Pritch

Just a thought. Has anyone considered the possibility of replacing the wings with a pair off an Airfix Vampire. Or a Classic Airframes two-seat Vampire, or even an Alley Cat Vampire? Even just grafting the two-seater front fuselage and tail on to (eg) an Airfix kit? I have all three, and maybe I could sacrifice one.

No, it's not picking nits, it's just being observant. The size of the lettering is right but the kerning between the last two numerals was wrong. To me it looked like it had been monospaced.

No luck trying to watch it -- just a technical equivalent of "Eff off". Same as I get for any attempt to find some method of watching Antiques Roadshow (which used to be very popular on TV, and then just disappeared). I hate to say it, but the UK is showing signs of becoming rather insular.

Falcon are definitely still in business, and do many for other manufacturers, but their website could probably do with a bit of updating. Look on the Hannants site (under 'Falcon'), and there are three new 1/72 and three new 1/32 canopies recently added. I have one for Hasegawa's 1/32 P-40.

Yoda speaks in 'periodic' sentences (look it up in Wikipedia). It's how Latin is written, and got drummed into me when I learned Latin in high school.

You might get some tips here: https://falconmodels.co.nz/howto.html

I think the decals sheet that would suit you would be Ventura V4898 (8 inch serials, British 1920-1939( http://venturapublications.com/store/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&keyword=v4898 This sheet has black with white outline in a number of styles, measuring out to 4.2 mm high -- which is 8 inch in 48th scale (32nd scale would be 5.6 mm)

Falcon (Clearvax) and Squadron canopies are still available. The possibly-not-quite-up-to-date website is www.falconmodels.co.nz. In the UK get them from Hannants; in the US get them from Squadron.

Am I imagining things, or did the Eduard 1/48 Fokker E.V / D.VIII come with two wings, one for fresh plywood and one saggy?

You sometimes have wonder what decal artists have available to them to work from. Probably just one side-view photo for the RNZAF trainer in the case of IcraCast, because their diagram shows the wing roundels on backwards. However, at least the IcraCast kiwi is accurate, while the Caracal kiwi looks more like a red turkey (although the placement diagram is correct).

Hendie Before you get too far into printing the tail surfaces, I think you should have a look at a walk-around of the real thing: https://jamesfahey.smugmug.com/Avro-504K/ I can't see any "nails" (or rib stitching), and in fact I can't even really make out the rib tapes. Tony

The Alpha Flight Sunderland is not without its problems. Bad casting, some warping, some broken parts -- all can be fixed, but the wrongly spaced portholes would be difficult to put right. Plus it's a Mk.III, not the Mk.V that I want. I got one many years ago, before the price of postage made getting large kits from overseas impossible, and I'll finish it one day. For some reason it does include a Mk.V nose turret. The Sanger kit is both Mk.III and Mk.V, but would be a lot of hard work and is not really a consideration because of shipping costs.

I agree, gingerbob, it would be possible to do some improvements, given a photo to copy, but the size -- who's right, Airfix or everyone else? And thanks for the link, 224 Peter. The one photo with a glimpse of the seat shows that it's a brown resin one. The grey IP is interesting, and I suspect there are some Canadian modifications going on here. One other thing is that the control column grip is a non-circular one like in the Airfix kit. Pity the links on that page seem to have suffered from link rot. In all the photos I've seen, what stands out is how cluttered the cockpit is, and how simplified the Airfix is. Probably doesn't matter much though because you can't see much in a black 50s cockpit.

BNA ModelWorld in Melbourne, Australia --- but it looks like I might have got the last one there. Sorry. ☹️

I'm impressed. With the addition of seatbelts, that wouldn't look too shabby. And it comes with a pilot who is at least as realistic as the Airfix one.