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Serves you right for using Ex Luftwaffe Baedeker maps of the U.K. And staying in a Caravan Crocheted by Her ladyship. Cut price Holidays indeed! (Boyo).

That's a nice looking lil Zero.

She's beautiful

There is an article in a journal where her mechanic describes painting the 02 on the fuselage of her Yak. This was the reference for a model in our club Aviatrix display in 2012. PM me your email and I will see if I can find the article.

The never-ending saga... I'm in one of these moments. No, not the murdery one, but wondering how does this and this... ...get me 'dis..? Yes, that roundish lump within the liquid is the paint. That's an acrylic and that is an acrylic, and so the two acrylics should be in acrylical bliss, instead they'd gone to the paint version of divorce court. Their child (me) is not happy... Confused in North East USA... Thom EDIT I just tried mixing a bit with Tamiya X20 and had the same result.

I dunno - if you stand far enough back and squint ...

“Land” might be a bit too optimistic a term for what will happen at the bottom of the slope! 😄 That said, I remember seeing a HUD video from an F-16 that managed to make a dead stick landing on an uncontrolled civilian airfield, dodging a Beechcraft Bonanza on final in the process. It took place in the mid-80s. Ben

Alistair, Lovely build and finish and a pleasure to follow along. I shall bank the use of yellow to lighten OD, and make no comment whatsoever on your use of Starship Filth, other than to say I may have seen that movie on VHS many years ago, Cheers, Roger

Looks fantastic with the decals applied and the great paintwork. Cracking job Chris

Bob, so great to see this—Have Gun, Will Travel” is one of my fav Thuds—looking forward to how this turns out—already spectacular! Best, Erwin

Looking rather splendid Alistair, cracking job on this little beauty. Just starting one myself too a Mk.V. Chris

The Macchi MC200bis equipped with a Piaggio PXIX engine like the Reggiane Re2002 had the wing,landing gear and tail cone of the MC202. Saluti Giampiero

Hello all, I have a question about an obscure topic: RAAF Squadron Code letters on their B-25J’s. Does anyone know the approximate size of the squadron codes? My estimate is about 36 inches. Am I in the right ballpark? Thanks in advance, and here is a sample of the plane with a good representation of the squadrons code on a decal sheet. https://www.super-hobby.com/products/B-25J-Mitchell-in-RAAF-service.html

Fantastic build! I do love the Grumman Avenger and it’s enviable that NZ utilised them in wartime (whereas the RAAF did not). Very nice job! 👏👏👏

Very nice work! Your subtle staining and paint wear are great finishing touches. 👏👏👍👍

Can’t believe I missed this one! Sorry! 😯 What an awesome model! I’ve been afraid to start on my kit until I really feel my head is in the right place. This build is utterly stunning and will serve as a benchmark to strive for when I decide to start. 👏👏👏👏👏

Hej Tomas, https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196275/martin-b-26g-marauder/ If you do a Google for the Marauder Pilots Notes/Flight Manual AN 01 35EB1 it might be available on-line, there's some useful stuff in there. Andrew

Hi! First of all thanks for all the reactions you gave me. I was scribing panel lines and rivet rows onto the Revell vertical fin. I choose this because I found easier than filling the wrong trenches. of the Italeri. Its might be not perfect, but I think that'll do it. The next one is the case of the wings. On the underside I had some fitting problems that needed a thin sheet of plastic. Also I need to add a few oval inspection holes thats for sure and I need to double check the wingtips, there is something fishy. Anyway I thinking about the droptanks. Withthose it looks more manacing I think, but I dont remember to see them on any photos from the Desert Storm. What do you think?

Very nice finish.

Absolutely smashing!

Love Karaya kits: have made a few. Good job!

May I ask what you mean by landed on the wrong carrier? Intrigued.

After 3 evenings, at last I finished to set the decals It rest some stencils but the "big job" is done. Althought some little deffects, I pleased with the result A zoom on the nose deffect. But I hesitate to paint on the decals And a little view with my another F-15J with the "Fuji Mount"

Hi modeller friends, Currently onto my third (3rd) MiniArt jug, I’m considering the P-47D-30 of 397th FS/ 368th FG, flown by 1st Lt Clifford Price in 1945. According to my research in the web, the plane should look like this: well in accordance with the Superscale/Microscaledecals Then I found a rather colourful profile by noted artist Thierry Dekker Later on I found these two photos on the 368th Fighter Group site: Interestingly the fuselage code shows what appears to me like an X instead of the Bar K on the other versions although with the same serial. The placement and lay out of the nose art are in accordance with the Dekker profile albeit a bit tamer in my vision than the artist’s joyous version. Like a great man on this site said: don’t trust a profile without a photo. 😜 What do you jug experts think? Thank you for your comments, Cheers, Quang

So many schemes to choose from! There are actually 14, not 10. The kit allows you to build one option from schemes A-G (F1 and F2) and one from schemes H-N (F4 and F4/Trop). For the F2 I'm torn between these two schemes: There seems to be a small instructions error regarding the F2 options. The profiles which show the thicker armored glass panel (part h2) on the front of the canopy don't match the ones which the instructions tell you to use it for. I'll have to do a bit more research into that. I've not decided which F4 scheme I want to do yet, though I am leaning more towards a trop in RLM79.