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    Aussie Sabres

    in Aircraft Cold War

    Posted · Edited by Max Headroom

    from memory:

    wider fusealge to accomodate the Avon

    deeper intake coz it gulped more air (bit like Spey Phantoms)

    one 30mm Aden cannon per side instead of the 3x .50 cal Brownings

    I would assume that the panel lines were different too

    Now then.........what style wing(s) did it have?

    boeing 707 in 1/72?

    in Modern - 1969 and onwards

    Posted

    hi guys.

    like the title says, does anyone make a 72nd 707?..and if so, who and do they have a spares service :please:

    steve

    Heller did it yonks ago at the same time as the E3 release. I think BOAC/Air France were the options. Airfix seemed to get custody of their moulds. Maybe you should try them?

    The new carriers and JSF

    in Real Aviation

    Posted

    Yes I read the article and the follow up the next month. To be honest I haven't got a clue as an 'expert'.

    However, the first question the Secretary of State for the Fence should ask is "What is the UK's foreign policy if things look to go bang bang?"

    If they decide it's floating airfields to go to a place Far Far Away, then they need to ask "What do we do when we get there?"

    If it's "drop bombs and stuff", then what you need is a bomb truck. So bangs per buck come into the equation. VTOL F-35's are not the answer - at least not by themselves. You need the CTOL version to deliver as much ordnance as possible. By all means have the VTOL version to keep things quiet once the SAM's are creamed into the landscape but if you intend to go hot in a situation you need to prove that yu are serious.

    To do all this you need AEW. Realistically this means the E2 in whatever version is current. For this you need a catapult. I believe that the design incorporates the ability the retrofit this capability. This should be there from day one IMHO.

    I have no idea about the other floaty things that are required to nursemaid the two carriers, but it seems that the new destroyer order is slashed anyway, meaning that all of our assets would be protecting the carriers?

    I agree, it's muddled and being done on the cheap.

    Wotabout a NATO pooled asset?

    What do I know anyway?

    FAA Brewster Buffalo

    in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft

    Posted

    I thought it was about time that I got round to showing you that I have actually built models. Admittedly this is from my back catalogue but I have one or two others that I think may pass muster to share. Many others will go as part of the Scrappage Scheme! I don't build to competition standard, just to a level where my embarrasment is at tolerable levels.........

    Anyway, here is my first offering. It's Tamiya's 1/48 Brewster Buffalo, done as an FAA example. The kit itself was bought in a toy shop in the Cheshire Oaks retail outlet a number of years ago. Unfortunately it only came with the USN offering. I therefore had to use a Canovac(?) canopy as my attempts to disguise the slot in the windscreen failed. There a few details I'm not too sure about since my references were contradictary, e.g. the ventral window under the cockpit (or lack of). I know that some in British service had them plated over, so I flicked a coin and decided to do the same. I now know the tailwheel is wrong. The only other mod to the kit (other than the spares box transfers) is the aerial mast. The kit one snapped off many moons ago so was replaced by an aerofoil shaped sprue instead - it looks ok from a distance!

    The worn away camouflage effect was an experiment. The kit's plastic is silver so I thought what would it look like if I rubbed away the camo? The paints are Lifecolor. My first foray into acrylics I thought they were brill! Absolutely no brush marks when hand brushed. Beatties (as was) in Liverpool stopped stocking them..........curses, as I would have changed over to them totally - I was that impressed.

    Final apology is in relation to the photo sizes. I joined Photobucket this morning and haven't quite mastered the pix size yet. I clicked on the edit button and changed to 600 x 800, but when I went back they were original size..........

    Anyway, here goes

    :blush:

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    1:72 pegasus b.p sea balliol

    in 100 years of the Fleet Air Arm

    Posted

    Don't think I've ever heard if this plane let alone seen a model. :popcorn:

    Ok here is a series of pix I found on t'interweb

    http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=boulto...l%2Fballiol.jpg

    Strewth that's a long URL (how do you contract this into 'Linky'?!)

    Anyhoo..........this shows the two fuselages retrieved from a scrappy in Failsworth Lancashire in the 70's. BPA are essentially building metal clad wooden frames around them to make static external replicas.

    The cockpit shots are the best I have ever seen anywhere (Pilot notes are grainy b/w anyway) and since they are being refurbed by PB oltdimers would be inclined to believe what I see.

