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[Airframes]

Some good stuff here chaps. From what I've seen, Kittyhawk kit are rather good.

These have just arrived from Gp.Cpt. Dougie Barr, to be built one for 46 Sqn Association, in the 'Middle East' camouflage scheme, and one for Dougie, as a 115 Sqn aircraft, when he was O.C. of the Squadron, which will be in the red and white scheme of the calibration aircraft.
Slightly nervous - there's £200 worth here, so i'd better not mess up things !!

 

[fubar57]

Best of luck Terry. I've never heard of those kits. Off to the Googler...............

 

[Airframes]

Geo, S & M Models specialise mainly in airliners, in 1/72nd and 1/144th scales, in both resin and injection kits. They also do a few other kits of various odds and ends.

 

[Capt. Vick]

God Speed Terry!

 

[Crimea_River]

Never built an all resin kit. Not sure I want to.

 

[Airframes]

It's certainly going to be a different experience Andy. The fuselage, in particular, will require some thought, as 'normal' CA adhesive will be too fast-acting for the joints (fuselage joint is 13 inches long), so I need to look at usable alternatives, probably a two-part epoxy.

 

[Wurger]

Yep .. the best adhesive for the resin parts is the resin. For sticking of these small pieces the CA glue can be.

 

[Airframes]

Thanks my friend, that confirms what i'd thought.
I'll use a two-part epoxy for the fuselage joints, and CA for the other resin and white metal parts.
Got an e-mail from Gp. Cpt Barr with some photos of the subject aircraft, which are the same airframe in two different colour schemes, so these will really help when the time comes to paint the models,
There's no chance of getting them done in time for the 46 Sqn 101st anniversary, but i want to try to get them done by the time I go to 'Flying Legends' in July, if possible, or by late August at the latest.

 

[Wurger]

I see. Looking forward to that building

. BTW.. pick up a couple of straight pieces of copper wire of different diameter. These can come in handy because you may need them for wing , stabilizers stringers etc. The resin parts don't have the set pins mostly.

 

[T Bolt]

Good luck with it Terry. I've never done an all resin kit either, ant that looks like a big one.

The Kitty Hawk kits arrived and I opened up the F-94 and it looks real nice.

 

[Airframes]

Thanks Glenn, and thanks for the reminder Wojtek. A (very) brief test fit indicates that there will be a lot of work locating and aligning parts, particularly the fuselage joints and the tail-planes.
The only locating 'pins' are on the nose, and two on each tail-plane, none of which are much help !
If I can get this done successfully, then i can probably decorate my hall via the letterbox flap - or drink a bottle of beer without removing the cap !!!

 

[Wayne Little]

A big challenge there Terry.....

 

[Lucky13]

Don't say anything, don't say anything, don't say anything....

 

[Capt. Vick]

Hot off the front porch. Always found this vehicle interesting, no stagger-wing included. Supposedly one of 10, if that can be believed. If nothing else it's weird.

 

[Airframes]

It's certainly different, and interesting too. Are you going to add the aircraft ?

 

[Wurger]

 

[Capt. Vick]

If and when, yes I will Terry

 

[Airframes]

Good stuff.
Must have been difficult to fly that Staggerwing, with all that weight underneath it ..................... I'll get me coat !

 

[Wurger]

 

[T Bolt]

Where did you get it Jim, I think I am going to have to get one.

This is an amazing coincidence but I am currently reading Atlantis Found, a Dirk Pitt book by Clive Cussler and the Snow Cruiser is in that book, in fact in the chapter I'm reading right now when the two main charters have "borrowed" it from people who have dug it out of the ice and are making a dash across the Ross Ice Shelf in it. Until I saw the post above I thought it was a figment of the author's imagination. In the book it is described just like the drawing above down to the horizontal yellow stripe. According to the description in the book, The stagger wing was intended but never used and the vehicle was capable of crossing ice crevices by retracting the front wheels and using the back wheels to slide the body across until the front wheels were on the other side when they would be lowered wile the rear tires would be raised and the front tires would pull the vehicle the rest of the way across.