Always wanted one of those :dev2:

Naaw, only if new front t(i)yres were fit!

Lol

Michael

I’ve just got three tins of the same British Standard BS381c 298 Olive Drab paint from three different sources and each one is a different colour- wildly so in some cases.

Many modellers now weather their finishes which further alters the colour – so why try to get precision when probably there was not precision in the first place. It’s a fools mission.

I work in a steel construction company where we paint items in any colour our customers like, white, green, yellow, brown, black, name any colour you like. We get most of our paint from a producer in the vicinity, in hobbocks containing 35 kgs. If we have a large order, say 600 metric tons of steel construction, we will get several pallets of paint, several batches. When you look at the dried coat, you wiil see differences between batches, or even within batches you won´t believe possible. Although produced with the same number of ingredients, there are differences you will notice from several feet apart. One blue might look greenish, the next one reddish, all trying to be the same colour. Even more difficult with black. Black is black? Rubbish, black can be anything from greyish to brownish black. They put a Label on the hobbocks saying: Approximately RAL xxxx. (When wet, the colour even looks the same, but when dried….)

So all you can get is an idea what a plane most probably would have looked like, in a certain range of possible deviation.

Michael

P.S. When I first saw pics of FHC´s Fw 190 A-5 in the Arizona sun, the green looked much too yellowish to me to be right. When it was dried up, seen in Seattle, it just looked correct. So much for different settings playing with what you see, how the same colour looks different, when in effect it is the same.

Where would Hendon put them? And could they afford the lightbulbs to illuminate them?

Regards,

kev35

I seriously doubt it. Maybe Lambeth should send them some spare lightbulbs instead of exhibits…. :diablo:

IMHO it might be cheaper in the long run to put in some rooflight domes when the roof has to be repaired / redone. Saving electricity as a bonus. (Pretty standard in most industrial facilities.) But I doubt it as well.

Michael

Regarding damage after bellylanding last week, damage on MJ772 seems to be minor, at least what is obvious by looking at this photo at MeierMotors website:

http://www.meiermotors.com/de/news.html

Michael

It says the pilot was British?

@DCK:

In a German R/C forum it was said that Achim Meier was not the pilot that day, but a British pilot named Clive. I strongly believe it to be Clive Davidson, as he piloted aircraft of Air Fighter Academy Heringsdorf before. I saw him perform a perfect display at Breitscheid airshow 2010 in their Yak 9 D-FAFA.

Michael

Yes.off course,I guess that makes 6 in total…..surely a record that can not be broken.

@ Kurfürst: Make that 8. Between RR Kestrel and DB 600 series they have been fitted with Jumo 210´s, and the Hispano Aviacion built had 2 quite different Hispano-Suiza engines. First the Spanish built HS 12Z-89, and due to bad performance they skipped them and later used the French built HS 12Z-17. If you count them as different ones, that makes 8 different engines. 🙂

Michael

Didn’t they “cheat” when they stuffed a Merlin into the Me109 airframe to create the Buchon? 🙂

No. They just continued the family line they started with the Kestrel. Those German Jumo´s and DB´s were just used as there were no RR´s available, because of the great demand for Merlins needed for Hurricanes and another plane, wait…. Spit…something. 😀

Michael

Quoted from “Arco Buchon” thread

A semi-interesting quiz question I sometimes pose at our model club……

“Which aircraft made its first flight on the power of a Rolls Royce Kestrel and its last flight on the power of a Rolls Royce Merlin”?

OK – ‘last flight’ is stretching it a bit……… but most people don’t even think of a foreign design – and are surprised by the answer….. Messerschmitt 109.

Ken