ww1steve

Ian, marvellous job. Following your thread means making my second one with the wings folded will be so much easier. My 842 got a silver in the competition at the Yeovilton Show last weekend, but I'm glad it wasn't up against yours. Steve

The fins on the radiator were very thin, so you could see straight through, a bit like a venetian blind on it's side. Steve

I've just seen an article in Scale Aircraft Modelling for April 2015, which describes modelling ZK-AIA, which is finished in Garden Tiger markings. And I thought I was being original!

Old Man, I wish you hadn't. I have just started an RE9, which I thought would be a simple mod to the Airfix RE8, by changing the wings. Now I'm not going to be satisfied unless I copy what you have done to correct the fuselage. But thanks for explaining everything so well. Steve

A well deserved win Andrew. I saw them as I browsed the stands at Telford. Four of my Tigers were on the Brampton stand, and one on the Great War SIG, but I had nowhere to display my GB Garden Tiger. Steve

It's a wind-driven generator, used to charge the radio batteries. Steve

I've read the same, but I don't think you could just take the wings off a Tiger and fit them to a Fox. Wouldn't the different sweepback angle cause problems? I used the new Airfix Tiger wings on an Aeroclub vacform, but inserted a piece at the root and reshaped to set the sweepback. There's some pictures at http://s1083.photobucket.com/user/ww1steve/library/GACRU%20FOX%20MOTH?sort=3&page=1 I would have put the build in this GB but it doesn't meet rule 2 Steve

In its place with the rest of them:

I got to fly one over my own house last year

Here it is, my old Airfix Garden Tiger Moth, Arctia Caja ( other species are available ). I hope Geoffrey would approve. Build thread

yes the bent stick is the exhaust, I didn't fit it, or the tailplane bracing struts. I last used green paint on an aircraft in 2013 I made one small change before the final varnish, I overpainted the trailing edge with Citadel 'Bleached Bone', the colour I normally use for clear doped linen on my WW1 builds, as the yellow I had used looked too yellow against pictures. I'm not sure the orange isn't a little far to the red end of the spectrum, but I'm not about to change that. I'll post the finished pictures in the gallery. Steve

"On colour - at the moment, I'm working on the assumption that Hotel Sierra was cyan when the sun-burst was in use. If somebody knows better, please let me know." googling images there are some with the sunburst wings that are the same blue as your first two pictures, are you sure the cyan is not an effect of the film/lighting conditions? Steve

Here's the letters I've drawn, they can be scaled to any size.

Max, it can't be a Leopard Moth, this is a Single Type Group Build, therefore ...