Recent content by smackers

Great build. 110 photos here, some may be duplicates of some on other sites but some will not. Includes some shots taken of cockpit from outside the aircraft and one of pilots area from above. And heres 161 photos of the Fw-189 with some actual interior shots taken, should think the Bv-141...

Thats really good deckape. I just checked my fiddlersgreen account and i've got $20 store credit, that Dam Buster Lanc is calling me i think.

Just bought a couple of the unpainted kits from a well known auction site, arrived today. Appears to be 6 in series, 1) A6M5 2) Ki-43 3) J2M 4)Ki44 5)Ki-61 and 6) Ki-84. Also note no stands included. Mike

Fiddlers Green have a paper / card Dambuster Lanc, i have no idea of scale and it's for sale by download only meaning you have to print it out. Looks very detailed too. Just noticed the person building one stated the span at rudders (fins) is 10 inches. I'm sure that'll be helpful to work out...

They are the ones released by Airfix Evan, they released 4 Zero's from Collection 10 The Doyusha Tsubasa collections can be found here. You'll notice kit collections are listed in reverse order hence my link direct to page 2. The Doyusha Wings Collection EX can be found here. There is another...

I believe the ejection seats and other components (possibly even engines?) may have been removed prior to the aircraft destruction. If burning was the planned form of destruction the aircraft seats will have been removed to be disarmed as the pyrotechnics charges would have cooked off in a fire...

Once the first seat (serial number 14) had been restored we sent it to Canada for auction and a deal was done to secure the seat for the Toronto Aerospace museum. A good result for aircraft preservation and a great result for Canada. However one thing that still niggled me was how a super rare...

Dated 1958 with Serial Number 11 this is an incredibly rare item that represents the pinnacle of the Canadian Aerospace industry. Only a handful of these seats were produced prior to the cancellation of the Arrow project with all aircraft, tooling, blueprints and equipment including ejection...

according to the seller of this ebay item L@@K Avro Arrow CF-105 Aircraft Pilots Ejection Seat Canadian Air Force CAF | eBay Sale and story / theories also here http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20111217/avro-arrow-ejection-seat-mystery-deepens-with-uk-discovery-111218/ Story copied and...

I was taught rudeness gets you nowhere, should have banned them

Lol, i recall someone bringing up an old thread from the introduction and it confused people enough to start saying welcome to the forum again

I have about 2-3 black bags (refuse sacks) full of empty kit boxes in the shed from where i've placed similar kits into one box and i obtained some kits with more than one similar kit in each box aswell. If i've managed to list everything onto my spreadsheet (which i think i have) then i make it...

Yep thats in 1/200 scale. Eastern Express do a couple of Li-2 boxings in 1/144 scale, apparently copies of the Minicraft DC-3 Military version Civil version Mike

Hello chaps, been a while since i've been on here. Last time i posted photos there were quite a few but i managed to get most of them into one photo this time, it had to taken outside summer just gone as no room in the house is big enough. There was a large box of kits not in photo because i was...

You mean at Taranto i assume. No, all those aircraft had wheels not floats. Here's a link for the Taranto attacks Taranto : Battles : History : Royal Navy Mike