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  1. Very nice Stirling, a great credit to the old girl John
  2. Hi Peter Couldn't find a response to your earlier questions so firstly: u/c bays, inside of doors and the airbrake compartments are all painted in a yellow chromate colour Airbrake doors are in exterior camouflage colour and the recess into which they fit is also camouflaged. I was posted to RAF Abingdon in 1984 as a Rigger which is where we carried out mod 1114 which upgraded the aircraft to GR1a standard, the wiring of the outer pylons to accept, Phimat, An/ALQ Pods and Sidewainders was a separate mod which was embodied at the same time. There are no external indications of an aircraft being upgraded with all changes being in the cockpit and Avionics bay. nice progress btw John
  3. Fantastic Jag there matey. For info the flaps and slats don't droop on shutdown as they're operated by screwjacks so their position would be selected by the pilot prior to shutdown. IIRC, normal position was slats fully out and flaps to max down nice diorama 🐵 John
  4. There you go https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnmj32067P0q8Q82caz5Prg John
  5. Hi Roger She's looking great. If you're planning on having the wing bomb cells open, the doors themselves retract into the cell not open into the airflow. The following link shows it https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SHORT-STIRLING-BOMBER-WING-BOMB-CELL-DOORS-ORIGINAL-VINTAGE-PHOTO-WW2-RAF-/203654951058?nma=true&si=9Y7KxGc0xzsfRTG8uQfoDCqABYs%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 cheers John
  6. well let's just hope they get in touch with us to get the Stirling as correct as possible John
  7. Looking nice, necer built the MB Jag before. Hope you don't mind my asking, but is the checkerboard in the right place as I've never seen one in that location before? regards John
  8. So is the Apache going to be the AH.2? Everything I've seen so far refers to AH-64E... John
  9. Worth noting that the Stirling is a Mk III as opposed to the Mk I / Mk IV previously released Would I....possibly😇 John
  10. Aluminium for the turret mechanism although the inside of the cupola is black. We made a mistake when we restored our turret and painted the mechanism black...doh! Short of taking it all apart again it will remain black🤫 John
  11. I don't know where Italeri got the idea that there's a galley, on a Stirling; maybe on a MkV but not on any of the bomber variants John
  12. Nice to see a Stirling in work. Probably a bit late now but here's a pic of our Flightdeck in it's current form. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=stirling+project+flightdeck&sxsrf=AOaemvJzjl-HuI8zzx_V20aSi5vyZyentg:1641721706457&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj8lIj5saT1AhWyoFwKHexOA_0Q_AUoAXoECAIQAw&biw=1280&bih=577&dpr=1.5#imgrc=f8JJGkqDBzx6ZM Early on Stirlings where Cockpit Green from the nose through to the Navigators bulkhead at Frame 9, some were hand painted black in the BA compartment though although I believe that this was pretty rare. We have parts from the nose of Mk IIIs/IVs which are still painted green though. If you need any help, please feel free to ask John
  13. Hi Hornchurch welcome aboard. Seeing as you're in E Anglia. you're probably not too far from us in the Stirling Project. You're welcome to visit for some up to date progress 🐵 John
  14. No idea about other aircraft types, but the Stirling landing lamps were adjusted by a teleflex cable and handle located on the RH side of the Throttle Box. On the MkIII, another lever lowered the landing light pneumatically through yet another lever also mounted on the throttle box; the Stirling cockpit is an ergonomic slum which you needed to have octopus arms to operate all of the various controls😮 cheers John
  15. Hi all Mark Is had a recessed landing lamp in the L/E, whereas later marks had retractable ones. In all cases you could alter the angle of the dangle but I suspect that in the Mk 1 the angle would be more limited. More likely it's that Shorts thought they'd like to make things even more complicated than they needed to be LOL John
  16. As I'm hoping that Father Christmas is bringing me one of these (I've been a good boy this year), I'm watching with interest John
  17. On a previous edition of Aerodrome they had an indepth visit to the school at Cosford with a heavy leaning towards the Jags, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed on that one John
  18. Have built both and like the OP I worked hands on with the aircraft and in the MOD Engineering Authority. KH has better detail, but it's hard work and if I made another I'd get the Airfix kit with a resin cockpit etc. John
  19. Welcome aboard😁 John (Not too far down the road from Mildenhall)
  20. Nothing bad about those. Welcome aboard! John
  21. For info, on my Chipmunk which I'm statically restoring I have 2 set of harnesses 1 black and one bright blue. Both are original items John
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