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We've discussed the story of the Scottish retailing legend John Menzies elsewhere in this GB. As mentioned, they got into kits in a big way in the 1970s and '80s with most of their shops having at least a modest stock. The shop in my home town wasn't enormous but it was very busy, being located next to the bus station. Downstairs was the newsagent section, stationery, sweets and books, upstairs was toys, kits and records. I would pass the shop on my way to or from the town and more often than not would wander in for a look. I was a big fan of Action Transfers, and bought quite a few from the shop: http://www.action-transfers.com/html/a_ranges/at_linking.shtml I particularly liked the Action Profile series, and can clearly remember having the Bf109 book: http://www.action-transfers.com/html/ActionProfiles/actionprofiles2.shtml There was a reusable range as well, printed on vinyl. I had the el Alamein edition: http://www.action-transfers.com/html/a_articles/what11.shtml One of the shell bursts from that stayed on my bedroom window until I moved out of my parent's house 🙄 The kit section stocked Revell, Airfix, Hasegawa and Scalecraft - remember them? Anyway, late 1974, the 12-year-old me was heading up the stairs to see what was new. As I emerged onto the sales floor my eye was immediately caught by an unfamiliar piece of box art and the kit-seeking alarm in my head went off: WANT, WANT, WANT! The cause of this was a dark blue box with - how cool was this - a Ju-88 night fighter on it. I must have been on my way into the town as I still had pocket money on me and that seldom happened on the way home. In any event I was able to scrape together enough to lift the box off the shelf and take it to the till. More shortly. John

Spitfire Mk. VIII | 1/72 | Hasegawa No. 155 Squadron, Royal Air Force, Burma, 1945 I finished this on 7/18/2020. A straightforward build, however I used some spare parts from my Eduard Mk.IX builds to improve the cockpit (which may have been a waste of time with a closed canopy), and provide better looking landing gears and gear doors. In general the Hasegawa kit has nice external detail and went together fairly easily (although I had to put a little more work than usual into getting the nose seams to look good). My only gripe with the kit is this: I was warned by someone that the Hasagawa Mk. VIII, was "too small" in the back, which I mis-interpreted as "too short". Matching it to an un-built Eduard Mk. IX, I found that, if the fuselages are lined up at the back of the canopy, then both the tail and nose are about 1 mm too short. Not very noticeable. However, I think "too small" meant that the area just forward of the empennage is too thin (from bottom to top). It looks more spindly just forward of the tail than the Eduard kits on my shelf. I tried to mimic the dusty conditions I saw in some photos of 155 sqn. aircraft by using white oil paint rubbed into the gloss coat (post decals). My experience is that this oil paint will become very light when dry, but will darken again with the application of dull coat. Unfortunately, it darkened too much so it was not very noticeable, so I misted the surface in spots with a Mr. Color tan. It actually looks better in the pictures than in real life! This kit is actually a replacement for the terrible Starfix Mk. XIV I made a few years ago. I really like the SEAC scheme, so I chose this kit, to replace the Starfix one. I will be re-doing Ginger Lacey's Mk. XIV mount (Correctly) using the Sword 1/72 kit. Paint: Mr. Surfacer 1500 black decanted into airbrush > Hataka RAF Dark Earth / Ocean Gray / medium Sea Gray > Testor's "Deep Yellow" > Mr. Color 311 (FS36622) for spinner and theater stripes > Alclad Aqua Gloss (pre-decal) > Mr. Color GX113 dullcoat (post-decal) Decals: Kit decals plus leftover Eduard stencils Aftermarket: Eduard steel seatbelts No WIP for this one. Here's a comparison of the instrument panels: Hasagawa in the center, un-altered Eduard on the right, and the Eduard one I modified to use on the left: Eduard's part behind seat looked better than Hasegawa's so I modified it and used it (Hasegawa on the right): Here's the cockpit all finished: And I scratch built the rod that extends from the back of the seat: Thanks for looking! Questions, comments and constructive criticism always welcomed.

I've been dreaming of building an RNZAF Corsair for a long time, and it looks like I'm in good company in this STGB. Here's the kit: And here are the transfers: I have some Xtradecal RNZAF roundels to replace the ones included in the above set, as I don't think these match the actual roundel blue used according to @LDSModeller. I'm not dead set on this particular aircraft, but I definitely want to do an operational tri (quad) color scheme. Primed and airbrushed some of the interior today to make the start official. Thanks @Corsairfoxfouruncle for organizing this STGB.

