5 builds underway.

JayBee · July 03, 2010, 08:39:23 AM

Thanks to the great generosity of the Generalismo Moderator we have until 1st August.
Madre Dios is it that late in the year already!
Here is a shot of my five surviving builds, of eight planned, to-day 3rd July.

Now if only the transfer sheets that I have ordered from the big H arrive I will get them finished.
I got the confirmatory e-mail that they had been dispatched on Tuesday, it is now Saturday and no sign of them.
Oh Woe, Woe and thrice WOE!

JimB

JayBee · July 04, 2010, 08:20:29 AM

New underwing radiators for the He-100.

and the armament for the Beaufighter

JimB

Martin H · July 04, 2010, 11:57:09 AM

You just had to rub it in with that first photo didnt ya Jim ? LOL

JayBee · July 04, 2010, 12:40:06 PM

Actualy that is where it sits. Seriously.
However Lol, LoL and yet again LoL

Jim

Weaver · July 04, 2010, 12:43:17 PM

If I may ask, which transfer sheets are you buying? I've had great difficulty finding suitable transfers....

JayBee · July 04, 2010, 12:48:41 PM

Hi Weaver,

these are the ones I ordered from Hannants

KORD7235 : Fiat G.50 Spanish Air Force WWII. No 17 or 13...
BR420 : Polikarpov I-16 (2) Spanish Nationalist Air Forc...
BR408 : Spanish Air Force Civil War Survivors 1939-60. M...

No Republican stuff but that is not going to be a problem for the Beaufighter night fighter.

JimB

JayBee · July 15, 2010, 01:11:40 PM

Well here is a little teaser as to where I am at the moment. The deadline draws closer

JayBee · July 18, 2010, 08:05:35 AM

Work continues but slowly.
Guess the Republican entry

JayBee · July 26, 2010, 01:05:31 PM

The pressure is on. ARGH!

JayBee · July 27, 2010, 12:09:06 PM

I hope to get there in time

proditor · July 27, 2010, 12:47:01 PM

I wish you luck!

I hit a similar stumbling block, named "Pepco". I'm in Maryland and we've been without power since Sunday, and it's been too humid to spray outside and have any hope of an even finish. Gonna be a squeaker, assuming we get power back and all.

JayBee · July 30, 2010, 05:56:28 AM

Getting there but slowly.

JimB

ysi_maniac · July 30, 2010, 07:41:38 AM

looking nice, indeed

NARSES2 · July 31, 2010, 01:32:36 AM

Certainly looking interesting Jim

JayBee · August 01, 2010, 08:41:08 AM

......and now they are finished.

Build No1 is the Heinkel He-100 E-3.
A fast, swift climbing, and nimble fighter that was liked by it's pilots especially for it's firepower, three 20mm cannon. However it did have one weakness and that was it's endurance which necessitated the carriage of a drop tank at all times, even in it's role of point defence interceptor.

Build No2 The Henschel Hs 132-B
A jet powered dive-bomber which carried it's 500kg bomb semi-recessed under the fuselage.
The heavy armour that was it's intended target never materialised and it saw little productive use in Spain.

Build No 3 The Gotha Go-229.
A heavy jet powered, missile and cannon armed interceptor. It's main target of heavy bomber formations never materialised and it was relatively redundant.

Build No 4 The Bristol Beaufighter.
This British built night fighter variant was powered by two Pratt & Whitney R-4360-4 Wasp Major engines which gave it a fantastic sprint performance, and armed with three of the newly developed Hispano 30mm cannon made this aircraft a fearsome opponent. The Nationalist aircrews called it "La Peste Negra" - The Black Death.

Build No5 Kyushu J7W2-2 Shinden (Magnificent Lightning)
This particular aircraft was flown by Major Hiro Nakamura of the 1st. Sentai, Imperial Japanese Expeditionary Force, IJAAF, Cuarto Vientos, Madrid, 1946.

Now to the finished build thread for the individual photos.