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Alex I like the fuse wire idea. But do you think I should put the fuse wire inside the canopy or outside on the top of the canopy? It just occurred to me to ask the question mainly as my only point of reference would be the Hawk detonation chord which is almost embossed into the canopy. Just trying to think what would look better. Regards Liam

15 04 2024 Thanks guys for your help. It was something I thought I wouldn't be able to sort. love this site! 😀 Liam

@Alex Gordon. Thanks for the picture. It'll be a great help. Is it me or does it look like there is a transparent panel separating the front and rear of the cockpit? Similar to the Hawk? Liam

15 04 2024 Hi Everyone. I recently bought the HobbyBoss 1/48 Brazilian EMB-314 Super Tucano kit and promptly sanded and polished out the 'seam' along the centre of the canopy not realising until too late that this was not, indeed, a seam but was meant to represent the detonation chord for the canopy in case of ejection 🫢. My question is how can I scratch-build the said detonation chord? Milliput? Plastic strip? is it even possible?? Failing that, is there an aftermarket canopy available out there? Regards Liam

15 11 2021 Thanks again Troy and also I should thank @dogsbody for his contribution as well. Love the markings on these aircraft and that two-seater version on the Authentic decal sheet looks like it might be a very good modelling subject. For someone else 🙂 Liam

15 11 2021 @Troy Smith thank you for such a complete response. The 20 GIAP (147 IAP) Air Force KA - aircraft and emblems (ava.org.ru) is amazing. I love the Hurricanes depicted here. Would I be right in thinking that the photo and profile of White 51 are two different P-40's? Thanks again for your help 👍 😊 Liam

15 11 2021 Afternoon people I have Wolfpack's P-40 Warhawk part 2 / Lend Lease Warhawk/Tomahawk in VVS sheet ... WD48016. I am planning to make White 51 / Tomahawk Mk. IIB, 14th Army AF. I'm trying to find a little more information on it or maybe some photos but having trouble locating such. I did find The P-40 in Soviet Aviation – Lend-Lease website but it doesn't hold any information on this aircraft. I'm just wondering if there are any books or sites that might have some info. Also...I tried to post the website address as a link but it didn't paste in as such. Is it not allowed to post links in topics? (just wondering . I haven't been on this site for a while) Thanks in advance Liam

Ah. Whoopsie. I must revise my 'search' skills Thanks for the heads up. You are Da Man. Liam

23 05 2021 Hi Guys. @Junchan Hi and thanks for your advice. I knew about the difference in the sweep angle and I've read an article elsewhere (maybe on this forum somewhere) that reckons the sweep difference is around 3 degrees give or take. But I would also agree with that article that given the scale of things it's not going to make a hell of a lot of difference to the build on the grand scheme of things. Again, I'll adapt Mr. Clark's method of cutting the wings off the centre section of the Airfix kit, using the centre section of the underwing/belly of the Airfix kit, then removing the wings from the centre section of the Monogram F-86D and attaching them to the centre section of the Airfix kit. I have an old Monogram mk.5 kit that I can put the Airfix wings on to make it look nice if needs be, Again, thanks for the help all. I was wondering why there didn't seem to be a lot of discussion around the Airfix 1/48 Sabre mk.4. So maybe this thread can address that All the best, Liam

Thank you gentlemen. @ Sabrejet I wasn't sure if the wings on the Airfix F4 were the retro-fitted 6-3 or the slatted wings that had the slats screwed shut (wasn't there a version of that?) It's so complicated. But I can do a slatted mk4 by mating the wings of the Sabre dog to the Airfix kit. I'm happy! I have two of the Airfix kits and I know what I'm going to do with it now Whoo-hoo Liam

22 05 2021 Hello everyone! I read Bill Clark's article in Scale Aircraft Modelling April 2021 issue where he converted Academy's 1/48 Sabre F-86F into a slatted Sabre by mating the wings of a Monogram F-86D it. Now, the new 1/48 Airfix Sabre looks like a hard wing Sabre...slats screwed closed? If I want to display the slats open (and because I can't get the Academy kit) could I adapt Bill's method and mate the F-86D wings to the Airfix F4? If I CAN do that for then what can I use the now ex-Airfix F4 wings? Or would it be easier just to take the slatted section off the F-86D wing and use it to replace the same section on the Airix kit? Cheers in advance Liam

