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Well done Elger. I am glad to see my decals put to use. Thankyou very much. Regards Toby

Thanks @rossm I am actually building the Riders in the Sky kit, take a look over on the Group Build. Its the reason I asked the question because on one page of the instructions are the whip aerials, on another they are gone and replaced with the antenna’s to the fins. Regards Toby

Hi there I am building a MkV Coastal Command Liberator with stub wings. Some places I have seen Liberators with 2 antenna wires run forward from each fin to tne top of the fuselage. Other places just show 2 whip aerials, one on the nose and one midships. I have not seen any with both types. Does anyone know the antennae arrangement for this type of Liberator please? Regards Toby

Hi there Sometimes Sea Kings were fitted with some kind of support structure for folded rotor blades. Does anyone have a drawing so I could scratch build one for a 1/72 scale model? Regards Toby

Hi there again. Airfix have now released their 1/48 PR XIX in this colour scheme. Any idea if their recommendation to paint the underside Medium Sea Grey is right? To me that sounds a strange colour for a Dark Earth and Dark Green camouflage. Would Sky or High Speed Silver be closer to the mark? Regards Toby

Thanks Nils, @Vingtor, I hadn,t thought of it that way before. Anyway, a couple of hours airbrushing MRP Super gloss black at 10 psi followed by Tamiya smoke to darken the stripe edges resulted in something I am very pleased about. Maybe I went overboard with the smoke but some careful low pressure touch up with yellow should do the trick. Some touch up of the black is also needed but I achived the result I was after. Next step will be to paint the back end of the plane grey, and then paint the rest of the stripes over the grey. I found the black kept drying in the airbrush tip so every couple of minutes it got a wipe with Tamiya laquer thinner. I could have tried Tamiya lacquer Retarder but when I tried it earlier on my test piece I found it overthinned the paint resulting in lots of spidering of the paint, even at 10 psi. Oh yes, to get these freehand stripes, the airbrush tip was about 1 cm away from the model or 3/8” in old measurements. I think that once the rear section is painted grey and the stripes added there as well, the yellow and black section will appear different due to there being less black on the plane. I think thats something to do with how the eye reacts to strongly contrasting colours. I also found a Post it note very useful positioned close to the start of a stripe. Here I could get the paint flowing correctly before starting the stripe. Here are the pictures: Regards Toby

Well, progress has happened. White and grey have been applied to the fuselage, wings, tailplanes and stub wings. The leading edges have bee painted with aluminium, top turret complete and the tail turret just needs its side windows paint to dry. The rockets have been painted green with black warheads with white tips to denote Armour piercing type. The bomb doors are on as well as the turochargers. The props are finish pained as well. Next step is to glue in the tail bumper and the fins, floowed by undercarriage and attaching all the rockets. Regards Toby

A lot of people are worried about the nose gear not being able to take all the extra weight that goes into the nose for this type of model. When you think about it, if the model is a tail sitter, then there is no weight on the nose wheel. Its only the main landing gear that was to support the weight put into the nose.

Hi @Bengalensis Did you know that Fox Transfers make a decal set for this kit to avoid difficult stripe painting? They are here: https://www.fox-transfers.co.uk/diesel-prototypes-58904 About the blue, the best thing to do is try out all of your blue colours on test pieces, like spoons, and then try different mixes to one you think best. One thing that i have leaned about colours is that lighting affects the colour of the real thing. If you look at 10 different colour pictures of the same thing on the internet, then you will see 10 different shades of the same colour. 😊 Happy modelling from Norway 🇳🇴 Regards Toby

Absolutely amazing CAD design skils. I hope this converts into great parts. Regards Toby

Hi @Kriss Hmm, taller fin means even more weight at the back. How about removing plastic from the inside of the rear fuselage with a Dremel or very rough sandpaper? Regards Toby

Hi @Patrik Go for it, its your model. Sprayed white paint is a good soøution. Regards Toby

Hi @Patrik What paints are you planning to use? One sequence could be using laquer paint like Tamiya LP: 1. Assemble the fuselage with the strusts and floats, leave the wings off. 2. Prime and fill as required. 3. If laquer paint is used, paint the white section. 4. Mask over the white and spray gloss black as the background for the NMF. 5. Spray yor NMF of choice, Alclad Aiframe Aluminium would look good I think. 6. Paint the wings and glue them on. Regards Toby

Funnyley enough, when they painted the tiger stripes on the F-5, the Norwegians decided to go with oversprayed edges to the stripes. Nearly every one else paints tiger stripes with sharp edges. This link shows what I am hoping to replicate in 1/72 scale. https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/146701 Tamiya Smoke sprayed on thin layers is my next cunning plan. Regards Toby

Yepp, visible 👍