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Tom, Lovely work on the canopy - looks much better! Cheers, Roger

With an owner not far behind 🤣 Nice work...

Alistair, An unconventional assembly sequence to be sure, but I'm sure these Italian chaps know what they're doing, Cheers, Roger

Alistair, Lovely work. Take care when locating the main undercarriage - its location is a little vague, Cheers, Roger

Alistair, Nice work on the fiddly decals and the exhaust colllectors - very striking scheme! Cheers, Roger

Alistair, Nice and rapid work - good call on the undercarriage bays too, Cheers, Roger

Thanks Chuck - it really will be a much more pleasurable experience...

Alistair, Cranking along nicely - interesting option to display the guns, Cheers, Roger

Good tip Chris: Black it is!

Thanks James - the Airfix kit is a little cracker, which makes the Brengun shortcomings all the more obvious. Nice to have the parts for an early Mk.I though...

That's a jolly good idea - will have a look on Scalemates! Thanks Alistair - my spirits are already lifted with the prospect of the Airfix Tiffie!

Hi All, I've been a bit quiet on this one, as I've been fighting a bit of a mojo slump mainly brought on by my battles with the Typhoon. It all started quite innocuously - the kit has some nice surface detail. Here's the instrument panel: The seat was missing the distinctive padded back, so I fabricated one from plastic card: The kit also appears to contain parts for an early Mk.I or even a Tornado (albeit missing the quarter windows): Here's the cockpit (in its first iteration): Here's where things started to head south, as the whole lot disintegrated whilst I was fighting to button up the fuselage. There is no positive location between components making the assembly incredibly fragile. I eventually got the fuselage together, albeit with substantial gaps which needed sprue-goo to fill them. Here is said goo: What became the final toss of the dice was when I started dry-fitting the wings, I noted a 2mm gap at the wing root. You can see here how misaligned the wing is to close said gap: Now I could have persisted, but the recent memory of building Airfix' lovely Mk.Ib was too much. I therefore did what any sensible modeller would do, which was to crack the sads and hasten to the internet: Yes, dear reader, it's on the way. Life is just too short for bad kits, particularly when this beauty is there and ready to go for the princely sum of $21. So, I shall use the Brengun kit parts to convert the Airfix kit to a car door version. In penance for my weakness I may also choose to 'open' said car door. I'd found this rather nice photo whilst I was looking for the colour of the rear deck (I'm going with black): I may graft the Brengun door detail into a scratch-built assembly, which should make the model stand out a bit better! As I did with my last Tiffie, the wing cannon detail is begging to be exposed too! Finally I found a photo of the Kittyhawk I am going to model (photos for discussion only and will be removed on request): Clearly not a happy end for this aircraft, but the photo does confirm the non-standard codes. Anyway, on with the show! Thanks for looking, Roger

Welcome aboard James! It certainly looks like a nice little kit. I have been focussing on the Typhoon thus far but will probably kick off the P40 this weekend, Cheers, Roger

Alistair, A cracking finish to this lovely little kit - you may just have got me over the line on finishing mine! Cheers, Roger

Alistair, Will look forward to this one - it's a lovely kit, Cheers, Roger

Chris, That's looking lovely - a most striking scheme beautifully executed, Cheers, Roger

Alistair, Looking good with the decals down. I think I'm going to do mine as an RAF PR version, Cheers, Roger

Alistair, A lovely build and finish, and astonishingly rapid! Cheers, Roger

David, Great to see this finally finished. A wonderful personal connection and a pleasure to follow the WIP, Cheers, Roger

Alistair, Very nice indeed - I am duly impressed! Cheers, Roger

Now that will get Chris confused 🤣

And so you should be - it looks superb! Nice to see it over the line...

I've got a better idea. How about... a smaller kitchen!

Alistair, That has cleaned up very nicely - I am becoming more and more inclined to take mine down from the Shelf of Doom! Cheers, Roger

Alistair, Looking good - looking forward to the big reveal on the scheme! Cheers, Roger