FinnAndersen

Most of us (if not nearly everybody) buy complete kits, so do not have piles of spare Spitfires fuselages lying around. You could post a request in the wanted section, but I'm afraid that you will have to wait a bit, as that requires you to have made 100 posts. I do have some, but the cost of sending a package to Kinston upon Thames would far exceed the cost of ordering a kit from one of the excellent web shops you have in GB. /Finn

@Phoenix44 the picture you show of a Typhoon banking away show the recognition stribes as opposed to the D-day stribes I can imagine that the latter was somewhat rushed applied, but they would have the time to do a better job with the former Oh well, I suppose someone recieved a rocket for this sorry work 😀 /Finn

I've got the same, and its true that you will have to guess for some of the smaller bits. If you choose to use the wheel well and gun bays, be prepared to sand the plastic AND resin paper thin to make it fit. If you don't you will take the dihedral out of the wing. /Finn

Nice model indeed. And yes, the ARMA kit is very, very good. One thing: What was that with the "dark 'stucco' leading edge coating". Is there photographic evidence of that? /Finn

Decimal inches? Now I'm confused 😜

My wife would never fall for "Honey, I tell you I don't know where it came from, I just found it on the floor" 😇 On the other hand, what kind of floor paint do you use and can I have some of it ? 😂

Spitfire code sizes are very difficult. As others have stated, there weren't a comment font or size. Some years ago I wanted to make a 1/72 Spitfire XII EB-B MA882. That particular squadron used code letters 22" high and no generic sheets had that size. You could have 20" or 24". Then I tried to make masks with my Silhuette cutter, but could not make them neat enough so ended buying two sheets of which I only used the EB-B. Oh well. My recommendation is to stick to kit decals or use whatever is in a aftermarket sheet. /Finn

I just love planes with a narrative and this certainly have one. Being a Dane and fan of Niels Bohr, this is just fantastic. I've heard of the tale of his flight to England, but not the events leading up to it. BTW Bohr appears in Nolans recent "Oppenheimer" film (recommended), confirming his status as mentor and example to Oppenheimer. In the film he recounts his Mosquito experience. Your model looks fine and you can't go wrong with a Tamiya kit. I would have loved a little more light on the photos, but now I'm nitpicking. /Finn

I saw the film with great interest, but not being an expert in FAA much of the aircraft scenes were lost on me. One thing, woke me up: We obviously need to have a hero, so the writers has a stock film of a Seafire having a hard landing, breaking the propellor, which our volunteer proceeds to replace on deck during an attack on the carrier despite being wounded. It might well have occurred IRL, but... Other than that, it was a well made film with lots of feel-good stuff. I particular like the quote where our Actor/Naval officer want our heros autograph for his "young lady" (daughter) which is a reference to a scene earlier in the film. /Finn

You should try painting the exhaust pipe on your car and see how long that will last. When you take a B/W photo, colour information is lost. What you see is an approximation in shades of gray. They may have painted the exhausts, which I doubt, but it will have burned off in seconds. This is my take on Rima II /Finn

Now I see it. You have very good eyes or a electron microscope. As I said, such details would not survive my cleaning up the glue seam, so I on my model they will vanish magically. IMHO, it's rather silly to include such details in this scale. HTH Finn

The small bulge could be an aerial lead-in. Not sure what you mean by the rectangle, could it be the hole for the aerial? In any case, in my world, the small bulge will not survive my work of eliminating the glue seam, so I would not worry that much. HTH Finn PS: Hat's off to Eduard for such fine details. Pity that some modellers cannot honour the intentions.

I have examined my own unbuilt kit, but fail so see what you are mentioning. Could you take a photo? /Finn

IF this is yor first model in 30 years, you must have been pretty decent when you paused. Go on, make some more and get back in control. You probably need som more lighting to get better photo(s), but beware, this could end up as a very expensive secondary hobby. When I take photos with my SLR, I use a medium tele lens (about 100mm focal lenght), so if you can zoom in with your phone it might help. HTH FIinn

A quick search in Scalemates yielded this https://www.scalemates.com/search.php?fkSECTION[]=Kits&q=Avro Lancaster grand slam*&fkSCALENORMALISED[]="1:00072" I would not expect that the Airfix kit is available any more. I've got the Hasegawa kit stashed away in my attic, but the cost of shipping it to Florida is excessive, so probably not an option. So, I believe you have to do some googling and search in e-bay etc, you might be lucy. /Finn