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...ha ha, very true!

Yess, this is the boxing I'm after! Love the beaver in the final black and dark green AAC scheme. Great alternative schemes aswel.

oh absolutely they do, but let's say that 40% of people making the first Buccaneer kit want to improve it, and only 5% of people making the new kit want to, then the market might be less inclined to produce upgrades for that kit.

...is it not a case of the old kit needed aftermarket and new one doesn't?

Blue Shadow was fitted to both sides of a small number of B.6(Mod) that mainly served with 51 Sqn, so I'm hoping Mikromir will get around to this version one day. I agree with you, I really like this kit and glad that S&M and Mikromir/AMP have considered the various parts for the different variants.

Very nice build, I hope you don't mind me saying though the port nose wheel should be painted red and the starboard green. They were colour coded as the port wheel contained a clutch system.

Some of the Royal Navy instructional films are good for deck detail, unfortunately hard to find for the era that you are modelling Soloman but you might be able get some details from these filmed across the various RN carriers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYvF9P5PZSk

Hmmm, stb'd inboard wing and fairing?

I would be all over that!

Why would you even join in the thread just to say that, just ignore it if it's not your idea of fun.

They didn't feature the 'cut here' dashes around the entrance doors, they were completely removable in an emergency anyway. Nice set of decal markings for this release. There were so many nice one off markings for various Pembrokes used on Comms Flts etc. Be interesting to see if they follow up with a Sea Prince T.1 / C.2 boxing this time, it would nicely compliment Valoms' C.1 kit . From a modelling perspective it just requires different mainwheels from the Pembroke, the Sea Prince C.2 is otherwise similar, the T.1 is similar but very early in its carrier it featured a unique bluff nose cone, quickly gaining a thimble type ASV radome before settling on the 'Prince 6 / Pembroke' style nose cone. The T.1 also featured the twin 'bomb bays' and the cooling air intakes on the port stb' fuselage. Percival Sea Prince T.1 WP321 by James Thomas, on Flickr Sea Prince C.1 WF137, T.1 WF118 & Pembroke C.1 XK885 27 Sep 13 by James Thomas, on Flickr

One gets used to seeing fantastic images of carrierborne aviation, but that is nothing short of incredible!

Yes, but the point of these latest posts was to see if the more recent boxings had improved in regard to molding and surface detail quality, sounds like they haven't.

English Electric Lightning maybe?

Thank you Duncan, I should've guessed that it wasn't straightforward!