Glenn's Current Modeling Projects

[Tophe]

Not an easy puzzle... but the result is great!

[Glenn]

Remember my first photo from this page? Huey, not the helo...the droid from 'Silent Running'....well I'm on it again.....
Glenn

OH YEAH, scale...1:1

Glenn

[Old Wombat]

Another shot of Beowulf and you still haven't told me what I used?
Glenn

Looks like a Spitfire (Supermarine, anyway) tail section & FW-190 cockpit canopy over a twin-tub cockpit (scratch/pilfered from something else).

The wings look oh-so familiar but I just can't place them, while the engine is a complete mystery.



Guy

[Glenn]

I'll give you all one clue.....the engine was from an Airfix Lancaster, then tweeked!
Glenn

[The Wooksta!]

The majority of the airframe is an Airfix Blenheim - the tail gives it away, along with the rivets on the wings.

[Old Wombat]

The majority of the airframe is an Airfix Blenheim - the tail gives it away, along with the rivets on the wings.

Yup, gotta agree with that!

It was the landing light that was throwing me, the pictures I looked at (of both the real thing & models) either didn't have it or weren't showing it. Next best visual match was the Supermarine tail but the wing kept evading me until I just looked up "Airfix Blenheim" & there it was (only ever built one, back in the early/mid-70's).

Thanks, Wooksta!



Guy

PS: It's not a FW-190 canopy, either!

[Sauragnmon]

The wings look like an IL-2's wings... the gear bulbs look just about right.

[Glenn]

You're almost there!!!! Fuselage and wings....Blenheim Mk IV, only I rebooted where the wing usually sits. The undercart are from a Beaufughter, as is the torpedo. The two crew members are made up like the old models, cut off at the shoulders, with the cockpit area painted matt black....the easy bit, now the hard bit, what are the tailplanes from?

Glenn

[nighthunter]

Is the cockpit from the Me-410?

[Glenn]

No, sorry...the canopy is from a Bell Sea Cobra.
Glenn

[Old Wombat]

Really? Wow! Wouldn't have picked it!



Guy

[Glenn]

"You've seen it here first! Latest aircraft from the New Luftwaffe, the Bell F-109 VTOL fighter".
This news flash was reported from the 1963 Paris Airshow all those years ago!

Scratch built model based around Hawk 1/48 U-2

Glenn

[Tophe]

Nice old VTOL, thank you!

[NARSES2]

Nice F.109 Glenn 

[Glenn]

This is the Metcalfe 'High St. Shops' card buildings, and it's something I do just for fun.
So, Matthew....how's your railway set and would you like a few buildings?

No, I don't have a railway set, I just like building stuff!
Glenn