Airfix Shackleton AEW.2
 

I know there are a few model builders out there, Airfix are releasing a 1/72 Avro Shackleton AEW.2 this year. Markings available for Dougal and Ermintrude.

http://assets.airfix.com/media/catal...1/a11005.3.jpg

Hope there's an AEW version in that box for the 8 Sqn markings! Mind you always looked nice in Maritime (off) white and I assume 224 Sqn markings as the resident Gibralter Sqn.

PS WW - How did you swap over #1 and #3?

The picture's a computer render of the (unpainted) model. 8 Sqn markings are indeed the ones included. Airfix also do a MR.2 including markings for a 224 Sqn Shack, Gibraltar '57.

http://assets.airfix.com/media/catal...mr2_3d_box.jpg

One version on heat and the other pregnant :)

At least the old girl went out venerated, and not denigrated like he poor old Nimrod after years of sterling Service.

Revell :have also done an AEW 2. It came out a couple of years ago, around the same time as the Airfix MR 2.:8

Voila!


A Tale of Two Shackletons by Roger Hardy

It's a shame the chances of the Coventry one getting airborne appear to be dwindling.

Read the "blurb" on their site a year or so ago.
IIRC it contained references to"Depth Chargers" and the that Shackleton was powered by 4 "Griffin" engines.
I emailed them about the inaccuracies but never had a reply, I hope the boxes do not have their spellings. :hmm:

Nope, just checked, still the same.

Well they did the Dambuster Lanc with a model of the dam and lake as an included base to show it on, that wasn't all it came with, the kit was released with a top turret and following complaints they had to provide a corrected second fuselage to those that had purchased it.

Still, they do some fantastic kits like the 1/24 Mossie and Tempest.

1/24th Mosquito - now youre talking. A quick google of the Banff strike wing version of the model is absolutely stunning. Beautiful aeroplane. Not sure MrsT7 would put up with something that big in the living room though...

You know there is a 1/32 scale Lanc coming out, it is by the same people that brought out the 1/32 B-17 and B-25, and to give you an idea of the size of those...

http://merit-intl.com/month/2-17-12/Yan1.jpg

But getting back to Shackletons, this is a scratch built 1/32 scale Shack in progress

http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/in...howtopic=60315

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1665/...abe7c7d9_c.jpg

https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8609/2...4bdc8a61_z.jpg

I had a chance to inspect progress on the 1/32 Shackleton at ScaleModelWorld in November at Telford, and a most impressive beastie it is.

I have uploaded a bunch of photos of the Newark Shackleton including the interior for your pleasure.
see

https://flic.kr/s/aHskM3ke3k



https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/333/32...1a5e9fa3_c.jpg

Brought back not altogether pleasant memories....
 

....however comma the exterior photos are of a Mk 3, a rather different beastie.

The Ancient Mariner

Does that mean I've turned into spotter? Aaaaaargh!

Some, if not all of the interior shots, are of a Mk 3. Certainly the cockpit ones.

As for being a spotter, I recall that the Kinloss seagulls could tell a Mk. 3 from a Mk 4.
A Shackleton taxiing out for take off would stop on the dis-used runway, turn into wind and do pre-takeoff engine runs. Once it taxied away, the seagulls would descend onto the grass behind where it had been if it was a T.4, but not if it was a Mk. 3. I can only think that the T.4 being tail down, the slipstream beat on the grass and brought worms to the surface, which did not happen with a Mk. 3
Rossian, you are not turning into a spotter. You are turning into a seagull. Or a worm.

I never flew the Shackleton, and I must be getting old, but those are my sort of instruments.;)

Shackleton had what I call a glass cockpit. It had nice big windows.

They are all of the same aircraft, I took them.

Thank you NutLoose, brings back memories of many happy times UNDER those nav tables.