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My TSR.2 needs more fuel!

Started by Scooterman, March 19, 2015, 08:16:34 AM

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Scooterman

March 19, 2015, 08:16:34 AM
OK lads, need some help on gasbags for my TSR.  IIRC, there was sets made that had the wing tanks and bomb bay slipper, but can't remember where I saw them and are they still available.  

Of course I have Damien's book and I could scratch them, but y'all know I'm a fat lazy bas$%#d.  ;D

Oh and all of this in the true scale, 1/72............

Thanks dudes!

PR19_Kit

#1
March 19, 2015, 08:36:05 AM
I fitted the big slipper tanks to my time warp TSR2, the one with gun turrets, and I think they came from Odds and Ordnance, who I fear are out of business now. But IIRC someone took over some of their products but I can't remember who.

I don't know about the bomb bay tank, my model has a damn great bomb hanging there.  ;D

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Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

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Kit

Mossie

#2
March 19, 2015, 08:42:35 AM
Colin at Freightdog did them.  The gas bags don't seem to be on his site, but if you PM him he sometimes has spare stock.
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JayBee

#3
March 19, 2015, 10:24:49 AM
The set was originally produced by SAM magazine, and gave the funny shaped drop-tanks, the ridiculously big slipper tank, and a very nice refueling probe.
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#4
March 19, 2015, 10:36:50 AM
I don't think so.

My slipper tanks were moulded in grey resin and Colin almost always does his in sandy coloured stuff. Colin DID to the more streamlined pointy tailed tanks that sit on pylons, whereas the 'slipper' tanks are anything but pointy and are flush with the wing underside.
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

TallEng

#5
March 19, 2015, 11:56:39 AM
As an alternative to buying resin bits if you want the drop tanks as against the slipper tanks,
you could use 1/48th scale tanks from the Revell Harrier GR7/9 kit, I'm not saying they're 100%
correct  :rolleyes: however nobody can prove you wrong either. :thumbsup:
A couple of pictures to show. Blu-tack pylon optional ;D





I'm not sure but i think the Revell kit is a re-boxing of the Hasagawa one.

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Keith
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Mossie

#6
March 19, 2015, 01:47:59 PM
We're all right! :lol:

Colin took over the SAM tank sets.  Included in these were the huge belly tank and some teardrop shaped tanks.  Hannants have the teardrop tanks in stock, Colin doesn't at the moment.  There's also a refeulling probe available:
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/FDR72036
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/FDR72037

Odds & Ordnance do the slipper tanks that Kit used
http://www.oddsandordnance.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=161038
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

PR19_Kit

#7
March 19, 2015, 01:57:47 PM
Quote from: Mossie on March 19, 2015, 01:47:59 PM
Odds & Ordnance do the slipper tanks that Kit used
http://www.oddsandordnance.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=161038

And they're back in business according to the 'News' section of the web site!  :thumbsup:

Why do wondrous things like this happen when I'm skint?  :banghead: :banghead:
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

kitnut617

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March 19, 2015, 04:01:57 PM Last Edit: March 19, 2015, 04:05:22 PM by kitnut617
Quote from: TallEng on March 19, 2015, 11:56:39 AM
As an alternative to buying resin bits if you want the drop tanks as against the slipper tanks,
you could use 1/48th scale tanks from the Revell Harrier GR7/9 kit, I'm not saying they're 100%
correct  :rolleyes: however nobody can prove you wrong either. :thumbsup:

Regards
Keith
Evan (who was our resident aero engineer here), had said the 1/48 Harrier GR.5 tanks were very close in size for a 1/72 TSR2 1000 Gal tank. I'm hanging the ones I'm going to use off a pair of Blue Water pylons, which I'm saying are stuffed full of ECM gear (the trailing edge of these pylons actually have a large radiator type screen in place)



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Gondor

#9
March 20, 2015, 01:30:10 PM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on March 19, 2015, 01:57:47 PM
Quote from: Mossie on March 19, 2015, 01:47:59 PM
Odds & Ordnance do the slipper tanks that Kit used
http://www.oddsandordnance.co.uk/index.asp?pageid=161038

And they're back in business according to the 'News' section of the web site!  :thumbsup:

Why do wondrous things like this happen when I'm skint?  :banghead: :banghead:

I know exactly what you mean Kit  :banghead:

Gondor
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Captain Canada

#10
March 27, 2015, 03:58:45 PM
What are you looking for ? Just somat sleek to bolt under there ? Doesn't the kit come with the gasbags ?

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Scooterman

#11
March 27, 2015, 05:06:08 PM
Thanks for the input y'all.  Since I have plenty of Harrier tanks laying around, that'll be the route I go. I can fudge the belly unit.


Quote from: Captain Canada on March 27, 2015, 03:58:45 PM
What are you looking for ? Just somat sleek to bolt under there ? Doesn't the kit come with the gasbags ?

Nope, no tanks.  Not even pylons.  Don't tell me you don't have one, Toadsan. (Airfix kit that is)

Captain Canada

#12
March 27, 2015, 05:15:15 PM
Ya built it a few years back.....just can't recall really what was in the box !   :banghead:
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kitnut617

#13
March 27, 2015, 06:45:27 PM Last Edit: March 27, 2015, 06:47:28 PM by kitnut617
Quote from: Scooterman on March 27, 2015, 05:06:08 PM
Thanks for the input y'all.  Since I have plenty of Harrier tanks laying around, that'll be the route I go. I can fudge the belly unit.


Quote from: Captain Canada on March 27, 2015, 03:58:45 PM
What are you looking for ? Just somat sleek to bolt under there ? Doesn't the kit come with the gasbags ?

Nope, no tanks.  Not even pylons.  Don't tell me you don't have one, Toadsan. (Airfix kit that is)

But where the pylons are mounted are well defined with a little round circle, here I drilled them out


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