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[wonwinglo]

Wonwings Diary-A real model Cierva C.30A Autogiro that will fly

Not often that we get the chance to find something really new and novel,this lovely scale model for the Cierva C.30A Autogiro is a brand new kit that has just hit the modelling market,going by the interest shown here for the scale Autogiro this one should prove very popular.

She flies superbly and I cannot wait to get my hands on one.

Cierva C30 Autogyro

Rota dia 690mm. Suitable for electric power with recommended motor HCS 60/2-3e. 4 Channel r/c.

Available in Silver or Blue

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[Guest]

Barry,

Those are certainly fine looking Models, as you well know from my earlier posts on here, I also have a soft spot for Autogiros, So I will keep my eyes open for this one coming out....they are great fun to fly and totally different in that respect.

Regards......Mark

[Guest]

:thinking:Hello mate, those look fantastic! gotta get my hands on one one once my lastest nightmare is resolved...

Im moving house... After reading your thoughts above i am not exactly looking forward to it. After years of waiting im finaly going to the USA full time and that meens a transatlantic move is unavoidable. I have four boxes of 15, 20, 25 and 54mm lead fig's to move, Five tallships all with fullrig and all over 30"" in lengh and height, my collection of EVERY airfix warship kit produced and now my poor little Hms Eskimo as well as a couple of dozen 1:35 and 1:48 tanks and vehicles... HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Im totaly at a lost as to how to move the ships safely, the household stuff isnt the issue (all can be replaced) but how to find a shipper that fully knows the meening of "fragile" or "Handle with care" ?

If you have any hard won wisdom let me know! Move date is going to be end august.

:strong:Cortez might have burnt his ships when he arrived in the new world but i meen to keep mine intact!

[wonwinglo]

http://www.laheli.com/files/galerie/video/laheli_cierva_c30.wmv

Take a look at this video and you really will want one ! a real scale model of the Cierva C.30A that flies really well.

[Guest]

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[wonwinglo]

The model collection finally sees daylight











Well after almost a year the collection is still undergoing unpacking from the boxes etc,as can be imagined this is a tedious and time consuming job,along the way any repairs are undertaken and the models are checked over and cleaned,amazing how much dust gathers after a few years ?

The small airfield scene is used for model photography complete with hand painted sky background.

[wonwinglo]

Wonwings Diary- A few recent models



The Revell Airbus A.380



Who could resist the Bell 47G helicopter ?



Martin Marlin flying boat



Heller Constellation and DC-6 with hand finished markings of little known airlines.

[Guest]

Barry I have to gree with U on many points although I have not seen James May video I can attest to the kids of today. Being a scout leader in todays Scouts and having returned to the movement after a 15 year break I was amazed to find that that kids of today can not carry a simple clasp knife (pocket knife) and when I fronted up to my first scout meeting wearing a multi-toll you would have thought that I commited a crime, I was told to remove which I did not, I was told that if I didn't I would be report to the police for carrying an offensive weapon to whixh I produced a letter from the police saying it was and I quote "nothing but simple pair of folding pliers containg a few screw drivers and one knife blade" to this the Group Leader said well then there's nothing we can do. I stayed woth that group for 3 years before moving onto another group where the only challenge I've had was for calling our then Prime Minister Mr. John Howard an uneducated moron and for having a night on the dangers of drugs and a survival night where I showed the scouts a few knives. The kids of today Barry are too wrapped up in cotton wool by their stupid dotting parents especially mothers and the sooner these people realise that the kids of today have got to get dirty and get a little bloody the worse of we'll be. I know this is a little of the track but I had to put in my 2 cents worth anyway on kids.

[Guest]

wow barry i love that A380, you have done a great job there.

just wondering...do you plan on getting revells new 1/72 lancaster? i have heard many many good things!

what a collection. that hanger and home-made back drop is great!

[Guest]

"The kids of today Barry are too wrapped up in cotton wool by their stupid dotting parents especially mothers and the sooner these people realise that the kids of today have got to get dirty and get a little bloody the worse of we'll be. I know this is a little of the track but I had to put in my 2 cents worth anyway on kids."

.Quote Desert Rat Racer.

I do not believe for a second it is the kids with doting parents that are the worry. It is the kids with parents that don't give a T*** that are the problem.

[wonwinglo]

wow barry i love that A380, you have done a great job there.just wondering...do you plan on getting revells new 1/72 lancaster? i have heard many many good things!

what a collection. that hanger and home-made back drop is great!

Thanks RJ,yes any new Lancaster has got to be worth getting,thanks for the heads up will keep my eyes open for it.

[wonwinglo]

More new models added to my collection



Revell 1=48th Grumman Tiger



Without a doubt the best Ryan N-Y-P kit available,Revell 'Spirit of St Louis'.



Conversion from a 45 year old model,the Radar test development Dakota brings new life to a tired model.

Piaggio P.108 bomber with 'potatoe stamp' hand printed Italian air force camouflage mottle effect.

[Guest]

How on earth did you do the pattern on the Piaggio? It looks fantastic.

[wonwinglo]

Painting mottle effects with the humble potatoe



For a long time now I have been trying to find the best way to paint mottle effects onto models,the Italian air force schemes are some of the most difficult to achieve and look realistic,for these experiments I took my old Dakota paint hack and set about an entirely different approach,I cut the patterns into ordinary potatoes and used them like a rubber stamp to replicate the squiggly effect of the camouflage pattern,the potatoe is just used all over the model until the patterns are completed.

To apply the paint to the spud just use a paintbrush and keep adding colour until the entire model is completed.



Here the Piaggio has been base coat painted prior to the addition of the three colours,the idea is low tech but it works well,with a little patience the finished results look convincing.



Being flexible the potatoe takes the curve of the surface well,here you see the technique in use,only the lightest of pressures is needed,experimenting on the wing of that Dakota paid out before I tackled the Piaggio bomber.

[wonwinglo]

A few more colourful models



I did this Dakota in ETPS Raspberry ripple colours a few years ago,the same aircraft now flies with the Memorial Flight in a drab finish.





At least one Ford Tri-Motor Tin Goose was in service with the R.A.F this was operated in Scotland during wartime.



B.A.Hawk doing a beat up of the airfield !