brewerjerry

Hi Must mean that i am getting old, I recognise quite a few kits amongst others i have a 1:96 valiant unbuilt and one partially built, also a free enterprise kit one regret is i never got an airfix 1:600 S.S. Canberra kit cheers jerry

Hi The talk of 10 Sqn RAAF sunderlands reminded me somewhere i have an original ww2 photo of the unofficial Sqn crest/ insignia used on sunderlands I must try to find it again sometime cheers Jerry

Hi pity my idea doesn''t help then from the details cheers jerry

Hi Many years ago i was told red paint was used on german undercarriage legs as an instant easy reminder to ground crew to use a different type of fuel cheers jerry

Hi This one is interesting 1943, but still early type roundel and fin flash It would be nice to view the AM 78 movement card at the RAFM to see when it was shipped to canada, it might give an idea as to the colours cheers Jerry

Hi not sure if you know this link for coastal colours http://www.hrmtech.com/SIG/coastal_cam.asp cheers jerry

Hi BM thread on the MKII cheers jerry

Hi I was thinking of using the colour photos of the bolingbrokes in the lassie film shot at pat bay as a guideline for my 1:48 beaufort when i get back to building it cheers jerry https://www.impdb.org/index.php?title=Son_of_Lassie

Hi seems other photos of the a/c are also here, but sadly not online https://imagesdefense.gouv.fr/fr/hurricane-ii-c-du-squadron-1-raf-du-flight-lieutenant-romas-markinkus-capture-et-un-avion-leurre-sur-un-terrain-d-aviation.html there was also/ is ? another french archive, something like ECPA ? with loads of ww2 a/c photos cheers jerry

Hi in the scond photo on the upper tailplane it seems to have straight paint lines, is it i/d stripes or just the camo pattern cheers jerry

Hi Never thought of trying that on the airfix hsmpden, I must see when i do my hampdens cheers jerry

Hi Old age is getting me i totally forgot about the 4+ book , yep another good one cheers jerry

Hi Yep a good book , but also don't forget Naill''s book and the smaller booklet by alex and the old bingham book & the kookaburra booklet is not bad Kudos to them all achieved something i never got around to doing ..... writing a whirlwind book and imho all better than that new book that was recently re published cheers jerry https://www.amazon.com/Whirlwind-Westlands-Enigmatic-Niall-Corduroy/dp/1781554307 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5996800-westland-whirlwind-mk-i

Hi Just to post in the correct thread, i browsed some 32 OTU Pat Bay notes i got awhile back from the web It mentions a hampden B.1 serial AN101 crashing whilst doing a torpedo drop the notes differentiate between hampden B.1 aircraft and Hampden TB.1 does anyone know if AN101 was actually a TB.1 or a hampden B.1 modified in canada to do torpedo drops cheers jerry

Hi as the photo is of a 32 OTU hampden at Pat Bay Canada, it is likely that local supply was used, hence a plank of wood, unlike the one in tbe other photo in the thread which looks aerodynamic it might even be possibly a local canadian hampden torpedo bomber conversion ? cheers jerry

Hi Thanks for the photo cheers jerry

Hi Thanks for the replies and info cheers jerry

Hi Aoda model kits 1:72 I have never heard of them before, any ideas what they are like ? cheers jerry

Hi kidneys to old to sell need first born to look after me in a few years time and swmbo left for greener pastures years ago which means i have a hobby budget again, but only enough for one airfix anson cheers jerry

Hi I was told once by a ex lanc crew member ? worry when a merlin stops leaking oil cheers jerry

Hi a better photo appears origin is IWM CH series cheers J my older BM thread gives details of the code for MM150, P3-E.

Hi might be the photo on this linked page ? middle mossie with dark spinners has four blade props http://aircrewremembered.com/morgan-john-perenera.html cheers jerry

Hi Thanks for the detailed reply, never thought of that i suppose the mossie proves that theory cheers jerry

Hi Reading this thread , i wonder how it effected the morale of the halifax crews Losing the nose turret, then the upper turret, thus having only a four gun rear turret to fight off any attack presumably halifax losses were higher ? cheers Jerry

Hi apologies slightly off topiic I like tbe old airfix mag conversions, majority of my builds are " models " , not " scale replicas " so in my case the airfix articles are great for those rare expensive kit subjects don't think my old eyesight or hobby budget would let me do scale replicas anyway cheers jerry