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  1. Linden Hill
    I published my first book this week! It will be available from resellers in the UK/Europe soon.
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    Special Hobby Sunderland GR. 5 built to test my new decals LHD72039 'Arctic Sunderlands' (they work!). This is PP115 'Charlie' of 201 Sqn, RAF. In August 1953 'Charlie' was almost lost in a glacial lake in northern Greenland after being holed below the waterline. Apologies for the hurried sloppy photosession.
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    Coming soon, in case anyone's interested... https://www.lindenhillimports.com/lhi-blog/coming-soon#/
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    Happy Days! Live next to a military airfield in Eastern Friesland dating back to WWII, complain about the noise!
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    Thank you. This is one Aircam issue I had not seen. The photos strongly imply that while the 210 squadron codes were Medium Sea Grey, the serials were all black.
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    Seeking confirmation on some details for a forthcoming project. In the era of the Medium Sea Grey over White camo scheme can one assume the following? 1. Both the fuselage serial and code numbers were grey, not red (underwing serial black) 2. White spinners 3. No 210 badge to port underneath the cockpit. I'm 99% certain that this is the case but wanted to make a final check! Thanks in advance.
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    Sergey Yakhontov (one of the good guys) was the owner of Scale Bureau Models but he did not design the kits and has since sold SB. The designer is Roman Bukhalov, who also runs Komplekt Zip and AZ Resin.
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    Pedant's corner: I learned from colleagues at Vzlet magazine that the official name in English is also MC-21 (C is for craft). MC-21 is not transliterated to MS-21.
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    You'll note that's the same decal sheet as the Scale Bureau kit (SB logo in top left corner). I'm delighted Roman finally got this produced in plastic.
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    FYI, the designer of Ark Models is the same person who created the original resin Scale Bureau La-9 and La-11 masters. The Mikromir efforts were poor plastic copies of the SB kits. The portents are good for the new kits.
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    Many thanks. This is very helpful. A*W seems a complete anomaly. I'll start digging.
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    I'm in the midst of doing some research on 201 & 230 Squadron Sunderlands based at Pembroke Dock in the first half of the 1950s. I'm trying to allocate specific serial numbers to call signs used during a couple of missions. The most informative books from the era only refer to particular Sunderlands by call sign ('Charlie', 'Dog', etc.). Careful cross-referencing with more modern volumes on the Sunderland ('Ocean Sentinel', Chaz Bowyer's 1989 'Sunderland', etc.) provide most of the my answers BUT there seems to be an information gap when it comes to missions in 1950-54 assigned to 230 Sqn.
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    Decals are by caracalmodels.com. It needs a lot of nose weight, especially if you're foolish enough to add a cabin interior.
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    With 211 you're good to go with the ML kit. As Apex says states, the Bulgarians received both the export (23-22) and non-export (23-18) versions of the MLD. Some sources refer to the former as MLD-E.
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    Bulgarian MLDs were Type 23-18 second-hand VVS MLDs, i.e. non-export variants (MLD-E). They were exchanged for BG's small fleet of recce MiG-25s. How to distinguish the MLs and MLDs? The BG MLDs featured the 'dog tooth' wing root, carried the standard VPS 50-60 flare dispensers on the upper fuselage, and wore the standard 1980s VVS tactical camouflage scheme. HTH.
  16. Linden Hill
    Amodel's 1/72 scale DH-104 Dove kit converted into an RAF Devon C. 2. I used the AIMS resin supercharged Gypsy Queen engines and cabin interior, although the latter is now barely visible. The Devon C.2 utilized the raised canopy of the Heron. I stole that from an old Airfix kit, widened it to fit the resculpted forward fuselage of the Amodel kit and then grafted on the rear canopy fairing sawn off an old Airfix Canberra B (I)6. Decals are from the Caracal set. It's painted with AKAN lacquers. The kit itself is typical Amodel: treat it like a vacform and you'll be fine. I'd also say the Dove ki
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    MR.3 kit now released. https://www.revell.de/produkte/produktneuheiten/avro-shackleton-mr-3.html
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    Here's a link to download the PDF instructions. https://stage.revell.de/service/download-center.html Scroll down to Artikelnr. 03873 and click on the link. The instructions show decal options for both Phase 2 and 3 aircraft. The kit is due for release the last week of July (€39.99). Stages 39-44 of the instructions show two different outer nacelle options, both with and without the Viper. No SAAF decals in the kit. https://www.revell.de/produkte-revell/produktvorschau/avro-shackleton-mr-3.html?utm_source=Mailingliste-DE&utm_medium=email&
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    One small problem with ICM's new RBF nose section is that it's missing the smaller single ventral sensor panel. Obviously this is easily enough rectified with some careful scribing. https://www.lindenhillimports.com/lhi-blog/icms-latest-148-mig-25s
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    1/48 Kitty Hawk Su-17m3R 'Blue 82' Azerbaijani AF, Kyurdamir AB, 2009. Painted exclusively with AKAN lacquers and acrylics. Decals are from our own Linden Hill Decals set LHD 48021.
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    For the RBF you'd need the ICM/Revell RBT with the long intakes and the RWR fairings. I used the CWS RBT nose, but I converted the RBF palette myself. I filled the camera ports with Milliput sanded smooth and scribed the sensor panel lines (2 on each side, one underneath), which took maybe a day's work.
  22. Linden Hill
    Aleksey Mikheyev's drawings in the Polygon MiG-29 book (Moscow,1998) are highly recommended. He had access to MiG MAPO's bureau archives at the time. Yefim Gordon bought the Polygon imprint a few years later, so there's a chance he recycled Mikheyev's drawings somewhere in an English-language volume. However I don't recall seeing them elsewhere.
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  25. Linden Hill
    We released it in September 2012. We're on our second print run now.
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