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jankees

jankees

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Here's two more paints nearly finished:

I visited a restoration project in the Air Force Museum here in Brussels, of a Dragon Rapide to its former glory, as G-AKNV, but the aircraft flew with a Belgian registration as well for a while in the '60's, as OO-AFG, with Avions Fairey, and I felt would make a nice paint:

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Maybe I'll do G-AKNV as well, what do you think?
I also came across a few pics of a Mosquito on the Canadian civil register: TK648, a B35, flew with Spartan Aerial Surveys as CF-HMP between 1955 and the early '60's. They used several Mosquito's, and a P-38 too I believe.
A bit simple, repaint-wise, but maybe fun for exploring the north of Canada?

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Very nice...

jankees said:
Here's two more paints nearly finished:

I visited a restoration project in the Air Force Museum here in Brussels, of a Dragon Rapide to its former glory, as G-AKNV, but the aircraft flew with a Belgian registration as well for a while in the '60's, as OO-AFG, with Avions Fairey, and I felt would make a nice paint:

ss4974.jpg


ss4973.jpg

Maybe I'll do G-AKNV as well, what do you think?
I also came across a few pics of a Mosquito on the Canadian civil register: TK648, a B35, flew with Spartan Aerial Surveys as CF-HMP between 1955 and the early '60's. They used several Mosquito's, and a P-38 too I believe.
A bit simple, repaint-wise, but maybe fun for exploring the north of Canada?

ss4970.jpg


ss4971.jpg
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Which model of the Dragon Rapide is this... I got a couple of them that have that longeron rib on the fuselage "etched" into the mdl... like Ito's and it
makes it impossible to cover it to add some volumen and shape to it...?
 
Very nice - and very authentic - as always, Jankees! :salute:

Looks like Dave Garwood's v4 to me, Gaucho.

[edit] there you go, straight from the horse's mouth! Thanks for the wonderful Rapide, Dave.
 
I like the DH89 Jan Kees. This is what the restoration project looked like the last time I saw it.

When the aircraft in the museum has the original colour red, you should perhaps make the red from your repaint a bit darker

Cheers,
Huub

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Francois, don't forget to visit the roof of the gate when you are there. You have a great view over Brussels from there.

The hall with the aircraft is part of the "Koninklijk Museumvan het Leger en Krijgsgeschiedenis" and although I have serious doubt anyone in Brussels knows, but the "official" Dutch name of the park is "Jubelpark".

Enjoy the visit Francois, they have some very rare aircraft in that museum!

Huub
 
!!!PLEASE!! Take some pictures :) :) Please??
i love the rapide as well, but, also, my family came from Belgium and well, i'm just weird.. .. ::LOL:::
 
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