Whaddya mean it doesn't carry bombs?

[nev]

Yes, its a civvie!!!!          


The minicraft 1/144 DC-6B which I picked up this weekend in Chesterfield (Collectors models, you should make a trip there Radish, not a bad little shop).

The kit is actually a bit of a dog - more like a limited run kit than mainstream IM.

But I've had the urge to do a civvie for a while now, so it will go in the SAS markings, and the Pan-Am decals will be saved for a What If idea I have for next year....

[Jschmus]

Whaddya mean it doesn't carry bombs?, Or missiles? Or guns?

Just because it wasn't designed to carry those things, doesn't mean we couldn't make it that way.  Since I first visited this site, every time I see a large aircraft of some sort, I have visions of them in drab colors, sporting underwing pylons with antiship missiles, or with multibarrel cannon hanging out of the left side.  There's no reason the Air Force couldn't have experimented with an AC-54 in Vietnam.  

[Radish]

You mean you're not doing it in Air Atlantique colours? Courtesy of Finescale Decals.??

I had a "trip" around the Air Atlantique DC-6 as a friend is/was the the guy in charge of maintenance at Coventry. It's enormous and true to form, truly filthy.
It's history was "chequered" spending part of it's time in South East Asia, possibly used by Air America.
When one of its previous owners in Germany had allowed it to be used for training "sniffer dogs" for drugs, said beasts had gone crazy as the plane had obviously been used a lot previously for transporting drugs!!
Absolutely fabulous aircraft though!!

Plus another friend, Alan Southcombe, was the originator of Finescale Decals. His DC-6 decals (1/144th and 1/72nd) for Air Atlantique are great. Hannants now "own them" I believe.
 

[Captain Canada]

Use your skills, Luke...and build it as a Canadair North Star !

I've got a Heller -6 that is earmarked for a RCN bird, AAR a Naval Sabre ( can't remember the name of that rhing ! )

I like Radman's AA idea....green and white are always lovely colour combos !


 

[nev]

You mean this one?  This is all I could find on Hannants for Air Atlantique DC-6s, but the sheet is a Welshmodels one.

[Captain Canada]

Yeah...that's it !

Now isn't that a little more exciting than boring old Scandivadian ?

 

[nev]

Well, um, its got a green stripe instead of blue....    

[Radish]

It might be released with the Welsh Models DC-6, but it was done by Finescale first, cause I've got one. The Welsh Model decal sheet was supplied by them.
Great looking bird. If you want to do an authentic-looking AA one, make it absolutely FILTHY cause they are. They were fitted with spray bars for anti-pollution work (like the retired DC-3s) a couple of years ago.
:ar:  :ar:
I'd thought of updating/up-speeding the concept of spray-bars/pollution control, and fitting them to a Lightning in AA colours.
       

[nev]

Here here she is, not the greatest kit I've ever built by any stretch.  Now to really get stuck into that A380!

[Aircav]

COOL!
   
I see its camouflaged as a civil airliner      

[NARSES2]

Looks good Nev

You and Nick should start the 1/144 SIG

Chris

[Captain Canada]

Wow, great job, Nev !

What's your secret ? How do you find the time with Jr. running around ?

And please take a photo of the underside, so we can see the bomb-bay !



Looks like you're gonna have one heck of an airliner collection, eh ?

 

[Ollie]

Hey!

What the ??


Tear those stinkin' radials off, and put some Griffons on that thing!

It's What-If here, for crying out loud!

But truely, a lovely DC!

       

[nev]

What's your secret ? How do you find the time with Jr. running around ?

8-10pm, when Jr has gone to bed, I sit in the kitchen with the radio on modelling to my hearts content  

Just think, all that time you spend getting wrecked when you could be modelling!     Less beer, more models is my advice for you    

[Gary]

Wow. I happen to love the DC it just the way she is. Of course no one knew the fact that Scandanavian Airliners were used as reconnansance aircraft. The stewardesses were tasked with finding out what kind of sexual weaknesses they could exploit in other countries.