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Wez

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  1. This is a very true thing, thank you for reminding me, however, our correspondent is originally from Ireland where they make some very fine cheeses and should therefore, know better!
  2. You sir are not to be trusted! Your disagreeing son however is a stout yeoman and can be accepted into polite society!
  3. Weirdo, odball!
  4. That was standard mess fare along with dessicated coconut and pineapple it was the only way of putting any flavour into it!
  5. Aah Babies Heads! Hated them but ate them, very comforting and sticks to yer ribs! I remember on pre deployment training, the Rocks handing out the rat packs (this was in the day of the boil in the bag rat packs), the only person not to get a pack with baked beans in was someone who was known to fill his Bergen half full of Heinz baked beans on deployment, needless to say no-one would swap with him and we all ate our baked beans in front of him. There's a current UK advert of some poor sap who goes on holiday having packed his case full of Heinz baked beans only to lose it in transit, he spends the rest of his holiday in paradise blubbing at his loss - what a loser! Thus was this particular chap 25 years ago!
  6. Every occasion I'm afraid Steve, can't stand a fried egg (not keen on egg white), quite happily eat an omelette or scrambled eggs but never a fried or boiled. The first thing I used to do when receiving an egg-banjo when in the mob was to try and find someone who'd swap their egg for the bacon/ham.
  7. IPA Red wine especially a Languedoc/Bordeaux/Portuguese Rum and Ka pineapple I've got a real fondness for Henry Weston's Vintage Cider, trouble is it's 8.2% but tastes like it's a 4% cider - be very careful out there
  8. You're right about that, likewise all of the other things they did to get the thing to fly right such as the dog-tooth leading edge (I'm aware the Hunter likewise has a dog tooth leading edge), as well as the root extensions, it almost seems as though the Superrmarine designers were in an aerodynamics pick'n'mix and wanted a bit of everything, the result to my mind is that everything looks like an afterthought.
  9. Yes it's definitely subjective. For me I'd liken the Swift to a Hunter that had overdone the steroids then had a few too many unsuccessful nips and tucks to regain its faded glory. When you compare the Supermarine jets to the Spitfire they're just over bloated in comparison (Attacker/Swift/Scimitar = fat/fatter/fattest). I once had the privilege of having a good look over a Hunter and a Swift alongside each other at Bournemouth, the Hunter seemed to be the smallest airframe wrapped around its engine whereas the Swift seemed to be wearing an inflatable suit around its engine. On the Hunter an access panel led to the item you needed to access, on the Swift the external access panel led you to another access panel. That said, I'm considering making a Swift for the NATO GB...
  10. This is one of my favourite periods in aviation, lots of wartime stuff getting some bright post-war colours and lots of early jets coming to the fore. Please count me in
  11. Ooh! Sophie Morceau! Shame on me for forgetting her! No time needed, honestly, we're talking about Françoise Hardy, Vanessa Paradise, Sophie Morceau and you have to lower the tone! Shame on you!
  12. I've had an Italeri 1/72nd A-10 and a Superscale decal sheet kicking around for years just meaning to get around to so this GB may be the impetus I need, please sign me up.
  13. Non! Tu as tellement tort! The Mirage IIIC is Francoise Hardy but the Mirage F.1 is Vanessa Paradis the Mirage 2000C is Charlotte Gainsbourg
  14. You're both confusing beauty with handsomeness, the F-14 is a good looking jet and indeed handsome, but beautiful it isn't, too many jutty out awkward angles and well, triangles. It's functional but not beautiful. Beautiful aircraft have gorgeous curves and everything flows smoothly and blends together without hurting the eyes, so for me, it's the Hawker Hunter, Spitfire VIII, Mirage 2000C, Hawker Seahawk (another mention for Camm's brilliance), finally for those saying Mosquito, I see your Mosquito and raise you the DH Hornet. If we were choosing bombers then Canberra hands down. Civilian aircraft, Lockheed Constellation (although I have to agree, the Caravelle is also a thing of beauty).
  15. With regard to the ejection seats, the French aircraft used the earlier seat which was painted interior green as per the kit instructions. Generally, if the area behind the transparencies to the rear of the cockpit are black, then as originally built, it will have the earlier seat and an interior green cockpit. Aircraft of different blocks, that have the area behind these transparencies will as originally built use the intermediate seat again in grey. Belgian, Italian and German aircraft had these seats for instance. The Martin-Baker seat was originally introduced by the Germans and was a retrofit. As Greece and Turkey both operated ex-German aircraft it's natural to assume they retained their MB seats. I know this is the case with the Turkish aircraft, not so sure about the Greek aircraft ( @RidgeRunner help me out here).
