BAE 146 CC2 32 'The Royal' Squadron

[RayS]

Building the Revell kit for a 'Made in Britain' GB over on BrittModeller

I am using this decal sheet



..and a Revell 146 Graeme so graciously released from his collection

Started by scratch building the countermeasures pods for the jet from a 1/72 AIM7 Sparrow missile





Then filled the windows in the cabin with super glue and assembled the wing



Gear bays and engines assembled (B777 engine for size comparison)



Fuselage went together without fuss



Engines also on the wings without hassle



and a test fit of wing to fuselage





Some seams to be sorted and the CM pods to by tidied up before some paint.

[Graeme H]

Good one Ray, really going together quickly

[hrtpaul]

That looks great man. I was looking at that very sheet on ebay last night. Hmmmm might have to relieve Graeme of another 146 hehehe

[Adam the Akrodude]

Hi Ray

Great work so far. Will you be doing the one Charles had the "off" in?

Cheers

Adam

[RayS]

Hi Ray

Great work so far. Will you be doing the one Charles had the "off" in?

Cheers

Adam

No idea! I am doing the latest scheme at the bottom of the sheet

Some bits added today.

[tor lives]

Very interesting build Ray, (I have one of these set a side to do an Austrian Air Force 146).
There was a time that I thought that 34SQN would end up with at least one or two BAe-146 "Statesmen" aircraft, (seemed to be a natural BAC 111 replacement at the time), especially given the number that the Ansett Group had on order at the time, (thought Sir Peter might have done a good deal for his mate Bob Hawk).
Interesting to note that the RAF have just recently put a few more 146's into service.
Here is the story of when Prince Charles pranged a Royal Flight 146:
http://www.aparchive.com/search?query=U ... %3aSubject
TOR

[tor lives]

What's the story with what appears to be a "twin jet" C-17 "Lite"????.....it looks like a very intriguing project.
TOR

[RayS]

I could tell you but would have to kill you!

Basically botched the engines on the C-17 refurb I was doing and had a spare set of Minicraft PWs. So this will be a BC-17R in a yet to be disclosed livery

[RayS]

Got it primed, wing is still unattached as I though it would be easier to mask and to paint the engines and leading edges while they were separate.

[hrtpaul]

Looking good Ray