Beyond The Sprues

Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Aero-space => Topic started by: The Rat on August 06, 2024, 04:36:09 AM

Title: Where is this one going?
Post by: The Rat on August 06, 2024, 04:36:09 AM
Or, rather, where will it be coming from? Well, the cargo will be wine... 

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Title: Re: Where is this one going?
Post by: The Rat on August 06, 2024, 08:16:51 AM
Considering how bad the winscreen is, I did more with the flight deck than I should have

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Yes, it's this bad, and that gap is diabolical

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Title: Re: Where is this one going?
Post by: Buzzbomb on August 06, 2024, 08:20:25 PM
The kit is clay in the hands of the maestro... you will whip it into shape
Title: Re: Where is this one going?
Post by: Frank3k on August 07, 2024, 04:24:55 AM
That windscreen gap is something else! Can you make it contact at front and just build up the rear, since it has a simpler cross-section?
Title: Re: Where is this one going?
Post by: The Rat on August 07, 2024, 05:14:43 AM
Quote from: Frank3k on August 07, 2024, 04:24:55 AM
That windscreen gap is something else! Can you make it contact at front and just build up the rear, since it has a simpler cross-section?

The gap is vertical, so I'm building up the bottom of the windscreen with strips of plastic.
Title: Re: Where is this one going?
Post by: The Rat on August 11, 2024, 01:08:30 PM
Scraped off the primer to aid the glueysticky bit, masked, and this Bristol Freighter will have an extended range. Can't remember where the tanks came from.

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Title: Re: Where is this one going?
Post by: The Big Gimper on August 11, 2024, 10:46:30 PM
Things under the wings! A great build philosophy.

Thou hadth just read my mind Dave!

I have a HP Hastings which I just learned also carried drop tanks.

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Title: Re: Where is this one going?
Post by: The Rat on August 12, 2024, 02:15:20 AM
Quote from: The Big Gimper on August 11, 2024, 10:46:30 PM
Things under the wings! A great build philosophy.

Thou hadth just read my mind Dave!

I have a HP Hastings which I just learned also carried drop tanks.

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Wow, I've seen lots of photos of them never noticed those. According to PR19_Kit;
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Smacks of the Dart Herald, that could be ordered with extra under wing tanks, but very few airlines actually did.

Never saw one of those either.
Title: Re: Where is this one going?
Post by: apophenia on August 12, 2024, 04:07:23 AM
Quote from: The Rat on August 12, 2024, 02:15:20 AM
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Never saw one of those either.

FWIW: Second prototype HPR.7 Dart Herald fitted with underwing fuel tanks (from Air Pictorial, Sept 1959).

Note that the tanks are mounted in the same positions as the outboard Leonides Majors on the HPR.3 Herald.
Title: Re: Where is this one going?
Post by: The Rat on August 12, 2024, 04:31:10 AM
Quote from: apophenia on August 12, 2024, 04:07:23 AM
Quote from: The Rat on August 12, 2024, 02:15:20 AM
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Never saw one of those either.

FWIW: Second prototype HPR.7 Dart Herald fitted with underwing fuel tanks (from Air Pictorial, Sept 1959).

Note that the tanks are mounted in the same positions as the outboard Leonides Majors on the HPR.3 Herald.

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Title: Re: Where is this one going?
Post by: raafif on August 12, 2024, 07:24:15 AM
Quote from: apophenia on August 12, 2024, 04:07:23 AM
Second prototype HPR.7 Dart Herald fitted with underwing fuel tanks

Those look identical to the ones supplied in the old Esci F-27 Friendship kits.