Beyond The Sprues
Modelling => Completed GBs => Group and Themed Builds => "Anything Goes"/"Strut Your Stuff"/"Introductory" GB => Topic started by: Brian da Basher on February 26, 2012, 12:05:17 AM
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Next on deck is a 1/72 Amodel Beriev KOR-1 which will be wearing the wings left over from the Tony:
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/KOR-1box.jpg)
This one will have a few other modifications and be wearing some interesting markings.
Stay tuned.
Brian da Basher
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After a day's work, I got the fuselage buttoned up and the new wings & landing gear on. The skis are from a 1/144 DC-3. Here's a few in-progress shots. The canopy and prop aren't glued on yet.
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/CAN-1_prog_03.jpg)
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/CAN-1_prog_02.jpg)
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/CAN-1_prog_01.jpg)
I still have a little sanding to do and then it'll be time for paint & decals!
Brian da Basher
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Looks very natural, very believable.
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That's what I tought too. It looks totally legit.
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Oh that is a winner! love the skis!
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Quite an improvement really ... a Beriev biplane turned sleek !?! Nice work Brian :)
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While not widely known to the outside world, Russians have a great love for beer. In fact, beer was instrumental in the Russian revolution in 1917:
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/Lenin_beer_statue.jpg)
Unfortunately, by 1933, the country was in crisis:
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/Stalin_out_of_beer.jpg)
However, Stalin had a plan: invade Canada and get their beer. Preparations were made:
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/Stalin_maps.jpg)
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/soviet_spy_40_pounding.jpg)
continued...
Brian da Basher
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The objectives of the Soviet invasion were clear:
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/invasion_targets.jpg)
In March of 1934, the Red Army launched an attack on the Great White North from across the North Pole. The Canadians, while caught off guard, resisted bravely:
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/mountie_and_Bob__Doug.jpg)
Unfortunately, despite their best efforts, the Red Army seemed unstoppable. Recruiting more troops did little to stem the tide:
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/recruiting_in_kilts.jpg)
Fortunately, the Canadian Car & Foundry Co. came to the rescue with a radical new attack plane called the CAN-1:
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/CAN-1_01.jpg)
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/CAN-1_02.jpg)
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/CAN-1_04.jpg)
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/CAN-1_03.jpg)
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Brian da Basher
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While the CAN-1 was a revolutionary and incredibly capable aircraft for its time, it didn't hurt that the invaders stopped to rest on their laurels:
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/red_army_general__officers_party.jpg)
This gave the brave Canucks the opportunity they needed to finally push the Soviet invaders out of their country. Armed with two .303 guns in the wings and two .50 cal. guns in a tail turret as well as two 250 lb. bombs, the CAN-1 was the perfect weapon for getting the Reds on the run.
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/CAN-1_05.jpg)
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/CAN-1_06.jpg)
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/CAN-1_09.jpg)
continued...
Brian da Basher
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Within a few months, the last of the Soviet invaders had been forced out of the Great White North. This caused a little back-pedalling from the Red Army:
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/Soviet_General_with_aide.jpg)
Today, the CAN-1 is beloved as the aircraft that kept the True North free. Boys still build model kits of it with which they bomb and strafe imaginary backyard invaders.
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/CAN-1_07.jpg)
(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/CAN-1/CAN-1_08.jpg)
Brian da Basher
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Another top notch entry...you really are strutting your stuff!
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You keep making the coolest propeller aircraft!! 8)
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Personnally... I love the story. But after their fail with Canada, USSR will turn to Germany ?
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Abso-frickin-lutely AMAZING, Da Basher! I chortled all the way through it even while going back and realizing, "Hey, he also executed a fantastic kit-bash." Encroyable! >burp!< Sorry, too much of the Labatts, I fear. Wow. You, my friend, should be the one writing novels, great big, silly, make-the-world-smile sort of novels. This is the good stuff, Brian! O0 Somehow, I'm going to have to copy-paste this whole thread into a Word doc for later viewing.
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Hiralious, brilliant stuff Brian. And if CanCar had designed a turret fighter, I'd bet that it'd have looked just like your CAN-1!
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Great models and a great story. ;D