Zenrat's Flying Circus

[zenrat]

Thank you Womby.

[zenrat]

Transfers are on the Dewoitine.
The SMER roundels that came with the kit (in common with most of the French roundels I have - as most of them are from ex Heller moulds repopped by someone else) are not usable as the diameter of the underlying white part is less than that of the red meaning there is a less opaque ring of red around the circumference of the roundel.
So I went with French Navy roundels.  From the Revell Privateer.  Rudder flashes and numbers are from the SMER kit as they were OK to use.
Dewoitine D500 WIP 04-03-2020 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[NARSES2]

I am impressed with the Tiger's stripes sir  However are you sure the wing anchors are orientated correctly ?

If you need some French roundels let me know.

[zenrat]

Thanks Chris.
The anchors may well not be as per real life.  I didn't check.  But they are the way I like them.   

I have no other immediate French plans other than a vague idea at least some of the small interwar stash should actually be French.  But thank you for the offer.  When the time comes I will endeavour to remember who offered me some.   

I'm keen to get this finished as I have a number of ideas for a quick "Navy" aircraft.  I feel I need to do one to justify my "scribe wing folds, add a hook and paint it blue" comments elsewhere.
The PDRV always had at least two fleet carriers in service so there is a broad range of aircraft to choose from. 

[PR19_Kit]

I'm keen to get this finished as I have a number of ideas for a quick "Navy" aircraft.  I feel I need to do one to justify my "scribe wing folds, add a hook and paint it blue" comments elsewhere.
The PDRV always had at least two fleet carriers in service so there is a broad range of aircraft to choose from.

A Beverley for the COD mission? 

[NARSES2]

Thanks Chris.
The anchors may well not be as per real life.  I didn't check.  But they are the way I like them.   

I have no other immediate French plans other than a vague idea at least some of the small interwar stash should actually be French.  But thank you for the offer.  When the time comes I will endeavour to remember who offered me some.   

No probs mate. As long as you are aware you can work your way round it  . I've a fair few French AF markings for 20/30/40's aircraft so when the time comes  It was just Aeronvale I had none of until Alastair stepped in.

[zenrat]

Thanks Chris.
In the PDRV alternate timeline the Australian states and territories never federated.  The People's Democratic Republic of Victoria was obviously aligned with the Soviet Union and in the history I have written so far Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland/New South Wales hooked up to lesser or greater extents with Nazi Germany, Great Britain, and the United States, respectively making up the Aryan Sudreich, British North Australia and Greater Eastern Australia.
I have always intended either Tasmania or South Australia to be French aligned as an excuse to build whiffed French aircraft.  I have even started designing a Tasmanian roundel - a black triangle, point down in a white circle (yes, I am that obvious).  Although if French aligned it may become a blue triangle in a white circle in a red ring.

Other than a quick lick of paint on the brake drums of a 1/24 Delahaye and gluing the engine into a 1/25 Chevy ute all work today was to the Navy GB AAV and is commented on in that thread.

[zenrat]

Dewoitine is nearly finished.  Got the undercarriage on yesterday and the remaining fiddley bits on today.  Just needs a lick of paint and some ezy-line.

Boxcar is very very nearly ready for paint.  A couple of minor blemishes to deal with and then I shall have to choose my time to put on the silver car paint that will form the foundation of the intended scheme.

I have also made progress on the '60 Chevy ute.  I've started putting the cab together.  Ironically the first one I pulled out of the stash (out of the four I accidentally bought) has a badly moulded main cab part.  It looks like one of the sliding parts didn't fully lock into place leaving excess plastic in the radiator opening to carve out.  I checked one of the others and it was perfect so it looks like just sods law that the first one, the one I definitely am going to build stock needed hacking at and will as a result need filler.

[NARSES2]

How do you accidentally buy 4 of the same kit ? 2, or maybe even at a push 3, I can understand, but 4 ?? 

[zenrat]

How do you accidentally buy 4 of the same kit ? 2, or maybe even at a push 3, I can understand, but 4 ?? 

Well, when AMT announced the kit I pre-ordered two of them from an Australian website.  As is the way of the model industry here nothing then happened for a very long time.
We then had an election and the government bribed the electorate with extra tax rebates that were intended to stimulate the local economy.  Not agreeing with their politics I spent mine on overseas websites, ordering another two kits from the US.  I assumed that the Australian website would contact me to confirm my order when they finally got  the kits into the country.
As we say, assumption is the mother of all f**k ups.  It turned out that they had retained my credit card details when I ordered them and just charged me and posted them.
It is indicative of how much model kits cost here that the total cost, with shipping of the kits from the US was pretty much the same as those from the Australian website.  Even with the abysmal exchange rate.

[NARSES2]

Right, I see or at least I think I see 

[ericr]

How do you accidentally buy 4 of the same kit ? 2, or maybe even at a push 3, I can understand, but 4 ?? 

well, for some time I wanted a Frog/Novo/... Drt Herlad,because it looked exotic in the sense that it is not current at all ;
and then months and years passed and I only saw few veru expensive ones ... ;
and then suddenly I found a lot of 4 of them, box-less, some instructions-less, some a bit incomplete or damaged, and overall cheap.

so this was my experience at "accidentally buy 4 of the same kit"   

(and now I use the 3 additional ones in more or less wild kitbashes  )

[zenrat]

I do have history.
I once bought five Matchbox Heyfords in one go.
In my defence they were advertised on Evil-Bay as three.  The seller hadn't checked the boxes.

[ericr]

 

[PR19_Kit]

In my defence they were advertised on Evil-Bay as three. 

But what did you build with THREE Heyfords?