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Offline Ignatieff

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aircrew
« on: 06 December 2014, 10:45:27 AM »
Looking for 1/48 scale or 1/56 scale machine gunners for my BoB air fleet.  I'm a big fan of the Copplestone half pilots, but what about machine gunners for rear seats or big planes such as Gothas.  Any suggestions?
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Offline Svennn

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Re: aircrew
« Reply #1 on: 06 December 2014, 11:16:55 AM »
How about the Airwaves 1/48th stuff from PPL? and there seems to be a lot of small resin casters doing figures to go with plastic aero kits these days.  In fact I think I saw a aimer/bomber figure for a WWII US big bird in this months Airfix mag but I do not have it to hand.
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Offline Etranger

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Re: aircrew
« Reply #2 on: 06 December 2014, 12:34:18 PM »
Hannants have some 1/48 WWI aircrew in their catalogue https://www.hannants.co.uk/search/index.php?setPerPage=25&product_type_id=1880&scale_id=955&search_direction=asc&pageID=1

As 1/48 is a standard aeromodelling scale you'll find a lot of figures in various manufacturers ranges eg http://jaguarmodels.com/store/?dest=products&prod_id=5028 http://www.hyperscale.com/2007/reviews/kits/eduard8511reviewrb_1.htm

You'll struggle to find 1/56 though.
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Re: aircrew
« Reply #3 on: 13 December 2014, 02:23:41 AM »
I was planning on some for my airship.But I've no intention of making any before the end of Jan.As I've alot to have ready for the York show.If your interested I'll ask Simon to cast them up,as I only intended to do them as bespoke figures.Which means I should have some for the begining of Feb.
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Offline Ignatieff

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Re: aircrew
« Reply #4 on: 13 December 2014, 02:44:16 PM »
I was planning on some for my airship.But I've no intention of making any before the end of Jan.As I've alot to have ready for the York show.If your interested I'll ask Simon to cast them up,as I only intended to do them as bespoke figures.Which means I should have some for the begining of Feb.
Mark.

Well that would be cool!  Any pics?

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Re: aircrew
« Reply #5 on: 13 December 2014, 03:01:31 PM »
Well that would be cool!  Any pics?

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Re: aircrew
« Reply #6 on: 20 December 2014, 01:38:40 PM »
So many projects..... so little time.......

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Re: aircrew
« Reply #7 on: 21 December 2014, 06:51:31 PM »
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Re: aircrew
« Reply #8 on: 21 December 2014, 08:31:42 PM »
As there's a bit interest I'll explain this bit a more.I intended to only make a couple around re worked Vicker's 'K' machine guns.From the 1st Corps Jeep's.
But for fun I'll make a larger set.So if you want to pm or post the odd picture then I'll have a better idea of what people want.
But if its the whole airship project I'll start a topic in Jan. as I've still my 8" howitzer tutorial to finish first.
Mark.