Falklands/Malvinas War 30th Anniversary GB

That is very interesting history on those Canberras.  I had no idea. Are those Airfix Canberras new molds ? I might have to get me one.

Bit more on the Sheffield, it's had a flat coat, broken off a lifeboat, and I've done the water using Acrylic Gel Medium. It will be clear when dry, and then it's just a matter of painting it and coating it with Future to make it shiny, like real water.

I've tried to replicate the bow wave pattern as per an article I found on such things, it will be more obvious when painted.

Tomorrow might be the day for this one, I hope.

Cheers

Tony

"The article above say's that the RAF Canberra's were probably painted in Chilean Air Force markings".

They paint "Forza" instead of "Fuerza" . Immediately raised suspicions. :)

Thank's for the info on the RAF Canberra's Bish .

When you mentioned that they operated out of Chile , I suddenly remembered reading that somewhere and forgot I had bought this book from Hannant's earlier in the year

Page 74 confirms what you said about the RAF operating out of Chile

The article above say's that the RAF Canberra's were probably painted in Chilean Air Force markings .

Interestingly the Airfix PR.9 Canberra kit comes with Chilean  markings dated 1983

The paint / camouflage scheme are identical between the Chilean PR.9 1983 aircraft and the Wyton UK based 1985 Canberra .

After the Falklands Britian donated three PR.9's to Chile , I suppose in appreciation for the logistic assistance rendered by Chile during the conflict .

The article also states that the RAF No.39 Squadrons activities in the falklands war remain largely shrouded in secrecy . Interesting combo none the less , with an Argentine Air Foce B.62 facing of with a Chilean marked RAF PR.9 ...

John .

Helo, the RAF operated Canberra's out of Chile during the conflict. I have got back to my Chinook, will get some pics up at the end of the week.

Sorry there's be no progress on the Chinook these past couple of day's ; Both my parents have a number of health issue's and some weeks everything goes along okay and other times things are not so good . This has been one of those not so good weeks

Anyway I decided to buy the High Planes EE Canberra B.62 which comes with Argentine Falklands War markings .

High Planes Models produce a large number of 1/72 Canberra kits , I already have 7 of their Canberra kits in the stash and this B.62 makes 8 .

High Planes was originally based in Australia but now their located in Singapore as HPM Hobbies .

Their mail order service is still exceptional , with kits arriving about 7 day's after ordering .

What was a great suprise with the Argentine Canberra kit was that it included decals for a Bell 212 (UH-1N) .

I have a ridiculously large stash of Huey kits and with quite a few of them I have already airbrushed the interior pieces medium grey , so their ready to start assembly .

I went digging through the Huey spare parts boxes and found one of those large-wide blade antenna's from Revell's Bell 212 kit , so that will suit the Argentine Huey nicely .

Looking through the rest of my stash of Italeri and Airfix Canberra's I spied a PR.9 . I don't know if the British operated any Canberra's in the Falklands War ?

I may have to check google on that .

Here's the next set of progress shots on the Sheffield. A few mosre bits to go, some finishing, a flat coat and then the deep blue sea. It's not too far off now.

Cheers

Tony

John, you sounds as hooked on Hannants as i am, but at least i am only down the road lol.

Seems we got decals flying through the post all over the place.

Azorean

Here they are!!!

Where are they and how do I get them? (Happy Birthday to me!) Their site does not show them...

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CANCEL all wants and warrants! I found them on the order tab and bought a set! YES!!!

I had on those OPERATION CORPORATE decals on my "watch lists' at hannants . I checked my email box this morning and Hannats informed me they had come in . I placed an order straight away .

I also pre-paid (back ordered) the Cyberhobby HC-4 Sea King . This is the version with the different landing gear srtuts than the ones you usually see on Sea Kings . Airwaves once did some white metal/resin struts for a 1/72 HC-4 but they seem to be long out of production on that set .

Cyberhobby's kit is a litlle expensive but it's all there seems to be in 1/72 .

Flightpath do a HC-4 conversion set in 1/48 for Hasegawa/Revell Sea King kits and it's slightly cheaper than the future release Cyberhobby kit , I was tempted to buy a Flightpath conversion set but most of my builds are 1/72 scale , it always seem to be the way with model kits , whatever I really want is not available in my scale or if it is it can be quite expensive .

Also in my usual frantic haste trying to find a couple of 1/72 Sea king kits , I ended up buying a couple of the ancient re-issue Airfix kits , Hannant also informed me by email that the Revell kit was now back in stock . I wish I had more patience ......I used too , not so much any more .

John

More new decals out. Unfortunatly there is no image on Hannants.

www.hannants.co.uk/.../COM72002

I dug out the ol' fishing basket from under the stairs looking for some fine fishing line to use as Bish suggested and it looked quite good on his B-17 build

There was not as much line as I thought I had but I think this might do ...

