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I took screen shot’s of both to read and study in the future.

That price can't be correct. I've emailed them for confirmation. Will keep you posted.

Hello everyone … As this theater gets little attention compared to NWE or the Southwest Pacific. I think we could wrangle enough interest in a group build. Dates would start on December 8th 1941 and go to September 2nd 1945. It could be anything that was operating in or on the sub-continent of India, Indochina, or China. The Naval area of operations would be anything from the eastern edge of 1940 India (Pakistan). Through to the south china sea. Western edges of Philippines and Borneo. I will say the western coast of Australia is the south eastern border of the Indian ocean. Madagascar would be the western edge, and Antarctica will be the extreme south edge. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South-East_Asian_theatre_of_World_War_II https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Burma_India_theater If anyone is interested in this please say so. 1. Corsairfoxfouruncle (Host) 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 12a. 14. 15. Dennis

Very nice work Paul; great weathering. Maybe the driver’s a bit concerned about just how much he managed to fit in the back and the effect it might have on the efficiency of the brakes and suspension!

G'day Jeff, I wouldn't know either, and at 1/600 is unlikely to be a concern for me. 🙂 But I'm inclined to lean towards Jon's view - a wood handle and either a red head or red bracket, something along those lines, maybe red on the handle at the operator's end. Regards, Jeff (the other Jeff 🙂)

Another great result Maddox - excellent figures, great vehicle and very tidy diorama. I’m with you on Hobbyboss; I really like their stuff too.

Thank you all for looking & praise— @Corsairfoxfouruncle, @Sabrejet, @opus999, @Cookenbacher, @mark.au, @georgeusa, @don f, @Rando—thank you all for the comments/suggestions—means a lot coming from accomplished builders like you. I should probably think about a carrier deck, or a diorama someday, but for now I am focusing on building skills. Next focus is on photography and I picked up a photo booth based on vectors from @giemme or @The Spadgent—looking forward to using it in my next RFI—best to all! Erwin

Definitely getting there. I cut a couple of triangles of 1mm thick card and glued them onto the last bare corner of the base and then applied PVA and scenic scatter material as before. I made the scatter mix slightly darker this time to represent longer grass, further from the peri-track mown less frequently. That is the top left corner here. I think it works reasonably well for a first attempt. As usual the camera is high-lighting flaws that are not so obvious to the naked eye. I'll fix those on Friday. Thanks for looking in. Murray

But why did he

This looks amazing!

Thank you very much for this. I did find a list of Miles types with brief notes on another web page that described the M2Y as having M2P wings, suggesting (but by no means explicitly stating) that the M2W didn't. As it was in note form though there was probably not an intention to be too precise... I have not yet unearthed why the Magister had the bigger wings and the inset ailerons. Do you have an insight into that? I had wondered if it was simply a move with the times as inset ailerons had suddenly become 'a la mode' - or there was something more specific? Finally I am becoming a little confused as to what type of M2 is K8626? I have seen it described as an M2H, M2P and a 'Hawk Trainer'.....!

There are only four schemes to choose from and they are all illustrated in colour below I think you may be confusing scheme numbers with what is actually the unit company number? These are reflected on the turret decals with the first number representing the company. But there is also a typo where it illustrates turret number 332. In the description they have it as 524 but 524 is illustrated with another profile. So for example 5./ Pz.Rgt.SS-Panzergrenadier Div, Grossdeutschlan No 524 Winter 1942/3, Eastern Front, Krivoirog-Kirovograd - the number 5 is not a scheme number but the company number followed by platoon and lastly the vehicle number.

Having just got some bagged armour kits courtesy of @G-IAIN been doing some searching. One is the Esci Bishop, 8044, which has no paint guide. and looking for images found this which looks a very un British scheme this look to be another shot Tunisia? ah, here http://panzerserra.blogspot.com/2021/07/bishop-ordnance-qf-25-pdr-on-carrier.html says 1st Army - 1st Parachute Btn. at Le Krib 6 March 1943 - Tunisia SCC2 with Light Mud? Or actual mud? This one is listed as Sicily, SCC2? evidently same unit the kit has decals for the above scheme. the decals have this WD number, I have seen a few of this Light Stone? @Mike Starmer @Kingsman Thanks in advance

I've had limited success with F-RSIN kits in the past Dave so it's nice to see that at least the Viscount is one of their better ones. Especially in the BUA livery. With so many nice schemes available I may have to get one if your results are anything to go by. All the best Chris.

Yeah thats the one… Now I need to have decals made.

I have never seen that scheme... mistake?

MRP have both colours in their range specifically for the GT40. They also do the same for Porsche in the Gulf scheme. Chris.

At least two of these pics are genuine colour photos, they are in the IWM collections online: THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN TUNISIA, APRIL 1943. Image: IWM (TR 869) IWM Non Commercial License THE ROYAL AIR FORCE IN TUNISIA, APRIL 1943. © IWM (TR 866) IWM Non Commercial License

Very pretty, looking forward to the rest of the production line!

Thanks Dennis. Up at dawn for the service, and we’ve just had some Harvards and a Corsair fly over the RSA just up the road. Lest we forget

LC2, always support the underdog!

I built the original Protar kit when it first came out. Assuming the decals are the same as the Protar ones, then they fit ok. I fitted the windows in to the body (take time to get them to fit well) and then put the black surround decal on top and it seemed to go well. The kit represents the launch/first race version. The LC2 is indeed a fab car, it just seemed to have bad luck. In 1983, the car had Pirelli tyres, but they proved troublesome due to the aerodynamic load put on them, so later in the season they tried Dunlop tyres. The problem was the LC2 had been designed around the radial Pirelli tyres and the Dunlops were cross ply tyres. This restricted their competitiveness. In 1984 and 85, they had lots of reliability issues, but were finally using Michelin radials and the car performed really well. In 85, the would have won at Monza, but were in the pits for refuelling when a storm brought trees down and stopped the race! They did have a couple of wins including at Spa in 85, which sadly was the one with the fatal crash of Stefan Bellof. In 86, the LC2s were really competitive again, but Lancia was also struggling with taming the S4 Group B rally car and sadly they had lost test driver Giacomo Maggi, who was developing the LC2 in a pre season crash. A single car was entered and the last race for the factory team was at Silverstone, where the car kept the Porsches and Jaguars behind until another problem intervened. The car was repaired and then did the fastest race lap, before Lance withdrew from Group C altogether. There was talk of Rondeau taking over the LC2s, but this came to nothing when Jean Rondeau was killed on a rail crossing. The result of all this was a fabulous looking car that was always fast (lots of poles and fastest laps), but it just didn't win enough! I was really pleased to see them push the Porsches and keep them honest!

Agree with Stuart, looking good. To me it's always satisfying masking up your own work & those Metal Colors look pretty good. What do you think of them?

Indeed there was no way to escape this…

Hi And they still get P6974 wrong it was not angle at the time of dieppe in 1942 it was manston for op Starkey sep '43 cheers jerry