More Fleet Air Arm Stuff- 2nd Line Aircraft

[tonyot]

Hiya Folks,

For those who have been following the contents of my (very large) cabinet, here are some Second Line Fleet Air Arm types;

Skua TT- 48th scale Special Hobby kit;

Roc- 48th scale Special Hobby kit;

Hurricane Mk.I & Sea Hurricane Mk.Ib- 48th scale Italeri kit;

Maryland, 771 NAS`s famous Bismark Hunter- 48th scale Fonderie Miniatures kit;

Fulmar NF.II- 48th Warrior Models kit;

Chesapeake- Acc Min 48th scale kit;

Seafire Mk.Ib- 72nd CMR kit;

Harvard, Academy 72nd scale kit;

Defiant TT.I- Pavla 72nd scale kit;

Spitfire FR.XIII- Tamiya 48th scale conv;

Corsair;

72nd Tamiya kit;

48th scale Tamiya motorised kit;

Traveller- 48th scale AMT kit (heavily!) converted;

Barracuda- 48th scale Sierra vacuform;

Beaufighter Mk.II- High Planes 72nd scale kit;

Seamew- 72nd scale Sword kit;

Wildcat Mk.VI- Sword 48th scale kit;

Vengeance TT.IV- 48th scale AZ Model kit;

Martinet;

72nd scale Pavla kit;

48th scale Magna resin kit;

Mosquito B.25- Revell 48th scale kit;

Baltimore- 48th scale Classic Airframes kit;

Expeditor- 48th scale Battle Axe kit;

Dragon Rapide- Aeroclub 48th scale vacuform;

Spitfire F.XVII- CMR 72nd scale kit;

Gannet T.5- Trumpeter 72nd scale kit with A2Zee wing fold;

Chipmunk T.10- Aeroclub 48th scale kit;

Jets;

Sea Vampire T.22- Aeroclub 48th scale vacform;

Meteor T.7 & TT.11- Both Aeroclub vacuforms;

Phantom- 48th scale Hasegawa kit;

Hunter GA.11- Revell 72nd scale kit conv;

Helicopters;

Hoverfly, MPM 72nd kit;

Whirlwind HAS.22- Italeri 72nd scale;

Wasp- Airfix 72nd scale kit converted and Modelart decals;

Whirlwind HAR.9, 72nd scale Italeri with ED Models resin nose & Modelart decals;

Wessex HU.5- Italeri 72nd scale;

Sea King HU.5- 72nd Revell kit;

Dauphan- 72nd scale Matchbox kit;

Hope you like em,

All the best

Tony O

ps- Sorry but here are a few that I forgot to post;

Magna 72nd Reliant;

Magna 72nd Flamingo;

Edited January 26, 2013 by tonyot

[Edge]

Just beautiful Tony!

[HL-10]

Fantastic collection!

Love the Barracuda and the Gannet, but the Wasp, Wessex and the Sea King are awesome!

Beautiful work

[Fatcawthorne]

Love them all but the Skua TT gets it by a nose for me.

Thanks for sharing these.

Chris

[ForestFan]

Fantastic collection, hard to pick a fave, maybe the Vengeance!

FF

[jimbuna]

A fantastic looking collection.

[gazza l]

That's quite a collection you have, a couple of which I've never even heard of.

Just one question for an ignoramus like myself, what are the propeller type appendages on some of the fuselage sides?

gazza l

[Darby]

Pusser's cabs are the law!

[Bigmick]

That swings it, building a Wessex in that scheme to go with Buc and F-4K, absolutely awesome collection Tony

[Roof Rat]

Yet again you've done it Mr ot, very nice, thank you for posting.

RR

[Selwyn]

I was just wondering:

"Is there any truth in the rumour that you like Fleet Air Arm aircraft?"

Selwyn

[Murdo]

Man! That's a superb and beautiful collection there with some very unusual planes.

I might have to swing from Crab stuff and try some of these. Mind you, I do have a 1/48 vacform Barracuda....

That's quite a collection you have, a couple of which I've never even heard of.

Just one question for an ignoramus like myself, what are the propeller type appendages on some of the fuselage sides?

gazza l

Yeah, I was a bit baffled by them too, curious looking things, what are they for?

[Dazzio]

That's a fantastic collection there, my fav is the Hunter, such a beautiful plane!

