VV's Biggles aircraft collection

[VickersVandal]

Ladies and Gents, I'm new to the site. I suffer from the same excellent disease you all do   
Conventional scale modelling is boring. Whatiffery is where it's at! 

As a kid I was mad keen on Biggles books. I always wanted a collection of planes to go with the books, but I never really had the resources to do it. Plus I was lazy 
Now that I'm older, have extended the book collection, am more cashed up and I've broken both legs so I can't go speed boarding anymore, I'm starting to finally build up that collection in earnest. I'll post up pics as I complete them. All my build threads are over on the UAMF.

I also build conventional models from WW1 and the interwar era (particularly flying boats), the love of which was inspired of course my the good Bigglesworth. I am also occasionally modelling some of the aircraft from the John Harris books (Martin Falconer and Ira Penaluna). I'll post all those elsewhere though - not in this thread.


*****UPDATE*****

Photobucket is evil and most of my pictures are gone, never to return.
Pictures are now all hosted on my webpage. Go here to see Biggles models:
https://sites.google.com/view/biggles-modelling/home

[VickersVandal]

Vickers Vandal
From Biggles Flies Again and Biggles and the Black Peril
http://www.biggles.info/Details/04/
Kitbashed from Matchbox 1/72 Walrus with Aeroclub Napier Lion W12 and scratchbuilt radiator.

I built this a few years ago. Stupidly left it on the bench overnight straight after completing it. My toddler got to it in the morning and not its not a pretty sight now.

[VickersVandal]

Lovitznian Single Seater
Biggles Goes to War
http://www.biggles.info/Details/15/
Build: http://uamf.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=7036
Heller 1/72 FW56 Stosser with custom decals (Lovitznian brown cross national markings)

[VickersVandal]

SI Mk.1A Amphibious experimental floatplane fighter-bomber of Z Squadron (Boomerang Squadron)
From Biggles in the Baltic (Ginger Hebblethwaite's aircraft - "Dingo")
http://www.biggles.info/Details/20/
Build: http://uamf.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=6822
Revell 1/72 Stearman Kaydet, heavily kitbashed with Auster AOP floats and various scratchbuilt parts.

[VickersVandal]

Air Police Proctor
Appears in almost all of the Air Police stories
Build: http://uamf.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=234&t=6095
Novo 1/72 Percival Proctor (and an Oxford die cast 1/76 Wolseley police car)

[PR19_Kit]

You'll go down a bundle with Radish for sure. 

[NARSES2]

You'll go down a bundle with Radish for sure. 

Beat me to it Kit 

Some really interesting builds there 

[lancer]

first of all , welcome to the loony bin,. Some bloody lovely models there. Secondly, our Radish here is leader of the Biggles SIG. You might want to contact him and talk about joining up. His Biggles stuff is truely amazing,

[Hman]

Lovey 

Mind you I have never read a Biggleswade book!

[VickersVandal]

first of all , welcome to the loony bin,. Some bloody lovely models there. Secondly, our Radish here is leader of the Biggles SIG. You might want to contact him and talk about joining up. His Biggles stuff is truely amazing,

Cheers. You're my kind of loonies. Thanks for the welcome, all 


I found Radish's facebook Biggles SIG page already, so I'm aware he and his band of merry men suffer from the same mutation of the disease that I do. Unfortunately a whacking big chunk of earth and sea divides me from the group so I can only display electronically.

[Dizzyfugu]

Love the Walrus conversion with the different engine! 

Great work, and the retro paint finish suits it well.

[VickersVandal]

The Vandal colour scheme is straight from the 1st edition illustration 

http://www.biggles.info/Details/06/Titlepage.jpg

[VickersVandal]

Special Air Police general duties Wellington.
Matchbox 1/72 kit

Build thread: http://uamf.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=250&t=7388

[Captain Canada]

Love the Wellington ! Looks awesome in those colours

[dadlamassu]

Lovely models.  Well done.

I really like the colour schemes you have chosen.