I'll give it a try anyway , at least it looks a whole lot better than cotton thread .

John .

Wow , those Aztec decals look great . Am I to understand that there only available through Aztec's website only ? I would very much like to get some .

I didn't get much done today as I had to take the folkes to some medical appointments .

I was looking at the awesome finished builds on page 1 and wanted to check if anyone had done a HAS-3 Wessex , the one they call "Humphrey" .

I started comparing the new release of Revell's 1/48 kit to the 1/72 version as both have 1982 Falklands markings .

Revell really goofed wiith the landing gear in only providing the V-style type . As far as I'm awear the Wessex only used the bent gear style .

The Sikorsky UH-34 Nose pieces are included on the sprue , so I suppose it could be built as a Choctaw/Seahorse H-34 instead .

In any case I was more interested in looking at the Mk.11 Mod 3 Depth Charges on Revell's 1/48 kit

I was wondering if there was anything available to suit the 1/72 Revell HAS-3 ?

They look a little tricky to try and scratch-build , perhaps there might be other 1/72 helicopter kits out there that might have a similar type of depth charge in the kit ???

I have Cobra Company's HAS-3 resin update set which includes the Sub hunting interior equipment set for the cabin but I would really need to sorce some 1/72 Depth Charges  from somewhere .

This pic from google images also shows some other type of sensor just  before the cabin door

Here's a pic of the Depth Charge and bracket

Without those depth charges hanging from the fuselage sides of the build , a 1/72 "Humphrey" might look a little naked .

John .

Here they are!!!

Damn, i never saw those sets. I got an RAF set a few weeks back, but it includedRN and RAF titles. But i only needed the smaller letters as they were the only ones in the correct style and size for some late war German aircraft i have. I will have to compare that set with the one i have, see if they are small enough.

I can't remember what size line i have, i think its 4Ib for my 72nd, i just got the finest i could fined. And its much better that stretched sprue.

You can see how it looks on this.

Thank's also for the tip on using fishing line I have some in the tackle box under the stairs . I'll dig out the box and see if there is some fine line to use .

John .

The Carpena and Colorado RAF alphabet sheets ...

www.hannants.co.uk/.../index.php

The ones in black and both 1/72 and 1/48 scales

I would deffinatly try fishing line for that Wessex. I have been useing it on my aircraft for a while and it works great.

I take it you mean the ones at the front. I used some fine fishing line. I wasn't sure it would work, i thouhgt they would drop, but they are still holding.

Which RAF decals set are you waiting on?

I tend to build so slowly that I rarely have problems with paint not drying!

Well the HU-5 Wessex is looking the part now ;

I'm just waiting on those various size black RAF letters and numbers decal sheets to arrive in the post so I can add the X&P to the fuselage sides . I was having a closer look at the 3 Model Decal sheets , sets 95,96 and 99 , there are up to 20 different wessex marking options on each of the three sheets but they don't include those 24" letters for the fuselage sides . They suggest ModelDecal set 36A , however Hannat's don't even list that sheet . I'll have to make do with the alphabet sheets and I'll probably need to order more .

I tried running some black thread around the fuselage antenna stand-off pieces but it looked too hairy , so I took it off

I have some thin copper wire and I might give that a try . I'm no good at stretching sprue so I'll have to come up with something different .

Bish , what did you use on your Chinook build to simulate the wire antenna ?

I fixed the yellow paint band on my Chinook and I'll finally get around to installing the small round cabin windows next

I'm going to have to dip the front canopy into some "Pledge-one-Go" , Australia version of Future . My bootle is about 5 years old and I have used and re-used many times over . It's hard to buy now for some reason , so Ill have to make do with the old stuff for the time being .

Here's a close-up of the canopy before dipping

Suprisingly it doesn't look too bad in the pic above but it's not all that clear when eyeballing it . Plus I don't want to have the same issue's I just went through with the Wessex canopy .

I noticed that the landing gear struts on the Chinook appear to be a little fragile , I'll have to be carefull and push the Chinook around too much on the bench after the gear is glued on .

Hopfully by this time tomorrow I'll have the Chinook all masked and ready for painting ; I'm busting to make a start on the "helicoptors marinos" S-58T build .

John .

I am sure we have all done that John, certainly a lesson in less haiste more speed.

The Wessex is looking nice, any piccys of the chinook?

Thank's for the tip Tony

Last night I glued the side cockpit windows back in and let the glue dry for a good 8 hours . I'm pretty sure my fogging on the inside of the canopy was from moisture being trapped inside the cockpit area , as I mentioned before I wiped the excess Micro Kristal Kleer (white glue) with a wet cotton Q-tip and should of waited before installing the canopy .

Micro Kristal Clear doesn't cause any fogging , so it was definitly moisture and my error .

I'll add the canopy next and hopfully things should go better this time .