Wanted to maximize the AGM-78 load on the Trumpeter F-105G and a Wild Weasel Phantom I have and when comparing AGM-78s between the ones in the F-105G box and the ones from the Hasegawa weapons set, the China made ones seem to be at least 20% smaller in every dimension. Were there different versions of the Standard Arm? Or did trumpy manage to screw up again?

This is my entry to this fabulous group build. A kit I clearly remember making (and finishing!) as a kid aged about 10 or 11. It had obvious attractions - the shark's teeth was the biggest and also that it was silver and shiny 😀 The kit is old, the decals are ropey but I'll enjoy every minute!

I really should not be doing this as I already have 3 kits on the go and another 2 lined up for the Spitfire/Seafire GB, and the Buccaneer STGB is looming on the horizon but what the heck. This is the first of maybe 2 builds for this GB. As a teenager in the 1960's it took a while before I became aquainted with Italian aircraft from WWII. In fact I think it is true to say I had no knowledge at all until I started buying the fighter volumes 1-4 from William Green's series "Warplanes" published by Macdonalds starting in 1963 with Vol 3 Japan and Russia. Coincidentally I saw and bought the Frog MC 202 Folgore the same year, closely followed by Revell's Fiat CR 42 in 1965. The MC 200 from Revell and the Fiat G 50 from Airfix arrived I think in 1967, and I still have both somewhere in my roof space. This particular Saetta is a fairly recent boxing from around 2012 bought a few years back and I will build it over the next few weeks. It is as I recall a nice little kit and with a bit of work on the paint scheme it should look a bit better than my original. The cockpit is non - existent as usual with kits of this age, but as with the G 50 there is only a tiny opening so it will not be visible. I will box in the wheel wells and might do a modest amount on the cockpit but otherwise it will be OOB, and a fairly quick build. I do have some resin wheels and also a nice sheet of decs from an Italian company so I will spend a bit of time on the exterior finish. Like the Japanese, the Italians in the 1930's were used to light open cockpit biplanes such as the Fiat CR32 and were reluctant to move to closed cockpit monoplanes with reduced manoeuvrability. Add to that the problems the Italian Aero Engine industry had producing high powered engines (usually radials) and at the start of the war the Italian Airforce was still basically equipped with CR42 biplanes together with a few of the earlier CR 32, though the MC 200 and G 50 were steadily taking their place. With speeds in the region of 300 mph and light armament of only 2 Mg in the cowling, they were already obsolescent and only their manoeuvrability kept them just about viable. Later, both types would benefit from imported/licence built German inline engines which made them far more of a threat. Italian aircraft and pilots have received a bad press or been ignored but in truth they were generally as brave and skillfull as any allied pilots, let down by a underdeveloped aircraft industry and poor political management. Not sure exactly when I will start this but I should be able to slot it in whilst waiting for glue/paint/decals to dry on some of my other builds. More as and when. Pete

