Unkempt

Yes, it's all a matter of scale, really, and knowing which ones are real... plus, searching for 'bomb splash' gets me an awful lot of kids' toys. I'll try the IWM archives.

Not sure this is really the right forum, but anyway: Suppose an aircraft drops a bomb to hit a ship at sea but misses. This would be a 100/250lb bomb, for example from a Walrus. I assume the bomb would go off in the water. What would the splash look like? How high would it be? Does anyone know of any images or film illustrating this? I'm thinking of a diorama, but I'm not really sure if what I'm thinking of would work. Thanks!

All done and in the gallery!

Here's my entry, the Boeing 247-D racer model 'Warner Bros Comet". From the Williams kit with a bit of interior detail, corrected aerials and my own decals for the corrected fuselage and engine logos. Build thread here

Just need to get aerials on and I see I've forgotten a couple of little decals. Should get this in the gallery tomorrow.

Much better! I'm afraid my tip is to avoid inkjet printers and use a laser printer. Much better results than any inkjet decals I've ever tried. On the home stretch now, need to tidy up, do gear & engines, aerials, a bit of weathering (but not too much).

Thanks. Sorry about the delay - while I was waiting for the new paper I got an Eduard Lysander out and this happened - - but that's all done now, and I've got the new paper and I've photoshopped up the decals I want. I tried a test print down there and the images were coming out at about 80% the size that they were at home which is obviously useless, I'll be down there again this afternoon trying to sort that out.

To be honest I asked the question to find out if I could leave them off...

Thanks guys, that was quick.

Quick question if anyone knows: were the little winglet things (or whatever they're called, they carry the bombs) permanently fitted to some aircraft and not others, or were they used on a per-mission sort of basis? Were they removable? Not many photos seem to show them.

Hmm. A bit wobbly. edit: Yeah, I can't get a good result with my 5-year old inkjet paper. I've ordered some laser stuff which I can print down at the library, so we're on hold for about a week.

Yep, they're scanned. And good news! A thin coat of acrylic gloss seems to have done the trick. So I'm just short of the lower registration number I screwed up in the first place, but I have to do the fuselage logos anyway so it's off to photoshop.

Thanks. I was feeling good about it last night, when I finished the overall grey and gave it a gloss coat. Unfortunately, this morning this happened: It just completely disintegrated. I've tried one from the other scheme and that's disintegrating too. Currently trying overspraying another spare decal with varnish to see if I can salvage something, but it's not looking good at the moment.

I've had kits that fit a lot worse than this one, but this isn't good,,, Still, nearly done with filling/sanding now. One or two more passes should do it.

I busied up the navigator's table: - hope he's okay getting to Australia using the back end of a 1/35th machine gun because that's what he's got. Fuselage together, wings next, still some filling and sanding to go. Also going to reposition the elevators a bit, the kit representation doesn't look much like the real thing. Still haven't got the canopy on, looks like some more fit issues there.

Very nice. What's that flying wing in front of the X-1 and the Pogo?

OK, here we go. Cockpit is basic but should be OK through the transparency. The interior is almost entirely taken up by fuel tanks. The instructions say to cut out some 'floor heaters' before gluing the tanks to the floor; I didn't bother as you couldn't see the heaters anyway. That turned out to be a bad idea - if you don't remove the heaters then the tanks are too far apart so the assembly won't fit in the fuselage. So off with the tanks, out with the 'heaters' and back on with the tanks a bit closer to the centre. It fits now. Cockpit's also in, but there's a bit of a fit issue with the bulkhead: Next up is rooting through the spares box to find something better for the radio equipment than the squarish blob provided, then I can get the fuselage together and fill in that cockpit bulkhead, and then onward and upward.

The "Warner Bros. Comet" was an American entry in the 1934 London-Melbourne air race. Adapted from Boeing's then-new, state of the art low wing monoplane airliner, it was fitted with extra internal fuel tanks and navigation gear and flown by pilot Roscoe Turner, coming in, well, third. You can't have everything. The kit is an oldie from Williams: and the box contents: As you can see, it's already got the racing version as an option with the interior fuel tanks ready to replace the seating. The decals also look good with one exception which we'll get to in a minute. There's a fair amount of references for this one. A couple of Pathe films of the race show the plane with some of its interior: ... and there's also a load of images around if you google, for example this (public domain) one. (Museums Victoria, https://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/items/1548480) So, in that image - you see that honking massive logo on the side? The 'Warner Bros Comet' logo? It's on both sides, and yeah, that's the one marking they didn't include on the decals. I have no idea why. Anyway, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. First up is the interior.

Well I'll do that then. Thanks!

How about the Boeing 247 that came 3rd in the London-Melbourne 1934 race? Would that fit under 'attempted record breaker'?

Beechcraft Bonanza N3794N, February 3, 1959. 1/48 from the Minicraft kit, figures are hacked about US pilot/ground crew from Hasegawa. The snow is baking powder which seems to be working fine for me - I know some people have trouble with it.

Oh, that's perfect, thanks. Am I right in thinking the P-26 engine would make a good start? (I'd only need one...)

Sorry, biggest I can find. There are a couple of similar ones here (of the same plane): http://patch.com/illinois/westernsprings/the-night-a-boeing-247-fell-on-western-springs

Hey all, I picked up the Williams Brothers' Boeing 247 for a steal the other day and was thinking of doing a diorama of this scene: ... but looking at that engine nacelle, it's different from both the kit and every other photo of a 247 that I can find. Anyone know what's up with that? It does look a little like the front end of a P-26 so maybe that could be a starting point.

It really seems to be a big hole in the market. You can't even get a decent Wright Flyer in a standard scale as far as I can see. Maybe Wingnut Wings will do something about it one day?