Fleet Air Arm Group Build

Lodni I don't think the Admiral will mind at all if ye join this scurvy lot. Beggin'the Admirals pardon sir, i just want to post a pic of my current project and where she stands at the moment.

Razor I'm lovin' that Stringbag!!! I can't see half of the pics before your post, photobucket has got to do something good for a change.

WOW what a build!!! Aaargh all you swabbies hic, pardon me, lol i'm still kicking just have not been on the puter for quite some time. Been playing PS4 n doing a lil modelling but starting to get the m-o-j-o back. Glad to see all the builds happening. Not ready to tackle my Buccaneer yet as I have moved and have VERY limited space, a bungalow. Been doing well and hope all is well with everyone here. really missed the forums so sat down with a beer and well i'm here Been working on my Academy 1/72 FW-190A-8, wil ltry and get a pic up soon if anyone's interested. Just bought an Italeri 1/48 F7F-3 Tigercat today, and must say it looks like a very nice kit. Anyways, will try and keep more up to date on the forums and all the great builds happening. Admiral begging your pardon sir, i'm ready for my lashings for being AWOL Have a G'Day peeps!!

Wonderful stuff. i lost all of my Stringbag kits in the move, but I am inspired by you.

After a long dry spell in dry dock; I am determined to finish the Illustrious after meeting the sister of Sub-Lt Tony Wray, observer on L4R at Taranto. Wray's sister, Pat, is still sharp as a tack, funny, and has quite a collection of Illustrious memorabilia.  So, Swordfish planes on deck + crew as shown below. All that is left are the radio aerials, radar, and some miscellaneous bits that I have forgotten;  Planes are ordered by tail number roughly equal to attack order.  Just have to hope that I don't knock off some of the delicate work as I put on the finishing touches.

Illustrious w planes

Some mistakes and omissions here to a stickler for accuracy and I can tell you I will never again attempt to retrofit the Heller kit to some sort of verisimillitude.

Got the Lusty out as I am on a carrier roll. These A-holes at photobucket really did some serious damage.

Nice work - the rigging looks sharp and taut.  Having done the Frog version of this during the last FAA Group Build, I know how hard this can be at this scale

Nice going, Dave, you've been enshrined in the FAA Roster thread.

Thanks Wannabe. 

Hey all, managed to wrap this up last night so here is my contribution to the fight.  This is the Airfix 1/72 kit.

Looking forward to seeing the rest of the builds.

The Swordfish is lookin great, dwsrazor. 

Thought things would be slowing down again. It has not turned out that way. I'm itchin to make more progress on the Beaufighter though. Hoping I'll actually have something to post as an update after this weekend. Shouldn't be an issue since the weather won't be good for fishing the next few days. Lol. 

Until 1942,

"With the coming of war, the FAA's aircraft were quickly done up in camouflage colours. Initially they were in Dark Sea Grey and Extra Dark Slate Grey (a greenish colour to you and I), with the upper surfaces of the lower wings being in Dark Sea Grey and Light Slate Grey to provide shadow compensation from the upper wing. The undersurfaces are in Sky Grey (NOT Sky)"

http://www.cbrnp.com/profiles/quarter2/swordfish.htm

dwsrazor

For any of you planning to do a Taranto ship you might want to know what this tank is for.  It is not shown in the instructions anywhere and it was not until I did some reading on the Taranto raid that I discovered that an extra tank was installed in place of the middle seat in order to get the range they needed for the raid.  Of course this discovery was made after I had closed up the fuselage.  

 

http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/rollofhonour/Battlehonour_crewlists/FAATaranto_1940.html

stikpusher

A round for all the lads here in honor of the Wyverns arrival!

 

Tonka, nice job on the little Chipmunk! 

Wannabe farmer, going through a lot of health issues at my house to.  Hang in there!

Amornut.  Great subject choice.  Looking forward to your build.

As for the Swordfish the wings are now glued on and the rigging was attached to the upper wing before attaching it.  Gluing the rigging to the bottom wing should be lots of fun.      I still have some work to do on the motor but then it is just wheels, torpedo and a few other fiddly bits.

Cheers!

I'll dri,k to that, even if it is my post LOL, and I have to work tomorrow. All Hail the Wyvern. Or as my friend Darth Laboriuos calls it " Jimmy D'arante with wings".

A round for all the lads here in honor of the Wyverns arrival!

Ahoy mateys here be the promised pictures of the mighty Wyvern. should be cemecnting parts soon. Man that Big Ed photo etch set has ALOT of bits. Gonna be fun.

I need to make one for this year, give me a week or so.

jeaton01

Tonka, I have added this photo to the FAA Roster page.  Nice work!

 

Thanks!! Now where do I get the badge?? Or do we not need any stinkin' badges!!

FArmboy --sorry about the relative passing...and hope you Mom feels better

Tonka, I have added this photo to the FAA Roster page.  Nice work!

Great looking little plane there, tonka. 

Hope to be back at it soon y'all. Been busy gettin my mom settled back in after surgery, and had a relative pass away unexpectedly. So, things have been a little hectic as of late.

Keep the pics of the great work coming. I'm not very skilled at painting and detailing models yet, and all the pics of y'all's superb work keeps me from settling for mediocrity in my own builds. 

Finally finished the little Airfix Chipmunk trainer... didn't come out too bad for a 45 Yr old 89 cents kit. Decals came from spares of course orignals were shot.

So as said, I plan on Wyvern S-4. Dug out the kit and got ready to start putting pieces together and low and behold I forgot the kit has a full complement of PE, cockpit, wingfolds, landing gear wells, ALOT. S I'm gonna dive in and see what kind of damage I can do. Bought the kit at a show a few years back in southern Loiusiana and completely forgot I basically paid for the Eduard PE. I like little suprises like that. Perhaps I will post pte start pix tonight.

Paint is complete except for the upper surfaces of the lower wings.  Need to figure out the rigging before I paint those though.  A quick pic to show the progress.



For any of you planning to do a Taranto ship you might want to know what this tank is for.  It is not shown in the instructions anywhere and it was not until I did some reading on the Taranto raid that I discovered that an extra tank was installed in place of the middle seat in order to get the range they needed for the raid.  Of course this discovery was made after I had closed up the fuselage.  

Yeah, Stik, I fear there is a Liberator in my future, but not my near future.  Such an ungainly beast.

That I would, laddie, that I would....

Got gum on them bucklers, do ya?  Or ya been nailed ta the ceilin' whilst in a drunken stupor.

'Scusin' yer pee stained britches yer excellency, yeh be talkin' to me?