a thing for civil schemes

[airscale]

Hi folks

just joined and saying hello..

potted history is I Iove to build civvie schemes on pretty much every model I build - guess it is in my DNA as my father flew rattlecans like CL44s & Belfasts through DC10s. 757s, 767s

anyways, here is my civvie version of the worlds most beautiful fighter - a Hawker demonstrator G-AKRY















..and current work on a 1/24 Tigercat firefighter..









..granted it's not quite civil territory but I hope I fit in here

TTFN
Peter
http://www.airscale.co.uk

[oz rb fan]

welcome airscale...nice work on both models...and fire bombers fit in very well here,are you also on Britmodeller?

[Cap'n Wannabe]

Nice work Peter...and welcome aboard!

[tor lives]

Hi Peter,
Welcome to our little site and thanks for joining.
Can I just say at the outset that your area of modelling interest, (and clear expertise), is absolutely and uniquely well-suited to A/CAM. We love our warplanes in civvie colours on this site...be it a Reno-Racing Mustang, a fire-bombing
P-3, a Boeing chase plane F-86, or an F-4 Phantom in Tracor Flight Systems colours......all have a home here on A/CAM.
From our "About Us" page:
The scope of modelling subject matter/area-of-interest that this site is specifically intended to capture, envelop, facilitate, and showcase includes, (but is not restricted to), the following:
◾Airliners, (including all derivatives, and variants)
◾Executive/Business jets
◾General Aviation types
◾Former Military types in civil/commercial use, (including air racers, fire-bombers, and other specialist civilian agency use).
◾Civil/Commercial Helicopters
◾Civil/Commercial Flying Boats/Sea Planes/Amphibians
◾Civil/Commercial Airships
◾Civil/Commercial Spacecraft
◾Sports/Recreation Aircraft, (including gliders, hang gliders, para-gliders, gyro-copters, hot air balloons’ micro-lights, home-builds, purpose-built air racers, purpose-built aerobatic types)
◾Civil/Commercial UAVs
◾Agricultural types
◾Civil/Commercial “flights-of-fancy” / “what ifs”

We even cater for our dedicated military aviation fans in the "Air Base" forum.
Your models are absolutely stunning, (that natural metal work on the Tigercat is simply jaw-dropping ....are you a fan of the movie "Always" ), and thank you so much for posting.
Once again welcome Peter, and we hope you enjoy A/CAM.
TOR

[Adam the Akrodude]

Hi Peter

Welcome aboard! I've followed your amazing work over at LSP and am in awe of your talent. Means a lot to us to see you here and be inspired by your talents!

Like your taste in aeroplanes too. I built the Fisher Sea Fury a few years ago now and attempted to reproduce the "rats nest" of the hydraulics systems in the wheel bay - what a nightmare! I'm so so blown away with what you did with your Sea Fury and now the Tigercat build - just jaw dropping stuff!

Cheers

Adam

[airscale]

thanks for the warm welcome - you guys are very kind..

the Sea Fury is the Hobbycraft kit with a 'lot' of modification and the F7F is scratchbuilt - the metal finish hopefully looks real as it is real - the airframe is being skinned in lithoplate and in some places pewter.. got a long way to go and have been experimenting with 3D modelling for wheels & engines etc which is going well..

looking forward to hanging around here and meeting new friends

Peter

[tor lives]

Scratch-built......I am speechless .That transcends modelling, it is by any definition a work of art.
Peter, you mention you dad flew such classics as the DC-10, 757, and 767.....who did he fly them for???
TOR

[RayS]

Luv ya work Peter.