Fortunately friend of the blog Richard Phillips sells the Scotia Micromodels range at shows and attends Joy of Six so after a rummage through his drawers (Ooh er Matron!) I came away with a selection of early Cold War British jets.
First up is this English Electric Canberra. The Luftwaffe acquired a small number. They were officially used as target tugs (hence the bright colour scheme) but there is some evidence that they were in fact used for photographic and electronic surveillance of Warsaw Pact military operations across the Inner German Border.
Fellow Cold War Commander Andy T has a model of one of these aircraft in an all-over orange scheme so I decided to go with the part-orange scheme seen here.
The crosses on the wings (one upper and one lower) were from my spares box. They are probably over 40 years old but they went on fine with a little decal fix and softening solution. The remaining markings are hand painted or applied with a Staedler waterproof pen.
Next up is a DeHavilland Vampire in Indian Airforce colours.
Obviously a much simpler, and quicker, paint scheme; just all-over Vallejo Air Aluminium.
The Vampire seems to have variants with and without little winglets outboard of the tail. Their absence on this model pushed me to depict an aircraft in Indian markings.
I do like this model in its grey and green scheme (I used Vallejo Pale Grey and Reflective Green over a Middle Sea Grey base coat).
The Venom is noticeably larger than the Vampire and while it should be a little bigger I think Scotia have overdone it. Never mind though; in these colour schemes they're unlikely to see action over the same table at the same time!
So that was fun. Has it scratched that itch for a while or has it just reminded me of how much fun painting 1/300th scale planes can be? We'll see over the next few months!
2 comments:
Three nice additions to the collection 👍
Cheers Richard!
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