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Post by silverfox on Apr 25, 2011 5:23:49 GMT 12
This is the Classic Airframes kit with the correct late canopy. My dad was a toolmaker at Avro Yeadon when this machine was built and he remembered a New Zealand 'big wig' coming to visit when they were built. He loved the Anson more than the Lancaster which was the other aircraft he helped build.  I have another which wil be one of the aircraft with the Oxford cowlings  Thanks for looking |
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Post by allok on Apr 25, 2011 8:35:36 GMT 12
Nice.
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Post by strikemaster on Apr 25, 2011 11:17:00 GMT 12
Great job. My Grandfather spent a lot of time in these as a Nav/Bomb aimer. Fitting it should be posted today.
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Post by Dave Homewood on May 2, 2011 12:47:41 GMT 12
Nice work but something looks a bit suspect about the fuselage roundels to me.
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Post by flyjoe180 on May 2, 2011 20:49:02 GMT 12
Beautiful model Silverfox, well done.
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Post by silverfox on May 3, 2011 8:07:20 GMT 12
Good spot Dave, the fuselage roundel is wrong, I have replaced them with ones with less red. I shouldn't have trusted the kit decals, but after nearly four years in the making I was desperate to finish her.
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Post by flyjoe180 on May 3, 2011 11:13:44 GMT 12
If you have fuselage roundels with the smaller red inner, shouldn't you have the fin flashes with more white?
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Post by shorty on May 3, 2011 12:12:01 GMT 12
This should clarify the markings.  |
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Post by silverfox on May 3, 2011 19:58:37 GMT 12
Shorty and Flyjoe
thanks for the photo and suggestion.
Going by the photo of NZ418 on page 112 of Warren P Russells' NZPAF RNZAF Aircraft Colour Schemes Volume 1 the flash is the late war style with narrow white band and the fuselage roundel has the asymetric C1 type blue white red with the white not as narrow as the the kit decal but not the type with the small red dot in your photo, which is on pg 111 of the Russell book.
The kit decals repeat the error in the old Scale Aircraft Modelling 'Aircraft in Detail' on the Avro Anson.
I am also uncomfortable with the size of the B type on the upper wings but have no proof either way for NZ418 after re-paint.
I din't notice my mistake until I'd photographed the model and posted it here.
Thanks for the interest and help guys.
As an aside I have a spare late war canopy, so if anyone needs one, if you like me, bought the Classic kit in good faith and found it had the wrong canopy, please PM me and I'll post it.
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Post by Calum on May 12, 2011 10:41:59 GMT 12
Nice build of a challenging kit there. Well done
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