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Lack of new kits of frequent updates of their FB doesn't mean that company is dead. So far there was no such announcement and for me it is enough. As I wrote above, they bought sprues from AMK.

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I have a second question, a friend sent me a video about a B-17G “Wampus Cat”. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd2atrowq5M In the video I took a still screen shot of the port waist gun position. There are two objects riveted to the fuselage just fore/aft of the waist gun. My guess is these are so the gunner cant shoot the wing or the tail plane. Please let me know if I’m correct or off on my guess ? Dennis

Graham, my intent was to show that the C.200 and C.202 evolved in an orderly way, with even more basic structural and geometric similarities than are generally realized; not that they shared every single small detail. And that the C.201 prototype appears to fit in rather nicely. My post clearly failed to make that point - which in any case was an irrelevant side excursion from your original question - so I took it down. Thanks for your comments on the new book. I'm impatiently waiting for my copy to arrive.

I don't know the answers to your questions, but here is the book: https://kalmbachhobbystore.com/product/85058?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIuKO38_fMhQMVKJ5aBR0wRQYqEAQYASABEgJiavD_BwE

Hi Alan - I have been provided with some RAN Wessex photos by @abat and as luck would have it they show the main rotor head area on RAN HAS31's as being painted white matching the upper camouflage colour - hope this is useful for anyone contemplating a RAN Wessex build. cheers Chris

nice work 👍

If I can find a kit will be buying a set.

Yes thank you even comes with decals I want.

Congrats Tommy !! Great Gladiator indeed !! Sincerely. CC

Amazing build and improvements Giampiero !! Congratulations amici !! Sincerely. CC

By the sound of it, the previous owner was going for a "what-if" fire bomber. Is there nothing else in the box to give you a clue?

What is the connection between the 2558 metres high mountain in the middle and a very famous pilot? Pilot/author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Saint Exupery in Argentina, named after him. Small bit of trivia: both Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and Adrian Warburton both disappeared on reconnaissance missions in P-38s (F-5B variant) in 1944.

Excellently finished and very effectively weathered - the poor chap looks thoroughly fed up with his lot in life !

A fine Avenger Alain !! Congrats !! Sincerely. Alain

Not as usual. I think they are only doing something under SIO Models brand and in very limited quantities. It feels like pandemics distorted their business unfortunately. Do you mean Mr.Muzikant bought an L-29 kit and just made a copy?

I hear you. I'm usually pretty anal about the organization of my workspace (nobody would have guessed that I'm sure!), and I just got a new paintbrush rack so I can line up all my brushes in descending order. And besides, I had to figure out where the ants were coming from. Although I failed in that last regard, I can tell you that I know where they're going - right into that nice little ant hotel, never to return. What's odd is that it is in an old Floquil spare bottle. I have a vague memory of a bottle of paint leaking in transit, and I guess I must have put the remaining paint into a spare glass bottle. Other than that, I have no idea. Yikes! You sound like a reincarnation of my mother! 🤶 Cheers, Bill

Astiunding paint job Kriss !! Congratulations !! Sincerely. CC

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Well done george !! Great Caesar on here !! I really love the paint and weathering !! Sincerely. CC

Well done Sebastian !! Isn't she the one flown by John Thomas Blackburn ?? One of my future project... Weathering is top noth Sir !! Congratulations 88 Sincerely. CC

The H-20 also introduced the sealed waist gunner window as opposed to the open position on the earlier versions. The kit subjects have the open one but I wonder if Airfix provide an unused alternative? Aircraft of 100 Group says aircraft with the Emerson turret has the turret faired in with doped canvas over the outside of the nose

I don't really understand the rationale behind this, either, and I'm even less an aerodynamicist than you, Graham, but I also recall reading about getting the B-24 'on the step' a couple of times from some articles or monographs on the Liberator. From the B-24D pilot's manual: 'After reaching cruising altitude, level off- get on the step, and pick up speed before power is reduced to cruise settings. If power is reduced too soon and before ther aircraft has picked up full momentum for cruising, it would mush along in a high drag, high angle of attack attitude in trying to regain speed under reduced power, and would probably be quite sluggish. Approach the cruising condition from the top- both speed and altitude; never from the bottom!' (I have NO idea how or why this procedure was recommended!) From Wikipedia on flying the B-24: 'I was necessary when flying the B-24, to get "on step". This meant climbing to about 500 ft (150 m) above cruise altitude, leveling off, achieving a cruise speed of 165–170 mph (266–274 km/h), then descending to assigned altitude. Failing to do this meant that the B-24 flew slightly nose high, and it used more fuel. ' My only thought is that this procedure might have something to do with the characteristics of the Davis aerofoil.... basically, you got me, my friend! (Is this a great hobby or what?) Mike

I normally don't say anything in cases like this. However I will give my worth. Ive bern building models since 1979. My very first kit was an Testors release of their 1/48th F-4 phantom. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/testors-582-rf-4-phantom-ii--657006 Ive built a number of their kits over the years and most go together quite fine. I am particularly fond of their Armor kits. So I have no real complaints with only the following two exception’s. The first is I bought a 2nd hand Italeri Fw.190D kit at a swap meet. This boxing as a matter of fact. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/italeri-128-fw-190d-9--1093958 Sadly it was the only kit Ive ever owned/built from Italeri that went into the bin. The wings were so bad with a leading edge gap. That between upper and lower halves at the fuselage join the gap was approximately 1/4 inch. I could almost slide a pencil into the leading edge. The red arrow in the blue circle is what Im referring to. My second complaint about any Italeri models with one exception = pricing. Here in the U.S this 1/48 F-86 kit goes for $56 at my one local store. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/italeri-2684-north-american-f-86f-sabre-jet--101741 I can find cheaper kits sadly from other companies online. Dennis