Gary West

Your doing tht kit proud John - lovey craftsmanship there.

Well for the Meteor I can

Hndsome cockpit Jens. Like your detail work

I am happy to be corrected, but I dont think thats true - Harriers were lost on the Atlantic Conveyer when she was hit with an Exocet (Thanks France :w***: ) and a couple were lost in accidents/bad weather. I'd love to know more aout Harrier losses in 82 though.

I use needles where I can but where the Pitot is fairly complicated, I tend to add a RBF sleeve to cover the needle up - what remains exposed at least looks natural metal.

Sean - You can buy these from arty shops or alternatively Scale Aircraft Models advertise a version in most months editions - that is where I got mine from. What ever you get make sure its flexible so you can wrap it around curves etc. Re panel lines - apart from Jens suggestion. you can also use good old needles - I clamp one in a modelling knife handle and re scribe that way...dont forget your Dymo tape too! Because Dymo tape is self adhesive, you just stick it to the surface of your kit and the raised profile of the tape gives you a nice steady guide to scribe against. Good hunting

I think the Rafale went into operational use around the same time as the Typhoon - certainly not years earlier and the development timescales were roughly the same (France was considered to join the Eurofighter programme but as usual.....) Didn't know if you meant the Typhoon or the T1 itself - I suppose at the end of the day any fighter can only really be measured on it's performance in a war or exercise scenario, and it's probably a bit early for that. Just nice to see the RAF at last has a fighter that offer great agility as well as speed and power. I agree - although there is still tension in the world, we no longer have the Cold war threat pushing for "in service" asap dates.

Meaning????????

No pics to show, but I notice 3 squadron are now the proud owners of 2 T1 aircraft. Love those 2 seaters

That Tamiya tape is wonderful stuff Nice Navy brick Mike

Like Bill, I too am after the JP5. I got the JP3 a couple of months ago, also the T7 conversion - both off Ebay. Any JP5's going spare............

Not too difficult Sean - I have SAM's flexi metal rule thingy which has lotes of templates for squares and circles. I'm not there yet, but I'll use that with a needle to scribe them. Sorry Bill - for every one I rework I easliy buy 20 new ones Not really sure what you mean Mike, but hazarding a guess I'd say no thanks

Having enjoyed finishing my reclaimed Lightning recently, I just started on another old reclaim. I built this 16 years ago as an FGR2 of 1435 (Flaklands) Flt originally but set about stripping it down a couple of weeks ago. Unlike my Lightning, stripping the paint of this one was hard work and almost every panel line has had to be rescribed, not to mention the rivet heads. Again quite limited to what I could do in the pit, because it's all assembled. Started with the front coming and built a HUD unit (which stil needs to be finished) and added some cabelling. Then added cabeling behind the Navs seat and added some bits and pieces inside too (none of this gets seen when the seats are in ) Lastly, I built up the Navs avionics set up as I noticed from reference images that the middle canopy section is fully occupied, and mine wasn't. A few pics.......

"FOXTROT MIKE" - I gotta show her in doors this - I'll never get moaned at again. Your my hero Darius Seriously though, a fantastic variation of subjects and splendidly presented. Thanks

You've obviously not seen the Lynx affect adverts

Missed this somehow - cor I do like this. Going that extra mile always makes such a difference - top job

I demand to see your models in situ at home Darius - gotta see where you store all this stuff.

check this out - gives you a general taste although this is not an RAF version. Tucano on ARC

or....David Coulthard now that his driving careers has crashed in flames

I couldn't wait and started mine already

I agree on the A-10 but I love the T10's. Jaguar T2/4 has to be my fav though

I'd be interested to hear others opinons on this subject. I can't think of many instances where I believe the single seater is more attarctive than the 2 seater. Is it just my thing? Gary

Guys - I need your advise and help. I am ok with exterior washes but when it comes to cockpits, I am a bit hit or miss. Would someone/anyone please do a bit on this topic please? Thanks

Ian - was you base side? If not, where were you positioned to get those shots. Great selection btw

If it does, we'd allow you the pleasure of sying "pro built" not like most of the poo-poo on there that is supposedly "pro built".