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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Late war Bf109

« on: November 20, 2008, 11:28:29 PM »

Hi mate, 

How I improved the Heller kit :

1) The spinner :

2) The wings :

Cheers,
Jicehem

977

Aircraft Modeling / Re: Late war Bf109

« on: November 19, 2008, 02:24:12 PM »

Hi mate,  

You're right. Heller kit is basically a good kit. In any case it's better than the revell G-10.
Remember, the following link shows Heller kit :

http://www.letletlet-warplanes.com/forum/index.php?topic=1028.0

Personnally, I've combined parts of Heller and Revell... Particularly for the airscrew-spinner assembly ; on the Heller kit the axle is on the wrong side !
I've used the blades of the Heller airscrew mounted on the boss of Revell's (part # A 16). The back plate is Heller's (part # 30) adjusted to fit the Revell's spinner which has a slight better shape than Heller's. The propeller blades of Heller are glued in place of those of Revell.

There is also an improvement of the Heller wings to be done : tha angle of the leading edge is not exactly good : it must be 3° 58'. The taper of the wing is good and it's the reason why it's better to keep Heller's wings. The Revell's have so important shortcomings that it's easier to improve Heller's ones. To do this rectification, a hole is made (2 mm diameter) just above and between the representation of the cases ejection openings. From this hole the part is cleaved and the necessary amount of plastic is to be cut off in the shape of a long triangle.
After that the edges of the gap are to be joined to obtain the good angle of the leading edge.

Cheers,

Jicehem  

978

Aircraft Modeling / Re: Late war Bf109

« on: November 18, 2008, 06:41:39 PM »

Hi mate, 

A very good study, indeed !
I agree with you, this plane is strange but a reason of those colors could have been an important weathering.
Do we know when this photo was taken ?
In spite of possible weathering (lightening the colors) we can see that there was no spiral on the spinner and that the fuselage cross is not white. That's sure !
Do we know also where JG 27 was fighting at the end of the war ?
If it was on the eastern front, the numeral was not red, a color forbidden on that front. In this case red was replaced by black.
The numeral should be blue...

Cheers,

Jicehem

979

Aircraft Modeling / Re: Scale model show Telford UK

« on: November 17, 2008, 08:03:36 PM »

Thank you very much for these very beautiful pictures.

Jicehem 

980

Combat Warplanes / Siebel 204 and NC 701/702 in French AA :

« on: November 17, 2008, 10:39:01 AM »

Hi all,


In my reply to N°1, I told that the 20 German Si 204 of the "armée de l'air" included those given by the RAF. It's a mistake : there were 21 planes in German standards (N° 1000 to 1020) and the RAF gave 35 Si 204 Ds which were added to the number of "armée de l'air" Siebels.
There were 350 NC 701/702 "Martinet" produced but we find numerals out of sequence which may be either wrong transcriptions or the last digits of German Werknummern.

A photo of a Si 204 D in German standards (N° 1005, actually the 6th Si 204 D produced by the SCAN at Bourges) on 9 January 1950. This photo was given to me by an "old timer" :

And some pictures found in documents which were to be destroyed...

NC 701 "Martinet I", N° 14, with German engines but with French instrumentation :

Other "Martinet I" on an unknown airfield, but I guess that was Avord :

Maintenance on a "Martinet I" at Avord :

An inflight view of NC 701 "martinet I", N° 90, which was later destroyed on the ground by a storm :

A NC 702 "Martinet II" (N° 327) at Avord :

Cheers, 

Jicehem 

981

Combat Warplanes / Re: Old magazine cover photos (2)

« on: November 16, 2008, 05:30:08 PM »

Any relation with Siebel 204?

Hi mate,

Yes, a great relation with Si 204 D which was produced by SNCA du Nord under the designation NC 701 "Martinet I" with SNECMA 12S engines (a development of the Argus As 411)
The "Martinet II"  (alias NC 702) had a new nose, but no relationship with the Si 204 A the nose of which is different.

The "Armée de l'air" received 20 Si 204 D (N° 1000 to 1019) in German standards with Argus As 411 engines and german cockpits... Those planes had been produced by the French or by the German. Among those 20 planes, some were given to France by the RAF and wore German Werknummern. The inscription "Siebel 204" was worn on the tricolor rudder of the planes.

Cheers,
Jicehem

982

Warplane Art / Re: Grumman Goose

« on: November 16, 2008, 05:20:41 PM »

Hey Jicehem- where did you been this days  I was worry about you. So we will have here also one French sample in profile  Here we are my progress this morning...

 

Don't be worry, mate.

I'm very busy because I'm preparing a travel to Malakoff and Versailles (near Paris). I go by my children who are living here...

Cheers,
Jicehem 

983

Combat Warplanes / Re: Old magazine cover photos (2)

« on: November 15, 2008, 11:52:13 PM »

Hi Nico, 

Great picture ! 

I've it but I have to retouch it before posting...

For today, a less known French plane : SNCAN N-702 Martinet II

Cheers,

Jicehem 

984

Warplane Art / Re: Grumman Goose

« on: November 15, 2008, 10:32:33 AM »

Very interesting.
There were some in the French Navy.

Cheers,
Jicehem

985

Warplane Art / Re: PT-19

« on: November 15, 2008, 10:30:31 AM »

Hi mate,

Very good and a nice plane.

Jicehem

986

Aircraft Modeling / Convair F-106A Delta Dart.

« on: November 08, 2008, 12:21:37 PM »

Hi all,

From an old box, the top picture you have seen of in a previous post, the Convair F-106A Delta Dart, from Revell in 1/67 scale and issued in 1959.

Cheers,

Jicehem

987

Combat Warplanes / Re: Republic RF-84F Thunderflash

« on: November 08, 2008, 09:21:42 AM »

Hi mate,

OK.
The first image is mine : this the plane on which I worked when at school...

Cheers,
Jicehem

988

Combat Warplanes / Re: Republic RF-84F Thunderflash

« on: November 07, 2008, 06:33:51 PM »

Hi mate,

I'm not the author of those photos... I forgot (Ooops !) to tell that... They were given to me at the 33 ER.
I never worked on RF-84F.
As this forum is very confidential, I've taken the liberty to post these pictures to share them with all.
If that makes problems I'll delete them...

Cheers,
Jicehem

989

Combat Warplanes / Republic RF-84F Thunderflash

« on: November 07, 2008, 09:53:04 AM »

Hi mates,

The plane on which I learnt my job of photographer (work on aerial cameras) :

During the time I was in military school at Rochefort, the 33 ER had the same type of planes :

And when apprenticeship was over, I had to work on... Mirage IIIR !

Cheers,
Jicehem

990

Combat Warplanes / Re: Old magazine cover pictures, one more

« on: November 05, 2008, 06:01:03 PM »

Hi mate,

The SE 2410 which was shorter and single-seater was a fighter. The SE 2415, a two-seater was a multirôle plane.
There has had serious vibration problems and the plane, due also by lack of credits, was abandonned...

Cheers, 

Jicehem