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Thanks RJ,yes any new Lancaster has got to be worth getting,thanks for the heads up will keep my eyes open for it.

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Revell 1=48th Grumman Tiger

Without a doubt the best Ryan N-Y-P kit available,Revell 'Spirit of St Louis'.

Conversion from a 45 year old model,the Radar test development Dakota brings new life to a tired model.
Piaggio P.108 bomber with 'potatoe stamp' hand printed Italian air force camouflage mottle effect.

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tigertc

How on earth did you do the pattern on the Piaggio? It looks fantastic.

wonwinglo

For a long time now I have been trying to find the best way to paint mottle effects onto models,the Italian air force schemes are some of the most difficult to achieve and look realistic,for these experiments I took my old Dakota paint hack and set about an entirely different approach,I cut the patterns into ordinary potatoes and used them like a rubber stamp to replicate the squiggly effect of the camouflage pattern,the potatoe is just used all over the model until the patterns are completed.
To apply the paint to the spud just use a paintbrush and keep adding colour until the entire model is completed.



Here the Piaggio has been base coat painted prior to the addition of the three colours,the idea is low tech but it works well,with a little patience the finished results look convincing.



Being flexible the potatoe takes the curve of the surface well,here you see the technique in use,only the lightest of pressures is needed,experimenting on the wing of that Dakota paid out before I tackled the Piaggio bomber.

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I did this Dakota in ETPS Raspberry ripple colours a few years ago,the same aircraft now flies with the Memorial Flight in a drab finish.





At least one Ford Tri-Motor Tin Goose was in service with the R.A.F this was operated in Scotland during wartime.



B.A.Hawk doing a beat up of the airfield !

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tigertc

All of the above post is just fantastic!!!
.I thought you were joking when you mentioned spuds in the original Piaggio post.
.Ingenius solutions once again.

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This one will interest Pan-Am Clipper girl in particular-

China Clipper 75th Anniversary Commemorative Flight, World's First Commercial TransoceanicFlight,Announced by San Francisco Aeronautical Society San Francisco April 10, 2008 -- The San Francisco Aeronautical Society, in conjunction with the Pan Am Historical Foundation, is pleased to announce a major event commemorating what is generally regarded as the greatest milestone in commercial aviation history.
November 2010 will mark the 75th anniversary of the famous China Clipper flight which opened the Pacific to the world's first regular transoceanic commercial air service. Today, people cross oceans in airplanes without even a second thought, but, in 1935, that very first commercial transoceanic flight was a mammoth undertaking that presaged modern international travel.

The year is 1935. As Pan American Airways plans its historic attempt to conquer the Pacific, the world is in a deep economic depression. Franklin Roosevelt has just been elected President of the United States and will remain so for an unprecedented four terms. There are only 48 states in the Union. Alaska and Hawaii will not be added for almost 30 years. Prohibition has been repealed and, thanks to Hollywood, New York's Empire State building will forever have King Kong associated with it.

The establishment of the Trans-Pacific route by Pan American Airways, a mere 32 years after the Wright Brothers' Kitty Hawk success, overcame the greatest technological, geographical, and navigational challenges of the day. Their fleet of flying boats captured the world's imagination as they ushered in the age of global air travel.

The China Clipper 75th Anniversary Flight will retrace the Pacific Route that departed San Francisco to reach Hong Kong via Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam, and Manila -- albeit with a modern aircraft. VIP functions will be held at each port of call.

A web site, http://www.chinaclipper75.com/, has been created to provide information on the history of the Clippers and the commemorative flight.

The San Francisco Aeronautical Society is a not-for-profit volunteer organization dedicated to preserving the history of aviation.

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With all of my modelling gear and kits stashed away I just wanted to create something today,so with a sheet of sugar paper and some good old chalks I set about creating this sketch of the Junkers Ju.87 Tank Buster,to a model maker it is no good not having resources to your models,so creativity being paramount here is the end result to share with you all,to remind us of the importance of this awesome weapon here is a little piece about the most famous ace connected with it.
You have to hand it to the bravery of these pilots who flew the Stuka,it was literally a flying tank.

The most successful Stuka pilot was Hans-Ulrich Rudel. Rudel had already completed 1,000 Stuka missions before developing the tactics for "Panzerjagdkommando Weiss", the embryonic tank-killer Stuka unit.
Despite being shot down on at a number of occasions and sustaining frequent injuries (including the loss of a leg), Rudel’s tally included a total of 519 tanks and one Soviet battleship! He ended the war as Germany’s most decorated pilot and the sole recipient of Germany's highest military honour - the "Golden Oak Leaf with Sword and Diamonds to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.

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The past few months have been taken up with setting up a unique collection of model aircraft,this is situated on the site of a former disused historic Warwickshire airfield,shuttling a collection of delicate miniature aircraft was no easy task but the job is nearly complete and a lifelong ambition has been achieved to make a permanent display of models in one place.
This is what the local press had to say about the collection on their visit -
'Tucked away in the leafy Warwickshire countryside, is a unique collection of model aircraft that have been built over the past 55 years by one person,the impressive collection which spans the whole history of flight is neatly laid out in rows on gleaming white tables which run the whole length of the building,a tiny model of the Wright biplane is placed alongside a model of the new Airbus A380 showing the progress made by mankind in his quest to fly faster and longer distances by air.
So who is behind this bewildering and unique array of tiny models ? well we met up with the creator,a former aircraft engineer, who is a self confessed aviation nut in his well equipped workshop at the same location a few yards away from the museum,in his hands was a new model being fashioned from scraps of wood, salvaged from the floor of a local pattern makers workshop in exchange for sweeping the floor ! Barry makes his models from anything that he can get his hands on besides building from detailed plastic and metal kits as well which are stacked on shelves,lined up were the blanks of models under construction each with cardboard patterns neatly cut out alongside,even the tiny propellers are made by hand and set up in an homemade jig that he made,in metal filing cabinets there are thousands of folders crammed with reference material such as plans,photographs and detailed sketches that he has made himself when visiting airfields and museums,you need plenty of reference material in this line he grins.
Lets take you to see the museum he says,carefully laying down his latest model on the workbench and we go around the corner to another building a short walking distance away,when the door is opened you are confronted with the remarkable sight of thousands of small aircraft models,'how many are there,I ask him ?' well at the last count which was several years ago I topped the 4,000 mark,but there are only 3,000 on show due to space restraints,I have another 16,000 pieces still in boxes under the tables,these cover manufacturers works models,identification models produced for the services and some lovely limited editions as well,the collection is without a doubt the largest in the UK but is unverified due to the Guinness book of records wanting a two person count to get a mention,including one from someone like a vicar to warrant entry in their compendium ! nobody in their right mind would spend hours doing that he says whilst he squeezes another model on the table shuffling a few others to make room !
His search for rare models has taken him across the world in correspondence to doctors,kings and accountants,and university professors who share his passion for small model aircraft,but as he points out the internet has made life a lot easier in swopping and exchanging information to enhance his ever bulging collection.
This is the first time that many of the models have been out of their boxes he told me,previously they have endured been moved from house to house and once more taking up three rooms of his last residence some 15 miles away from where the collection now lives,but this is the final move for the models he says,wherever we go they stay put ! we shook hands and I left for the office thinking about what I had seen ? one thing is for sure and that is you will not find anyone more enthusiastic than Barry for his passions,I doubt whether he will ever stop building or collecting,and best of luck to him.'

Well since these photographs were taken more display space has been created,it is very much ongoing and improving whats on display.

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