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JosephLalor

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  1. I'd like to join in with a F-86 Sabre if I can find transfers for the aircraft flown in Korea by James Jabara or Joseph McConnell. Plenty of other possibilities of course, to make it a bit less conditional.
  2. I've occasionally wondered about the origin of the Swarfega product's name. I wonder if it was designed to form a protective film, thus allowing swarf to be washed off without cutting oneself.
  3. It appears that the Aeroclub props for the Pucara had the product code P119. Joe's Models in the US (http://www.joesmodels.com/) has Aeroclub stock. You have to check for availability but you might strike lucky there.
  4. I wonder if Aeroclub's P057 propeller pair would be suitable. I've 2 sets and they were designed for the Astazou-engined Jetstream if memory serves. I have this kit lurking somewhere, so I'll be following this thread for sure.
  5. I'm thinking that I might be able to get the BOAC boxing of Roden's 1/144 Bristol Britannia in over a couple of weekends. I hope that it wouldn't be disqualified by having the wing-halves already joined. As it's a related subject I might even pull one of my Welsh Models Belfasts from the stash, though I likely wouldn't have a snowball's hope of finishing that on time.
  6. Oddly enough, I've tended to consider the Tradewind to be a fine-looking aeroplane - aft of the propeller warning line. The nose was where Aughrim was lost!
  7. Please add me to the list; I'd like to do a 100 Group Fortress from the Airfix kit.
  8. I had to look at the background to make sure that your photos were actually of a model. Excellent job!
  9. I've long since forgotten how, but I'd formed the impression that some Phantoms may have had a darker green, perhaps FS 34052. I don't know how likely that is, if at all. Also, I'm intrigued by the fiscal year part of the tail code. Am I mistaken in wondering if that aircraft was really funded by the 1940 budget? I'm thinking also of AF37 on Charles Olds' aircraft.
  10. I'd be up for this one; I'm thinking in terms of a blue Aeronavale Crusader.
  11. Is that the one that supposedly had the NATO reporting name 'Flipper'?
  12. It would also need a bay and doors for the retractable tailwheel, plus a flatter profile upper engine cowling panel. The Mk IX's equivalent had a slight bulge to clear the intercooler.
  13. I bought the Ejercito del'Aire boxing of the Special Hobby Hispano Buchon at the Irish Model Soldier Society show a couple of weekends ago. I'd like to join in with that one. I daresay I'll still have some Folgore or Veltro kits still lying about by then as well.
  14. It seems to have had two identities on the French register, F-WEAI and F-GEAI, before going to NASA as N941NA. I think we've been looking at the same information.
  15. Having chickened out of doing the Flight 1 Twin Pioneer for the High Wing GB, I'd like to have a go at the type in Light Stone and Dark Earth RAF uniform, if that fits the theme. I would be using the Valom kit.
  16. I've been inclined to think similarly about the Civic Offices down at Wood Quay, redolent to my eye of the Channel Islands gun emplacements. Looks like the development at the Hawkins Street/Townsend Street intersection. I think that little cupola at the lower right is on the roof of Pearse Street Garda station. Great work on one of my favourite naval aviation types, looking forward to the end result.
  17. That's pretty much how it was done in the old days using Rub'n'Buff for natural metal finishes.
  18. I recall someone being quoted as saying that it looked like an egg-bound chicken with mumps.
  19. Only just noticed this. I've a mind to do Dragon's 1/48 SPAD XIII or Zvezda's 1/350 HMS Dreadnought. There's a Dragon Fokker Dr.1 lurking somewhere too.
  20. I've a couple of Eduard 1/48 Mirage IIICs and Revell (Special Hobby) F1s, so I'd like to have a go at this one, please.
  21. Butyric acid? I'm given to understand that it's a fermentation product which gives silage its characteristic smell. Can't imagine that catching on as a sweet flavouring where I come from.
  22. I think there should be a landing light there.
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