FinnAndersen

@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

Or try YouTube. I've seen a funny video of him and a comedian (?) getting a ride in it. /Finn

Agree that it will be a bit more interesting that a bog standard OG, DG and MSG job, so go for it. A bit of warning when looking at e.g. the ortho picture (or any picture, B&W or colour): Allow for differences produced by shadows. If you photograph a house painted the same yellow on all sides, but with the sun shining on one side, you will see a different colours on the side that's in shade. Just saying. /Finn

Being a detail nerd, I believe you can make a much better model i 1/48 (or bigger) than any 1/72 kit will allow. Problem is where to put it when finished. And the next. And the one after that, which is the main reason for me doing 1/72. Sort of a convoluted way of saying that the model maker community is not large enough for a decent series of 1/48 heavies. /Finn

Take a look at the Learstang. It has some cool features and had a Griffon AND a very cool paint scheme. Too bad it could not hold together structurally. If you can, try to get this book

I have a nagging notion about the thrust lines difference of the Merlin and the Griffon. I believe that you can't put Griffon rocker covers on a Merlin mustang and have a proper Griffon engined 'Stang Edit: Found it: When modifying the Red Baron, the griffon engine ended having the trust line lowered by 2 inches. Not at all sure if this became standard of other Giffon racers. Which are you doing? That said, I heartily encourage you to proceed, It will be a very good looking beast. /Finn

While we are at it: The Malcolm hood had only metal fittings at the bottom of the canopy. Never front and back. The front of the canopy fitted into a grove on the windscreen. So do not paint silver or OD front and back edges. /Finn

I'm afraid that the profile is bogus, there was no mast or wire antenna when the Malcolm hood was used. Instead a whip antenna was mounted behind the cockpit windows. /Finn

Don't click on the link. My antivirus software detects a phisting problem. Edit: Others have not have issues, so perhaps my antivirus is paranoid. Sorry for making a fuss.

Way off topic and very late to the party, but have only now seen the film. What strikes me is the large amount of misses with the rockets and then I wonder how much of the footage was staged. /Finn

Don't know about the maple leaf, but I vaguely recall reading his autobiography where he mentions that the canadians presented him with a pair of "Canada" shoulder patches. Clearly he was accepted by them /Finn

I, for one, do like to build around a narrative, but you have taken it to the next level. What a story to go with what otherwise would have been just another boring gray and green Spitfire. With your story it comes alive and reminds us of just how tragic war is. And then you present us with a very fine build, photography and base. Congratulations /Finn