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..LOL ...you and me both. I was going to 'chip in' with some 'advice' on the hairspray technique, but since that's been covered already, you can get a good result on the tyres by doing the wheels in the base colour then load a small brush with some very (very) diluted black/tyre colour, touch it on the outside of the hub and lo and behold the capillary action will run the colour perfectly around the outside of the hub creating a neat demarcation ..all being well. Just need to fill in the rest....

a couple of images from a friend (thanks Del!) as seen on the Airfix stand at Telford - just wondering if the ZFR telescopic sight is included in the kit..

always been put off this kit by the 'negative' comments re the nose shape etc, but yours certainly looks the part Pete, very nicely done!

JGr. 300. The clue is the small horizontal bar across the fuselage bands. No reason at all why that should be on a JG 2 machine. Jagdgruppe 300 was 'officially' established through the amalgamation of II. and III./JG 300 in April 1945 and is mentioned in a Luftflottenkommando 6 ORB dated 03 May 1945. More about JGr. 300 here. But it looks like you've already read that page. There's plenty more errors in the Wolowski book too.. Pic of 'yellow 13' from JGr. 300 here

..have to agree...a master at work.

.. needs a (stretched sprue) Bowden cable running out along the wing from the cockpit to launch the things as well...

... nice work on this IV. Gruppe machine!

.....looks very nice, well done! Didn't he fly one of these with red & white stripes on the wings? Not heard of MACS , is this a new tool?

..gets my vote! You did well to find a big enough sheet of paper for the background (?)

..does look rather different from the standard F.1. And fantastic work on the rigging!

wow.. and 500+ posts already. Actually that canopy is probably just the right size to allow you to 'smash-mold' a replacement. Easier than you think with a piece of clear (eg food container) plastic and a candle. Great post!

.... the last set of Roden decals I used just disintegrated, so a new sheet might be required anyway

...aarrgghh. I forgot the Blenheim! So bad I've erased it from my memory. I even did it twice, hoping it would all fall into place second time around - it didn't! Re MB 5 - still got the canopy and the decals to give you nightmares yet.

..very nice! I missed the red gear doors on my build...

Sorry Adrian, not for me. Just about 'finished' an AZ MB 5 earlier this year (worst injection mold ever!), the SMER Dr. 1 is done (44th scale ?!!) and just finishing a Roden 72nd Dr.1 (all struts separate parts!)

... never seen them, but they are available cheaply so I guess they haven't sold well and that will be the end of that. Generally speaking modellers aren't interested in the interwar period... (he says...)

... lovely cover Andy and that image is excellent - is it colourised or a 'modern' pic of the preserved machine?

Nice! any idea how this kit compares with the Heller and Mastercraft kits?

super build. Cockpit looks amazing. Having built their P-47s, 190s and 109s, I can safely say that Academy's 72nd single-seat fighters very rarely look anything like the machines they are supposed to represent. This one certainly does.

.. what doesn't kill you makes you stronger or something like that, so why not?....plenty of subjects languishing in the stash

and me please. Fancy putting a 'Tunisian' machine on the shelf. Seems crazy that some of the first Tigers went to North Africa.

12 victories 'officially' confirmed (Bf 110s, Do 17s and four Bf 109s) for the loss of 3 Caudron pilots KIA. Ppor. Jerzy Godlewski -officially MIA- reached England and joined 72 Sqd. Three 2e escadrille machines at Dreux on 22 June, 'white 10 and 'white 13' with 'white 7' in the background. 'White 13' was flown by the future 56th FG ace Boleslaw Gladych. (expired ebay auction - and p181 of Belcarz 'Les aviateurs polonais en France')

There'a an excellent (and cheap) old Profile Publications monograph on the type (No. 215)

Thanks guys - just found similar with all 400 Profiles on it - (inc. armour, ships and small arms). They do indeed seem to have disappeared all of a sudden. Somebody here must have been around when they folded. (I'm too polite to say who ...😀)

..what are you using for 'scale' sand ?!