Uncle Dick

Lover-ly, will need a few of these as well!

Positively drooling awaiting this kit, been waiting a lifetime for an injection moulded kit of this birdie in 1/72, hopefully decent render & more boxings to follow... Lets see I need 6 kits for RN birdies, 2 for NZ, 2 for Indon, 2 South African, 2 for Brazil and 1 Malay and about 3 or 4 for "what if" schemes for the RAN.

The Clearprop TB.2 kits are very good, only had one quality control issue in the 1/72 scale which was easily fixed they had decals missing in one box out of 6 kits bought, understandable given there is a war on. I hope Clearprop comes out with some more of the Turkish drones in due course, TB.3, Akinci, Kizilelma, Anka III (not likely unless Ukraine acquires these) and some of the Ukraine naval drone boats as well. Would also like to see injection moulded kits of some of the Iranian drones and cruise missiles that have proliferated... Well done Clearprop!

Questions: How does one tell if an Airfix kit comes with limited edition collectors coin from looking at the box top online? Do they have a seperate kit number which deignates it as an limited edition with the coin? The only thing I can see is that Airfix calls it a Bundle and gives it a Bundle number which would imply seperate kitbox and sperate coin unlike Hasegawa for example when they started releasing squadron patches with their limited edition releases which was in the kit and could not be mistaken as that specific box top came with the squadron patch... Are they only avaivalbe to order direct from Airfix for example or will online and local hobby shops sell them as well? Is the box art box top also limited edition, for example with the Black Buck Box art will that only be 500 kits released or will they say release 500 with coin and say another 10,000 without the coin (but all 10,500 will have same box art and kit number)? Lastly how are they packaged is the coin inside the kit box or seperate to the kit box but within another box? Thanks in advance

Yes it is rather appealing though the "R09" pennant number has been omitted from the island (and not so evident due to perspective deck markings are missing some features...) I like how Airix have revised their box tops to show a cleaner image of the box art (done away with the pesky red fill on left which cut into the picture, detracted from the artist's work & used to blot out about 20% of the art work!).

Pleased 3 blade prop included with starter kit

New release by Planet Models resin kit in 1/72 and 1/48 (wing span would be around 3.5cm in 1/72 and 5.2cm in 1/48)

The 1/72 F-111A "Vietnam War" Vark will tempt me... Google translator spits out: "Reproduce the aircraft during the Vietnam War from the American fighter-bomber F-111A! The package illustration is handled by Mr. Tadashiro Kato. Decal (Marking) US Air Force 474th Tactical Fighter Wing 430th Tactical Fighter Squadron affiliation machine "NC113" (1972) 1 other plane"

Anyone able to identify the store under the wing in below image? http://www.aircraftslides.com/auction/images/1247709107a6306.JPG

Crikey - just realised you cannot build the sliding cabin doors in the open position on this kit, unlesss you go into scratch build. They give you all this detail for interior of the cab and then dont let you show it off ... and I like building doors open on Hueys.

Well at least the Italeri design team and factory (provided their factory is in Italy) will not be stopping work to watch the AZZURRI play at the World Cup in November! So thats one less excuse out of the way...

Cannot see a bomb bay - looks like we will have to wait for aftermarket, otherwise look forward to it! Underwing stores is a bonus

Their original facebook announcement from 2017 said kit "will be injection moulded with resin details....produced in cooperation with another model company"

Like it a lot, well done - only wish the images were larger as for some reason they are tiny and do not enlarge on my desk top.

Now that brings back memories! Cracking work on one of the most memorable incidents with the SHAR and a happy ending at that for the Alreigo Kid and the FAA - imagine an F-35B doing that party trick now, the van might be a toasted Marshmallow! The SHAR coud practically land anywhere - Frigates, LPDs and container ships. Would like to see some F-35Bs training to land on destroyers and frigates now days for emergency diversion purposes, alass the woke society would not approve and boat helidecks might require some heat absorbing coating that will cost more than the F-35B... I wonder if some cheeky boffin has created a simulator sortie for an F-35B diverting to a frigate helideck or container ship as part of the Sim training program at Marham 🙂 HMS Albion & Bulwark and Bay class would be a good stand in...