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Looks like one to pick up when I visit London and Hannants next weekend. I have seen the survivor in Solent Sky and remember Eric Brown telling about the test flight that almost killed him. A nice What-If for air forces with thousand lakes or sheltered fjords to land on. Maybe someone can make a good XF2Y-1 Sea Dart to keep it company. Thanks to Sword and Hannants for thinking outside of the box.

If FRROM-Azur releases the Belgian and Greek Battles and leave the British to Xtrakit - they will cater to different home markets. I can`t see Hannants bringing out the old MPM mouldings and try to compete with the new ones from FRROM-Azur. And it is just an announcement coming, so it makes sense that it is a new and not finished moulding.

Previous Xtrakits have all been of neglected British subjects from 1945 and onwards, with moulds mainly made in the Czech Rep. All in 1:72 and usually with colourful marking options. I can think of a few candidates: Venom kits that I believe originally were made for SM models - moulded in Ukraina and struggling with distribution. Plenty of marking options, both British, Swiss, Swedish and Kiwi. Canberra, still some unkitted variants. Avenger based on the Sword mouldings. Frrom/Azur Fairey Battle - of an earlier period than other Xtrakits.

There is to my knowledge only one complete P-39 on display in Europe. The Finnish Anti-aircraft museum located in a Helsinki suburb has managed to squeeze a P-39Q-15 into a small building. This aircraft has been preserved, not restored and shows the original Soviet markings on top of the US ones. The vertical tail surfaces are not from the same airframe, but came from a wreck on Norwegian soil. Otherwise, there are some substantial P-39 parts in at least one museum in England, but I was asked by them not to publish the pictures. And if I dig into my archives, there should be some P-39 pictures from Chino in California. But, on the usual condition of personal reference use (includes showing in this thread), you can for one week download a set of my P-39Q-15 pictures from the Finnish AA museum. They were taken in a cramped and dark space using flash and a wide angle lense, so quality is not the best. https://we.tl/t-RCWIEkBIsp Website of the museum for those who wants to see the aircraft for themselves: https://ilmatorjuntamuseo.fi/en/english/ They do also have major components of a MiG-3 on display besides a lot of AA guns and missiles.

For those who wants to prepare for this kit, I have uploaded a walk-around of the Ka 26 on display in the Estonian Aviation Museum near Tartu. About 500 Mb of pictures available for a week to download and use for references - it is a funny little machine. https://we.tl/t-iOqsVxju75

Just back from a holiday in Estonia. The shop in Lasnamäe at Punane 52, in the outskirts of Tallinn is run by Atrioola ( www.atrioola.ee), an importer for modelling kits and miniatures in Estonia. There is a bus stop called Lasnamäe turg just outside the realiseermiskeskus building (I took Bus 66 from Balti Jaam, the Central station). Exiting the bus, you should enter the two storey building to the left and take the stairs up to a traditional hobby shop with new and old kits on the shelves. It has the latest Zvezda kits (difficult to get in Europe now) and also stocks of Ukrainian and other hard to get brands at reasonable prices. Zvezda kits cost 2/3rds or less compared to the shop in the Rocca Al Mare shopping mall. One of the ladies manning the shop speaks a fair amount of English, the other less so. The shop at the Rocca Al Mare shopping mall was a disappointment, not much in the way of kits and prices on European levels.

After Arma changed from Polish Post to using courier company for delivery to Norway, it became very expensive to order directly from Arma. I don`t think I saw their kits in the local model shops when visiting the Polish riviera (Gdansk/Gdynia/Sopot area) last year, even if no problems with finding IBG and Hobby 2000 kits. One option is using another Polish mail order company that sells Arma kits on eBay, for instance: https://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_ssn=trinitymews2&_osacat=0&_armrs=1&_sop=10&_odkw=&_from=R40&_trksid=p2046732.m570.l1313&_nkw=Arma&_sacat=0 But then you lose the special offers. I have no other relationship with the above except being a regular customer.

You are probably right, I believe it evolved into the Corsair via some further prototypes The P-66 was attempted sold to European and other nations desperate for fighter planes in the beginning of WW2. Norway was one of the countries and I have a sales prospect from their representative as well as some reasonably detailed plans for license production by Hønningstad in my collection. The Norwegian Army Air Arm pilots liked the aircraft, but Curtiss P-36 was chosen instead because it was already in series production and earlier delivery was possible. So if you are into "What ifing", most countries that operated P-36 could have had the P-66 instead. Vultee Aircraft did not have the production capacity to deliver as many aircraft in a short period of time in 1939-41 as Curtiss

Tiger Force on Welsh Models site http://www.welshmodels.co.uk/PJW111.html Aussie Force on Welsh Models site http://www.welshmodels.co.uk/MT76.html

Entering the page from a smaller nation (Norway), the prices come up in USD. I think it it will show major currencies like Euro and CAD based on the IP addresses.

Probably just a visible warning about a part of the vehicle that sticks out to other drivers and persons standing close. I have seen similar markings on locomotives that have a box shape that sticks out in a similar fashion.

It will be even more worrying if Arma Models get all the details right - then their researcher must have access to material few others have. Very little about the B-21 is in the public domain,

I have received my copies of this kit and can confirm that it looks as good in the flesh as on pictures. For those who haven`t visited Danmarks Flymuseum at Skjern airport (near Billund and LEGO-land), I have uploaded a folder with pictures of the surviving Dankok and the Avro 504N standing next to it. Free for personal use as references, if you want to publish them - please check with me first. The museum: http://flymuseum.dk/visitor-infomation The images (available for download in one week) https://we.tl/t-eY9fGG9xcD

Both Denmark and Norway flew F-16s in flag colours:

The box top says injection molded, while the text says resin. If the production runs are as small as 20, then resin is more likely.

I think Soviet/Russian aircraft are unlikely for the time being due to the events in Ukraine - otherwise I would have loved seeing a MiG-3 made to Arma standards. Maybe we will see them returning to USN aircraft like TBD Devastor, Bearcat and Tigercat?

And then they will be pretty close to a Norwegian SAR Queen as well.

Happy to see a good DC-8 model kit. Suggestion for brand name: Trident Airliners

The Warwick seems like a candidate for Valom, a fairly large halfway forgotten British twin engined aircraft that nobody else has kitted.

So do I - had a chance to look at the BE2c kit in Moson, some fantastic castings, both of the major structures like wings and fuselage as well as the detail parts.

He answered my Emails reasonably quick - from his gmail.com address.

Looking at the sprues, I can`t see any of them being common with German/Austrian built Bf 109G types, possibly with the exception of the one with the canopies.

It was on sale during the Moson model show, a large box with an incredible number of extremely detailed pieces for just two such small models.

The other original BE2f (in Norway) doesn't have the gravity petrol tank under the top wing.

https://we.tl/t-TpI57Ph4yg Click on the link above to download the pictures from WeTransfer - it is valid for a week (until Saturday).