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4 minutes ago, bristol boy said:

oh and also that I can't drill 4 portholes and get them in line!

 

;) .... and you havea ruler right there!!! ;)

 

Martin

 

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On ‎12‎/‎07‎/‎2017 at 00:23, Martian Hale said:

Nice work but am I the only one who thinks the Botha is a rather good looking aircraft?

 

Martian

No dear tentacled one,

You're not alone, Tony T will stand with us, I think !

Sincerely.

CC

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Hello BB,

3 Blackburn build at the same time on BM !

Congratulations for the subject, it look good.

Seem to be a lot of job to have it done but you did great !

Thanks for sharing.

Sincerely.

Corsaircorp

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35 minutes ago, corsaircorp said:

No dear tentacled one,

You're not alone, Tony T will stand with us, I think !

Sincerely.

CC

Not to mention General Melchett!

 

Martian

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  • 1 month later...

making headway with the Botha, decided the internal nose framing had to be modelled to make it look right as it is quite prominent in photos.

Tail plane also added and wings on. A lot of scribing has been done and more to do... getting close to u/coat and have to decide final scheme.

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Hi Fatalbert,

Still looks the same but has not been forgotten. It got pushed out by a vacform Iris for the Flying Boat GB and needs to be re-started, one thing that is holding it up is that I overcut the nose transparency and need to crash mould a new one, plus moving the kitchen (1/1 scale) and other DIY type things. Oh and I started a Pyro Boxkite...

I will get it going again soon as I don't have a shelf of doom!

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  • 2 months later...

Getting my Botha project going again after a bit of a gap. Completely re-panelled it and it is now undercoated, will do pre-shade next and then get the glazing attached.

Still can't decide on a scheme, not keen on the yellow trainer scheme would prefer an 'in service' finish, any suggestions?

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Fantastic work on that Botha so far, not an easy aeroplane to model especially with that lopsided nose glazing.

 

As for an idea for a scheme what about 608 Squadron based at RAF Thornaby who flew Bothas on North Sea patrols ...............  poor sods

 

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regards,  adey

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21 minutes ago, adey m said:

Fantastic work on that Botha so far, not an easy aeroplane to model especially with that lopsided nose glazing.

 

As for an idea for a scheme what about 608 Squadron based at RAF Thornaby who flew Bothas on North Sea patrols ...............  poor sods

 

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regards,  adey

Thanks Adey that’s more what I had in mind, i’m Sure I saw a profile for one based at Hooton Park, Wirral once but can’t find it now. It’s just up the road from me so has some local interest.

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I found this Botha trainer profile but I do not know which training unit it represents.

 

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Have you remembered the crew access door just in front of the turret which you can see in this view.

 

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Or how about black undersurfaces

 

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This close up of a Botha turret might be useful

 

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What to do when everything goes Botha-shaped  .........................

 

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The Blackburn Botha, an advanced general purpose monoplane is now in frontline service with the Royal Air Force  .....................

 

regards,  adey

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Something just does not look right about your Botha bristol boy ...............  are you using the correct drawings ?

 

 

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cheers,  adey

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1 hour ago, adey m said:

I found this Botha trainer profile but I do not know which training unit it represents.

 

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It's L6138 of 3 Air Observers Navigation School, RAF Bobbington (later RAF Halfpenny Green).  I'd be very sceptical of the yellow undersides.  There is a photo of this aircraft on p.85 of the Feb 2013 Aeroplane Monthly.

 

Would you believe that 242 of these useless death-traps were built and that some hung around until 1943?

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" I was told to come to work in my Sunday Best for a works photograph and now there's bleedin oil dripping onto my jacket  ............  ee the missus will be mad "

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1 hour ago, adey m said:

I found this Botha trainer profile but I do not know which training unit it represents.

 

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Have you remembered the crew access door just in front of the turret which you can see in this view.

 

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Or how about black undersurfaces

 

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This close up of a Botha turret might be useful

 

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What to do when everything goes Botha-shaped  .........................

 

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The Blackburn Botha, an advanced general purpose monoplane is now in frontline service with the Royal Air Force  .....................

 

regards,  adey

Hi Adey, Thanks for the info, i’m Coming round to the idea of yellow underside so I can use the decals from the kit! There’s too much conjecture in other profiles. That turret photo is a cracker will use it to detail mine.

it may have been advanced but regularly fell out the sky!

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The Botha has some details in the engine nacelle that I couldn't ignore, the framing and two elliptical air intakes.

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So having searched endlessly for useful bits, I've ended up with one engine complete and one still to do.

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The kitchen drawer and recycling always comes up trumps.. thin wire from the centre of a bag tie and tube from the shaft of a cotton bud, much better fixed to a model than polluting the ocean, David Attenborough would be proud.

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Good lord, that looks amazing. I've got a pretty good 3d model of the Botha that I've been thinking about sending to the printers. I'm thinking I might try to find one of these instead. 

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2 minutes ago, Thud4444 said:

Good lord, that looks amazing. I've got a pretty good 3d model of the Botha that I've been thinking about sending to the printers. I'm thinking I might try to find one of these instead. 

Quite cheap on eBay these days!

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Lovely work on the engines! And the rest of it too - the interior and the scribing look great. My apologies for not un-lurking earlier! Looking forward to more progress.

 

Regards,

Adrian

 

[edit] the plastic looks lovely and thick for a vacform!

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  • 3 weeks later...

Bit more Botha. Completed engine improvements and pre-shaded then noticed another small rectangular window behind the glazed nose.

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So added it to the model.

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Decided to use the decals supplied which means trainer yellow undersides.

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Also added the clothes line underneath from trusty bag tie wire.

Looking forward to getting some green and dark earth on then i'll really feel like the end is in sight, been looking at this one far too long and it's got in the way of some GB's I planned to do.

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