05 01 2021 Hey all. I just received my 1/48 Buck Rogers Thunderfighter resin model made by Alain Rivard Model Shop (he's on Facebook). It's a good looking model but there's no transparencies for the canopy nor is there even templates to cut clear plastic ( or whatever) to the correct shape and install these. Would anyone be able to advise me what the best material would be good to use to make the cockpit transparencies please and where I might get some from? Thanks in advance Liam

Kushan_Farsight you are a lifesaver. I had just about given up hope. I had thought to try JT but got them confused with JBOT decals. That guy has retired due to ill health. I have emailed an order to JTGraphics to see if they can provide the decals. Thank you so very much Liam

20 12 2020 Hi all. This is a real reach in the dark but would anyone out there either have the decals for the Buck Rogers fighter or know where I could get them? 1/48 would be the scale. Liam

29 11 2020 Hi Guys. Thanks for your help. Much appreciated Liam

26 11 2020 Hi guys, I've been doing a bit of a magazine clear-out and found this: My question is : do decals for these Batman symbol exist?? Here's hoping Liam

06 05 2020 @ stever I think that was the point of the conversation. If you marry the wings, tailplane and other bits of the Fury to the Tempest you get either a Mk. II or a mark VI. I'm not sure which. Was hoping for clarification. Thanks though

06 05 2020 Hi everybody, This is a bit of a long shot but I saw or read somewhere here in a different conversation that it was possible to convert a 1/48 Typhoon into a Tempest using a fair amount of the Hobbycraft Fury (same wings I think??). I think I saw this on Britmodeller. Can anyone point me in the direction of that topic or to where someone might have attempted it? I'm not sure what mark of Tempest they were trying to make but it sounded interesting. Thanks in advance Liam

02 05 2020 Thank you all for your replies. @Buz I've never seen those photos before. The top one is amazing. Love seeing the tread pattern on the tyres. So, it's the American colours then? Dark Earth and Middle Stone on top but should I use the Neutral Gray or Azure Blue then? I understand that there's a blue filter on the top photo but would a blue filter change the tone of Neutral Gray to make it look so blue? Liam

30 04 2020 Thanks Graham. It's this one: https://modelingmadness.com/review/allies/us/cleaverp40f.htm So, are you saying that I should go with the Dark Earth and Sand on top and Azure blue underneath? Liam

30 04 2020 'Morning campers! I'm currently building the AMT/Ertl 1/48 P-40F Warhawk. I plan to use a combination of Aeromaster Decals 48-219 and Superscale 48-844 to make White 10 'Sweet Stuff' of 69th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group, 9th AirForce Western Desert 1943. So, my query revolves around the actual colours to use … I know - a potential Pandora's box. Both Aeromaster and Superscale advise that the colours to use are Dark Earth and Sand on top and Azure blue underneath. So far so good. However, on the reverse side of the colour call-out page there's a Colour note that references the US Desert Camouflage p-40's. It states that the aircraft on the sheet did not wear the standard RAF Desert camouflage scheme of Mid-stone ( I assume this is Sand), Dark Earth and Azure blue but instead wore US Sand (616) and Dark Earth (30118) on top and US Neutral Gray (ANA 43) which "photographs much like Azure blue." They also state that "this is our opinion" and that they have no way to confirm or deny this. I would think that given that the aircraft were made in USA, painted in USA for USA squadrons in the Desert that I should therefore use the American colour call-outs. The colour 'tones' are very different so what do y'all think? American or British? Thanks in advance Liam

Thanks Mark. That link is not opening for me though. So it's two different aircraft? Liam

23 03 2020 Hi Everyone I have a question regarding the Aeromaster sheet for this plane. I'm using Aero Master Decals sheet Desert Hawks part II 48-219 to make White 10 - 4596. So far, so good. However, I have Histoire and Collections Curtiss P-40 Planes and Pilots from 1939 to 1945 and on page 36 there's a profile of White 10 and it has 'Sweet Stuff' written above the exhaust stack and the number '4' in the serial number is covered by the fin flag. Soooo, the title 'Sweet Stuff' is not included on the decal sheet. Pictures can be seen here: http://raf-112-squadron.org/57th_fg.html And again, differences....red coloured surround on the Stars and Bars for example and also look at the hub covers here: https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php?topic=56514.0 (scroll down a bit) So the question is, if I want to make 'Sweet Stuff' as in the sas1946 web-site photos with title and hub cover markings, is there a sheet that does these markings in 1/48?? Thanks in advance Liam

26 01 2020 Thanks for the advice guys. I suspected I might be okay but just wanted to double-check Liam

Thanks!! Liam