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Indeed. If you're interested, OldModels (NZ) does the Queen's Flight 748 decals in 1/72.

Nice choice Tim, I’d be using the kit decals myself, those Esci decals looks a little off colour to me. Cheers… Dave

Use the force Luke, you’re too short to see out the window anyway! Jokes aside, this is looking lovely. AW

There’s plenty of good ‘easy to use’ paints to simulate NMF these days so ask away, we’ve all tried a few. Just remember that the Hurricane has a large proportion of fabric over the airframe so that area would have been painted rather than stripped back to bare metal. I reckon this Hurricane would have been painted anyway, so one nice solid finish should do the job nicely. Happy for others to comment as I’m just providing an educated guess. Cheers.. Dave

Lets expand out the images then Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Necro thread time: As far as I can tell, the team is still working away. These vids are from 4 months ago, but it looks promising to me.

TonyJ86 Thanks very much for your info and the pic is stunning, what a fantastic build. Some questions arise. I didnt realise the ASK decals are of the P-40M although it appears the only external differences would be: The grill forward of the exhaust stacks (easy fix) A mesh screen in the intake below the prop (some maybe did not have this mesh?) I am wondering how you did the radio antenna from the mast to the fin, very intricate and scale. Can you point me in the direction of some online images of this particular plane? Cheers for now and thanks again Paul.

I guessed right - Mr Hypersonic himself @JeffreyK looked into it and posted this on another BM thread (here) back in 2012: The canopy change was brought on with the introduction of the upward firing C-2 ejection seat. I just did a Google search and got this confirmed. The canopy was re-designed to be individually blown off for upward ejection. The centre section also housed a clear part that formed a windshield for the rear cockpit in case of loss of the front section (didn't know that!).

Thanks once again. Explained perfectly. Looks like the panel in the P-51D. I should be able to come up with something that looks like that.

for making multi-directional homes

And it’s ready for decals, and yes I’ve corrected the wrong stab position

Hello, again. Start. Here is the un-started kit. The insides of the pulse jet intake have been taken off the sprues and cleaned up before time... and stuck together with liquid glue to fill the join. These are the only bits that need to be glued, and, with the interior of the engine exhaust, painted before assembling the whole thing. 18" Mañana. Alan

Good tips. Will keep that in mind. No spitfire yet, but on my list. But my wife won’t let me build planes anymore so it will have to be covert like.

It would have hit the bottom of the bin a long time ago if it were mine. You have my respect sir!

Bump 18/4/25.

Nice to see a civilian subject in this group build. I remember watching these from the rooftop look-out at Christchurch Airport when I was a kid. It’s a very pretty colour scheme. 👍

Airfix Bristol F.2b, Christmas 1957. Wish I still had it, just for old time's sake, but it got chucked out when the family moved house in 1960 during my enforced absence at boarding school.

Well mt Dear tentacled one... How many Wessies are on the bench adtually ?? Flibbetygibbets.... Nice one Let's include it in the Bletchley Park syllabi.... I'll restart my cranberries soon... Sincerely CC Le wibble

Damn! So much for the new year's resolution not to buy more kits ...

Can we make money by charging the bats rent ?

I'll join, thanks

Well done Alistair !! Starting a kit with the chainsaw !! I love that... And done it oftenly.... After all who dare wins.... Now, I'm looking for a new Airfix Jaguar.... Sincerely. CC

Outboard flaps now attached. Also I see on close-up shots with the flaps down, that there’s what looks like a white horizontal stripe along the flaps just where the spoilers end with the flaps up. I think it’s a rubbing surface to protect the flaps when the wings flex. The photos are copyright, sorry. Anyway I’ve had a go at doing this. I had the choice of a toothpick with a steady hand, or masking. I went with masking. I don’t think my hand would be steady enough, especially in this scale. Anyway I think it’s come out ok. It looks fine at normal viewing distance. Now for the spoilers!

Really nice build.

Hi Alphonse, I love it! That is how I like to finish my models - worn, not 'factory fresh... And I don't think that is particularly heavily weathered; I think it is thoughtfully done - as anyone who has used military vehicles they become 'weathered' and 'worn' very quickly! Darren