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  1. Thanks, I've sent them an email just over a week ago and haven't heard back yet, which is a bit unusual, because I always got reply within a couple of days. I suppose, busy times and I am, probably getting bit impatient lately...
  2. I have a couple of questions to put out there: 1st: Black Lion Decals, are they still operating? I am looking to get some one-off decals printed, I've been using them couple of times before, no hassle, great result, but it looks like that there is breakdown in communication somewhere on the line this time, so wondering what's the story. 2nd: Just in case that the above question brings negative answer, does anyone knows who will be able to print some 'Alps' decals, including white? I have A4 sheet in .cdr X5 file ready to go and I am under a bit of pressure on it. Irish Nats just around the corner and nothing done Thanks PS: Not really sure if this is the right box for this, but haven't found anything suitable, so there... Admins, feel free to move
  3. Thanks guys, appreciated... especially when these are a few years old, somehow, have no time to do much in the modelling lately. I know about 2 RAF Brisfits in mad colours flying around Foynes in 1921-22. The one I was trying to make model of and one 'sunburst' machine. Missing the 3rd one.
  4. I'd better throw in some more old ones, before this thread dies I brought this one with me from our honeymoon in Canada. I got it in Vancouver on the way to the airport and it is the Minicraft kit: Not accurate at all and real pain in the hole to build. Classic Airframes Battle TT.1: Black Planet's Marchetti was the 1st full resin kit of an aircraft I have ever built. Easy and enjoyable with only a few bits added here and there. The biggest challenge was to scratchbuilt underwing pylons and pods with minimal reference: ..another veteran, this was easy kit to build. In fact it was so simple - exactly as the real thing - that I just had to cut it up. When taking it out from the display cabinet, I have noticed a slight deterioration of the Alclad, wonder what went wrong or how long before respray:
  5. All Irish Seafires had camera windows on port and starboard sides, location as per photos supplied by Troy. Those could be 'plugged' by cover, when not in use, so they may not be seen on all of the existing photos...
  6. ...as you can see... nothing much. I am all over the place for the most of this year and trying to finish some of even older projects as well. But, well, got cut into the wings too. Once the filler is sanded to acceptable level, it should be grand. See yis next year
  7. When a member of our club put up list of his, no longer wanted, kits for sale and when I saw two 1/48 Learjets 35/36 for more than reasonable price, I had an idea... Learjet 45 used by the Irish Air Corps is not available in a kit form in 1/48 scale and there are three options if you want to have it: - Wait - Scratch build it - Convert it from something I thought that it would be cool to have one of the civvies between my camouflaged stock and I didn’t want to wait, I wouldn’t be too confident in aircraft scratch building and those two kits from Hasegawa and Testors were so tempting. This build will be a long run and I will not be too fussy about a milimeter missing here or two there or some wrong curve here, I don’t even know if I will finish it at all, but I thought that I’ll give it a go and as long as the final model will look like Learjet 45, that’ll do me. Armed with basic drawings and overall dimensions, I have scaled these to 1/48, printed out and started chopping the fuselage. First 3 parts, then 6, then 8 and 2 parts taken from Testors kit and some extra bits: Bellow is the original Hasegawa part - already cut First half from the inside, with reinforcements and remedied mistakes. Second half should be much cleaner, now when I know...
  8. Cheers guys, doing my bit to promote Irish aviation They're on since that photo was taken. As I've said, these are Quickboost ones for Italeri kit - cut off, paint up, glue on - and they were not available at the time of completion. As for the RAF Brisfit, I now know that the splinter scheme should not be present on the upper wing, but, as usual, you always find out after the paint is done.
  9. Some recently built birds from my kitchen table, built as a part of IPMS Ireland group build commemorating 90th anniversary of Irish Air Corps. Appologies for the quality of the photos and those watermarks, it's saved that way Bristol F2B, Roden, straight from te box, only one photograph exists and it was taken on Fermoy airfield around 1921: Another Roden Bristol has some Part photoetched parts thrown in. This is my interpretation of aircraft operating from Limerick 90 years ago: And 2 Hasegawa Hurricanes, box builds with Quickboost exhausts, gun barrels on MkIIc and seatbelts from spare box:
  10. I wouldn't go on the surviving part with spectrometer at all I was trying to say that, back in late 40's, visually mixing paint from supplied sample of uncertain origin was not straightforward matter. In other words - and in my opinion only - that sample supplied by the Irish Air Corps back then would be taken and compared to available BS charts and the closest match would be confronted with available material on the shelf. Back then... That's all. That would be theory in the case of Seafires. I don't know what are the specs in the case of TR9s, but there could be a clause that these will be painted as per Seafire standard? Anyway, I am saying for the last 10 years that Interior Green /Aircraft Grey Green/ has been originally used in both cases.
  11. If we are talking about Tr9s than the interior was painted in Black, so the difference betwen Grey/Green exterior and Black interior would be quite markant, I think... And let's not forget that same colour looks differently in matt or gloss finish. As for the 'specially developed shade of paint', I think, that that would be totally uneconomical for such a tiny order of 12 airframes. Without spectro meter - colour scanner - it would take a couple of days to figure out what is in the mix to match the supplied sample, then test it on larger scale, find production capacity for small quantity of this one-off paint and so on. Furthermore, I can imagine that there were 100s of gallons of wartime paints on the stores, mixed and paid for. From purely economical perspective, I'd grab the closest shade of ready made paint and splashed it on. Anyway... sorry for pulling old thread
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