Linden Hill

AKAN have had Dark Admiralty Grey in their UK assortment for a few years. SKU is 60057.

https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/AH40007?result-token=AtLtm

Might these be of interest?

Unfortunately everything is now sealed up in the display case. Sorry. I'll try to remember to take more shots as and when I unseal the time capsule. Only a masochist would attempt the Dominie, though!

A bit of a nostalgia trip for me, having grown up a few miles from RAF Finningley. Kits are the Airfix Vulcan and Dominie, plus the Amodel Jetstream. They represent Finningley residents from the 1960s, 70s and 80s. The Airfix Vulcan and Amodel Jetsream were fun to build. I just finished the Airfix Dominie and that was less fun. The tooling is from 1968 and it's showing its age. At least the 'Vintage Classics' release has a new decal sheet, which is useful. I shifted the wing fences outboard to the correct position, having measured out the wings on the Dominie at Doncaster Aeroventure on my last UK visit. Sad, I know, but my wife and daughter went to the spa that day... I will attempt another Dominie if Sword get round to releasing a new kit!

I believe XE680 with the Rough Diamonds dayglo scheme crashed around 1970. If I'm not mistaken, the Harley lights weren't fitted to GA.11s until 1972/3 so XE680 would have featured the standard F4 nose. I suspect that's why Airfix went with a Blue Herons GA.11: you can actually use the Harley light nose.

Finnish Hornet finished! 1/48 scale Kinetic kit with Quinta cockpit, Reskit wheels and Modelmaker decals. You really need the Modelmaker decals for any FI F/A-18C as they provide the correct Finnish-language stencils. Some images also include an Italeri Finnish Hawk Mk. 51A which I built last year.

They moved quite a distance (possibly not in Canadian terms) and are now at home in the Maritimes. All is well and patience is a virtue...

Kiitos! Since it soon became apparent that you wouldn't be able to see much with the canopy closed, I superimposed some Airscale VDUs on top of the old analog cockpit decals. Jyrki Laukkanen's book on Finnish Hawks was indispensable for the details. The upgraded Mk. 51A cockpit is supposed to resemble that of the FI F-18s. As previously mentioned, you end up not being able to see any of that detail once the canopy is shut!

1/48 scale Italeri Hawk converted to Finnish Mk. 51A (60 series wings, Finnish standard antenna, glass cockpit).

That would make sense. It appears the badges were applied for the last Aviadarts exercise (2019?).

At this stage I believe only Red 09 has the 'Zhetysu Snow Leopards' emblems. Unfortunately the instructions in the new GWH Su-30SM kit show the badge on the speed brake upside down.

'Distribution' is a nebulous term and it has nothing to do with paid (or indeed non-paid) circulation. Whatever is distributed through third parties can also be sent back if it doesn't sell. Not one mention of paid circulation in the rate card, let alone ABC audited paid circulation. As previous posters have also noted, the rate card stats aren't dated so they could be 10 or more years old.

Would any kind souls out there point me towards a set of plans showing the revised Hawk 60 series wing fence layout. 1/48 scale would be a bonus but not essential. I'm looking to scratch build the three (six total) additional inner fences on a re-winged Finnish Hawk Mk. 51A. Thanks in advance.

I published my first book this week! It will be available from resellers in the UK/Europe soon.