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The official Airfix Club Magazine Issue 19
In this Issue... A03029
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SKYHAWK PLUS... RMS TITANIC
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1912 - 2012 100TH ANNIVERSARY
SPECIAL FALKLANDS PULL OUT POSTER
Welcome to the spring edition of the Airfix Club Magazine. With those cold winter days behind us and the days becoming longer, it is a great time to have a look at what events are coming up in the year. The Airfix Team will be making appearances at many different venues over the next few months. Take a look at our Roadshow dates and try to come along to as many as possible. There is a lot going on for all ages.
Contents South West Model Show...2 Where Museum Meets Theatre.............................3 Channel Dash................4-5 Fairey Swordfish Colour Schemes...........................6 Fairey Swordfish Rigging Build.................................7 Falklands History................8 Diary Dates.......................9 1912-2012 RMS Titanic ..................................10-11 Members’ Photos......12-13 Humbrol 2012............14-15 Competition Time............16
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In this edition of the magazine we also have a great offer with the Fleet Air Arm Museum Yeovilton, a fantastic Falklands feature and many more exciting new items and updates to show you.
Now in its 16th year the...
South West Model Show Now in its 16th year, Saturday February 11th promised to be the premier event in the South West’s model enthusiasts’ calendar, with over 2000 visitors, clubs and traders expected to attend the Fleet Air Arm Museum’s Model Show in Yeovilton. Over 130 traders and clubs exhibited everything from model aircraft, boats, figures, tanks and dioramas. Airfix ran a ‘Make and Paint’ workshop and sponsored competitions designed to recognise high achievement in modelling across all disciplines. Model enthusiasts could bring along their best models and possibly could walk away with a prize.
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The highlight of the Show was a radio controlled flying display by the award winning BMFA (British Model Flying Association). Previous years had seen jet powered model aircraft and an internationally acclaimed model helicopter stunt team taking to the skies. When not looking around the model show visitors could go on board Concorde and see the award winning Aircraft Carrier Experience.
Cheques made payable to: Hornby Hobbies Limited. Visa, Access, Mastercard, Maestro & Switch accepted with valid expiry date. Club Address: Airfix Collectors Club, PO Box 25, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, UK. LE13 IZG. Tel: 0844 815 0582 Fax: 01664 480 257 The Airfix Club Magazine is published on behalf of Hornby plc, Westwood, Margate, Kent CT9 4JX.
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Where museum meets theatre! The Royal Navy’s Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton is one of the Southwest’s leading attractions and will almost certainly change your perception of aircraft museums. As much an ‘attraction’ as it is a ‘museum’, the award winning Aircraft Carrier Experience is where Museum meets theatre. You’ll ‘fly’ by helicopter to the replica flight deck of the aircraft carrier HMS ARK ROYAL. On board the Ark Royal you’ll see ten aircraft and two enormous projection screens showing a Phantom interceptor fighter and a Buccaneer low level strike bomber. You will be in the heart of the action as powerful jet fighters take off and land around you. You will experience the thrills and sounds of a working flight deck, and feel the wind in your hair as you witness a dramatic air-sea rescue when a Buccaneer is lost over the side on the Ark Royal into the sea. You will even see a nuclear bomb. Inside the Ark Royal is a series of faithfully reconstructed cabins and operational areas from the Bridge to the ‘Goofers’ Deck’, which looks down onto the flight deck below. The Museum has the largest collection of Naval aircraft anywhere in Europe and the first British built Concorde which you can go on-board and visit the cockpit. Outside the Museum there is a children’s ‘Mini Marines’ adventure playground, a licensed restaurant and a shop, ample free parking and excellent disabled access. Just across the road from the main Museum is the Fleet Air Arm Museum’s reserve collection. The reserve collection is larger than that of many other entire aircraft museums and is housed in a Heritage Lottery funded climate-controlled building called Cobham Hall. Within Cobham Hall there are over thirty historic aircraft and some five miles of shelving accommodating over 30,000 records and artefacts.
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Among the aircraft and artefacts within Cobham Hall are one of the largest collections of Westland Helicopters and the only surviving example of a WW1 aircraft Carrier - a 60ft long Thorneycroft Seaplane Lighter. There’s a bullet ridden Argentinian Beechcraft Mentor and even a prototype Bouncing Bomb! Cobham Hall opens to the public once each year when it attracts visitors from all over the UK to see its unique collection of aircraft, many of which have never before been seen on public display.
