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Hello all! I will be starting this in the not too distant future as I am in the middle of a vacform build at the moment. This is the Revell reissue of PK127, the Matchbox Twin Otter. I will be using Paul Parkes decals for a Yeti Airlines plane based in Nepal. The box, contents and transfer shots: I have used Paul's transfers before on a Twin Otter and found them to be very good! Here is a Nepal Airways one from a couple of years ago: The inspiration (and jealousy) for this subject is this series of photographs, courtesy of my brother: He flew in to Lukla on this aircraft, and as luck would have it, the codes are on the sheet. I have to say I am not overly jealous, as I have been into Lukla twice and Tumlingtar and even Lhasa (which made him jealous), but we have very friendly rivalry when it comes to Nepal! When I found that Paul did transfers for such exotic liveries, I cleared my local Hobbycraft of all their Twotters, buying all four of them, and the transfers I got were for: Nepal Airlines (as a test set) Royal Nepal (which I have flown on) Yeti Airlines (which my bro flew on) and Maldivian Air Taxi (which my wife and I flew on when we were on honeymoon) So, after this one, I will be 50% of they way through my collection! I would like to try and improve this one, the Nepal Airlines one was straight from the box. I would like to try and correct the cockpit windscreen at the very least, but also to possibly open the cockpit doors and cabin/luggage compartment doors too. I am not sure about the props, I know John Aero used to do replacements, but there is still a notice from Mike saying the Aeroclub Forum is closed until John is better, so I will probably leave them. The colour scheme will be tricky, especially the cheat-lines along the fuselage, i may well have to do a cheat (sorry!) on them and get something close rather than spot on, but you never know (masking has never been a strong point of mine). I will post more when I get started, and any advice or suggestions for improving this will be very much appreciated. See you soon! Ray PS I do wish Airfix would lidar one of these aircraft, just think of what they could do with it!