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I should have put in a link, because the page is not obvious to find. https://modelcollect.com/index.php/portfolio/soviet-1-72-armor/

This may be nothing, but Modelcollect seems to have revamped its website recently and has announced that the various 1/72 Soviet/Russian AFVs will be revised and released. Soon. Real soon now. The tanks they have on the site are one each variant of T-64, T-72 and T-80, along with the three MT-LB variants which AFAIK were never released. For aircraft fans the B-52D is up there, flagged out-of-stock. I don't think that was ever released either, was it? I'm hoping but not holding my breath.

Wrong scale, wrong variant, wrong decals.

Ouragan fits most of the clues, but Heller did it already.

Not enough ship modellers buy destroyers. They seem to want endless Bismarcks, Yamatos and Titanics. Having said that I have several IBG ships and would like to see more, but I won't hold my breath.

11 wings? Spitfire again, especially if the clipped, standard and extended wings are counted separately. First pass' A, B clipped B, extended B, C, three variants again,, two or four cannons, E, standard and clipped. Recce wings, probably two types, Mk21 wings. Which is 115, but you could do fewer. Or more, with a speed spitfire. Spitfire had five different wing spans. Maybe a 109 gets somewhere near, with the T and H models, square and rounded tips.

OK, here's a challenge. If it's a spitfire family (which I'm not sure about but there's plenty of Polish connections) what is the simplest way to get to seven props? Here's my first try.. Mk1 early, two blades and DH three blade. Mk V with various three-bladers and a Mk VI with four. Different wings and filters according to taste on the same base kit Two-stage Merlin spit, IX, VIII, XI all with four blades. additional sprue gives a Griffon MkXII with a different prop and spinner. Mk XIV and PR XIX with five-blader Mk21 with contraprop. Doesn't need a Seafire at all, or any cut-down rear fuslage. Five kits, seven props, all blade counts covered, a fair number of (mostly) common sprues such as wings, undercarriage, tailplanes and such.

Could it be an aircraft used as a propeller testbed? Folland F.108 'Frightful' probably had more than seven props, and previously not done in plastic or any other medium AFAIK. But not likely, I think.

Well, you could imagine a P-47 series from B to N not excluding the prototype J and you might need several props. But say you want to do some schemes from photos, are you really going to, or even be able to, get the prop version right. Of course you must distinguish between narrow and paddle blades, and the different hubs, but really? Whereas if you were doing the Spitfire from K5054 to Seafire 47, you just must do at least seven props. Must. And that's the only type where that applies. Now IBG may have a type in mind where they MAY do seven props but I can't see that they must. But I could be wrong and ignorant of the type.

Spitfire? Nothing else comes near it. Two, several kinds of three, four, five and six blades.

FW190A-1 through A-9, F, G, rustsatze in abundance, loads of schemes and it doesn't matter who else has done it.

Couple of quibbles with the kit's blurb. 660 sqn RAF? AAC I think. ETPS should be Boscombe Down, not Wallop. Army rotary wing should be Advanced Rotary Wing, that was the Scout conversion course. Can anyone read the serial on that one? I think I worked on it. Are the sight and missiles coming in another boxing? I'll need one of them too. Good effort by LF.

Nobody liked the stretchers. It was very unpleasant to be enclosed like that. Imagine waking up in flight and not know what was going on. No intercom, no view through the tiny window. Scouts on casevac would usually have the four-place rear seat dropped to the floor for the cassualty and the left front seat turned to face aft for the medic.. The big bulge doors went with the four-place seat. Missile-armed scouts had a streamlined top to the front of the skid with a bit of 'clothesline' going to the fuselage to stop missile guide wires from getting tangled in the skids. And that's about all this ex-Scout crew chief can remember.

The Revell is over £20 now. This one is predicted at £10.79 at Hannants. They can do all the Revell reissues they like as far as I am concerned.

So it flies backwards, right?