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PR19_Kit

#45
June 21, 2011, 01:58:01 AM
Quote from: Maverick on June 20, 2011, 11:34:50 PM
An Alaskan Twin Mustang for Special Hobby.

http://ipmsdeutschland.de/FirstLook/Special_Hobby/SH_F-82H_Alaska/SH_F-82H_Twin_Mustang.html

Isn't that the same aircraft that Hobbycraft did? Even the box art looks familiar.......
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rickshaw

#46
June 21, 2011, 02:06:13 AM
Quote from: PR19_Kit on June 21, 2011, 01:58:01 AM
Quote from: Maverick on June 20, 2011, 11:34:50 PM
An Alaskan Twin Mustang for Special Hobby.

http://ipmsdeutschland.de/FirstLook/Special_Hobby/SH_F-82H_Alaska/SH_F-82H_Twin_Mustang.html

Isn't that the same aircraft that Hobbycraft did? Even the box art looks familiar.......

Not surprising really.  Afterall, not many squadrons flew the F-82.
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Maverick

#47
June 21, 2011, 02:11:38 AM
Even moreso specific being operated specifically in Alaska as opposed to the Korean War or continental US.  The resultant 'choices' would become limited and I'd suspect the amount of photographic material to be sparse.

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Mav

Weaver

#48
July 09, 2011, 03:46:21 AM
1/48th Boomerang:



http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH48117



1/48th Breda Ba.65:



http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH48111

All sorts of things you could make with that! :thumbsup:
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Weaver

#49
February 20, 2012, 07:05:16 PM
Interesting ones from Special Hobby, now in at Hannants:

Boulton-Paul Balliol:



http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH72234


Sea Balliol:



http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SH72236



Two lines of whiffery occur to me with those: firstly, you could reinstate the originally intended turboprop, and/or secondly, you could arm it for COIN use, either as RAF or for an export customer.
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pyro-manic

#50
February 20, 2012, 11:34:46 PM Last Edit: February 21, 2012, 04:18:45 AM by pyro-manic
What about a demobbed civilian-registered machine? For racing or aerobatic displays, perhaps. flashy colour schemes and cut-down canopies etc. Or a radial version - Hercules would fit nicely.
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PR19_Kit

#51
February 21, 2012, 02:02:55 AM
A Balliol!  :thumbsup:

Lovely aeroplane, I flew in one once, the sound track was like a Battle of Britain film of course but my pilot was totally unmoved by it, Philistine!
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Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

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Regards
Kit

The Wooksta!

#52
February 21, 2012, 07:55:05 AM
Quote from: pyro-manic on February 20, 2012, 11:34:46 PM
What about a demobbed civilian-registered machine? For racing or aerobatic displays, perhaps. flashy colour schemes and cut-down canopies etc. Or a radial version - Hercules would fit nicely.

The Balliol started off with a turboprop, which was then either cancelled or switched to more important types.  One flew with a Bristol Mercury* but the Merlin was chosen as there were so many in stock.  The Hercules was still being used by various training types and export aircraft.

I've a Pegasus Balliol somewhere.  The nose was supposedly way out so I was considering a change to a Mercury.  Or just do it as a COIN type in Aden or Malaya.


*Given the number of Blenheims lost in engine related training disasters which usually killed the crews, using the Mercury would have been utterly stupid.
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#53
March 18, 2012, 10:03:02 AM
The Balliol just screams Rhodesian to me.....in place of the Provost prehaps? :)
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#54
May 28, 2012, 07:34:14 AM
In the mags this month Special Hobby are advertising

Spitfire F.21 wartime markings, Spitfire F.21 postwar and a Seafire F.R. 46 all in 1/72. Given the normal time gap these should be at Hannants in mid June I would expect.

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#55
May 28, 2012, 08:06:27 AM
They can keep them, given that they'll be from the same tools as the Xtrakit F22 horror.  I'd rather buy an Airfix PR19 and F22 and cross kit them for a F21.

And pay Colin for an F46 conversion kit, if not I'll use my own resin bits.
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Thorvic

#56
November 16, 2012, 01:34:45 PM
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rickshaw

#57
November 16, 2012, 06:17:05 PM
Some nice ones there.   I wonder, was the prone Meteor ever flown solo with a pilot only in the front cockpit?   If it wasn't, it obviously couldn't be tested to its full potential.
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#58
November 17, 2012, 02:21:29 AM
Oh the Trent prop Meteor is a must for my 1946 RAF. Thanks Geoff  :thumbsup:
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PR19_Kit

#59
November 17, 2012, 05:29:32 AM
Quote from: rickshaw on November 16, 2012, 06:17:05 PM
Some nice ones there.   I wonder, was the prone Meteor ever flown solo with a pilot only in the front cockpit?   If it wasn't, it obviously couldn't be tested to its full potential.

Reading the blurb on the board in front of the real thing at Cosford, the answer is no. But it was flown completely from the prone cockpit, take-off to landing, with the safety pilot taking no part in the proceedings a number of times.

How many of those kits will be built WITHOUT the normal cockpit though?  ;)

And how many other kits will have the prone pilot nose grafted onto them?  ;)

Needless to say I have some plans......
Kit's Rule 1 ) Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage
Kit's Rule 2) The backstory can always be changed to suit the model

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit
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