12jaguar
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Ooo the Stirling is getting closer
John
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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.
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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
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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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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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Blackburn Botha next 🫣
John
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Awesome work there Carl😀
John
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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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Lovely Jag
Only one small issue though...
you've got the tail serial the wrong way round, it should read XZ359
cheers
John
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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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Top Notch as always Carl
John
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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
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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😁
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Awesome work again Carl, glad we could help🙂
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Fantastic work there Carl. The original has cleaned up well too😃
John
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Welcome aboard 😀
John
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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
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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
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Always interested to see a Stirling, but please amend the spelling LOL
Another Stirling...or How Not To Do It
in Work in Progress - Aircraft
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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