KiwiMike

Thanks for that! and my apologies for not replying to you earlier on - I was kind of thinking of the Sutton regardless as the photo-etch in the kit is very stiff and hard and can well stand replacing.

Hello all! Greetings from the windswept heights of the Western Hills above Lower Hutt (about 15 minutes north of Wellington, New Zealand - allowing for gummed up traffic and speed cameras, of course...) I've been lucky enough to score a sample kit of the big new Tamiya 1/32 "Birdcage" Corsair. I'm planning to build this as a Royal Navy Corsair Mk.I and my question of the moment is; were these birds fitted with British Sutton harnesses, or did they retain the standard U.S. Navy harness. My understanding is that most of these early Corsairs stayed in the U.S. for pilot training which is why I wonder if they kept the American harness. Thanks, Mike.

So much good stuff there - make mine a Lanc Mk.II, Javelin and Spitfire XIX please!! (I'm not much for 1/72nd scale - advancing years and retreating eyesight - even 1/48th scale is pushing these days, but that Lancaster Mk.II will find a nice home in my "hangar"!)

I was going to say "nooooo!! they've got the windscreen wrong!" but egads, they've got it right! Would I be correct in saying the curved windscreen is applicable to the Attacker FB.2?

Hi all (shameless plug time here!!) for those of you who are keen on a Kiwi "Blunty" there are two sets of inkjet decals available from Old Models - one sheet covers the original delivery scheme and the second sheet covers the later RNZAF repaint scheme - and they both have the "proper" Kiwi roundels! We currently have two Strikemasters here in New Zealand, one based at Ardmore, Auckland and one which arrived last year (ex Saudi, I believe) which resides in Chrsitchurch in the South Island.