Your modelimg choices, what spurs you on?

[Clunkmeister]

2 hours ago, GusMac said:

I'd jump for that as well Ernie, such cool lines. 

It'd be interesting to see how you'd get enough weight in that 'itsy bitsy' nose to keep the tail up. Nice big resin cockpit would help especially with that nice big greenhouse.

Same as with an OV-10, I expect. There's plenty of engineering 'decisions' with this one.

But that huge greenhouse gives the super detailer a ery visible place to go all AMS on this.

On a side note, apparently there's a new build or rebuild on these using a pair of big PT-6A's so they're coming into the 21st Century a bit.  It'll change the lines of it a bit, but it'll certainly look good.

This is an aircraft that should have sold hundreds more copies, but it never did. A thoroughly capable and potent light attack bird.  And seriously cool looking, too.

[GusMac]

Spot on Ernie. When you think of where they operated from in the Falklands at Goose Green, etc, you'd have thought they might have sold well in Africa with all the guerrilla conflicts going on there in the 80s.

[Sir Desmond Glazebrook]

These days I like aeroplanes in a livery of another country. French Heinkels RAFWaffe German stuff. 

Japanese WWII subjects have been my favourite since I was 16. I love the look of the designs. If I had to make one choice it would be that subject.

I also like to build things inspired by books I read. I have a Dauntless on the go because I read Never call me a hero, by Medal of honor pilot Jack Kliess. Cool book. The descriptions of the battle are fascinating.

So a Dautless it is. The only difference is my build is an aeroplane from Operation Torch.

It is coming along nicely and is one of 4 kits I have been painting. Because in Newtown it is Newtown Airbrush Day. 

I am the only Newtown resident aware of it. Go figure.