Peter Browne

Oh, @pg265 you mentioned using Blacken-It on the engine, so no black paint? That product has been discontinued for a while. Advantages of using such a product instead of paint? Also, what reference are you using?

Thanks @DFC Do you have the link for Scale Motors Cars website?

Terribly sorry Pascal, get well soon.

Any update?

So what is happening with MFH and their 1/12 car kits? There are only seven kits available, and two to be released shortly. This is from a total line up of 104 kits. Given the paucity of 1/12 MFH kits on eBay and elsewhere these days, they are obviously good sellers, I think... I would imagine that it takes $$$ to make the moulds, yet the re-releases are not there. Sigh

Thanks @Noel Smith Frank Giordano at Model Motorcars replied that K70 had the best chain components and design.

Oh the other question is what is the difference between the K70, K77 and K88? Somewhere I read that K88 is the better of the kits.

I have seen numerous builds of the Pocher Fiat F-2. Many of the depictions appear to be based on the F-2 in the Museo Nazionale dell'Automobile in Torino. According to this site, that vehicle does not accurately depict the car as raced in the 1907 French Grand Prix, won by Nazzaro. A Pocher build which appears to be more accurate is at https://www.modelmotorcars.com/bertrand-declauxs/ The question is, what references are there to accurately depict the car as raced in 1907 at the French GP?

Old thread I know, but was this kit K88 or K70?

Ahh, I was seeing the wing as the tailplane! Like flaps on the tailplane?...silly Ta..

You can sort of see a demarcation in the painting on the rear fuselage in this photo: And in this one with Prime Minister John Curtin prior to flight to Australia, the insignia appears further towards the tail, with the serial W4783 forward of the code, instead of aft as shown above: I'm thinking of depicting George in December 1943, as shown below with the 'G' nose art in full red, no border, and the 7 bomb tally rows, instead of the 9 rows she/he ended up with.

Found one: https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C50652

Thanks for the info. Do you know of any photos pre rear fuselage and tail replacement? Or with UV G codes?

Re the ventral turret, or mid-under defensive gun position, were these part of the initial production of Mk.I Lancasters? So for George, as indicted by @Peter Roberts, this was blanked off and as stated by AWM: According to a thread on Quora: https://www.quora.com/Did-Lancaster-bombers-often-fly-with-no-front-gun-turret-in-WW2 George was never fitted with the H2S. What does the Border kit have there? Are there any photos of that area for George? I have added that in my photos request to the AWM...

Photo from 1944 after George was retired and sent to Australia to raise war bonds. The strakes are just visible on the port wing. These photos clearly show the strakes on the port wing behind the outboard engine. Plasticard would be an obvious choice to replicate the strakes. Though getting the curvature right might be a problem? But it would be good to know if the strakes were added on the production line, or if, as suggested in that other thread, that they were added on B1s with high flying hours and landings - George would have easily met that criteria...