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  1. Hi, Love it. Your UA Boeing 767 really looks the part. Having photographed many of these all over the world, they always have a slightly tired look about them. As someone said earlier, they have been worked really hard! Amsterdam was always a great place to see them as well.
  2. Absolutely fantastic. Your weathering is just perfect. I spent some time around USN F4B's on a carrier off of Vietnam in the early 1970's (but it wasn't the Enterprise!) and yours is exactly how I remember them. The crew chiefs took immense pride in their charges and kept them pretty clean on that particular carrier. Brilliant result, well done.
  3. Hi Ray, A wonderful rendition of what must be a fairly unique scheme. When I saw your mention of your own decals and liking the scheme a lot, I took a quick detour over to your site to purchase a set. But no such luck. Any chance in the future? I am not a big fan of the 720, but this scheme is simply beautiful. Well done, David
  4. An absolutely stunning rendition of a much under represented subject of an unsung aircraft that went right through Ww2 and beyond. Those of you who knew the late and great Bill Matthews, may remember him reminiscing about how he spent many happy hours on the Anson, during his time in the RAF. Only a shame he cannot see your amazing work! S.u.p.e.r b - well done. Now I have to buy one…..
  5. Hi Alex, Another brilliant addition to your vast collection. I love this AB livery. It certainly leaps out at you when you see it. I would definitely like to do one of those. I will get a set of the Authentic Decals and I think that I have an AA A340 somewhere deep in the stash! Forgive my ignorance, but what do ' just the usual conversion of the engines" actually involve. I haven't made any of the Revell A340's in my stash yet. Thinking about it a bit more, I haven't actually made an A340 kit yet! I photographed them all over Asia, I particularly liked the aircraft in SQ livery. This is one I photographed at Sydney's Kingsford-Smith airport in 1997. https://www.asianaviationphotography.com/acatalog/copy_of_Airbus_A340_s.html But I digress, well done! Regards, David Riley
  6. Hi, Thank you Dave, Skodadriver and Viking. I took a look at the Review link Viking, and it answered my flap-track question as well. Thank you. Also thanks for the heads up on the fit issues. This forum really is great. I did try searching for Revell A320 Neo, it came up with masses of suggestions, but not one actually for a Revell A320 Neo. I put it down to my incompetence, gave up.....and asked you all! I knew someone would know. I have ordered one of each...to start with. The pile in the attic will be getting bigger. Regards, David
  7. Hi, At the risk of repeating some old news. Could it be that the aircraft has a new nose cone that this been painted in the current BA "Superwhite" paint? When BA started taking deliveries of their A380's in July 2013, I noticed that the white was significantly brighter than previous aircraft and this was playing havoc with my colour matching software. As a commercial photographer, colour is quite important to me and I was perplexed by the difference, which couldn't be put down to simply newly painted aircraft vs weathering. It was so much brighter. I went in search of an answer. Eventually, my contact in BA's Flight Operations contacted someone in BA's aircraft servicing who confirmed that BA had changed their white to what, at that time, he called "Superwhite". I believe that this was part of a mini re-branding exercise that they did at that time. It may have another name by now, but all new and repainted aircraft are now in that colour. Regards, David
  8. Hi, Can anyone tell me if the more recent A320N & A321N kits, which have undercarriage, are new tool or simply the previous kits with Neo engines? For instance have the flap track fairing issues been corrected? Also, if it is new tool, how does the Revell A320 Neo stack up against the Zvezda A320 Neo? One last question have Zvezda announced an A321 Neo? I have an attic half full of Revell's previous A320 and A321's. So, it might be cheaper to find someone supplying Neo engines. Ha! Ha! Regards, David
  9. Hi, Hi Alistair. Absolutely stunning job. Well done. Nice to see how the Zvezda kit works out. Wonderful aircraft in BA's best scheme. I have the F-Dcal sheet for G-CPET, which will be my choice for one of the zvezda kits already in my own stash. Someone queried whether G-CPET was the only BA B757 in the Negus livery. There were others, although I have only managed to find one photo so far. On page 47 of Keith Gaskels excellent book on British Airways there is a splendid photo of G-BIKB in the Negus delivery, the first BA B757 delivered. BA was apparently one of two launch customers for the B757, the other being Eastern Airlines. G-BIKA to G-BIKI were all delivered in 1983 and the Landor livery was not introduced until 1984, so I suspect they were all delivered in the Negus scheme. Brian's book says that the first Landor scheme test aircraft, a B737 was delivered in September 1984, so G-BIKJ to G-BIKM, which were delivered upto March 1984 were almost certainly also delivered in the Negus scheme. As always, full of useless info! Regards, David
  10. Oh dear! Thank you for pointing this out. I have checked my photos and one was definitely ZE428, which was an HC.4. That one was in the hangar and the only photo I took of it was of the Serial by itself. You are, of course, absolutely right about XT678. Not only was it a Wessex, but it was “Hotel”, one of the 28 Sqn Wessex's. In 1997 I had mislabelled the photographs of the other Sea King in my database. I put it down to incompetence! The aircraft was sat on the edge of the GFS apron at the far end where the Wessex's were taxiing. Because of that I wasn't allowed to get closer, so I took a couple of telephoto shots for posterity. I dug out the negatives this morning, scanned one and enlarged it. The Sea King is coded VH and is ZF119, although the serial is very faint. I verified this by finding an image online of the aircraft taken in September 1997 at a Leuchar’s airshow and it is wearing the VH code letters. I made up a print of my image of ZF119 and have put it on the site. I doubt that I will ever sell a print of it, but it has some historical significance! You can see it here if interested: https://www.asianaviationphotography.com/acatalog/Military.html I have updated my database accordingly. Thank you again. Regards, David
