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Stuart's D-Day Dakota - Airfix 1/72
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 7:49 am
by Stuart
I'm kind of enjoying my step back into 1/72 with my Me410 build and fancied cracking into something else - so I pulled this out of the stash.
As it's just gone the 6th of June - I think I'll build it as a D-day bird complete with stripes. I need to get some more decals though so I'll probably go with these. I need to back mark the dak from a mk.IV to a mk.III. I'm not sure what the changes will be so I'd better do some research.
It should be a fun build - I'll see how far I get before the jet GB.
Cheers!
Re: Stuart's D-Day Dakota - Airfix 1/72
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 7:53 am
by LyleW
Quite nice, old chap..Pip, pip...Cheerio and all that. Eager to see this one from you.
Re: Stuart's D-Day Dakota - Airfix 1/72
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 7:54 am
by Stuart
Thanks Lyle - Looking forward to building it. Kinda inspired by your Boeing actually. I've never built this type of aircraft before.
Re: Stuart's D-Day Dakota - Airfix 1/72
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:22 am
by Stikpusher
I’ll definitely be watching this one. I think the only visible difference in the different C-47 versions is the size of the intake scoops on top of the engines.
Re: Stuart's D-Day Dakota - Airfix 1/72
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:29 am
by Stuart
So.. If just stick mk.III decals on a MK.IV, chances are nobodies going to notice...?
I won't tell anyone if you don't!
Re: Stuart's D-Day Dakota - Airfix 1/72
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:33 am
by Stikpusher
I’d say that is a safe bet. One version has a long fairing behind the scoop, the other has just a small scoop. I don’t know which is which...
Re: Stuart's D-Day Dakota - Airfix 1/72
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:36 am
by LyleW
Go for it, Stuart! Somewhere out there is a rivet counter that needs work.
Re: Stuart's D-Day Dakota - Airfix 1/72
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:40 am
by Stuart
Stikpusher wrote:
I’d say that is a safe bet. One version has a long fairing behind the scoop, the other has just a small scoop. I don’t know which is which...
Perhaps if I did one engine with one and the other with the other...
LyleW wrote:Go for it, Stuart! Somewhere out there is a rivet counter that needs work.
Yeah - got to give them something to look at!
Re: Stuart's D-Day Dakota - Airfix 1/72
Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2019 10:03 am
by Stuart
When parachutes are no longer needed!
Re: Stuart's D-Day Dakota - Airfix 1/72
Posted: Wed Jun 12, 2019 3:38 am
by Stuart
I had half an hour to play last night, so I built up the internal structure. I'm not overly sure what the point of having the Navigators and Radio Operators positions is - as none of it will be seen, but it was fun to put together.
I've also started playing around with colours. The callout is for US interior green, but having been in some DC-3's it just seems a bit too light to me.
Cheers!