Unfortunately due to
work commitments and other pressing issues I have been very scarce on ARC of
late but I have been lurking about looking at the wonderful builds on here.
I'd like to share with you two of my more recent builds both of the same
aircraft type but in different RAAF (Royal Australian Air Force) markings.
The first is Pilatus PC-9A A23-044 of the Roulettes aerobatic team followed by
Pilatus PC-9A A23-032 'Middleton VC' of No. 4 Flight (FAC) now 4 Squadron.
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Both kits were the
recently released Ibex 1/48 Texan II converted using the Hamilton Hobbies resin
set to PC-9A. Basically the nose, rear spine and horizontal tail plane are
replaced with the inclusion of resin prop blades, spinner, lower tail spine,
seats, nose wheel, under carriage doors, aerials, other lumps and of course
the canopy. Both variations use different wheel settings with the
Roulettes version having thicker low pressure) tyres for course/grass runway
strips) than the FAC version which retained standard high pressure tyres
and has smoke marker racks attached to the wings. Decals for the Roulettes
PC-9 are by Southern Sky and Plane Bits (with corrected Hawkeye Decal roundels)
for the FAC PC-9A.