My stash just grew again (2013)

[Howard of Effingham]

hmm, all i bought at 'uddersfield was....

a 1/72 meteor NF14 vacform canopy from mike mcevoy's under table sale

however, there WAS a chap making the rounds and trying to find the canberra SIG with a box of assorted 1/48
B-57 spares and as he said they were free to a good 'ome, i nabbed the 'patricia lynn' nose and the B-57 intakes.

loads of people from the SIG there, indeed far too many to list here!! 

[Radish]

Huddersfield......

1/48th aircraft....
3 from Pegasus Hobbies....Bf-109E, Bf-109G6, A6Ma Zero

1/35th HobbyBoss T-26 Light Infantry tank....to receive a totally new undercarriage: tracks aren't an option. So wither just big tyred wheels or individual tracked wheels.

[Mossie]

From Huddersfield:

Trumpeter 1/72 F-107 Ultra Sabre
Matchbox 1/72 English Electric Lightning T.55

A bit miffed with the last one.  Payed a little over the odds, but I've been unable to find one for ages and once you've paid postage online it's wouldn't have been much different so I wasn't worried.  What is annoying, is that although I looked in the box to check all the parts where there, it wasn't obvious that the canopy had been replaced by a vacform and a poor one at that.  Not best pleased.

[The Wooksta!]

A call to John Adams may pay off.  He did a canopy to fit the Matchbox kit and his own Lightning two seater conversion fuselage.

Markings wise, any RAF squadron that had Lightnings, 19 and 92 Sqn in the Green scheme would be most plausible.  It's always annoyed me that the F2s were rebuilt to F6 standards then rewired at great expense some time later before being scrapped six months after that when the RAF was crying out for the T-birds to be rebuilt to T55 standard.

[NARSES2]

Huddersfield......

1/48th aircraft....
3 from Pegasus Hobbies....Bf-109E, Bf-109G6, A6Ma Zero

1/35th HobbyBoss T-26 Light Infantry tank....to receive a totally new undercarriage: tracks aren't an option. So wither just big tyred wheels or individual tracked wheels.

Legs ? With or without fishnets 

Yesterday in Halifax models I joined the Vampire T.11 owners club, that shop is a wonder. Haworth Pennine Models hasn't changed in 5 years if ever!

How long did it take you to get out  

[The Wooksta!]

Sounds like a local shop for local people...

[Dizzyfugu]

Markings wise, any RAF squadron that had Lightnings, 19 and 92 Sqn in the Green scheme would be most plausible. 

Wouldn't these be T.4 or T.5 with the short belly tank? IIRC, the export trainers were the only specimen with the long belly tank from the F.6?

[PR19_Kit]

Markings wise, any RAF squadron that had Lightnings, 19 and 92 Sqn in the Green scheme would be most plausible.

Wouldn't these be T.4 or T.5 with the short belly tank? IIRC, the export trainers were the only specimen with the long belly tank from the F.6?

True, they were, but this is WhiffWorld  

There were at least a couple of T55s based at Warton with MoD that were taken back in exchange, and they had RAF roundels and serials. AFAIK there were used on the Typhoon development programme, and they were calibrated in the test rig I installed there in the late 90s.

[deathjester]

This may be the wrong place to put it, but could you use one of those Lightning trainer noses to make a fuselage extension to create a stretched Lightning??

[JayBee]

This may be the wrong place to put it, but could you use one of those Lightning trainer noses to make a fuselage extension to create a stretched Lightning??

You mean,

a four seat ECM bird,
or
a six seat high rankers transport,
or
or
or

[deathjester]

This may be the wrong place to put it, but could you use one of those Lightning trainer noses to make a fuselage extension to create a stretched Lightning??

You mean,

a four seat ECM bird,
or
a six seat high rankers transport,
or
or
or

To be specific...
...
...
...yes.  

[Chris Payne]

Postie delivered a parcel today.

Lonestar Resins 1/72 F-16XL conversion set from a guy over on Britmodeller.

[deathjester]

Oh, now that's worth having!  Makes it worth getting a yawn dart...

[Mossie]

Markings wise, any RAF squadron that had Lightnings, 19 and 92 Sqn in the Green scheme would be most plausible.

Wouldn't these be T.4 or T.5 with the short belly tank? IIRC, the export trainers were the only specimen with the long belly tank from the F.6?

True, they were, but this is WhiffWorld  

There were at least a couple of T55s based at Warton with MoD that were taken back in exchange, and they had RAF roundels and serials. AFAIK there were used on the Typhoon development programme, and they were calibrated in the test rig I installed there in the late 90s.

If I build it oob, a RAF T bird is one option, although I'd probably go the route of the proposed TSR.2 trainer with OCU/Squadron markings to suit.

Another option would be a FG.* version based on the T.55, although I might reserve that for a single seater T.53 variant when the Airfix kit comes out.  Maybe with a bias towards the mud moving role (Bucc or Jag no-show?), in wraparound camo with twin JL.100 Matra/tank combos above the wings and either twin Matras or bombs on the wing pylons. If I represented the Microcell launchers that would be nearly 200 rockets total....

One idea I've toyed with is the naval swing wing Lightning.  I know others have done this, but I'm thinking of The Full Monty.  The one with the solid nose, side intakes, full length belly pack and Speys (and I think the spine was even different).  Maybe.

[deathjester]

Markings wise, any RAF squadron that had Lightnings, 19 and 92 Sqn in the Green scheme would be most plausible.

Wouldn't these be T.4 or T.5 with the short belly tank? IIRC, the export trainers were the only specimen with the long belly tank from the F.6?

True, they were, but this is WhiffWorld  

There were at least a couple of T55s based at Warton with MoD that were taken back in exchange, and they had RAF roundels and serials. AFAIK there were used on the Typhoon development programme, and they were calibrated in the test rig I installed there in the late 90s.

If I build it oob, a RAF T bird is one option, although I'd probably go the route of the proposed TSR.2 trainer with OCU/Squadron markings to suit.

Another option would be a FG.* version based on the T.55, although I might reserve that for a single seater T.53 variant when the Airfix kit comes out.  Maybe with a bias towards the mud moving role (Bucc or Jag no-show?), in wraparound camo with twin JL.100 Matra/tank combos above the wings and either twin Matras or bombs on the wing pylons. If I represented the Microcell launchers that would be nearly 200 rockets total....

One idea I've toyed with is the naval swing wing Lightning.  I know others have done this, but I'm thinking of The Full Monty.  The one with the solid nose, side intakes, full length belly pack and Speys (and I think the spine was even different).  Maybe.

Stretch it too...stretch it too !!