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Steve's 1/72 Italeri Horsa Glider
I'm calling this one done. To re-iterate, this is Glider No.1, a Horsa glider and the first to land at the Benouville (now Pegasus) Bridge, shortly after midnight on 6 June 1944. Here we have it, moments before landing at about 00.16 hrs. Just for fun, imagine being there and seeing...- stona
- Post #43
- Forum: Geoff's D-Day 80 years GB: 5th June - Sept 2024
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Steve's 1/72 Italeri Horsa Glider
I've finally got the flaps on, so just a few aerials etc. to add in order to finish the glider. The handbook notes that full flaps should be deployed "when sure of getting into the landing ground", and since I will be posing the glider within seconds of landing mine are fully deployed. The...- stona
- Post #40
- Forum: Geoff's D-Day 80 years GB: 5th June - Sept 2024
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Steve's 1/72 Italeri Horsa Glider
Yep! It does a job. I've got my camouflage on, a sort of composite of various images. lso got slightly wobbly and ragged 'invasion stripes' applied. I'm now figuring out what kind of base to make in order to pose this thing coming into land at 00.15' 30" in the meadow between the canal and...- stona
- Post #33
- Forum: Geoff's D-Day 80 years GB: 5th June - Sept 2024
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Steve's 1/72 Italeri Horsa Glider
I'm starting to suspect that the scheme was more variable than would have been allowed on powered aircraft. The image I have which most broadly matches what I see in the Pegasus Bridge gliders is this one - though obviously this lacks the 'invasion stripes'. I've got the model ready to start...- stona
- Post #30
- Forum: Geoff's D-Day 80 years GB: 5th June - Sept 2024
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Steve's 1/72 Italeri Horsa Glider
So, special markings, a.k.a. 'invasion stripes'. First, the instructions get the ones on the wings much too far inboard, compared with the photographs of the actual gliders. Gliders were added to the list of aircraft to be marked with stripes after objections from the Commands that would...- stona
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- Forum: Geoff's D-Day 80 years GB: 5th June - Sept 2024
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Steve's 1/72 Italeri Horsa Glider
I did contemplate doing the first glider (Wallwork/Ainsworth) as seen there - but discretion got the better part of valour. If someone did a dio with all three gliders in it, and there are quite a few photographs of these aircraft taken shortly after D-Day for reference, it would be...- stona
- Post #19
- Forum: Geoff's D-Day 80 years GB: 5th June - Sept 2024
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Steve's 1/72 Italeri Horsa Glider
This is true, but at least of the gliders that landed to take the Benouville and Ranville bridges, all were heavily damaged if not destroyed. Sgt. Jim Wallwork, the pilot of Howard's glider and my subject described his landing: "The final approach was a little fast and I landed probably at...- stona
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- Forum: Geoff's D-Day 80 years GB: 5th June - Sept 2024
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Steve's 1/72 Italeri Horsa Glider
I forgot tp post that yesterday ^^^^. More progress. I've stuck the wing together, cut out the flaps and 'boxed in' the upper wing. I had a devil of a job finding any flap details until I found some plans for a full size Horsa. It turns out that area of upper wing was a seperate panel, hung...- stona
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- Forum: Geoff's D-Day 80 years GB: 5th June - Sept 2024
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Steve's 1/72 Italeri Horsa Glider
Some progress - it was a big glider!- stona
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- Forum: Geoff's D-Day 80 years GB: 5th June - Sept 2024
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Steve's 1/72 Italeri Horsa Glider
I'm posting today's progress, as I'm going to be covering an old mate at work for the next few days, while he's a bit poorly and therefore dragging me out of my semi-retirement the b*stard. I've made a start on converting the Americans into Jim and John, the glider pilots, and have pretty much...- stona
- Post #6
- Forum: Geoff's D-Day 80 years GB: 5th June - Sept 2024
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Steve's 1/72 Italeri Horsa Glider
So, after a bit of to and fro, I’ve decided to go for this one. My subject will be a Horsa glider PF800, glider No.1, but chalk number ‘91’, which delivered Major Howard (commander of the coup de main force) and the members of No.25 Platoon (designated as No.1 Platoon for the duration of the...- stona
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- Forum: Geoff's D-Day 80 years GB: 5th June - Sept 2024
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Welcome to Geoff’s D-Day 80th Anniversary tribute chat thread.
So, I was perusing t’interweb, seeking inspiration, and saw this. I can do that I thought, in a moment of unhinged optimism. It turns out that the kits to do this, or something similar, are available and I’ve only gone and bought them, haven’t I. Apparently, this Horsa kit is not the...- stona
- Post #124
- Forum: Geoff's D-Day 80 years GB: 5th June - Sept 2024
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Airfix 1/72 bf109e-4 Franz von Werra
Nice one Tony! I thought this might be a good place to show the surprisingly large holes that .303 ammunition could cause, particularly when impacting an airframe at an angle a long way from ninety degrees. The picture below is of the fuselage of a Do 17, Wn.2642, code 3Z+GS of 8./KG 77, shot...- stona
- Post #84
- Forum: Aeroplanes Under Construction
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The aircraft photo you took you like most!
Lots of CASEX with a number in the 40s appended. JANEX sometimes with a number in the 20s appended and then all the usual Locals, SAR, etc. The squadron seem to have acted as taxis for quite a few WRENS for some reason. My favourite is 'Netting' which I take to mean this and was interesting...- stona
- Post #25
- Forum: General Aircraft Chat
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The aircraft photo you took you like most!
Did he have much hair? My father successfully disposed of one of Her Majesty's helicopters at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea in 1957.- stona
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- Forum: General Aircraft Chat
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The aircraft photo you took you like most!
My father flew the Sea Fury in the 1950s though he never destroyed one. He did do for a helicopter later, off Malta. 801 Squadron in, I think 1952. The geeky looking chap arrowed in blue is Ted Anson, who was with 801 at this time and who ended up an Admiral. According to my mother this was due...- stona
- Post #18
- Forum: General Aircraft Chat
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The aircraft photo you took you like most!
Technically one the boss took rather than myself, but it perfectly illustrates the problems of photographing aircraft in flight. It's better than the one of the empty sky, but only just! No - the photograph is not upside down, the Sea Fury is.- stona
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- Forum: General Aircraft Chat
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Airfix 1/72 bf109e-4 Franz von Werra
Tony, the Crashed Enemy Aircraft Report noted, "Starboard wing showed many .303 strikes". That doesn't mean that there were none elsewhere, but that is where they were most noticeable to an observer standing next to the aircraft on the ground. P/O Stapleton's Combat Report notes that, "I...- stona
- Post #58
- Forum: Aeroplanes Under Construction
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Research
I did find those, with the position for the relevant parts for the D12/R11 and D13/R11, but they are small and lack detail. For those interested: The D-12 was to have an MK 108 and the D-13 an MK 151 'Motorkanone' German production plans had slipped into the realms of fantasy by the time... -
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Camouflage painting
Go for it Ron! Here's a shameless plug for the F2A in another exotic McClelland Barclay scheme. As far as I know nobody is sure of the colours, though I've seen White, Black, Mid-Grey, Dark Grey, Sea Green, Blue and Silver Grey listed. I've never really researched these schemes, so have no...- stona
- Post #40
- Forum: Introduce yourself
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