Col. Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Still!!! I'll be in!!! I may even crack open my Echelon F6/F2A specially for the occassion!! That would be quite something to see Bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 4th Oct 2014 to Jan 4th 2014 eh? The first ever backwards STGB (BGTS?) Remember: decal, then paint, then assemble. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 (BGTS?) Bet that's an acronym for the German translation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Die Befehlsgruppentsandartetypenbildungs. Language of love. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 It rolls of the tongue like being slapped round the ears with a wet fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swamp Donkey Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Can't wait - will probably go with whatever Airfix 1/72 goodies are available at the time - failing that, I have one or two (ahem, dozen) 1/48 machines in the stash....and a couple of Aeroclub T5 conversions.... SD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enzo the Magnificent Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 Remember: decal, then paint, then assemble. Isn't that the assembly sequence that Airfix used to recommend for their airliner kits? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOCKNEY Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Count me in, I have the Frog 1/72 scale one, the slight challenge is its unboxed, off the spues no instructions with damaged decals so it should be really rather straightforward ! Cheers Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted October 30, 2013 Share Posted October 30, 2013 Oi, parts off the sprues, that's a head start on the rest of us ya cheat! Like you were going to use the instructions anyway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 They only slow you down and complicate things. Just make a tube and add the wingy bits. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kallisti Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 I'm just putting the finishing touches to a camo'd 5 Sqn from the 70s, so I guess I could do one of the boring grey ones from the 80s next, got plenty of decals left over! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Are the "boring grey ones" grey all over or have NMF undersides? I'm really trying to avoid NMF for the moment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kallisti Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 No the grey is all over - some schemes had dark grey on top and light grey undersides. The Camo ones have NMF undersides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caerbannog Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 A Re-annual GB? Blimy thats interesting! I must not forget to finish the model before I start then? I should read Terry Prattchet again to be sure. I am in with a 1:48 XR753 and lots of after market stuff - if I may. Rene 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleeperService Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 (edited) In a fit of madness I'll be up for this. T-Bird in 48th with the nice new Neomega conversion. I shall peruse the Firestreak decal sets for something suitable. Is there a decent one stop reference for the Lightning in general and T-Birds in particular? With the BGTS running they may be in service when we finish Edited October 31, 2013 by SleeperService Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Talk earlier in this thread of the Saudi ones reminds me of my first ATC camp in 1968 at Coltishall. All four of the two seaters were there! 55-711 to 55-714. We got shown around one of them. Also on the strength of 226OCU was The very well known XM192!! It was at this camp that I got to love the Frightning!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Ogilvie Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 As a little boy living in rural Norfolk the Lightnings left a big impact on me - I think I was 4 (1970ish) when I saw a 4 ship take-off into the vertical at Coltishall. That moment probably sealed my fate with a lifetime interest in aviation, the RAF and model making. *Really* looking forward to this group build... Iain 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 First time I seen a Lightning in real life was as it approached at just above Mach1 during an airshow in the early 80s. My mum turned to my dad and I saying, "What a lovely quiet aeroplane." Not quite sure what she said just after it passed by as I had a finger in both ears and the ground was shaking... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enzo the Magnificent Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 There was an airshow in Gutersloh in the mid-80s. The USAFE sent an F-15 which did a spectacular display. The American groundcrew cheered every move, especially when the jet climbed steeply from the runway and accelerated in the climb to about 8000 feet. Then a Lightning followed the F-15. As it taxied out of the HAS site, the Americans were calling it an "ugly-assed jet" which I suppose it is. The Lighning taxied to the far end of the runway and took off, keeping low until it reached our HAS site. Then it did the trademark Lightning square turn and just went up... and up... and up... and up... It just didn't stop or level off. It disappeared into a cloudless blue sky. For all we knew, it could have gone into orbit! The American groundcrew types where stunned into silence! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cooper Posted November 6, 2013 Share Posted November 6, 2013 (edited) Here another one: when Lightnings were mimicing Argentinean Mirages in DACM training against FAA's SHAR crews, during work-ups before the Falklands, their pilots were prohibited from using ABs (so they could mimic Mirages 'in more realistic fashion'). Edited November 6, 2013 by Tom Cooper 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleeperService Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Similar to Enzo's story, Mildenhall on a sunny show-day. USAF F-15A and Lightning line up at the end of the runway, they start moving, part way down the Lightning gets airborne by retracting it's undercarriage and square turns for orbit. By the time the F-15 was gear-up you couldn't even hear the Lightning anymore. I'm pretty sure that was the moment my then-girlfriends young brother decided on the RAF as a career, I bet he wasn't the only one. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lightning770 Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Ah a lightning group build must partake in this. Now let me see shall I do the 1/32 Trumpeter F3 , F6 or the 1/32 Echelon F6 decisions decisions. Dave. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enzo the Magnificent Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Ah a lightning group build must partake in this. Now let me see shall I do the 1/32 Trumpeter F3 , F6 or the 1/32 Echelon F6 decisions decisions. Echelon! The Trumpeter kits don't depict Lightnings. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Echelon! The Trumpeter kits don't depict Lightnings. Not until Iain gets those replacement parts into production. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SPARKER Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Airfix 1/48th F.6 with some resin on my bench for this one Simon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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