Rocket Ron. Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Love the rockets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailorman Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 I've never heard of those words before, PC! I'm guessing those are what those rockets are called? GNR-Gordon-4 (AFGordon, In the late 1960's the world was space mad. Airfix had released the Saturn V and a kit of the Russian launcher. Basically the Russians used the same launcher for many missions - both manned and unmanned. Airfix issued a kit of the launcher with options for Sputnik - the first satellite, Vostok - the capsule used by Uri Gagarin, the first man in space (and others) and Soyuz - a 3-man capsule still in use today taking astronauts to service the space station. The one Aifix called sputnik was actually closer in shape to Lunik.The picture I posted is of three kits built one with with each option. ( you only get one rocket in each kit but the spacecraft on top are interchangeable. I bought and built three of them so that I could build all the options). - actually I still have another 2- unbuilt - one to build Voskhod - a 2-man capsule and the other to build as Sputnik itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peebeep Posted April 14, 2020 Author Share Posted April 14, 2020 R-7s, cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWR-Gordon-4 Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 @patrick Camilleri Yes, I can gathered that the world was space mad then, even though I did not exist in the 1960's! 😆 😉 😀 Thank you for the information. 😀 GNR-Gordon-4 (AF) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim_vincent Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Thanks for your kind words, Paul and Dominic. There is, of course, no evidence for what colour a real one would have been painted if it had gone into production, and RAF service, so I assumed that the RAF would decide it was a fixed-wing aircraft and paint it in the then-current transport colours of dark earth and light stone, and not the helicopter colour scheme of dark green and dark grey. Mostly because I really like the brown/sand colour scheme and I don't have room to build and display a Hercules in that scheme!Talking of something that definitely is a rotary-wing aircraft, here's the old-tool Airfix Sikorsky SH-3D (with a few details from the revised Westland version of that tooling, a scratch-built and again, mostly invisible interior, and scratch-built folding rotor hub based on a spare Revell hub), built as an Agusta-Sikorsky ASH-3D of the Italian Navy (Marina Militaire):/media/tinymce_upload/b33d22e3da6def5288ddc21a39c57f8f.jpg/media/tinymce_upload/09f962c3b9e2e4eb9fab9ba83c7c9ce5.jpg(and decals from Tauro Models and the spares box!)Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 /media/tinymce_upload/5e3bd1f14a77574e88ffc17ddc18cc50.JPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWR-Gordon-4 Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 What scale are those planes? Good image. 😀 GNR-Gordon-4 (AF) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 They're all 1/72 Airfix Lightnings - don't you recognise the diorama base? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurricane Boy Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 They're all 1/72 Airfix Lightnings - don't you recognise the diorama base?Nice Lightnings Ratch. Looks like they are all from new mold kits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWR-Gordon-4 Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 @Ratch Yes, I do recognise the diorama layout. I was wondering if the aeroplanes were the same scale, as the other models are. GNR-G 😀rd 😀n-4 (My 600th post on the Airfix Forum! 😎 😉 😀) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 They're all 1/72 Airfix Lightnings - don't you recognise the diorama base?Nice Lightnings Ratch. Looks like they are all from new mold kits.I've only built two new tool Lightnings, so at least two of them are old tools (the F1A must be one) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pretty Mediocre Modeller Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 My Latest entry, 1/72 Focke Wulf Fw 190D-9 Luftwaffe 1945/media/tinymce_upload/20dcf309f573355fc8d7c8bd212ed169.jpg/media/tinymce_upload/a3296b07d27244614716f8133ec36979.jpg/media/tinymce_upload/1a6b4bbe9391f83407a0c1c80db03fc0.jpg/media/tinymce_upload/7c15167ef9a6e544c10caf669f177a70.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather Kavanagh Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Here's my first entry here. I don't want to post it in the main aircraft section, even though it contains at least 50% Airfix kit... /media/tinymce_upload/cabb800c6ec7cc38980e04d3ddd4b7a1.jpg Using an Airfix Dornier Do17E/F kit for the fuselage, and a Revell Do17Z for the wings and tailplane, I made a Do17P. I nicknamed it FrankenDornier, because it's a proper cross-kitted lashup! /media/tinymce_upload/0407d0a2536b4200bcfac41e2872e632.jpg Extras added were a PE set for the cockpit and some exterior details, resin main wheels, and vacuum formed transparencies. The model represents one of the long range photo reconnaissance planes still based in Germany early in 1940, and flying out over France and Belgium before the invasion. /media/tinymce_upload/39e4df7a8c9b884c51153145df694941.jpg It's not totally accurate, but it pleases me. There are kits for the 17P and M available from RS Models, but I don't think I'll bother to get one. Thanks for looking. If I find time, I'll post a couple of other images soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket Ron. Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Nice job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 /media/tinymce_upload/d4a4c75c0deb2d3015180560a0055e2d.JPGAr234 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toboldlygo Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Firstly another vintage OO Gauge railway kit from me.. K's (Keyser) 40' GWR Parcel's Van. /media/tinymce_upload/00a112e04c1ad39cd05cb87a00ba32a0.jpg /media/tinymce_upload/0e7750fa1f6016126d164d786cf363b8.jpg Then it's time for a few OO Gauge buildings from Timber Tracks.. /media/tinymce_upload/3fbdf13fed5f1ac0a0532477372ca0ee.jpg /media/tinymce_upload/c9c341654222cd81dcbc37ba26c4191c.jpg /media/tinymce_upload/4bbfcf5488e09c6247108aee2db875cf.jpg /media/tinymce_upload/0973f980a7bac7f8636b9fca76dd1c59.jpg/media/tinymce_upload/265b4959a468718e81af46da68dbb35e.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWR-Gordon-4 Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 @james_mower Have you got a OO gauge model railway, or have you got one in working progress, interest? Your images are very nice and I recommend you head over to the Hornby Forum, to post these images as well. I believe a lot of members will enjoy viewing these. 😀 GNR-Gordon-4 (AF) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 /media/tinymce_upload/c1a55d1d99acccc7d764459f660ffceb.JPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailorman Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Wouldn't it be nice to have a new tool of this one? I'd love a 1:24 kit but can't see that ever happenng!/media/tinymce_upload/6f89e768c95f6ebf320c1e4f6f6e9b7e.JPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NWR-Gordon-4 Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 Ratch and Patrick Camilleri, thank you both for posting your image each. 😉 😀 GNR-Gordon-4 (AF) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peebeep Posted April 17, 2020 Author Share Posted April 17, 2020 Wouldn't it be nice to have a new tool of this one? I'd love a 1:24 kit but can't see that ever happenng! There is a new tool kit, but it's not Airfix! 😉 Also a 1/48 kit from Mikro Mir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted April 18, 2020 Share Posted April 18, 2020 /media/tinymce_upload/ce1d64f1c137e50240eb15ed11eedf40.JPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peebeep Posted April 18, 2020 Author Share Posted April 18, 2020 I know I've had a couple of glasses of wine with dinner, but I'm looking sideways at that! I'd better make a contribution. I give you...Strandbeest! (yes, it was a plastic kit) /media/tinymce_upload/145a7488cf260de5209f3fe5aff979ef.JPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ratch Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 /media/tinymce_upload/babd70293ffd51ab7015de48c3580fea.JPG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailorman Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 That can't be the old Frog kit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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