A campaign to build aircraft used by the RAAF, in RAAF markings of course!
Enlist here : Ronnie RAAF

I've pressed the button and I was the first to do it, I even beat the campaign leader to it! Ain't I a stinker !

F/A-18 Hornet or (horror of horrors) High Planes Beaufort. Or an F-111... Or something yet unthought of, almost six months to go until campaing start!

By the way, I would kindly like a ribbon with a kangaroo on if that isn't too much to ask for?



Magnus

Magnus - June is only 3 months out seeing as it starts the end of June I'll give you 4 but not 6 !!!

Two glasses of white wine (from California by the way!) obviously does wonders to my sense of both time and mathematics...



Magnus

Hi!

Second to sign on!

No contest of what I will build, the wonderful little CAC Boomerang in 1/48 from Special Hobby!

Cheers Mates!

Stefan E

I clicked the button also. I don't think I have anything to build. But I will find something.

I will not be able to participate, but I thought you might be interested in a model I built a while ago - it is of a Gloster gladiator in the markings of Peter Turnbull, RAAF Libya, 1941. The decals are from Iliad Designs, and the camouflage is in four-colour 'counter-shading' scheme.

http://gallery.kitmaker.net/showgallery.php?cat=24145

Good Luck with the campaign.

Yeah, why not? I got Italeris 1:48 A-20G Boston in my stash w/ eduard masks.

Btw, when was this proposed? :O

This campaign is all new to me, but a pleasant surprise. I believe, I have a Mirage with Aussie markings somewhere in my stash.

Time to start the research.....

Have a lot of Australian aircrafts in my stash so I'll just have to decide wich one to build, but count me in.

Hi Jesper. Here's some info for you about the RAAF Mirages to begin with. The IIIO version was specially made for Australia. At the time no company had an aircraft that met the RAAF long range requirement to cover SE Asia from Malaysian and North Aust bases. The RAAF preference at the time was still biased towards British products and what they really wanted was a for English Electric to do a special long range Lightning. But in the end it was Dassault that came to the party. They made a longer fuselage version of the Mirage so they could fit all the fuel in.
As far as i know no one makes a true IIIO kit so far, some people use resin conversion kits to get the right fuselage length, and some people just use a straight IIIC/CJ kit with RAAF markings and don't worry about it. If you want to see where the extra length is in pics, look to the aft of the cockpit and the engine intakes and decide if it's noticeable enough of a difference for it to matter to you!

Anyone wanting to do a conversion project, Mirage IIIO conversions for Heller kits are sold by Red Roo: http://www.redroomodels.com/conversions.php
But i've never actually used one or seen one up close.

Unfortunately, for me, i don't have a single RAAF subject for this campaign...i already built my Wirraway kit.

Andrew

I didn't even know a thread had been started!!

I will do my best Magnus.. I suppose the logical thing would be to incorporate the RAAF roundel in the ribbon.. It has a flying rat on it!

There is a huge range of aircraft to choose from so please encourage all your friends to join and make it an official campaign.

Thanks for all who have signed up so far.

Thanks for the feedback, Andrew. Red roo is a very cool and helpful site for this campaign.

I checked my Mirage kit yesterday. It is the Italeri/ESCI 1/48 kit. It has most of the stuff in the conversion set. Sidewinders, drop tanks, IIIO nose etc. The fuselage is probably too short as there is only a "standard" length fuselage included in the kit.
Checking the decal options I decided that I might want to build this as the French aircraft as there is a really attractive anniversary scheme included and the Australian scheme is overall aluminium.

I am considering to buy the Italeri/ESCI 1/48 Skyhawk kit. It has Australian markings included, so it could also be a cool aircraft for this campaign.

Anyway, I still have some months to decide.

There is one small problem with your idea of doing the Skyhawk Jesper... it was never flown by the RAAF, only the Navy flew the Scooters... Not trying to be too picky, but...

I'm in for this, got my citizenship in January so I need to start building RAAF subjects

Not sure what it'll be at this stage though.

Ben

Would anyone like a list of the aircraft operated by the RAAF from 1921 to the present?

Can anyone help me with details of the ribbons? What size etc etc...

And a tutorial on banners would be good as well..

Ribbons are 50 x 20 pixels, so no need to spend a great deal of time on detail that will not show at that resolution.

I'll join in on this one as I have a few subjects in mind.

Here is the address for the campaign photo gallery.

http://gallery.kitmaker.net/showgallery.php/cat/24168

I was planning to build a RAAF F-4E for my personal Phantom II project. I think I can take it a little up in the list:} I joind in the gang too. Have fun everyone!

I'm in !!
My choices:
Not sure if there are any of these available OOB..with RAAF markings
de Havilland Vampire
Hawker Sea Fury
Phantom
Hornet

Can someone help me out since I don't know which maker or scale exist for these models with RAAF markings ?

Hi John.

You are in luck! All of those kits have been available at one time or another with RAAF markings. Currently, Hobbycraft of Canada have a 1/32 Sea Fury in Australian markings.. but alas it is RAN markings, not RAAF markings.

There are many manufacturers of after market RAAF decals out there. I am going to build the Revell C-17 Globemaster II using aftermarket RAAF markings, or maybe a 1/32 Revell Mirage III with RAAF markings.. Or an F111... Or a Mustang.. :-)

Welcome one and all to the build which is only a few months away from its starting date.

Regards

Warren

Hmmm on a second thought I may do an A-4 too. Anything with a 4 is good:}

Sorry but the A-4 was never used by the RAAF so it doesn't meet the criteria.

Hi all,
I'm thinking of joining this campaign and I want to do a Vietnam War era aircraft I was thinking of a RAAF Canberra B20 (I think this is the correct version?). I want to do it in 1/48 scale so firstly does anyoner do decals for the RAAF Canberra and secondly what would be the best kit to use?
Hope you can help.
David

I'm in. There's an Italeri 1/48 Phantom at the LHS with my name all over it

Since this campaign starts tomorrow, i've been spending the last hour or so deciding upon my exact subject. I knew it would be a P40N, but what aircraft. Well since i have Tally-Ho sheet 48-004 i've decided to do "Watch my Form" of 78 Sqn RAAF (was also used by 80 Sqn) on Noemfoor Island. Often flown by Flt.Sgt. D. Smyth.

There are a few interpretations on this aircrafts colours! I think Tally-Ho got almost everything wrong...especially the upper surfaces being Foilage Green. This is my prefered interpretation:

http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2004/08/stuff_eng_grzywocz_p40.htm

These aircraft were all delivered in OD/NG and i don't see why they would have taken the time, not to mention the added weight, of overpainting in Foilage Green. And anyway, the undersides definately appear to be Neutral Grey to me. Anyway, mine will be OD/NG and all the experts can argue about as much as they like!

Will be making a start tomorrow using the Hasegawa kit.

Andrew