Air To Air Refueling Dio Help

[PaulBradley]

Hmmm, we might have the makings of a group build here.......

[Motley]

There are some very nice builds here, if i do go ahead with this only hope mine will be as cgood as all of yours been looking about at other pairings and got a few ideas now

[splash]

Go large

Use four 1/48 Sea Vixen's, buddy buddy re-fueling

Now that would be a display

Regards
Splash

[bassman]

Here's one I prepared earlier.
72nd Victor fueling a Buccaneer and Lightning - all Matchbox.

Amazing. Where is the stand this diorama stands on? It looks like the actually fly.
Henk

edit: I see the wires now.

[AndrewR]

If you do a refueling diorama and they use the hose and drogue method, then the hose should have a gentle and smooth parabolic arc shape.

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/de ... d780811858;

Kinks in the pipe would be bad news for fuel flow rate!

Cheers

Andrew

[nightrider2k]

I used and old string from my freinds electric bass guitar with a coat of black enamel paint, working on the principle that the hose would be a kind of plastic coating with a wound metal outer core (couldn't find any large scale references for this?).
I've since found that there are also silver bands (distance markers) at about 1 metre intervals