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Scottish airways walrus


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Hi guys i was hoping to make the supermarine walrus matchbox kit into the aircraft that scottish airways had that they were gonna use from prestwick to aaran. Found a couple of picks on net but cannot for the life of me find any interior pics. I was wondering does anyone know if the passenger carrier variant would have been same layout as civilian sea otters and what colours the interior would be. 

 

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Not much help, i'm afraid, but i've built one and I searched for two years and haven't found any interior pics yet! It doesn't look like it ever flew in those colours, and i wonder if the interior was ever fitted out. They certainly cut and fitted extra viewing windows to the rear of the original ones which might (or not) be a clue to where the extra seats would have been/were fitted. I suspect the military equipment would have been stripped out but the innards never completed. I'll try to put a pic of my model on later - unrigged as yet! I made my own decals, though i think they can be bought commercially. I can send you artwork if you can print them yourself.

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If you google 'scottish aviation walrus' (images) an image of a decal sheet comes up waaaay down the page. Glad if this has been of some help. I'm now trying to research the whaler's one - actually the John Grierson racer that never made it to the antarctic - with just as much lack of luck!

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The decal sheet was made by a company called JBOT if I remember correctly and may still be available.

G-AJNO which appears to be the one most photographed sat in reasonably good condition in a hanger at Prestwick until around 1958/9 when it was scrapped.

I didn't have a camera at that time but as an ardent aero spotter in those days it was the only one I saw, there were bits of another one but it had no markings to identify it.

There are a few photo's on ABpic of the Scottish Airlines Walrus aircraft.

 

Ian

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