Air Support For Angola

[Jemima Fawr]

I’ve been painting some aeroplanes for the Angolan Border War, as well as photographing some of my old stuff:

Some Angola Air Support

My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/

[kyoteblue]

Those look great!!!

[Jim Jackaman]

Excellent work and quite a fly by. Makes me want to dust off my old AK47 air assets for a game or two…haven’t played in ages.

 

http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.co.uk

[Jemima Fawr]

Cheers chaps!  Yes, that was my thought as well (albeit with different rules).  I built up a large collection about 12 years ago and did a colossal Angola game at Bovington in 2008 and it sorta killed the period for me for ten years.

My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/

[Deleted User]

I’m really impressed by the conversions. I knew the F1 has some conversion but was surprised at the extent. I didn’t eben know they made 1/100 Pumas.

[Jemima Fawr]

Yes, he’s a talented bloke! 🙂 I live in eternal hope that a gigantic cache of Roskpopf models might be found and come on to the market… 🙁

My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/

[Jemima Fawr]

Last night I started turning a Cessna 172 into a Cessna 185A Air Observation Post:

Here’s how it looks when it arrives from Shapeways – it’s a single-piece 3D-printed model. I need to turn it from a tricycle-undercarriage configuration into a tail-dragger:

First job: Cut some bits of brass wire to make the landing-gear struts and steal some spare wheels from another kit:

Then bend the ends of the wire at a 45-degree angle and superglue on the wheels:

Snip off the existing undercarriage, sand smooth and then drill holes for the new undercarriage just forward of the wing-strut roots. Also drill a hole under the tail for the tail-wheel:

Cut the brass wire struts to length and superglue ’em in the ‘oles. Also add a small piece of bent brass wire to form the tail-wheel strut:

Job jobbed!

Now to paint it!

My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/

[zippyfusenet]

I love wargamer conversions! Great work.

You'll shoot your eye out, kid!

[Jemima Fawr]

Ta!  Oh bugger, it re-sized the photos to thumbnails… I’ll edit to make them bigger.

My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/

[Jemima Fawr]

Edited.  That’s better! 🙂

My wargames blog: http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/

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