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[K5054NZ]

Far-Eastern eh? If I ever start mine she'll be closer to home than you think...............

[Andrew Gorman]

I was thinking Far Eastern because all sorts of oddball aircraft ended up in 1930's China, and I like the Manchukuo markings I've seen.  The skinny fuselage just doesn't work well with the decals I have floating around- not usually building 1/72 aircraft probably has something to do with that.  But, I've got to get the darn thing stuck together first!
Andrew

[Andrew Gorman]

I think I really like vac kits.  So count me in again with a Gerald J. Elliott Bristol Buckmaster.  Not a very sexy kit, but that's probably why it ended up at a garage sale.  I've found the original canopy, but I'm going to make this into a turboprop powered ship (it IS a Bristol, after all...) in some kind of variant ChiCom markings as an armed transport that Lin Biao would have used as the Japanese were pushed out of Manchuria in the late 1940's. Add a dorsal turret right behind the cockpit- a  turret on the aft section would look too much like a Hudson, and one in the middle would look too much like a, well, Buckingham.  A slight stretch of the nacelles (pretty long to begin with), contra-rotating props, and some turbojet exhausts laid on top of the wing should do it, along with a few windows and a door.  A pair of B-37 style fuselage machine guns could look sharp, and be easy to add too.  If anyone knows anything about the Gerald J. Elliott kits, I'd like to know more.
Entirely too obsessed with vacuform technology,
Andrew

[K5054NZ]

For the time being, I'm limiting myself to the Supermarine 224.




Which will be finished tomorrow.



Promise.