After a slight delay, my planned build of the little known Bristol 'Bocage' aeroplane has begun.
https://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-bristol-bocage-inter-war-light.html (https://wwiiwargaming.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-bristol-bocage-inter-war-light.html)
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Looks good Steve.
As it might be expected to operate over the Bristol Channel - maybe the top Camo could be that red-brown mud colour we all associate with the Seven Estuary?
Super!!
Something that size bound to put the willies up the Bosche.
Just proves we are all totally nuts - assume it's 1/144 or there abouts ? Great stuff
Thanks chaps :) :).
@ Mark: Nice idea to 'hide' over the Bristol channel using estuary brown on the upper surfaces :D. I do want to do a seaplane of some sort, so it can land on rivers (I know not likely but I like the idea) and is based along the Severn somewhere.
@ Ian: Yep I'm nuts! It is 1/144th and IIRC they used to be owned by Skytrex, until that all went tits up a good few years ago.
Quote from: Steve J on 18 February 2021, 02:34:13 PM
@ Mark: Nice idea to 'hide' over the Bristol channel using estuary brown on the upper surfaces :D. I do want to do a seaplane of some sort, so it can land on rivers (I know not likely but I like the idea) and is based along the Severn somewhere.
Maybe the seaplane could be called the Severn Sea Serpent
Quote from: Steve J on 18 February 2021, 02:34:13 PM
Thanks chaps :) :).
@ Ian: Yep I'm nuts! It is 1/144th and IIRC they used to be owned by Skytrex, until that all went tits up a good few years ago.
I think all the Skytrex stuff is still around. H&R bought the micro armour, Red Egale? have the C19 ironclads, and I think 1/144th aircraft, and there is Skytrex 2000 for a rump. Other stuff is around as well.
Nice!
Image search for Westland Wendover for a laugh.
Looks like a Lysander front end with a Lancaster tail, I'm tempted.......... :d
That is just mad but as Ian has said, strangely tempting to make a model of!
Great to have a model to play with in a a Resistance v Gestapo game - especially the idea that it has a pair of forward firing 20mmcannons for strafing !!!
;D ;D ;D
Ok so all we ned is a 1/144 Lanc and Lysander - any ideas peeps ?
1/144 Lancasters are readily available in both plastic kit and diecast, although you're talking ~£16 a plane.
Lysanders on the other hand, which I want three of for my WW2 Turks, are hard to come by. Fox One Studios do a resin kit for about £25!
https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10660326
http://www.internetmodeler.com/scalemodels/aviation/Fox-One-1-144-Lysander-Mk-I-Full-Build.php
or Shapeways at a tenner each
https://www.shapeways.com/product/CYZ2UYNUG/westland-lysander-1-144-scale
On Shapeways: https://www.shapeways.com/product/REJ4MEM8P/1-200-westland-p12-wendover - 1/200 scale for £4.83
Quote from: Big Insect on 19 February 2021, 03:15:53 PM
Great to have a model to play with in a a Resistance v Gestapo game - especially the idea that it has a pair of forward firing 20mmcannons for strafing !!!
;D ;D ;D
Consign that new-fangled autocanon chat to the repair depot..
There's nothing the Bosche fear more than the rattle of an air-gunner attempting to unjam his trusty Lewis.
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Excellent as always
Quote from: Big Insect on 19 February 2021, 04:15:33 PM
On Shapeways: https://www.shapeways.com/product/REJ4MEM8P/1-200-westland-p12-wendover - 1/200 scale for £4.83
I thought I might check this out and buy a model ... but then there is the usual Shapeways 'nonsense':
ORDER SUMMARY
Items (1) £4.83
Processing
£0.25
Shipping £14.57
Tax 0% £0.00
Total: £19.65
Your order will be charged in EUR. Your total is €22.20 EUR
Shame really - I wonder if I could just buy the code and get it printed in the UK. Hmmm.
I did consider it, so thanks for that Mark. The advantage to buyong the code is that youn can rescale to 1/160th and 1/300 as well, not that I could. If you do I'll take one if 1/200 or 1 in 1/160th and 1 in 1/300th