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  1. Steve Coombs
    Very nice indeed. How did you get the different tones? I normally do it with Tamiya Flat Aluminium for doped areas and Revell Aluminium for metal areas (sometimes mixed with a bit of light grey to knock the shine back if required), but am open to other sources of inspiration.
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    Check the canopy. If I remember correctly, the central canopy arch was in the wrong location in early kit releases - too far aft. Pavla did a replacement canopy, but I don't know about its availability. Later on, the canopy was revised and should be OK.
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    I wish my local ALDI or LIDL would join in. I do live in Germany after all, which is their home turf! I could easily find a home for the Spitfires, and probably pick up a slack handful of 109s as targets. Another supermarket chain here got burned badly about 15 years ago by selling some Zhengdefu kits, which looked really good until you opened the box.
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    See my edit, which crossed in the mail!
  5. Steve Coombs
    A very nice move there by Airfix. The US market will lap it up, and why not? From a practical view, it looks to be very nicely detailed OOB, and a saving grace for me is that it is reasonably small so I could get it in my existing glass cabinet. Even better if I folded the wings. Does this mean there will be a 1/24th scale Zero coming sometime soon? Target required! Perhaps I will get my 21st century Vulcan kit next year. I can wait.
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    The hybrid offspring of an Eagle and Thunderbird 2? That never appeared in the show, but the concept is clear. Has anyone built a Swift, Super Swift, or Ultra Probe?
  7. Steve Coombs
    Yes, sir, Cap'n Tight-Pants.
  8. Steve Coombs
    Oh. I like how this is coming along. I built the Hasegawa Tony nearly 40 years ago. It was going so well until I stripped a load of the fuselage camouflage with the Sellotape I'd used for masking (pre-Tamiya tape days for me)...
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    Goo goo g'joob! Er, sorry, good job done there!
  10. Steve Coombs
    I wish Revell would repop this (as well as the Siskin). Both my P-12E and Siskin fell prey to a falling shelf about 30 years ago...
  11. Steve Coombs
    This brings to mind desperate darts matches with a Gorilla Snot as a forfeit. The loser both had to buy and drink it.
  12. Steve Coombs
    It must surely be feasible to transfer those plans to plastic card of suitable gauges for the required stiffness/flexibility. This would also make adding the 'white bits' relatively simple. Mal: Just once I'd like things to go according to the gorram plan.
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    I concur with Corsaircorp. I had a real binge of building the new Airfix Hurricanes when they came out a few years ago. Did some tin-wing conversions too. Nevertheless, I think it only fair to restore the balance with a bevy of Spitfires. I have been led into temptation by Xtradecal, and the Eduard Spits are a delight. As are the recent Airfix ones, which I can literally get together on a dull weekend and still get the domestic chores done (I lead a neo-bachelor existence). If I'm really going to analyse this, Hurricanes and Spitfires these days are my mojo restorers or hors d'oeuvres before getting my teeth into something more complicated.
  14. Steve Coombs
    Depending on the size of the gaps, it might be worth trying to plug them with a suitably thin Evergreen strip or similar, which could then be trimmed back and sanded as necessary. This would be more elegant than filling/sanding because the area to be worked on would be a lot smaller. On another WIP thread, I saw that someone had used masking fluid on the mating edges and recesses of the kit under construction before painting the internals. If tolerances are so tight, I will try that when I get to the AEW2 in my stash. Lovely work so far; I have every faith in your ability to make a fine save of the fuselage issue.
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    Thanks for the info. I shall have to hunt down some of these paints. Perhaps I should keep my eyes peeled at the D/CDN Maple Leaf show in Bühl in a fortnight's time (next big not-online-order stash-enhancing opportunity for me). I'll try the Klear addition to some Vallejo stuff I've got that falls off if I look at it aslant.
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    Are these enamel or acrylic? The website doesn't offer the info (or I simply didn't find it) ...
  17. Steve Coombs
    NATO green over lichen green, right?
  18. Steve Coombs
    Not forgetting the ill-fated expedition by a Miskatonic University team in 1930. At The Mountains Of Madness I wish Guillermo del Toro could get the green light for a film of the story.
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    Did the F.6 have the bumps on the upper wing surfaces?
  20. Steve Coombs
    Ooh. I remember my good friend Chris the Smurf knocking out about half-a-dozen of these about 40 years ago, put together with tube glue and painted with a hairy stick. He opened the auxiliary doors on each one, and was a good customer for Modeldecal. Phantoms weren't my phing back then, but I have learned the errors of my ways. I shall be watching this build with interest.
  21. Steve Coombs
    I'd be tempted, if I could find out the registration number! All the images I've found online so far only show the front end of the plane (which is the more interesting end, to be sure).
  22. Steve Coombs
    Lovely work there! I bet you cursed the scalloping on the leading edge, though.
  23. Steve Coombs
    A bit late to the party on this one. Some sterling work there! I can't offer you a Foggy Coalhole, but there is a Smoggy Terminus
  24. Steve Coombs
    A lovely job done there. Respect to anyone who gets the small yellow markings on the canopy frame in position. I inevitably end up drawing them on with suitable paint and a sharpened cocktail stick,
  25. Steve Coombs
    Richard K. Morgan could well be your man. The A Land Fit For Heroes trilogy is excellent sword-wielding fantasy (including some interesting sci-fi tropes), and the Takeshi Kovacs novels are hard sci-fi. Netflix recently broadcast what I thought was a pretty good adaptation of the first novel, Altered Carbon.
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