Royal newfoundland Constabulary Naval Air Service Sculpin F.1

[Alvis 3.14159]

In a drastic change for me, I wound up making this plane without my usual overly convoluted and/or detail backstory, such as how would newfoundland ever afford an Air Force, or who would make this plane in the first place? Instead, I just plugged away and wound up creating this ugly yet compelling plane, using a 1/144 Airfix Boeing Clipper fuselage, and a Lindberg 1/48 F-86D (Which is a real dog of a kit, BTW).
I figure it would be made by Canadair, with twin 30mm Adens and likely a Nene inside. More pics to follow...




Alvis Pi

[Alvis 3.14159]

Alvis pi

[sotoolslinger]

WOW is that cool or what I think it is pretty

[kitnut617]

Second go at posting something here, first one just disappeared -----

For some reason I really like this    probably because of the Saro SR.1 I have in the stash

[Ed S]

Brilliant idea.  Excellent work.  And the roundels are clever.

Ed

[ChernayaAkula]

Lots of win, this! 

[Kerrillc]

That is OUTSTANDING!

I took it by mistake for an aircraft that is on page 174 of BSP Jet fighters since 1950, the Saunders-Roe P.122.

Where's the whoo hoo smiley when you need it!

K

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Definitely nice work on bashing those two kits together.  Have you come done from the high induced by the putty fumes yet?

[sequoiaranger]

Love the imagination and execution!

[Alvis 3.14159]

Definitely nice work on bashing those two kits together.  Have you come done from the high induced by the putty fumes yet?

Oddly, I don't seem to notice the effects of Tamiya putty or Tamiya spraypaints. By the way, the "Official" Newfoundland Sculpin F.1 colour scheme designations are as follows: Fog bank Grey, Great Banks Grey, and Growler Blue.

The twin 30mm Adens would be effective guns, but the low stance in the water would preclude hanging any sort of bombs or missiles under the wings for surface attck missions. I suppose they would have gone with over-wing mounted rocket pods.

*Singing*
"Aye's the bye who finds the boat, Aye's the bye who sinks 'er, Aye's the bye who claims the cod, from them thieving Spaniards!"*

In a break with the usual alignment of the roundels, I went with the Australian method of wing roundels, ie: oriented to the front of the vehicle. "Squid Jigging" is a method of fishing for squid that is immortalised in a folk song "Squid Jiggin' run", so I thought that it would make a good name for a squadron. Note the squid nose art to go with it.

I used many stencil decals from a Revell Germany F-86, the roundels, nose art etc were from my trusty Lexmark cheapola inkjet printer, using Testors decal paper. The paints themselves are Tamiya spraycan colours, USAF Light Grey, RAF Dark Sea grey, and Medium grey. Yes, I'm too lazy to drag out the airbrush! The seat is most of an Aeroclub seat of some type. I don't know, as the package got lost years ago.


Alvis Pi

* Song based on the classic newfie song "Aye's the bye", likely known only to Canuckleheads.

[tanktastic43]

Excellent build. 

tt43.

[NARSES2]

Love it, a sort of evolved SR.1 

Had to go back and look at the roundels  Very similar to the republic of Cleethorpes, except they have a pile of chips alongside the cod 

[James]

Great build! Very cool.

[ysi_maniac]

Amazing masterpiece!

[bacofoil]

What a great bit of work sir!