Saro Skeeter

[Rick Piper]

Hi Guys

I have seen that Skeeter before and it was made long before you asked for Skeeter drawings ?

Do i smell something odd here :think:

Regards
Rick

[ukmil]

in what way? As far as I am aware, this is was modelled by one of our modellers over the last few days, from scratch.

[Rick Piper]

Seen a very similar model of a skeeter showing the mesh on top in last few months on an eastern european forum.

noted they had modelled a 3 blade tail rotor.

must have been from same drawings if this is one of your guys.

Just rang a few bells with how it looked as it too had 5 crossections in the tailboom etc.

sadly the forum is now dead so i cannot prove it. :fart:

i was pointed there originally by a Hovercontrol member that wanted me to make a Skeeter.

Regards
Rick

[ukmil]

mmm, i am going to check the originality of this then

[Rick Piper]

Hi ukmil

I am probably very wrong and should have said nothing.

Some poor sod has have spent the last 5 days making it now i post here.

ignore me mate.

most people do.

Regards
Rick

[Rich]

Hope this little setback will be sorted so I can go back 40 years to this one, me on the left.

22 Recce Flight late 62 there were 3 regimental pilots, Army Navy and RAF ground crew

Do'nt know if your pics or drawings show the rubber band nose wheel centralizer which was a arrangement of bungees running back off a horizontal bar on the nose wheel leg to a point under the fuselage as you can see in the pic

Just delved a bit further in this site and found a pic of the late Major Francis Chamberlain who was our flight commander warming up a Skeeter, I drove his ground support Champ. He flew into a clothes line on 1 occasion, requiring the dispatch of a Coles crane and 3 ton truck to recover it

[ukmil]

here are some newer renders from overnight, with the Makers name, as he is very confident this is HIS model he is willing to have his name on it.

[John]

That's a fantastic little model!

My congratulations on 'filling yet another hole'

Kind regards

John

[jamesstables]

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[Tweek]

New modeller on the team, just a one off, or have I missed his name somewhere down the line?

Looks very nice, and he's done well to build it in such a small space of time!