Zenrat's Flying Circus

[NARSES2]

I like that Fred

[zenrat]

Thanks Chris.  I think it looks good in blue.

[NARSES2]

Thanks Chris.  I think it looks good in blue.

It does, it suits being a Police vehicle, you can almost see it in some 1930's newspaper photograph of Industrial unrest in some Baltic port.

[frank2056]

The Pushmepullyou looks great in blue! The T-26 turret and the engine vents look great!

[zenrat]

There may have been civil unrest in the People's Democratic Republic of Victoria following WW2.  Returning servicemen may have come back with dangerous bourgeois ideas that needed suppressing.
I will have to investigate.

In other news the delay in painting the Tempest (waiting for transfers - i'm using a RW scheme from a P-40 and want to get the colours rightish) and the imminent completion of the Canberra have somehow led to the starting of an Airfix Mitchell (new mould).
Not sure what happened, I looked away and suddenly there was this opened box on the bench and I was assembling the cockpit.
It'll be in Australian service.  A RW scheme albeit one from a different aircraft.  The scheme caught my eye and had to get the transfer set.

[Old Wombat]

Very nice kit, the Airfix Mitchell.

Now, if they'd just hurry up & release a "J" model!

[scooter]

There may have been civil unrest in the People's Democratic Republic of Victoria following WW2.  Returning servicemen may have come back with dangerous bourgeois ideas that needed suppressing.
I will have to investigate.

That's what happens when you fight a global war against fascism, with democratic republics, a constitutional monarchy, and a confederal elective monarchy (the Londthyrian Confederacy)

[NARSES2]

Very nice kit, the Airfix Mitchell.

Indeed it is    and yes I'd like to see a couple of later marques

[zenrat]

Mitchell looks very nice and it appears that it'll go together easilly.  So far just painting various interior bits and assembling the cockpit.
One whinge - why provide two pilots but not the rest of the crew?

Steyr ADGZ is complete.  Now for subtle weathering and attaching of bits and pieces to the outside.  Hopefully without breaking off anymore delicate parts than I already have.
Steyr Pushmepullyou WIP 02-10-2022 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[Old Wombat]

Steyr is looking good!

Re: the B-25 aircrew; I have no idea but it's the reason my B-27A was modelled crewless.

[NARSES2]

Steyr is looking good!

It certainly is. For some reason I'm picturing a rioter trussed up spread-eagled over the front, which ever end tat is ? 

[zenrat]

Front is to the right.  It has no bumpers/roo bars/nudge bars onto which perps could be lashed.  Something it would probably have gained if it was a serious police vehicle.
There is a rack holding three jerry cans fastened to the rear decking which I am probably going to leave off as I think jerry cans of fuel on the outside of a riot control vehicle issuing for trouble...

As I now have the transfers for it I have begun painting the Tempest.  I am using a late war 75 Squadron RAAF scheme which was applied to a P40 IRL.  It is an interesting mix of Olive Drab and Foliage Green over Grey with a white tail.  Sky Blue serials.

[NARSES2]

As I now have the transfers for it I have begun painting the Tempest.  I am using a late war 75 Squadron RAAF scheme which was applied to a P40 IRL.  It is an interesting mix of Olive Drab and Foliage Green over Grey with a white tail.  Sky Blue serials.

Interested to see this. Late war RAAF and RNZAF schemes can be very interesting    Hopefully  return to mine next week.

[zenrat]

Yertiz.

[Rick Lowe]

That'll look cool on a Tempest.