Category: Ruritanian Aircraft
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Morane Saulnier MS 230 – Part One – RRAAF Trainer Number One
The Smēr model of the Moraine Saulnier MS 230 that was kindly donated by my friend Paul is destined to enter service in the Royal Ruritanian Army Air Force. It will be completed as Trainer Number One and assigned to Hentzau Field in Alberta. The kit looks reasonable upon the sprue trees. No flash, few…
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Caudron Renault 714 CI – Part Three – The Rocketeer
Well, the Caudron Renault is ready to join the Jagdschwader of the RRAAF armed with the new Ruritanian secret weapon – the rocket. Fussy types will want to know if this is an air-to-air missile or and air-to-ground missile and the answer is yes. After the pilot presses one of four buttons the rocket no…
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Caudron Renault 714 CI – Part Two – Flip Her Over, Maurie
Well, she’s got pretty good seams on the top and bottom of the fuselage, and the wing roots are no worse than an Amodel or RS kit. But oh, Lord the ailerons… It looks as though the mould that was supposed to close up for that portion of the wing shifted in the machine. There…
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Caudron Renault 714 CI – Part One – Yet Another Hill To Climb
I was extremely fortunate to wander into a hobby shop that had just relocated to new premises. They decided to have a sale on plastic kits to gain shelf space and the little Mister Craft Caudron Renault CR 714 CI was on the bargain table. Disregarding the free donations, this is my second cheapest model…
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Siebel Si 204A – Part Four – The King’s Airplane
The interval between today’s post and the previous Seibel Si 204A one was a surprisingly brief one. I owed this to my experiment with refraining from the Facebook feed. The amount of time lost to sitting in front of a screen staring at advertisements and fake questionnaires seemed to amount to more than an hour…
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Seibel Si 204A – Part Three – Airframe Day
Ah, that lovely plateau in the model kit build – when the wings and tail are on and magically you do not have a plastic kit in a box – you have an aircraft. The short run Czech nature of the mouldings having been adjusted with knife, chisel*, and sandpaper and a good set of…
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Siebel Si 204A – Part Two – The Smēr Campaign
I read about the various Czech, Polish, Ukrainian, and Russian model manufacturers as they introduce new kits. The scale airplane press is keen to get us to buy the goods and then aftermarket accessories to tizzy them up – so I wonder if there isn’t a pressure on the designers to put out a rather…
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Siebel Si 204A – Part One – The RRA’s New Airliner
The Royal Ruritanian Airways occupies and envied position in European aviation – it has never had a crash landing. This is not to say that there have never been hurried ones, or landings that haven’t strained the oleo struts to their squeaking maximum – but so far every touchdown has been on the tyres –…
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Heinkel He70 F2 – Part Six – Like A Newly-Minted Penny
The Heinkel He 70 has been delivered to the RRAAF. It appears that there has been somewhat of a mixup. Whether this is due to the purchasing commission spending a good deal of time in the cabarets of Berlin, or whether there has been some interference in the order by the Reichsluftministerium remains to be seen…
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Heinkel He-70 F2 – Part Five – The Paint Shop
Ruritanians are, on the whole, a conservative people. They rarely throw over old forms or designs just to revel in novelty. The motto ” Neuheit Ist Scheit ” is ingrained in them. Thus they hold to traditional colour schemes for most of the aircraft in the RRAAF. In some cases this tradition has been the…