Recent content by skyskooter

Here is another good shot of a drop tank topside.

This is a picture of the B36 my grandson built from the kit I gave him. No decals on the wings. He photographed it alongside a model of the B70 for size comparison. Please show your Dad. This is the shape of things to come.

I am almost your father’s age and know how tough it can be. Your picture of the B 36 kit is a bit fuzzy and I cannot see what scale it is. About 15 years ago I bought a 1/72 scale kit of the same aircraft from a stall at an air show and gave it to my grandson. He made a good job of building it...

Yes, Vallejo paints are good. I have also used Mr. Color but I made the mistake of thinning it with Tamiya acrylic thinners because it was all I had. I wondered why it wasn’t coming out of the airbrush. It had gelled into a gloopy mess. I used Mr. Color thinners and it was fine. Moral: do not...

A day or two ago I was using Mr. Color RLM 81 through an airbrush. I always like to thin it a little so there is no possibility of a clog mid spray. I was out of Mr. Color thinners but I had Tamiya acrylic thinners which I used instead. I started spraying and in a second the airbrush clogged. To...

Margaret Thatcher nearly lost her son Mark in the desert when he went missing on a motor rally during her time as Prime Minister.

Here is a diagram of all the stencils on the Me 163 taken from Luftwaffe Painting Guide by Smith, Pentland & Lutz published in 1979. It includes the oxygen decal. It might prove useful in checking off the markings on the Cosford example. In addition the wireless antenna should also be marked...

I have always wondered why it was camouflaged on the underside. Does anyone know?

It was not at Yeovilton that it crashed in 2014. It was at an air show at RNAS Culdrose when it made a forced landing after engine failure. Bristol Centaurus seems prone to mechanical failure.

I too lived close to Upper Heyford and well remember the night they flew out on the Libya raid. It so happened that I had set up the video recorder on timer to tape a Kenny Everett programme. Next morning I found that the VHS recording had failed. What surprised me was that when I mentioned it...

Use Milliput. It is a two part epoxy resin putty supplied in two sticks. Break off two lumps of equal size. Knead them together and press on to the part. It takes 24 hours to set and adheres to any substrate. Dries rock hard, can be filed and sanded smooth. It even sets under water. I have just...

Not just machine guns and petrol but the crew could be robbed too. A Junkers Ju 88 was shot down over Exeter during the war the crew bailing out at night. The pilot came down on his parachute and landed high up in a tree. He was dead. After hanging there all night a local boy having heard the...

It certainly does look as if it is made of cement. Not unique at this stage of the War with the shortage of strategic materials. The Blohm & Voss Bv 246 Hagelkorn had high aspect ratio wings formed of cement around a steel spar. One wonders how good the aero elasticity was.

Don’t think so. The object only has one wing tip.

I cannot access the first four of the links in Post # 31 but only the fifth. From the drawing it is apparent that there are control spoilers on the trailing edge of the tail surfaces (in common with the wings and fin) which are absent from the object under discussion. However they could...