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Post by silverfox on May 27, 2011 7:48:22 GMT 12
Looks like you're stuck at the same place I always grind to a halt at with a Harvard;- the canopy. I hate masking the things and I haven't got a steady enough hand to paint them. The rest looks fabulous it would be shame to stop there. Nice collection as well.
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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 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 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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Feb 11, 2011 4:34:46 GMT 12
Post by silverfox on Feb 11, 2011 4:34:46 GMT 12
Will check the photo I worked from and see where it is. Thanks again
Cheers
Andy
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Post by silverfox on Feb 2, 2011 22:59:31 GMT 12
Looks darned good to me. The ICM kit is tricky to put together but I think it looks the part once finished. Long, lean and agressive.
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Jan 29, 2011 2:20:28 GMT 12
Post by silverfox on Jan 29, 2011 2:20:28 GMT 12
Nice job. Is that kit TA-4K proper? Pretty much for a pre Kahu T bird. But the post Kahu aircraft need new cockpits and various antennas if you want to be entirely accurate (not to take anyhting away from this build) Forgot to mention I mocked up the new instrument panels. I tried to get the aerials right from photos of 52 at Nowra, so I need to know where I screwed up so I can correct it. Thanks for the input Cheers Andy
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Post by silverfox on Jan 26, 2011 6:25:39 GMT 12
Whoops, I just posted a similar article in the General Board as I wasn't sure what era it was from. The only aircraft ever based at Taieri that carried bombs would have been the No. 3 (GR) Squadron Baffins and Vincents I think. I'm not sure if they had a bomb range there though so maybe it is a modern bomb from some sort of deployment. Whilst nothing to do with the modern bomb found, a number(three) Oxfords of 1 SFTS were deployed to Taieri on 19th June 1940 to patrol Taiaroa Heads after the sinking of the RMS Naiagra off Whangarai by mines laid by the German raider Orion. The RNZN believed that the Orion had headed further south after laying the mones and both Lyttleton and Dunedin were likely targets. One aircraft, NZ257, which as a MK I was lost in a take off crash on 21st June 1940, with the pilot killed and two crew injured. The subsequent Board of Inquiry found that icing and the weight of the bomb load(250lb) plus the short runway were all contributing factors. As I say nothing to do with the bomb found but another type you can add to the 'Aircraft carrying bombs out of Taieri' list.
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Jan 25, 2011 8:11:22 GMT 12
Post by silverfox on Jan 25, 2011 8:11:22 GMT 12
I recently finished an Hasegawa TA-4 as NZ6252 using mainly Gekko graphics decals. All out of the box except for replacement seats. Hope you like it.
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Post by silverfox on Oct 17, 2010 0:57:06 GMT 12
Thanks again guys, I hope I can do the model justice.
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Post by silverfox on Oct 17, 2010 0:55:27 GMT 12
Excellent work are the markings commercial or did you make them yourself?
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Post by silverfox on Oct 15, 2010 2:54:28 GMT 12
Thanks very much that solves two minor mysteries.
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Post by silverfox on Oct 14, 2010 6:39:16 GMT 12
Mumbles, Thanks very much for for that, I knew about the 150s on '56 when she was the Golden Skyhawk, but I have been unable to find anthing about them being used other than that.
I wonder if they were part of the purchase of the RAN machines?
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Post by silverfox on Oct 13, 2010 6:48:09 GMT 12
The whole world owes these men an unpayable debt. In this of all years we honour them and their sacrifices.
At the IPMS(UK) Nationals we are running a display of Battle of Britain aircraft and hope to have 150 plus 1/48th scale models. A small tribute to them;- the Few.
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Post by silverfox on Oct 13, 2010 6:22:32 GMT 12
I'm building the Hasegawa kit as '52 in the pseudo-Euro 1 scheme. Would the insides of the slats and flap be black with this scheme? Also did the family sized scooter use the 150 gallon tank on the center line?
Thanks in advance.
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Post by silverfox on Sept 26, 2010 4:22:40 GMT 12
Only 7?
I'd be happy with that myself!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by silverfox on Sept 10, 2010 8:56:44 GMT 12
No, the kit is the same mould as the Occidental kit, the Revell Monogram is a much older mould but has a nicer cowling shape according those in the know. I like both equally and I suppose if you have the money you can cross kit.
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Post by silverfox on Jul 1, 2010 6:34:42 GMT 12
You could do Z3574 OK 2, personal aircraft of Air Vice Marshal Keith Park. Dark Earth over Dark green with Sky undersides. A rectangular Command pennant was carried under the cockpit. Born in Thames, WWI ace on Bristol Fighters, the commander of 11 Group during the Battle of Britain and Malta in 1942. Unsung hero over here until the recent unveiling of the statue in London.
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Post by silverfox on Jun 30, 2010 6:22:59 GMT 12
Sqn Ldr V. K. Jacobs flew with 136 Squadron on the Arakaan Front in 1942 -43. He first flew IIbs then converted to IIc. One Mk IIC was coded HM E but I don't know the serial.
There is a good book written by him called The Woodpecker Story.
Hope this is of some use.
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Post by silverfox on Apr 4, 2010 5:06:01 GMT 12
I believe the print run was only 200 sheets in 1/48th and you can do an F, so he probably has sold out already.
neil Robinson, who was editor of Model Aircraft Monthly has joined the MA team as of 01/04/10 and he is keen to tie in books, resin and decals to the new quarterly magazine to be announced soon, so lets hope the SH-2G is one of the subjects, I know I'm pushing it.
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