Bristol Mercury VIIIA engine

There's some good walk-around pictures (B/W) in "Scale Aircraft Modelling" Volume 14 No 7, April 1992. If you don't get anything better I could send you scans of this article.

Regards

Pat Macguire

The a/c on that site is a J8 or Mk I which has the Mercury IX (but it can't be seen anyway) -- you can also tell by the instrument panel. The Roden kit with skis is a Mk II or J8A. The Roden Mk I kit has same engine as the Mk II kit -- but also has the MK II instrment panel. Only the True Details cockpit kit has correct instr panel.

All that aside, the Mercury IX (Mk I) & VIII (Mk II) are visually equivalent -- that's the good news.

The bad news is that in the 6 books & half-dozen odd articles, there are few decent engine compartment shots. The engine is fairly closely cowled. I think the basic kit, plus Eduard PE will give you a pretty good one, unless you are trying to work on the backside (under hood) details.

I know, I'm working on 4 Gladiators right now ....

John

Stig Tore Svee wrote:

Hi I`m building Roden`s Gloster Gladiator. And I`m lokking for good quality pictures of the Bristol Mercury VIIIA engine. I found some pictures, but of poor quality. Can anybody help??

skis sound very cool.

Hi Thanks for answering.. If you can send me some scans it would be nice...

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I have an extensive collection of Mercury/Pegasus photos and drawings on my Fokker G1 page:

Rob de Bie

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