Airco and De Havilland - from stick and string to the jet age! Chat

[JOCKNEY]

On 30/03/2022 at 20:57, Roland Pulfrew said:

Just thought I’d bring this back to the top of the pile to see if we can keep it in the voting consciousness. Would hate for this one not to get through the next bunfight, particularly as I’ve just had a look through the stash and these aren’t going to build themselves 😄

 

 

 

We are going to need sedate @Enzo Matrixwhen he sees that picture  ! 

 

Cheers Pat 

[sampanzer]

Add me please 

 

[JosephLalor]

I'd like to have a go, please, maybe with a Dynavector Sea Hornet.

[OutcastJoel]

I could be persuaded to make a clear prop Airco DH9A 😁

[Marklo]

Good grief this has slipped off the front page. Can’t have that!! Especially when I have so many kits that need this Gb  

Edited October 29, 2022 by Marklo

[Marklo]

A handful of votes could save the day, won’t you please help.

[TonyOD]

@MarkloI had a spare vote that I've punted in your direction. I think it would be good to have a manufacturer-specific GB in the lineup.

[Paul Thompson]

Voted.

 

P.

[galgos]

Glad to see the de Havilland GB having a bit of a resurgence, just need to keep the impetus going! 

[Marklo]

7 hours ago, galgos said:

Glad to see the de Havilland GB having a bit of a resurgence, just need to keep the impetus going! 

Yes we do. I think that this one is right on the sweet spit between diversity and coherence and should make for an interesting GB if it makes the cut.

[Marklo]

We’re in the drop zone again come on guys, just a few more votes needed….

[Marklo]

Back in the drop zone, but a last minute rally would do it….

[TimJ]

I've added my vote as I picked up an Airfix Beaver at Telford over the weekend. 

[CliffB]

It would be a poor show if BritModeller didn't include a British manufacturer themed GB (bearing in mind that there are none in the STGBs either). 

Fingers crossed!

[AdrianMF]

If I could give you two votes for this one I would! 

 

Regards,

Adrian

[TonyOD]

Rooting for ya!

[Ngantek]

Great comeback in the end! Really looking forward to this one, perhaps will try something a little more unusual.. perhaps a dh83 fox moth that I was shocked to discover had stowed away in my bag when I left Telford...

[Grandboof]

Time to cull the DH stash . Starting with a Heron . Glad this made it . Although things got a bit shakey for a while 

Martin H

[AntPhillips]

Glad to see this one made it, as I have a couple of eligible kits in the stash and a couple more on the wanted list.

 

In the stash:

 

Aeroclub 1/48 Sea Venom

Airfix 1/48 Sea Vixen

 

On wanted list:

 

Airfix 1/48 Vampire + Xtradecal X48220 (for 614 (County of Glamorgan) Sqdn RAuxAF decals) 

MikroMir 1/48 Venom

 

Ant

[Paul Thompson]

Are we there yet? Oh, goody. I got distracted. Right, something with too many wings and a lot of wires it is, then.

 

Paul.

[Enzo the Magnificent]

My plans for this GB:

 

1/72  DHC-2 Beaver.   The re-released Airfix kit

1/72  Hornet.  The AZ Model kit.  As there are a few nice schemes for this aircraft, it's probable that I will build more than one.  And yes, I'll be correcting the nacelles.

1/72 Sea Vixen.   The Cyber Hobby kit in a Revell box.   Should go well with the DH 110 that I'm currently building in the Prototypes GB.     

[Ngantek]

33 minutes ago, Enzo the Magnificent said:

My plans for this GB:

 

1/72  DHC-2 Beaver.   The re-released Airfix kit

1/72  Hornet.  The AZ Model kit.  As there are a few nice schemes for this aircraft, it's probable that I will build more than one.  And yes, I'll be correcting the nacelles.

1/72 Sea Vixen.   The Cyber Hobby kit in a Revell box.   Should go well with the DH 110 that I'm currently building in the Prototypes GB.     

Lovely selection. Looking forward to the AZ kit too, although being a PR boxing, I might do that in Recce; and given I wanted to build in parallel with the older SH kit for comparison I could do that one here maybe... Addictive this GB planning isn't it? All promise and excitement before the crushing realities of stalled builds and missed deadlines inevitably comes smashing down 😅

 

Currently working on the Revell/CH vixen as well. Having faffed with it more than was probably sensible, I might suggest, depending upon your taste, just building out of box? The good thing about the kit is how well it builds, and that positive, I'm finding, gets somewhat nullified if you get bogged down correcting the (not insubstantial) number of accuracy issues. 

 

Wish I'd picked up a copy of that nice Hobartville Hobbies 3D print DH 50 kit that @Ed Russell built so nicely earlier this year.

[Enzo the Magnificent]

6 hours ago, Ngantek said:

Currently working on the Revell/CH vixen as well. Having faffed with it more than was probably sensible, I might suggest, depending upon your taste, just building out of box? The good thing about the kit is how well it builds, and that positive, I'm finding, gets somewhat nullified if you get bogged down correcting the (not insubstantial) number of accuracy issues.

 

That's good advice which I'm certainly going to follow.  

[2996 Victor]

My contribution (if it could be called that!) would be a Kovozavody Prostejov AIRCO DH.5 from the Australian Flying Corps boxing.

 

All the best,

Mark

[CliffB]

8 minutes ago, 2996 Victor said:

I'd like to join with this GB if I may? My contribution (if it could be called that!) would be a Kovozavody Prostejov AIRCO DH.5 from the Australian Flying Corps boxing.

 

Excellent!  I'm hoping that we see a nice selection of biplanes in this Group Build