Beyond The Sprues
Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Aero-space => Topic started by: Daryl J. on September 29, 2013, 02:25:08 AM
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FR.5, US Army. Chaff/flare dispensers. Presumably the T-33 engine would fit.
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In the schemes of any of the Hawker Hunter operators.
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Maybe as a carrier fighter?
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Hot dog! A new tool FR.5 is coming.
Canada, Norway, Greece, Turkey, US Army-Vietnam, RAF Iraq 1991, and Khemed.
And that's before whiffy work creates some shape changes.
So what if it has the reputation of being the Hunter's idiot cousin. ;D
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Hot dog! A new tool FR.5 is coming.
Photos?
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Hot dog! A new tool FR.5 is coming.
Photos?
According to the rumours Greg, Airfix are issueing a 1/48 kit in 2014. Not confirmed is the scale though, because the rumours started when someone on Britmodeller pre-empted the posting of picutres in Airfix' Advent Calendar which is supposed to drop hints as to what will be released next year. A Swift was identified before the thread was removed ---
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US Army edition: Stateside test markings, around the same time the Gina and Skyhawk were being evaluated. Overall Army green like the AH-1's of the time and red or orange tips.
Edit: what I saw of the Swift was detailed to the level of the Sea Vixen and Javelin making me think 1:48. My Whiffverse wants for US Army aircraft are much better served in 1:72, but I'm rather Luddite about staying in 1:48. :-\
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Edit: what I saw of the Swift was detailed to the level of the Sea Vixen and Javelin making me think 1:48. My Whiffverse wants for US Army aircraft are much better served in 1:72, but I'm rather Luddite about staying in 1:48. :-\
:oLuddite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Does that apply to all adherents to the old ways of 1/48? ;D
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Does that apply to all adherents to the old ways of 1/48?
Nope. Just that part of my Whiffverse. U.S. Army Harrier ---Airfix GR.1. Gina---Meng. A-4B---Airfix. F-20 with a recce nose---Hasegawa. Swift----Xtrakit. In 1/48 there is the shockingly expensive and even more rare Hasegawa A-4B that's tooled at modern standards. That's it. And I'm hesitating at converting my Hasegawa A-4Charlie into anything at all. ::)
So I welcome the Swift. (And the Gina too......but that's a different thread's subject matter.) And should it prove to be 1/72 scale, no worries. :)
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Note to self: American flown, named Chubba the Thick Skinned Pie Pig.
Someone elsewhere said the Swift looked corpulent as though it had eaten a Hunter and all of its pies. And with its PITA double skinning.....
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The 2014 Airfix Sqift is a 1/72 FR5, it's pictured in their web catalogue, albeit only in an 'all grey' finish so far.
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Found on Facebook. :smiley: ;D
(http://photos.smugmug.com/BTS-2/i-7wFpQhL/0/f615ec42/XL/SWIFT_LSR-XL.jpg)
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That needs to be built.
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It was going to be:
The aircraft planned for the conversion was FR.5 WK277
http://www.rafjever.org/2sqnpic024.htm (http://www.rafjever.org/2sqnpic024.htm)
WK277 is the Swift in the Newark Air Museum.
(http://www.plane-crazy.k-hosting.co.uk/Aircraft/Jets/Swift/Swift-FR5-WK277.jpg)
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I meant in model form.
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(https://cdn-live.warthunder.com/uploads/76/c1/81/6470b4ff9161a55f2c7ff9e5a9bfa1785f/War+Thunder+Screenshot+2020.03.08+-+00.38.27.44.png)
(https://cdn-live.warthunder.com/uploads/8c/4c/b8/dea2e6dbc1657cda53e10bc13065bf2271/236390_20200308010359_1.png)
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(https://combatace.com/uploads/monthly_07_2014/post-23484-0-87668400-1404484232_thumb.jpg)
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Looks right !
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(https://combatace.com/applications/core/interface/imageproxy/imageproxy.php?img=http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh173/SPINNERS1961/WHAT%2520IF%25202010/WHAT%2520IF%2520ALBUM%2520A/RDAF%2520SWIFT%2520FR5.01_zpsadchrefv.jpg&key=5afe83327228ab0a9908946c61b8aa2605f57d45873266e025c50f96442947c3)