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Err - I bought both, the Tamiya Male and the Takom female. A friend at my model club is currently building the Takom female and says the kit is lovely but the track are over complicated. Tamiya male is next on my build list once my Takom St Chamond is finished. Leighton

If buying this kit, check it first - mine has a badly moulded transparency - part E9 which is a lower fuselage window.

Picked mine up today from Affinity Models in Stoke-on-Trent. Certainly looks like a very detailed, good kit with particularly good detail around the bomb bay and with positionable flaps. The decal detail is as good as the 72nd typhoon and there is an extra instruction page just for stencil detail Leighton

With Airfix announcing a new He111 I thought I'd get my Revell/Hasegawa H6 built. I want to make an H2 as shown on an Xtradecal sheet. What are the key differences between the two marks, are there any major external differences which would make this difficult? Thanks in advance Leighton

I spoke the the Airfix manager at Telford yesterday, I asked why a new He111 when there was a good Revell/Hasegawa kit out there. His reasons: 1) new kit for BoB anniversary next year, the release is a P2 version 2) they could not justify re-releasing the current kit due to the state of the moulds, doesn't give a good experience for newer modellers, same with the Sea King 3) With laser scanning they believe theirs is better and more accurate than anyone else's, particularly the nose and the area where the underside of the wing meets the fuselage - he pointed this out on the sprue. He also said it takes about 3 years to design a 1:24 kit, you also need to build demand and expectation, so don't be expecting one yet or maybe next year either. Leighton Now off back to Telford

This is really great work, I'm starting 2 72nd 109s at the moment, a Swiss Tamiya E3 and an Airfix Luftwaffe E4. When looking through the Battle of Britain references I run away from JG2 stuff. If I could do what you have I'd be really happy

Thank you for your help this will enable me to move forward with this project. Big apologies for not replying sooner, life got a bit bonkers and I've had little or no time for modelling. Thanks again Leighton

I am building an AZ models Grunau Baby for the Luftwaffe SIG Telford display. Does anyone have any details on WW2 or pre WW2 seatbelts for the glider, I can only find modern cockpit photos Thanks Leighton

Busy busy times! Just got back to this and am looking forward to a couple of good days work on kits. The canopy has been dipped in Klear and will be parafilmed tomorrow. I purchased an instrument panel and seatbelts from Valiant Wings, I have used these, completed the cockpit and stuck the thing together, pics below. Now it all depends on my parafilming skills!

As far as parafilm is concerned this will be my second attempt, the first was on the Airfix Typhoon below. This was my most recent and only my second 'grown up' aircraft model, being an AFV modeller and not doing aircraft since I was a kid. I will be using Mike Grant's guide in SAMI April 2013 to help me, the hurricane being a lot more difficult I think that the typhoon canopy. Leighton

Thanks for the pointers, I have gone and got the Revell IIC, I will bury the academy deep in the stash, I want this to be a relatively quick and easy build as I have a couple of limited run kits to focus on and I've never done those before. So here's the kit, I hope to make a fair bit of progress on this this weekend despite having a lot of marking to do I will be using parafilm for the canopy as the mighty H seem to have run out of Eduard canopy masks. Leighton

Having been delayed by work and my son being poorly I have started with the cockpit However when I went to close the fuselage I noticed some rather serious shape issues; the fuselage is too narrow and tapers badly at the nose When put against the drawings, which are to scale you can see the problem, it looks more like an anteater than a hurricane to me Normally I can live with some inaccuracies but this doesn't look right at all to me, talking to members of my model club last night I've decided to start again with the Revell hurricane, so it's off to my local model shop after work to get one.

I am starting by building a Hurricane IIC of No.11 OTU, South Africa 1944 as shown in the Airfile RAF Trainers vol 1 shown below (hopefully it works - my first time posting images) Image (if posted) for discussion purposes only I have chosen to use the Academy IIC, basically I am currently making an Airfix sea Hurricane, I have the Revell Sea Hurricane and this was the last IIC in the model shop. I want a quick build, I have an RS magister and an AZ Oxford waiting, they'll be my first ever limited run kits and I want to start with something more straightforward. I'll open the box later and hopefully have a update soon.

I posted a comment about this in the trainers GB thread but thought I might repeat it here. I'm considering building the Hawker Audax in desert scheme as shown on p.46 of the Airfile Trainers book. Has anyone built the A model Audax or the Hart? What are they like to build? Thanks in advance Leighton

I'm starting my magister on Thursday at the model club I attend, looking through the Airfile Trainers book I quite like the desert scheme Hawker Audax. Has anyone built or had experience of the A Model Audax, is it worth getting?

Thanks for your help, the magister is being built for the training types GB

Hi everyone, I am looking to build a magister of the CFS in 1937 in the rather fetching Stoke City/Sunderland red and white stripes shown in the Airfile Trainers Vol 1 book p.27. Having seen this thread http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234953017-hawker-hart-internal-colours/#entry1514869 on Hawker Harts, does anyone have some advice on the internal colours for an early Magister, including the seats. Thanks Leighton

Hi PaulI was thinking of the Canadian one but as you are doing that one I'll go for the other option - if it is allowed. Is an Oxford of the Fighter Command Instrument Training Flight allowed? Cheers Leighton

Hi, is it too late to join this? My contributions would be an RS models Miles Magister in. CFS aerobatic team colours - the red and white striped profile on p.27 of the Airfile Trainers Vol 1. As I have the Xtradecal Commonwealth trainers sheet, an Airspeed Oxford could be next unless AZ release their Chippie... If I could join it would be good, the GB ends on my birthday too

I was wondering about the Hendon Lanc as it was made in mid 1942 and now has no windows. Reading the RAF Museum aircraft history it was in for repair the winter of 43/44 and August 1944 onwards. There is also a quote saying that the S-Sugar which ended the war was rather different from the one made as it had different wings and a new fuselage.

I have the basic magister kit but it has the bombs in it, it might be the same sprue with different decals

I have the RS magister in front of me now, it's going to be built in the new year. There is very little if any flash with only the propellor looking like it needs a bit of work. The windscreens are flat plastic sheet which you need to cut out. On the sprue the kit looks very finely detailed.

Nick I want to read the thread, I want to learn from you and your friends on here, the information you have is valuable and informative. I learnt something from Edgar this morning with regards to paint that I may not see elsewhere on the internet. There is a difference between sharing information and going round in circles with refusal to recognise the views of others. I was critical, yes, maybe overly so, in that case I apologise. But you need to understand, such dogmatic views come across badly and reinforce the view of crushing know it all bores. Please note I said views, I am not calling you or your friends that. The refusal to accept any form of criticism or even recognise the validity in anything I have said with regards to sources just reinforces this point. If I have been over harsh then I again apologise but I will not be forced off of a thread for holding a mirror up to certain attitudes. If you and your friends want to debate an often worn path on who is right than do it together in a pub or model show, not on a thread which should be used for information. Shar 2, I apologise, this is the last I say on the this, regardless of replies. I hope the thread stays open as, I want to learn from people like Nick. Nick, I hope on this thread and others we can positively converse, I am sure there are some things I can learn from you and you might even find something I say of value.

Yawn... You prove my point with every post Nick, if that's the case I am happy to remain damned by you for having the temerity to question the quality of debate rather than information. I'll keep it short so you can easily quote. Can we then move onto the topic? Thanks for the colour chips Edgar, it's interesting how colours look in reality to how you imagine them.

I think the Brengun is a new mould but haven't got hold of one yet. I think I was going to use the PM floats, tiger models resin additions and decals and either a Revell or Airfix V, what is the opinion on the Revell kit?