JockMcPlock

Oh I've collected old and new, Airfix and Revell. I have considered doing what i've been doing, picking them up for £10 a piece on eBay, or just placing an order somewhere for the remaining 30 of a new kit that may be better made. Do you have any thoughts on that? I didn't originally start out with this as the plan in mind. I have a terrible eBay addiction and so from buying one, it turned into many, and with so many, I thought I would put them to use rather than sell or leave in the vault of stuff. I actually have a tonne of other models too that I have no idea when I'll get round to.

Thank you, and that's a great momento to remember their time there.

Thank you very much. They certainly will take up a wee bit of space, but now i have an excuse to renovate one of the outbuildings. I will give that place a buzz and see what they say.

Thanks very much! I tend to get over ambitious but I'm determined on this front.

Very nice final product with that decal. Out of the 52, as far as I know, just 11 of them have nose art and one of those is already produced with kits. 'Friday the 13th', so that saves a job on that one. The images are small in size but you can work from them. Without knowing what is too small to work from or indeed the actual process of creating the image, I couldn't say for sure if they're suitable enough, though I have shown them to someone on here and they believe it should be possible. I've just tallied the serials and letters needed - 112 serials and 1073 individual letters

That might not be such a bad idea infact, to have the masking sets. Very good point! I have about twenty 1/72 Halifaxes that I've gradually picked up from eBay over the last two years, and not spent more than £10 per kit, so i'll continue to trickle them in that way until such time as I run out and need to pay a little more to get more through the door. The four 1/48s I have were a little more expensive at about £200 a kit. I still have the individual dioramas to think about...

Yes it would seem that for those who know how, the serials and codes will be fairly straightforward and for a company, if they only look at things in excess of 100 sheets of duplications, then someone a little more bespoke is needed. I'll keep you in mind if I have no joy. Hi Dave, It is 158 Squadron from summer to winter 1944 sporting the Halifax III's. I do agree that it may turn out to be quite mundane and I had thought of perhaps considering doing a factory line process and construct multiple at once. I'm also considering having other interested parties construct a few for a fee if that can reduce the numbers. There's also individual dioramas to consider amongst this also.

I might just do that, collate the information and drop it on a topic to see what can be dug up beforehand. Each kit will come with the roundells and the generic markings needed, so it should just be a lot of serials and codes - with some nose art.

Indeed I have, and great for them to actually do something a little more beyond a granite slab with a few lines, though its such a shame to see the rest of the airfield crumble. A nice touch also from the wind turbines that have been placed to be named after some of the aircraft.

I've already got the four 1/48 kits and about twenty 1/72s, so I'm getting there. I quite agree though, with the only two 1/48 Halifax kits out there (I only found two - there may be more), they both seem poor kits, so a new run would be good.

Hello all, Popping my proverbial head in the door! I've jumped on here to gather information and recommendations that will assist me in a project that I am about to undertake. My aim is to create a full squadron of World War Two Halifax Bombers, 52 in total, that covers the period of which my grandfather was a pilot in the squadron. I will actually create 56 Halifaxes. 52 in 1/72 scale and 4 in 1/48 scale. The larger four being the most pertinent ones that my grandfather flew on operations - including the one he blew up... The squadron is the 158 Squadron out of RAF Lissett in Yorkshire and will cover a period from summer to winter of 1944. I'm by no means an experienced modeller - I just bought an Airfix Starter Spitfire to see just how far off I was since I last made one when I was about 10 years old, and after the research I've done on the 1/48 scale halifaxes I have, I see I will be in for a tough time of it, but I'll get there in the end. That's me for now... Mac

Hi Simon, I'll edit my original post and add information, but I am looking to create an entire Squadron Plus of aircraft. There will be certain elements that will be duplicates, but there will also be quite a few unique parts. Mac

I am looking for some information and possibly recommendations. I have decided to undertake a task of large proportion whereby I will need a lot of bespoke, made to requirement decals. Having never done this before, I'm not conversant with what the capabilities are out there. Some of the questions I'm looking to have answered are below: Are there specialised decal companies that will produce mass orders to client requirements? Are there companies that will create 'nose art' decals from a rough black and white photo? If there are and can to the above - can anyone recommend places/companies or can do it themselves and interested in producing some simple and some very difficult work? To give an idea of what I am looking at having done - I am going to attempt to replicate an entire squadron from World War Two of which my grandfather was a pilot in. It will just cover the period that he was in the squadron for and this rings out at 52 aircraft, the lost and the survivors. Mac