Flyers Projects

[Flyer]

No need for UAV option, both Pogo kits arrived today and the non-sealed one has the canopy pieces, seller must have just not put the clear sprue in the pic. 

The decals are definitely not usable though but that's not an issue as neither of them will be built as Convair's prototype.

[Old Wombat]

 

[zenrat]

Good to hear.  I'll uncross my fingers.

[Flyer]

Yes, do so! I don't want to be responsible for any cramping or worse of your best modelling tools! 

[Flyer]

Nothing at all to do with plastic or scale models even but today SWMBO came home from her rounds of the local op-shops with a absolute bargain! What appears to be a nearly complete or maybe fully complete kit of a Aeroflyte Hawker Hurricane control line model from the 1980's, I say nearly complete or maybe fully complete as the only things that are not in it are wheels and tube of dope, but just like it's fuel tank the wheels may have been a purchase separately item, and all other Aeroflyte kits I've built have came with a tube of dope but I'm thinking that this kit predates that inclusion... She paid a grand total of $3!

I stated at the top of this post that it has nothing to do with scale models yet it's a model Hawker Hurricane Mk IIb as written on the box, and that's because to get a finished model from this kit to even slightly resemble a Hurricane would require heavy intoxication, the model to be placed a good 25-30 feet away, closing one eye, squinting with the other while swaying to and fro and using a good dose of imagination, if that's still possible due to the heavy intoxication. 

[zenrat]

Nothing at all to do with plastic or scale models even but today SWMBO came home from her rounds of the local op-shops with a absolute bargain! What appears to be a nearly complete or maybe fully complete kit of a Aeroflyte Hawker Hurricane control line model from the 1980's, I say nearly complete or maybe fully complete as the only things that are not in it are wheels and tube of dope, but just like it's fuel tank the wheels may have been a purchase separately item, and all other Aeroflyte kits I've built have came with a tube of dope but I'm thinking that this kit predates that inclusion... She paid a grand total of $3!

I stated at the top of this post that it has nothing to do with scale models yet it's a model Hawker Hurricane Mk IIb as written on the box, and that's because to get a finished model from this kit to even slightly resemble a Hurricane would require heavy intoxication, the model to be placed a good 25-30 feet away, closing one eye, squinting with the other while swaying to and fro and using a good dose of imagination, if that's still possible due to the heavy intoxication. 

Is that what the dopes for?   

[Flyer]

[Flyer]

Was just looking at a forum from 2017 where people were talking about the prices of Aeroflyte models from the 80's and 90's, built Hurricane's were going for between $350-$500 and unbuilt kits were going for 2-3 times as much! Nice to know but I won't be selling it anytime soon as it's going into my small but growing collection of older kits, among those I have stashed away the oldest is a kit for a rubber powered free flight model from 1936, I have no idea what that could be worth then, and there is not much I can compare it to...

[Flyer]

I'm a little baffled by the way that the Ukraine is simply watching the large convoy of war machines heading in to do battle right now without attacking it. I have read a few reports also stating that the Russian air defences are not adequate to defend their ground forces either. Would it not make sense then to have a go at it before they reach their objective while they are all out in the open all neatly lined up? anyhow not being a tactical annylist who am I to question such things, but it has spurred an idea for a whiff, what if instead of always threatening to retire the A-10 the U.S. donates a couple dozen of them to the Ukraine as part of a lethal aid package, then the A-10 could do what it was designed to do and destroy some Russian armour. I have a couple A-10 kit's laying about so may just start putting one together and then source some decals. This may just be enough motivation to start building again.

[PR19_Kit]

I've had very similar thoughts, a convoy 40 miles long could well be termed a 'target rich environment' for a squadron of A-10s, and may might require flight refuelling of that big 30 mm cannon! 

[zenrat]

Russia claim air superiority.  But then they would.

I heard (radio) news reports that Poland had gifted Ukraine 28 fighters of a type the Ukranian pilots were qualified on so no training was required.  They didn't say what they were but I presume MiG 29s.  The same report stated that before this gift the strength of the Ukraine air force was 90 of these aircraft.

Other than that I have heard nothing about Ukranian air power.  All the reports focus on how no man between 18 and 60 will be allowed to leave and all will be armed to resist the invader.

[Flyer]

Yep, MiG-29's were what I've heard Poland were handing over.

[Old Wombat]

It's a fair bet that most of Ukraine's air force was destroyed on the ground in the first few hours, which is why the Russians don't seem to be being impacted by them.

A squadron or two of A-10's, with MiG-29's flying top cover could do some real damage!



Interestingly, though, the Russian air force, given its size, doesn't seem to be doing that much, either.

[Flyer]

A squadron or two of A-10's, with MiG-29's flying top cover could do some real damage!

Indeed!

I got a A-10 kit out of storage (luckily it was a kit near the top of the pile) and managed to inspect the parts to be sure that they are all there before the usual toddler induced chaos ensued but that's as far as I got, didn't even get a chance to locate tools or glue. Oh well hopefully tomorrow...

[Flyer]

Went to my LHS today and picked out a Hobby boss Zlin Z-42M kit and three Vellejo paint's to try as a birthday present for my daughter to wrap up for me.

Not used those paint's before, looking forward to trying them out.