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The Museum is open throughout the year but closed on Mondays and Tuesdays during the winter. It is situated alongside RNAS Yeovilton - Europe’s busiest military air station - and dependent upon operational demands, you may see fighter aircraft and helicopters going through their rigorous training procedures.
Airfix are pleased to be able to offer all club members “2 for 1 entry into the Fleet Air Arm Museum”. This fantastic offer is for all club members and is available until December 31st 2012. To take advantage of this special offer, simply present the voucher attached to this issue of Airfix Club magazine, along with your valid club membership card, to gain entry to the Fleet Air Arm Museum. The offer is not to be used in conjunction with any other offer. We are always striving to get great deals such as this for the Airfix club and we hope you all get the chance to make use of it.
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The Channel Dash, Codenamed operation Cerberus by the Germans, was one of the most audacious naval operations of all time. In early 1942 three of the Kriegsmarine’s most powerful warships were stranded in the French port of Brest unable to easily recover to a German port and under repeated bombing attacks by the RAF. The three German capital ships, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen had no choice but to run the British naval blockade around the port of Brest and break for home waters through the English Channel. A stretch of water in places only 30 miles wide and under the noses of the RAF, Royal Navy and shore batteries. On the night of the 11th of February the German ships slipped through the blockade and made full speed into the channel. Unfortunately for the British, and luckily for the Germans, the ships were not spotted until the following morning by two Spitfires of the RAF. However due to needing to maintain radio silence they did not inform their superiors until landing. While the RAF and Royal Navy had been expecting this operation their response was far from effective. Just 6 Swordfish biplanes made up the initial strike force. Led by Lieutenant Commander Eugene Esmonde DSO the Swordfishes circled their base of Manston for around 10 minutes waiting for their allotted escort of RAF Spitfires, but it was just ten aircraft of number 72 squadron that found the Swordfishes and gave them an escort.
Against a force of up to 250 Luftwaffe fighters the attack was suicide.The spitfires soon became embroiled in a whirling dogfight with the Luftwaffe fighters, leaving the Swordfishes to the mercy of any other fighters and the murderous flak. Esmonde pressed home his Torpedo run to the lowest level, flying even when his port lower wing was shot off and his aircraft was aflame. All the aircraft were lost with just 5 crewmen surviving. Esmonde was not one of the survivors. All the ships escaped unharmed, with the only damage during the whole operation coming to them thanks to mines laid in the approach to their own harbours. Repeated attacks by bomber command and coastal command were ineffective, as were the shore batteries and destroyer assaults. For his heroic attack, Esmonde was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross. The attack was made in the foulest of weather, against the most determined enemy who out classed them in both numbers and equipment, but the bravery of the Swordfish crews cannot be questioned and was even commented on by the German captain of Scharnhorst commenting “What an heroic stage for them to meet their end on. Behind them their homeland which they had just left with their hearts steeled to their purpose still in view" and a Daily Mail Reporter to write - "This is an episode in the Battle of the Straits of which Britains can be rightly proud. In planes which, against the German protecting aircraft, were as slow as cart horses compared with a motorcar, 18 men of the Fleet Air Arm flew over the Channel. Crippled and ablaze before they got within range, they kept on, delivered their attacks - and died!"
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Only available at: The Channel Dash, Codenamed operation Cerberus by the Germans, was one of the most audacious naval operations of all time.
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COLOUR SCHEMES K8393/E5A, NO.824 NAVAL AIR SQN, FLEET AIR ARM, HMS EAGLE, OPERATION JUDGEMENT, TARANTO, 11TH NOV 1940
K8449, NO.820 NAVAL AIR SQN, HMS COURAGEOUS, MARCH 1939
K8375/2Q, NO.810 NAVAL AIR SQUADRON, FLEET AIR ARM, HMS ARK ROYAL, MAY 1941
Only available at: W5984/H, FLOWN BY LT-COMMANDER EUGENE ESMONDE VC, DSO, OPERATION “FULLER” (“THE CHANNELL DASH”) NO.825 NAVAL AIR SQUADRON, ROYAL AIR FORCE MANSTON, ENGLAND, 12TH FEBRUARY 1942 6
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RIGGING BUILD 3. Press fit the inner struts to wing centre section. Glue in the threads at the upper ends then thread through opposite ends and glue at 'X'.
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4. Glue long (1 0cm) threads to the two upper struts an d lower rear st rut shown by 'X'.
8. Drill a hole in fuselage at 'D'. Assemble wings to fuselag e leaving off the top and bottom surface s. Now pull thro 7. Carefully drill holes close to the outer 6. Drill two small holes at 'D' and glue in ugh the long threads mad e at Stage 4 and struts at 'D'. 10cm lengths of thread. glue into the opposite corners (Thread 'T1' to 'T1', 'T2' to 'T2', 'T3' to 'T3'). Thre ad 'T4' is an extra one wh ere it pokes down next to the inner rear strut and glued in place, then fix it to the opposite corner. Thread 'T5' goes throug h hole in cowling then pull through fro nt of fuselage an d glue in place before engine is added. 11. Drill 4 holes but not all the way through at 'D'. On one side glue and insert d threads 'T11' and 'T12', push through 10. Now add the rear control wires. Thread an ht tig T6 and T7, pull r 9. Add threads fo holes in fin and pull with tweezers to 'T8' goes to the lower elevator. Thread y ad re s ad re off all th glue. Now trim line up with holes on opposite tail 'T9' goes to the rudder and 'T10' over to be rts pa ng wi e th the remainder of plane. A few trial and error attempts the top of the tail plane and fixes to the fitted. are needed to trim down the thread so top of the rear elevator (the next picture it is reasonably tight when glued into shows this in detail). Drill two holes the hole. through fin at 'D'. 12. Measure the distance betwee n the front and rear m ain wing bracing If the thread is a little loose then light a match, blow it out and while the end it still wires and then make the suppor ts 'T1 warm pass very close to the thread. The heat should shrink it slightly and will be 3'. Stretched sprue are good for thes pulled taught. With a scalpel scrape away any extra glue around the holes once the e as it's more rigid th an thread. glue is dry.
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FALKLANDS HISTORY The Falklands war started on the second of April 1982 with an Argentine invasion and occupation of the Falkland Islands and South Georgia. The British response was adamant, the Falklands were British and would be re-taken either through diplomatic negotiations, or if that failed by force. Douglas A4-B Skyhawk: Speed: 673mph Range: 2,000 miles (with tanks) Wingspan: 8.4m Length: 13m Armament: 2 x 30mm cannon various stores up to 9,000lb.
Sea Harrier: Speed: 740 mph Range: 260miles Wingspan: 7.7m Length: 14.6m Armament: 2 or 4 x sidewinder AAM 2 x 30mm Aden cannon.
By the 5th of April a British task force was underway. Diplomatic efforts had gone nowhere and so the British government resigned itself to using force to retake the islands. The Task force would be protected in the air by just 28 Sea Harrier FRS1s. These aircraft were as yet unproven in combat and many believed they would be outclassed by Argentina’s supersonic Mirage III jet interceptors as well as outnumbered by its larger force of combat aircraft. The Sea Harriers main opposition in the conflict proved to be the Argentine Air Force’s small attack aircraft such as the Pucara and the American built Douglas A4 Skyhawk. The Mirage fighters rarely engaging the nimble Harriers. Without protection the ageing A4 Skyhawks suffered accordingly and while some successes were achieved by the diminutive fighter bomber against the task force’s ships, eight were lost in aerial combat. The Sea Harrier by contrast suffered no air to air losses during the conflict and ended the war a capable and proven fighter aircraft.
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FMA-IA58 PUCARA The Pucara was designed to meet an Argentine Air Force requirement for a versatile, sturdy aircraft for ground attack and counter insurgency (COIN) operations. A two seat low wing monoplane powered by two Turbomeca Astazou XVIG turboprops rated at 1022shp each, it has a top speed of 311mph with a range of 870 miles.
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First flying on the 20th August 1969 the Pucara proved to have good low level flying characteristics and a strong airframe, with excellent rough field capabilities, able to operate from roads and unprepared strips. It is also able to carry an effective range of armaments, such as unguided bombs and rockets, as well as being armed with two 20mm cannons and four 7.62mm machine guns. It was this very lethal armament that made the British forces fear the Pucara at the start of the Falklands campaign of 1982. One of the few fixed wing types to be stationed on the island, the Argentines hoped the Pucaras would be a useful asset in defending the islands from any British counter attack. However the Pucara’s very effectiveness would be its downfall in the Falklands campaign as they were singled out for destruction by the RAF, Royal Navy and the ground forces. Three were destroyed by cluster bombs at Goose Green and the SAS destroyed another six in their raid on Pebble Island. A number of others were also destroyed by Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AAA) as well as Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs), with one being downed by a Sea Harrier. While the Pucara’s combat record over the Falklands was not sparkling, it does have the honour of claiming the only air to air kill by the Argentine Air Force, with a Westland Scout helicopter being downed on the 28th of May with machine gun fire.
After these were completed A-515 was donated to the RAF museum, repainted in Argentine colours, and has been on display ever since. However it is not just in the UK that the Falklands, or Malvinas, conflict is remembered. With the Argentine air force painting one Pucara in 1997 in the white scheme here, commemorating the Argentine personnel lost during the conflict.
At the end of the conflict the British captured eleven Pucaras with six being shipped back to the UK for trials and evaluation work. A-515 as depicted here was one of those aircraft. Originally repainted in RAF colours and markings the Pucara operated from Boscombe Down, undertaking a number of tests and trails to ascertain the effectiveness of the airframe, including trials to test its rough field capability.
The bravery of the Pucara pilots was never questioned during the conflict by the British, despite the slow moving COIN aircraft being especially vulnerable to ground fire and fighters, the Argentine pilots still pressed home their attacks at very low level with severe determination.
Saturday 30th June - Sunday 1st July - Flying Legends Air Show 2012, IWM Duxford.
Diary Dates...
Featuring Airfix Make & Paint event. IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire CB22 4QR. www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford
Saturday 7th - Sunday 8th July - The Royal International Air Tattoo, RAF Fairford.
Saturday 31st March - Sunday 1st April - The Spring Spitfire Event, Folkestone.
Featuring Airfix display and Airfix Make & Paint event. RAF Fairford, Fairford, Gloucestershire GL7 4RB. www.airtattoo.com/airshow
Featuring Airfix Make & Paint event. This Airfix Make & Paint is being run by the event organisers on behalf of Airfix. National Memorial to the Few, Capel-le-Ferne, Folkestone, Kent CT18 7JJ. www.battleofbritainmemorial.org
Saturday 8th - Sunday 9th September - The Duxford Air Show, IWM Duxford.
Sunday 27th May - The Jubilee Air Show, IWM Duxford.
Featuring Airfix Make & Paint event. IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire CB22 4QR. www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford
Featuring Airfix Make & Paint event. IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire CB22 4QR. www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford
Sunday 14th October - The Autumn Airshow, IWM Duxford.
Sunday 17th June - RAF Cosford Air Show 2012.
Featuring Airfix display and Airfix Make & Paint event. IWM Duxford, Cambridgeshire CB22 4QR. www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford
Featuring Airfix display and Airfix Make & Paint event. RAF Cosford, Wolverhampton WV7 3EX. www.raf.mod.uk/rafcosford
Saturday 23rd June - RNAS Yeovilton Air Day 2012.
Saturday 10th - Sunday 11th November - IPMS Scale ModelWorld 2012.
Featuring Airfix display and Airfix Make & Paint event. RNAS Yeovilton, Ilchester, Somerset BA22 8HT.
Featuring Airfix display and Airfix Make & Paint event. The Telford International Centre, Telford, Shropshire TF3 4JH. www.southwatereventgroup.com
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RMS Titanic Specification Olympic-class ocean liner Tonnage:
46,328 GRT
Displacement: 52,310 tons Length:
882ft 9 in (269.1m)
Beam:
92ft (28m)
Height:
175ft (53.3m)
Depth:
64ft 6 in (19.7m)
Speed:
23 knots
Passengers:
3547
Crew:
885
R.M.S TITANIC’S CAPTAIN... Captain Edward John Smith was an English Naval Reserve Officer and ship’s captain. He joined the White Star Line in March 1880 and received his first command in 1887. In 1911 he commanded the Olympic, the Titanic’s sister ship and in 1912 was given command of the Titanic. Captain Smith went down after his ship and took his place in history.
