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Also interesting that The Deacon was converted back into a two seater with the top tank in place again. So the Airfix kit can be used unmodified, just the yellow and black scheme for that version.

Ah yes and it has the famous photo of The Canon (Mike Zulu) going in vertically at Sywell. Very lucky to get away with that!

Yes that's the one. I have some photos of the others visiting Little Snoring at various times, I'll see if I can dig them out.

Delta Zulu (The Bishop) was yellow with a red stripe. That'll be the one I'll be building first in memory of Elwyn McAully, a friend of my father, who was killed doing aerobatics in it at Little Snoring in the early 60's. I think they also had an inverted fuel systems so they could fly upside-down.

When mine arrive I have an idea to convert one or two to the Tiger Club 'Supermoth' standard (The Deacon, The Bishop, The Archbishop and The Canon). I think that would be relatively straight forward - take out the wing top fuel tank (as it was placed in the front cockpit area) and fair over the passenger seat. Then add the optional trapeze above. Other than does anyone know if there were any other mods?

And while on the subject of the 1/72nd Moth family a Thruxton Jackeroo would be nice too. Or even a conversion set for the Tiger Moth, as that's what they were originally from two to four seats plus canopy

Thanks. It shouldn't be a too taxing conversion then

In the absence of Revell re-issuing their Hunter F Mk 6, is re-engineering their FGA9 to an F6 as simple as sanding off the break-chute and squaring up the tail pipe? Or are there more externally visible differenced to take into account? I know the wings were strengthened for the FGA9 but not sure if there was any visible difference between the FGA9 wings? I have several FGA9's but Mk 6's are hard to come by at the moment...

"The War That Never Was". The story of how RAF Habbaniya held off combined Iraqi and Luftwaffe forces during the 1941 Rashid Ali rebellion in 1941, as told by Wing Commander Tony Dudgeon in his book by that name. Students and time expired instructors flew hastily modified Airpeed Oxfords, Audaxes and Gladiators against Iraqi ground targets and fought off the Luftwaffe at the same time. It's possible if the Iraqis had won and Germany taken over, Hitler would have got hold of Iraqi oil and the whole outcome of WWII might have been very different. A massively under-rated WWII episode that need it's story telling to a wider audience and a very 'boys own' story it is too. At least DP Casper made a decal set for it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Iraqi_War#Situation_at_RAF_Habbaniya

More like the love-child of a Mitsubishi Zero and a Macchi C.200 Saetta Another MPM model for my 'Must Buy' list...

I have the RAF/RN AZ Tiger Moth and it looks very nice indeed, and will go to the top of my build pile I think. The RAF/RN version seems popular as it's already sold out at Hannants. Next I'd like to see are a few variant mods. A new fuselage for the 4 seater Thruxton Jackaroo, and maybe a new top wing, filler plate for the front cockpit, elevator and wing fairing mods, plus the top wing trapeze for the Tiger Club 'Super Tiger': The Bishop, Arch Bishop, Deacon and Canon. Oh, and a nice set of decals to go with them

I'm not a great helicopter fan, but that does look spectacularly good! And at 1/72nd it won't take up much shelf space either. So I suspect one will find it's way into my stash soon after release

I recently built the PH Models Blackburn Botha, it's quite a nice resin kit and goes together relatively easily even for someone with little resin building experience. . I picked mine up from Telford last year from Lonewulf models for £44.00. I think it's gone up in price a couple of quid since: http://www.lonewulfmodels.co.uk/search.php...amp;Submit.y=0# I built mine on the Unofficial Airfix Modellers Forum here: http://www.uamf.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=19&...amp;hilit=botha It was on the Coastal command SIG Display at Telford last week.

I thought basically a 215 was an export version of the 17z, virtually identical, the only difference being the addition of DB601 engines? So that's all that will need to be replace won't it? Only then if there are any external differences in engine shape of which I'm uncertain. Edit: the 17z had radials and the 215 601s were inline. So if you can get hold of 2 x 1:48th DB 601 engines - from a 1:48th Me Bf 110 perhaps? - it shouldn't be too difficult to convert. Julian

Well done! I commute through Setchey daily and I thought you had to be local to know it was pronounced Setch When I was living in Scotland I used to drive through a place just outside Glasgow called Milngavie. Extra points available if anyone knows how that's pronounced locally... Julian