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Post by jlspec » Sat Jun 19, 2010 7:30 am

Hard to believe this thread is almost 2 years old. I had to go back and look and all these wonderful customs. Can't wait to see the Avenger

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Post by tko211 » Sun Jun 20, 2010 10:09 am

TBF-Avenger. Found this scheme a couple years ago. It's an Avenger from New Zealand. This plane should have the turret removed to be accurate but I like the turret too much and I'm not one for scratch building the cover that would have replaced it so I just went for it regardless of this detail. I really was drawn to the idea of a natural metal Avenger and the yellow and Black stripe pattern was too fun to pass on. This plane sat on my garage project shelf for close to 2 years. It's good to see her finally done and in the collection. Here are some pics.

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great look

Post by supersonicfifi » Sun Jun 20, 2010 11:34 am

it looks bigger ! what a wonderfull plane ! 8)

well done !

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Post by KWR190 » Sun Jun 20, 2010 12:13 pm

Looks great

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Post by mikeyt » Mon Jun 21, 2010 10:30 pm

WOW!

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Post by Black_Dragon_One » Tue Jun 22, 2010 12:31 am

love it great job...
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Post by NightVyper » Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:32 am

I am not a big WWII to guy but that looks just great!! really nice, i really like Avengers and corsairs and if they made avengers in that paint scheme i would own one for sure.

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Post by tko211 » Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:16 am

It's certainly different. I'm glad its done so that I can move on with my life! ;)

I took pics of the Me-109e last night and I will post those up sometime later today or this evening. It's got an electric motor that drives the prop and working nav lights on the wing tips.

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Post by GI546 » Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:20 am

that's one awesome warbird TKO.

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Post by 456THBG » Tue Jun 22, 2010 1:54 pm

TKO, your work is off the charts! That Avenger is beautiful, I mean that is the way that plane was meant to look!
What a talent!

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Post by VMF115 » Tue Jun 22, 2010 3:59 pm

I love it Zach!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great Work!!!!!!!!
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Let me hear your guns!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My what?
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Your guns! Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: [fires his airplane's guns] AHHHH!

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Post by tko211 » Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:23 pm

My Me-109e. This plane was modified back in 2004 when I took my S1 plane and cut open the cowling and split apart the wings to install some wiring from the local radio shack. I got the motor to spin the prop and included working nav lights for the wingtips. Once I knew it all worked I simply put the plane back together and shelved it.

A couple months ago I bought a new S1 in a package off of evil bay and decided to repaint my electronic version in this scheme. I loved this on the 1:32 scale from 21C and never made it myself because for years 21C told me that this would have been the next repaint release and it nearly was back in 2008. So with 21C gone (sadly) I decided to paint it myself.

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Post by VMF115 » Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:35 pm

I love it...nice touch !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Let me hear your guns!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My what?
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Your guns! Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: [fires his airplane's guns] AHHHH!

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Post by VMF115 » Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:39 pm

You need to make a youtube Video on that me-109! 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Let me hear your guns!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: My what?
Colonel "Madman" Maddox: Your guns! Ack, ack, ack, ack, ack!
Captain Wild Bill Kelso: [fires his airplane's guns] AHHHH!

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Post by hworth18 » Wed Jun 23, 2010 5:22 am

Great job on both models Z! I really like the working model and I plan on modifying some of my 1/32 planes in the future. :wink:
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Post by Jay » Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:52 pm

YAY!! Nice to see a New Zealand bird!! Beautiful :D
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Post by Light.Inf.Scout » Wed Jun 23, 2010 12:55 pm

AWESOME....WISH I HAD YOUR SKILLS. THE AVENGER IS FREAKIN AWESOME TOO! :D
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Post by pickelhaube » Wed Jun 23, 2010 8:23 pm

This is sweet !!!

I would love to have one in this version :D :D :D
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Post by GI546 » Thu Jun 24, 2010 5:49 am

i think you just might have made me an aircraft collector. :D

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Post by HardenSteel » Fri Jun 25, 2010 12:58 am

Great work as always. Extremely well done!

Kudo's on the avenger - Very different & nice. As for the Golden Hawks F-86 - it's a must have, and one I need to do.

Well done!

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Post by HardenSteel » Fri Jun 25, 2010 12:59 am

Great work as always. Excellent!

Kudo's on the avenger - Very different & nice. As for the Golden Hawks F-86 - it's a must have, and one I need to do.

Well done!

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Post by pizzaguy » Fri Jun 25, 2010 7:28 am

Very nice. What kind of electric motor did you use? Did you use resistors to slow it down any? Great work!

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Post by tko211 » Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:45 pm

I can't for the life of me remember what motor or what I did on that thing. I had help from a friend who knew more about Radio shack than I did. We chopped it up and slapped it together in like 2 nights. I remember thinking that if it didn't work I just lost my 39.99 dollar investment! (funny to think about now)...

I can tell you that we did not do any resister on the motor at all. We were just testing it out and pressure fit the motor right into the back of the prop spinner and I remember it just fit perfect. So we fired it up! The friction of the spinner itself seems to take the place of the resister. It spins fast for sure but it's pretty realistic looking at the speed it spins. so we left it! It runs off a 9V.

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Post by tko211 » Sat Jun 26, 2010 11:46 pm

Going to post pics of my Tiger tank tomorrow.

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Post by tko211 » Sun Aug 01, 2010 1:02 am

Argh, I need to get around to finally posting pics of my latest finished projects.

1. Tiger Tank
2. P-47 bubbletop
3. F-14

I will see what I can do.

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