  11. Hi, I am really enjoying this thread for a couple of reasons. Firstly, because I was so amazed by your work on the 28 Sqn Wessex and secondly because I have a particular interest in 28 Squadron aircraft. When I arrived in Hong Kong in 1971 to start my nearly 30 years there, one of the earliest things I did was to join the Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers), which was a Hong Kong Government TA light reconnaissance cavalry unit. My first introduction to 28 Squadron was when my troop and I were airlifted in several of their Whirlwind HC-10’s from HMS Tamar to join an exercise in the New Territories. My indelible memory of this event was that when we arrived at the LZ the crew chief advised me that it was a Rice Paddy Field and that they couldn’t land! “But don’t worry sir, we will hover and you can all deplane by jumping.” I looked dubiously out of the door at the surface of the Paddy Field, which of course was full of water. It looked very wet. Anyway, I led by example on cue and jumped. A la Vicar of Dibley I disappeared completely into a large wet muddy hole. To add insult to injury, when I surfaced the pilot moved the aircraft sideways a couple of hundred yards and my entire Troop deplaned without getting their feet wet! Yes, I have had my suspicions too!! We used the Whirlwinds several more times before they departed Hong Kong and they were very nimble and the pilots were very experienced at low level flying amongst all the hills in Hong Kong. As far as I recall, the Wessex replacements started arriving in early 1972 and the last of the Whirlwinds departed that summer, by which time they were showing their age. The Wessex was an altogether different aircraft, and we made a lot of use of them over the years. I am not sure how popular we were with them though since almost all of our soldiering was done at the weekends! In December 1980 I got an invite through a friend to visit 28 Squadron at Sek Kong to spend the afternoon taking photos of their Wessex’s for a Frog Wessex project. I took several hundred photographs that day, including lots of the aircraft in the hangar, which was in bits, going through what I imagine was an RAF equivalent of a D Check. I have put a couple of the apron photos on my website, if anyone is interested, and will, hopefully add more in due course. I never took any photos of the Whirlwinds though. This is the link https://www.asianaviationphotography.com/acatalog/Military.html Of course, 28 Squadron and their Wessex’s remained in Hong Kong right up until just before the handover in 1997, although the Royal Navy brought in a couple of Westland Sea Kings (XT678 an HC.2 & ZE428 an HC.4) to cover during the days before the actual handover. My last involvement with 28 Squadron was when I was invited to photograph the Squadron disbandment flypast rehearsals on 2 June 1997. The actual disbandment took place the following day on 3 June 1997, when I was on top of a building shooting the flypast as it proceeded down the harbour. By that time, I had done some photographic assignments for the Civil Aviation Department and they had reintroduced me to 28 Sqn. (My part time soldiering ended in the mid-1980’s). The aircraft had been repainted without the black & white recognition markings, in preparation I presumed for their handover to Uruguay. 28 Squadron were training a group of Uruguay Air Force pilots and they participated in the flypast. Then the aircraft were packed up and shipped and the two Sea kings took over their duties. Sorry a long winded way of saying I am really looking forward to seeing this particular project progress. I seem to remember making this kit with floats in the early 1960’s. I was an even worse modeller then and even I thought the kit was rubbish! But I know that you will work your magic on it. David
  12. Hi - Absolutely fantastic! I now wish I had bought more than one of these kits. Now I am going to have to be very careful in my choice of what to use it for! One question if I may, I loved the idea of the undercarriage lights and those lenses. I looked at your link to the website, but have no idea of what size to order. Can you remember what size you used on this? Perhaps i should order a range, but would like to know what size to start with? Regards, David
  13. Hi, Just beautiful, engines or not .I flew on the original BOAC B747-100's several times in the early 1970's. It really is the best scheme! I have the 26 Decal sheet for one of those and treated myself to an Authentic Airliners kit for them to go one. Hannants do a sheet for the BA B777, but it may not be the scheme you want: https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/X44001?result-token=p9ATl 26 did a sheet for the current scheme, but it is sold out. David
  14. Wonderful build. I love this scheme. Beware of the new scheme decals though. It appears that, having repainted the first two aircraft, Lufthansa are not satisfied with the blue used and are looking for an alternative blue. According to my Lufthansa source they may change it. It may be that we could be limited to just two aircraft using existing new scheme decals. It will be interesting to see what they decide to do. I loved your conversion and will watch the Reveal Neo releases to see what they come up with.
  15. I have a question, but first let me say what wonderful job you did on the new kit. Great result! Well done! An inspiration for those of us about to embark on our own versions. My question. Is the pilot's name on the Lt P Carmichael? Getting on towards my three score and ten years my eyesight isn't quite what it once was! If so, is the same Commander peter Carmichael who shot down the Mig in a Sea Fury during the Korean War, or just an amazing coincidence, or simply my rubbish eyesight playing tricks on me! PS - another question. It looks from your great photos that the kit can be posed with wings up or down, without committing to either. Is that the case? I haven't actually received my kit yet. David
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