KeithBurrage

Great review of a kit that is well up to Peter's usual standard. Please note, if building the full hull version all Tribals were fitted with a five bladed screw!

Wood decal wrapped frames! Gadzooks erraticus! Have you been certified or are you still working towards it? Seriously mate I can see from your pix this little baby is goin' to be something else. Keep it coming.

Raptor, I've just remembered the word I was trying to think of. Weird man, truly weird!

definitely looks like a moulding whoopsie doesn't it? I got mine about a month ago and the canopy was/is fine so maybe it is just an early batch that has the problem.

I hope it's not too late to throw in my tenpennorth? Although I generally use an airbrush, I have found that Mr Metal Color brushes really well. It's thin enough to spray straight from the bottle. This means it brushes really well. Good coverage and no brush marks with the added bonus of being buffable up to a great shine as well, if that's what you want. Good range of colours as well!

Great review Paul, I have one under construction and I agree with everything you say. No comparison with the old F1 that I built 50 years ago! It's going together without any problems at all. I have used a resin seat as although the kit seat is quite acceptable it lacks any real detail (no belts etc.) I can't really see what else might be achieved with aftermarket goodies. It's excellent straight out of the box!

I too remember the old tooling, 50 years ago? I had to get the new tooling if only for old times sake. I'm also running out of places to display 1:48 aircraft. I'm not disappointed it's a lovely kit straight out of the box and is going together very well. the only thing I have changed is the seat. The kit seat is a bit basic although adequate (outstanding compared to the old one piece moulding) I'm sure adding some belts would look fine but I had a resin seat in the spares box which has saved me the bother. If you intend to display the canopy in the open position you will need to do something as the included pilot figure is a bit rubbish sitting there in his what appears to be leather helmet and goggles!!

Vickers Viking - Hunting Clan Douglas DC3 - East African Airways Vickers Viscount 800 - Airwork Services De Havilland Comet 4C - East African Airways De Havilland Chipmunk - Crab Air English Electric Canberra PR9 - Crab Air Slingsby Sedbergh - ATC Kirby Cadet - ATC Cessna 182 Boeing 737 - Britannia Airways/Quantas Boeing 747 - BA/Quantas Boeing 757 - Quantas Airbus A320- BA/Lufthansa I think that's all of them!

Scram! by Harry Benson is a cracking read too. Got some interesting photos as well.

Super job mate. I can almost smell the boiled cabbage!

Looks amazing, just how I remember her. Minus the rust! well done that man.

Very nice job of this iconic warship, 'Jackie' Fisher would have been proud of you!

Superb job Andrew, very impressive finish and weathering. The Buffer on the Yarmouth must have been having a baby! All that rust and not a chance of sending anyone over the side to paint it!

Beautiful build and outstanding paint job on what is a hideous looking tub! Naval architects seem to have lost the plot whilst playing the stealth card. looks like a grey Ro-Ro ferry with a popgun on it! Look at the previous Daring class destroyers to see what a warship should look like, sleek aggressive and intimidating! I know, I'm an old git living in the past, rant over. Keep up the good work

Picked one of these up at Modelzone last week. Well what a disappointment! I've been modelling for damn near 55 years and Airfix still can't get it right! Invisible turbine front is invisible, huge panel lines clearly visible through the magnifier, nose wheel bulge in the floor is all wrong. I spent hours shaking it and shouting at it but to no avail. It flatly refused to build and paint itself into a perfect replica exact in every detail. It was with a sigh of resignation that I accepted that I was going to have to employ the modelling skills gathered from many years of passion for my hobby. Well to cut a not very long story short, a few sessions at the bench, it's finished and I have to admit it looks like just like a T11! Who'd have thought? Chill guys. It's just a model and it's just a hobby. Nobody died!

Always been a fan since my time in the Air Cadets at Wattisham in the '60s (111 and 56 Squadrons in those days). I built an Airfix 1/72 kit many decades ago and have seriously considered the 1/48 Kit since returning to the hobby a couple of years ago, I get the impression from some of the posts that it is a very tidy kit. What marking options come in the box? Anyway, lovely job on a great scheme. Happy New Year to you all.

Darius, the Spitfires look great as stand alone models but the hangar environment raises them to another level. absolutely superb! I trust you are going to 'tattyfy' the hanger? You could eat your dinner off that floor!

Can I hijack the thread a teensy bit and ask for guidance on the correct shades of grey and red for the RN rescue version? the kit instructions say RAF blue grey?? and gloss red. A little more precision would really help

Have you seen the proposed price? I may have to give this one a miss and order the cheaper version from Westland!!

You weren't by any chance doing SSAB training were you?

Propulsion Manager? Is that a posh name for Chief Stoker?

Oh boy! this brings back a few memories. I served on the old tub in 1968/9 when she was day running out of Rosyth whilst attached to HMS Cochrane as the Engine Room Artificers training ship. Trust me, you don't want to be running up and down the Firth of Forth in winter! All the artillery and directors had been removed by then but she could still motor, about 36 knots with a following wind. I'd like this on my mantelpiece but at that scale I'd need a telescope to see it!! Really well done.

Popped into the local model shop on Saturday to pick up some liquid cement and came out with one of these under my arm! funny how that happens isn't it?? Have to agree with Mike on this one. It looks very nice out of the box and as has been pointed out, if you remember that it's a 1/48th replica and not the real thing. It won't disgrace anybody's display shelf.

It was the Airfix series one Supermarine S6B. I seem to recall the mouldings were silver plastic. no cockpit, just the pilots head moulded onto the fuse behind the windscreen. I wasn't allowed to paint it 'cos mum said I would get paint everywhere. 56 years later, I still do!

I stopped off at Gan whilst serving in HMS Tartar (Type 81 Frigate) early in 1971. there was an oil tanker permanently moored in the lagoon which was used by the Navy as a refuelling stop. we were on our way from Singapore to our second stint of Beira patrol on the way home but we had to anchor in the lagoon for a few days whilst a spare gearbox part was flown out to us. Oh the hardship! scuba diving in the lagoon! drinking the RAF marine section bar dry, I don't know how we coped. You had to watch out for the old fruit-bats though, they would crap on you from a great height as a form of defense. as well as smelling distinctly unpleasant it was caustic and could cause quite nasty burns. Main air traffic was Maritime patrol Shacks and the odd VC10 passing through. Happy days.