  16. Thanks Laurent, that's a Czech Aero C-3B, the colours look similar to German shades but as it's a restoration I'm wary.
  17. Andre, Thanks for this. The French aircraft that aren't in overall aluminium are in the overall green colour (there's bigger pictures of those aircraft in the Lela Press book). The dark one with light undersides is a Czechoslovak machine. That's a restored Czech machine, possibly originally built using German colours, nice model of a Martinet though.
  18. Anyone?? @Laurent@TEMPESTMK5 any of our French members, can you help?
  19. Aargh! You're right! I've been foolish and deluded! I missed the point about those aircraft used in the liberation of Paris, I was concentrating too much on looking for aircraft with invasion stripes (or the remnants thereof). I couldn't find any photos of the aircraft used in the liberation but you're right, such aircraft are going to be Siebel's rather than SNCAC branded aircraft (therefore in Luftwaffe colours as you suggested). Also, looking at the dates given in the Lela Press books, they're dates for the service in different units, not production dates. This is what comes of mixing your drinks! Must try harder.
  20. There's photos of NC.701 Martinet's with D-Day stripes (or the remnants of them), on p.295 (c/n #1), p296 (c/n #3) and p297 (c/n #10), of the Lela Press book, all of these have the original German 2-bladed prop, according to the book all of these are post-war builds. Giampiero, These aircraft were post-war builds, all were finished in an overall green (similar to other post-war French aircraft of originally German origin). They're in a consistent overall green scheme, no splinter and no light shade such as a light-blue on the undersides with a couple of exceptions. The NC.701s were new builds post war, the twenty NC.700s were produced from airframes made in France but not completed before liberation, these are essentially Siebel Si-204D's, eventually they received the same modifications as the NC.701s and are largely indistinguishable from the later aircraft (NC.700s had c/n's in the 1000-1020 range, NC.701's started from #1).
  21. It's actually an NC.701 Martinet, this is confirmed on the back of the photo (in your link), the give away are the three balded Ratier propellers fitted to Martinet's. These aircraft were effectively Siebel-Si-204D's but with Renault engines (copies of the original Argus engines), the Ratier propellers and internal equipment differences. I've been through the recent Lela Press book on the type (Du Siebel au Martinet - 27 ans sous nos cocardes), which is an impressive tome covering all of the French built aircraft and their use in French service as well as some civilian use of the French built aircraft. Almost universally all of the aircraft in the early part of their career were finished in a uniform aluminium paint finish, some very early aircraft were finished in an overall green but looking at the photo in the link I'm going with overall aluminium paint.
  22. Hello all, I'm after some info on the interior colours of the NC.701 Martinet which was the French post-war aircraft based upon the Siebel Si-204D. The first Martinet's were effectively airframes resulting from wartime production, these had the designation NC.700 and as far as I can find out, these were finished to wartime Luftwaffe colours. The NC.701s were produced using Renault engines (based upon the wartime Argus engines), most also had Ratier 3-bladed propellers. I've got the recent Lela Press book on the Martinet, unfortunately, all of the interior photos are in B&W. The recent Special Hobby kit quotes what are effectively Luftwaffe equivalent colours (e.g. a black-grey cockpit interior like RLM-66), but photos in the Lela Press book look to be lighter than that in the cabin area at least. Can anyone help with the colouring of the interior of these aircraft?
  23. I've had this kit for some time, I'd even made a start on it but hadn't got very far, Patrice @TEMPESTMK5 has kindly classed the model as within the 25% and therefore eligible for the GB. My boxing is for the aircraft in its earlier guise, I really wanted to do one in later ANG markings so I put out a begging bowl and that absolute gentleman @stevehnz agreed to do a swap, the problem is now, I'm spoiled for choice although I'm currently torn between a New Jersey and a Texan ANG aircraft. Thanks to Patrice and Steve for helping me enter this STGB.
  24. Right change of plan, yesterday when I was out and about I picked up a 1/72nd Tamiya F-84G in a chassa (charity shop), for a mere £1.50. The kit decals are shot (looks like they got damp at some point), but that's no problem. There's no instructions either but I made this kit before when it came out so I have the instructions from that build so that's not a problem either. I hadn't made much progress with the Academy kit so I'm going to promote this chassa refugee to it's place in the sun instead. I must say, the timing was impeccable, I've actually got some time to do some modelling this weekend!
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