
Wez
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I've always loved that scheme, you've done it proud!
Good effort!
Wez
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What a stunning colour scheme.
Say what you like about the French but they have a certain je ne sais quoi or French phrase meaning a certain je ne sais quoi!
Regards
Wez
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FM do (or did) one, I've got it in the loft along with my Esci F1 - intend to do an F1CT using the Zots decals. I could have a look tomorrow and let you know what it contains.
Neomega do a cockpit.
Regards
Wez
Carn't believe you let me go up in the loft in this sweltering heat! It's flippin warm up there!
Anyway, the set I've got is "Bullits'n'Bombs"! What you get is-
un bidon IRAKIEN - aka an 'ackin gurt fuel tank! One of 'em.
deux lance roquettes LR4 - multiple rocket chuckers (SNEB pods)
deux rails lance missiles Magic - Magic catapult rails
deux missiles Magic II - pointy-bangy-crashy things to go with above
deux porte bombe Raffaut - either practice bomb carriers or an interesting dessert featuring merangue and cream!
deux lance luerre Corail - chuff'n'fluff rails? (Floundering here a bit in case you hadn't realised)!
deux pylones exterieur de voilure - couple of multiple bomb chucker racks? (Feeling on safer ground with this translation).
(translated from the French into Southern English - not available on Babelfish!)
You owe me a beer! (not because it's hot in the loft - I broke into a greater sweat doing the translation)!!!
HTH
Regards
Wez
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Please, give me a 1/48 Scimitar and a Swift, almighty gods of modelling.....
Saw the Swift F.7 next to Billy Bunters down at Bournemouth - what a fat knacker!
I live in Southampton where it's blasphemy to speak out against Supermarine even after fifty years or so since they produced an aeroplane!
The Swift was a big fat whale compared to the Billy - no wonder it needed reheat - bloody corpulent pig would never have got off the ground!
Wez - the heretic
Derek It IS half finished!!Well finish it! Never mind the F.1 - crack on with the Javelin!
Regards
Wez
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The biggest bind is that I can't find any mention of a "Q" harness, except in the ledger of (Vickers) Spitfire mods, in which "QK" is laid down, but someone crossed it out, and substituted just "Q." In the drawings, I've found "QK," "QL," & "QS," all different, and all dated differently, too. Just to help things along, there's a "ZB" harness, in 1949/50. Of course, the harnesses seem to be tied in with seat design, as well, just to confuse the issue even further.
Somewhere there's a book, about the huge storage/distribution centre (around Liverpool, perhaps?) where U.S. aircraft were held, before being issued to the Groups. In Air-Britain's "The British Air Commision and Lend-Lease," there are photos of a/c being assembled, at M.U.s, with others, still in crates, awaiting assembly, at, for example, Colerne. I'd say that the work was carried out by the British assembly crews, wherever they were.
Edgar
What a bloody minefield!
Thanks Edgar,
Like I said I think the reference to "Q" Harnesses is a generic term, I would expect there to be different p/n's depending on mounting variations - this is consistent with British military aircraft
Thanks for the steer on the book, I'll try and look it up.
Regards
Wez
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I'm not sure if I heard wrong but I recall someone saying that Airfix was going to do a 1/48 scale Gloster Javelin. Hopefully this is true especially in light of the 1/48 scale Airfix Canberrra's.
Oh! YES PLEASE! I know I'm shouting but I want to be heard!
Why the accountants at Airfix never thought a DECENT 1/72 scale Lightning, Canberra, Gannet, Scimitar, Meteor or Venom would never sell defies belief
That people wouldn't want it in 48th - duh! It's a no brainer (which is precisely what the accountants were).
Hopefully the new management has more sense!!!!!!!!!!!
How more emphatically can I put it!
Oh yeah whilst we're at it a new Gnat T.1 and Hunter T.7 in both scales!
I thank you!
Wez
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That is a marvellous build, and looks very smart in the markings, but, there is one glaringly obvious mistake, anyone spot it?
Bex
Canopy?
Wez
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Picked up the Italeri F1 kit & I'm sure I remember seeing that there were a couple of resin detail sets availabe for this kit - weapons, tanks etc. Any ideas?
FM do (or did) one, I've got it in the loft along with my Esci F1 - intend to do an F1CT using the Zots decals. I could have a look tomorrow and let you know what it contains.
Neomega do a cockpit.
Regards
Wez
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In the words of Father Jack "bottom!"
1/32 EE Lightning and others @ US Nats
in Aircraft Cold War
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No, you're not wrong - 23Sqn didn't have any of their Lightnings painted in grey/green when they owned them, the aircraft in question (XR726/K) actually belonged to 5 Sqn but was painted in 23Sqn markings to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the Lightnings first flight in 1979 - there's a photo on the front of Scale Aircraft Modelling 2/2 which shows other grey/green Lighnings in the markings of 92, 74, 56, 29 and 19 Sqns long after these squadrons had transitioned onto the Phantom or disbanded in the case of 74. My point was the aircraft flew in these markings (it even went as far as losing its rudder on the way back from Norway) and so the box art as painted is correct, just not representative.
I am thankful to be getting a large scale Lightning - never thought I'd see the day and that was the other point of my post. I'm not going to crtitcise a kit that I haven't seen in the flesh, maybe the photos distort those areas of the kit that others have mentioned, maybe when they've got it in their hot and sticky mits they may no longer see a problem - after all those were photos of test shots too, not the definitive article. I personally will like what I see. My only criticism of Trumpeter is that the 1/72nd scale kits aren't out yet
Hope this clarifies things
Regards
Wez