Zenrat's Flying Circus

[PR19_Kit]

I HAVE THAT GANNET!  hahahhahhaa It was an impulse buy. Imagine my surprise when I saw that.

   

Not exactly plastic modelling's highest point, eh? No wonder they cut a brand new mould for the Gannet! 

[JayBee]

And to think Airfix and FROG seats used to be just L shaped chunks of styrene! 

Assuming they included one. Quite often in the early days you got a bench moulded into the fuselage halves which hopefully met and joined in the middle.

Ah! yes the joys of modelling in the earlier years, but at least you got a pilot figure (?!*) to sit on it. 

[Spey_Phantom]

ive built the revell reox of that FROG kit many years ago, really had a WTF moment when i saw that.

[zenrat]

IIRC the Airfix DH Comet 88 is moulded the same way.

[PR19_Kit]

IIRC the Airfix DH Comet 88 is moulded the same way.

Dave Kitbasher will know for sure. 

[zenrat]

This is going to get painted like the RW RAAF Phantoms but I have a question.  The scheme they carried looks identical to the USAF SEA scheme but with RAAF roundels.  Was it?  Were the colours the same or were they painted in the same pattern but with different, Australian shades?
Phanton Egg WIP 05-09-2019 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

The long winged vee-tailed 109 will get finished this weekend.  Just the canopy to paint and then that and the other fiddly bits to attach.

The Analogue is nearly ready for the internal parts to be painted.  In a normal kit this would simply be a matter of removing them from the sprues and painting them.  However in this case they have to first be constructed from hundreds of microscopic sub-components using micro-waldos and nanites.
You think i'm joking?  The tailpipe, rather than being a tube with one end blanked off, is made up of 9 separate parts.  Now while I appreciate the detail who is going to be shining a torch down there to inspect it?
No-one I hope as I am not going to bother filling the seam between the halves of the tubular part of the pipe.
I do appreciate some of the parts breakdown though.  Having the main UC bay boxes as separate parts means better detail, and it is nice to have decent side consloles instead of blank styrene.
And that bang seat is prolly the best i've seen without having any PE parts.

[PR19_Kit]

This is going to get painted like the RW RAAF Phantoms but I have a question.  The scheme they carried looks identical to the USAF SEA scheme but with RAAF roundels.  Was it?  Were the colours the same or were they painted in the same pattern but with different, Australian shades?

I recall this question from way back in my RW modelling days and IIRC they were standard USAF SEA colours, but with RAAF roundels and codes.

But it'd worth a second opinion for sure.

[Old Wombat]

From memory, as they were only leased, the RAAF didn't bother changing the scheme at extra expense & just went with changing the stars-&-bars to roundels.

[zenrat]

Thanks Womby and Kit.
I actually did some research for a change instead of just asking and I found out they were rentals*.
But thank you.
I've found a three view from a USAF SEA decal set which lists a number of different hobby paint references so i'll print that, take it down to the shed, discover I have none of the colours they list and use those that to my slightly out of adjustment eye look close.
IIRC its basically light brown, two different greens and a light grey bottom.

Today I was working mostly on the twin engined Elky but I did do some work on the lowered 'cruiser (I want to get it finished for Model Car Club on Monday along with the newly lowered min the front Sunbeam).
I also glued all the fiddley bits onto the 109.  Canopy still needs painting but I dipped it in Gauzy Glass coating stuff (which seems to me to just be an expensive way of buying acrylic floor polish in small containers) which hadn't dried.  I must say this is looking good.



*Did the pilots carry out the traditional rental car manoeuvre of seeing how fast they would go in reverse?   

[zenrat]

Because i needed something I could fiddle with while watching my team get knocked out of the AFL finals I pulled this out of the stash.  Plan is to get it built for next years shows.

Flash is non-existent, mould separation lines are very faint, sprue attachment points are small, detail is good and fit is exemplary.
It'll be a build of subassemblies, painted as I go.  It's moulded in colour and I will be building it OOB (plug wires will be all I will add - if I can work out where they would be on it's DOHC V10 engine) but I will be painting everything.
It's an Aoshima kit.  1/24 scale.  The car is from an anime called Future GPX Cyber Formula.

[PR19_Kit]

(plug wires will be all I will add - if I can work out where they would be on it's DOHC V10 engine)

Make sure you get the firing order correct, a mis-firing V10's got to sound TERRIBLE! 

[zenrat]

Something like that would have electronic ignition rather than a dizzy (not that I have a scale 10 cylinder distributor anyway) so i'll just make a box with 10 leads coming out of it and call it a coil pack.  🤓

Mostly car models today but I did almost finish the 109.  Just needs a few touches of paint and the aerial rigging.
Me 109 H0-v WIP 08-09-2019 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

On the car front the lowered Landcruiser is almost done.  Thats a Lexus 4.0 litre 1UZ-FE v8 with a huge intercooler turbo.
'cruiser WIP 08-09-2019 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[Tophe]

Twin boom Hampden.
Fokker Eindecker autogyro.

I clap my hands!

[Old Wombat]

The 109 looks ... interesting (despite my dislike of V-tails ..... Yeah, yeah, I know "BURN the HERETIC!" ).

[zenrat]

Well without the vee-tail it wouldn't be a whiff as the long winged Me 109 H0 was a real aircraft and this is a real paintjob (albeit in slightly wrong shades).
I can take them or leave them.  It can be an easy way to create a whiff but one should really source bigger alternative flying surfaces rather than just cutting off the vertical tail and angling the stabilisers.
As I have used the parts AZ supply in the Me 109 G0 (also not a whiff) then here they are longer than the conventional stabs.