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Whereabouts? True that!

Choices, choices, now WWEMD?

Thanks for signing up, sounds interesting, just the sort of thing I was hoping for. Anyone else want to play? There's room for more. Any subject from any southern European country that has a coastline from Spain to Greece, as well as Portugal, Malta, Albania or Cyprus is eligible.

Looking forward to seeing this come together, I'll be getting one when they become available here so it will be useful to get some tips from your build Patrice. Good luck with it, looking good so far.

Frank, Do you have the structural repair guide for the aircraft? That will tell you what materials the aircraft was skinned in although it's just likely to be various gauges of aluminium (e.g. 2024-Tx or 7075-Tx where x is the temper and I'm not saying this is what it was made of, just using examples of metal specs to look for). Unfortunately, most of these metals have a fairly uniform finish especially if the metal is clad. There may be the odd bit where it's prone to wear where it may be skinned with nickel or stainless steel based metal but those would be in the odd place here or there.

Glad to have you along Joseph, I'm certainly liking your choice of subject. Thanks for signing up. Room for more, come and join us!

That particular aircraft is featured on Model Art Decal sheet 72/039, it shows it in the blue over aluminium scheme but the forward part of the nose between the front of the windscreen and the radome is natural metal (quite common practice I understand, Patrick @VG 33 would know). Jean-Pierre Desprez is pretty hot with his research, I wouldn't be surprised if he has a photo to confirm the scheme, try contacting him at modartdec@btinternet.com

Precisely the sort of thing I'm hoping to see, we just need votes in November's bunfight!

Ahem!

Thunderbox decals did some contact John to see if he still does them, you can PM him, he's on BM as @xvtonker

Add me to the list please, I know I have plenty of suitable subjects in the stash

I would support such a GB, whether I'm available to provide any meaningful help would depend upon whether I'm actually working in (ironically), Italy or at home. If I'm at home, count me in!

This will help!

As a Vectis boy who has actually clambered in and around the Solent Skies aircraft, whose grandma worked for SaRo and whose mum lived just down the road from the old SaRo works, I'm up for this

We haven't had this one for a while, count me in!

Thanks to both Andre and Martin for the links, some interesting subjects there.

Where did you get them from Martin? What subjects do they cover?

Actually, this is what's come up on the feed while I've been cooking dinner (spaghetti bolognese if you're interested)... Couldn't be more different any of them...

And I used to like you guys but in the words of Mr Lydon "Never trust a hippie!" (although ironically, he himself was a big Hawkwind fan in his youth). Must be something to do with Martins? Can't stand all of those boring, long,, self indulgent solos, give me something loud, fast and preferably, sub 3 minutes, something like this... OK, so the next two are slightly over 3 minutes but one is from my music ground zero, the other is from the only band that ever mattered... Actually, I quite like the Röyskopp & Alison Goldfrapp song, but then, she can do no wrong in my book!

A Spitfire type Q Harness would be appropriate for a Vampire F.3, it's certainly what I'd use. Q Harnesses were introduced about circa 1944 and became standard for normal seats in RAF aircraft, personally I'd use a buff coloured one in an early F.3.

I understand peoples comments about the price of the kit, we all have to manage the amount we spend on our hobby according to our budgets but... ...I often think whether £24 is a reasonable price for a mainstream kit of the Meteor F.8 and then compare it to the recent Hobby Boss A-4 Skyhawk, which retails at a certain on-line hobby shop for £32-99, so suddenly the Airfix Meteor represents better value to me. Some people have commented that as a home produced product the Meteor shouldn't cost so much, granted, the kit is designed and developed here but where do Airfix get their moulds cut these days? Are these still outsourced to China? Then there's the mouldings themselves, aren't these mostly done in India. The decals are by Cartograph in Italy, I'm not sure where the boxes are printed? Perhaps the instructions are printed in the UK but the point is, little of the kit is really home grown only slightly more than the Hobby Boss A-4. As such Airfix have to pay the prices associated with transporting products half way around the globe. Then there's the 20% VAT which gets added to the cost. So for me, the cost is bearable, I'll get (no short shots permitting), a well moulded kit which provides me with both types of canopy, aileron and intake without having to go to the effort of having to sand the outer wing panels to a reasonable thickness whilst simultaneously, not turning the circular engine cowlings egg shaped. I'm looking forward to this kit, I'll buy many over time. and if anyone's interested, I'll be getting rid of my Xtrakit (SH) moulded Meteors.

The IIIE is specific to the Adl'A and had the Doppler fairings, IIIEA and IIIEI, whilst based on IIIE airframes, do not feature the Doppler fairing as they're different models. I suspect that's what Laurent was driving at.

Yes, but without the Doppler radar. The IIIE based airframes offer so much more in the way of markings, I'm disappointed it's not the initial release but I'm so pleased with what I see in this kit.

Seeing this thread back up and running makes me happy, a break from the doom and gloom!

Imagine a bald, fat man, in his fifties, wearing black jeans and a black t-shirt, doing karaoke at a friends 50th birthday party pretending he was wearing a white leather jumpsuit, studded with rhinestones and a big quiff of hair, apparently, my vocal range was outstanding... ...I don't think so myself... followed it up with a mate doing this... >>>(I used to work with his brother when I was in the RAF)...