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    Matchboxes

    in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft

    Posted

    Oooh yeah!

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    This young man is doing some serious dogfighting between the RN Phantom and the Me 109 E (trop).

    LOL! I remember they were well made them toys, Was'nt Dinky a subsidury of Matchbox?

    Merv

    PS,Your Da must've got the wallpaper from the same shop as mine! :analintruder:

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    Matchboxes

    in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft

    Posted

    I love the old Matchbox kits. I have fond memories of building a number of them in a caravan on the banks of Lake Bala, whilst it lashed it down with rain for two weeks. Didn't have to paint them as they were pre coloured. The unpainted builds look very neat though. To neat in fact. Wheres the obligatory glue fingerprint on the canopy coupled with stringy plastic glue hanging from the fuselage.?

    Having built a few more over the last 12 months I still like them. I just work on the principle that a bit of hard work never hurt anyone.

    Nige.

    Jeez,you too,eh!lol

    One of my fondest childhood memories was of Dad making the model up for me while I watched & then me 'flying it' around the house. I must've been 6 or 7 at the time. early 70's.I remember a white & light blue plane.Cant for the life of me remember what it was.

    Remember the Dinky toy planes in the square bubble top boxes?

    Merv

    Harrier Seats???

    in Aircraft Modern

    Posted

    So effectively, the US pilot has half of the straps already on his flight suit?

    I gather it's something to do with making it easier to get out of the parachute if ejected over water.By releasing the jock fittings the chute comes off easier with less risk of the chute becoming water logged & sinking,compared to our aircrew having to pop the buckle or cut the parachute lines.

    Our aircrew carry a knife on the right thigh of the flight suit/g-pants for cutting chute lines,dont think the US Navy carry them.

    Harrier Seats???

    in Aircraft Modern

    Posted

    They are similar, the only difference you may want to worry about is the straps. On the US Navy seats the straps are short and the pilot attaches them to a kind of waist coat that he wears as part of his gear, using individual koch fittings. On the RAF seats the pilot connects all the straps together to a central quick release fitting.

    This is shown pretty clearly in the photos you have posted.

    It's basically a more modern seat that is made under licence in the US.Must US seat's have the Koch fittings attatching directly to the pilots harness. The internal workings are,more or less,the same apart from the rocket booster pack being more powerful for US Naval Aviation.

    Britmodeller made me do it love!

    in Aircraft Cold War

    Posted

    Never been a fan of jets much. Much prefer propeller planes.

    I've got a few jets in the stash though. Classic ones mind. An Me262, a Hunter an F-84 and a Concorde, but that's it.

    However, after seeing all these Lightnings on this 'ere site, and watching the YouTube videos of the plane, I thought, yeah, I can see why they like them.

    Then, by chance I saw an Airfix 1/48th F6 in a shop the other side of town this morning. I had to brazenly admit to the missus that I'd been a bad boy, and bought another kit.

    It's been bleedin' ages since I'd bought one, (as a self imposed moratorium on increasing the size of the stash: currently around 90 unbuilt kits sitting in my office), but what can I tell you? It's a shark mouth Lightning, 'innit?

    It's a fair cop.. :whistle:

    My wedding anniversary present to her will have to be a really good one next week..

    :innocent:

    Which ward do we send the flowers & cards to???.....(Just in case) You screw that up,your life's in the :toilet:

    Help wanted to identify a British bomb

    in Aircraft Cold War

    Posted

    Gents,

    The bomb is a BDU12 which is a drill versio of the US B57 bomb as used on Nimrods. just to be really Anal it is sat on a type "K" Mk4 bomb trolley. And if you are wondering how I know lets just say that the bomb trolley was a Mk3 when it arrived at my place of work but left as a Mk4!

    Me is now wondering if our paths have ever crossed..... ESA or AGSE I wonder?

    Kinloss 85 to 88.

    Help wanted to identify a British bomb

    in Aircraft Cold War

    Posted

    Spike. IIRC the Nimrods carried B57s not B43s. Difficult to tell from the photo which it is but it does look remarkably like....... Oh the joys of the Annual Weapons Standardisation Test and No Lone Zones

    Thanks for that,Been a long time since Kinloss....(I'm getting old)

    What was scary was when the US Marines came into Kinloss & took over the SW storage site (ESA 2) on excersises :analintruder:

    What was fun tho was when the RAF Plod strayed over the NLZ to be nosy & was told to **** off!We used to fine them a slab.And practicing the destruction of the left over bombs if the 'enemy were at the gates'

    Ah the memories.....

    In fact the other day while going thru some of my old kit in the loft,I came across my old "Man 4 WLT" book!

    Revell Eurofighter 1/48

    in Aircraft Modern

    Posted

    Hello Graham,

    If it' any help...I put mine together and then sprayed the mostly assembled model. The reason I found was that the intake area is made of several parts and needed filling-sanding and rescribing some of the lost panel lines. Also...the main wings reeded some work towards their rear join and as you can imagine, the real aircraft is almost seemless in this area.

    Good luck, Geoff

    I had that problem as well as the fit at the front of the wings around the intake trunking.The airbrake wont sit flush & the seat is a bl**dy biatch to fit after the cockpit is complete.

    Typhoon 1/72

    in Aircraft Modern

    Posted

    for some parts - those that are small and easily lost, those that are a separate colour. Similarly, parts that you won't reach when the aircraft is built but can be seen.

    For the main airframe colours, it's usally best to paint them after you have assembled them.

    One tip I would give is to treat each model as a learning process - and don't give up if it doesn't look like one by Skii or Drewe!! There are all levels in the hobby, and like everything else getting better takes practice! I've been modelling 34 years and still make mistakes!

    ....Superglueing the model to your hand....slitting a thumb open with a rusty xacto blade....spilling paint over the wifes new shagpile.....Ignoring the wife when she wants to go shopping & your into step 2..... :shithappens:

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