Silver Fox

Hope someone comes out with after market decals for the Mt Cook Airlines machine I went onto the Tasman Glacier on.

Excellent build, looks great. How did it build? I have done the Monogram and hthe Heller kits and have not yet got the KInetic/Italieri.

May I suggest that if you don't like what's happened to MAM you write to Steve Elliot rather than Neil Robinson, only the owner of the publication has the power to reverse the changes. Also the idea of an reference magazine rather than review magazine may have more value in the long run.

Did that ( twice) but once the airframe was assembled the darn things were tail sitter. I added about twice as much to the B.2 after the 12 but still a sitter. perhaps Airfix have invented 'heavy plastic' for the tail surfaces and aerials. Looks like 120ish grams, will do mine weight 345 and 380 grams respectively. As you say the T.13 will enable more to be further forward, I'm also considering cross kitting a Falcon vacform fuselage to the Airfix wings.

Guys, I've built the Airfix 1/48th B(I) 12 and B.2 and both have been tail sitters no matter how much weight I used ( nose, nacelle fronts and tank fronts in a last gasp attempt to get all three on the ground). I've put loads of weight in but foolishly never noted down how much, I'm getting concerned about the ability of the U'c to cope with it. I'm using the tail stands quite happily but for the T.13 I'd like to get it right. So has anyone got a rough amount of weight needed? Thanks in advance.

Looks pretty darn good to me and I garee don't mess only the rivet counters would even know. Don't forget the As at Huddesfield

Just for the record all 30 machines delivered to the RNZAF were Dallas build P-51Ks.

and the kit is how old? 1958 I think?

I believe it is an early E, but others will know more.

I absolutely agree with Neil, Courage Alone is a great introduction to the history, units types and personnel of the Regia Aeronautica and brilliant value at the moment from Amazon. On the individual types the Ali d'Italia series are good buys. Lets hope the BR20.M is available before the end of 2010.

A great kit, basically sound in shape. It has the pen nib exhaust which means that from the Airfix re-tooled FAW9 you can easily make the FAW4 or FAW5 fighter. However the kit is as rare as an honest politician ( not a political comment honest)as the moulds were permanently modifed back in the late 1990s so it is a bit of a collectors item.

I believe this kit only has parts for a BR. 20 not the BR.20M that took part in the Battle of Britain. IIRC Classic Airframe were bringing that version out in co-operation with MPM. Hopefully we'll see this version in 2010. That said I'm happy to be proved wrong The Chianti raiders is great read. Cheers Andy Scott IPMS Uk Battle of Britain SIG Leader.

Yes, but is a much better starting point than the Nichimo kit( don't even go there). With a bit of work it is well worth doing. I liked the Aeroclub vacform but that is long gone.

One other thing when building: it is best to attach the wings to each fuselage half then trap the intake assembly into the fuselage then glue the fuselage halves together. If not the intakes can cause dihedral on one side and anhedral on the other. After stugglinng with my first build I used this method on the next five and had no trouble. These is another thread listing all the detail amendments, but generally, with the Aeroclub corrections a nice model can be made. I wish Revell would bring out a 1/48th version of their 1/32 or 1/72 masterpieces.

IIRC it is Tamiyas' own moulding from thw 1970's. They did a whole series of WWII Japanese aircraft and most were nice models that may now be a little dated but were the Bees Knees in those days.

Nice work, it looks as good in the opicture as it does in reality.

I believe you might be thinking of the Esoteric vacform that enabled you to do either a Sidestrand or an Overstrand. must be 20 years old and the company sadly closed when the founder died.

I'm having a lot of success with the new Humbrol acrylic matt varnish in the rattle can, a couple of light coats and Roberts your avuncular relative.

The most noticable issue was the nose was too narrow. A couple of pieces of plastic card would resolve the width problem.

Anyone reckon this is the Classic Airframe kit up scaled? Sounds awfully like it to me. Not a bad thing though as it was the best fitting CA kit I ever built ( and I did three of 'em)

A bit more on Dahls subsequent ops with 80 Squadron based at Haifa: Sunday 8th June 1941 Reported intercepting a Potez 63 at 1630 over the Fleet. Aircraft seen crashing into the seas, credited with a probable. No corresponding French loss reported. Sunday 15th June 1941 during a patrol over the 15th Cruiser Squadron Flg Off Dahl ( promoted between 8th and 15th June) claimed a Ju88 of LG1. One Ju88 later force landed in Turkey. No photos, serials or codes I'm afraid. Source Dust Clouds in the Middle East, Christopher Shores, Grub St, 1996

After his time in Greece, he also flew against the Vichy French in the Syria Campaign where he shot down a couple of aircraft. He was taken off flying when it was discovered he'd actually factured his skull in a heavy landing prior to gong to Greece!!!

Good luck with The Plan, watching with interest. Later, if you can find the FCM Battle of Britain decal sheet, it has Harold Bird-Wilsons' YB-W as one of the 20+ options. Sorry, but I've just used it on my latest Hurri.

Ok, checked the book, it talks about the photgraphing of the Freya site at Auderville. It gives first mission date as 16th February, flown by Sgt Parrott, which was driven off by AA fire and the second, successful mission, as 22nd February, flown by P/P W K Manifould. No serials ae mentioned. Hope this is of use

I understand the shows stopped due to a lack of volunteers to organise it. Hopefully they'll be one next year. They did a series of talks on Saturday eveniongs that were realy interesting: S/Ldr Jerry Pook on Flying Harriers in the Falklands, then later on flying fast Jets in the RAF, Mike McAvoy on flying Hunters and then his life as an air traffic controller and as a modeller, and a talk by a chap whose name I forget on flying Phantoms in RAFG. These stopped due to a lack of support but they hope to bring them back later. A great place to go but it does need a bit of a polish presentationwise.