FED 3 Industar-61


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The seller was a Russian camera tech, so this is in good working condition… first film is already at the drugstore. The film squeaked when I wound, let’s see if that’s a constant. There are no lugs – and the case that it came with won’t let the top part detach. Oh well.

Recent 1/700s, 3 Air Tankers


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Here’s a nice overhead view taken with the good camera. I’ll describe the air tankers here, air racers and target/controllers in the later captions:
Skywave P-2 Neptune in Hawkins and Powers air tanker colors. From the "Scramble!" set. Props and landing gear as supplied in the kit. I sanded off the under-belly . radome and the Martin gun turret on the upper aft fuselage, which all references clearly show is right. I also shortened the MAD boom on the tail, which may have been unneccessary. The kit includes the two turbojet auxillary engines that these later P2s carried outboard of the big air-cooled piston engines. Some P2 air tankers still carry the jets, but the one I was modeling did not, so I left them off.

Hasegawa TM Avenger in air tanker colors, operator, state and year unknown. I found a photo of these markings on the web and built a model to match. Something easier to do in 1/700 than larger scales… Hasegawa’s kit is one of those charming all in one items, but I added main and tail wheels from round rod stock and and a propeller from the Trumpeter F4U kit.

Skywave "The West Wings 2" set S2 Tracker in California Deptartment of Forestry (or their vendor’s) colors, from 10-20 years ago. I actually saw one of these S2s working the Lexington Resivior fire decades ago, and the Motorbook on the subject of air tankers has a cover illustration of one of these tennis ball yellow beauties. The props and landing gear came with the kit, but the gear wheels are a bit small, so I replaced the main gear wheels with 0.035" or 0.040" styrene rod stock. Biggest problem with this kit is that the horizontal stabalizers are supplied ‘flat’. I bent them to get the right dihedral, but that weakened them and both sides broke off at one point or another during construction. Lesson learned: Pick these up with tweezers.

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oh yes ravi, sweep me away! <3


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