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Staff Sergeant
Vickers Supermarine Seafire Mk. 46 LA546 900/LM
Personal mount of Capt. Caspar John
Station Flight, RNAS Lossiemouth, early 1948
Finally polished this one off:
This is probably the build I'm most proud of, not because it's anything spectacular to look at (it ain't) but the fact I managed to see it through to completion. on at least three occasions I nearly wrote it off and moved on to something else. On one, I was ready to put it on the floor and stomp on it. Even when I sprayed the wrong kind of varnish on it and watched the paint blister and crack before my very eyes, I took a deep breath and reached for the sandpaper.
The kit is the Jays/Ventura Mk. 47 - or some of it is. After knocking together a variety of Spits from Airfix, Tamiya, Kopro, Heller, Revell and others, this kit - "for the experienced modeller" - was a whole new ballgame. Endless cutting, sanding and filling to get it to fit but (I gather) an accurate representation dimension-wise. From the kit I used only the fuselage, wings/tailfins, wheel covers and tradiators, everything else is cannibalised from other kits. The prop is a lovely Aeroclub metal job. Cheers to Evan for the canopy
. The decals are Model Alliance, and very nice.
The kite in question was the personal 'plane of Capt. (later Admiral) Caspar John who was a pioneer of the FAA - Caspar John - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - quite a career. I have a pic of the original airframe:
I think my EDSG turned out a bit dark, though the 'plane seems to be very will lit in this pic. NB being land based it didn't have an arrestor hook fitted. There should be a little guard thing in front of the tailwheel but that would have been beyond fiddly, I can live without it!
Cheers!
Personal mount of Capt. Caspar John
Station Flight, RNAS Lossiemouth, early 1948
Finally polished this one off:
This is probably the build I'm most proud of, not because it's anything spectacular to look at (it ain't) but the fact I managed to see it through to completion. on at least three occasions I nearly wrote it off and moved on to something else. On one, I was ready to put it on the floor and stomp on it. Even when I sprayed the wrong kind of varnish on it and watched the paint blister and crack before my very eyes, I took a deep breath and reached for the sandpaper.
The kit is the Jays/Ventura Mk. 47 - or some of it is. After knocking together a variety of Spits from Airfix, Tamiya, Kopro, Heller, Revell and others, this kit - "for the experienced modeller" - was a whole new ballgame. Endless cutting, sanding and filling to get it to fit but (I gather) an accurate representation dimension-wise. From the kit I used only the fuselage, wings/tailfins, wheel covers and tradiators, everything else is cannibalised from other kits. The prop is a lovely Aeroclub metal job. Cheers to Evan for the canopy
. The decals are Model Alliance, and very nice. The kite in question was the personal 'plane of Capt. (later Admiral) Caspar John who was a pioneer of the FAA - Caspar John - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - quite a career. I have a pic of the original airframe:
I think my EDSG turned out a bit dark, though the 'plane seems to be very will lit in this pic. NB being land based it didn't have an arrestor hook fitted. There should be a little guard thing in front of the tailwheel but that would have been beyond fiddly, I can live without it!
Cheers!
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