The Unofficial Airfix Modellers Forum is currently hosting a
Group Build with a theme of museum displays...
My attraction to this GB when it was first mooted was to the 'head and shoulder cockpit/forwatd fuselage type of display seen in some museums and especially those which most Englishmen seem to have in their garage/backyard/personal aviation museum that generally comprises the amputated nose section of an aircraft typically a Lightning, Hunter, Canbeera type...and that was the theme that I thought that I might abuse in this GB with a selection of nose sections as they might be found in such 'museums'...
I also thought that
would be an opportunity to practise my paper modelling skills by drawing on cockpits from my paper model stash...so...
...first cabs off the rank are...
The Hobby Model Tu-160 Blackjack and the Orlik Defiant, both in 1/33...
First of two Blackjack cockpit parts...
Defiant cockpit parts...
The Defiant turret will be the real challenge and probably the single reason that this build make become a firestarter...