Blackburn Beverley

Scratch built ladder to flight deck (that my mother got stuck up!) 

Alcladded in aircraft aluminium, portholes drilled by hand (I'm not using decals, sorry kit designer!) 

Nostalgic family moment... 

Nostalgic family moment... 

Fuselage sealed up, engines fitted some filler required...) 

All done - metal discoloured from engine heat... 

Clam shell cargo doors open, peekaboo to the internal vignette 30 years ago in Southend with the Haines family. 

Drilled the windows rather than decals. Homemade airframe number aft. 

OK, it's a bit fictional: XB261 was only ever RAE, but I wanted Transport Command as main theme. 

XB261 really did have a maple leaf (for being the only Beverley to cross the Atlantic). The name is my conceit though - named it after my mother for getting stuck up that ladder!