fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 6 hours ago, Ed Russell said: This site is pretty good for civil Ansons. I don't know if it will answer your specific questions. http://www.goodall.com.au/australian-aviation/anson-civil-1/civilansons-1.html I may be able to get more info about specific aircraft. Hi Ed Thanks for posting the link, yes, that was one the first sites I visited on my initial searches. I only ask here after I have truly exhausted what is available online and in my small library. If there is an Internet resource, it is highly unlikely that I haven't seen it yet, but here many times people had direct knowledge of the planes, or better libraries than my meagre one 😉 Thanks for posting the resource, it is useful. Cheers  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 11 hours ago, pinky coffeeboat said: Can't assist much with the colour of EI-AHO but it was originally G-AHNT and I found this picture   Belonged to a company called Crop Culture Ltd and from the discussion that had this photo, someone asked for confirmation that the house colours were red/ silver. No one could confirm...  Does this help or confuse?  Jeff This is great help, Jeff, because it automatically discards the validity of my assumption that linked the color to the emblematic color of a country, and in fact could be any color. I will see if I can find anything on the company, sometimes stationary, stock and such provides clues on the company's colors. Thanks! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted February 21, 2019 Author Share Posted February 21, 2019 Primer on: 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted February 22, 2019 Author Share Posted February 22, 2019 Wings and stabs on: 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivor Ramsden Posted February 22, 2019 Share Posted February 22, 2019 Moa, I'm a bit late coming to this thread but maybe I'm just in time to point out an Anson detail ....  The ailerons in the Airfix Anson kit represent the very early type, only found on the K- serialed aircraft. It's not a massive job to reduce them in length. If you look at the photo of G-AHNT above you'll see what I mean.  Phil Pain covers the modification to the kit very well. Take a look at post 12 here:  1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted February 22, 2019 Author Share Posted February 22, 2019 On 2/22/2019 at 6:01 AM, schulz_hl said: I prepared such a nice pre-war Avro 652 build for you, but nooo! I know! And to think that the only little details left were completely different tail surfaces and engine nacelles! I am incorrigible, what can I tell you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted February 22, 2019 Author Share Posted February 22, 2019 8 hours ago, Ivor Ramsden said: Moa, I'm a bit late coming to this thread but maybe I'm just in time to point out an Anson detail ....  The ailerons in the Airfix Anson kit represent the very early type, only found on the K- serialed aircraft. It's not a massive job to reduce them in length. If you look at the photo of G-AHNT above you'll see what I mean.  Phil Pain covers the modification to the kit very well. Take a look at post 12 here:  I Appreciate the heads up, Ivor, especially because the detail can still be dealt with. The only thing to do first is to check against photos of the intended machine, since all were re-purposed planes, to verify that it derived as you said from later series (most likely the case). I am still a bit hesitant regarding which of the many options I previously selected is the one that will be finally modeled. Grateful for the tip and the post, Ivor Cheers  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 What I hope is the last coat of primer (if I don't have to correct the ailerons as Ivor pointed out above, depending on the version I chose). I added the little bumpies on the Karmans that the previous owner removed, and re-traced the metal cover of the wing tanks on the wing: 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share Posted February 26, 2019 All my potential subjects have the shorter aileron, accordingly the model is modified in agreement with Ivor's post (thanks again!): 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
06/24 Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Why do other people's builds always look so clean and neat, yet mine look like they've been dragged through a hedge backwards? 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted February 26, 2019 Author Share Posted February 26, 2019 30 minutes ago, 06/24 said: Why do other people's builds always look so clean and neat, yet mine look like they've been dragged through a hedge backwards? Ahem... 2 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andwil Posted February 26, 2019 Share Posted February 26, 2019 Don’t worry 06/24, you’re not alone there!  AW 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Russell Posted February 27, 2019 Share Posted February 27, 2019 Good work on the ailerons - all Ansons bar the prototype should be like those. The tailplanes are a little out of shape too. There is a thread with how to correct them but it's now over 1000 posts, mostly not relevant. However I have the appropriate picture and i will send it to you. