A civil Canberra Airfix 1/72

[wallyinoz]

Hi gang a while back I started resurrecting an Airfix Canberra from a few wrecks I acquired from a fellow modeller. The decals are home made copied from some drawings provided to me by a hyperscaler..Alex CL-215, I wasnt happy with the resolution of the fin badge so I redrew that as well.

I have to correct the white to silver demarcation line on the rear fuselage but I have no time as I leave for the UK again in the next few days, so it this and a few other niggling corrections and additions will have to wait.. I just needed to clear the bench before I left...its not the best but looks ok on the shelf

 

[Gorby]

That looks great!

I know that NASA had or has a couple of Canberras, but what does the U.S. Department of Commerce need a bomber for?

[KevinK]

23 minutes ago, Gorby said:

what does the U.S. Department of Commerce need a bomber for?

Enforcing trade agreements?

 

 

Seriously, I think it may be because the NOAA, National Weather Service, etc come under the Dept of Commerce so that weather research would be my real guess - but I prefer the first one!

 

Kevin

Edited November 29, 2017 by KevinK

[wallyinoz]

Hi Guys,

 

It was a weather monitoring aircraft

 

cheers'wal

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

Very nice Canberra 👍 Ive heard of these but never saw one before. I know they use drones to monitor water usage on ranch and farmland. They also monitor run-off from farms into waterways with drones. It all stems from lack of manpower on the ground to do  on site inspections. 

Edited November 29, 2017 by Corsairfoxfouruncle
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[Eric Mc]

That is nice. And you solved the poor nose problem on the Airfix B6 very elegantly.

[Head in the clouds.]

Now that is excellent and a bit left of centre, to be fair that looks more than OK to me with the nice contrasts of the colour scheme.

[bentwaters81tfw]

If you are coming back to the UK Wally, you can pick up some of the S&M new Canberras when you are here!

 

That's a great build there. Very different.

 

 

[michael301757]

That looks great,never knew one existed in this livery, nice job.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Cheers Michael.             

[glatisant]

That's a really nice looking Canberra.Great looking scheme. Never saw that before.

[invidia]

Great looking plane, nice to see a differant colour scheme, never seen this one before.

[wallyinoz]

13 hours ago, bentwaters81tfw said:

If you are coming back to the UK Wally, you can pick up some of the S&M new Canberras when you are here!

 

That's a great build there. Very different.

 

 

thanks... as for the SM Canberra.. at 36 quid, I'll pass on that one

 

cheers

wal

[phildagreek]

Very sharp and different. Good effort.

[Team Aer Lingus]

Nice unusual scheme 

 

thanks for sharing

 

regards

 

Eamonn