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Some built for others, some gone broken up or given away..gone but not forgotten lol
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IMG_7024
IMG_8446s
IMG_7620
IMG_1698s
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IMG_6999
IMG_7327
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sugarbird
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IMG_7387
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Some classic Wally models right there. Cheers for the memories mate

some nice stuff there Wally

Great stuff Wally, Some of those I don't recall. Glad you reposted them.

Those are magnificent models WAL. I'd like to make some of them but where did you get the decals from?

hi and thanks mate.. nearly all of those models utilised home made decals.. I have most of the image files saved so I can print out any you might like, cheers wal

Lovely collection from you Wally, as always!

2 quick questions, if I may:

1. Ju-52: Where did you get the P&W R-1340 Wasp engines, Wirraway engine cowlings & 3 bladed Hamilton Standard props from?

2. Heron: How did you do the Lycoming engines and 3-bladed props?

scotty100368 wrote:Lovely collection from you Wally, as always!

2 quick questions, if I may:

1. Ju-52: Where did you get the P&W R-1340 Wasp engines, Wirraway engine cowlings & 3 bladed Hamilton Standard props from?

2. Heron: How did you do the Lycoming engines and 3-bladed props?

The Ju52 was in 1/48. I bought a Special Hobby Wirraway and made moulds of the engine, prop and cowling then cast a number of copies in resin. I had some spares and a chap in South Australia asked me if he could have some, he ultimately built one of his own and won
a prize with it at a model show over there.

The Heron required me to make an engine form using balsa / plastic / filler then again making a mould and casting several copies, a few sets were sent around the world but I have never seen anyone else's finished example there were WIP builds posted on the usual websites but after the kerfuffle with photobucket all the image links dont work anymore, I will have a look in my old files and see if I can repost them

Ok I found the WIP pics, looking at them reminded me of a few things, for the JU52 I had to mould new wheels as well I think I used 1/48 lancaster wheel as a master after increasing the tread width by inserting a plasticcard disk between the two wheel halves.
I could not find Riley conversion drawings for the Heron. There were at least 3 Heron engine conversions available, Riley was only one of them and they licensed Connellan to do them in their workshop for their aircraft. Another conversion was a Japanese company and I have forgotten the other. There were variations even amongst the Riley conversions so you can only work with pictures of the actual machines, I was lucky to find a overhead satellite picture of the Queensland museum heron which gave me the arrangement of the lycoming cowlings on the wing. I started carving a plug out of balsa but I ditched that and basically built a brick, whittled it to shape put some representation of intake on and some exhaust pipes..NOT precision engineering or modelling! just 1 metre viewing type stuff

so all the pics are here in this album:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/87490663@ ... 0139320489

I just remembered Gibbes replaced the tail wheels as well from memory I read in a book he used Tiger Moth main wheels for this.. I stole this from the 1/48 Moth !

Thanks heaps for the info and photos Wally!