I finally got started on my build of the Warhammer 40k Whirlwind…
two shots of the uncompleted chassis 
the rocket launcher base, minus the radar
the rocket launcher pods 
I’ll be using marking from Archer Fine Transfers.
hopefully, work will continue tonight…
Here’s the built chassis, it still needs a bit of putty before paint. 
well got the fuselage and wings on. Now for more putty and sanding and more sanding,
Shiv: that Freedom Fighter’s coming along…one of my top 5 favorite a/c.
That was… Unexpected!!! Love it, why not build it with Canadian markings?!?
Hello,
If I can delay my start for a few weeks, I would like to join. I have not entered a group build before so I may have some silly questions about posting pictures when the time comes. Put me down for a 1/48 104.
Pyrman64 - I still don’t know what that thing is but I’m sure the CF can find a use for it :). At this rate you’ll be done before others start!
Caveman - got you in there so start when you’re ready. And ask away we’ll be glad to help you along.
Helo H-34 sent me a PM that he is in with a UH-34.
The roster has been updated.
Shiv - that Cf-5 is looking great, I want one now!
For the price I paid the Italeri kit isn’t that bad. A couple fir issues but nothing that isn’t really hard to fix.
I’m just getting into my fit issues with my Arrow.
Man, that Arrow was a big pile of PROPULSION with some pilots strapped into it. Not my favourite aircraft to look at by any means, but the performance. What if…
Hey Chris, I think I’ve officially committed my brain to… a pair of 1/72 Mk6 Sabres, RCAF 1 Wing based in Europe.
I’ll be starting with F86-F kits from Heller and Hasegawa, and getting them reasonably close to the look of the Mk6s… exterior, I think, is mostly a matter of air scoops & vents, that sorta thing. No rivet-counting going on here!! 
It’s a tracked, armored rocket launcher along the lines of the M270 MLRS
Vance - what if is sure right. There’s even a small movement to try and revive the program as an alternative to the F-35. While I doubt how realistic that it, this plane sure attracts a great deal of passion.
Looking forward to seeing those Sabres!
pyrman64 - it’ll look great with some maple leafs slapped on its hull!
Yep, I heard someone preaching a return to the original blueprints with modern technologies & materials applied. Crazy little pipe dream. The real what-if is the lost opportunity… How many of those AVRO engineers & designers packed up shop & headed for Boeing, McDonnell Douglas etc etc… The brain drain was the most damaging aspect. Sweden (granted, a completely different defense situation) has successfully maintained it’s aviation industry largely thru Saab, with a population less than 1/3 of Canada?
I know they test flew an Arrow with the Pratt&Whitney engines, did one ever fly with the Iroquois engines, or did it get cancelled before than? I know the engine had been built and tested but out of all the books I’ve read none ever say if they were used or not.
Hmmm, not sure offhand where they left off with the powerplants. I saw a series of books a few years ago detailing the entire project, including one book featuring nothing but engine info. Fairly pricey for someone with only moderate interest such as myself, but looked to be quite detailed.
The Iroquois engine was slated for the mk 2 Arrow, which was to be started on aircraft 6. It was never flown.
According to a book I have with flight test summaries (insert nerd reference now) “on the day the Arrow was cancelled, Arrow no. 6, the first of the Iroquois equipped mk ii’s was 98% complete and was estimated 2 weeks away from its first flight.”
Chris - your signature line… is that a 1/72 Fouga Magister, by any chance??
my sig line? Mines jut GB badges so I have no clue
Ahhh - OK. The one on the far right “My First Time GB” - wasn’t sure if that was the “real” group badge, or a kit you had worked on. That Magister is a neat little kit.
update. finished a diesel locomotive (in armor) as my first silly putty mask. working on a JGPZ-IV for more silly putty masking practice before masking and painting my GRIZZLY. also finished a jeep w/ 106mm RR and (in armor)