O/T New Airfix Battle of Britain set

[Pat_Pattle]

Hi all,

Take a look at this! I've been dropping Fathers day hints all week! ;0)

http://www.airfix.com/us-en/battle-of-b ... t-set.html

[HAZZIE]

Pat - if yer really want a hyper scale challenge for a year or three, build one of these 1:24 Airfix kits
I did once, back in '77 or so, and machined minature control parts rudders etc to pull wire cables operating the rudder elevator etc.

Remember the larger the scale, the more difficult to make it look realistic, but easier it is to graphite buff metallic engine parts to make them metallic shiny, like the Rolls Royce embossed nameplate really stand out

[HAZZIE]

A GWS electric foamy (1100mm / 4' wingspan) I built about 10 yrs ago, with a bit of paint detail ( horrible scale model proportionally, ie nose spinner completely wrong - too pointy, but it flew quite well )
These Chinese - they helava clever, actually


the RC aerial is superglued to a rubber band to a reinforced piece of toothpick on top of the tail, to keep it taught, and break if pranged
see silver spray effect to help look weathered ( airbrush, Tamiya acrylic model paints -bloody expensive)
see foam damage to back of rudder


cut holes and fitted separately purchased retracts ( this thing is OK to take off, but impossible to land due to the COG, much like the real thing,
so have to land wheels up in long grass - hence bit of damage to wingfoam leading edges )
the marks left by the extrusion nozzles make quite interesting 'rivet' effect, even if completely wrong ( impossible to sand off without roughing the wing surface up)
( doesn't occur on fuselage as extruded from inside of hollow body - but wing is one piece construction with a recess for a carbon fibre tube main-spar you can see the dent of this)



changed the motor to x2 power - this thing does about 350 mph! ( no real effect on weight - jus battery time )



used mosquito netting for the glycol & oil intake grilles -sprayed silver
see the COG dowel 'balancing frame' with ball pins on top that fit little recesses in the wing - yer gotta get the COG exact or else this thing becomes very uncontrollable in the air
biggest balance issue is the battery position - held in place where the fuel tank would be with stick on Velcro - have to reposition it +/- 3 times before flight to get the COG exact
wheels separately purchased - inner plastic hub + foam tyres ( they're slight bigger than scale but that OK for ground taxiing )


the instrument panel is a coloured photostat pasted onto the firewall, the image on it from an A2A WoV screencapture, resized exactly to fit once printed
the mirror is made of carved rubber for prang resistance ( ground loop landing) and the reflective surface is some plastic foil superglued
the canopy frame is thick masking tape strips stuck onto the blown plastic cowl - gives a slight recess and easy to hand paint with a small brush
pilot head & torso made from closed cell surfboard foam, and hand painted with Kokie pen stitching lines, masking tape goggles etc


the actual coloured Photostat 'decal' used for the cockpit - see above ( one used has more enhanced saturated colour to see through clear plastic )

[HAZZIE]

Jus to prove I can still operate without eyes - built this 1200mm foamy last year
also made in China - but much nicer kit

see added paint job, silver scratch texturing, exhaust blast marks etc

photographed on my studio deck outside table





had to add the tail swastikas


added white tape spiral on the spinner





the main undercarriage has oleo suspension

[ShadowShooter]

Hi all,

Take a look at this! I've been dropping Fathers day hints all week! ;0)

Lots of nostalgic fun there, Pat!

changed the motor to x2 power - this thing does about 350 mph!

That could give Mugabe a nasty fright!

[HAZZIE]

Ha Ha Ha - that's why drones ( & RC aircraft, for that matter unless at a designated airfield and small in size, no FPV telemetry etc ) in ALL Southern Africa are ABSOLUTELY BANNED -20yrs in jail.

If you think Obama NIS are worried about drones, the instant our guys hear a Bumble Bee thisside, they get a sort of 'Taliban' mentality, turn white and bolt for the nearest sewer.

You, see, similar to Lenin, and Stalin, their heros, they utterly sh*t themselves, for those closest to them, and ride in Blue Light Brigades that make Gadhafi look like a Boy Scout

what happened to ministers in Lenin's 1st Socialist government

Executive Officer Nikolai Gorbunov Executed 1938
People's Commissariat for Agriculture of the RSFSR Vladimir Milyutin Died in prison 1937
People's Commissariat for Military Affairs of the RSFSR Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko Executed 1939
People's Commissariat for Military Affairs of the RSFSR Nikolai Krylenko Executed 1938
People's Commissariat for Naval Affairs of the RSFSR Pavel Dybenko Executed 1938
People's Commissariat for Food Ivan Teodorovich Executed 1937
People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR Leon Trotsky Assassinated 1940
People's Commissariat for Interior Affairs of the RSFSR Alexei Rykov Executed 1938
People's Commissariat for Justice of the RSFSR Georgy Oppokov Executed 1938
People's Commissariat for Labour of the RSFSR Alexander Shlyapnikov Executed 1937
People's Commissariat for Posts and Telegraphs of the RSFSR Nikolai Glebov-Avilov Executed 1937


There have been rumours from relative sources, that some of our top dogs may be connected to assassinations of rivals and dissidents, pre the New South Africa, when in Zambia and places where the Freedom Fighters were based. This well covered up - little on the Net, but one day will come to the fore.

Imagine Obama getting into power thru, say the assassination of Hilary CLinton?

[Pat_Pattle]

Hi Hazzie, wonderful modelling! My skills are a little more modest than yours but your photos are inspiring.

I've looked at getting the Airfix 1/24 model but its finding somewhere to keep I once finished.....

[HAZZIE]

Pat, the 1:24 Spit ( those are modern Net images btw) got trashed decades ago, due to storage and moving issues.

The foamys hang on walls by cup hooks to their tail wheels.

Storage of any display model is a huge problem.

I have bought glass cabinets for display models and military mannequins, but they get filled up with other hoarded things, liquor and glasses etc, so my prized small scale (1:48) plastics from the '70s & 80's are wrapped in strip paper in sealed boxes. So much for looking at them.

Paintings are easy, as framed and take no space hanging on walls.

And even better is the digital model, and it's animation programme, as it can be stored on a flash drive.

I wonder what the next vertual reality decades are gonna bring, intersecting laser holograms, dimensional closed helmets gravity machines and the like?
Did you see the huge laser hologram they arranged to replace the cliff Buddha destroyed by ISIS in IRAQ, a week or two ago?

They wanted to create a 2000' high laser hologram of a jumping Dolphin out of the sea, at about 6 kms offshore of Durban for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, but it cost half that of the new stadium.