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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Handley Page Halifax VII, Airfix, 1/72

« on: April 20, 2018, 08:29:05 AM »

Hello mate,

Thank you.
Task was hard because at the beginning there was this "thing" :

Jicéhem

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Aircraft Modeling / Hawker Typhoon Ib, Airfix, 1/72

« on: April 19, 2018, 11:43:14 PM »

Hello all,

Here is the last Hawker Typhoon Ib by Airfix in 1/72 scale. The kit is highly detailed and very accurate with one very important shortcoming in the form of an inaccurate four-bladed airscrew. I replaced it by the propeller of the brengun kit...
I mounted no bombs and nor rockets because I wanted to represent the plane of F/O A. H. Fraser of RAF 439 (Canadian) Squadron who shot down two Fw 190 As on January 1st, 1945 and an Me 262 A-2 of 5./KG(J) 51 on February 14th, 1945 (This is the red Balkenkreuz on the fuselage right side).

Jicéhem

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Aircraft Modeling / Hawker Typhoon Ib, car door version, Brengun, 1/72

« on: April 19, 2018, 11:29:53 PM »

Hello all,

Here is the Brengun kit of the Hawker Typhoon Ib ("car doors" version) in 1/72 scale. It's not an easy kit to build but it is very accurate. Brengun reproduced the Oerlikon 20 mm cannons, rarely used on the Typhoon, in place of the 20 mm Hipano Suiza... Recognition markings are typical of the Typhoon to avoid confusion with the Fw 190.

Jicéhem

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Aircraft Modeling / Handley Page Halifax VII, Airfix, 1/72

« on: April 19, 2018, 11:15:37 PM »

Hello

Here is the very old Handley Page Halifax III from Airfix. As I wanted to represent a French "Heavy" of the Groupe of Bombardement ( GB) 2/23 "Guyenne" that is RAF 346 Squadron, I modified it into the only one Halifax VII (with rounded wing tips) used by this squadron. All other differences are internal. I was largely helped by the fact that this plane was photographed from both sides. At the time of photos, the codes were not completely painted, letters on the fins and some on the left fuselage side having not yet received their yellow outline. The markings are from a decal sheet from Almark.

Jicéhem

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Miscellaneous Subjects / 24 December

« on: December 24, 2017, 08:44:22 AM »

Merry Christmas for all

Jicéhem

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Warplane Art / Re: Junkers Ju 87

« on: October 06, 2017, 08:59:20 AM »

Hello mate,

One more time, very good profiles. Bravo !

Jicéhem

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Warplane Art / Re: Vought F4U Corsair

« on: October 06, 2017, 08:53:25 AM »

Hi mate,

Very nice profiles.

==> Second Air Force : Otaki's kit is always a great kit. I built mine decades ago and is still here...

Jicéhem

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Harvard Mk.II Academy 1/72

« on: October 04, 2017, 10:18:25 AM »

Hello

Nice kit and very good build.

Jicéhem

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Aircraft Modeling / Supermarine Spitfire XIV, Frog, 1/72, 1969.

« on: October 04, 2017, 10:05:08 AM »

Hello

Here is to be seen the second Griffon-powered Spitfire by Frog, the Spitfire XIV, which was issued in 1969 and I built it during the same year. In the box we also found a Fieseler Fi 103 (V1) flying bomb. The kit is generally accurate but the engine cowling is a little too slim. It's confirmed by the fact that the diameter of the spinner is a little larger thant that of the front section of the cowling... The wing fillet lacks the gull-wing shape on its undersurface and runs too far along the fuselage. The rear-view mirror atop the windshield has disappeared... Decals are of high quality. Humbrol paints, the reference of which I've forgotten.

Jicéhem

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Me 262 Night fighter, Revell 1/32

« on: October 04, 2017, 08:19:49 AM »

Hello mate

Amazing result. This kit seems to be not so easy to build as it would be expected nowadays.

Jicéhem

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Spitfire XIV (Fujimi 1/72)

« on: October 04, 2017, 08:09:56 AM »

Hello

Very interesting project. I'll follow the build.

Jicéhem

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Bordurian Messerschmitt Bf 109

« on: September 02, 2017, 12:05:43 PM »

Hi,

Bordurian Bf 109 in "Le sceptre d'Ottokar"... Great story. In the first version of this story the plane resembled a He 118... and national markings were different.

Jicéhem

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Aircraft Modeling / Curtiss F11C-2 Goshawk

« on: May 01, 2017, 08:17:17 PM »

Hi

This Lindberg kit has been edited in the years 1956-1960. The represented plane is Curtiss F11C-2, BuNo 9282, allocated to VF-1 on USS Saratoga in 1933. The livery is from "Yellow Wings" decal sheet Company. The operational markings are red tailplane for the aircraft-carrier USS Saratoga, lemon yellow (engine cowling, chevron on the wing and the band on fuselage) for the last three planes of the squadron ie 1-F-16, 17 and 18. At that time, the metallic parts are painted a gloss light gray and the fabric covered fuselage and wings are painted with varnish completed by some aluminum dope.
I added sreader bars into the rigs and control wires for horizontal tailplane and tailwheel. I added too streamling bumps on fuselage sides in connexion with the breeches of the machine-guns the barrels of which go through the cylinders... I added also spark plug cables on the front of the engine. Wheels, a little bit small, saw their diameter increased by cementing a strip of plastic 0,5 mm thick around the tires, then, by filling and filing, I restored the good shape of the tires. The wheel rims were accordingly enlarged. Naturally, the housing of these wheels was also enlarged.”

Close-up on the engine where we see the barrels muzzles between the cylinders and close up on control cables of the tailwheel and the horizontal tailplane :