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  1. Oh all right then 😀 It's going to need a bit of a touch up. I've also sarted working on the exhaust areas. John
  2. I live in what could well be the biggest town in the UK that doesn't have a W H Smith, leaving out the small branch in the local hospital. All I can get locally is Airfix Magazine in our bigger Tescos, and I'm not in there that often. I can get Flypast in our local ASDA. I haven't left printed magazines, they've left me. John
  3. It's been a very busy few weeks with not too much time at the bench, but I have managed to get some work done: I've used Humbrol 5 and 67 for the upper camouflage and 89 for the underside. Tail flash is Humbrol 69 and the cowling is 153. Much still to do. John
  4. I was going to do a 601 Squadron aircraft but - totally against type 🙄- I've changed my mind. That's why it has yellow wing leading edges: I've decided to do the original delivery scheme, so the fuselage has had a couple of coats of Sovereign Hobbies ACRN36, the legendary Sky Type S Grey. Somebody really misunderstood the drawings when the first few RAF Airacobras were painted: https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/media/bell-p-39-airacobra-ah621-raf-2.32706/ John
  5. Yeah, we were in St Andrews at the weekend too... John
  6. Cool! I've never come across these before. John
  7. I am still here, honest! I've given the whole thing a couple of coats of Humbrol 48 Mediterranean Blue to kill the dark grey plastic and show up any areas for improvement. That was followed by a couple of coats of 89 Middle Blue for the underside. The cowling is 153 Insignia Red and is just tacked in place. John
  8. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/remus-play-kits-messerschmitt-bf109f--177344 I came across one of these while looking for something else on the 'Bay recently and it prompted a few memories. Remus was a pocket money toy range sold in general stores and newsagents. My memory is that they were displayed on one of those rotating racks that were quite common back then. Most of their products were bagged or carded and hung from the arms of the rack. Being in my late teens in the second half of the 1970s, when these toys were most common, you could say I was aware of the brand but not interested in it. That is, until the day I climbed to the first floor of Boots the Chemist in Falkirk and came face to face with a FROG Gladiator. Only it wasn't. Boots used to sell toys, and records for that matter, and what I was looking at was a rack of Remus toys with about half a dozen FROG kits hanging from it. At quite a good price too, as I remember. I didn't buy any then, in fact I've never owned a Remus kit so I don't have any insight into the quality of the parts or the decals. I do know that the company must have commissioned alternative box art as later kits were different from the earlier ones. I wonder what the rest of the story behind these kits is? Anyway, this is a place holder for the time being. I'll post photos and make a start when my La-7 and Airacobra are a bit more advanced. John
  9. I've located a complete Scale Aircraft Modelling Irish Air Corps decal sheet languishing in the decal box. Let me know if you need anything. John
  10. Yet another FROG kit I've never actually seen in the plastic, as it were. Following with much interest. Let me check but I may have at least some of the Scale Aircraft Modelling decal sheet if you need additional roundels or numbers. John
  11. This should help. PropagTeam sheet. John
  12. Getting the airframe together: The kit needs a bit of work but not greatly more than other FROG kits from the era. The plastic in this example feels different from other kits, a bit more like ABS than polystyrene, but it's nice to work with. The transparencies are going to be an issue, but we'll see how it goes. It's a pity this little cobra was never widely released as it would have been the best of the "first generation" P-39s and the only one that was a Mk1 or early P-39 out of the box. John
  13. The red's actually sufficiently out of register to be quite noticeable. I'll be sourcing alternatives. J
  14. Actually - I think I might start with this, and maybe purge the memories of my less than successful Yak-3 build in the last FROG GB 😀 This isn't one of the 4 "last gasp" Russian aircraft that FROG tooled but didn't release, it comes from a few years earlier. Having said that it does have the same "feel" as the later kits. I got one when it was released, from a stall in Falkirk market if I remember correctly: It has a canopy but that's safe in the bag. Remember when "everybody" knew that WW2 Soviet fighters were green and brown? I'll do Ivan Kozhedub's aircraft but I think I'll have to replace the stars: John
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