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TomCatDriver — She,s A Proper Toff
Published: 2009-11-06 15:32:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 1058; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 23
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British Airways B747 with the Right And Proper engines! Rolls-Royce RB-211s,so very refined.....they just have the sweetest sound when "spooling up" to takeoff power,as heard from the cockpit. simply a matter of taking an already great plane from Boeing and making it into something even better. good show,old chaps.....quite.Related content
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as in flew on a Concorde? RB211 is still a superb engine too! toff...? plz explain further......
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Yup, went on the Concorde. Just asking, why did you use the word toff, just an English joke? Me I couldn't care less.
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just something i,d read somewhere.....doesn,t "Proper Toff" means something along the lines of "good show,top drawer"?
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Yes. Surprisingly we don't say that, although I am from the Royal blood line. Lady Elizabeth Anson is a relative.
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must be nice! some of my ancestors were Mafiosi......
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That is pretty cool. I guess though everyone has a relative to brag about. Just asking, do you hae the CS 737 Step II?
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no sims here,i work with The Real Stuff!
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Guess that is how the hardcore people do it...
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hardcore or Old School...!
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Whatever sounds best really.
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Don't forget Britain's former colonies of Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong...their airlines all use RR engines, too!
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the best that money can buy...we rarely have any issues/problems with our 757s...i even own one!
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good old jumbo 
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i always felt better too,with a third set of trained eyes and hands in the cockpit...thanx for the fave!
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scenic backgrounds are enamel on honeycomb aircraft floor material,sky and clouds airbrushed on sheet Lexan. very convincing,yes? certainly better than just a tabletop!
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Yes, very convincing and much better than a tabletop. My friend and I needed actual confirmation that your airplanes aren't real airplanes!
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just the right background,and a bit of creative lighting!
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Yeah, lighting and background to help to make these.
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very convincing at first glance!
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Indeed! Not to mention the second and third.
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my first attempts left a bit to be desired,but i got better at it.
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Well, they look right, now. Have you posted any of your earlier attempts?
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Best livery BA ever had and they should of kept it.
Nice model. Is that a gemini jets model?
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it,s an Airfix,with aftermarket resin RB-211,s.....
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Wow. You did an awesome job.
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no ready-mades here...all my own creations.
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Wow! How do you find the time?!
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it,s a complicated story....but i do manage to do some parts of models between flights,or even in flight,also,there are techniques and materials that save a lot of time.
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Thats really cool. 
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No sadly. 
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affirmative. it,s worth getting one,for sure. does a better job,and saves all sorts of time.
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Thats true. I think my uncle used to use an air brush but I dont think he has it anymore. I'll have to buy one.
Do you normally tape over the areas you're not painting?
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yes,areas not to be painted should be masked to prevent overspray. i have a few strategies for painting airliners,such as paint the Corogard areas first. also,i usually give the entire plane a coating of silver-grey primer to make sure of no surface blemishes/defects prior to applying the rest of the scheme. my fave paint is the Tamiya TS spray lacquer,decanted from the aerosol can and applied by airbrush,very short dry-time compared to most enamels.{oil-based Humbrol does give a good finish,but takes forever to cure properly!} another time-saving trick is to use Bare Metal Foil for leading edges and polished metal undersurfaces,saves lots of tricky masking.
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Thanks very much for the info! I often wondered how it was done.
How would you go about painting a camo livery? I have an airfix spitfire that I want to do.
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which kit? Airfix did several of those!
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Off the top of my head I think it is the Mark 1?
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Its the Supermarine Spitfire MkIa in 1:72 scale.
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OK,good little kit. the way the British camos were applied to full-size aircraft was with rubber stencil mats,cut to fit the type being painted,for both A and B schemes. you can duplicte the process in miniature with paper stencils cut from a photocopy of a planview of the scheme,enlarged to the correct size,perhaps from the kit instruction sheet. first,spray the undersurfaces in sky,duckegg blue of lt. sea grey,mask and spray the uppersurfaes in earth or dark sea-grey and then stencil them,using small loops of masking-tape to hold the stencils in the proper locations and spray on the dark green. the RAF was and still is very strict about following the precise patterns as per Air Ministry specifications.
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Wow. Thanks so much for the advice. Im going to copy and paste this into a notepad file so I dont lose nor forget how its done.
Thanks very much. Im very grateful.
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copy. i,ve got all sorts of tricks for this sort of thing!
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meow. lots of tricks,techniques and materials to make the hobby better.
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