Jessica

They may not be the exact shades, but if they look good to you, then that's all that matters Be careful about the orange stripes. They tried their hardest to roll up into unusable little balls when I was doing mine. Use lots of water to help float them into position.

Based on the photos above, the brown needs to be a bit more reddish.

And they all seem to have the late-style large intake under the cowl.

Okay, there's documentary evidence for my imaginary pairing. Now I'm wondering whether the RAAF ever had a team similar to the Goldilocks...

I've only found one profile of an overall yellow Wirraway; I'm kind of interested in parking one next to my yellow Harvard for giggles. Did you come across any confirmation for overall yellow in your researching?

Most of the ones I listed will have window decals (I would actually be very surprised if any actually didn't, apart from the freighters). Take a look at the links I gave you, and see which option strikes your fancy, then either purchase it directly from the supplier, or find it on the Hannants site.

It depends which airline you're interested in doing. You can get sheets from 26 Decals, F-dcal, Draw Decal, Flying Colors,and Nazca Decals for starters.

That's got to be the most colourful B-17 I've ever seen!

Zvezda's decals are a bit difficult to use; they're quite thin and prone to rolling up into little balls rather than meekly floating into position, so if you don't like aftermarket decals perhaps a Zvezda kit isn't for you at this stage of your model building career.. it's an older ancient model, but look at Revell's recently re-released 727. The decals are brand new and very good, and the model itself looks good when you've finished it. It's also a good one to practise your basic skills like refining the fit and sanding off all the unnecessary rivets it's covered with

A wee little sliver of bare metal foil will sort out that collector ring for you.

I'm only repeating what the pilots told me! I mean, I don't really have any experience with it...

Well, it's true that when last we saw Fritag pre-ski you were indeed sticking rivets all over the outside of your Sea Thing, and that now he's returned you're again sticking rivets all over the outside of your Sea Thing, you seem to have forgotten that little bit in the middle where you essentially nearly finished the building of it. But it's okay, were here to remind you about little things like that.

But since it's so much easier to extend a Hasegawa 170 there's really no point in contemplating converting the Revell.

The Air Canada website shows them in the new scheme, but that's just marketing materials. I guess it remains to be seen whether they'll be scheduled for repaints, or just retired.

Oh? I thought it was because you're a Supertramp fan. https://lastfm-img2.akamaized.net/i/u/ar0/42d32d57b3654130c1c281a0fc9f3e32

Anything's possible with enough work, scrap plastic and putty. I could convert a Sopwith Camel into a DC-10-30 eventually You'd need to shorten the fuselage, remove the winglets, round off the tailcone and replace the horizontal stabilisers at the very minimum. There was an article in FSM years ago on doing the opposite conversion to a DC-10, and those were the major points. Airliner Cafe's Ultimate DC-10 guide will help you.

That's a very well done model. Is that camouflage special? It's the first time I've seen that sandy tan on a Soviet aircraft. It makes the model really stand out amongst all the drab green and black

1/72 B-17G - Revell or Airfix? The newest Airfix beats out the Revell kit. 1/72 B-24J - Available kits? The Academy kits are best, but I don't know how available they are. There's one on Oldmodelkits.com for not a bad price. 1/72 B-29 - How is the Academy kit? It's the only one to get. The ancient Airfix kit is a poor second. 1/72 Lancaster - Revell or Airfix? Airfix. The Revell is nice and easy to build, but they stuffed up the dihedral on the outer wing panels for some strange reason.

Following that youtube link brought me to this one. There's a really great shot of the shape of the wing planform about halfway through.

That's the point I was making No airline paints the entire fleet at once, so each individual aircraft weathers differently, even if they're all weathering at the same rate (which is not something which can absolutely be guaranteed). Line up all of Air Canada's fleet on the ramp at Pearson and not one of them will look exactly the same as any of the others. This means that we modellers can tell the Colour Police to take a long walk off a short jetty. Use the colour which looks right to you; you're the only judge who counts.

I would want one, but that's because I'm weird like that. The more obscure the airplane, the more I want a model of it.

Do you mean the Howard 500? It's an almost total rebuild which only superficially resembles a Lodestar. The entire fuselage was newly manufactured, and is subtly different in shape, especially around the nose and cockpit. You'll need DC-6 engines and nacelles, DC-7 propellers, new fuselage and a great deal of putty and courage

This one certainly is radar equipped. So is this one. I think that most DC-6s were fitted with radar either at the factory, or retrofitted. There weren't many which didn't have it.

Now that's interesting! Do you have an F-107 to sit beside it?

The famous "Roman nose"? Surely that's more C-130A than P.108?