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Post by dewobz on Jan 9, 2013 16:35:22 GMT 12
I built one recently and posted the build and a diorama construction on kiwimodeller.com RNZAF 75th Anniversary GB and its Build Gallery. Finished here as NZ2090, the first RNZAF aircraft to achieve a confirmed enemy aircraft destroyed in the South Pacific when 3 BR Squadron's F/O McCormick shot down a FM1 'Pete' on or about 2 April 1943. Based on the photograph in Ventura's 'Pacific Twins' taken early 1943 when red roundel centres have been reduced to a minimum but red still appears on the fin flashes (it seems). The decals - which will not satisfy absolute accuracy buffs - are somewhat cobbled together from mostly Ventura sources. Paint is Testors RAAF Foliage Green and self-mixed AeroMaster NZ Blue Sea Grey over NZ Duck Egg (AM RAF Sky Gray). Like Special Hobby's Avro Anson seen on here recently it is a fairly tough little build but worth it. The kitset comes with more-or-less complete interior detail (but no bomb bay). Cheers, Wally. Attachments:
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Post by harrysone on Jan 9, 2013 21:32:54 GMT 12
That looks really great! I have also recently picked up one of these. Yes the internal detail is very good with lots of radios & individual control panels etc...and the toilet : ) its interesting that many of the sprues are actually shared with the Special Hobby Lodestar Kit (which I've already built...another challenging but rewarding model : )
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Post by steveh on Jan 9, 2013 22:37:37 GMT 12
Intersting & inspirational. Thanks Wally & Harry, nice builds both. I like the camo colours you've chosen Wally, they look the part to me. Steve.
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Post by dewobz on Jan 10, 2013 11:06:53 GMT 12
Nice Lodestar Harry. What decals have you used on that? I'd like to pick one up sometime to build a wartime RNZAF one. And cheers Steve. I've done alot of work on NZ Blue Sea Grey and think I have mixed a pretty good version. I was rather surprized to hear on the other thread that Revell is re-releasing the MPM Hudson. With its lack of locator pins & holes and general level of difficulty it hardly strikes me as a 'Revell' style kitset. It'll be interesting to see what decals they include with it? I recommended to Italeri that they scale up the MPM kitset to 1/48, which may not be all that difficult nowadays. I'd certainly buy it and build it at that scale. Those Classic Airframes ones are getting frightfully expensive on the rare occasions they come up on eBay or TradeMe. Cheers, Wally.
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Post by harrysone on Jan 10, 2013 11:40:02 GMT 12
Wally, The NAC decals used on the Lodestar are home grown & Alps printed (on a friend's printer). I based them on several (some colour) photographs of Lodestars in Richard Waugh's NAC book. I also included a couple of 'Ag Lodestar's markings on the same decal sheet (Airland & Fieldair) so one day I might get another one of these models and use the remaining decals. Unfortunately I didn't do an RNZAF version.
The Italeri version of the model is the P&W powered Hudson mkIV isn't it? What is the Revell one going to be?
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Post by dewobz on Jan 10, 2013 14:57:38 GMT 12
Yes, Italeri rebox the Mk IV/V which only has the later engines & nacelles under license to MPM. I contacted them because I couldn't find any way of emailing MPM. MPM's Mk I/II kitset and their A-29/PBO-1 have both nacelle/engine sprues (from memory). No-one actually calls any of them a Mk III. My Mk I/II & A-29 kitsets both contained a solid nose & fuselage sections to cover the turret too. I wonder if this means I can make a Lodestar out of them if i want to?
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Post by harrysone on Jan 10, 2013 15:21:07 GMT 12
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Post by dewobz on Jan 11, 2013 9:31:08 GMT 12
Cheers Harry. Yes, I see the difference. It is as though the L-18 has elements of PV-1 Ventura in it ... which maybe it does? That makes me wonder if I could convert Revell's 1/48 PV-1 to a Lodestar?
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Post by harrysone on Jan 11, 2013 10:59:00 GMT 12
err...probably still easier converting & lengthening a 1/48 Hudson if you had one. The Hudson has the right engines & most of the cabin windows. You could use the fuselage & wings off the Ventura (Fuse still needs BIG changes), however you'd still need to dump the engines (nacelles too?) & props and find some Wrights. Maybe an amalgamation of Classic Airframes Hudson & the Ventura kits would work?
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Post by ZacYates on Jan 11, 2013 16:14:11 GMT 12
Agreed, that camouflage scheme works very well on a Hudson. Nice job!
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Post by davidd on Jan 12, 2013 21:02:07 GMT 12
Reply #7 Actually it was the Ventura that had elements of the Lodestar in it; Lodestar (Lockheed 18) came first! David D
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Post by harrysone on Apr 7, 2013 19:00:50 GMT 12
My MPM Hudson...with a difference I decided to do a subject a bit different from the standard RNZAF wartime Hudson model. The Air-Sea Rescue Hudson NZ2063 used by RNZAF post war...'46-'48. I saw a photo of it years ago, however I found a colour profile in one of the 'warpaint' series on the Lockheed Hudson & it maade a good starting point. I managed to do a bit of additional research online and found a profile & elevation of the Mk1 'Uffa Fox aerial lifeboat' (the hull lines are somewhat conjecture). I was able to scratch build with plastic card... If anybody knows of any photos of NZ2063 in this scheme I'd be quite grateful if they can share it
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Post by Andy Wright on Apr 7, 2013 19:37:49 GMT 12
That's going to look good, Harry. Looking forward to seeing how you go.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 7, 2013 19:45:45 GMT 12
Great project Harry. I have a friend in Whangarei who flew on the Air Sea Rescue Hudson as its Wireless Operator. He said they also had a Ventura on the same duties, and his logbook bares this out too.
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Post by davidd on Apr 8, 2013 11:18:13 GMT 12
Dave H, the Venturas used on ASR sorties carried Lindholme equipment, but had no special markings, like the Hudsons, and of course no lifeboats. Just in case some keen modelling type was getting any ideas. All the remaining PV-1s of 2 Squadron at Ohakea were withdrawn from service at end of May 1946, never to fly again. David D
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Post by dewobz on Apr 8, 2013 13:42:11 GMT 12
Another great and very 'original' project Harry. Your subject choice is really informative & inspiring. The model looks like it is coming along excellently too. Can't wait to see more. Wally.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Apr 8, 2013 14:00:05 GMT 12
I have a feeling that someone built a model of the Wigram-based SAR Hudson with boat in a Scale Aircraft Modelling magazine in the 1990's, or a similar publication to that. I have certainly seen it modelled before somewhere.
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Post by harrysone on Apr 8, 2013 15:16:13 GMT 12
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Post by flyjoe180 on Apr 8, 2013 15:44:33 GMT 12
Great work Harry and Wally.
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Post by harrysone on Apr 8, 2013 17:37:32 GMT 12
...ahh...flight simulation.... nice visualization, but I wonder if it's correct
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