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  1. There's photos of NC.701 Martinet's with D-Day stripes (or the remnants of them), on p.295 (c/n #1), p296 (c/n #3) and p297 (c/n #10), of the Lela Press book, all of these have the original German 2-bladed prop, according to the book all of these are post-war builds. Giampiero, These aircraft were post-war builds, all were finished in an overall green (similar to other post-war French aircraft of originally German origin). They're in a consistent overall green scheme, no splinter and no light shade such as a light-blue on the undersides with a couple of exceptions. The NC.701s were new builds post war, the twenty NC.700s were produced from airframes made in France but not completed before liberation, these are essentially Siebel Si-204D's, eventually they received the same modifications as the NC.701s and are largely indistinguishable from the later aircraft (NC.700s had c/n's in the 1000-1020 range, NC.701's started from #1).
  2. It's actually an NC.701 Martinet, this is confirmed on the back of the photo (in your link), the give away are the three balded Ratier propellers fitted to Martinet's. These aircraft were effectively Siebel-Si-204D's but with Renault engines (copies of the original Argus engines), the Ratier propellers and internal equipment differences. I've been through the recent Lela Press book on the type (Du Siebel au Martinet - 27 ans sous nos cocardes), which is an impressive tome covering all of the French built aircraft and their use in French service as well as some civilian use of the French built aircraft. Almost universally all of the aircraft in the early part of their career were finished in a uniform aluminium paint finish, some very early aircraft were finished in an overall green but looking at the photo in the link I'm going with overall aluminium paint.
  3. Hello all, I'm after some info on the interior colours of the NC.701 Martinet which was the French post-war aircraft based upon the Siebel Si-204D. The first Martinet's were effectively airframes resulting from wartime production, these had the designation NC.700 and as far as I can find out, these were finished to wartime Luftwaffe colours. The NC.701s were produced using Renault engines (based upon the wartime Argus engines), most also had Ratier 3-bladed propellers. I've got the recent Lela Press book on the Martinet, unfortunately, all of the interior photos are in B&W. The recent Special Hobby kit quotes what are effectively Luftwaffe equivalent colours (e.g. a black-grey cockpit interior like RLM-66), but photos in the Lela Press book look to be lighter than that in the cabin area at least. Can anyone help with the colouring of the interior of these aircraft?
  4. I've had this kit for some time, I'd even made a start on it but hadn't got very far, Patrice @TEMPESTMK5 has kindly classed the model as within the 25% and therefore eligible for the GB. My boxing is for the aircraft in its earlier guise, I really wanted to do one in later ANG markings so I put out a begging bowl and that absolute gentleman @stevehnz agreed to do a swap, the problem is now, I'm spoiled for choice although I'm currently torn between a New Jersey and a Texan ANG aircraft. Thanks to Patrice and Steve for helping me enter this STGB.
  5. Right change of plan, yesterday when I was out and about I picked up a 1/72nd Tamiya F-84G in a chassa (charity shop), for a mere £1.50. The kit decals are shot (looks like they got damp at some point), but that's no problem. There's no instructions either but I made this kit before when it came out so I have the instructions from that build so that's not a problem either. I hadn't made much progress with the Academy kit so I'm going to promote this chassa refugee to it's place in the sun instead. I must say, the timing was impeccable, I've actually got some time to do some modelling this weekend!
  6. Neither, ketchup, tomatoes go well with bacon which is why we have BLTs. Brown sauce for sausage sangers.
  7. We're still accumulating new joiners to the GB, there is still plenty of time - even for me! Yugoslav Thunderjets are proving very popular although we still don't have entries from Germany, Portugal, Thailand or Türkiye so there's still plenty of variety out there.
  8. Another Yugoslav Thunderjet! Definitely a popular subject. Welcome and good luck.
  9. Welcome to the GB, what kit are you using? Yugoslav Thunderjets are certainly proving popular in this GB. Whichever kit it is, good luck with it.
  10. Just caught up with this thread. Since Christmas I've read Mythos by Stephen Fry, an accessible retelling of the myths of ancient Greece, it had some genuinely laugh out loud moments. Followed that A Stroke of the Pen - the Lost Stories of Terry Pratchett, written under various pseudonyms before the Discworld series (although you can see how some of the ideas got re-used in the Discworld books). I've now got Too Much Too Young by Daniel Rachel on the go, you'll be surprised from the title to hear that it's the story of 2-Tone. I've got a few classics lined up courtesy of my daughter who is a bit of a bookworm. She's given me Bram Stoker's Dracula and another Russian classic, Life and Fate by Vassily Grossman (she started me off with the wonderfully, anarchic The Master and Maragarita by Mikhail Bulgakov a couple of years ago). I've also got Dumas' Man in the Iron Mask lined up too.
  11. Those will be engineering officers, the real work has happened unseen as if by magic - by the groundcrew. Now you're talking about aircrew. I was thinking one of those orange things was a refuelling nozzle too. I was just wondering where I could get a kit of SkyOne... Thanks to @Pete in Lincs for posting this, great stuff, this took me back, two words - GABRIELLE DRAKE!!!
  12. 'Fraid not old chum, Normandy and Brittany famously don't have the terroir (French posho talk for the soil), to produce wine, mind you, quite happy to partake in some cidre and Calvados during the research.
  13. If only I'd taken a photo of that bottle of French wine which had cost us an arm and a leg at that Tunisian hotel while on holiday in the 80's, not much construction time (although there'd be be a lot of research in finding the kit - OK so I mean a bottle of the right shape and shade of green 🍷), but I'd probably have to get the labels decals custom printed... ...
  14. Welcome to the GB Steve with a great choice of subject. Good luck with it.
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