Airworthy

Mosquito (please……)
DH88 – CSS and CSP together
A good MB5 repro

Static

RAF
Hornet Brigand Whitley Whirlwind Welkin Stirling Hampden (not half and half)
Halifax (most are on their way)

Boston, Maryland and Baltimore

something like a Bombay or a Wellesley – must be one somewhere…

oh and a Heyford………..

FAA
Barracuda Skua
(FAAM has good starting point for each)

Civil
HP42 DH Albatross

let’s just see what happens

Mossie Bomber Colours

Best reading on this is

Scale Aircraft Modelling Combat Colours No 5 – Mosquito in RAF PR and Bomber Service 1941 – 1945 by Paul Lucas

It seems that some early BIVs were finished in DE/DG/Sky prior to the decision to adopt the Fighter Command DG/OG/MSG scheme whilst there is some speculation that a number of those with DE/DG uppersurfaces were finished in Azure Blue rather than Sky undersurfaces

make of that what you will!

joining a discussion forum is a bit like joining a Motorway…..

indicate that you’re joining the motorway to let those already there know that you’re joining by all means but stay in the slow lane until you’ve got a feel for the pace and the traffic………..

Once you’ve got acclimatised then by all means move into the middle and outside lanes….

rushing to move into the outside lane as soon as you join the motorway tends to pi55 off those already on the road and can end up in crashing and burning 🙂

here endeth the lesson

thanks be to Mark 12 and his Bishops

I think you have to applaud the Canadian’s for their inspiration and determination in seeing this project to it’s end. Compare the British efforts with the Hampden and I feel
we have a lot to learn in involving the public and driving a project.

David

Are we talking the RAFM half and half restoration, or the East Kirkby resto or the donation by the RAFM of the Hampden nose to Canada -which admittedly has helped a very worthy restoration?

I hope that the success of the Trenton Halifax restoration and the way it was achieved are taken notice of – but I’m not going to hold my breath.

we’ll wait for the black smoke then…….

Hi Folks

Firstly so we all understand there are two broad categories of Beaus which served in Australia. Those coded A8- ** were Australian constructed Mk 21s and those coded A19-** were imported UK early series machines. The easy way to tell was the MK21s had the nose bulge for the compass and a dihedral horizontal stabilizer – Nearly all the imported aircraft in the A19 series had no nose bulge and a flat horizontal stabilizer.

John P

The dihedral tailplane was introduced midway through production of the Beaufighter VI and thereafter applied to all later marks of the British built machines as well. I don’t think that the Roman nose was ever retrofitted to Brit built Beaus particularly as I read somewhere that the Sperry Auto pilot was rarely fitted to the DAP Mk21s anyway

Other ways of identifying Brit/Aussie Beaus are the two 0.50 Brownings in both wings on the DAP21 compared with the Britsh provided 2×0.303 Brownings in one wing/4×0.303 Brownings in the other wing to take a/c of the landing light in the wing leading edge.

Other differences included a more ergonomic cockpit in the 21 and the shape/arrangement of the Observer’s blister – particularly when the observer was provided with a 0.303 Browning as well. The Brit blister had much more framing in those circumstances

IIRC there was an article about it and a conversion by Alan W Hall in an Airfix Magazine way back when.

It was probably converted from a Short Stirling or a B-Type bus. Thats how they used to do conversions in the olden days before resin, etched brass and sunken panel ines were invented…….

Although the original was a C-47, IIRC the “replica” was a DC3 or C-41(?) with the small door

Anybody tried replicating the CG-47 yet………. :dev2: