Models and Planes

[gripen]

we are busy restoring buccaneer 421 at swartkops air force museum and wanted to show everyone how we are making progress.

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[Silver]

Lol @gripen when I saw the title of this thread I thought I was going to see small model planes - loke the ones you build in your room and put on display in your house

Wow, that is amazing.

Thanks for sharing

 

[gripen]

the first photo is buccaneer 424.it was retired just as is and was pulled into the hanger and is stil in very good shape.its in the 3rd color scheme witch is extra dark sea gray at the top and prue blue at the botom.

 

[gripen]

its a plesure @Silver,but hang on i build those as well

 

[gripen]

this is our restoration we are busy with buccaneer421

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[gripen]

she was left in wind and rain heat and dust,even had a hanger collapsing on her,she has taken a beating and yet she is still here

 

[Silver]

Is this just your hobby?
Or do you restore planes for a living?
Just curious
Remarkable

 

[gripen]

hi @Silver i wanted to become a fighter pilot on the cheetah c,but life has its bumps and bends so that did not happen.my dad in law was on 24sqw during the bush war and when he told me about the buccaneer restoration i jumped at the opportunity.so instead of flying it im restoring,i actually build fihter models as a hob y been doing it since i was 6

 

[gripen]

a few more photos of buccaneer421

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[gripen]

the last photo is my 3 year old help fixing the buccaneer

 

[gripen]

silver if you want to check out the buccaneer in life we are working on it on 7 February at swartkops airforce museum at hanger12

 

[Arthster]

7th Feb? I am definitely going to miss it again. we have a major project running during feb

 

[Arthster]

Here is a couple of my handy works. The Spitfire is a replica of Evelyn a second world war SAAF spitfire used as recon plane during the war. She served in Italy as part of the Alied campaign. The blue belly was for cammo against the sky and the top was kept camo to hide from planes flying over head as she was used mainly for low level recons, she was named after the pilots wife. the first pic is the actual plane.

 

[gripen]

That's a bummer @Arthster won't be the same without you at the buccaneer restoration.thanks for adding the photos off you're models they look good as always

 

[rogue zombie]

Beautiful!
That must be one hell of a fulfilling experience - restoring an actual plane!

 

[Silver]

Wow @Arthster - that is amazing
So much detail in that model.

You must find building coils and figuring out atties quite an easy task after doing something like that
Lol

 

[Silver]

hi @Silver i wanted to become a fighter pilot on the cheetah c,but life has its bumps and bends so that did not happen.my dad in law was on 24sqw during the bush war and when he told me about the buccaneer restoration i jumped at the opportunity.so instead of flying it im restoring,i actually build fihter models as a hob y been doing it since i was 6

Thanks for the headsup @gripen
At least you are close to your passion though.
That photo of your son with the hammer is classic!!

 

[gripen]

Hahaha @Silver it is I love working on the bucc and my son as well.yeah I think he had a big problem and decided to use the hammer

 

[gripen]

@Rogue zombie it is one hell of an experience.working on the saaf's best lo level bomber.truly owesum

 

[Arthster]

Wynand's favorite tool is the hammer... simple but effective

 

[Arthster]

Wow @Arthster - that is amazing
So much detail in that model.

You must find building coils and figuring out atties quite an easy task after doing something like that
Lol

I love working with my hand, but I work in IT so the models and the buccaneer and the coil building all helps to keep my grounded and sane

 

[gripen]

jist want to shear a few work in progress models.

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[Arthster]

@gripen is that first on the F15D or E

 

[gripen]

hi @Arthster the first and second photo are both the F15c eagle.it fools you when you look at them without the canopy,but the space behind the ejection seat is for the batteries and radio bay

 

[gripen]

just a few more photos of buccaneer 421,we have removed some of the instruments to clean

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