Kenneth ONeill Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Ignoring the stripes are wrong discussion your build looks excellent as usual, nothing mediocre about it!! Makes me thing I do need to add 1 to my collection! You're misreading me: I'm not saying "the stripes are wrong" but "rough stripes are acceptable on WW2 models, even if not on preserved warbirds". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Army_Air_Force Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 A diorama of a Dakota having its stripes painted would make a nice model. Must add it to the "To Do" list!! Considering that D-Day was delayed by a day ( "Group Captain James Stagg of the Royal Air Force met Eisenhower on the evening of 4 June. He and his meteorological team predicted that the weather would improve enough for the invasion to proceed on 6 June." - Wiki ), the stripes application may have already started on the night of June 4th. I guess it depends on when the order came down to start painting and when the delay 24 hours order came in to the various airfields. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter s Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Ignoring the stripes are wrong discussion your build looks excellent as usual, nothing mediocre about it!! Makes me thing I do need to add 1 to my collection! You're misreading me: I'm not saying "the stripes are wrong" but "rough stripes are acceptable on WW2 models, even if not on preserved warbirds".Seconded. Although it's harder than it sounds to pull off. Incidentally I've an old Airfix mkix spit with d day stripe decals (it's lined up to be done as "the beer spitfire") and I measure them at a little wider than 6mm I always think the decals are an easy option and usually regret it. I may well end up painting them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter s Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 A diorama of a Dakota having its stripes painted would make a nice model. Must add it to the "To Do" list!! That's such a good idea I'm going to see if I have something smaller and cheaper than a dakota and steal your idea! ☺ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenneth ONeill Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Ignoring the stripes are wrong discussion your build looks excellent as usual, nothing mediocre about it!! Makes me thing I do need to add 1 to my collection! You're misreading me: I'm not saying "the stripes are wrong" but "rough stripes are acceptable on WW2 models, even if not on preserved warbirds".Seconded. Although it's harder than it sounds to pull off. Incidentally I've an old Airfix mkix spit with d day stripe decals (it's lined up to be done as "the beer spitfire") and I measure them at a little wider than 6mm I always think the decals are an easy option and usually regret it. I may well end up painting them.JE-J jr is known to have been a "beer runner", and still carrying full stripes into August. Given that it was a Group Captain's personal aircraft and a replacement I think the stripes may have been "properly painted" rather than "daubed on in a rush". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Earth Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Very nicely done ! Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter s Posted February 1, 2019 Share Posted February 1, 2019 Ignoring the stripes are wrong discussion your build looks excellent as usual, nothing mediocre about it!! Makes me thing I do need to add 1 to my collection! You're misreading me: I'm not saying "the stripes are wrong" but "rough stripes are acceptable on WW2 models, even if not on preserved warbirds".Seconded. Although it's harder than it sounds to pull off. Incidentally I've an old Airfix mkix spit with d day stripe decals (it's lined up to be done as "the beer spitfire") and I measure them at a little wider than 6mm I always think the decals are an easy option and usually regret it. I may well end up painting them.JE-J jr is known to have been a "beer runner", and still carrying full stripes into August. Given that it was a Group Captain's personal aircraft and a replacement I think the stripes may have been "properly painted" rather than "daubed on in a rush".That's probably the codes I'm going to use. Stripes are painted. I tried the decals and found them basically useless. Even with microset/sol they don't conform.6mm masking tape and spray was ok but in the end a big square end brush and one confident stroke gave a better result than anything. In 1/72 even a rough job has to be very straight. ps from a lot of googling the "beer truck" seems to be A LOT more common than a few spits. I found all sorts of tales of booze/aircraft. Hanger queen b17s/b24s doing test flights to altitude to chill the beers seem common.Ice cream made in drop tanks (50 years pre heston Blumenthal) is repeated too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin M Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 A splendid build. I used to know an old boy who had taken off in loads of these aircraft, but never landed in one ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter s Posted February 2, 2019 Share Posted February 2, 2019 A splendid build. I used to know an old boy who had taken off in loads of these aircraft, but never landed in one !I can claim 9 more take offs than landings. 1x Cessna 172 8x Hercules. When I did my first jump there was a veteran of arnhem doing his first in 50 years. I was too shy to ask him about his last one but maybe that was the right thing to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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