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Nice one Tony. That's a great job on the canopy. So shiny and crisp edges. cheers Grant

Those night shots are great. Excellent camera work Kyrre. cheers Grant

A 1/72 model with 'presence'. That is a wonderful finish Phil and a great angle for the photo. cheers Grant

Sweet Andy. Great photos of a very nice model. cheers Grant

Aren't they a picture. The red and white one looks great. Another must do that is not even in the stash! cheers Grant

How did I miss this yesterday!? Another lovely paint job Dave. That canopy cracked open is a nice touch. A NAVAL GR7 though - on an RAF base - what is the world coming too? cheers Grant

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Sweeet! Now THAT would have been a cool Navy. cheers Grant

That's a great looking paper model and put together very well. I have got a half finished Wyvern at work, plus a few helicopters. No painting or decaling required!! Clever stuff designing it aswell. cheers Grant

Best of luck Tim. Do the Meteors now outnumber the Lightnings in this GB ? cheers Grant

That's a 1/72 scale cockpit?! WoW Me needs to practice - LOTS! cheers Grant

Hello Tony! Welcome aboard. It's a treat to see your helos again. Good luck with the contest. cheers Grant

Good luck with the salt. I found that very difficult to control, and kept blowing bits off with the airbrush! I prefer to chip off afterwards. As for tips, I like using my fine tip. Although, so far, my ALCLAD bits have been fairly small. Though it seems I am about to attempt my first ALCLAD airframe. Cheers Grant

That's very interesting guys. I was just re-reading my sources and I had the thought that it was painted silver/aluminium rather than a BMF. Thanks for confirming it guys. That will save a lot of effort. Cheers Gary. The filling was straight forward in the end. It's begining to look the part now. Grant

OK, ready for some paint. The wing in front has 3 colours of ALCLAD and both sides of some foil. Next to the foil the ALCLAD doesn't look metalic at all! I am sure I could make a perfectly repectable 'metal' finish model with lots of differently coloured panels, but the foil looks real neat - lots of work - but very neat. I guess I'll get on with the bottom markings while I think about it. cheers Grant

Nice job with the ALCLAD Leigh. It is a nice qick way of getting a pretty good metal finish. Last night I managed to mask a coat of ALCLAD after about 15 mins and had no problems. Still, like you, where demarcation of panels is required I would want a bullet proof coat and leave it until the next day before masking. I was just playing last night looking at different colours - and FOIL cheers Grant

Thanks for that full description of painting the pit. So many layers - but it obviously does the trick. I liked the idea of spraying from an angle to leave a 'shadow', neat. cheers Grant

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Thanks Cop! Capitals indeed, Doh! 213 Sqdn - Thanks Phreak.

DoH! The Meteor pics came up fine, but I just can't get the Canberra one to appear at all. Mind you it is 22:50. Maybe a mod. could point out my silly mistake, cos I sure can't spot it. cheers (and good night!) Grant

Here is a very dark scheme Gary. Taken in Aden in 1963. Cool fin flash. Can't say I have any more info though. Still waiting for my Dad to provide captions! cheers Grant

The plan is to use ALCLAD, resulting in an all black a/c ( ) before the metal and yellow goes on. So far the filling and rubbing down has gone OK The top deck sides just needed rubing down to get rid of a small lip. Left enough of a line so that I could re-scribe, as the split is along a panel line. Next I put some plastic into the rear slot, but that wasn't quite enough so I sliced bits from the sprue and mixed 'em with glue and slapped it on. Looks horrible doesn't it? Then much nail filing and wet'n'dry later I had a smooth, re-scribed fuselage. I have since put a coat of Halfords grey on it and, amazingly for me, didn't have to go back and tidy up anything. Slowly getting the hang of this modelling lark! Now to sort out the intake and exhaust fit, before I get to those awful top surface wing/fuselage joins. cheers Grant

I dunno, just when I start a kit, some ace modeller puts up a stunning rendition. Love the exhausts Drewe. cheers Grant

Ah! Like mixing up some sprue shavings in glue and then filling the seems with the stuff. Giving a more consistent material to rub down and BMF over. Brilliant! I hadn't even considered that. Definitely worth a try. cheers Grant

Thanks Gary. After finshing a High Planes Beaufort recently, I am hopeful that the filling will go OK, although it will be a BMF over the putty . cheers Grant