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Even though I am building the aircraft of VSQ 860 at the moment, now and again I do an easier build in between, to prevent mojo loss. In this case the Special Hobby/Academy Harvard IIb. This aircraft flew with VSQ 9 when my dad was chief maintenance of the squadron. I hope you like it, it is a colourful addition in the display case. Sjaak -
As I just joined it seemed a good idea to show one of my previous builds, if only to get a feeling how the site works. The Dutch site I frequent uses phpBB and has it's own photo storage, so I have to learn some new things. Just after WW2 the Netherlands needed to build up their air force and naval air service and the UK gave assistance with selling a lot of war surplus aircraft under the "Target one" agreement. As I liked the green/dark earth/yellow livery very much, I chose to build a MLD Harvard in these colours. For the decals I cut up Avalon sheet 7032 and Dutch Decal 72089 to get the registration and used the CMK hedgehog exhausts for the Airfix Beaufighter to make the hedgehog exhaust for the Harvard. I hope you like it. http:// (source: Collectie Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie) http:// http:// http:// http:// Sjaak
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Next on the table: L.079 T-6G Texan. This is the armed version normally, but I got lucky this week and managed to obtain a conversion kit from Kiwi Models at half price. In the box: White plastic No canopy or decals. That's where the conversion kit comes in. Minus: Not the best moulding, but it will be handy to use as a template for the kit parts. Plus: two vacform canopies for the Harvard IIB model, with the extension behind the glasswork to fit the fuselage that came with it. And white-metal extended exhaust. As for decals: The Dutch LSK (LuchtStrijdKrachten - before the renaming to KLu/Koninklijke Luchtmacht ) used a number of hand-me-down and second-hand aircraft in the late 1940s/early 1950s, one of these being some surplus RCAF Harvards. This one is going to be a slight challenge Bumps and lumps for the G model under the wings for rockets needed to go.
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Hi and hello, This is FT314 from the Harvard trio that used to fly at Boscombe Down, based on the Heller T6G kit with some modifications. The seats were replaced with Pavla examples, the canopy is from the Falcon canopy set, engine is a resin example from Wings and Wheels to replace the very basic Heller engine; the wheel wells needed quite a lot of filling to cover the gaps from the kit joins; all kit raised panel lines were rescribed; resin exhaust came from the CMR kit and decals mostly from the excellent S&M sheet but various roundels and no step decals from Tasman Sea Venom set, Airfix Harvard kit and Airfix Lysander and Blenheim IV... just remembered some of the panel lines needed modification and in some cases removal. I have since obtained an Academy Texan and plan (plan as in long term eventually etc) to do another Harvard IV in an RAF 1950's scheme.. but using the CMR vacform canopy
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