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Post by ams888 on Dec 19, 2012 23:06:44 GMT 12
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Post by JamesStokes on Dec 20, 2012 1:07:05 GMT 12
Just saw this on facebook! Stokes as, I won't have to ship anything from overseas now! Can't wait to do ZK-RVM and VAM!
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Post by ZacYates on Dec 20, 2012 8:32:17 GMT 12
I am SO into this!
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Post by steveh on Dec 20, 2012 13:10:26 GMT 12
Yeah, I was pretty thrilled to see this, now I can stop pretending that one day I will build my Merlin Vampire T.11, now I know theres no way in hell. Maybe I can use the decals on something else. ;D
Just had a thought, I wonder how many Vampire/Mosquito pairs we'll see modelled over the next few years?
Steve.
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Post by ZacYates on Dec 21, 2012 11:42:12 GMT 12
I already have an old Airfix Mosquito build of mine "restored" as KA114 - just needs decals - so keep an eye out!
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Post by harrysone on Dec 27, 2012 13:54:03 GMT 12
you mean something like this pair  ? (Mind you...one is Tamiya and the other is CMK)  or maybe...  that's the Airfix Spitfire IX |
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Post by strikemaster on Dec 27, 2012 20:21:22 GMT 12
Shhugar, I'm up for two I think.
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Post by steveh on Dec 27, 2012 20:28:58 GMT 12
Yes Harry, exactly like that. Those are neat though I confess to not having thought of AL like that. Bit slow on it I guess.  Steve. |
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Post by expatkiwi on Dec 28, 2012 2:00:21 GMT 12
Nice to see that the RNZAF is still represented in Airfix.
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Post by mumbles on Jun 7, 2013 22:13:50 GMT 12
Watch this space, I'm starting one this weekend, to be done by the end of the month for my club BSK. I couldn't find the starter set on sale here, so got the standard one, then asked Hornby very nicely for a set of the RNZAF kit decalsn  |
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Post by harrysone on Jun 8, 2013 10:52:31 GMT 12
I have the starter kit, I had to order off ebay. It looks very nice, more accurate in shape than the CMR resin kit (which is otherwise nice detail...see above). It should be a good build
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 8, 2013 12:41:00 GMT 12
I want to see a model made of this Vampire T.11 - NZ5711 - from Graeme Cossgrove's collection   |
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Post by steveh on Jun 8, 2013 16:41:16 GMT 12
That'd make a nice subject Dave. As an aside, is it me or does that starboard underwing tank look like PRU blue & the other baremetal/HS Silver?
Steve.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 8, 2013 17:32:17 GMT 12
I think it is the grey-green camouflage that some of the Vampires wore then.
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Post by baz62 on Jun 9, 2013 11:39:22 GMT 12
I think the sunlight on the port tank makes it look a very light colour. It looks blue (ish) on my PC. I think Dave is right its the old camo colour.
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Post by steveh on Jun 10, 2013 18:03:22 GMT 12
Afaik, some (a few?) of the FB.5s were finished in the then standard RAF finish of Dark Green/Ocean Grey over PRU Blue (as the Ashburton Aviation Museum example is finished) when they arrived. They were soon refinished in the standard High Speed Silver finish that they served in, in the RNZAF, but I wondered if that darker colour drop tank was a refugee from that time. Steve. |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 10, 2013 18:21:16 GMT 12
Exactly my thoughts, and concurred by Barf at the Air Force Museum too. These photos were taken in 1959, given that the aircraft has white ferns on the roundels. So a few years after the camouflaged FB.5's arrived from the RAF, but it may have been out of stores recently and not yet repainted.
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Post by steveh on Jun 10, 2013 18:32:27 GMT 12
You do know though Dave if you finished one like that you'd have every man & his dog telling you you had the wrong colour on the drop tank. Steve |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 10, 2013 19:23:26 GMT 12
As we have the photographic evidence they can take their dog for a long walk, off a short pier. |
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Post by ngatimozart on Jun 10, 2013 22:03:42 GMT 12
Not the dogs fault.
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