Mop Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 People's Republic of South Yemen: BAC 167 Strikemaster This build will be of a BAC 167 Strikemaster operated by the PRSY from 1969 When the PRSY then became the Marxist PDRY (People's Democratic Republic of Yemen) in 1970, they started getting resupplied with Soviet Aircraft and the Strikemaster likely became little-used and were sold onto Singapore. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 Now realise I can't recall what South Yemen national insignia looks like Which kit are you using Mop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mop Posted January 4, 2015 Author Share Posted January 4, 2015 The kit of choice for this will be the Airfix BAC 167 Strikemaster The Yemeni Strikemaster was the Mk81. This kit is of the Mk88 I don't however think there are any significant differences between the two. (the various Mk.8x codes were to signify exports to different countries, not specifically variants of design) The kit looks fairly basic but pretty tidy Decals from the kit will not be used. I will be attempting to print my own for this one (fingers crossed!). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffB Posted January 4, 2015 Share Posted January 4, 2015 With this and the DDR MiG, I can see that your printer is going to be working overtime! Cliff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Pulfrew Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Will you be doing to your Strikie what Fritag has done to his JP5? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mop Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 Will you be doing to your Strikie what Fritag has done to his JP5? No idea! What has he done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Pulfrew Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 No idea! What has he done? You've missed this then? Might give you some inspiration (or demoralisation) http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234944337-172-jet-provosts/page-86 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mop Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 You've missed this then? Might give you some inspiration (or demoralisation) http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234944337-172-jet-provosts/page-86 Aha. Nope. While I appreciate and admire those with that attention to detail and exactness, I make a kit pretty well as Airfix, Revell, Italeri, etc provided it and not attempt an exact replica of the real thing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 No idea! What has he done? Everything! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cooper Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 A photo (or two) of aircraft in original South Arabian Air Force markings can be found here. I'm quite sure to have seen somebody who was making decal sheets with such markings (and those for the subsequent PDRYAF), recently. Perhaps at Telford...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mop Posted February 4, 2015 Author Share Posted February 4, 2015 Well, finally the paint has hit the plastic ... The Strikemaster office has been started: This is a little unusual construction in that the floor, control sticks and instrument panel gets put together, and fitted, closing the fuselage and THEN the seats go in Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mop Posted March 7, 2015 Author Share Posted March 7, 2015 (edited) So where are we know. A picture tells a thousand words... Not got any so have to waffle instead! Fair progress. Basic aircraft is now constructed save for undercarriage, pilots, canopy and details; The ordenance has been put together and in the process of seam removal. Not made this little kit before and it is a nice one. Pleased that I chose to do this alongside the MB326 as they are very similar conceptually and in appearance, but have their differences at the same time (I also have an A-37 'Dragonfly' to build which will be a nice partner to the pair). Will take some photos today hopefully and post up. Oh, and one thing I have yet to sort out is the markings! The plan is to print my own Yemeni decals, and never (successfully) printed on decal paper, so that will be a challenge Edited March 7, 2015 by Mop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cooper Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Talking about decals: I'm keeping a look at this thread since it's start... and at first I was wondering what kind of markings are you going to apply to this Strikemaster T.Mk.81. This morning it 'dawned' upon me: they were delivered only starting with 1970, three years after the country was re-named from 'Southern Arabia' to the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen. It was four Jet Provost T.Mk.52s that had their SAAF markings replaced with those of the PDRYAF, in December 1967. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mop Posted March 7, 2015 Author Share Posted March 7, 2015 (edited) It is hard getting concrete info on this, and to be perfectly honest, I tend to make representative models rather then modelling on a absolute specific aircraft, so to confirm the markings I had in mind, I did some Internet searching. As it happens, a perfect example is actually on this forum http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/45130-jet-provost-strikemaster/?p=485019 (2nd picture down for anyone not familiar with the PRSY Airforce) Edited March 7, 2015 by Mop 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Cooper Posted March 7, 2015 Share Posted March 7, 2015 Yup, that's one of Strikemasters delivered in 1970, and with correct insignia from that period (and the next 20 or so years). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mop Posted March 8, 2015 Author Share Posted March 8, 2015 So, a couple of photos ... Construction completed except for Undercarriage. Seam sanding completed on fuselage halves; little bit of filling and fixing needed on wingtips. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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