Happy birthday mate, hope you’re feeling the birthday buzz (awful pun, but it’s the best I can do :D)

A little gem indeed, nice work John! Amazingly detailed for such a tiny model.

Taking the topic just slightly off-course, I’ve heard that some Russian radials have some design feature that prevents hydraulic lock, and/or clears the oil from the cylinders without removing the plugs. Is this true, and if so how is it done??

Am I right in thinking these are Baby Great Lakes?

I’m too lazy to turn round and grab an aeroplane book off the shelf!

Cheers!
Scotty:cool:

It looks to me like a Lake 250 Renegade. The lake corporation have a produced a range of these baby flying boats over the years.

http://www.pilotfriend.com/aircraft%20performance/Lake/lake.htm

Edited: Looking at them again, it looks as if the foreground example is a Buccaneer and the one in the background looks like a Renegade.

Hi RJB,

It basically has to be G-CBEL as she’s the only airworthy SeaFury in Europe at the moment (there aren’t any Tempests-yet). The RNHF example is down and out with engine gremlins for the moment, and has been for a while.

She IS based at Bournemouth, perhaps the guy you spoke to meant that she wasn’t associated with the Flying Club. She’s flown roughly once a month to keep her in good shape.

Just thought I’d mention that in some cases there was no primer or interior painting at all, an example being TFC’s Spit Mk.IX project (RK858) that was recovered from Russia in the early nineties.

http://www.fighter-collection.com/pages/aircraft/spit_ix_2/index.php

Obviously it’s necessary for you to paint your components Cees, so it’s not exactly helpful, but I thought it was an interesting nugget all the same. 😀

Phwoar! Some phantastic phootage, such a shame I didn’t appreciate them when they were still in RAF service. Oh and the SeaVixen is a nice bonus too, as Bex has pointed out. 😀