Gannet Scale Models

[Lost Cosmonauts]

Have you ever thought of making conversion sets in 1/72 scale? I have a long list of ideas that would go towards your beer tokens or Christmas present funds.

I'm happy to take suggestions but my radius gauges and micrometer are in storage while we renovate the house so it may be for Christmas '22 present funds

That's okay I can wait.

Thanks, Feel free to drop me a message with your wishlist or add it as a post in the meantime

[McColm]

Turning the 1/72 Airfix or Italeri  Shorts Sunderland MkV into the Sandringham. A plug for the nose, rear and upper gun turrets.
Plugs for the twin fuselage weapons doors and a template for the fuselage windows. I think there's a difference in the engines on the later models.

[McColm]

Then there's the 1/72 Allison 501D the commercial version of the T-56 turboprop engine.
If you could produce these with the Mach2 Convair 580 as the donor kit.
You could alter the diameter to suit the 1/72 Lockheed Constellation or Boeing 377/B-29.
It could also be an alternative to the turboprop Neptune.
This would save me a lot of time of having to soften up the plastic to slide the T-56 engines inside.

The Grumman E-2 Hawkeye stand and rotodome in 1/72 scale. If this was sold as as a separate kit including the air scoops,  maybe the Saab Eerieye AWACS scanner.

1/72 fuselages
A decent Avro York and the Avro Lincoln.

If you do 1/72 helicopter rotor blades then the Boeing Chinook, because they have a tendency to snap off.

[The Wooksta!]

No point in a York as there's a complete kit from Mach Poo and two superb conversions from CMR. Ditto Lincoln, which is covered with several available conversions  and a complete vactorm.

In any case, both are too big for the printer Alistair uses. Breaking them down increases complexity, time and thus cost.

[KiwiZac]

Turning the 1/72 Airfix or Italeri  Shorts Sunderland MkV into the Sandringham. A plug for the nose, rear and upper gun turrets.
Plugs for the twin fuselage weapons doors and a template for the fuselage windows. I think there's a difference in the engines on the later models.

*cough* Solent Mk.IV *cough*

[McColm]

Turning the 1/72 Airfix or Italeri  Shorts Sunderland MkV into the Sandringham. A plug for the nose, rear and upper gun turrets.
Plugs for the twin fuselage weapons doors and a template for the fuselage windows. I think there's a difference in the engines on the later models.

*cough* Solent Mk.IV *cough*

To be honest I have never heard of the Solent before you mentioned it. Britmodeler has a feature on this conversion but I would still like to have the blanking plates and alternative engines for my build. Four T56 turboprops  would look gorgeous.

[Gondor]

Turning the 1/72 Airfix or Italeri  Shorts Sunderland MkV into the Sandringham. A plug for the nose, rear and upper gun turrets.
Plugs for the twin fuselage weapons doors and a template for the fuselage windows. I think there's a difference in the engines on the later models.

*cough* Solent Mk.IV *cough*

To be honest I have never heard of the Solent before you mentioned it. Britmodeler has a feature on this conversion but I would still like to have the blanking plates and alternative engines for my build. Four T56 turboprops  would look gorgeous.

T56's are available if you look

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/FHP72103B?result-token=OIJNq

Gondor

[kitnut617]

Turning the 1/72 Airfix or Italeri  Shorts Sunderland MkV into the Sandringham. A plug for the nose, rear and upper gun turrets.
Plugs for the twin fuselage weapons doors and a template for the fuselage windows. I think there's a difference in the engines on the later models.

*cough* Solent Mk.IV *cough*

To be honest I have never heard of the Solent before you mentioned it. Britmodeler has a feature on this conversion but I would still like to have the blanking plates and alternative engines for my build. Four T56 turboprops  would look gorgeous.

T56's are available if you look

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/FHP72103B?result-token=OIJNq

Gondor

And so are Darts, and they fit almost without any work to do.

[McColm]

Turning the 1/72 Airfix or Italeri  Shorts Sunderland MkV into the Sandringham. A plug for the nose, rear and upper gun turrets.
Plugs for the twin fuselage weapons doors and a template for the fuselage windows. I think there's a difference in the engines on the later models.

*cough* Solent Mk.IV *cough*

To be honest I have never heard of the Solent before you mentioned it. Britmodeler has a feature on this conversion but I would still like to have the blanking plates and alternative engines for my build. Four T56 turboprops  would look gorgeous.

T56's are available if you look

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/FHP72103B?result-token=OIJNq

Gondor

They are oblong/rectangle so they don't fit on radial engines. I know as I have tried.

[McColm]

Turning the 1/72 Airfix or Italeri  Shorts Sunderland MkV into the Sandringham. A plug for the nose, rear and upper gun turrets.
Plugs for the twin fuselage weapons doors and a template for the fuselage windows. I think there's a difference in the engines on the later models.

*cough* Solent Mk.IV *cough*

To be honest I have never heard of the Solent before you mentioned it. Britmodeler has a feature on this conversion but I would still like to have the blanking plates and alternative engines for my build. Four T56 turboprops  would look gorgeous.

T56's are available if you look

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/FHP72103B?result-token=OIJNq

Gondor

And so are Darts, and they fit almost without any work to do.

Heritage Aviation used to sell the resin Rolls Royce Darts as well as the Dakota Turboprop engines but the company has closed down.

[kitnut617]

Well try Aircraft in Miniature 

[Lost Cosmonauts]

Engine debate aside my current fixed to-do list is:
- DeHavilland DH117
- Blackburn P.139
- Armstrong Whitworth AW.189
- Hawker P.1103
- Vickers Type 582
- RAE designs for a Mach 2 aeroplane (engines in fuselage and engines in nacelles)
- Fairey Small
- English Electric P.6
- English Electric P.1

The Esteemed Misters Wooksta, Thorvik and others have chipped in with other interesting suggestions. My main criteria isn't commercial viablity and is more like "Is this something I want to make a model off myself"

Other mullings (non exclusive list off the top of my head) include:
- Armstrong Whitworth AW.171/172
- BAC P.141
...

[kitbasher]

Engine debate aside my current fixed to-do list is:
- DeHavilland DH117
- Blackburn P.139
- Armstrong Whitworth AW.189
- Hawker P.1103
- Vickers Type 582
- RAE designs for a Mach 2 aeroplane (engines in fuselage and engines in nacelles)
- Fairey Small
- English Electric P.6
- English Electric P.1

The Esteemed Misters Wooksta, Thorvik and others have chipped in with other interesting suggestions. My main criteria isn't commercial viability and is more like "Is this something I want to make a model off myself"

Other mullings (non exclusive list off the top of my head) include:
- Armstrong Whitworth AW.171/172
- BAC P.141
...

DH127!

[The Wooksta!]

BAC 583 and their P.45 VG trainer
I keep banging on about the operational Supermarket 545 and the trainer version, the 554. One fuselage and wings, two noses.  The latter is applicable to the Swift wth a new canopy.
That Boulton-Paul trainer, I forget the designation.
Hawker P.1125 and P.1129
And I'll second Dave's request for a DH.127
There's a VG Hawker proposal, but I can't recall the designation.

TBH, there's shedloads of projects I'd like.

[PR19_Kit]

Was the DH127 that one with a pair of swivelling exhaust nozzles as well as a conventional exhaust?