Quote from: Rheged on August 02, 2024, 08:53:25 AMOr perhaps the Hackney, cos it's definitely going to get hacked  about.

  

Quote from: zenrat on August 03, 2024, 04:06:23 AMI added a third wing and three more engines.

I'd forgotten your Henfield, until now, and it was less than 10 yrs ago.

That's one MASTERPIECE of modelling if ever I saw one, and it would have fitted the IN Memoriam GB a treat! Was there ever an actual build thread for it? I can only find pics of the (wonderfully) complete airframe.

No build thread.  IIRC it was kept secret until finished.
I definitely have no build pics.

Secret it certainly was. 

I couldn't resist a Supermodel BV-138 at my favorite arts and crafts  source:
https://www.scrap-sf.org/
$5.00 USD for the sealed kit, a pad of graph paper, a circle protractor and several metal boxes to organize my full size tools.
It's such a weirdo I need to "do something" with it...  Not a huge fan of nazi machinery as models, so maybe some country with interesting livery- Hungary? Swiss or Vichy neutrality markings? or Maybe Osa and Martin Johnson bought one instead of a Sikorsky, but that would shift history back a decade. 
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=osa+johnson+sikorsky&iax=images&ia=images
Don't see a plausible  way to make a jet version...

Quote from: Andrew Gorman on August 03, 2024, 10:21:17 PMI couldn't resist a Supermodel BV-138 at my favorite arts and crafts  source:

It's an interesting one. Maybe Hungarian, if somehow Austro-Hungary had kept hold of part of the Adriatic coastline post WWI ? However Norwegian might suit or perhaps even Romanian serving in the Black Sea during Barbarossa ?

from the avon show, afterdroping off mini rolls and jaffa cakes
airfix 1:48 harrier GR3, ( no decals )  but thats ok possibly a 2nd racing harrier, ( red / silver)
a Tamiya 1:48 jerrycan / stowage set
a set of games workshop  sisters of battle
all second had at good low prices,
and the bargain  was a Heller 1:72 AWACS  box full of 1:72 and 1:48 bits, weapons / tanks and stuff!     free with the GR3   im going to have a look through then anything i dont want will go to the next club meeting as a " take what you want"  then it may well go to recycling

Spain used Dornier Do 24 for SAR up until 1967. Perhaps the BV 138 in a similar role for someone else. Norway and Denmark come to mind, or perhaps Sweden, Finland or France. Maybe the RNLI, Napier had the UK license for the Junkers opposed piston diesels and produced a few, meaning that spares support would, hypothetically, be possible.

Civil firefighting water-bomber.

Quote from: jcf on August 04, 2024, 11:11:27 AMSpain used Dornier Do 24 for SAR up until 1967. Perhaps the BV 138 in a similar role for someone else. Norway and Denmark come to mind, or perhaps Sweden, Finland or France. Maybe the RNLI, Napier had the UK license for the Junkers opposed piston diesels and produced a few, meaning that spares support would, hypothetically, be possible.

Possibly post WW2 Danish Faroes or  Greenland......Icelandic Coastguard.............. or off the wall suggestion; a pre March 1949 Newfoundland Coastguard

Quote from: Rheged on August 04, 2024, 11:34:49 AM

Quote from: jcf on August 04, 2024, 11:11:27 AMSpain used Dornier Do 24 for SAR up until 1967. Perhaps the BV 138 in a similar role for someone else. Norway and Denmark come to mind, or perhaps Sweden, Finland or France. Maybe the RNLI, Napier had the UK license for the Junkers opposed piston diesels and produced a few, meaning that spares support would, hypothetically, be possible.

Possibly post WW2 Danish Faroes or  Greenland......Icelandic Coastguard.............. or off the wall suggestion; a pre March 1949 Newfoundland Coastguard

Perhaps not as "of the wall" as one might think.

The Pink and the Black: History of the Newfoundland Air Force

April Fool's spoof from 2009.

All interesting! I'm kind of thinking of an Alexander Graham Bell hydroplane/ waterborne Aerosani. Just mulling things over.

Here's my version.

Quote from: jcf on August 04, 2024, 11:11:27 AMSpain used Dornier Do 24 for SAR up until 1967. Perhaps the BV 138 in a similar role for someone else. Norway and Denmark come to mind, or perhaps Sweden, Finland or France. Maybe the RNLI, Napier had the UK license for the Junkers opposed piston diesels and produced a few, meaning that spares support would, hypothetically, be possible.

Civil firefighting water-bomber.

Netherlands used Do-24s some of which ended up in the RAAF after Dutch East Indies fell to Japan.  Maybe BV-138 took the same route?

From the Wonderland Models 'veteran' pre-loved sale a Cessna O-2A (never had one before, still has original 19p price written in pencil on it (it's a bagged original release)) and Cherokee Arrow, both Airfix.

The O-2A will be OOB, the Cherokee converted into a Cherokee Warrior.  Flew in the RAF Brize Norton Flying Club Warriors a few times, so it'll be one of theirs.  Found an excellent conversion thread on Britmodeller, although I won't be making my own cast resin, etched brass or vacform items, mine will be slightly less accurate but close enough for me!

EDIT: This of course means Airfix can relax regarding giving either kit the 'Vintage Classic' treatment (although the O-2 is great conversion/whif material) and focus on repopping their Skyvan.

As well as this months free scout model, I also picked up a Vindicare assassin for my local GW shops birthday competition. After a chat with some of the guys inside, he may end up slightly redder than normal models...