AndrewE

Fantastic work. Makes me want ot get started on mine. Andrew

Fantastic! Love the way the serial on the nose forms part of the camo pattern. Andrew

Great weathering and I like the nose high stance you have given it, something that few models have but seemed to have been common in real life. Andrew

Well I need to complete the Tu142 first, and the Amodel An-22 and Trumpeter Tu-160 are both in the pile waiting to be built as well so it may be a while before I get around to the A-50. I also need to figure out how to display/store them when they are finished, the cabinet is now full and I have no room to build another one. Andrew

Excellent. Thanks for confirming that, I shall use the rotodome straight from the kit which scales up to 10.8m diameter exactly. Andrew

The only reference I have on the A-50 is the variant briefing on the IL-76 in Volume 35 (Winter 98) of the World Air Power Journal. At he bottom of page 124 in the text it gives the rotodome size as 9m (29 feet 6 inches) diameter and 2m (6feet 6.74 inches ) deep. I dont have the reference you quote (but is on my list of wants) but given that it is a dedicated book on the Russian AWACS I would hope that is the more accurate reference (good news as that saves having to rebuild the one in the kit). Have just found the following link on the web that quotes a diameter of 9m. Ahhhhhhh! Too ma

Received my A-50 from Terrahobby last week (half the price from Hannants, free postage and great service). The kit looks fantastic and if I wasn't building a 1/72 Trumpeter Tu-142 I would be tempted to start it straight away. I was looking at the contents in more detail today in conjunction with the Il-76 variant briefing in World Air Power vol 35 and two things struck me about the kit. Firstly the lack of lateral strakes as already pointed out by Flankerman and secondly the size of the rotodome. The references give the diameter as 29 feet 6 inches, but the one in the kit scales out

Yes I did notice the comment and I just went with the full scheme as provided in the set as it looked as good as anything I could have thought up myself. I was very impressed with the way the decals went onto the model and can highly reccommend them to anyone doing either this scheme of the red with white swirls option. One major blooper on my part though is that despite having a copy of the Windsock datafile on the Felixstowe I completly forgot to paint all of the struts in black and white as they appear in said photo. By the time I realised amy mistake all of the rigging had been installed

Thanks. My assembly order was:- Fuselage (including top section) Tailplane & Fin (but not control lines) Lower main wings ( attached with brass rods pushed all the way through fuselage) Engines to lower wing. Top wing Remaining interplane struts Rigging of main wings Control wires. Good luck with yours - its worth all the effort! Andrew

I don't know if Chris is an ARC member but I do know that he is a fellow member of IPMS Farnborough and a selection of his other models can be seen on our web site. http://www.ipms-farnborough.co.uk/ Cheers Andrew

Thanks, the water is made from clear cast resin (for use in a well ventilated area only!) and the lilies were made with a hole punch. I made it about 10 years ago and although the resin has started to lift slightly it is otherwise still in good shape.

I made the Esci 1/48th Cessna 172 a while back and once the trench lines were filled in and some extra detail was added it made up into a very nice model. I built the float plane version and I seem to remember having to correct the nose as the one in the kit was for the land plane version. At the time it provided a nice change from military aircraft and it still looks good amongst my collection. Farnborough IPMS Gallery