maltadefender
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I have a 1/32 Match-Revell-box awaiting build into the Tiggy from The English Patient movie. Sounds like its time may be coming!
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I'm feeling some anticipation from the Nieuport and Spad section of the stash! Been a while since I've been able to do much so have fingers crossed for a clear run.
Lovely idea for a GB.
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I tend to agree, Sir. Absolutely inexcusable is hinging the whole plot on the premise an S.E.5 had only an over-wing Lewis for armament...
Ummm… really?! I've honestly never noticed that subtext anywhere. I find DR's books fantastic entertainment, if a touch polemic. Of his WW1 trilogy I think Hornet's Sting is the best, filling in the back-story of Woolley before 1918.
Absolutely the worst fiction books on the air war I have ever read are The Burning Shore by Wilbur Smith and Wings of the Morning by Patrick Garland. Both real Mills & Boon stuff on a par with the sainted Birdsong (pah!)
My bugbear is with Aces Falling by Peter Hart. There are some fairly fundamental errors in there - and lazy trotting out of groundless old fables - that undermines some very good work.
Perhaps I'm a bit perverse but I always thought The Canvas Falcons was fairly entertaining if you take it at face value.
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Thanks everyone, glad you like the idea. I've been to see the beastie today and it's a bit easier - wings are in fact aluminium dope top and bottom. As is the fuselage top and bottom. Only the sides of the fuselage behind the rear cockpit and the rudder are PC10. The large civil registration on the top and bottom wings is also PC10.
So I need to order some white decal paper from Crafty Computer, when it arrives I'll scale the lettering to fit the side of the 504k, then print off the fuselage panels as oblongs of PC10 with the lettering in place. If I leave plenty of room to spare I can lay the fuselage halves down over the finished decals as a template to cut around.
The registrations on the wings I can do using the same PC10 shade but on clear paper.
Sounds simple enough...
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Half my flying lessons were in the slightly less warlike Beagle Pup, so will be watching this one with interest!
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I've made progress... With the photography. Here's the kit:
More to follow...
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Crikey, everyone's out of the blocks already!
Well I'm yet to photograph my kit, which is the old Airfix one. I'll do that as soon as I can. Plastic bag, a bit old and fusty, decals the colour of organic vanilla ice cream... not altogether promising. But that's OK I'm not a very promising modeller, so unpromising kits feel right at home.
Anyway, I'm going to try my hand at putting this livery onto my unpromising Avro, taken from the replica on display at the Brooklands Museum:
There's a whiff of post-WW1 surplus about it and plenty of PC10 to play with but I'm going to try and print those sections onto white decal paper in order to get the lettering done. So many models I want to do have white lettering on them, and without an ALPS printer the only thing to do is reverse the process and print the colour.
So that's an aluminium paint job with sections of PC10-coloured decal paper. And rigging. More to follow...
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1) Flying lesson in a Robin 2-seater back in the late 1980s… instructor and self flying straight and level at about 3000ft under unbroken stratus early in PPL training - when out of the cloud popped a pair of Tornado GR1s, flashing past on either side before popping back up and leaving us wobbling around in their wake. Probably a good 500 hundred feet between them, but it felt like a fag paper from where I was. My instructor was chuckling - apparently one of the Tornado pilots was an ex-pupil of the flying school who sometimes 'paid a visit'.
2) Air Atlantique DC3 pleasure flight with my Dad over Bedfordshire.
3) Flying boat tour around Malta on honeymoon. My first watery take-offs and landings, with fantastic views to boot.
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Very nice interpretation. Like that one a lot!
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This was my era... big engines, titanium sparks, lots of tech, elegant aero and big, fat tyres. Sigh! Beautifully captured with this one.
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Lovely work Enzo, particularly the Emil but the Firefly and Vindicator tickle my fancy rather a lot too!
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The producers of the TV series used adhesive code letters in order to be able to change identities as filming required but they couldn't find any that could survive the propwash without damaging the skin. As a result they threw in the line that the squadron should obliterate its codes after they mistakenly shot down the Blenheim to get around the problem.
There are numerous reissues of the novel with several publishers. I seem to recall that they do start with cloth wings and then get upgraded to metal wings, just as they get metal props after the American pilot Chris Hart loses a blade after take-off.
I'd use the new Hurricane kit and a 2-bladed prop, and stick with standard late 1939 or early 1940 markings and a single code letter to identify the aircraft.
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Really fun idea and very nicely done from that old kit.
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Really nicely done, I bet that's in pride of place now isn't it?
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Chuffed to bits here. Plenty of trade heading Airfix's way next year from me but these are the star turn.
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Yes please - I've got an Avro 504K that I'm hoping to build up as a Brooklands School of Flying aircraft.
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I'll have a crack please. Not too sure what just now... if my wife's reading this then it could be anything in the stash!
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I'm in please. Not sure what just yet... probably something from early on.
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Yes please for me. Not sure what just yet but it will have wings.
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I'll be in too please. No idea what with at the moment!
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Here's my little Pup. Please excuse the paint, she's only a hack but I've become rather fond of her. Sort of a 'clearing of the throat' before attempting anything bigger and more expensive!
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I've just rigged my first biplane - Airfix 1/72 Pup. Will take photos at the weekend. I'm chuffed as nuts with it.
Went for 'drill and fill' at that size. To be honest that part was less nerve-wracking than getting the top wing on. It's taken two weekends but the results are well worth the effort.
My advice would be to buy shares in EZ Line!
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They're all really nicely done.
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Great work on the Defender - my pick of the bunch too
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Would really like to join, I've only got one tank - a Tamiya Matilda and Echelon decals that I've had waiting around for me to get stuck in to some Malta 'stone wall' camo action.
Before I think about getting started, can anyone recommend which the best paints are for Light Stone and the correct green for the wheels (apparently they were the same as European theatre) if I'm brush painting?