The Supermarine Spitfire is one of a handful of aircraft to have passed from history into legend. Its good looks helped (good looks often do) --- the curve of a Spitfire's wing might well stand for an essence of beauty in the ruminations of some Romantic esthete. It is the Spitfire that is the emblem of the Battle of Britain, the iconic mount of 'the Few' who delivered the first solid check to Nazi arms, and it does no good to point out Hawker's Hurricane did more of the heavy lifting, or that the effectiveness of the Me 109 was greatly hampered by limited range, and at times by escort deployments mandated more for boosting the morale of bomber crews than for their combat utility. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend, so the saying goes, and don't bother arguing. Just about every modeller feels impelled to do a Battle of Britain Spitfire sometime, and this model of Spitfire Mk Ia serial R6915 is mine. Spitfire Mk Ia serial R6915 is preserved at the Imperial War Museum, albeit as it appeared during the twilight of its career in an Operational Training Unit. This aeroplane, however, began its active service career just as the Battle of Britain commenced. It was built to a contract let shortly before the war began, and on July 11 1940 was delivered to No. 6 Maintenance Unit. On July 21, R6915 was received by 609 (West Riding) Squadron, an old Auxiliary Air Force formation based then at Middle Wallop. The aircraft was assigned to B Flight's Blue Section, and marked as PR-U. Several pilots flew R6915 PR-U in its early days with the squadron, but by late August, this machine became the favored mount of a Pilot Officer with the striking name of Noël le Chevalier Agazarian. Noël le Chevalier Agazarian was one of four sons and two daughters born to an Armenian electrical engineer and his wife, a genteel Frenchwoman. After the Great War, she purchased a surplus Sopwith Pup airframe that was installed in the garden of their London residence as a children's plaything. Which may account for the unusual degree of 'air mindedness' among the Agazarian brood, for four of them when grown took up aviation. Noël's younger sister Monique was a ferry pilot for the Air Transport Auxiliary during WWII, and afterwards became a prominent authority on simulator training and instrument flying. Their eldest brother, Levon Berdj Agazarian, joined the RAF and served in the Far East, flying Thunderbolts from Calcutta at the end of the war. Another of the brothers, Jack Charles Agazarian, joined the RAF, but during his training was recruited into the Special Operations Executive for service as a radio operator in France, where in 1943 he was betrayed into Nazi hands under circumstances which on their face are none too favorable to MI-6 (see note below). Known as 'Aggie' to his friends, Noël le Chevalier Agazarian proved to be quite an athlete in his school days, excelling at rugby, swimming, and boxing. He was denied entry to Trinity College by its President, with the comment that "In 1911, when the last coloured gentleman had been at Trinity, it had really proved most unfortunate." Noël was accepted at another Oxford school, Wadham College, in 1935. While studying law Noël kept up his championship caliber boxing, and joined the Oxford University Air Squadron, part of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. Here he met and became good friends with another aspiring pilot, Richard Hillary, who in his war-time memoir The Last Enemy (see note below) described Noël Agazarian as an extremely intelligent fellow with 'a pleasantly ugly face' who seemed a bit bewildered at finding himself to be such a fine athlete instead of a scholar. Early in 1939, the reservists of the Oxford Squadron were called up for active training at Lossiemouth. Agazarian and Hillary, along with several others, coalesced into a clique who referred to themselves as 'the longhairs', and plagued the RAF sergeants in charge of their initial training by their studied indiscipline. On completion of their flight training, Agazarian and Hillary both were disappointed to be assigned to Army Cooperation School at Old Sarum. There they flew exercises on obsolete Hawker Hector biplanes (one of which Noël crashed without injury to himself) and on the standard service type, the Westland Lysander. When their class at Old Sarum concluded in June, 1940, the RAF was bracing itself for an impending aerial onslaught by the Luftwaffe, and almost all graduates of the Army Cooperation School were assigned to Fighter Command. Noël le Chevalier Agazarian joined 609 Squadron in July, and soon showed himself a good fighting pilot. By mid-August, he had been credited with destroying three German fighters in air battles over naval installations on the south coast. Noël was flying PR-U R6915 on August 25, when he was credited with a fourth German fighter, an Me 110. From then through the end of September he flew this machine, being credited with two more fighters confirmed and two bombers as probables. On two occasions while attacking bombers, PR-U R6915 took damage from their defensive fire that forced Pilot Officer Agazarian to make a hurried landing, once with a bullet through the Merlin engine's oil sump, and once with a bullet through its glycol coolant tank. Both these, being in the lower part of the aeroplane's nose, were particularly vulnerable to well-aimed fire from a gunner directly attacked. PR-U R6915 was not flown by Pilot Officer Agazarian on its last sortie for 609 Squadron, but instead by Flying Officer John Dundas, considered a leading 'ace' at the time. Engaged with an Me 110, R6915 was struck by cannon shells, and the damage was beyond what a squadron workshop could cope with. The aeroplane was sent to a Civilian Repair Unit at Crowley on October 14, where it would remain till December. Noël le Chevalier Agazarian requested a transfer to North Africa in December, and was assigned to 274 Squadron there in January, 1941. Flying a Hurricane in support of 'Operation Brevity', he was killed on May 16. Spitfire Mk Ia R6915 had emerged from the repair shops and been delivered to 602 (City of Glasgow) Squadron in late January, 1941. With the new Spitfire Mk V coming into service, in July R6915 was relinquished to an Operational Training Unit, 61 OTU. R6915 then commenced to shuttle between various training units and repair facilities till summer of 1944, when it went into storage at Cardiff. From there, it was struck off RAF charge to the Imperial War Museum for static display in 1947, where it exists today. This model is built from the 'old tool' Airfix Spitfire I/II in 1/72. It was recommended back when I bought it as having better shape to the wing than the Tamiya offering, and Airfix was at the time putting out a 50th anniversary re-issue of the kit, the first one it had put on the market, which like the original came in a bag, not a box, and was moulded in bright blue plastic. I built the kit to OOB standard, with panel lines scribed and pilot figure employed. National markings are from an old Techmod sheet, ID codes from what remains of a Fantasy Workshop sheet. Wife printed up the serials. I doubt many of these are going to be built up nowadays, with the excellent new tooling available, but it went together well, and I think still does the business of making a decent miniature Battle of Britain Spitfire. When I chose PR-U R6915 as a subject for my model, I had no idea what lay behind the machine. I was simply looking through profiles in an old Aircam number for a Spitfire that had been in the thick of things in the Battle of Britain, whose codings could be replicated with decals I had on hand. Looking into operations of 609 Squadron, and refreshing my memory of Spitfire development and service, led to the discovery this machine was preserved in the Imperial War Museum. Reading the museum's 'History Note' for R6915, the name Noël le Chevalier Agazarian leapt out as something that just might be worth a closer look. Doing so led not only to a good deal of information about the gentleman, but to other stories his touched on, such as the skein of betrayals which caught up his brother Jack in France, and the painfully-won celebrity his friend Richard Hillary briefly enjoyed. I have prepared a note on each of these gentlemen, presented below in separate posts. It would be churlish to present here no detail concerning the career of Noël's sister Monique, but I can do no better justice to her than was done in her obituary in The Independent, written by someone she taught to fly, who considered her both mentor and friend.... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-monique-agazarian-1499214.html

