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Can't quite believe the scale... amazing work!

Really excellent. The weathering - about which I'm a bit sceptical usually - handled with great skill. Perhpas you could do St Ex's plane with your P-38?

Wonderful job bringing to life an interesting subject.

that's brilliant...

that is just wonderful., so envious....

Outstanding job.

That is a thing of beauty.

Thank you, the altimeter does indeed work but I have not found anybody small enough to tell me what it says... Meanwhile, and honestly, I also have a 1/24 hurricane 2 with a working variable pitch prop. I must get around to showing that.

What everyone else said about scale... Really remarkable work.

Glad you liked the 'flying' pictures - might make these a regular feature. As for kits though, may stick to 1/48 from now on...

Extraordinary work - it looks like 1/32...

Despite being, overall, fairly happy with this difficult kit I could not escape the feeling that something was not quite right about the cockpit area. I had stared at heaven knows how many photos of the orginal in order to make the kit - and had not noticed anything out of the ordinary - but something was not quite right all the same. A bit more staring and it gradually became clear: the kit canopy is not quite the right shape. The real thing bulges upward slightly toward the windshield and the kit one seems instead to have a uniform curve. Luckily I had a vac form alternative from the Heritage/Simian set and this seemed much closer, so I set about making the change over. Shape of the original canopy And the vac form alternative... It seems like such a small difference - but for some reason the model now looks much closer to the prototype - at least to my eye. And with that we are finished. Thanks for looking. One final thing, if anyone has the Royal Navy tail decals for this scheme left over from this kit I'd be most grateful to lay my hands on them I applied one of these at a slight angle.

Great work - and research.

Excellent result. Incidentally, as I recall, these craft did not fare well with their Jabo-ing over the UK. By this point in the war there were mosquitos looking for them so it did not matter much what colour they were or how fast they tried to go... Superb job on the building by the way.

Hi there, glad you like it. I did the pre-conflict scheme because, living then near the south coast of the UK, that's how I remember them from my childhood and early teens. Also it's the classic FAA look which I also like. I most assuredly will not be doing this particular kit again... There is always the hope, though, that one day Airfix will do the job properly, with a new set of molds...