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Well that's impressive!

Great work and a lovely subject Ian! I am fortunate to have real kingfishers (in Warsaw!!!) very close to my home, my children love them. Here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/YV5QdUnHpSQHkWDn6

Thank you for your good words! I'm afraid Meissner's books were never translated into English, unfortunately. But I've found those: https://www.amazon.com/301-304-305-Polish-Squadrons/dp/1915335019 https://www.amazon.com/300-Squadron-Bomber-Command-Profiles/dp/1911255142/ref=sr_1_1?s=books My Warsaw family survived the war most probably only because they were arrested by gestapo and sent to concentration camp or slave labour in Germany three months before 1944 Warsaw Uprising, while almost all the people living on their street (which became a frontline of the fierce urban fighting - including Tiger heavy tanks - in Stalingrad-style for a 6 weeks) were slaughtered during Uprising. My grandfather in Stutthof concentration camp near Gdańsk/Danzig worked at Kriegsmarine workshops repairing paravanes used to remove mines dropped on nights by RAF! I have no WWII aviators in my real family, but one Mazurowski was shot down 3rd September 1939 - piloting... a Messerschmitt Bf-110B near Warsaw - by future No. 303 Squadron pilot, Wojciech Januszewicz. I have a pieces of Mazurowski's plane - as the crash site was recently found and examined by archaeologists during construction of Warsaw ring road! His victor, Januszewicz, was killed on 5th October in BoB over Hastings. https://aircrewremembered.com/januszewicz-wojciech.html People's faith...

Very well done! And many thanks for doing it in Polish colours! Those Poles using it were really experienced pilots and flew those Battles bombing German invasion crafts in Belgian, French and Dutch harbours - pretty hard work. Interesting, while the Polish fighter pilots in Britain got definitely more advanced planes than those flown in PL (Hurricanes instead of obsolete fixed-undercarriage PZL P.11c), the most bomber crews in 1939 Poland operated very modern PZL 37 Łoś (Elk) bombers, similar to Hampdens or Bostons (powered with license-produced Bristol Pegasus engines). They were not impressed with Battles, but liked Wellingtons, which Polish squadrons got already in late 1940 - and later the Lancasters. One of them was famous Polish pilot and writer Janusz Meissner, who wrote two excellent books: "Genowefa's sting" and "L for Lucy" about experiences of Polish bomber aviators in UK. It was fiction, but based on generalised true stories, from 1939 Poland, evacuation through Romania, glorious and less glorious adventures during war in Britain 1940-45 till the end of the war, which for Poles was sad, as our country became Soviet-occupied and most people who fought in the West were not able to come back home....

Very well done and extremely realistic!

Great job!

Spectacular!

A real beauty! Joking, we call it US Navy Hurricane (because of dark blue camouflage).

The Fujimi Stuka is excellent in shapes and exterior, but has almost no interior.

What a beauty!!!

Very interesting remarks. But I'm still not sure how to paint my Rodney. Now I tend to see on the photos a lot of darker brown and only main gun turrets and the bridge in light green. And maybe the funnel.

It looks perfect!!!

Don't have access to the table now but I have a comment, maybe useful: several early Finnish Curtisses (A1/early A2) had wigs changed from one-gun to two-gun ones (maybe already by Germans). For example "our" No 107, which became CUw-556 in Finland.

Very well done!

Thank you! It clarifies a bit, but only a bit. I wonder if photos of any other ships in Flotta Scheme are available? I have Southampton: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205119316 To be honest, it is still hard to determine what is the distribution of various colours on the Rodney...