Silver Fox

I don't think the Profile will help, I have it and there is nothing on either Squadron.

Bombing Colours gives: 107; L1290 and L1291 110; K7150, K7157, and L1204 These are Squadron serials not tied to any airfield. No codes given in either case.

As a bit of a palette cleanser, following my Blenheim and to get something new for the SIG stand at Telford, I put this little beast together. It is the Mark 1 Model 1/144th scale kit of the workhorse of the RNZAF from the early fifties to the early seventies. It is a simple kit as befits it size buy has plenty of detail. I used the decals I have had printed for SIG members , which come on a sheet on both 1/72nd and 1/144th scale and cover both 75 and 14 Squadrons with lots of appropriate serials. The only thing missing are the roundel and fin flashes that already provided in most kits. All the sheet provides are the silver ferns to save cost. I need to find a replacement for the fin flash lost as although there are two complete kits in the box my kit decal sheet has only one set of D type fin flashes. Thanks for looking.

Four good choices there sir. I really enjoyed the Hunter though I feel it is the simplest of the four. I have a Walrus to start but the thought of the rigging puts me off. I can do rigging I just choose not to. Maybe I should sell my Hawker Demon, Dh 60M. both my Tiger Moths and the Walrus.

Thanks for reminding me of Lionheart, I dug our her first four albums for the soundtrack of my 5 hour journey to Glasgow tomorrow.

Lovely work as usual. Nice unusual scheme as well.

Steve, that,s what attracted me to it all those years ago. Looking forward seeing yours mate.

Careful, you are going to run out of kits to build before you time at sea ends. Lovely work, the Trumpeter KV has gone onto my radar.

It is a really good kit, shame no Mk IV is the foreseeable from whats been said on here. The wing lights do look like they are masked on the photos but they aren't in real life. Photos play tricks, in the second photo down it looks like I have painted blocks of silver on the flaps but I haven't! Take care and loving your detour into tanksi

Hopefully I'll be there mate.

I think it is the light bringing out the wash. The panel lines are very narrow and not at all deep. Buy one, you wont be disappointed. I have another one in the stash

A number of modellers of my acquaintance have found fitting the completed glass to the completed fuselage is difficult. Other have found they fit OK. Either way it is an excellent kit.

Tony yes that's the one. I kept that kit from 1964 till I moved out of my mum and dads in 77. I think it was lost in one of my mums domestic purges in the early 80's

Interesting but it doesn't have the bombing here in my village. the craters are still visible from the air especially in a dry summer.

Meatbox8. No real issues. If you attach the glazing halves to the fuselage halve then it all fits beautifully. The Undercarriage has to be fitted to the lower wing before the wing halves are joined so it does ed to be vulnerable to knocks and the intake'trumpets are best fitted earlier than stated in the instructions.

This was part of a branch group build amongst a small bunch of friends. I've already built one of these kits as a fighter and after issues with the canopy I came up with the idea that attaching the glasswork to the fuselage halves before assembling the fuselage would be the best way forward. As it stands of the three kits in the branch build, one id in the bin one languishes on the shelf of doom but mine is finished. I wanted to build a bomber for which the parts are already in the kit. I've always prefered the short nose Blenheim since being bought one by my uncle at the 1964 Finningley Air Show. A fabulous end to a fabulous day for a young lad. The Frog kit has a different scale to the Airfix ones I had built ( See the Frog Squad Group Build elsewhere for loads of memory joggers). It came with little tubes of matt paint so different from the Humbrol gloss I has used before. My memory says the decals were for a early machine with the large yellow outer rings to the roundels So I was set. I used the Xtradecal sheet to make a 139 Squadron machine soon after delivery. I found a photo of the very machine in 'Bombing Colours by Michael J F Bowyer, a suitable retro reference for a pseudo nostalgic build. Thanks for looking

Almost finished now, if any wargames army can even be called finished. The last group of chaps are meant to be Swiss Mercenaries Much less gaudily dress then the Landsknechts I did earlier. There are woodcuts from the era showing the Swiss using a chained bear to disrupt opposing pike blocks, but this is possibly propaganda. Even so they are my favourite figures. Just on hand gun unit and a command base to base and flock and that's them done. I have a big American Civil War game planned at Christmas so I've resurrected my Confederates and bought'another regiment 'just to finish them off'

Lovely work, nicely weathered; not to too filthy but well used. 1/48th is a nice scale to take with you when you are on your travels. I do the same.

Thanks John, looks good at the moment, hope all is good with your good lady.

I don't know if this helps, https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/X48198 I found it easier to assemble the nose glazing to the appropriate fuselage halves before assembling the halves together. I'm on my second one at the moment and it is a great kit.

The real world has been interrupting my modelling recently, my wife had a successful operation to remove a lump, the garden is under some sort of control for the time being and work has taken a turn for the better, though that means time away from home. So very little has been completed, these two bits being the sum total of my completions. The cardinal is either blessing the the blooming big gun or telling them they are doing it wrong. You guess is as good as mine. I really like the figure holding his back, he looks like he has put a shift in.

That is a really nicely worn airframe.

Jim, I have the Warlord Chasseurs and the Perry ones are much better, especially the horses. Cheers Andy

Jim, The Aussie dollar was pretty strong against the pound in March went we visited. Postage rate are shocking these days, for me the worst is US to UK often more than the product and with our customs and tax authorities raising revenue against anything over £15 it is not worth buying from outside the EU. the Perry Austrian cavalry are not due for a while but have you seen their French Chassuers aCheval, they are fabulous. Take care and get painting

The scary thing is that I'm down to my last 14 figures to paint! I did over 500 French Napoleonics last year, thank goodness for plastic figures as I would never have afforded that number of metals. Perry Miniatures are doing plastic Austrian Napoleonic cavalry next so that's my next years military budget allocated. The Pike and Shotte book is a good primer on the period from a gamers perspective the battles at the back of it are a fun read. Looking forward to seeing yours finished.