ETPS Starfighter

[TLAR]

Here's my Empire Test Pilots School Starfighter F.1, as seen on the IPMS Lincoln display at Telford 2003



More to follow - in due course!

Ian

[TLAR]

If at first you don't succeed . . . .



Ian

[Supertom]

Cool beans Ian!  What scale is that?

Welcome to What-If, by the way.  ^_^  

[nev]

So was it you that entered the ETPS F-104 into our Brit-o-rama contest a few years back?

[TLAR]

Tom, it's basically the Hasegawa 1/48 F-104G kit, with a scheme inspired by a Jennings Helig profile that appeared on HS a few months ago - a combination of home-made and spares box decals.  It was part of a club display which saw 29 Starfighters lined up.  The rest were disappointingly 'real'. but I thought a little creativity would brighten things up!  The display table looked like this :



Nev, I'm afraid not!  Most of my models have propellors - I'm not much into this new-fangled 'fart-tube' stuff.  As a well-known Spitfire display pilot (who flies commercial airliners as the day job) once said to me :  "Give me a screw rather than a blow-job any day!"

Cheers,

Ian

[lancer]

Hey Ian,
Welcome to the mad house on the web!!! Brilliant version of the worlds fastest pub dart as well....            

[nev]

Hmmmm, one day we'll find out who entered it!

Nice line up of lawn darts btw, almost as good as our line up of TSR2s at the nats!    

[Captain Canada]

Beauty, Ian ! Just beauty !

And welcome to the site !

Man, that table full o' 104s rules !

I see a bunch of CDN birds in there as well, which is always nice !

BTW....some of the nicest prop-jobs of all time can be done CDN, eh ?!

Cheers !  

[John Howling Mouse]

"Give me a screw rather than a blow-job any day!"

Well, if THAT isn't Ian's new avatar signature or what?!

Welcome aboard, Ian.  For a guy who's not much into "fart tubes," your missile with a man in it sure looks good.

There must be a balance to the modeling universe: when I began, props were my favorite but I later turned almost exclusively to jets...