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Fly Past Rush

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1/48th Scale Aircraft Collector, Builder, Owner, Pilot, Photographer and Hangar Maintenance Crew Chief. See my 200+ scale model aircraft at: https://www.flypastrush.com/

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Fly Past Rush @flypastrush.bsky.social · Jul 24

Another display deck at The Hangar got a bit of re-arrangement yesterday. The Canadian 🇨🇦 section now has a couple of more early jets added. (The maintenance crew wore themselves out with all that maneuvering in this tight space.) - Cheers 🍻 #ModelAircraft

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Jason Hampton @jasonchampton.bsky.social · 5d

Ross Granley
Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk
Reg. N940AK
Red Deer Regional Airshow 2023
⚔️🛩️📸

A World War II single engine fighter plane painted tan and green camouflage with light grey belly banking and showing its belly in a cloudy blue sky

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Martin_av_photo @martinwilkinson.co.uk · 5d

#potd from the MartinPhotos collection: De Havilland Mosquito in the hangar at RAF Museum Cosford martinwilkinson.redbubble.com martinphotos.picfair.com
🛩️⚔️📷

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Paul Gallagher @tardate.bsky.social · 3d

Fairey Flycatcher stationed at HMS Hermes, China Station, 1930. This is the Armory Model Group kit in 1:48, with a hand carved prop and wood decals by ProperPlane of #Ukraine. All upstaged by a couple of cheeky seagulls.

modelart.tardate.com/projects/roy...

#histscalemodels #scalemodels #48scale

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Matt @wodgerdodger.bsky.social · 2d

Matte varnish went down yesterday so got to unmask the clear parts today and I've had the same problem with the primer & top coat coming away from the cockpit 🤦
Started on the 1/72 Autocar 4x4 Tractor while waiting for things to dry.
#histscalemodels
#heaviesgb

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Papíráčky @papiracky.bsky.social · 2d

Unlike the landing gear bay, the landing gear is quite detailed for this model and looks quite nice. WIth a copper wire inside, it is also quite sturdy and solid enough to hold the model. #archive #papercraft #FW190 #scalemodel #histscalemodels

A front view of the model with the completed landing gear, including the covers.

A view of the landing gear with the covers attached to it.

A top-right view of the model standing on its new landing gear. The landing gear consists just of the wheel and the frame, but the cover is not in place yet.

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Michael Smith @mcsmith.bsky.social · 2d

The 909 is almost done. I’ll finish weathering tomorrow. #HistScaleModels #HeaviesGB

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Jay Mountain Goat @mountain-goat.bsky.social · 2d

The KC-135A now has its wings on. See alt text for more info. Next: those dreaded intake covers... #HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

1/72 KC-135A model in progress with a BAe Hawk model for scale comparison. Because the wings have greater (and thus correct) dihedral than the kit allows for, I had to remove a few mm of the inboard wing, a bit more than needed, to give myself a little wriggle room in attaching the wings to the fuselage, leaving a couple of gaps, some pretty wide. Those gaps have been filled with plastic scraps.

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Fly Past Rush @flypastrush.bsky.social · 3d

True enough 23147 is a Mk.5 (my bad) I didn’t proofread that before I hit send - Here is my Mk.6 - Slats down 🤘🏻

Fly Past Rush @flypastrush.bsky.social · 3d

Another #ModelAircraft just about ready to head for The Hangar is this RCAF Sabre Mk. 6 formerly based out of Chatham NB

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MarkWit @pgh-steel.bsky.social · 28d

Lysander done. Now to start on a base for it. #Histscalemodels #scalemodels

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Fly Past Rush @flypastrush.bsky.social · 3d

Thanks a lot Mark - Glad you enjoyed them. I will have to put some additional ones together now that my collection has expanded somewhat - Cheers

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Fly Past Rush @flypastrush.bsky.social · 3d

This Weekend in The Hangar: Picking up where I left off yesterday - Another video compilation is on tap today, featuring a few more of my Allied WWII fighter #ModelAircraft : www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY6K...

Allied WWII Later Years

YouTube video by David

www.youtube.com

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Andy 🚵‍♀️🚌 @aorticcyclist.bsky.social · 4d

PaddingtonSki pretty much done, not closed wheel wells yet as uncertain how it will be presented.
#histscalemodels
#heaviesGB

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jonstump @jonstump.bsky.social · 3d

REME Museum model show today. I was quite taken by the Typhoon restoration layout, with 1/24 box files on the 1/24 shelves. Plenty of Scammells, too, and a Quatermass rocket.
#HistScaleModels

A 1/24 model diorama of a Hawker Typhoon under restoration in a workshop. The wings are off, and one of them is in a jig.

A diorama of a Scammell Pioneer recovery vehicle winching another vehicle out of a ditch in a desert

A model of a Quatermass Royal Space Force rocket

A scratch built 1/72 Bristol racer. It is very red.

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Fly Past Rush @flypastrush.bsky.social · 3d

And for the most unusual #ModelAircraft addition to the collection at The Hangar, I present:
The Canadian Coast Guard O-2A

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 4d

An in-progress shot of a 1/48 Supermarine Walrus. I have to horror of rigging to come… #HistScaleModels

1/48 supermarine walrus port view, in progress

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Fly Past Rush @flypastrush.bsky.social · 4d

This Weekend in The Hangar: A cold has been bogging me down lately and limiting the bench time here, so a look back at another video compilation is on tap this round. This one featuring a few of my Allied WWII fighter #ModelAircraft : www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPr7...

Fly Past Rush - Allied WWII - Early to Fight

YouTube video by David

www.youtube.com

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 4d

Aye, the Buccaneer is one of the few aircraft along with the Nimrod can walk its own plank.😅

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JustAlpal @justalpal.bsky.social · 7d

And here's the result! Not too bad, needs a little clean up. I'll take that for a 1st try. 😅 ##HeaviesGB #histscalemodels

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Conor - Still a slow modeller @slowmademodels.bsky.social · 6d

Revell 1/72 Hurricane Mk.IIc of 28 squadron of RAF SEAC Dalbumghar North East India 1944. Not a bad kit, not a brilliant kit, but it very much looks like a Hurricane.
#Histscalemodels
#Scalemodels
#Revell

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Papíráčky @papiracky.bsky.social · 6d

Completed the wings and the wing fillets. As with the rest of the model, the wings are relatively simple, and many details are just painted on them. Though the texture is very nice, the color tones sadly do not always fit. #archive #papercraft #FW190 #scalemodel #histscalemodels

A detailed view of the bottom of the wings. You can see the landing bay painted on the wings, and also one of the spots where the wing fillet has a significantly different color tone than the rest of the plan - though it should not.

A top view of the model with the wings. The wings are relatively simple, from a few pieces of paper, but with very nice textures.

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Fly Past Rush @flypastrush.bsky.social · 4d

Great weathering job in particular 👏- Cheers

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kjaesp.bsky.social @kjaesp.bsky.social · 7d

I managed to finish this up with my left hand (kinda ambidextrous). Not my magnum opus perhaps but I like the variation in the OD. So that's the #HeaviesGB finished for me.

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Zac Yates @zacyates.bsky.social · 5d

Waiting for filler to set on the Corsair and struggling to find nose weight for the Canberra. Both 1/72. #histscalemodels

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Fly Past Rush @flypastrush.bsky.social · 4d

The "Plane on a Pole" really adds to the effect of a Seafaring Buccaneer - Nice work 👏

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