My 1/200 Builds

[Rata]

Originally Posted by paperengineer

Loving the 1/200 love! Great looking models--that super tucano is definitely charming

Thanks PE. These models are pure fun with the added bonus of the only cost being the printing!

[lfuente]

Ooo, nice to see this built, thanks Rata! I was tempted to go with the hi-vis red/white/blue roundel but the accurate low-vis version won out.

I really should get back to those boxy Philippine civilian aircraft I mentioned before, but I got distracted by kitbashing the Kohnan Electric buses and Nahan truck chassis into 1950-1970 bonnet trucks, since all of Nahan's trucks are later model flat-nosed cabovers. Kohnan Electric's Iwamoto-san is watching with interest!

A lot of my vehicle recolors have been done with an eye towards populating my long-planned N-scale Philippine model railroad - many flashy cars like Camaros in paper, but very few buses and trucks for that period. I'm sure I'll find a place for the occasional helicopter.

Originally Posted by Rata

Shorts Super Tucano in Philippines markings. Another 'boxy' from the R&P site, and provided by PM member lfuente.

Link here:

Models by other designers - R & P Models

[Rata]

No worries. I've got your Cessna 208 printed as well. Will show on here at some point down the track.

[Rata]

Next up is an English Electric -license built in Australia by Govt Aircraft Factories (GAF)-Canberra.

Another S&P 1/300 original repainted by Cafe.

Other photos are of a couple of criminally neglected GAF Canberras out in the open here in Willowbank, Queensland. One (A84-238) is displayed on pylons near the entrance of all things a caravan park; with the other(A84-248- the last Canberra built by GAF) is laying in a field nearby.
Both entered service in 1958 and are decaying and vandalised. But what really is disgraceful is a), the fact both served in Vietnam with RAAF 2 Sqn (attached to the USAF 35th TFW) between 1967 and 1971 and B), their close proximity to RAAF Amberley.

[Don Boose]

Excellent Canberra.

This may be casting the net too wide, but it reminds me that I once (spring of 1967) sat in the back seat of an RAAF O-1 piloted by my friend Sqd Ldr Rex Ramsey as he directed the air strikes of USAF F-100s and B-57s (probably from the 8th or 13th Tactical Bomb Squadron out of Bien Hoa). Relevance: RAAF in Vietnam and Canberras (albeit Yank Canberras).

Don

[gomidefilho]

Amazing smaller collection my friend!

[Rata]

Thanks Don and Péricles. Speaking of ''Yank Canberras'', investigating whether my repainting skills extend to producing a RB-57 with it's long span wings, extended hooter and bypass-type engines.

In the meantime, here's a modified and rescaled Bruno 1/300: Pan Am Boeing 307 Stratoliner.

[gomidefilho]

Another fine build my friend!

[Rata]

Thanks Pér!

[Don Boose]

Very impressive 307. Looks good on the stand as if in flight.

Don