St Johns I will certainly be there, have you a date yet?

SFFP:

I'm having a bit of a problem with that. The Matchbox model comes sans PIPS and I'm not sure of my ability to model a set though I have begun trying. Much of the rest of the model as it stands is pretty much as it was when I flew it.

What I do find a tad annoying is that I went to my log book to see when I had flown XW208 which is the supplied decals only to find I flew it just once for 1:15 on the 5th April 1985 while on 240 OCU with a Flt. Lt. Carpenter who I remember quite well. I was sure I had flown it a ton of times but it seems I did XW207 and XW209 a lot but 208 must have remained an OCU airframe or gone to 230 Sqn. so it avoided me...

It should be the last Friday of the month; well that's the day I've booked off work!

SFFP always the last friday of Nov

CG Both after your time; if you're there I'll introduce you to SFFP, you wont forget him:p

AA Strictly speaking they arn't PIPS, the Puma Iceing Protection System was three mods, the Polys, the cover for the T/R hyds and something else which slips my mind. I know a few guys who have fashioned a set of Poly's for models such as yours they may be able to help.

St. Johns:

That's odd, I was always told PIPS stood for Polyvalent Intake Protection System. :confused:

I'd love some advice on the construction... I'm pretty handy when it comes to things like woodwork, (built a room around an aquarium and a nice bar in my basement), but I have to admit that when we get onto small things my eyes let me down nowadays. I make the model with the aid of a big freestanding magnifying glass.. :{ My vision is fine past about a yard but closer in I'm utterly buggered even with reading glasses... I probably should get them checked professionally.

Thanks for posting the piccies, as an unhumble ex liney on 33 for a year and a bit before I PVR'd it did bring back warm memories of a pan and ice creams.

much more relaxed way of working than fast jets or engine bays.

enjoy your quiet little drinky in november!!!
CS

St Johns,

Let it go and enjoy the sauna!!!!

Could Be
 

Tried 'cold turkey' too painful! therapy is going well:)

AA I'll see what I can do.

St. Johns:

I don't care what the rest say about you, you're OK! :ok:

Thanks.

Oh no he's not :p

Ohhhhhh yes he is... ;)

There is a way around the intake issue but you would have to buy another kit, Revell took over the moulds from Matchbox and reissued it as a German BGS variant with extra sprues for the intakes and the enlarged sponsons amongst other things, this will show you the one I mean, though again it is rare.

SA 330 Puma "BGS", Revell Nr. 04412

Just keep a look out on evilbay for one.

They also actually did it as an RAF version too, but again rare

SA 330 Puma, Revell Nr. 4499

Thomas used the first to produce this, shame the flags are upside down.

SA 330 Puma, Revell Nr. 4499

Decals and markings, these are not a problem, if you have an inkjet printer you can get decal sheet and print out your own. I actually do some of my own ( though I use an Alps printer which has white ink) which is needed if you are doing anything containing white unless you use white decal sheet and trim it well.

see
Experts-Choice® Decal Film - Bare-Metal Foil Co.

I have the Matchbox Puma so can measure the codes and serial sizes, if you want I could run you off a set that you could print out..... It's not a difficult job to do.

As an example of what I can do, these are my Chinook ones I was working on for the 1/35th Trumpeter kit....

AA
 

Check your PMs

Interesting AA. I have just checked my log book and April 85 I was on the crewman staff of the OCU and often flew with Chips. Interesting to see some of the students names for that period, both pilot and crewman.

Wiretensioner

Nutloose:

I saw those models with the PIPS and have seen them on Ebay... Unfortunately, they are going for $50 or more meaning that, effectively, I'm paying $50 for the PIPS... :eek:

Wiretensioner:

We know each other then... :ok: It's funny, I don't recall for sure any of the pilots on my course. The crewmen were Dave A*****, John W*****, Niel E****, John O** and myself. I have spoken to Dave and Neil in the last year or so, I know what happened to John W and the last I heard of John O was him being shipped home from Belize and subsequent move to Hercs.

St. Johns:

See yours... :ok::ok::ok:

Wee Jock Poo Plop McPlop was last seen on VC10's...........shame a certain VC10 Pilot had left by then as they would have been ideally suited to each other :p

Buy it, take a mould off it, then re ebay it :rolleyes:

Having probs with photobucket so cannot upload decal sheet image

Nutloose:

You are clearly an experienced modeller. The last model I made was somewhere around 40 years ago and not very well at that. I have a source that, seemingly, makes them irregularly so I'm going to try going down that route first.

SSFP:

I went from Biggin Hill through AAITC, Shawbury, and 240 with him. He have me a lift from Biggin back to Hullavington and when I got out of the car I thought "If the RAF wants him as aircrew I have absolutely no chance"... When I met him at Finningly I was shocked. I still can't understand how he got to 230 but he did. I'm quite sure that the only benefit the RAF ever got from employing him as aircrew was to make the rest of us look good... :}

Just buy one of these and customise it yourself!! A lot easier! :E:ok:
Corgi Westland Puma HC Mk.1 ,XW219, 230 Sqn, RAF Benson, November 2009
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