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TANIC A50146 R.M.S. TITANIC... It is a 100 years since the Titanic sunk in the North Atlantic on April 14th 1912 and we are taking a closer look at the Airfix 100th Anniversary Kit. It is a 1:400 scale kit and boasts some fantastically detailed features. On this double page spread you will be able to see some of these features with the detailed photograph of the built up kit. The model itself is 630mm long and comprises of 381 pieces.
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Your contributions to our Members’ Photos page get better and better and as you know, there is a prize for what our panel considers the best submission in each Airfix magazine edition. The winner chosen from all the photographs published on pages 12-13 in Issue 18 is James Ross from Hampshire. Congratulations, James. Look out for your surprise Airfix gift, which is on its way to you.
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Gloss French Blue
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acrylic paint packs 24
Matt Trainer Yellow
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Matt Dark Green
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Matt Black
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pack 1 - WWII RAF 34 Matt White
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AIRFIX & FINEST HOUR ART English Electric
Lightning F.2A Take a look at the latest edition to the Airfix Limited Edition Prints. We have the English Electric Lightning. Entering RAF squadron service in 1960, the Lightning represented a quantum leap in capability and performance over the RAF's previous interceptor jets, offering Mach 2+ performance as well as a phenomenal rate of climb. Until its retirement in the 1980s, the Lightning had few rivals for outright speed and climbing ability, however, it did have some shortcomings, most notably its lack of range as well as its limited armament of just two air-to-air missiles. The fine art prints (Giclee) provided by Adam Tooby are produced using archival quality (280gsm) paper. The paper used conforms to UV and longevity tests as specified by the guild of fine art as well as international standards DIN6738; ANSI Z93.48-1984 and ISO9706. Each print is produced using a 12 colour print process to ensure that colour accuracy and fine detail is accurately reproduced.
Airfix will release a print every two months with a wide and varying subject matter. Look out for our new release come mid-march! All prints are limited, so be one of the first to purchase this amazing imagery.
Finest hour art will be launching 3 new prints every 6 to eight weeks. Also look out for the private collection launch of artwork that will be available from June onwards.
Please email info@finesthourart.com for more details.
COMPETITION TIME We’ve devised a competition with an interesting Airfix twist for you this time. Take part in our Airfix Propellergram with a chance of winning an example of a fantastic signed boxed Airfix kit of the Royal Navy A05113 Westland Sea King HAR.5 Helicopter. We have two kits to give away one to an adult winner and one to a junior winner aged 14 or under. These have been signed by the actual crews serving on these fantastic aircraft.
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Using the letters on the propeller and the spinner in the illustration, see how many words you can make up using three letters or more. To test you even further words which contain the letter X will count as double, giving you an even better chance of obtaining that collectable prize! The adult and junior reader sending us the longest list of words wins!
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1. The two winners of the competition (one adult and one junior aged 14 or under) will be the first drawn from the all-correct entries received by the closing date of 14th May 2012. 2. The competition is limited to one entry per current member of the Airfix Club. 3. The results of the competition will be announced in Issue 20 of the Airfix magazine and the winner notified by post. 4. The competition is not open to employees of Hornby Hobbies Ltd., their agents or families. 5. No correspondence to be entered into in conjunction with the competition. 6. The Airfix Club accepts no responsibility for entries lost in the post or damaged or defaced in any way. 7. No cash equivalent is available. 8. The judges’ decision is final.
Our Airfix competition in Issue 18 promised a signed print of Airfix box-art specialist Adam Tooby’s Supermarine Spitfire Mk XII, to be awarded to one adult and one junior winner. The lucky recipients are: Mr Vernon Holmes, Member 565340 from Cambridgeshire and Tommy Sargeant, aged 12, Member 610767 from Aberdeenshire. The answers to our competition questions were: 1. Woolf Barnato and Bernard Rubin. 2. 1969. 3. Feldwebel (Sergeant) Karl Hier. Congratulations to you both. Your prizes are on their way, so make space on your hobby room wall.
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