Another small error on my part was the yellow fuselage band I airbrushed around the Argentine Chinook and again I was trying to do everything to quickly by airbrushing the yellow before the white undercoat had time to dry properly and when I went to mask the yellow band last night the paint had crazed and cracked in a few small places , mostly in the recesses but along the fuselage bottom as well . So I have lightly sanded the affected area's and will touch up the yellow today .

So both errors on each of the helo builds was me not waiting the appropriate time for glue and paint to dry ; I should be made to run 10 laps around the parade ground for my stupidity ...

John .

Azorean, I corrected the info. The I-014 weas part of the group of 4 Mirage's IIIEA that went in combat in the first day. And, one of the two lucky ones to come back! This is teh story below, as I found in a website from Argentina:

La primeira Misión de cobertura y sombrilla aérea. Tripulación: Capitán Raúl Gambandé (I-016) y 1er Teniente Roberto Yebra (I-014). Armamento: misiles Magic. Despegaron de Río Gallegos en el 1 de mayo de 1982 a las 15:50 hs y arribaron a las 17:40 hs. Pero la surte non foi la miesma para el segundo grupo: Dos Mirage III, indicativo "Dardo". Misión: cobertura. Tripulación: Capitán Gustavo García Cuerva (I-019) y 1er Teniente Carlos Perona (I-015). Armamento: misiles Magic. Despegaron de Río Gallegos a las 15:45 hs. En lo combat, Perona se eyectó y posteriormente fue recuperado. Capitán García Cuerva, ya sin combustible para regresar al continente, el piloto tenía dos alternativas: eyectarse sobre las islas y perder el avión o intentar el aterrizaje en la pista de Malvinas, pero fue abatido en la fase final por cañones antiaéreos argentinos controlados por radar. El piloto no logró eyectarse.

Thanks Azorean... You're right. I mean to Malvinas. LOL I'll correct!

An amazing diorama, Sergio.

Parabéns.

I think the only Argentinian jet who was at BAM Malvinas was the Aermacchi MB339, the othes operated from the bases in the continent.

Sergio Goncalves

Hi there...

I've been working in some Malvinas/Falklands related projects. My first diorama is this, with a Mirage IIIEA from FAA gettin' ready for another mission at BAM Malvinas. The plane is the I-014, with FCM decals and an Airfix base. Now I'll work on a diorama depicting part of the deck of the Atlantic Conveyor, with two Harrier's GR.3, one Sea Harrier FRS.1 and a Wessex, all Airfix 1/72. More pictures at the link below. Regards from Brazil! 

 

 

LINK: http://tinyurl.com/6sjhm4u

Awesome diorama Sergio  

Great updates Tony and John 

HI guys,

Thanks for your words. I'm from Brazil and me and some friends are in a brazilian building group to celebrate the 30 yers of Falklands/Malvinas (called M&M 03). See more work at the link below. I already did two GR.3 in this M&M 03. Now I'll try to do a section of the Atlantic Conveyor, with those two GR.3, one Sea Harrier FRS.1 and a Wessex. I'll share with you.

I really want to congratulate you for your great work. John, those Wessex are all beautiful and Tony, beautiful Sheffield!

Regards from Brazil!

Sergio

Hi John,

I can see your pics Ok.  I built a 1/32 Me 163 recently that somehoww ended up with a sliver of plastic sitting on top of the instrument panel, right under the canopy

Can't dislodge it, and I did a lot of work to fair the canopy in.

The way I used to insert pics was simply to copy and paste the IMG link from Photobucket. However that now seems to create a link rather thanshow the picture.

This time I used the insert photo button and copied in the link. It shows the actual photos, not the links. You get to that by hitting the 'use rich formatting' link thatshows at the bottom of your reply.

Regards

Tony

Well my pic's didnt come out either ?

What did you do Tony to make it work ???

John .

I can see them now , thank's Tony and the Sheffield is looking good .

I hit a bit of a snag with my Wessex build , I glued the side cockpit windows in place last night along with the canopy . However I probably should of waited untill this morning to attach the canopy as there must of been some moister on the inside of the cockpit side windows , which was probably left over from wiping the excess white glue with a wet cotton tip . So when I checked the canopy this morning there were lots of moister smudges on the canopy inside

It doesn't show up that clear in the above pic but you get a better idea as to what happened in this next pic with the canopy removed

I'm now in two minds as what to do next ; I could re-glue the cockpit side windows back in and wait untill tomorrow to fit the canopy back in place ; Or fit the canopy first and mask the side cockpit windows and airbrush the edges olive green and pose the windows open .

I do have some of that Airwaves H-34 PE set but the PE for the cockpit side windows is designed to fit the plastic fuselage section , it's a little undersize to fit around the clear side window piece it's see

I'm leaning towards just painting the side window edges and posing them open even if it's not 100% accurate , I just hate it when the canopy shows smudges and the like from the inside and I can't get in there to wipe things over .

John