That Gannet looks really familiar for some reason... has it been in any magazines or anything??

Kind Regards,

Dazz

[tonyot]

That's quite a collection you have, a couple of which I've never even heard of.

Just one question for an ignoramus like myself, what are the propeller type appendages on some of the fuselage sides?

gazza l

Hiya Gazza,

The propellers are the wind driven winches for target tugs. They were rotated forwards when the winch cable had to be wound out or back in again and the airflow pushed the propeller around to provide power.

Hope that helps,

Tony O

[tonyot]

I was just wondering:

"Is there any truth in the rumour that you like Fleet Air Arm aircraft?"

Selwyn

No I don`t know where you got that idea from!

[tonyot]

That's a fantastic collection there, my fav is the Hunter, such a beautiful plane!

That Gannet looks really familiar for some reason... has it been in any magazines or anything??

Kind Regards,

Dazz

Hiya Daz,

Glad you like the models, although the Gannet was supposed to be for a magazine article in MAM it never went in, however some of the other stuff has been in articles. You may have seen it here on Britmodeller a few years ago?

All the best

Tony O

[SimonL]

Good grief - what a collection. I love FAA aircraft as well, and choosing a favourite from these is next to impossible - maybe the Expeditor by a whisker? What an inspiration for the long weekend (Australia Day tomorrow).

Edited January 25, 2013 by SimonL

[Paul Bradley]

Lovely collection, Tony - always a pleasure, and inspiration, to look at your stuff!

[Ed Russell]

My goodness, what an inspiring collection! There is a lot of good stuff there!

[John_W]

Just had to lie down in a dark room, I was overcome by the sheer awesomenes of your FAA collection.

[alex]

very nice!

Alex

[mick b]

Another cracking selection Tony. Particularily like the Maryland, Baltimore and Martinet. Was the Magna Martinet a challenge? I have one in the stash but Magna get a lot of flak for various reasons as I'm sure you are aware!

Mick

PS: BTW, why does an ex Para have such an interest in the FAA?

[tonyot]

Another cracking selection Tony. Particularily like the Maryland, Baltimore and Martinet. Was the Magna Martinet a challenge? I have one in the stash but Magna get a lot of flak for various reasons as I'm sure you are aware!

Mick

PS: BTW, why does an ex Para have such an interest in the FAA?

Glad you like them Mick and thanks for saying so. To be honest I find Magna kits to be easier than many injection moulded kits to build although there can be quite a lot of air bubbles or surface glitches if you are very unlucky. I`m currently building the Magna Sea Prince and it has been a very unlucky kit, although I still cannot decide whether it is my fault or not! Just give it a try, you`ll either love it or loathe it,...a bit like Bovril,...but who else is going to release a 1/48th Sea Prince, Sea Devon or Martinet?

Last night my Martinet was squashed when a shelf fell on top if it,....so I may be saving up for another to replace it if I cannot mend it!

Why does an ex Para like the Fleet Air Arm so much,......its a long story really but I was extracted from a poor situation by a Junglie Sea King crew who just turned up out of nowhere when they heard on their radio that we were in trouble god bless em, ...plus the Junglies were always flying after the RAF were grounded for various reasons (mostly because the rule books dictated as such- no fault of the crews themselves and I`ve lots of admiration for the RAF too!). I just admire the `can do attitude' of the navy fliers and the more I learned about it the more the interest grew, especially as I have always loved aviation anyway. Unfortunately I was never clever enough to fly a military aeroplane but I was thick enough to jump out of one!!

All the best

Tony O

[heloman1]

Hi Tony, love 'em all but especially the folowing, the Skua because the TT scheme gives it a bit of caracter, then the Barracuda looks like it want's to go and do a job and maybe come back safey. Then the Rapide always a classic in silver, the Gannet my first squardon 848 'whilst doing my time', the Vampire just a classic jet as with the Hunter, then both the Hoverfly and Wasp. I think we need a 32nd, Wasp if only to do the subject justice!

Many thanks for sharing you extensive collection. Congratulations.

Colin

[tonyot]

Cheers Colin,

Oh I second the 1/32nd Wasp as well as a Scout but I don`t think that it will ever happen,.......unless you are offering?

Thanks to everybody else for your very kind comments too,

All the best

Tony O