Dave Fleming

The thought of the potential price scares me!!

Bewarethe AV-8B (NA) nose on the Airfix kit - IIRC they moulded it the same length as the GR7 nose (which is longer) - should be vanilla B length

They were, yes.

Thread hi-jack, but both Telix aircraft are 100% LERX aircraft IIRC, whereas the kit is 65%....

Noi, the ESCI Harrier IIs were their own kits, but not very good at all. The Italeri ones all owe their origin to the 1984 original one.

You missed a couple! A Varsity was used in the 60s and an Andover C.1 used for a short time in the 70s, only Andover painted in European tactical camouflage. Got a pic somewhere. Here's a link to some: http://www.spyflight.co.uk/unus.htm

Presumably the fact Quickboost do a replacement suggests there is something wrong?

Jen will know more, but IIRC the Herc C5s are plumbed to carry the RF pods, we'd just need to buy the pods!!

As ARC is down, to follow up the thread Jim started there! Did a bit of research on this one! FK105 is a typo in the AB book, other sources give it as FK115 - A Maurader 1 (or 1A - sources differ at present) - Baugher* lists it as a B-26A-1, serial 43-7391. It is listed as being with 45 Gp Comms Squadron from July 42 until it became 231 Sqn in Sept 44, then with that unit until July 45 (which also matches with it's disposal date on the) As for Jim's belief it was a II, some mk Is (and certainly the MKIAs) seem to have been fitted with the enlarged intakes, and if it was being used for that length of time, a retro-fit is not out the question (Witness the ETPS B-25G retrofitted with a glass nose) *http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/1941_2.html

Speed isn't everything - and the Century series top speeds were without all the things they had to hang on them (like tanks to get them beyond the end of the runway)

Cockpit http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK---Air/Ha...mrod/1115702/L/ (Wonder if they ever had green seats?) 206 'Low Viz' Octopus 1994 (By chance the same aircraft as in the photo above) http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb209/D.../scan0001-1.jpg

The big advantage the Hasegawa kit has is that it has engraved lines and better fit than the Airfix one - that said, they miss a couple of little feautes that the Airfix one does have (The underfuselage flare 'wedge' and the RWTs on the wingtips) both are either easy to fix or leave off if it takes your fancy!!) One downside is that Hasegawa mould the airbrake door closed (it's always down when the u/c is down) - Quickboost amke a resin one, or again, you can leave it if it doesn't bother you. Only other point is that on the most recent Op Telic release, their research has been a little sloppy and the kit has the wrong LERX for the aircraft portrayed.

Paging Jen.....

You need to beg or borrow the 4+ Wessex book, which has good drawings of the underside pipework. I think the 'tannoy' is the dipping sonar

I have a vauge recollection of a resin kit, but not from where or when

I remember it as a more vivid green in daylight than in the pics above from when I saw it. 206 also had a blue finned aircraft at one point

I get the impression that they took the orders before they started to produce any of these items (Capital to buy the raw materials?) and resin production of such large pieces can be a time consuming business, but a little customer information wouldn't go amiss!

I have seen the same technique done using gloss paint. The best I have ever seen was uing stretched plastic strip

Anyone use a CO2 or Nitrogen tank? They seem to be popular in the US, but much less common over here. On Compressors, what's the diff between the AS189 and the AS186 posted above?

We can but hope!!

Just remembered - the kit was all on one sprue and the windows were solid (dark blue plastic in my case) - the box had a little diorama base on it. IIRC these were 'fit the box' kits that just happened to be 1/144th (or close) - there was a 1/100th Gazelle as well.

More or less - I had the HAS2 - it was very simple. But it looked like a Lynx

Magna kit is a RAF C-1 - which is Standard length fuselage with freight door and Super wings!!

I feel your pain - had to do similar for a WW1 subject last year (2 came from a Modeldecal post-war sheet!)

I'm assuming it isn't in the 2008 new announcement as it was announced for 2007