Rover420

I always liked the bit on the old Tamiya instructions “To beautify your model ……”How can you beautify a Churchill Crocodile!

I used to use Hu78, tamiya XF71, and a few home mixes of grey, green, yellow and blue, okay, no rainbow songs please, in custom mixes. Since ordering from Jamie and co at Sovereign, his grey green gets my vote. Dries smooth, covers well, very quick and, looks the part.

I bought the early and late WW2 RAF paint sets from Mig but the dark green on both of them seems to be more like the green for US aircraft interiors, being very ‘green’. Any one else had this problem. I have shaken, stirred, and chucked round the garage but it still comes out ‘green’ green. The other colours don’t seem to bad.

Thanks very much Georgio for the information. I think I will be putting the stencils on top of the roundels for my P51 ‘Dooleybird’. If any coincide. With Klear! (Tony). Hopefully I will get some on there this weekend if Swmbo allows it. Thanks again.

Probably not the the right place, but to do with decals. Stencils. Do they go over national insignia or are they covered over when the insignia is painted and not redone? I have done both ways on my aircraft but have never been sure on it. Not so worried on painted aircraft but for P51’s etc in NMF. I am probably opening a can of worms here, like spitfire camo masks!

I have found that tea bag and coffee filter paper are great at smoothing primer down. And again does not affect the finished coat, or try a bit of denim. This is good at polishing canopies if used with very little pressure.

My goodness, I have only just seen this topic. Having spent two hours reading through it my memory is full of wonderful times. I still think of the Stuka I built while it was raining on a Saturday afternoon. An evening building the Hurricane when it was snowing on a cold December night. The Shackleton with its true size rivets, and feeling down when I realised that a ski was missing from the Katyuska. I loved FROG kits and I still think of them when its raining, Snowing?, or summer days for the Mk xiv and V1. I can also remember building the Mk xiv as a pr19 posing as a Mk xiv in SEAC colours. In other words as there was no PR19 kit at the time and I wanted a BBMF Spitfire, I went round it this way! oh those were the days.

Anson just flew over again. Looked like it was climbing away from Tern Hill. Missed a photo because it came back a bit higher and I was writing this! I will have to have a bit of a dig around and see if it's hangered there. Apparently this one in silver and yellow training bands did belong to Air Atlantique based at Coventry.

I can remember when the first airship for many years was made at Cardington. I saw it in someone's back garden after it broke loose from its mooring in strong winds. It was a bit deflated then. Crikey, I must be old! I can remember a few crashes in my early years. I was in the top floor classroom at school, Cedars in Leighton Buzzard, when an almighty racket went over. two minutes later an F111 crashed at Cranfield. the 'escape pod' worked a treat and both crew were unhurt, IIRC. Dad and myself went and had a look at that too, well what was left! He was on duty at Leighton Fire Station at the time of the crash and was called to it, but stood down halfway there.

Last weekend and a few before that, Avro Anson in and out of Tern Hill. Lovely sight and sound. Hopefully it will be back. And lots of Squirrels (those with the whirly bits on top) at fifty feet over the house. The dogs love watching them.

LF363 of the BBMF was painted in 85 Sqn colours a few (well quite a few) years ago. I wanted to build this beauty for ages, as I was on 85 during the Bloodhound years, in 1/48 scale but wasn't going to convert anything. Italeri came to the rescue just as I was getting a bit more confident. There are a few photos on the net of her in these colours. Night overall with the reduced visibility roundels in four positions with a standard fin flash. the codes were MSG. The earlier photo is representative of this. As we know, the BBMF are sticklers for accuracy in their schemes. On the model I have used spare six stacks from an ICM Spitfire Mkix and the canopy of an Airfix Hurricane. The original canopy got broke, stood on! Roundels and codes were masked with home made masks and sprayed. The hexagon was made from decal sheet sprayed with white enamel, acrylic kept cracking in the soaking stage. The fin flash comes from the Italeri sheet. Sorry about the festive table cloth.

Quite a few of mine ended up that way. Hanging from the washing line. Then when I was given a large scale balsa and tissue Fw190. I realised that when shot up you could repair it easily, ready for the next dogfight. Lasted days it did! And the Spitfire Mk IX was the first of them all. I still associate the weather and time of day with the models that I built. Frog Spitfire IX is sunny days, Stuka and Hurricane wet days and the Revell 1/48 B25 Doolittle Raider is early evening while watching 'The Yearling' film on the telly. oh memories.

What buses? In this part of Shropshire you go out on Monday and return Friday! That's If you want to go to Shrewsbury or Stoke. Can't get any where else. Damn, it's got to be Victors!

What buses? In this part of Shropshire you go out on Monday and return Friday! That's If you want to go to Shrewsbury or Stoke. Can't get any where else. Damn, it's got to be Victors!

Victor!!! Oh no, more cash out the wallet! What will she say! Won't be able to change my car now!!