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  1. Crimea River
    Hi Richard and thanks for the reply. Yes, I'm still working on the Mossie but we've been shut out of the museum since early December due to Covid so no work going on other than small home projects. Latest report is here: http://www.calgarymosquitosociety.com/feature77/feature_77.html Stay well!
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    Yep, handy gadget it is. I made some 1/48 Balkenkreuzen for my first project and they turned out OK but not great. More practice needed. The cross below has had some hand touch-ups needed with a black 0.5mm artist' marker. 1/48 Hurricane roundels turned out much better: You can also use it to make parts. One FW190 kit I built was missing the inner gear doors so I tried making a set using plastic card. The stamped sheet metal on the inside of the doors were drawn in AI and cut on the Cricut: The finished scratch-built parts don't stand up to brutal closeups but do look the part with normal viewing: I don't use the machine regularly, still preferring decals for their ease in 1/48 scale but have found it a useful thing to have around. Have fun with it!
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    ICM kits

    Crimea River replied to Don149's topic in Chat

    I agree that the well known Japanese manufacturers could use a bit of a wake up slap. Certainly not so much for quality but definitely for price.
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    What specific machine are you going for?
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    Regarding wingtip lamps, many NFII pics show the early arrangement with both forward and rear facing clear lenses. The latter were eventually replaced with "resin lamps" housed in small rear facing tubes but, wothout digging deeper, I'm not sure if this mod was introduced during NFII production or later. It would be ideal if you have pics of your actual subject to confirm which tip it carried. As to the bomb bay doors, these would not have been left closed and faired over as removal of the guns would required access to the bomb bay area.
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    I suspect that the EBay colour image has been copied many times or that the original was overexposed to the extent that the bright white areas have washed into the dark, thus obliterating any fine dark details like your thin blue ring at the roots of the star points. All of the white areas (note the land on the horizon) appear to be highly overexposed.
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    Photo from EBay but the insignia looks odd unless it's the lighting. EBay sellers of aircraft pics aren't always the most knowledgeable folks. https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/north-american-b-25-mitchell.41933/page-13#post-1576880
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    I would agree with Werdna but would suggest that 74/75/76 is not just possible but rather likely.
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    I would rather they do a 1/48 Halifax.
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    I have a bottom view drawing by Richard Caruana, the accuracy of which I can't vouch for, but it shows rivets straddling the ventral centreline but no seam there. I'm guessing that the rivets were for some stringers there.
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    I think the museum is shuttered now if I'm not mistaken. Certainly nothing flying.
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    There's also a long term Fw189 project that probably won't get finished now.
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    I agree with Dennis. I really hope that the aircraft of this collection find a good home - owners with money and the passion to keep them flying. The Me262 was so close to flying when the funding ceased and the Stuka would be a treasure to see in the air.
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    Not a great picture but here is one with the prop weights:
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    Not this forum but Wayne Little's excellent Ju88 at ww2aircraft.net was them: https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/threads/done-revell-1-32-ju88a-5-4d-mr-7-kg30-mto-group-build.20753/
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    Part Number 26 is the pilots seat. Pretty obvious if you are missing that. Part 30 is the radio antenna mast. There is no step behind the wings as access was via the ladder rungs on the float struts up front. I don't know what "wheel" you are talking about as there are no wheels on this plane. You aren't by chance talking about the Ar96 are you?
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    I agree the darker colour, which I still maintain to be black, is applied over the lighter one but why would that preclude the lighter colour from being 76 applied over the 70/71 followed by the black?
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    If these are just flat panes and reasonably small, why not just form them with a PVA-based glue? Run a bead around the rim with a toothpick and with the toothpick loaded again, touch the rim and pull a bubble toward the centre until the pane is filled.
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    I also have this one bookmarked: https://flyingforyourlife.com/gallery/404/ It's just personnel though.
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    Maybe here? https://web.archive.org/web/20160303223232/http://www.404squadron.com/
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    Codes are 3E+HK rather. It does look to me a though the black from the undersides is used for the disruptive waves over what I would assume to be RLM 76.
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    I concur with those dimensions and verified them by measuring a unit at our local museum. You might find my scratch build of the Gee set-up in my project below useful as a reference.
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    Yes, both are linked and the step is spring loaded. There's a release in the cockpit that the pilot controls to retract the step and close the hand hold.
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    Hi Jack. Try this link for 443 Squadron ORBs. The link starts at March 45: https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_c12320/1396?r=0&s=1 Andy PS: No Spit IXs shown for April.
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    Any updates Richard on this one-year anniversary (almost)?
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