Dave Fleming
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Brilliant for when I get round to doing the Kit. Thanks.
BTW, anyone got the Azure release and doen't nee dthe RAF decals or would be interetsted in a swap for the ones from the Sword release?
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From British Aviation Colours of WW2 - hopefully including the other (more familiar) colours will give you an idea of where to go.
Direct sunlight
Flash
Natural but diffused light/shadow
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Lets hope these King Air's have real serials from the outset.
Imagine they will - they are going to hot and sandy places. I just wonder how much of the RC-12 fit they will have.
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http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=2815881&C=europe
Another new type ofr the British Army
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It's down to 12 aircraft now, and the first three are undergoing flight testing at Warton now.
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. Eh?
Eh?
You've been listening to too much Rush - you sound Canadian!
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It would fit in with Airfix's Swedish obsession!
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Gosh, all you old guys!
(Born three days into 1968!!)
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Very nice - I wish Flashman had been adopted (Like to see a GR9 in it...)
BTW, the markings are 13 Squadron
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I bought them from 84 through to 2003 religiously, but haven't the last couple of years. Bought this years a few weeks ago because I was away from home and needed something aviation to read in the hotel!
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Supposedly the most accurate 1/72 Tonka nose out there?
Next time I see a Monogram GR.1 I'm gonna bag one, might even spur me to write that ultimate Tornado guide sometime (as soon as I've finished the Harrier, Hawk and Jaguar ones...)
It also appeared in a Revell box at one point - but then so did the Italeri one!
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Heard this was happening - this one needs to grow on me a bit more.
Thanks for the link.
I know the aircraft has been painted, but that still looks like a PS job to me!
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Depends on how much it matters!
There are some differences in the rear cockpit in particular - the RN FG1 only has a 'half' console on the right hand side.
I have heard that there is equally much diufference between an early and a late cockpit
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Bearing in mind Revell's penchant for releasing differing variants a few years apart, they'd be daft not to include some options in the tooling - although it will probably be Dambusters and Tallboy/Grand Slam rather than mk II.
There was a rumour that the Matchbox Lancaster was supposed to be a mk II, but it was felt to be too little known a variant.
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NOt seen SAM or MAM yet.
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IMO it's a toss up with the amount of work you need to do to make a decent one - The Hasegawa NEEDS the Flightpath set, and is far too expensive for what you get(£16 last time I looked!!). The Italeri kit needs about as much detailing, but is a good bit cheaper (esp if you can find it second hand).
One aspect of the Hasegawa kit that is hard to deal with is that the wing chord is too small.
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No-one, as far as I know, did prototype decals. Modeldecal did a sheet (76?) that had the initial F2s delivered to 229 OCU (same sheet as F4J (UK))
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I have though seen a picture of a GR3 at Port Stanley -I think- with what looks like the larger (RN) white or maybe silver pods you mention, with the pointy nose... was there not electrical combatability/interference problems with the RAF SNEB/Matras on board HMS Hermes?
Heres a (transposed!!!) pic of a fully tooled up GR3..letting RIP!!!!! And yes you can see that they have two rows of tubes....
Yep, they used the RN pods during the war (Hence why they are included in the kit) but all the point noses were gone by then.
I just wish there was a way to get the 2in pods in 1/72 without buying a CMK Bucanneer!!
I used to have that photo on a poster on my wall when I was about 10!
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The stores in the kit are pretty reasonable...I think that I will probably go for the following.....
I'm gonna go for the SNEB pods. Matt Aluminium bodies - High gloss (Chrome - if I get it to work) rear sections with black nose cones. The rocket tube apertures will be given a thin application of wet milliput - to represent the frangible covers.
Doesn't the kit have fatter RN 2in rocket pods (3x rows of rockets) as opposed to SNEB/Matra 68mm ones (2 rows) Not being a 1/48th person, I only have a vauge memory of this. I do recall seeing early GR1s with 2in pods, but with the rounded frangible nose cap and not the conical one.
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Is the number of turbine blades correct? :-)
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Of course Bill.... for that would require the use of a time travelling devide
Now there's an idea - Life on Mars in the RAF!! 2007 Tornado pilot transferred back in time to, say, 1940.............. I once wrote a short story based on that thought (although it was a Jaguar pilot in 1970s) - then along came the Final countdown....
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Never knew there was so much work involved in backdating a 3 to a 1 - there was me thinking they just bolted a new nose on!
Actually, the ONLY external difference between a GR1 and a GR3 is the heat exchanger exhausts on the upper fuselage saddle - two on the GR1, one on the GR3. You CAN see pointy nosed GR3s.
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I have it, I'll see if I can find it.
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Disregard that, seems they call it BS241, not BS641.
So, is it Xtracrylix who are wrong and should have called it BS641 (For BS381C/641) or should Don Color have called it BS381C/241?
No-one is wrong. the colour was 641 up until the 1990s revision of BS381C, when it was moved to 241.
New Up-Date on www.seawings.co.uk....!!
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Yeah, a colour photo of the Blackburn B-20!!
Seriously, the I've used your site a lot over the years - mant thanks for all your work!