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It's a fairly recent restoration by Aircraft Restoration Company, so has only been present at IWM for a couple of months. It's certainly a unique scheme! Wonderful Wildcat (updated) (scramble.nl) I wasn't too upset about the Sea Hurricane, as I had a great close encounter with it on a night shoot at Shuttleworth last year, but it would have been nice to see 7 Hurricanes all together. Exhibit runs for about 3 more weeks I think.

Alpha Delta has already posted some pics from this IWM Duxford exhibition last month, but I thought I'd also share mine from Sunday's visit, plus a few wider ranging Duxford shots as well. Going off-season is always interesting, as you see aircraft undergoing maintenance and in varying degrees of undress. It was bad timing, as me and my mate Pete had waited until Sunday, for the arrival of the Shuttleworth Collection's Sea Hurricane. Sadly, that was further delayed by fog, and only actually made it over there yesterday. Embarrasingly, neither of us realised that there was also another Hurri missing, and there were only 5 of the projected 7 on display! whoops..........must pay more attention 🤣

I went in '90 too, both the years when the Russians really ramped up their attendance. Will never forget the blue reheat flames from the Tu-22!!!

I was at that show, and took a photo of this very aircraft! Looks like a very close representation to me, well done.

No idea to be honest, but yeah, you're probably right and it was an oversight on my part, i'm blaming it on somewhat obscure instructions 😏😆

Not surprising as KP offer a good balance of quality and price.....plus they launched loads of kit variants at the same time 😆 was a decent little kit to chuck together.

This was a quick little build for me over the Christmas period. The KP 1/72 Spitfire PR.XI, done in USAAF colours. Humbrol PRU blue, with pencil and pastel weathering. Now sits on the shelf as a camera-carrying-cousin to my mk.IX "Porky II/RW382"

Check this out, if you haven't already seen it

Its a tie between VF-84 and VF-111 Sundowners in full colour high vis for me, but -84 takes it just coz of the film connection 😎

The Italeri kit i used was the 1/72 scale one, so may not have been the same quality. The one i tried to build was just nasty.

It kind of looks OK as long as you don't look too carefully. Needed 3 coats, and still wasn't perfect. The thought had crossed my mind to build an A6M 😆

The debate my family had after the first time we all watched it was epic! Trying to work out the timey-wimey storyline had me up way past my bedtime that night 🤣

Time to "splash the Zero"! Couple of quick pics of my F-14A Tomcat that I finished at the weekend. It's the excellent Academy 12563 1/72 scale kit, soooooo much nicer to build than the Italeri one I first attempted! As a long time fan of "The Final Countdown" film, I've finished it with some HAD Models decals. Weathering was with water-based pencils, kept to a reasonable minimum, just to highlight the panel lines. Oh, and I still hate painting white! DSC_1088 by Rob Harris, on Flickr DSC_1081 by Rob Harris, on Flickr DSC_1084 by Rob Harris, on Flickr

well spotted Jack, good eyes - I hadn't noticed that slight difference in my excitement at having thought I'd solved the problem. Masking the black disc then slicing up some white decal strips to suit will probably be the cheapest and easiest solution.

I was watching Warplane Workshop last night, the episode on the Spanish Civil War Bucker Jungmeister, and the penny dropped. This marking on the rear fuselage of White 14 is the Legion Condor marking! So, on to the Hannants website this morning, and I think if I used these in 1/144 scale, they'd *probably* be the right size to go on the fuselage at 1/48 scale instead of the wings at 1/144 - or at least close enough anyway. LF Models Aircraft decals - LFMC44109 | Hannants https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/LFMC44109?result-token=TJ2zu

The only things you need to watch out for are the instructions! 🤣 To make the movie star version, you need to trim the wing tips down, and there's no reference line to use. I was lucky with how mine turned out. You also need to remove the cannon fairings from the wing pieces. The parts you need to use for the cannon barrels are wrong on the instructions, It shows to use part no.39, but this is wrong, you need to use part no. 40. I didn't fit the wing fences or horizontal stabiliser struts either, again they're not on my actual subject.

Thanks chaps. Its not the most detailed kit, but goes together nicely enough, with hardly any filler or persuasion needed

Here's my representation of the Buchon HA-1112M-1L "Yellow 10", as currently operated by Aerial Collective out of IWM Duxford, portayed as she was (mostly) when used in the filming of the Battle of Britain film. 1/72 scale AZ Model kit, not a bad little kit for the money, typical of their quality. I used the new AK Interactive 3rd Generation Early Luftwaffe paint set, which went on nicely. The RLM71 wasn't quite the shade I needed, being more olive drab than the more green shade the real aircraft seems to be in, so I added just a drop or two of RAF Dark Green. The kit only comes with a four bladed prop, as most of the Buchons use. Yellow 10 however has a three blade prop, so I used a Quick Boost Rotol Spitfire mk.5 resin item. Decals are out of the box, along with the numbers kindly provided to me by @SafetyDad I used just a little weathering with pencils and powder, as she is kept pretty clean by AC.

Will give both methods a practice 👍

thanks for that. I did also find some, but they're the HGW wet transfer variety which I don't fancy using, and nearly £18 which is a daft amount of money to spend on two small decals.

that's what I had in mind, was just a little unsure over how crisp the masking would leave the segmented black circle. May try a practice one on my mule kit.

I'm going to be building an example in 1/48 scale of the Bf109E4 which resides at the Biggin Hill Heritage Hangar, which is painted to represent the aircraft when it was flown by H-J Marseille. I've got the kit, and most of the decals, but am struggling with the decal for the fuselage aft of the Balkenkreuz. Simple enough to mask the black circle, but getting the white cross over it is a little trickier, and it would be easier to do it in one decal. There's a photo calibration marking I've seen recently in a book about test and development aircraft which would fit the bill, and Fineline did a pack which featured it, but its long out of production. Any ideas or advice please, fine folks of Britmodeller? https://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Bf-109E/LG2-I/pages/Airworthy-Bf-109E4-1.LG2-White-14-Hans-Joachim-Marseille-France-1940-02.html

My first flight should have been with '434, but she went technical on the day. When we rescheduled, it was alongside TA805, which kickstarted my whole relationship with Biggin Hill! Coincidentally, thats where I first saw RW382, back when she was still her 322 Dutch squadron colours.

Thank you. It was definitely enhanced by knowing the aircraft and owner/pilot.

Thank you. I was lucky I'd booked the Saturday, as all the Sunday flights were scrubbed due to the weather. I hung around with them afterwards too, as George did a display practice flight, so that was an added bonus!