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Title: Kotare
Post by: The Big Gimper on August 26, 2025, 05:29:58 PM
1/48 Handley Page Halifax Mk.II - Anticipated shipping: mid-2028

(https://d26qn1y84zs32g.cloudfront.net/pics/K48501.jpg?t=1756199070)
Title: Re: Kotare
Post by: Old Wombat on August 26, 2025, 06:28:50 PM
Colour me interested!  8)




Depending on the price.  ::)




Which, on checking, isn't outrageous!  ;)
Title: Re: Kotare
Post by: GTX_Admin on August 26, 2025, 06:33:03 PM
 :smiley:
Title: Re: Kotare
Post by: apophenia on August 27, 2025, 02:35:16 AM
Quote from: The Big Gimper on August 26, 2025, 05:29:58 PM
1/48 Handley Page Halifax Mk.II - Anticipated shipping: mid-2028

Love that moody box art! I'm guessing this is the work of Kōtare's usual guy, Darryl Legg (although it hasn't show up on his website yet).

-- https://www.aviationartsa.com/military-aircraft/ (https://www.aviationartsa.com/military-aircraft/)
Title: Re: Kotare
Post by: Old Wombat on August 27, 2025, 09:03:23 AM
Quote from: apophenia on August 27, 2025, 02:35:16 AM
Quote from: The Big Gimper on August 26, 2025, 05:29:58 PM
1/48 Handley Page Halifax Mk.II - Anticipated shipping: mid-2028

Love that moody box art! I'm guessing this is the work of Kōtare's usual guy, Darryl Legg (although it hasn't show up on his website yet).

-- https://www.aviationartsa.com/military-aircraft/ (https://www.aviationartsa.com/military-aircraft/)

If you get in early on the pre-orders there are two of his pieces included with the kit, this and the "official" box art (this is, apparently, just a teaser piece).

I'm saving very hard, already!  ;)
Title: Re: Kotare
Post by: The Big Gimper on August 28, 2025, 02:26:48 AM
For the Canucks and others, a very famous Canadian actor, Robert Clothier, flew Halifax's with 408 SQN.

https://www.bombercommandmuseumarchives.ca/s,robertclothier.html (https://www.bombercommandmuseumarchives.ca/s,robertclothier.html)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clothier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Clothier)

So Kotare also need to kit up a Hercules powered B.III

In X-Files twice.
Title: Re: Kotare
Post by: apophenia on August 28, 2025, 06:19:22 AM
Quote from: The Big Gimper on August 28, 2025, 02:26:48 AM
For the Canucks and others, a very famous Canadian actor, Robert Clothier, flew Halifax's with 408 SQN...

Oh, please tell me that Bob's Hallibag was named 'Taffy'!!

OT but Bob Clothier was also an enthusiastic painter who used to exhibit his work at galleries back in Gibsons Landing ('Home of The Beachcombers"). I had always assumed that he was a talented amateur but, it turns out, he worked as a commercial artist while living in Britain. Who knew?

-- https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/clothier_bob
Title: Re: Kotare
Post by: Frank3k on August 28, 2025, 11:59:40 PM
He also did book covers:

(https://x.sf-encyclopedia.com/gal/MooreP-MastMoon.jpg)

for Patrick Moore's "The Master of the Moon" (https://sf-encyclopedia.com/gallery.php?id=MooreP-MastMoon.jpg)