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Started by Green Dragon, August 31, 2010, 05:15:50 PM

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Green Dragon

August 31, 2010, 05:15:50 PM
The Booze Moose Flying Boat was put together specifically for smuggling Canadian produced alcoholic drinks into the USA over the heads of the US Coast Guard and Border Guards during prohibition. For quite a while the fleet of seven aircraft flew across the border unopposed until late in March of 1929 when, just over a month after The Saint Valentines Day Massacre, the US Army Air Corps started air patrols over the Canadian frontier to stem the flow of booze.
By this time the Rum Running "Pirates Of The Air" had become famous in comic books, novels and even a radio show. After a near shoot-down over Lake Michigan the pirates decided to hire a group of mercenary seaplane pilots to fly escort for the Booze Moose flights in copied Curtis R3C-2(F) fighters built in the same secret factory that built the Booze Moose flying boats somewhere near Lake Ontario. All of this funded by US and Canadian gangsters until 1933 when US prohibition was repealed with the twenty-first amendment to the US Constitution.

Pic of the first scavenged parts.


Paul Harrison
"Well, it's rather brutal here. Right now we are advising all our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns."-Gremlins 2

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Green Dragon

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September 07, 2010, 06:04:10 PM
Here be me progress wi' the Booze Moose.
Do18 fuse lashed together along wi' the Stranraer wing/engine nacelles.


Test paint with GW Shadow Grey, added a floor, extended the keel.


Added a fuselage section and blanked off cabin windows with putty and sanded down.


More putty-fu and made some cockpit seats.


It be comin' together mateys! Now where's me grog! :cheers:

Paul Harrison
"Well, it's rather brutal here. Right now we are advising all our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns."-Gremlins 2

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buzzbomb

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September 07, 2010, 08:58:14 PM
Quote from: Green Dragon on September 07, 2010, 06:04:10 PM
It be comin' together mateys! Now where's me grog! :cheers:

Over the border by the sounds of it..  ;D

coming along nicely matey.
.. after getting over the aghast shock of butchering a Stranraer.

Green Dragon

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September 08, 2010, 02:05:42 AM Last Edit: September 08, 2010, 02:13:06 AM by Green Dragon
Don' ye be worryin' unduly Buzzbomb, I only gullied the Stranraer coz it be missing loads a parts when it were gifted me for spares!
This be what hapened to some more o' it.


Paul Harrison
"Well, it's rather brutal here. Right now we are advising all our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns."-Gremlins 2

On the bench.
1/72 Space 1999 Eagle, Comet Miniatures Martian War Machine
1/72nd Quad Tilt Rotor, 1/144th V/STOL E2 Hawkeye (stalled)

Green Dragon

#4
September 10, 2010, 05:18:29 PM
I gots me some pics o' the stern for ye me hearties. Yonder black bit be a turret from an Airfix Halifax wot got blowed to smithereens in an unfortunate err..... accident involving copius amounts o' gunpowder!


Filled with scrap sprue.


Green Stuff.


Found a missin' engine nacelle half but the Underpants Gnomes have purloined an engine face now!

Paul Harrison
"Well, it's rather brutal here. Right now we are advising all our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns."-Gremlins 2

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Green Dragon

#5
September 17, 2010, 03:14:25 PM
Doubt I'll be able to finish in time but here be a progress scrimshaw me hearties.

I be building up the sponsons a bit and the plasticard bits on the top deck be the start of the grog tanks.
The Gnomes still have possession o' me Stranraer engine so I be havin' ta use a couple from me exploded Halifax.

Paul Harrison
"Well, it's rather brutal here. Right now we are advising all our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns."-Gremlins 2

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Green Dragon

#6
September 27, 2010, 04:04:59 PM
Here be me Halifax engines wi' a slap o' silver on 'em.

Me booze tanks be fitted wi lids purloined from 15mm Tiger 1's.


Paul Harrison
"Well, it's rather brutal here. Right now we are advising all our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns."-Gremlins 2

On the bench.
1/72 Space 1999 Eagle, Comet Miniatures Martian War Machine
1/72nd Quad Tilt Rotor, 1/144th V/STOL E2 Hawkeye (stalled)

John Howling Mouse

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October 25, 2010, 06:59:50 PM
Quote from: Green Dragon on September 08, 2010, 02:05:42 AM
Don' ye be worryin' unduly Buzzbomb, I only gullied the Stranraer coz it be missing loads a parts when it were gifted me for spares!
This be what hapened to some more o' it.


Paul Harrison

Avast, like a cold bucket o' North Sea water in th' pucker, this rails me so!  What a beauty this be!
Styrene in my blood and an impressive void in my cranium.
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