TEXANTOMCAT Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 Hi all The latest in the 'Sywell Series' for the Sywell Aviation Museum. I am only doing some small gap filling projects at the mo as am hoping to move house and I don't really want to be half way through a big job! Ex RAF DH Tiger Moth N6986 was purchased by David Lloyd as G-AIXD on 25-11-1946. He was to own her for some 39 years (until 1985) during which time she was mainly based at Sywell. She was extensively flown in air displays including with The Barnstormers Flying Circus and for various TV shows such as ‘The Late Late Breakfast Show’ and ‘Game for a Laugh’ when fitted with a ‘wing-walking rig’. Sadly she was destroyed near Rendcomb airfield in a non-fatal accident after hitting power cables in July 1995. This of course is the lovely Airfix 1/72 Tiger (Oh how I wish they'd tooled at 1/72 Chipmunk to the same standard before they did the 1/48 one - or conversely that they break their 'no downsizing rule' to issue a new tool in the future!) I must have built a dozen of these now and they are great - its a simple fun project so I didnt bother with rigging as I think it looks oversize in 1/72 and I am lazy. The main object of this job was to scratchbuild a wing-walk rig - the Tiger Club and Barnstormers Flying Circus rigs are different, fact fans and am grateful to the BFC FB page for their help. Built OOB - the only parts to watch for are the underside wing attachment which needs fettling and the cutting and adding of the spin strakes which I've never mastered really - the instructions say assemble the fuselage then cut the rear section and add the two part strakes. I thought this time I would cut the parts out and add the strakes on each fuselage half before bringing them together - frankly it makes no difference! Sprayed in the excellent Rustoleum White Plastic Primer from a rattle can - trust me it's excellent - then three brush coats of Humbrol 60. A coat of clear then some Aeroclub reg letters - the border of the letter sheet was used for the go faster stripes. Final coat of clear and we're done. Pilot modified with a bone dome and the wing walk rig was made of brass tube with the canvas back cushion from Tam tape. The girl was a railway figure off ebay - she was wearing a jump suit already and I thought her pose looked fine braced against the slipstream rather than trying to graft on a new waving arm! So, all in all a bit of fun! Hope you like it - - apologies for the poor photos - stay safe everyone ATB TT 1436B363-4B88-429C-AB44-9C1174A50A5E by Ben Brown, on Flickr BDAA2124-7608-4D8E-A454-886E9EA284F8 by Ben Brown, on Flickr 6CB51EE0-0220-4142-BE52-A142BB67EF69 by Ben Brown, on Flickr EBC47E42-0217-4757-9B1B-FFFAFBF403FF by Ben Brown, on Flickr D21610A2-BB75-4D63-8188-5ED4393EA066 by Ben Brown, on Flickr 73FE42F8-481F-4603-B4EC-1D89D1CB3D63 by Ben Brown, on Flickr (C) JOHN TEMPEST F52A025A-7BD2-438F-BC2B-819BE650CAF6 by Ben Brown, on Flickr (C) TREVOR THORNTON 36 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Aer Lingus Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 Fantastic very well done TT thanks for sharing Eamonn 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 Nicely done Ben. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEXANTOMCAT Posted April 13, 2021 Author Share Posted April 13, 2021 Thanks chaps! TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 Mate, you've done it again. Quite lovely, and I believe it may be the first time I've seen anyone do such a model. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 Lovley 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEXANTOMCAT Posted April 13, 2021 Author Share Posted April 13, 2021 Thanks both and especially Pete👍 bit of fun really but trying to improve my limited skills with a bit of scratching! Now we have a Jetstream (G-RAVL -arrived as our second airframe the other week. https://www.sywellaviationmuseum.org.uk/exhibits/external-displays/handley-page-jetstream-g-ravl/ ) I see an Airfix Stream in my immediate future but strictly OOB! ATB TT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire 123 Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 Very nice build, interesting scheme. 👍 Riley 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cngaero Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 What a novel way of displaying a Tiger Moth. Excellent work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheyJammedKenny! Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Beautifully done, and a rather attractive means of interrupting the airflow over the top! Just saying. What a great little project. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEXANTOMCAT Posted April 14, 2021 Author Share Posted April 14, 2021 Thanks all much appreciated! TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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