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Another Stirling...or How Not To Do It
12jaguar replied to MOK61's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
It should be a 2 part mask on both sides as the lower part is a Direct Vision window that opens inwards on each side so that the pilots can have a clear view forward and below John- 282 replies
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Ooo the Stirling is getting closer John
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Another Stirling...or How Not To Do It
12jaguar replied to MOK61's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
Have to agree with Heather on the bulged windows, window configuration on Stirlings can be quite confusing. As always pick your topic and model to that.- 282 replies
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Kitty Hawk Jaguar T2/T4 kit and faulty canopy.
12jaguar replied to Tim2tin's topic in Aircraft Cold War
Word to the wise, it's not a great kit, but once you've fought it into submission it does at least look like a Jag 🐵 John -
hi, sorry a bit late to the party. A lot of the items in the Italeri kit are quite fanciful, notably the 'galley' installed aft of the Navigators bulkhead, you'd only find that on a Mk V fitted out for passengers. regarding other items, the only thing routinely carried was a case in the centre section for a 'Tropicalisation kit', this also had some survival equipment such as water canisters and heliographs. I expect that on ops where the aircraft had to fly a considerable distance such as the raids on Turin when flying on to north Africa, extra maintenance equipment might have been carried, but knowing the constraints of flying through the Alps en route, I think they'd have been dispensed with to save weight John
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1/72nd Airfix Short Stirling, 1940 edition
12jaguar replied to Heather Kay's topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
Lovely rendition of an early Stirling there Heather and it was a pleasure to assist you. For the purists, early Mk Is had an FN4 rear turret which is a more rouned version than the boxier FN20 found on later Stirlings and Lancasters cheers John- 33 replies
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I've seen that video and whilst it's ambitious in its intent I think it unrealistic to compare a 4 engined heavy with a Battle which carried 3 crew and was only used operationally for a short time. Same with the other twins. A more realistic view would be to compare loss rate against number of operational sorties. This would level the field a bit but wouldn't take into account improvements in technology and operational use. At best a Battle is a tactical light bomber as opposed to a 4 engined strategic bomber John
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Noting that we're only talking of 1/72 here but the shape and profile of a Stirling FN5 cupola is totally different to a Wellington one. Even the internals are subtly different doh!
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Hi Heather Cracking build thus far. Not sure if anyone has responded as yet, but the fuselage interior fwd of the cockpit bulkhead is all cockpit green, with the fuselage aft of that in painted silver/aluminium. For early Mk Is the rear turret is an FN4 as per the Manchester and most definitely not the same as a Lanc. Are you doing a Mk I, srs 1, 2 or 3? John
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Avro Manchester Bomber Instrument Panel 1:1
12jaguar replied to alzictorini's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
Blackburn Botha next 🫣 John -
Avro Manchester Bomber Instrument Panel 1:1
12jaguar replied to alzictorini's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
Awesome work there Carl😀 John -
Regarding short @rsed pilots, the seats have a fairly large amount of adjustment both fore and aft and up and down. The rudder pedals actually come in 3 different patterns; plain, with a detachable platform to make them taller and solid cast with the pedal already taller. The pedals themselves can also be adjusted in the fore and aft plain John
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Hi Heather Just shout if you need some better internal photos of Stirlings John
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In Flight 1/48 RAF Jaguar GR1 Air to Air Refuelling
12jaguar replied to BertieBox's topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
Lovely Jag Only one small issue though... you've got the tail serial the wrong way round, it should read XZ359 cheers John -
I may be biased but you can't beat an Italeri Stirling😁
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Hi Vince Ta for the vote, so will do my best to answer. As far as I know, there's no hard fast rule for astrodome installation, but I suspect that once Stirlings switched to night operations the astrodome became the standard fit. The parts catalogue allows for both types of hatch so I suppose you could switch although I doubt on an operational squadron they'd bother to switch them over. I'd lay odds that most if not all Mk IIIs would have the dome though. I'll do some more digging and see if I can come up with anything Cheers John
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Avro Manchester Bomber Instrument Panel 1:1
12jaguar replied to alzictorini's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
Top Notch as always Carl John -
Avro Manchester Bomber Instrument Panel 1:1
12jaguar replied to alzictorini's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
Awesome Carl😁 You could see some of those items individually as some are as rare as hens teeth like the autopilot steering controller lever John -
Avro Manchester Bomber Instrument Panel 1:1
12jaguar replied to alzictorini's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
Nice to have those rectangular gauges replicated without all of the radiation hazard associated with many of the real ones. Thankfully we have non-luminous ones on our FE panel😁 -
Avro Manchester Bomber Instrument Panel 1:1
12jaguar replied to alzictorini's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
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Avro Manchester Bomber Instrument Panel 1:1
12jaguar replied to alzictorini's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
Fantastic work there Carl. The original has cleaned up well too😃 John -
Welcome aboard 😀 John
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Short Sunderland MkII - 1/32nd scale vacform
12jaguar replied to tomprobert's topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
I'm sure I post this every time after you finish one of your masterpieces; but when are you gonna finish that bloomin' Stirling LOL Cracking job as always John- 82 replies
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Short Stirling Mk I Series III ***FINISHED***
12jaguar replied to PeterB's topic in Big and British GB
Hi Pete The cockpit is indeed Cockpit green as is the Bomb Aimers compartment. However, everything aft of the cockpit bulkhead is in aluminium (except for Mk Vs) I built the Airfix kit as a Mk III last year in the markings of BK716 which is the aircraft recently recovered by the Dutch Air Force from the Markemeer regards John -
Short Stirling Mk I Series III ***FINISHED***
12jaguar replied to PeterB's topic in Big and British GB
Always interested to see a Stirling, but please amend the spelling LOL