A Nostalgia Trip..

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A Nostalgia Trip..

Postby VH-WAL » Thu Oct 26, 2017 4:07 pm

I was 17-ish (65 now!), mad keen on aviation and regularly posted letters to aircraft manufacturers requesting pictures. Those were the days I got loads of the stuff,all of it gone in all my moves through life..except one, this one I kept all these years:
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Then for years I sought the rare and long out of production Aurora kit (it came in two scales this is the larger one about 1/60 from memory). I then found a kit but also managed to get a "junker" a veritable glue bomb that had been put together using military grade nuclear cement, my attempts to dismantle for a rebuild were almost terminal but I persisted on and off for a couple of years. Now this rebuild is very ordinary, full of flaws and scars, the only modelling of any merit maybe are the home made decals but nevertheless,I still like it,
it is going to sit on my desk and gather dust, I am going to excuse all it's faults,
Image for those that are interested the model was modified with a new nose and repositioned maingear to get this trigear super H18 version.
I did this one as "proof of concept" besides wanting to resurrect the old junker.. I may now do the same conversion on my "mint" kit, scratch building an undercarriage for a wheels down model...maybe, maybe not
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Re: A Nostalgia Trip..

Postby hrtpaul » Thu Oct 26, 2017 5:12 pm

Love it mate :)
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Re: A Nostalgia Trip..

Postby Cap'n Wannabe » Thu Oct 26, 2017 5:23 pm

That's a Beech 18, isn't it? Kind of, anyhows.
How come you didn't get the Hobbycraft C-45F or C-45H?
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Re: A Nostalgia Trip..

Postby VH-WAL » Thu Oct 26, 2017 5:28 pm

Cap'n Wannabe wrote:That's a Beech 18, isn't it? Kind of, anyhows.
How come you didn't get the Hobbycraft C-45F or C-45H?



hey Damo,

cos it would require even more modification..high roof and extended squared wing tips as well as the pointy nose.. I built one and didnt really like it. The large Aurora one is actually a nice size even if an odd scale
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Re: A Nostalgia Trip..

Postby Ansett A330 » Thu Oct 26, 2017 7:25 pm

Disregarding the size/scale issue is the Pioneer 2 kit any better?
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Re: A Nostalgia Trip..

Postby Ansett A330 » Thu Oct 26, 2017 7:33 pm

Ansett A330 wrote:Disregarding the size/scale issue is the Pioneer 2 kit any better?


Looks like Encore provided some corrections for the Pioneer 2 kit :

https://modelingmadness.com/scott/korea ... /72102.htm
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Re: A Nostalgia Trip..

Postby RayS » Fri Oct 27, 2017 7:08 am

Nice to see these out of the ordinary builds Wally, which is not out of the ordinary for you :D
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Re: A Nostalgia Trip..

Postby Adam the Akrodude » Fri Oct 27, 2017 11:24 am

Wicked Prof, wicked! Sometimes our most challenging builds are the most rewarding. Looks a cracker!
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Re: A Nostalgia Trip..

Postby VH-WAL » Fri Oct 27, 2017 3:04 pm

Adam the Akrodude wrote:Wicked Prof, wicked! Sometimes our most challenging builds are the most rewarding. Looks a cracker!



thanks adam,

for all its faults I do like it a lot.. thinking I want to do another...properly!
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