Jackal Island Air Force transport plane

Alvis 3.1 · May 16, 2006, 04:18:57 PM

Seen here is a 1/72 scale model of Jackal Islands' Largish Transport Aircraft, the C/AC-109. (All aircraft on Jackal Island are numbered 109 in some way or another)
Constructed from a 1/100 Heller Transall, 1/72 B-66 wings (Italeri) and box scale Revell B-58 engines. JIAF decals were made using a photocopier and some decal film.

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Alvis 3.1 · May 16, 2006, 04:19:53 PM

Side view...

Alvis 3.1 · May 16, 2006, 04:20:34 PM

Top view...

Alvis 3.1 · May 16, 2006, 04:23:27 PM

Starboard side. Note the very different nose letters, and the 90 mm gun protruding from the sponson. The C/AC-109s were often used as both transports and attack aircraft, and carried differing paint schemes on the sides so as to both inflate actual fleet numbers and fool observers. Careful landing direction and taxiing could lead ground observers to assume it was a transport plane, only to realise at the last moment as the guns opened up that it wasn't friendly at all!

Alvis 3.1 · May 16, 2006, 04:24:55 PM

Port side view showing the insignia and happy tail art. As Steve Irwin says..."Danger danger danger!"

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GTX · May 16, 2006, 05:11:28 PM

Nice.

Kind of looks like a conventional (i.e. Non-VTOL) version of the AW.681:

Regards,

Greg

Alvis 3.1 · May 16, 2006, 05:36:31 PM

Arghhh!!! Scooped AGAIN by the real world?

*Sighhhhh*

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Eddie M. · May 16, 2006, 05:45:45 PM

Great work once again.

Who cares if there is one in the real world. Yours looks cooler! B)
Eddie

cthulhu77 · May 16, 2006, 07:21:09 PM

Dig it, brother! Great camo and decals!

Ollie · May 16, 2006, 07:59:12 PM

Ah yes, the Jackals, the sorriest bunch of loosers in the modeling community. JMNs all of them.

Good show Alvis!

Alvis 3.1 · May 16, 2006, 09:20:23 PM

Ah yes...I KNEW Ollie would enjoy it!

Alvis 3.1, with more Jackal Island Air Force planes to come one day.....

BlackOps · May 16, 2006, 09:38:27 PM

Oooooh Ooooooh Ooooooh Cool paintjob

I like the Jackal insignia too!

Jeff G.

Brian da Basher · May 16, 2006, 09:43:21 PM

Love it Alvis! Great paintjob and those custom decals are sweet! I really like the 90 m.m. gun and the happy face.

Brian da Basher

Hobbes · May 16, 2006, 10:44:42 PM

Jackal Island?

Alvis 3.1 · May 16, 2006, 11:50:34 PM

Uhhh..you don't want to know!

Actually, it is a creation in my mind where the Jackal Squadron hung out. The Jackal Squadron, not to get into an old mud slinging contest (and a few of them were ok chaps) was a group of internet modellers who (section deleted due to legal considerations) and then (section deleted due to old wounds best left not reopened) and also were know for (section deleted due to extreme poor taste of passage). And then some!

They were/are a group of modellers who were very exacting in their outlook on modelling, and a few members became embroiled in some nasty online exchanges over the manly art of plastic toy building! And..needless to say, weren't too keen on whiffs, altho a few DID express admiration over some stuff on one of ARCs early silly weeks. Like I said..some were ok guys, some weren't.
And this is a model I made LONG ago in a moment of mocking.

And I'd prefer we not get into any rants about them..please.

Alvis 3.1