HS (Brough) Blackburn Puffin AEW1

[P1127]

Puffin suits it perfectly!

Will you do the COD version to follow it up?

[nev]

Oh Lordy, that looks like Harro's Lembas Bread!! 

Where's the 47,000 calories smiley when you need one?

[Aircav]

Couldn't you find a ugly plane to build Geoff, I could see it getting nicknamed the Flying Spud if it had entered service 
Great bit of scratch building 


Harro's biscuits, hmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Think its about time he started exporting them to the UK 

[Martin H]

Harro's biscuits, hmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Think its about time he started exporting them to the UK 

Motion seconded.

[Mossie]

Tubby wonder!  Puffin, just brings memories of the seeing the little buggers try to fly, hope it've flown a bit better!  The puffin gets nicknamed named the sea parrot, maybe Fat Parrot or something might have been picked up by the crews too, who knows?  I've thought of another name too, it's best I keep quiet about that one....

Are you planning on doing the COD variant too Geoff?

[McGreig]

Absolutely amazing What really impresses me is how you identified the parts to use for the kitbash - never in the proverbial month of Sundays would I have come up with the idea of using two 1/144 DC-10s! 
Really looking forward to seeing this finished 

[lancer]

Man that is one fat little bastich

It's not fat!! It's big boned!!!!...

[GTX]

Of course the equivalent to the Puffin in the Southern Hemisphere is the Penguin - we all know how dangerous that is!!!

Regards,

Greg

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Absolutely amazing What really impresses me is how you identified the parts to use for the kitbash - never in the proverbial month of Sundays would I have come up with the idea of using two 1/144 DC-10's

Completely agree. Just don't have that sort of vision nor skill. So Geoff, is this going to be Aden scheme ?, White/Grey transport colours ?, Raspberry Ripple ?, Camouflage ?, or Royal Flight ?..... C'mon you can tell us.

Fantastic work so far, kee the pics coming, please.

Ian

[Thorvic]

FAA Ian so it will be on the R&D stand as a real project at SMW.

As to the colours i've been discussing the possibilities with P1127 over on Britmodeller as to what the FAA would do if the Carriers and therefore the Carrier Aircraft hadn't been earmarked for disposal. The Gannets retained their EDSG/Sky with high demarcation scheme from the late 40's but i suspect the P139 would have gone to the EDSG/White with low demarcation as worn by the Phantoms and later Sea Harriers. No doubt during the 80's that they would have then changed to a Medium Sea Grey scheme.

G

[NARSES2]

I've got to wonder at the way your brain works mate - I could never work out what bits to use from a set of drawings. Marvellous stuff 

Maybe I'll do my Misseleer in FAA markings so they can pair up ?

Chris

[Thorvic]

Maybe I'll do my Misseleer in FAA markings so they can pair up ?

Just fit Red Dean or Red Hebe to a Sea Vixen  ..

Missileer would look good in the Sea Vixen scheme with the recent decals from Xtradecal

G

[Thorvic]

Now as to recognising the potential in parts the key thing is to scale up the drawings to work out the actual size of what you need. Then its a case at breaking the drawings down in your head into the various component shapes, wings, tail surfaces, engines, fuselages etc.

With the P139 i knew it was Viking in size and layout but with a round fuselage compared to the Vikings boxy shape. Because very few 1/72 kits are round with the right sort of diameter and shape that could be used i there for looked at the 1/144 wide body airliners for inspiration.

Those who know how i build and do the show circuit with us know i will often pick up kits just for spare parts, or will look at what others have picked up not for just the merit of the kit itself but also the size and shape of its components to speculate how they could be used else where (and can be a right bugger by making suggestions to some of how their recently bought kit could be fettled into one of the projects from Tonys Secret Projects books    - evil because they had bought it on the pretext of a simple build idea and put a new idea in their heads that something special could be created  )

Cheers

Geoff

[NARSES2]

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Just fit Red Dean or Red Hebe to a Sea Vixen  ..

Missileer would look good in the Sea Vixen scheme with the recent decals from Xtradecal

G
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Exactly what I was thinking of doing

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Maybe I'll do my Misseleer in FAA markings so they can pair up ?

Chris

Not wanting to hi-jack, Geoff's thread, but a Fujimi photo-Cutless arrived this morning....... FAA in Suez, escorted by Chris's Missileer and resupplied by Geoff's Puffin ?

No.....


I'll get me coat.....



Ian