Miko retrospective

[Gern]

As mentioned elsewhere in this forum, I enjoy building in themes

Can anyone spot the connection with these builds?


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Miko (quizzing today)

Beautiful

 

[Miko]

Endeavour?

Edit: More piccies please.

Oooooof!! so close!!

 

[Gern]

Oooooof!! so close!!

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Beautiful.

PS No coconut for me then?

 

[Miko]

Beautiful.

PS No coconut for me then?

Not quite, Airfix did produce a classic kit of Endeavor that was indeed a research ship but in 1/120 scale not 1/144

Miko (would Enterprise count? not that isn't the answer here)

 

[yak face]

Theyre both ‘discovery ‘ ( and both cracking builds !)

 

[Miko]

Theyre both ‘discovery ‘ ( and both cracking builds !)

Yes! Incredible to believe they were built just eighty years apart! The ship being built before the Wright brothers has flown at Kittyhawk, but the most striking thing for me is they are in the same scale!

Miko (The shuttle was named after HMS Discovery and 'not' RSS Discovery)

 

[Miko]

Some of my adventures with an airbrush. . .

This 'what if' from the original Airfix 1/72 Buccaneer kit, it is a JASDF 'Kaizoku R1' I won't bore you with the full back story but 'Kaizoku' is Japanese for 'pirate' the R1 being a reconnaissance platform to counter Chinese incursions into Japanese air space and territorial waters, it has a 'radioactivity sensor' pod under wing for collecting air samples after Fukushima Daiichi nuclear incident North Korean nuclear tests.

Finished in JASDF 'sea camo' shallow and deep sea blue

Miko (thinking out of the kit box!)