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jeaton01 25 1/2 inch span, 17 inches long, Dave. About the same as the Revell B-17F it sits next to. Kinda makes the B-17 look like a low rider with that stork like landing gear.
25 1/2 inch span, 17 inches long, Dave. About the same as the Revell B-17F it sits next to. Kinda makes the B-17 look like a low rider with that stork like landing gear.
Officially adding it to my "to-do" list. I love building the bigger 2 and 4 engine aircraft.
I suppose a Liberator or a Condor would look good next to the Fort and Lanc...
F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!
U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!
N is for NO SURVIVORS...
- Plankton
LSM
John
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Beautiful job Admiral. In 1/48 it must take up a lot of realestate!
Thanks, all youse!
Stik, be'in that most a tha group is so deep in the grog this year's edition is open to both FAA and RAF, next year we'll get back to alternating.
Beautiful finish on the Lanc! Not very FAA, but...
Most inspirational!!!
Beautiful job on the Lancaster!! I know those canopies can be a pain, but you nailed them perfectly!
Grab a rum ration, you earned it matey!
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That looks great Jean. I love the Lancaster, such a heavy lifter.
Steve
Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.
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tempestjohnnyNice props. Gator cup in background too. My daughter is taking her entrance exams to go to UF for grad school. I might be a Gator Dad.
Thanks tempestjohnny. I hope your daughter gets in! I've been a die hard gators fan since I was old enough to really understand football. So, I may be a little biased, but I think it's the best school. Lol.
Welcome aboard, armornut. Admiral...dwsrazor... y'all's kits are lookin great. I hope mine is up to snuff when it's completed (if I'm ever able to get all the ejector pin marks cleaned up). I haven't been on for a while, but I'm glad to see other people making progress on their projects. I was finally able to finish the engines for my Beaufighter. Well, still have to do the props, but the engines themselves are done.
It was surprisingly difficult to get between all the fins and reach the nooks and crannies.
Dave, according to the old Harleyford book, Sky Type S is the normal color for an FAA Swordfish lower surface, with Dark Slate Grey and Extra Dark Sea Grey on top. Bill told me (AFTER I painted my Sea Gladiator, the Bugger!) that the upper surface of the lower wings should be counter shaded with lighter versions of the upper wing colors. Should we break him a rank if'n he don't pop in here sooner!!?
edit: The countershading colors are perhaps Dark Sea Grey / Light Slate Grey.
One has to be sure that it is an FAA airplane, Coastal Command would be different.
What is the upper surface scheme? I know that FAA used more than one scheme, but off the top of my head I can't say what colors in some of them.
Welcome aboard amornut!
Bill, come on ya old Sea Dog. Jump on in.
Construction is proceeding along. Just have the tail feathers and landing gear to attach and then I can shoot some primer. I am finding that I will have to paint the main wings separately before attaching. Even the main supports for the lower wings will have to painted first. They are shown on the fuselage in the pictures but are not glued yet. The logistics of paint and assembly for a biplane of this size has been a challenge. Also, have broken 4 pieces either trying to get them off the thick sprue gates or while trying to clean them up. And... I managed to glue one of the struts on upside down so I have been having much fun.
Question on the paint call out for this. The instructions are calling for Humbrol 64 light grey for the undersides which seems to me to be rather dark. I've only seen white or Sky for the undersides. What say ye?
Arrgh, me thinks me days o'skallywagin are afar on thee tides me mate. Aye Aye cap'tn rum itis, never a bos'n though needs to show me the bitter end o'yee swab. Glad to be here, I'll get a mug shot of the box art and get cranking.
we're modelers it's what we do
It ain't ne'er too late long as you bring the rum by my cabin on Friday, mate. Yer mop and swabbin bucket has yer name on it. Armornut? What kinda sea farin' name is that, anyway. That's the kind a stuff we gen'ly find on the bottom! Yer on the Roster thread, take a look. And bring the cat, we got some real rats on board and some only got two legs an no real tail ta speak of!
Dave, me boy, that's the new Airfix. Pretty nice stuff, though it seems like there is some minor gaffe in each kit I've done so far. Not at all the olde Airfix. I got rid of the carpet, all I have is a cement monster.
Nice interior work, but that's expected of a veteran.
So, this GB has been running for a bit, I just signed up for the 100 yrs of RAF GB, and wanted to do up an S-4 Wyvern after my Tempest for that build. I was informed of this one and well, is it to late to join in? The kit is the 1/48th Trumpeter Wyvern S-4, and I know squat about British aircraft.
I've been a little sluggish off the start on this one but figured I better get some photos up soon before I find myself swabbing the decks. I had the day off today and was hoping to close up the fuse but unfortunately I had a tussle with the carpet monster after tweezerpulting one of the itty bitty side windows into its domain. Took me nearly an hour of hunting to make him cough it up. I'm pretty stingy and usually only feed him sprue scrapings so he was pretty reluctant to give up such a prime piece. Anyway, just have to do a wash and install said side windows and then I can close it up. This cockpit is so nice I have to keep checking the box to remind myself that it is indeed an airfix kit.
Much improved, Admiral.
Modeling is an excuse to buy books.
Looking great John!
Thats looking great John! The roundels really turned out nice.
John, I reshot the blue with about 10% flat black added, I think it looks better, although if you consider fading it was probably OK before. This particular airplane only lived about 6 months, but that was long enough for the control surfaces to fade in comparison to the wings, and it even has two different fuselage roundel types in different photos.
I also finished up the fuselage roundels and codes, and the wing walkway lines. Tamiya tape and Oramask masking material dying by the thousands so far.
Farm Boy, it's lookin good.
Well, given that gettin' all the lads going again is much akin to herding cats, RAF and Fleet Air Arm are both OK to my bleary eye. And them "boats" what are related.
Next step on the Lancaster is the Dark green, Dark Earth is well dry.
GMorrison Captain Bondo poured a glass of port and settled back on his cot. Whats the current theme, he asked.
Captain Bondo poured a glass of port and settled back on his cot.
Whats the current theme, he asked.
The lads here said something about the RAF old boy.
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