Cook Strait Airways DH89

[ams888]

Hi all,

I decided to take a break from NAC aircraft, and made this Cook Strait Airways DH89. It is ZK - AGT, called Neptune. It was imported and served with cook Strait air from 1938, until it was impressed into the RNZAF, where it was NZ558. In 1944 it was released back onto the civil register as ZK - AHS and joined Air Travel (NZ) ltd until 1947. It then flew with NAC, West Coast Airways, and Mount cook Airways. It is now on display at MOTAT.





Here it is with my other two DH89's, from the RNZAF, and NAC

[Dave Homewood]

Beautiful!

Are these 1/72nd? Which kits, Heller?

Which aircraft is the RNZAF one depicting? I didn't know any wore Pacific roundels and retianed the blue top, all the original Cook Strait Airways aircraft were respreayed overall silver before they went to Fiji and those roundels are a lot later than that. I'm curious about this scheme, and which aircraft, time frame and location it depict. It looks great.

[ams888]

A bit of a stuff up on my part. First of all i thought the Cook Strait aircraft were blue on the top, when actually they were black. And now its too late to change. And i din't even think about the roundels not being on those ones. So i suppose it is just a bit of a fanciful scheme. If i was good at painting around decals i would paint over the blue, but i think i'd just wreck it. They are all heller 1/72 kits.