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RAF Lifeboat

Started by Glenn, October 10, 2009, 12:44:17 AM

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Glenn

October 10, 2009, 12:44:17 AM
As the subject suggests, I'm looking for a RAF Lifeboat....like the ones used in WW2 and after, dropped from aircraft, for ship wrecks and downed aircrew. It will finish the Avro Essex.
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Mossie

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October 10, 2009, 05:26:12 AM
Glenn, Paragon do a resin Lifeboat for a B-17 in both 1/72 & 1/48.  US rather than British, but might do?  Hasegawa do an ASR.III version of their Lancaster with a lifeboat, but it's pricey if that's all you want from it.
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Jeffry Fontaine

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October 10, 2009, 08:55:47 AM
IPMS-USA has a few images of the 1/72nd scale Hasegawa Lancaster ASR.3 kit as a built model showing the lifeboat in good detail in a couple of the images. 

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October 11, 2009, 12:23:05 PM
Doesn't sombody (Academy?) do an ASR B17 with the lifeboat? (Not sure if it's the same boat, but I think it is...)
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jcf

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October 11, 2009, 12:50:49 PM
The US lifeboats (built by Higgins) are not the same as the various series of Uffa Fox airborne lifeboats used by the UK.
To the best of my knowledge the boat in the Hasegawa kit is the only rendition of the Fox lifeboat that has been done.

I was in contact with the folks at Uffafox.com a few years back inquiring about plans for the lifeboats (evidently they
have hundreds of drawings of the various types), however they were in the midst of moving house at the time
and I never received a plan listing.

Maybe its time to try again.  ;D
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