Hi all. Just finished this one. Nice kit on the external but i got very disappointed with the cockpit. The seat provided is very undesized and the floor is very shallow. Had to use a spare seat and make adjustments to lower the cockpit floor to hold the new seat. but considering the canopy is very small theres nothing to see through it anyway, so i did no other changes on the interior. The nose gear is also very fragile. The kit fits very well and needs almost none putty to same small gaps. Decals sheet is very limited also. To complete this build i decided to go with the Olive Drab paint option but after finished it went to dark. a lighter painting whould fit much better. I am on hold for years for the Announced MIG-19P by trumpeter, but if it ever be released based on something like this one it wont be a hit. To compare my old KP MIG-19 wich i used cockpit and canopy aftermarkets, downed the panel lines and done some scratch adjustments on the gears, nozzles and tail elevator. Thank you all. Luciano

Oh I do like a challenge! I am just coming to the end of the Tiger Moth build so started digging around in the stash for my next project, i previously completed 2 Airfix IL-3 so though that I would add another to the shelf. The Skala boxing is very bright as is the plastic inside which looks like bright green marble! Two Sprue with various defects, main problem is the props (see photo) which is the result of a 'short shot', those undercarriage supports are deformed as well. Two canopy's of clear plastic contained in a separate clear bag both canopy's have damage to the side, whats annoying is that their is a hand written quality ticket in the Box! My other two Stormovich are IL-3's so ill do this one as an IL-2.

Hello my friends; I finished my last model in this weekend. It's is a new simple Airfix mold. I did modifications including a lot of adds: - CMK engine; - Seat, wheels, control surfaces, exhaust by resins Aires and Quickboost; - PE interior and flaps by Brengun; - Master Pl cannons and; - Tail wheel scratched. I built a simple base too. I had doubt about the insignias diameters (upper wing surfaces), but even so I ended up using the Airfix decals. I had no options here. The mark is No. 266 Squadron, 2nd Tactical Air Force, Holland and Germany April/May 1944. Cheers;

Hello As I wrote in a previous post my second 1/72 SNCASO Vautour is the bomber variant with this Azur kit. The difficulties are th same and again I scratch built the open airbrakes. I cut open the canopy for the pilot as well. The resin tanks came from the CMK range. Here she is as a Vautour IIB from the 92 Escadre de Bombardement in the early 1960s. Patrick

As well as the NF11 I also made one of the Matchbox Meteors as an NF14, this one with the colourful markings of 152 squadron while based at Wattisham in the mid 1950s, before the unit moved to Stradishall. The grey is dark sea grey on the NF14s, instead of the mid sea grey usually applied to NF11s. Undersides are mid sea grey, with standard RAF dark green camo. Decals from Modeldecal.

