VV's Biggles aircraft collection

VickersVandal · October 12, 2015, 04:07:14 AM

Spitfire Mk 1a, Sqn Ldr J. Bigglesworth, 666 Squadron, Rawlham, Kent, circa July 1940

Build: http://uamf.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=11201 and viewtopic.php?f=270&t=9187
Airfix (NT) 1/72 Spitfire 1a

Ident codes are fictitious but within the realms of probability. BG was used later in the war by and observation squadron.

PR19_Kit · October 12, 2015, 04:45:17 AM

Excellent work there.

I still can't understand how this thread isn't buried in replies from Radish......

NARSES2 · October 12, 2015, 06:33:20 AM

As Kit says, some nice work

Captain Canada · October 12, 2015, 07:00:46 AM

Lovely. Looks great with the red spinner and the white codes. Great job on this one !

VickersVandal · October 12, 2015, 10:06:13 PM

Thanks

I also updated with pics of two other recent completions as well as the spit but they were immediately demoted to the previous page.

zenrat · October 13, 2015, 02:18:39 AM

Jolly good show old bean.

tigercat · October 14, 2015, 02:05:03 PM

Some spiffing crates

VickersVandal · December 16, 2015, 01:05:45 AM

Just finished two builds.

1. Vickers Amphibian "Condor" from Biggles and the Cruise of the Condor.
This is my all-time favourite of the stories (possibly favourite story ever).

The model will be part of a diorama from this illustration, hence Algy almost falling out of the cockpit...

http://www.biggles.info/Details/02/Illustrations/236.jpg

The moel is a heavily kitbashed Karaya resins Supermarine Seamew. Lovely kit.

More pics on the UAMF: http://uamf.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=12983

2. Miles Falcon owned and flown by Stella Carstairs in Biggles & Co.
It's the Dekno resin Miles Falcon VI. Not as nice a kit as the Seamew $:-\$

Build and more pictures: http://www.bigglesforum.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=2187

ericr · December 16, 2015, 02:49:26 AM

lovely!

espcially the amphibian, because I have a crush on seaplanes; I am curious about the Karaya kits, they have a nice selection of flying boats, and they seem tempting ...

zenrat · December 16, 2015, 02:54:40 AM

Cruise of the Condor is probably the Biggles Book i've read most as it's also one of my favourites.
Good work on both of them.

NARSES2 · December 16, 2015, 03:00:10 AM

Excellent work

VickersVandal · December 16, 2015, 06:01:28 AM

Thanks awfully, chaps.

This is a "Tarpon" flying boat/amphibian from Biggles Second Case. It's used in bringing some rogue Nazi holdout submariners to justice just after WW2.
It's a kitbash of the Special Hobby Sikorsky S-43/JRS-1 to turn it from a single to a twin fin machine.
Build thread here (partially): http://uamf.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=329&t=12401
Not a nice kit. Can't recommend it.

NARSES2 · December 17, 2015, 01:09:19 AM

Love it. Has a certain Short's Bros look about it. A progression from the Stranraer type of aircraft

zenrat · December 17, 2015, 01:16:29 AM

Very good. The book doesn't ring a bell. I must go and check my collection.

VickersVandal · December 17, 2015, 04:40:38 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on December 17, 2015, 01:09:19 AM
Love it. Has a certain Short's Bros look about it. A progression from the Stranraer type of aircraft

It's actually an American bird. Pan Am used them for their Pacific services in the 30s. A contemporary of the Stranny, really (the Brits were still hanging onto biplanes while the yanks had got with the times)
The irony is that the story says the Tarpon is "still on the top secret list" at the end of the WW2, yet the illustration is based on the S-43 which would have been appallingly out of date by that stage! Anachronisms aside, though, having such a clear visual image to draw on for the build was too good an opportunity to pass up, so I went with the illustrator's interpretation.