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  1. 71chally
    Excellent news.
  2. 71chally
    I'm not really into the whole F-35 thing, but a decent C I might just go for.
  3. 71chally
    Got plenty of the Revell/Italeri S55 H-19s in the stash, but great to see it back, even more so as a Royal Navy HAS.22.
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    Could it be a 'skeleton' structure to be fitted within an existing kit? Would seem unlikely due to scale thicknesses etc.
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    What a fantastic picture set, thanks for posting.
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    Looking again, that forward dark patch could actually be an extra window on the JASDF examples. This is a good clear picture of a standard R4D-6 (if there is such a thing!), but the picture below it shows JASDF RD4-6Q 2023 preserved at Kanoya, and that does appear to be an extra window to me, all be it painted over. Douglas R4D-6 Skytrain ‘N231GB’ “Round Trip” by Alan Wilson, on Flickr @Alan wilson / Flickr @Ian Woodcock Airport Data https://www.ctaeropics.com/Asia/Japan/Japanese-Preserved-Aircraft/i-5q68hgB/A
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    In the photos shown those underwing areas are definitely painted black, in fact in the picture of 9022 you can see where the exhaust has 'bleached' the black area and made it appear lighter in the middle of it. The small slit window is for the navigator position, and there is one on the other side in the radio operator & equipment area. It would probably have a blind to make it completely dark for the working environment. The window is the upper one, in line just above the main cabin windows. I think the two things we see further forward and lower down are possibly a vent and an inscription of some sort?
  8. 71chally
    A year and a half seems a long time between production of initial sprues and release, hopefully we will see it soon!
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    One of the 1:48 Tigercat kits came with an oil drum, for that very reason! Somewhere I have picture of a Liberator at St Mawgan, sat neatly on its ar tail.
  10. 71chally
    XW537 was G of XV Sqn, seen with LAG undersides in a 1977 picture, and in wraparound camo in a 1978 picture.
  11. 71chally
    I think I've seen a picture of XW537 in those markings annotated 1978. It was written of in 1981.
  12. 71chally
    Is that date correct? I would think that was more likely early 1980s. I think the wraparound scheme in general was introduced in the 1975/76 period, and widespread by the late 1970s. Edit, in response to @amos brierley post.
  13. 71chally
    Thank you Ray. Follow up question, does the new RAF boxing have both the bulged and flat bomb door in the kit?
  14. 71chally
    Definitely, will it cover the XW trio (or even the whole PE Buccaneer fleet!) including the green and yellow one, XW988?
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    So the stand will only need to be a couple of mm tall!
  16. 71chally
    Looking at the video (at 02:55 and 14:03) of the new Chinock here, have Airfix catered for the later RAF variants aswel? Or can those large filter be fitted to the earlier/any variants?
  17. 71chally
    Not sure if it helps the discussion but the new P-51D starter kit appears in the video here, from, 15:35 Looks quite nice to my eyes, as does the starter BF109F kit.
  18. 71chally
    Generator for the electrical items such as W/T and lights. Quite common on 1920s/ 30s aircraft and even into the 1950s in aircraft without engine driven generators. To me this release is sooo Airfix, kind of compliments their classic little 1:72 version.
  19. 71chally
    Great to see it back, but at the same time I just hope this doesn't put off Mikromir/AMP from releasing their planned Belvedere kit.
  20. 71chally
    That's something I hope for, if this does well for Airfix a range of the more popular inter-war biplanes from them would be superb.
  21. 71chally
    Though I have a couple in the stash, great to see this back. Gives hope of maybe seeing the Nimrod back one day. https://uk.airfix.com/products/supermarine-swift-fr5-a04003
  22. 71chally
    Very nice, this will be superb if executed to their latest standards.
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    It's not the masking I'm worried about, I've built an original and a re-release and both had an asymmetric molding defect with the nose glazing part. Talking to others, they've experienced it aswel so assumed (and could be wrong) it was from the original mold. With some of the classics reissues they've had a make over of the clear parts so wondered if this might have had the same.
  24. 71chally
    This appears to be available now, does anyone here have it and can confirm if the cockpit glazing has been reworked or not?
  25. 71chally
    Just for avoidance of doubt, they are the pictures I took of XA466 at the FAAM. There's more and I will try and dig them out.
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