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  1. The original 1968 Roy Cross box art for the AIRFIX HS Dominie which so inspired me as a nine year old. 1970s revised box art where the Dominie is now wearing College of Air Warfare markings. I fondly remember admiring the artwork on this Airfix kit every time my mother took me shopping in Woodbridge but there always seemed to be something else with guns and bombs that attracted me more back then as a nine year old. But because of Airfix I knew a Dominie when I saw one on static display at the RAF Bentwaters air display and was able to go inside and wander about in the cabin unsupervised........I remember an oxygen mask dangling down from the ceiling which I tried on.............well you would wouldn't you ? My father photographed this Dominie on display at RAF Bentwaters in 1969. This is how the Dominie was illustrated and described in my 1971 Airfix catalogue. Fast forward about twenty years and now the Airfix Dominies are hard to find and they are expensive when you do find one. Then in 2005 Humbrol Airfix re-release it with up to date decal options at a sensible price which upsets all the used kit traders and I buy one. This is the Humbrol Airfix Dominie boxing that I built. But somehow I could not get excited about either the red and grey one or the black and white one..........the box art probably did not help..................come back Roy....... I remembered that as a child at Primary School I was looking through a Ladybird book on RAF aircraft when I saw a picture of a Dominie wearing silver and dayglo colours. So I went searching on the web and found photographs of the prototype RAF Dominie wearing these colours and that was my mind made up............I would build my Dominie in that colour scheme that the RAF ones may just have entered service in if the red, grey and white scheme had not been introduced in the mid 1960s. Here we have the multi-lingual Humbrol era instruction sheet showing the quite simple and straight forward build process if you build it straight from the box................except that this is never going to happen with an adey m kit............................ Note those fantastic Airfix 1960s pilot figures. And there you are, such a simple kit to build from the box..............................if only I decided I would have to do something with that empty fuselage so I found photos of the cabin interior and some cut away drawings. I have photos showing trainee RAF fast-jet navigators working at the rear work station and using the roof mounted sextant which inspired me to try and replicate this in 1/72 scale............. The kit was well moulded in the typical Airfix soft light grey plastic and moulded inside one of the wing halves was ' AIRFIX PRODUCTS 1968 ' . And so one day in 2013 construction commenced in my model room................ Get the wings, tailplane and engines built first and then I can focus on the interesting part....the fuselage. Scratch building of the cabin interior is underway with inspirational reference photographs to hand. It looks from here that I have been through my spares box and found some suitable seats....two of them are definately from the old Airfix Jetstream I used to have. TO BE CONTINUED
  2. Afternoon all, Here is a build from a few months back. Knowing the importance of recycling, particularly of hens teeth old Matchbox kits, I had a lot of fun dismantling and renovating this HS 125. I thought this was a funky scheme, and I liked the idea of 1970s JCB execs flying off to Schipol in the morning, selling a few diggers, and celebrating with G&Ts on the flight home... This started with a £3 ebay purchase and arrived covered in lashings of Humbrol with no discernable undercarriage, looking something like this: I've yet to master the art of the perfect finish following heavy duty sandpapering, but I learnt a lot along the way, and it did help tone down those Matchbox trenches. Apologies to the ebay seller if I desecrated a family heirloom! All best, Harry
  3. Hawker Siddeley HS.125. G-ARYC which was the third production aircraft. Now at the de Havilland Heritage Centre. Pics are mine.
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