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Thank you again Paul, my original query came because both ESCI and Revell would have the undersurface on Berthold's D.VII as lozenge whereas Eduard show grey green and Roden steel grey which I think is their go-to for Fokker turquoise. Clive.

Thsnks Paul, Am I to take any profiles which show a lozenge underside as in error? Clive

Does that aerofoil shaped thing between the wheels of Fokker aircraft have an official name? Anyway, I've always wondered what colour the upper surface of this "thing" would be. Most profiles show an underside view, mainly blue or lozenge coloured, but what about the top side? Specifically I was wondering about DR.1's with Fokker "streak" colours and D.VII's with lozenge flying surfaces. I appreciate that with the jazzy colours sported by many there may have been repainting but as a general rule of thumb what is the factory fresh colour for both schemes and secondly, would this area have been repainted when individual pilots had their favoured colours applied elsewhere. Hope this makes sense and many thanks, Clive.

I have the MPM kit in my stash and from what I recall, the Mk.V/Bisley also has revised undercarriage in the form of full doors rather than the semi-retracted earlier models of Blenheim. This may help: https://www.scalemates.com/products/img/1/8/9/112189-78-instructions.pdf Clive

I remember building one of these when I was a wee nipper back in the 60's. It was liberally used flying low-level parallel to a Hornby train track strafing the rolling stock with its turret guns whilst the Airfix 8th Army sabotaged the track! Talk about historical accuracy - NOT! Clive

Sorry my mistake, I thought you meant a Fujimi model with HAS.1 decals.

That I don't know, I was only offering a suggestion to the poster who said he might have difficulty finding a long oop Fujimi kit.

Italeri more recently (2019) released the Fujimi kit including markings for an HAS.1 which might be easier to find.

Welcome from a fellow Notts modeller. The only thing that I remember flying over us was the Argosy's out of EMA and the Chipmunks out of RAF Newton, although in later years we've had a few interesting subjects in transit to somewhere. Clive

Now that's an interesting detail that I hadn't heard about.

That's fantastic thanks.

That's great, I'll take a look later.

I've been buying kits for donkey's years and have acquired a number of Tornados from the following: Airfix, Italeri, ESCI, Monogram, Hasegawa, Revell (all IDS/ECM/GR.1) plus Airfix and Revell F.3's. My intention is to build them all for comparison purposes, not commentating on accuracy, but I have noticed that the earlier kits from Airfix, Italeri and ESCI all have dual control cockpits. As I intend to build all OOTB, us there any way to identify by serial number, which RAF aircraft were twin stickers? I understand that a total of 17 were built for all 3 participating nations.

Weird it works for me even if I click on my own link. It's strange to hear Bing singing about B-24's!

This is on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pxXSZ4EHvE