Gloster Goblin - FINISHED!

[dogsbody]

An excellent story ! Whiffing at it's best!

[proditor]

 

I'm simply floored.  Every part of that is just brilliant!

[lancer]

Superb, both the build and the backstory!!

[tanktastic43]

Brilliant. 'nuff said! 

tt43.

[rafi]

Great job, build and story! 

[Mossie]

Wouldn't be out of place in the Fatherland thread, great work Harold!

[GTX]

Regards,

Greg

[Weaver]

Cheers folks - your kind comments are much appreciated as ever. LOL @ GTX....


Okay, roll credits......

This has been a

Last Minute Productions

production for

Plan B Enterprises Inc.

in glorious

SeventySecond-o-Scope

featuring:

The Leading Lady:

Kit: Pavla Gloster G.40 Pioneer
Boosters: Airfix Bloodhound, cut down and de-finned. Painted Tamiya Tape straps
RP launcher: FFAR pod front from Italeri UH-1
Nose glazing: XF5U-1, unknown make
Ventral fin and RP plate spacer: Evergreen

The Sidekick:

Kit: Airfix Bedford QL tanker from RAF Refuelling set
Side panels: Evergreen
Tilt Hoops: brass rod
Windscreen: blister pack
Steering wheel: Revellobox M16 half-track
Masks to make "LOX" shadows in varnish coat: 5mm vinyl lettering from BICC

Best Supporting Actor:

Tower and platform: Airfix Pontoon Bridge
Base girders and launch rails: Evergreen

The Von Crap Family:

Modelscene OO/HO Passengers Set A and School Party
Two schoolboys spliced into one to make the "saluter"

The Butler:

Figure: Airfix firefighter from RAF Emergency Set
Base: railway balast barrel insert from LHS bits box (how many LHS actually have a bits box huh? )
Support: brass rod and painted Tamiya Tape

The Murder Weapon:

Scratched from Evergreen

The Set:

Walls and floor: drawn using standard textures and shapes in MS Word
Banner, painting and photos: from Internet with mods in MS Paint
Railings: Plastruct ladders
Banner poles: two round-headed pins
Placards: drawn in MS Paint
Printing: Inkjet printed on 160 g/sq.m card, except banner printed on 80 g/sq.m paper
Structure: all pieces stuck to cardboard boxes and each other with double-sided tape



Makeup:
Humbrol enamels and Windsor and Newton ink washes



Worst bits: building the plane, realising that the original diorama base was FUBAR'd beyond all hope...

Best bits: painting the plane, having the idea for the alternative diorama and realising that the more I thought about it, the more I could do it.

Worst Airfix Moment: going to considerable trouble to make the boosters out of Bloodhoud bits and then realising that they were so rough that I could have made better ones out of snot...

Best Airfix Moment: building the Bedford, all of it. With the exception of the mysterious lack of a steering wheel, what a lovely and well-engineered little kit!  


Firsts:

First vac-form canopy (not too traumatic)
First figure conversion: Nigel Quisling-Joyce, the little **** throwing a big one to Uncle Adolf....


Thanks to:

Army of One for the firefighter figures
Bungle for the Bloodhounds and the freebie Refuelling Set that gave me the idea for the diorama
Black Knight for the G.40 in the SSGB
Aircav for the huge box of bits that turned up the XF5U-1 nose cone
Puddingwrestler for organising the SSGB

Stars, the lot of you.......  

And lastly, the producers would like to thank the packaging and publishing industries, without whose support this wouldn't have been possible:

ThThThThThat's All folks!

[noxioux]

That rocks!  great weathering job on. . . all of it!

[nev]

You sir, are a genius, and I am an idiot for not following this thread from the beginning

[Weaver]

Cheers guys!

[trekaddict]

So wrong and yet so awesome. RAF '46 ftw!

[MaxHeadroom]

Ooops!

The "Adolf Galland Aviation College, Cranwell" sounds like "Fatherland" by Robert Harris or "SS-GB" by Len Deighton has come true... shuddering!

Does anyone know this (a kind of "bible" for all whiffians):

it's the continuation of the "What if" collection of essays by the same editor.
To my frustration, I can't get No. 1 here in Germany; nor by bookstores, neither by any other sources.

Greetings,

Max (of Germany)

[Weaver]

Cheers - Fatherland was a major inspiration.

Ironically, I've got the first What If book but not the second....

[martinbayer]

Max,

you might try your luck with some of the sources listed here: http://www.bookfinder.com/search/?author=cowley&title=what+if&lang=en&isbn=&submit=Search&destination=us&currency=USD&mode=basic&st=sr&ac=qr

I'd be surprised if at least a few wouldn't deliver to Germany.

Martin