Vickers Armstrong/Supermarine Type 559`s Older Brother

[tc2324]

I`m now moving nearer to completion with this and hope to get a small dio base built tomorrow.

As you will see in the following pictures, I`ve used a Churchill base and added an RAF roundel and sqn flash which I don`t think would be too out of fashion for the era as many squadrons liked to mark their `property`.

[loupgarou]

Terrific idea and build. 
You'd need also a support vehicle, like a ladder lorry from a fire brigade, in order for the pilot to reach the cockpit.

[NARSES2]

The launch vehicle is superb  Good use for one of the many Churchill's that would have been parked up in fields all over the place.

On our train trips to Newcastle in the 50's/60's there must have been thousands of army surplus vehicles parked on old airfields in the York area. Catterick I suppose ?

[PR19_Kit]

Catterick's quite a distance from the ECML Chris, it must have been one of the other RAF 'clutch' airfields north of York. Dalton might just be in visual range of the track.

[Later] Tholthorpe is even closer though, that's about 12 miles north of York.

[tc2324]

Thank you chaps.

Not much else done with this except that work on the base has now started.

[Captain Canada]

That looks perfect. Love the markings on the tank and the combo looks right, and defo believable.

[NARSES2]

Catterick's quite a distance from the ECML Chris, it must have been one of the other RAF 'clutch' airfields north of York. Dalton might just be in visual range of the track.

[Later] Tholthorpe is even closer though, that's about 12 miles north of York.

Ah right. These were literally the other side of the fence to the track and if memory serves where the train slowed to take on water and those in the know closed the window 

Re the build. I'd assumed the aircraft was a lot bigger, but the Churchill has given me a true idea of it's size and now I understand the concept far better 

[Rheged]

Catterick's quite a distance from the ECML Chris, it must have been one of the other RAF 'clutch' airfields north of York. Dalton might just be in visual range of the track.

[Later] Tholthorpe is even closer though, that's about 12 miles north of York.

Ah right. These were literally the other side of the fence to the track and if memory serves where the train slowed to take on water and those in the know closed the window 

Water troughs are not that common.  I'll have to find my  railways map and see if that helps locate the spot

[PR19_Kit]

Catterick's quite a distance from the ECML Chris, it must have been one of the other RAF 'clutch' airfields north of York. Dalton might just be in visual range of the track.

[Later] Tholthorpe is even closer though, that's about 12 miles north of York.

Ah right. These were literally the other side of the fence to the track and if memory serves where the train slowed to take on water and those in the know closed the window  

Water troughs are not that common.  I'll have to find my  railways map and see if that helps locate the spot

These days they're extinct!

Bizarrely at least one class of BR diesel had scoops to collect water from the steam era troughs to top up its train heating boiler, it was the EE Class 40 IIRC.

(Does this take the record for the most extreme thread drift ever?  )

[tc2324]

Thought I`d go collect this thread and fly it back home..... 

Just waiting for some foliage to arrive and sort out some kind of ladder `thingy` and then I`ll be calling this bit of madness done.

[FAR148]

Very Cool!   

[PR19_Kit]

That looks SERIOUSLY lethal! 

[zenrat]

I seem to say this a lot (sign of a miss-spent youth?) but it's very Anderson.

And I Love it.  Excellent bit of work.

[NARSES2]

Does look good

[Captain Canada]

Oh yeah....very nice. Love the look of her posed like that. A wee bit of foliage will really add to the dio and give it that 'deployed' look. Great stuff !