Airfix

[Captain Canada]

Thanks for that Tiger Force link ! A subject I know very little about, so it's nice to see the numbering system for the RCAF Wings !

And I hope the kit has the modified parts that Wooksta! mentioned. I'm going to buy it anyway (  ) but it would be nice to see the extra options !

[Thorvic]

Thanks for that Tiger Force link ! A subject I know very little about, so it's nice to see the numbering system for the RCAF Wings !

And I hope the kit has the modified parts that Wooksta! mentioned. I'm going to buy it anyway (  ) but it would be nice to see the extra options !

You'll like this one then as its a bit more detailed on type and initial base :-

http://www.lancaster-archive.com/lanc_tigerforce.htm

[Captain Canada]

Thanks Geoff ! Be saving and printing that ! Nice to see where the Squadrons were being built up....another thing I didn't know ! Next time we drive to the East Coast I'd better stop into Debert and have a look around for posterity's sake !

[Weaver]

Not an Airfix product but an unusual pair of update kits for one: IPMS Austria photo-etch and paint masks for the old Skyvan of all things:

IPMS Austria
Aircraft detailing sets (etched)
IPMS02046 1:72 Short SC-7 Skyvan - 2 frets, one of them in colour (designed to be used with Airfix kits)  £15.99  £13.32
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/IPMS02046




IPMS Austria
Aircraft paint masks (self adhesive)
IPMS02047 1:72 Short SC-7 Skyvan - paint mask (designed to be used with Airfix kits)  £5.99  £4.99
http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/IPMS02047

[Captain Canada]

That old kit could certainly use some help !

[kitnut617]

Thanks for that Tiger Force link ! A subject I know very little about, so it's nice to see the numbering system for the RCAF Wings !

And I hope the kit has the modified parts that Wooksta! mentioned. I'm going to buy it anyway (  ) but it would be nice to see the extra options !

You'll like this one then as its a bit more detailed on type and initial base :-

http://www.lancaster-archive.com/lanc_tigerforce.htm

I read an interesting article in an Air-Britain quarterly not long ago, Canadian bomber squadrons had already re-crossed the Atlantic back to Canada before the end of the European phase of the war had ended and were 'working-up' for operations in the Pacific as part of Tiger Force. These were mostly Lancaster squadrons but apparently they wouldn't have kept them for long. Victory Aircraft were just gearing up to produce the Lincoln then and the first one off the line happened not long before the end of the war.

[Captain Canada]

Ya there's a pic of one rolling out at Malton in one of my RCAF books. I guess it's good that the war ended ( other than for obvious reasons ) when it did, or there wouldn't be any Lancs around these days ! And a Lincoln on the airshow circuit, or in all those glorious post war RCAF schemes just doesn't cut it 

[PR19_Kit]

I didn't know that Victory Industries built Lincolns. 

How many did they make and did they go into service with the RCAF?

[Thorvic]

I didn't know that Victory Industries built Lincolns. 

How many did they make and did they go into service with the RCAF?

Just the one Lincoln B MK XV  FM300, flew Oct 45 scrapped late 46 having never entered service

[kitnut617]

I didn't know that Victory Industries built Lincolns.  

How many did they make and did they go into service with the RCAF?

Just the one Lincoln B MK XV  FM300, flew Oct 45 scrapped late 46 having never entered service

One was completed but there were others in some form of assembly down the line. But the company was called Victory Aircraft Limited.  Right after the war ended, Hawker Sidderley bought the whole factory from the Canadian Government (called it Avro Canada) and stayed in opertation right up until the 90's

[McColm]

That gives me a great idea of building a Avro Shackleton in Canadian colours. Sorry for going off the Airfix subject.

[kitbasher]

Pant-wettingly brilliant build of a test-shot of the forthcoming 1/24 Hawker Typhoon at http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=234959926&view=getnewpost.

With the nay-sayers already out in force at http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=234959939&view=getnewpost.

[zenrat]

1/24 Sabre engine.  That'd make for a great LSR car build...

[McColm]

The Hawker Typhoon Mk IB MN235 is on loan from the RAF Museum Hendon to Canada, Ottawa.For the RCAF 90th anniversary.

[Mr.Creak]

With the nay-sayers already out in force at http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=234959939&view=getnewpost.

Actually that thread's quite funny.
There are some serious errors in the new Typhoon.