Stressy

Are there any problems with the Airfix offering?

Which is the better 1/72 scale kit to start with, Airfix or Academy?

So is there a MIG 19 in 72nd scale worth the effort?

A bit late for WW2 perhaps, but was the F8F-1 version of the Bearcat equipped to carry HVARs?

Currently, which of the Bf109e models in 1/72 is the one to go for?

Here are a few views of my recently completed Airfix Swift. Out of the box with the addition of a pull chord at the top of the seat. Straight forward build once all the internal ejector pin pads had been sanded down.

Do any of you have trouble with acrylic paints not adhering to the canopy plastic very well with a tendency to peel, particularly when you remove masking?

Thanks for all this info. It changes my plans completely! Now what to do with the Academy B24J given I've just got a Hasegawa B24D and I've just not enough room for all three!

Is the idea of converting an Academy B24J Liberator to a Privateer by using parts of the old Matchbox kit a silly non-starter?

Wow! A whole lotta seats - thanks.

Thanks - that makes some of the photos more understandable! Andy

The instructions for the Airfix Swift give, what I think, is an unlikely shade of blue for the seat harness. Looking at the various seats of aircraft to be found in museums has left me wondering when and where the strap material became blue as there seems to be lots of seat with kaki green or brown shades of harness. Any pointers on RAF harness colours?

The fuse at least scales to 1/72 although the nosewheel bay requires lengthening a bit at the front according to plans supplied by Antti (thanks). I didn't have plans for the wing. The ones contained in Warpaint were clearly wrong ( but aligned well with the old Airfix kit). It was boxed as Italeri but was also identified as being Bilek. I think the Trumpeter one is much the same. The parts looked quite promising untill you started trying to put them together

Some pics of an Il28 I completed recently. Possibly the worst fit of parts I've ever encountered and persevered to completion! Even the panel lines on the 2 fuselage halves didn't line up needing a full rescribe. I added an Pavel interior up front. Still got there in the end with the help of you-all!

Thank you Antti. You've been very helpful to me in (almost) completing what I'd expected to be a sraight foward build of the Italeri 1/72 version of the Beagle. Andy