First JMN bait for 2012

[albeback]

R R Trent engined C-5 Galaxy. Kit is of course the old Otaki kit. Engines donated by a now wrecked Revell A380. Good thing about the C-5 is that it's so big that even these monstrous engines don't look out of place. It will of course be in RAF colours when finished - I thought I would go retro & paint it in that nice sand/stone/black finish. In case you are wondering about the TU-22 in one of the photos, it lost an argument with my resident feline - Kizzy , The Model Mauler!! ( photo also included!) . As for the winglets? Well, what the hell - just about EVERYTHING has them nowadays!

I am now awaiting the screams of outrage from ;
(a) JMNs
(b) Collectors from whose clutches I have saved this kit to be BUILT!!
(c) Those for whom doing this to a well nigh unobtainable kit is worse than heresy ( Burn him on the pyres of Smithfield  I hear them cry!!)

ps - I do have another C-5A kit in my stash. It's NOT for sale in case anybody asks!!




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[Hobbes]

The engines manage to hide the size of the C-5 to an extent. The frontal photo looks uncannily similar to a BAe-146.

[albeback]

The engines manage to hide the size of the C-5 to an extent. The frontal photo looks uncannily similar to a BAe-146.

Lol! - A BAe 146 on steroids!!

Actually, you're right - it DOES look like  146!! Never thought of it like that!

[NARSES2]

They could only burn you on the pyre at Smithfield now if you were smokeless  So your'e probably safe 

Looks right to me and I love the retro scheme you have planned

[JayBee]

As much as I love the "brown bomber" scheme, I do think that you should do it in the current grey scheme.
Then see how many people say "There is something not right about that C-17!"

[albeback]

As much as I love the "brown bomber" scheme, I do think that you should do it in the current grey scheme.
Then see how many people say "There is something not right about that C-17!"

Lol!!

How about we compromise! It belongs to a detachment based in the Middle East assisting with UN/NATO operations in the region!!

[rickshaw]

Speaking of the C-5 Otaki kit, there is one presently for sale on Evilbay.   Current "Buy it Now" is  $US225.  

[The Rat]

I am now awaiting the screams of outrage from ;
(a) JMNs
(b) Collectors from whose clutches I have saved this kit to be BUILT!!
(c) Those for whom doing this to a well nigh unobtainable kit is worse than heresy

All of which are perfectly good and honourable reasons for doing exactly what you've done! 

[kitnut617]

Nice use of the A380 engines, my 1/72 scale C-5 is to be converted to the C-5M standard but it will be RW (I've found that CC-150 engines are practically identical and Aircraft in Miniature make a very nice resin set of A310 engines).

[seadude]

Nice model of the cat. It looks so realistic.       

[tigercat]

Although the fires all wrong , that model was never made with that colour wood 

[Leading Observer]

Was the cat done straight out of the sandbox, or was there something "whiffy" in the corner

[RussC]

R R Trent engined C-5 Galaxy. Kit is of course the old Otaki kit. Engines donated by a now wrecked Revell A380. Good thing about the C-5 is that it's so big that even these monstrous engines don't look out of place. It will of course be in RAF colours when finished - I thought I would go retro & paint it in that nice sand/stone/black finish. In case you are wondering about the TU-22 in one of the photos, it lost an argument with my resident feline - Kizzy , The Model Mauler!! ( photo also included!) . As for the winglets? Well, what the hell - just about EVERYTHING has them nowadays!

I am now awaiting the screams of outrage from ;
(a) JMNs
(b) Collectors from whose clutches I have saved this kit to be BUILT!!
(c) Those for whom doing this to a well nigh unobtainable kit is worse than heresy ( Burn him on the pyres of Smithfield  I hear them cry!!)

ps - I do have another C-5A kit in my stash. It's NOT for sale in case anybody asks!!

 In the words of your Avatar character "Kaa plaghh!" This is an excellent project!

 I would almost say go for a more vibrant or complicated color scheme. I did a Otaki C5 in just plain old gray with low vis markings and it was just nothing but jumbo size boredom.

 And you could really frost a few more of the JM's if you put it in a scheme like the Wildlife rescue C119  

 I rather liked the Mid 1980's Galaxy paint scheme that matched them with thier Starlifter counterparts, the Lizard scheme.

 I have always wondered why the price of any of those old C5 kits is still where it is , now that there are Resins of it in both 1/144 and even 72nd and now even kits for the latest M version. But then I never understood the mentality of "kit collecting" as in buy but never build. I kinda put that arm of the hobby in the same category as people who keep 60 years of newspapers and magazines in their house along with all their empty food tins.  

  Besides the Tu-22 Blinder, I see a copy of "The First Lensman" there in the pics.....tell me you also have a kit of the Britannia II in your stash ! Probably one of the sweetest spacecraft ever-

[The Rat]

 I would almost say go for a more vibrant or complicated color scheme. I did a Otaki C5 in just plain old gray with low vis markings and it was just nothing but jumbo size boredom.

 And you could really frost a few more of the JM's if you put it in a scheme like the Wildlife rescue C119  

 I rather liked the Mid 1980's Galaxy paint scheme that matched them with thier Starlifter counterparts, the Lizard scheme.

Still my favourite scheme, did this one not long after the kit came out:

[NARSES2]

Didn't notice the copy of "First Lensman" - great series of books along with the Skylark novels