Calling all model kit fans - she's finally done

[captain nemo1701]

I found this shot of part of the cockpit set:

photos of the restored 44 inch filming miniature can be found at:
http://davidsissonmodels.co.uk/

 

[captain nemo1701]

can't beat the Eagle. I stumbled across these 'boneyard' photos a while back. I quite like them.

Thats a great website - if only it was real

 

[Illaveago]

This is more of a work in progress project. I found it in my loft today, it had been packed away several years ago prior to our move.
It is the Airfix 1/72 scale Buccaneer, the modern version not the one from the 60's which I loved and which was shot up by my brother and cousin. I thought that I would try to replicate some of the features of the original model as well as try to do a bit of super detailing.
The rotating bomb bay was a bit awkward, but with the use of some plastic plumbing pipe and some plastic card I managed to fashion up a working replica. I managed to crawl under a real Buccaneer which was on display at Kemble Airfield and took some photos of the undercarriage and bomb bay. I also took some pictures of the rear airbrake assembly which is rather complicated.

 

[midlife]

This is more of a work in progress project. I found it in my loft today, it had been packed away several years ago prior to our move.
It is the Airfix 1/72 scale Buccaneer, the modern version not the one from the 60's which I loved and which was shot up by my brother and cousin. I thought that I would try to replicate some of the features of the original model as well as try to do a bit of super detailing.
The rotating bomb bay was a bit awkward, but with the use of some plastic plumbing pipe and some plastic card I managed to fashion up a working replica. I managed to crawl under a real Buccaneer which was on display at Kemble Airfield and took some photos of the undercarriage and bomb bay. I also took some pictures of the rear airbrake assembly which is rather complicated. View attachment 336495

My uncle used to build Buccaneers at Brough near Hull...Top plane at low level by all accounts

Shaun

 

[Illaveago]

My uncle used to build Buccaneers at Brough near Hull...Top plane at low level by all accounts

Shaun

You bet they were. They would sneak up on you at air displays and make you jump out of your skin by their sudden arrival overhead.
I think that when they used to do Red Flag days in America they found that nothing would touch them flying low level.

 

[PaulB]

This is more of a work in progress project. I found it in my loft today, it had been packed away several years ago prior to our move.
It is the Airfix 1/72 scale Buccaneer, the modern version not the one from the 60's which I loved and which was shot up by my brother and cousin. I thought that I would try to replicate some of the features of the original model as well as try to do a bit of super detailing.
The rotating bomb bay was a bit awkward, but with the use of some plastic plumbing pipe and some plastic card I managed to fashion up a working replica. I managed to crawl under a real Buccaneer which was on display at Kemble Airfield and took some photos of the undercarriage and bomb bay. I also took some pictures of the rear airbrake assembly which is rather complicated. View attachment 336495

Since going back to my first love of airplane modelling, I always remembered the rotating bomb bay on the Bucc and the jokes we had at school about it (the word, not the plane - 'Two pirate ships passed in the fog and the lookout on one shouts, "where's your Buccaneers' and the lookout on the other ship shouts back, "they're on my bucking head'.) which was a big job for me to do at the time. I was hugely impressed by my finished version of that so it brings back good memories to see that again so thanks. There's a lot of really excellent videos on the You Tube featuring some brilliant modellers and showing how to create good finishes like weathering and ageing.

 

[Illaveago]

I thought I would post this picture. A bit of nostalgia for those of you who can remember the little capsule of glue that came inside the early boxed Airfix kits.
I can remember almost getting some in my eye when it burst. It had that satisfying squidgy feeling you get when playing with bubble wrap.
The coin is a 2P for size. I found the capsule in one of my old kits.

 

[Cycleops]

And what horrible stuff it was too. Those were the days illaveago.

 

[classic33]

And what horrible stuff it was too. Those were the days illaveago.

Revell use it now though.

 

[captain nemo1701]

Meanwhile, in a parallel universe, eagle 1 is coming along....

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Yeh, I had one of these....

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Yes, sometime in the mid eighties. It was my first ever R/C build.

I don't know if you'd want to tell us which model shop you ran, but those I used were Radio Active in Upminster, Al's in Hainault, Colin Bliss in Elm Park and Beatties in Romford.

 

[cosmicbike]

Yeh, I had one of these....

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Still got 4 Tamiya cars/trucks, good fun for the kids.

Al's Hobbies is still going, used to be a regular when I flew RC planes & helis

 

[classic33]

Got their Boomerang & Blackfoot, amongst others. ESC's are now replacing the three speed control though.

Beatties went more than a few years ago though.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Got their Boomerang & Blackfoot, amongst others. ESC's are now replacing the three speed control though.

Beatties went more than a few years ago though.

Shame, because they carried a huge selection of models and not just R/C. I remember they had a shop in Holborn too. Unfortunately the High St model shop is all but history now.

 

[classic33]

Shame, because they carried a huge selection of models and not just R/C. I remember they had a shop in Holborn too. Unfortunately the High St model shop is all but history now.

Not too keen on sharing from what I remember. Importer of Tamiya kits at the time had a say in their running.