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Rui Silva

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  1. Hi all, I ordered the A2D kit on ClearProp's website on Thursday, had the invoice the same day, made payment by PayPal early Friday and it was sent right away, very nice service! I will order some Eduard HVAR rockets for a realistic loadout according to "Naval Fighters" #43.
  2. At last the A2D-1! I think this will be my birthday present to myself, combining an excellent kit with an opportunity to help the resilient Ukrainians!
  3. In box review video at Flory Models: https://www.florymodels.org/reviews/2023/8/30/gwh-148-f-14b-tomcat-review
  4. Hi all, First of all, I want to say that's truly amazing what the brave Ukrainian people has done to resist the Russian invasion and how Ukrainian kit makers, Clearprop among them, have continued to work and release excellent models for us to enjoy despite everything. I am buying Ukrainian models to support their plight, just two days ago an 1/144 XB-70 has departed Ukraine inbound Portugal. I'm interested in the Clearprop 1/48 kit of the A2D-1, CP4801; CP4802 XA2D-1 was released more than 2 years ago and meanwhile CP has released another kits in several scales. Why wasn't CP4801 released is anybody's guess, I just want to know if it is still planned for release or not, so I asked CP via Messenger. My question was seen and not answered, to this moment. It's not a big deal, I know, I just wanted to share this information and try to get from fellow BritModellers an answer before deciding to buy the XAD2-1 kit, I'm sorry if this bothers some of you. Slava Ukraini!
  5. Hi all, I asked Clearprop two days ago about the release of CP4801, unfortunately until now I have no answer...
  6. I found some facts about the interesting life of Mustang N79111 / NX79111 at https://www.mustangsmustangs.com/p-51/news/leeward_091611
  7. Looking forward to this release in 1/48 scale, in 1931 the Portuguese Army Air Arm bought one A.50 for aerobatic training and competition flying, namely by the very skilled Captain Plácido de Abreu, which won the 1932 Cleveland Air Meeting flying his beloved A.50 "Foguete" ("Rocket").
  8. Brengun has released 3D resin printed 20m wingtip extensions for the DG-1000 kit.
  9. What I find pretty amusing in this "winged V2" are the tail surfaces that look like were taken out of a WWI Lohner vertical tail!
  10. Hi all, LF Models has released in 1/48 scale Camouflage Masks for A and B pattern plus decals for Yugoslav, Greek, Finnish and Portuguese Ansons. Unfortunately the "Anson Over Portugal" decals lack the wing serial numbers for the later Air Force Anson.
  11. Seriously, if some Ukrainian kit manufacturer would sell quality vodka to help the current situation, I would gladly buy it.
  12. Thanks @Rabbit Leader and @Col. for your replies but it seems the Fleet Air Airm had no jet trainer capable of landing and being catapulted off an aircraft carrier, perhaps there was some Carrier Qualification training done in the USA?
  13. First of all, thanks for accepting me in this GB. Looking at the box art of the forthcoming new version of the Airfix 1/48 scale Tiger Moth, I wonder what was the training progression in carrier-deck landing in the RN during the sixties and seventies? Was it from Tiger Moth to Sea Vixen, Buccaneer or Phantom?! The USN had the TF-9 Cougar, TA-4 Skyhawk and T-2 Buckeye, and the French Navy had the CM-175 Zéphyr, but there was no "Sea Gnat" or such kind of a jet deck-landing trainer in the RN?
  14. Dear GB skippers, Could you please count me in this GB? I've just started the Airfix 1/48 Sea Fury. Rui
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