NZFF

Posted: **Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:27 pm**

Thanks to Marty/Splitpin for donating his extra prize to me (50% off any JF product!) ... to Doug for organising it ... and of course to Scott/Just Flight for so generously supporting us with December's prizes!

RealNZ Nelson - early morning start ...

... heading south-west ...

The nearest I could get to a Kiwi paint

I do love the old(er) British props ... and am looking out for a payware Britannia

. The Viscount is also a classic, and another great JF add-on!

Posted: **Sat Jan 21, 2012 11:56 pm**

Great shots Adamski!!

I have noticed the RAAF Girl has the Kangaroo's on the wings facing the wrong direction????

It is sooooo frustrating when the Kangaroo's are place in the wrong spot!!!

Thats my gripe over!!

Tim...

Posted: **Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:30 am**

Timmy74 wrote:
QUOTE (Timmy74 @ Jan 22 2012,12:56 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I have noticed the RAAF Girl has the Kangaroo's on the wings facing the wrong direction????

It is sooooo frustrating when the Kangaroo's are place in the wrong spot!!!

Thanks for the comments!

However ...

www.airforce.gov.au says: "The kangaroo within the Air Force Roundel always faces the left except when used on aircraft or vehicles, when the kangaroo should always face the front of the aircraft or vehicle."

... and before you ask

... the RNZAF Kiwi: "The nose[beak] is always forward and on wings the legs are inwards, towards to the fuselage."

Posted: **Sun Jan 22, 2012 12:51 am**

Nice shots Adam

On a note the JF Viscount is wrong, Skippy should be positioned exactly as the Kiwi is on the wing. Legs in, nose forward, apart from on the F-111 where he flies feet first when the wings are back..

Posted: **Sun Jan 22, 2012 8:29 am**

I do have a half completed NAC job hangered , start playing around with it today to get it complete for you Adam , Kangaroos were mentioned and positions and sizes during beta testing , the RAAF was a late one on the block and released without a fix .

Posted: **Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:41 am**

Adamski wrote:
QUOTE (Adamski @ Jan 21 2012,11:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Thanks for the comments!

However ...

www.airforce.gov.au says: "The kangaroo within the Air Force Roundel always faces the left except when used on aircraft or vehicles, when the kangaroo should always face the front of the aircraft or vehicle."

... and before you ask ... the RNZAF Kiwi: "The nose[beak] is always forward and on wings the legs are inwards, towards to the fuselage."

So true! However, the Kangaroo on the wings of the "JF" RAAF Viscount are infact not facing forward at all..... When the Kangaroo is used on "aircraft" or "vehicles" the "roo" is to always face the direction of "main motion". When applied to the wings of an aircraft the "roo's" nose is to be facing forward with the legs towards the fuselarge. Just as the RNZAF Kiwi is set up.

The only "default" RAAF paint that i have found this to be correct on is the 37 Squadron C-130E from Captain Sim. The Caribou and Neptune from Virtavia are incorrect but suprisingly the Vampire (Virtavia) is correct????

I guess it is the fault of the country that use animals on their roundels? It just becomes to complicated.......LOL!!

Cheers.

Tim....

Posted: **Sun Jan 22, 2012 11:34 am**

Your welcome Adam

As you know Ive had a couple of set backs with health, but hopefully I'll be posting some screens of my prize later.......so, sorry for the absence , great shots of the old Vickers.

Posted: **Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:30 pm**

Just bought the damn thing

looks like i have to do some painting before i fly it

otherwise great shots adam

Posted: **Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:01 pm**

jeansy wrote:
QUOTE (jeansy @ Jan 22 2012,5:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Just bought the damn thing

jeansy wrote:
QUOTE (jeansy @ Jan 22 2012,5:30 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
looks like i have to do some painting before i fly it

If it's just the "Skippy" issue, I think JF have it correct ... according to the official RAAF info (above).

EDIT: Correction - they have the fuselage roundels correct, but the wings ones are all wrong

... thanks for the fix, Matt.

If you're doing some NZ-related paints ... then YES PLEASE

Posted: **Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:45 pm**

skippy fix

http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/files/...af-roundel-fix/

as for kiwi paints i havent looked at the paintkit yet, sadly just flight are notorious for horrible paintkits

Posted: **Sun Jan 22, 2012 8:02 pm**

jeansy wrote:
QUOTE (jeansy @ Jan 22 2012,8:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
as for kiwi paints i havent looked at the paintkit yet, sadly just flight are notorious for horrible paintkits

Yeah , tell me about it , but progress to this stage , 8 lines offset ti tail all off set to two lines

Posted: **Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:48 pm**

She is looking mighty fine Ian!

Fantastic work. Can not wait to see her in all her glory.

Tim....

Posted: **Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:42 am**

Thanks Tim , I was to get onto it yesterday but got tied with scenery probs other areas .

Posted: **Mon Jan 23, 2012 8:32 am**

looking great Ian......i saw an advertisement for a really nice diecast 1/200 model of "city of chc" its on pre-order from Iron Horse hobbies, a limited release due in march/april.
The only draw back is that its $90.....a lot of coin for 200th scale.

Posted: **Mon Jan 23, 2012 8:56 am**

Hells Bells , I would say , 100 bucks for 1/200 , ill stick with my 1/72 NZ1050 diecast Harvard .