Zenrat's Flying Circus

[DogfighterZen]

It's probably rigged so no-one can get 100%...............

It's possible to get all 49 correct answers, i just did... on the 2nd go.    but i did get the 49 out of 49.

[PR19_Kit]

Including the wrong one?

[Knightflyer]

Including the wrong one?

So, if I know which two I got wrong, and neither were the incorrect one, does that mean I got the incorrect one right....by being wrong ?

[DogfighterZen]

Including the wrong one?

guess so, has to be one of the civies, isn't it?

[PR19_Kit]

Including the wrong one?

So, if I know which two I got wrong, and neither were the incorrect one, does that mean I got the incorrect one right....by being wrong ?

The incorrect one didn't have the correct answer as an option anyway, so to get 100% you'd have to guess what the setter wanted you answer.

Including the wrong one?

guess so, has to be one of the civies, isn't it?

No, it's a military one, a carrier borne jet.

[Knightflyer]

Including the wrong one?

So, if I know which two I got wrong, and neither were the incorrect one, does that mean I got the incorrect one right....by being wrong ?

The incorrect one didn't have the correct answer as an option anyway, so to get 100% you'd have to guess what the setter wanted you answer.

Including the wrong one?

guess so, has to be one of the civies, isn't it?

No, it's a military one, a carrier borne jet.

Ahh - so I must have got that one right .....but wrong 

[PR19_Kit]

Indian one? If it is or isn't what is wrong about it?

The setter's answer is just wrong, but the photo is of an earlier version of the answer they've given.

About as well as I can do without saying exactly what it is. 

[TheChronicOne]

^ Tease.

[DogfighterZen]

Oh mai oui, c'est vrai... 

[PR19_Kit]

Oh mai oui, c'est vrai... 

[zenrat]

Heh heh heh, I knew we'd all enjoy this.

Uncle duties this weekend but while supervising the viewing of an Anime series called One Piece (new to me - about pirates - it's not too bad) I started putting together a Fujimi Mitsubishi A5M at the dining room table (nothing else i'm working on was really house friendly).  It's a nice little kit with nice detail and, so far, very good fit.
It is prolly going to be OOB with RAF markings.  Although I can't help thinking given the elliptical wings it'd look good with an inline engine as a Supermarine (Snark?).
It would also look exceedingly good on floats but i've started it without taking a pic so that'll be pencilled in for when I get another one of these little gems.

[zenrat]

I have abandoned the plan to inline the A5M as I do not have a suitable engine. 
A Heyford Kestrel nacelle is too deep and narrow and a Pe-2 Klimov nacelle is the right depth but is too narrow (and if widened, too square).
An He 111 Jumo nacelle fits pretty well but makes it look German (very Heinkelly given the wing shape) rather than British.
It'll still be an interwar RAF plane but will keep the standard radial engine although the cowling shape is really too modern.

Lightning is resplendent in all over white and awaits some underside colour.  While flying it round the shed I had an idea for another one which would be suitable for the Cold War GB.

Yakketty Yak now has a blue underside.  This will be a PDRV Republican Guard bird with the PDRV border camo scheme as previously applied to a MiG29 and Su22.

Chevy Caprice is very nearly finished.  I decided at the last minute to add an exhaust system instead of running with open headers so i've scratched that up and the glue is drying.

And finally, I have completed hand painting the balkenkreuz on the Me 109 for the Me262 Mistel.  Hand painted you ask?  Why not just apply decals?
Well I had always planned to hand paint them as they are part of a paint scheme weathered down to bare metal.  What I did is, using crosses of tape as guides, paint white and then black only on the places where there was still paint remaining at a point where a balkenkreuz would have been.  i.e just painting onto the colours and not onto the silver.
It's how I did the meatballs on this;
N1K7 Jetrex 015 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
It's tricky and can only be done when the steady hand mojo is strong but it works well and I like how it looks - better than unweathered decals over weathered paint or sanded decals that don't match the weathering beneath them.  I suppose I could paint the markings on before I weather but this way I don't need to get circles perfectly round or lines straight as the missing paint means that errors like that won't show.

[NARSES2]

That Rex does look nice 

[jcf]

AVI Models does the Hispano engined A5M3a.
Chris built it this past October:
http://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=44339.0


One small niggle on the hinomaru on the Jet-Kyofu, no matter how worn the rest of the paint, in
the majority of cases very little wear is seen on the Hinomaru in period photos, and, for the most
part, the IJN aircraft are not as worn as their IJA counterparts. Yeah, yeah I know JMN blah blah,
it's just that I've gotten really tired of the tendency in "Real World Serious Modelling" to completely
trash the paint on any and all Japanese subjects. I've even seen early war A6M2 Model 21's with
their paint beat to hell, which flatout didn't happen. In that period IJN carrier based aircraft were
immaculately maintained.



p.s. The Kyofu is great. 

[zenrat]

How about that, they really did an in-line A5M.  Shows how much research I do. 
Thanks for that Jon.

As for worn paint on IJN aircraft - the Jexrex wasn't meant to be that worn but it was my first attempt at hairspraying and more paint came off than I intended.  I had the same problem with the Me 109.  I'm starting to think that it might not be the best technique for subtle weathering and will revert to salt for the next one.
IRL they prolly kept the Hinomarus touched up to aid in recognition.

There appears to be someone sitting in the cockpit of the twin engined plane in the upper left quadrant of the boneyard pic.