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gemarriott

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If there are any good modellers out there in need of a project please PM me

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I'll ask someone I know at work.

He's been doing a diorama of a bombed out French Cafe. The Cafe has taken a month or so of Tea-breaks and Lunchtimes and it looks fantastic.

However, you may have to wait a while, because he also did a small armoured tank thing to go in front of it... all in all it's been about two and a half months and he's not finished it yet!:pDT_Xtremez_09:

If you are willing to wait, I'll vouch for his skill.:pDT_Xtremez_30:

HTB

PS, don't ask me to do it... it'll be stuck to the end of my fingers in no time, with finger prints on the canopy and bits missing from all over!:pDT_Xtremez_30:
 
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gemarriott said:
If there are any good modellers out there in need of a project please PM me

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What you after Gem?..

My Canberra..

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MAINJAFAD

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Built a big Phantom once...Made mostly out of Double Bond...It was this big Honest!!! The Hawk was to the same scale.
 

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MAINJAFAD said:
Built a big Phantom once...Made mostly out of Double Bond...It was this big Honest!!! The Hawk was to the same scale.
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Nice work there mate!:pDT_Xtremez_14:

I've a Revell 1/32 Tornado GR1 I'm converting into a Telic GR4 on the go at the moment.Just need to get the Flightpath update & detail set.
 
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spike7451 said:
Nice work there mate!:pDT_Xtremez_14:

I've a Revell 1/32 Tornado GR1 I'm converting into a Telic GR4 on the go at the moment.Just need to get the Flightpath update & detail set.
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The Toom and the Hawk were 1/24 Scale and completely scratch built, the only bits not made by myself were the Roundles off a specialist decal sheet. I've got a few 1-32 scale kits including the Revell GR1 one, though I'm waiting for somebody to do a F3 conversion.
 
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But do they fly?

A few of those above need a couple of small jet engines (2-5 lbs thrust) and a load of bombs.
 
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amfortas said:
But do they fly?

A few of those above need a couple of small jet engines (2-5 lbs thrust) and a load of bombs.
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It would have taken more than a couple of micro turbojets to get that Phantom to fly...Thing must have weighted 30 Kg at least as it was almost soild Double Bond (well the wings, Fin Tailplane and drop tanks were).
 
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spike7451 said:
The is a 1/32 conversion for the GR1 kit...I've asked on Britmodeller...

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=62213

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I know, I do hang around on Brit modeller myself under another handle and I've got the old Flightpath one for the old Revell F2, pity the old F2 kit don't match up with the newish GR1 moulding. (one of Flightpaths kits, I did the painting guide for (its on my Avatar here) I knew that there had been a semi decent conversion that somebody had done, which got the rear cockpit correct, something that no injection F3 kit has ever done (As for the guy who ran Aerodynamix, I wouldn't touch any outfit run by him with a barge pole. Forked out £60 quid for the infamous 1-32 scale mixed media Bucc back in 1990 which never arrived).
 
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MAINJAFAD said:
It would have taken more than a couple of micro turbojets to get that Phantom to fly...Thing must have weighted 30 Kg at least as it was almost soild Double Bond (well the wings, Fin Tailplane and drop tanks were).
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Two 5lb thrust jets would indeed be a tad short of umph for a 30kg plane. Two 15lb thrust ones would do though. There are bigger RCs than 30kg flying around.

It is airflow over the wings that provides the lift.
 
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amfortas said:
Two 5lb thrust jets would indeed be a tad short of umph for a 30kg plane. Two 15lb thrust ones would do though. There are bigger RCs than 30kg flying around.

It is airflow over the wings that provides the lift.
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Never really been into RC modelling other than a short spell in RC off road car racing (Did start a 1-96 Scale Type 42 Destroyer and an RC Trainer Aircraft, but both got crushed in transit between postings before I finished them). As for anything will fly given enoungh power....A line once said to me as a kid by a HSA apprentice at Hatfield when I asked him if his Thunderbirds type flying machine wind tunnel model would actually fly if actually build full size.
 
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amfortas said:
Two 5lb thrust jets would indeed be a tad short of umph for a 30kg plane. Two 15lb thrust ones would do though. There are bigger RCs than 30kg flying around.

It is airflow over the wings that provides the lift.
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Biggest one I saw was a C-17.
 
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