After a short 'break', I'm back with a bang! A Meteor night fighter, with huge thanks to @Wez for dispensing with some of his Meteors at good value. And thank you to @LostCosmonauts for the letter D decals! Kit is the Matchbox night fighter, with Modeldecal squadron markings.

You know how it is when you get a kit that just fights you till the end, well this is one of those. I had reasons for getting this done besides having it next to my Whitley and Wellington (that is being worked on next). Originally this was to be the Valom boxing. That got so far, but I messed up the wing joints and the legendary fit of the clear parts defeated me (even tried the Airfix and falcon versions to see if some combination would work). Then the AZ version with new clear parts came into my possession . This time it would work! There would be no duff wing/fuselage joints! The glazing would fit! ebay provided the torpedo upgrade set! I had the Authentic Decals decal sheet! What could possibly go wrong? Yeh, well, the wings had to come off as I mucked that up again. Chucked a load of filler at it, and called it a fit. After ignoring it for a while I decided it was time to just finish it and be damned. It will grace the collection until airfix or someone does a better version. Even now as I look at the photos I realise I have a) missed the aerial lines off b) not fitted the exhausts! Life............... comments welcome. Tim

This is the Tamiya Skyray, pretty much from the box with just a few tweaks and markings from Starfighter Decals “Forgotten Fords” set to depict an airframe from VMF(AW)-542 Gray Ghosts, in what the Warpaint book (No 117) describes as probably a one-off scheme for that unit. The AIM-9Bs are robbed from a Hobbyboss F-5E, because they are nicer than the ones in the Tamiya kit. This really is a great kit to build (no filler here!) and I would thoroughly recommend it.

Part two of the lifecycle for MJ271. Delivered to 132 Sqn in october 1943, MJ271 served an uneventful career up until a Cat.B wheels-up landing at RAF Ford in may 1944. After repairs and post-op shakedown, it was only in November 1944 that she appeared again on strength with 401 Sqn RCAF - as part of 126 Wing, 2TAF. During that time, the Squadron was based in the liberated South of the Netherlands. First at B.84 De Rips, a forward improvised airstrip or ALG, near Helmond, but over a week (and 568 operational flights btw) the low-lying former farmland proved too soaked and the Wing moved temporarily to B-80 Volkel (still an active AB today) and after work was finished in December to B-88 near Heesch south of the river Meuse. Today, streetnames serve as reminder to the presence of the Canadians: 126 Wing weg, Vliegveldweg. The pin is the approx. location of the former airfield, now the A50 Motorway between 's Hertogenbosch and Nijmegen. All very familiar locations, as my family originates from that area. Back to MJ271. As part of 2TAF, 401 Sqn was tasked with missions where the Spitfire was not particularly well-suited for: Rail transport interdiction by dive-bombing. Loadout for 126 Wing Spits varied, but mostly consisted of either 2x 250lbs bombs under the wings, or a single 500lbs bomb on the centerline - occasionally combined for a total 1000lbs bomb load. It was one of those missions that proved to be the end of the war for our airframe. On a sortie in mid-December during bad (or 'typical Dutch') weather, MJ271 probably pulled too many G's and suffered overstressed wings as a result. She was shuffled off to a repair & service unit and would not see active RAF service again.

Stagione From Wikipedia Seems like a fitting way to describe the process I'll be following for my builds for my chosen subject. G-IRTY, the Silver Spitfire, began life on the Castle Bromwich production line in late 1943 as the first of the block of 44 aircraft under contract B981687/39 as MJ271, LFIXc, with a RR built Merlin 66. For this spring incarnation, I'll start off with a relatively simple Airfix Mk.IXc kit. I have some aftermarket bits that might come into play later on, however I suspect that that won't be in this build.

Hi All, In between (still) continual pattern making, I have decided to have a go at making a smaller model and attempt to try and have it completed for the IPMS Newark and Lincoln Expo competition in October (something I last did 16 years ago!). I am not confident that I will achieve my target as I have got a lot of other things coming up to stop me, but I will give it a try. I have selected the Heller 1/72 AMD Mirage IV A kit as my first attempt at 'rehabilitation' back into normal modelling again (whatever 'normal' is measured as!). The first thing to tackle is the cockpit. As can be seen, it is pretty basic at best (and inaccurate as well). This is the re-worked and detailed rear cockpit weapons operator's instrument panel (I am amazed that I can still even see any details in this scale let alone make them!). Kit landing lights installed and sanded. If I get the kit completed in time, I will foil it, as the last time that I did this (2004), it seemed to come out pretty well. And hopefully, it will turn out something a little like this! If I do get the Mirage completed in time, and there is any time left, I will also try and complete one (or both) of these in a similar foiled NMF finish - I have elected to make the Sk 37 Viggen and S 29C Tunnan from these kits (the old Matchbox J 29F Tunnan has been assembled purely as a test airframe for foiling technique practice). Navigator/weapons operator's instrument panel completed. Rear bulkhead installed and ejection seat plastic card backing added. I have made a seat support column here to fill the gap between the seat and bulkhead. More rear cockpit work to follow. Derek