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share Posted February 27, 2019 6 hours ago, Ed Russell said: Good work on the ailerons - all Ansons bar the prototype should be like those. The tailplanes are a little out of shape too. There is a thread with how to correct them but it's now over 1000 posts, mostly not relevant. However I have the appropriate picture and i will send it to you. Ed, are you guys trying to drive me crazy? never mind, I am already crazy, but the horizontal tail is already in place. I hate Ulysses' Penelope-like un-modeling labors. Send away, will see what I can do. Darn! Cheers   1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share Posted February 27, 2019 For this first Anson that as we know started as a rescued kit, I am now between two regs/finishes, both implying a certain degree of speculation, since only one image of each (in the livery I want) is all what was found. I commissioned decals for both. One is the Guinea Airways G-AHNT, the other is VH-AZU. Final choice will be made upon receiving the decals. The second Anson, still in its box, will be VH-WMA of CSIRO. I was mightily tempted by the London School of Flying machine, but you only model twice. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted February 27, 2019 Author Share Posted February 27, 2019 12 hours ago, Ed Russell said: Good work on the ailerons - all Ansons bar the prototype should be like those. The tailplanes are a little out of shape too. There is a thread with how to correct them but it's now over 1000 posts, mostly not relevant. However I have the appropriate picture and i will send it to you. Yes, and that being said... The additions have now to be blended-in, always a joy when the model seemed almost completed : 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Russell Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Okay, I have sent you the tailplane pics. Here's my Anson   5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted February 28, 2019 Author Share Posted February 28, 2019 49 minutes ago, Ed Russell said: Okay, I have sent you the tailplane pics. Here's my Anson   Oh, my!!!! Oh boy, that's a handsome 'anson! Super work! Thanks very much for the material you sent, received and filed. But if I muster the energy to go back and correct the stab glued and primed as it is, you have to promise that you will do a civil Anson 😉  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted February 28, 2019 Author Share Posted February 28, 2019 OK Ed, having judiciously weighed the material you sent, the part in the model, and the advanced state of the build, I have concluded that the main visual culprit there is the easiest to solve: the curve on the LE/tip, which I will correct referring to the material you so kindly sent. We have to bear in mind that, for example -and most glaringly- the Airfix windshield does not really accurately represent the real thing either, and so on and so forth, so in order to achieve a balance on the build, and not to risk to break what is already there, that's the more practical and convenient solution for me. I am concerned at this point with scribing the door as it was in the civil plane I am trying to represent. Cheers and again thanks! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Russell Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 5 hours ago, Moa said: you have to promise that you will do a civil Anson 😉 Do you mean like this............... although I can only claim partial credit for this one. I made and applied the decals and did a major repair after it was dropped.  I would have a go at that CSIRO one if I had the decals. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted February 28, 2019 Author Share Posted February 28, 2019 12 hours ago, Ed Russell said: Do you mean like this............... although I can only claim partial credit for this one. I made and applied the decals and did a major repair after it was dropped.  I would have a go at that CSIRO one if I had the decals. Beautiful! The windows were changed. Now I have to correct the stab on mine 😉  1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Russell Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 1 hour ago, Moa said: The windows were changed. Thanks - more than just the windows. This is an Avro Nineteen derived from the Anson C.12. Parallel development to C.19. Higher roofline, different engines and cowlings and metal wings were main changes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted February 28, 2019 Author Share Posted February 28, 2019 34 minutes ago, Ed Russell said: Thanks - more than just the windows. This is an Avro Nineteen derived from the Anson C.12. Parallel development to C.19. Higher roofline, different engines and cowlings and metal wings were main changes. Very nice work! You mentioned that you repaired it and made and applied the decals; did the builder (I assume it was another person?) based the model on the Airfix or the Special Hobby kit? Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjaweijfopi4j48 Posted February 28, 2019 Author Share Posted February 28, 2019 I just found this other thread here at BM, it is an Aeroclub kit, I wasn't aware that John had released this one: Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Russell Posted February 28, 2019 Share Posted February 28, 2019 Yes, the same kit. Aeroclub and just about unobtainable. One for Dora Wings after they have done a Mk I.... !! ? Wally Civitico is on the other side of the country and made his own decals. I think I offered him gold ones to cover his yellow ones!  https://www.kingkit.co.uk/product/aeroclub-aircraft-1-72-avro-anson-c19 A hint here @John Aero might still have some (from the same Wally) http://www.airliner-civil-aircraft-modeller.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2049  1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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