    For an overview of the Balliol see here (even this uses the c****y Aviation News plans - c.f. the canopy and 'notched' curve from windscreen to spinner again)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulton_Paul_Balliol

    Note that it flew with a Mercury Radial (prototype), AW Mamba (T.1) and then the RAF got cold feet and decided to use surplus Merlins (T.2). Do some digging around and you will find interesting variations on the airframe (nose - obviously; tail assembly and the canopy as well). There were also minor detail differences. For an obscure 'nearly was', the Balliol offers some interesting diversions. Unfortunately from a colour scheme point of view you only get anodized metal, natural metal, high speed silver (with either yellow trianer bands or dayglo details) or one overall red pre production example used by PB (G-ANSF). As an aside, many examples flew straight to an M.U. and were scrapped in situ. Drifting further off the main point, Blackburn built a batch and curiously cowl panels were not interchangeable with BP built examples. Final ramble - all had manual wing folding.

    I know that I have banged on about the Balliol, but this is perfect resin fodder and even I would be tempted by a CMK resin even at their prices. If the better half moans, I would say that it was only the price of a perm!!!

    As for real airframes, there is one T.21 at Cosford (this should really be with the FAA Museum!). There is definitely one complete example in Ceylon - apparently the Shuttleworth Collection tried and failed to get it to add to their trainer collection. Rumour has it that there is another substantially complete airframe out there too. Other than that, all you have are the two semi replicas with the Boulton Paul Association in the Midlands. These guys did something similar with a Defiant too - v. nice!

    Hope this helps and if anyone reads this, please take time out to have a look about the real thing.

    RAF Sabres

    in Aircraft Cold War

    Posted

    This post has more detail. I also bought the Academy F-86E because I want to do a slatted wing version.

    If you want the 'hard' 6-3 wing I am not an expert on which kits to find it in but I think the giveaway is a small wing fence.

    Ross

    I was in Modelzone the other day and came across the Hobbyboss F86-F-30 in USAF and South African markings. This has a hard wing with a built in fence.

    My question is this. Can this be used for an RAF example? Are there any external differences between an E and an F?

    Spitfire Mk IX camouflage - Dark Slate Grey and PRU Blue?

    in Aircraft WWII

    Posted

    Sorry, Nick, I should have added "in revelatory magazine articles." Add in the use of smooth paints, later in the war, and the tendency for groundcrews to titivate, and polish "their" aircraft, and the recipe gets even more complicated. Strange, too, that, all the times that I've been to the RAF Museum, apart from heavily weathered examples, I've never seen a colour photo(and they have quite a lot) with umpteen greys, and odd greens, on the same airframe.

    Edgar

    I know that I am stepping into shark infested waters here, so be kind to me!

    Consider this well known colour photo

    http://lh5.ggpht.com/_hj2CaKxeuog/RfgryL38...c/spitfireV.jpg

    it's the Spit V I have mentioned in some previous posts. IMHO it is the single grottiest Spitfire ever. I know it's mostly dk. green/dk. earth and is a Vb, but what it shows is the gradual repainting process that must have happened to many an airframe on the front line. I can see two shades of grey and two of dark green. As an aside it also shows an 'A' pattern camoflage with reversed colours and what's more the upper cowl is 'A' pattern but the right way around! Add to that the decidedly non standard white spinner, codes and fuselage band, lots of oil streaks and what you end up with is what could kindly be referred to as a right dogs dinner.

    I love it!

    I am neither for nor against Mr Lucas, but this pic shows that there were some strange examples out there. As long as whoever postulates a theory states (and says that it is a theory) how they arrived at a conclusion, then we as rational adults can make our own judgement as to the efficacy of that conclusion.

    As a sign off from this post, can I say that I was going to ask for help on this pic anyway.

    1. is there a port side view anywhere?

    2. does anyone do a sheet either in 1/72 or 1/48 for this bird?

    thank you and good night..........zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    1:72 pegasus b.p sea balliol

    in 100 years of the Fleet Air Arm

    Posted

    Still need to burrow in the garage. I have loads of 'useful items' that need depositing in the local dump first (q. how do you fit six interior doors into a Ka?)

    In the meantime I remember realising how the canopy is inaccurate. Look at the real thing and you will see that the windscreen panels are as tall as they are wide. Look at the model and you will notice that they appear squashed.