This will be my entry into the GB: It will be built OOB, due to the time constraints of the GB - that should mean I have a fighting chance of getting it finished! The scheme I will use is the one shown above on the box. Hopefully work on this kit will get underway over the next few days.

Finish no8 for the year is the Special Hobby AH1G Cobra with M35 Cannon in 1/72 scale. First Special Hobby kit I've done and very impressed, no filler, minimal sanding, fine panel and rivet detail, canopy which fitted even though it was 5 parts, multiple weapon options and nice decals. First helicopter since returning to modelling but I thinks they'll be more to come, Dream Model's AH1Z looks nice. I went for a well used aircraft with a dusty appearance and based the rocket and gun pods on photo of Vietnamese based Cobra's. Built OOB painted with Tamiya acrylics and weathered with MIG Ammo powders. As usual all comment welcome.

Hi everybody, my latest completion: a Spitfire VIII, 417 Sqn RCAF in Italy. The kit is the Eduard Weekend-edition (although it took me much longer than a weekend). The kit is gorgeous and a pleasure to build, but I guess you know this already. There are not even expensive nowadays (in Euro at least). The decals are from various Xtradecal sheets. I had wanted to built AN-M ever since I first saw a picture of it literally decades ago in "Spitfire at War". The gun barrels are after-market brass items, but I don't think they make a big difference. The plastic parts from the kit are probably just as good. Thanks for looking!

Hi, Not sure when I will make a start on this but here is one that has been in my stash for a few years now, It is one of a series of related kits SH released in 2012 including the Seafire 45 and 46, and is probably related to a group of late Spitfires they also released. It replaced a Rareplanes vacform version I bought back in around 1980 which never was quite completed. The box contains some nicely detailed plastic including numerous alternative parts - props, canopies etc, and the artwork depicts a machine painted in the wartime scheme of Extra Dark Sea Grey and Dark Slate Grey over Sky - they say they are not entirely sure it was ever painted in this scheme and also include the later EDSG over Sky scheme seen on the Korean War versions. Being SH it remains to be seen how well it goes together. More as and when I get going. Cheers Pete

As Obi Wan Kenobe (would no doubt have) described these refined and shapely planes “An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age.” A couple of lockdown builds. I had grander, more detailed plans for things to do with these kits but needed something to occupy a couple of days of low hassle, low stress. These geriatric Novo kits fit the bill nicely. Made out of the box with a little bit of tidying up cockpit innards, pilots from spares. As the kit decals were missing (Canberra) or beyond use (Sea Hawk) and to try and add a little colour variety to my collection I tried to come up with different from the norm schemes that I could achieve (or get somewhere close to) from spares (with some much appreciated help from @speedy where spares came up slightly short) I know there are loads of flaws with these builds but they made & make me happy so they’ve achieved their purpose

Do any of the boxes of the FGR.2 or F-4M match the quality of the FGR.1 with the art flying by the oil rig?

"Certain that their target was London, Park was no longer intercepting as far forward as he used to...He would hit them hardest at the point the Germans called 'die grosse Angstkurve uber London' ('the dreaded big turn over London)...Park had given his young braves height and surprise...As his forward units engaged, Park ordered up his own reserve, his Praetorian Guard of 602 and 303..." - Stephen Bungay, The Most Dangerous Enemy My plan is to build a Polish 303 Sqn Hurricane from the new 1/72 Arma kit, and 602 Sqn Spitfire from the already venerable 1/72 Airfix kit (probably the two most popular kits in this Group Build, so I don't get points for originality). I've got some 303 references all ready to go: And have thrown a little primer on the kit interiors. First up the Hurricane: And next the Spitfire: It's actually the Mk Va boxing, but contains everything needed for a Mk I.