What's on the workbench!

[Captain Canada]

[McColm]

Based on the Mach2 Martin Mariner

[McColm]

Top to are the Breguet Mystic jet flying boat with a V-tail.
Bottom two are based on the Revell B-!7E with floats and triple engines.

[McColm]

The Airfix HS/BAe Nimrod stretched fuselage, Cammett resin tail, flying boom and Grumman E-2 Hawkeye rotodome.
An aerial view, rotodome part built, masking tape holding the new tail in place.
Bellow is the Lockheed King Neptune, engines are from a P-3C Orion, twin fins are off a E-2 Hawkeye, various Falcon vacform conversion sets used.

[McColm]

Thanks Captain,
In the background there are shots of the
Douglas C-118I Liftmaster. A 1/72 spares and repair secondhand model bought off eBay.
The other four engined resin build is based on the RVHP resin Grumman C-2 Greyhound, conversion with a T-tail from the spares box.

[Captain Canada]

That Mystic is super cool, especially the way she looks from the front. And it's got me singing this too, which is also a bonus :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpPSBzGEklE

[Captain Canada]

[McColm]

That Mystic is super cool, especially the way she looks from the front. And it's got me singing this too, which is also a bonus :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpPSBzGEklE

Wow! Thanks Captain.

[McColm]

The top two pics are of the kitbash Academy C-97 and a pair of Airfix Vulcan wings. Known as 'The Mighty Thor' jet flying boat. You can just make out the upper viewing deck.
The bottom two are the Mach2 Martin SeaMaster with the engines from a Airfix HS/BAe Nimrod, scratchbuilt V-tail and resin tail cone off the EB-66 conversion set.
The front view shows off the shoulder mounted engines.

[McColm]

Wow! Sometimes I even surprise myself with the current builds.
With the incentive to finish these builds to a higher standard

[McColm]

Well these photos have caused quite a stir on Facebook. I keep telling them they aren't  real aircraft, just me using up my spare parts bins.
The Boeing B-17E float plane is based around the Douglas XC-47A Skytrain, whilst the Dassault Breguet Br1250A Mystic is loosely based on the Br1250 flying boat proposal.
As to the Hawkrod (Nimrod with the Hawkeye rotodome) several display models were built but no Nimrod ever flew with a dummy or Hawkeye rotodome.

[TheChronicOne]

Glorious wares!  Good to see some pics. I joined up to the Scale Modelers Society so look forward to FR from me. Brad Myers; I'll be the one with the sun thing like the telletubbies.

[McColm]

I finally got my hands on the Airfix Bristol Type 192 Belverdere. 
This was considered for the anti-submarine and AEW roles under the NA.43 requirement. This was superseded by an aeroplane with better endurance and altitude performance. Needless to say various fixed wing designs and  USNavy carrier aircraft were considered but none purchased by the Royal Navy or the Royal Air Force.
Another tandem-rotor helicopter was proposed the Boeing-Vertol CH-47 Chinook for the COD and AEW roles.
The Royal Navy would buy the Sikorsky S-61/SH-3 Sea King built under licence by Westland Helicopters. A proposal for an AEW Sea King by Westland Helicopters at Yeovil was submitted in 1967. This had a retractable rotating scanner cut into the fuselage . Other variations included a folding antenna and a pulse radar in the nose of the Sea King.
However none were ordered until a quick fix during the Falklands War changed the Royal Navy's mind.
The Grumman S-2 Tracker was to be reinstated back in 2005 fitted with the Seawater radar and as an alternative the Lockheed S-3 Viking.
I have had an idea of a E-1T turbo version of the Tracer with the rotodome from the E-2 Hawkeye.
AlleyCat do a conversion Marsh Turbo Tracker and I think that I have the Hasegawa kit somewhere in the stash.

[McColm]

Ages ago I bought on line a resin BatCar /Batmobile in 1/25 scale. It was secondhand with a few parts missing and alternative wheels with rubber tyres.
My first thought was, spray it pink for Lady Penelope out of Thunderbirds. Keep the vacform clear canopy but trim to size.
It would still make an ideal concept car  without adding any of the Bat logos or pipes.
Could go down the route of a kit-car that hasn't been finished.

[TheChronicOne]

Do it.

Pink is an underrated and under utilized color. 

Perhaps if it were referred to as "light red" it would be more popular.