    Interesting comment by Wooksta re the origins of the Pegasus kit. If true, then the Czecks also used the awful Aviation News plans. I assume that the resin kits are early incarnations of CMK or whoever and which only had production runs of a few dozen?

    1:72 pegasus b.p sea balliol

    in 100 years of the Fleet Air Arm

    Posted

    lol dont worri about sea vixens i work on one lol they have there surprises , i think i may go for the silver / dayglow have u built one before would love to see it

    Nope! I plan, strategise and then just as I am about to commit to plastic, someone else brings out a new kit (15 years planning a Hudson in 1/72 scale and then Italeri go and stuff up my plans). If someone wants to do a resin Balliol I won't complain. It comes in lots of pretty colours.........silver/silver and dayglo/ red and lots of operators........RAF/FAA/Ceylon/Boulton Paul. It will ship thousands of units. C'mon Airfix you're on an FAA roll here!

    Q. how many Britmodellers would buy one?

    1:72 pegasus b.p sea balliol

    in 100 years of the Fleet Air Arm

    Posted

    lol the sea vixen etched is there for a good reason .... look at the cockpit floor i have made .. it is a sea vixen airbrake its a perfect fit !!!

    just remember the Sea Vixen never had Firestreak missiles............they ripped the wings off.

    BTW what colour scheme are you doing -

    silver

    silver and dayglo

    er...........that's it

    1:72 pegasus b.p sea balliol

    in 100 years of the Fleet Air Arm

    Posted

    I have something buried in the garage, but it will take a few days to mine that deep!

    From memory the only other set of plans are from an obscure publication called 'Control Column' from the very early 1980's. They are more accurate. Again if ememory serves, the Scale Aircraft Modelling feature seemed to use the Aviation News drawings.........not surprising as at that time they were both from the same stable.

    I have both the Pegasus kit plus a vac form whose origins I forgot (it's in the garage). I had vague plans to graft the nose of the anonymous vac form to the Pegasus kit. The canopy of the mystery ship was more accurate but fogged! I also recall thinking that I needed a Heller Spit XVI prop and spinner to complete the ensemble (in my mind I am the world's best modeller, but as a practicing beauracrat I plan and run things up flag poles rather than actually model...........).

    I promise to post info to you but probably at the weekend. First I have to master Photobucket which seems to be the photo album of choice.

    Fingers crossed!

    BTW why do you have an Airwaves Sea Vixen P.E. set??!!!?!?!!?

    1:72 pegasus b.p sea balliol

    in 100 years of the Fleet Air Arm

    Posted

    Whose kit are you using? If it's the Pegasus one you have some serious plastic carving ahead of you. FYI Aviation News plans are wrong!! Compare photos with the plans and you will see that in the real thing there is an unbroken curve from the base of the windscreen to the prop tip. Dunno where Pegasus went wrong (other than to use the AN plans) but the canopy looks a bit squashed to me. Remember also that the exhausts run parallel to eachother and do not 'flare' with the widening fuselage.

    New tool Airfix 1/72 BF109 G-6

    in Aircraft WWII

    Posted

    Have to agree with "The Wooksta" about the lack of cockpit detail,there's no excuse for that in a 2009 new tooled kit.

    Just my tuppence worth.

    Bill............

    Looking at the thread for the Spit XIX that seems to have a decent interior..............so why not the 109?

    But I also agree that in this scale the exterior is more important.

    But then again we are modellers, how many slices of 20 thou card does it take to make the office look busy?

    But then again also the stickes choice is inspired.

    But again then also.............

    b****r, my mind is flipping more often than an omlette in an omlette flipping contest.

    Acid test for me 'would I buy one'?

    yes

    'do I mind the lack of an interior'?

    dunno

    :confused:

    Trident things...

    in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft

    Posted

    Cool! There seems to be a Trident thing going on here at the moment! I may even have to join in. ^_^

    A couple of very nice builds. I especially like the Northeast version. Whos stickies did you use?

    BTW G-AVYB is a Trident 1 - see this link thing...........

    http://www.shockcone.co.uk/hs121/fleet.htm

    Are you going to share the conversions on the 2 and 3 with us?

    As an aside, am I right in thinking that the 3's had a fourth booster engine at the base of the tail? If so were they technically Quadrants?

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