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  1. Dave Fleming
    Looks like they have got the dog tooth length right, but the whole thing looks a bit chunky . When you look at the quality of their Bf109s, they seem to have made a major step backwards. I might get the Qinetiq boxing for the decals
  2. Dave Fleming
    Contacted Eduard and they are aware of the issue and working on a replacement to the too-small batch
  3. Dave Fleming
    Got the Eduard set this morning - thanks MJW Models, ordered Friday arrived today. Looks nice, but the resin wheels are almost half the size of the kit wheels
  4. Dave Fleming
    I had a similar experience with the D510 kit, added to which there were panel lines where the master maker had made a mistake and the correction is visible. Safe to say i wouldn't order this one sight unseen
  5. Dave Fleming
    From memory isn’t the Airfix wing profile correct?
  6. Dave Fleming
    Interesting, I don't think any confirmed photos of that exist, but there was an useful thread on it a few years ago (Make that 6!)
  7. Dave Fleming
    Hard to tell from the sprue shots if they have modified the outer engine angle - the Cs were canted out, the V/As should be parallel to the inner ones. That said I want one!
  8. Dave Fleming
    I think 86 was the last 'proper' airshow - they had a couple of enthusiasts/photo days after that but with minimal flying.
  9. Dave Fleming
    IIRC The Jag had a shorter tail on the CBLS100 to allow them to be loaded on tandem on the centre pylon
  10. Dave Fleming
    And sometimes the need was such that aircraft went into action without having had the codes added - e.g. X4110 of 602 Squadron, which probably had the shortest operational life of any Spitfire
  11. Dave Fleming
    Be still my beating heart! Looks like the design will allow for different upper cockpits, so an NF3 might be on the cards too!
  12. Dave Fleming
    His Tempest drawings were the first he did, but his background in Technical Publications and Airframe structures meant he put a lot of effort into them. No drawing is perfect, and especially when it's been reproduced a couple of times (He makes the point that some of his early prints were stretched by the duplication machine) but I'm just curious https://www.albentley-drawings.com/about/
  13. Dave Fleming
    How does it compare with the Bentley plans?
  14. Dave Fleming
    Hasegawa is an H/J as opposed to a B/C for one. Not much between them. Level of detail is similar (Airfix maybe a bit better but the Hasegawa one has reasonable standard as well). I think the panel lines are a little more restrained on the Hasegawa
  15. Dave Fleming
    How much? been a long time since I looked at one, but my memory was that it was close to a copy of the Heller kit but with engraved panel lines (Like a few of their kits at that time) and a dodgy wing tip shape.
  16. Dave Fleming
    Here's XW269 in 1977 (by which time it would probably be a T4), with the original short fin. It kept this until the LRMTS and RWR was added
  17. Dave Fleming
    Note it's Light Stone not Mid Stone
  18. Dave Fleming
    Bruce, I’m out and about just now but will send you some stuff when home. Basically, the tall tail was never fitted with the RWR, Heller got that wrong. The RWR tail was (basically) the same shape as the single seater fin with the extension on the base. (Just to confuse, as the T4 designation represented the engine fitted, there were tall finned, pointy nosed no RWR T4s as well!!) nB Nick Greenall is on Britmodeller too @NG899
  19. Dave Fleming
    I think the mk II qualifies as the ugliest installation of the Merlin on any aircraft!
  20. Dave Fleming
    Yes, in fact the RAF had one before the war too (K4047) which was used at the RAE from 1934 until 1943, so it had both silver and camouflaged paint schemes. There were another 9 impressed and used by the ATA (X9342, X9344, X9394, X9346, X9437, X9345, X9347 and X9343 plus one which appears not to have been given an RAF nUmber)
  21. Dave Fleming
    I suspect not, or at least not enough
  22. Dave Fleming
    If anyone hasn't read it, Roland White' s Harrier 809 book has considerable detail on the RAF operations in Chile in 1982
  23. Dave Fleming
    The little shop in Dunfermline had it at that price, I almost bought one then he closed
  24. Dave Fleming
    It does look like it's just the FAW1 kit with added FAW 2 sprue - FAW 1 parts layout below - However they have amended the upper fuselage around the observer's cockpit to put the bulged part in, so you'd need to remove that
  25. Dave Fleming
    Just to follow up, the decal/paint scheme artist has confirmed that 28 was chosen as 167 was out of production
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