Rabbit Leader

A ‘possible’ Lincoln (as well as) Manchester have been thrashed out on here many times, only to be poo-pooed by the Fun Police who have claimed it would send Hornby into Financial Suicide. With the ongoing spate of similar subjects being kitted over and over again, I’d think these two subjects would prove quite popular and fill many holes in modellers collections. I’m now convinced they won’t happen no matter what videos Airfix decide to throw up on their You Tube channel, so any takers for a new 1:48 Tornado GR.4? Cheers.. Dave

I’m thinking a canopy mask is required as much as instructions for this kit. It would be nice if a set was included within the box, although suspect masks will soon be sold separately as an AM item. Cheers.. Dave

I’d be more than happy with a Manc in 1/72 scale, but would definitely sell body parts in order to get one in 1/48. It ain’t happening though, so you’d better keep guessing!

Nice progress Steve, this is coming up really well. The colours work very well together too. Cheers.. Dave

Apologies as it's been way too long in-between updates. Both family (daughter's Snowboarding accident - broken wrist, she's OK) and School Holidays have kept me busy, however progress has been made to this build. Construction is now as complete as I wanted it to be before I dip this whole thing in a large vat of "Foliage Green" paint! Tamiya's Beaufighter is quite a nice kit, however for its size it's a little basic in certain areas. I made a few corrections and some small 'enhancements' to my particular Beaufighter, just to keep me happier. A. Removed the two upper surface Trim Tab Actuating Arms (see note G). B. Added the missing small Strake just before the Observer's Blister from plastic card. C. Scratched the lower fuselage Trailing Aerial Fairlead from bits of scrap plastic. D. Filled unwanted panel line and made a new Life Raft stowage door out of Aluminum foil (I'll see how this looks under paint?). E. Made wingtip trailing edge Resin lights out of clear sprue. F. The addition of thin plastic card to hide an unsightly seam line inside the rear entry hatch. G. Replaced the upper Trim Tab Actuating Arms to the underside with something a little more scale like. H. Inserted the missing vertical rod inside the leading-edge air intakes. I. Filled the shell ejector shute holes, which are not required for this version J. Filled the wing MG breaches, which are not required for this version. I'm still not sure which Tail wheel to use. Tamiya provide two types, one straight and the other a rather heavier looking structure designed for the Mk.X. As the DAP. 21 was based on the Mk.X, I suspect that this is the better one to use? Happy to hear anyone's comments regarding this or anything else I may have missed! Cheers and regards.. Dave

Perhaps it’s a modern type, something that may act as a backdrop at RIAT?

I kinda heard Valom were no longer doing large kits, but didn’t think that meant down scaling into 1/144. I suspect modellers of this scale will be happy. Cheers.. Dave

Congratulations on a superb Manchester build Alistair and I totally agree, it’s a great conversion set that is easy to use and presents one with a much neglected subject in kit form. Roger’s 3D printing craft is second to none and deserves the highest praise. Seeing your superb build is another reminder that I really ought to return to my neglected kit which is about 70% complete. Cheers and well modelled.. Dave

Now that’s come up very well indeed. Thanks for sharing your model and the additional reference photograph. Cheers.. Dave

All good @Drop Bear, plenty of people struggle to post photos on this forum, however there’s various posts in the help section that might be useful if you intend to post photos regularly. I personally use Flickr and although it has a free 1000 photo limit, that can fill up quite quickly if you model often. Cheers.. Dave (apologies for thread drift too!).

Sorry, not for me. It takes me to Google photos which although I have the app, I still cannot see your photo. Perhaps others have better luck.

Appreciate the link, however it doesn’t seem to open on my iPhone. I’ll try another device.

I honestly think it’s time Airfix call-out the ‘actual’ colours no matter if it’s in the Humbrol range or not. Persisting with Humbrol 30 for Dark Green and even Humbrol 89 for the underside of certain British Desert schemes just pushes the ‘not so referenced’ modeller down the wrong colour path. I’m still surprised that the kit designers spend all those hours pouring over detail to add into their kits moulds, then let the instructions designer add bogus Humbrol colour matches that are nothing like the real colours. Just another sign of Airfix not quite matching it with their competitors, even though they are trying hard to get there. Cheers.. Dave

That’s OK Roland, I’m happy to be #13, I’m not suspicious at all. It’s also one of my favourite RAF squadron number plates so all good! Cheers.. Dave

That’s interesting, how did she turn out? Any photos?