Tom R

Thanks for the help both of you. Franks book crossed off list to buy, Wingleader book added. I suppose if I had more time I could print off every useful britmodeller article and make it into a book!🙃

I aren't sure if this is the right place to ask but it seems to me that all the knowledge here is quite helpful to a modeller. Is there any book that comes even close to distilling it all and helping the sort of advanced but not really top-line modeller. I have about 8-10 Hurricane books but it is quite tedious to trawl through them looking for answers to modeller-type questions as they are not laid out in that form. There are some modeller guide books like the "Airmark" series and some good Brett Green books on the Spitfire and Mustang and also some Kagero books. I am surprised there is not one on the Hurricane. In the absence of such book I will get the Richard Franks one although I have seen some rather disparaging comments about some of his earlier books. I would be happy to take other suggestions.

I think there is a book I used to have about Luftwaffe ground equipment that shows some wooden revetments. Planks (from memory) rather than tree trunks.

So I was right - me and a few others. How about the two-tone green Spitfires next?

Seems many people are interpreting this thread as "never kitted in the exact variant I want by a manufacturer of high quality accurate injection moulded kits that are readily available and easy to build". Perhaps it is time for another title change!

That is probably Wonderboom in Pretoria.😀

That is really good. Great modelling and back-story - it would be great in a diorama. I suppose it would be a lot of work to build a factory!

I was going to pass anyway!

It looks pretty rough - like a 1980s Czech Resin kit. However it should make a good start for an injection moulding company to refine the design and fix up the wrongly moulded (?) parts that the review seems to allude to. I'm not quite sure what the reviewer means here. It says "make your own adjustments to parts".

It appears you know him - perhaps you could ask him to "knock out" one for me.

What happened to the moulds and masters? Surely there is a demand for more than just the few kits produced? I would buy one, maybe two if they were just expensive rather than stupidly expensive!

I am not Buz but I would say that it is unlikely that the red stars would be painted on the upper wings. With the winter camouflage you would not see any overpainting of US or RAF roundels either. Nice model made from a crap kit! I had one and got rid of it.

Very nice - good to see a SAAF one here.

Can we have the next instalment please.

Thanks @Nigel Bunker and @modelldoc . Do you know if the Airfix kit (new, I guess) comes in different boxings? Is the plastic the same if they do have different boxess? Do any of them equate to a Mk 41 as per the Revell boxing?