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Is this their planned "Grounds for Divorce" range?

Bearing in mind they were only used by 2nd TAF in Northern Europe from Jan 45, I doubt that they'd be on one in Italy.

Actually, that just the built ones. There's a larger number unbuilt as loft insulation.

Lightweight. I have well over 300+ Spitfires.

72nd. Modeldecal never did anything in any other scale AFAIK.

I might pick one up at Telford but I'd rather have the Coupe - I have a pair of resin Moth Minors tucked away as it is, and the High Planes one is lovely.

One of the annoying things is trying to find 36in Sky codes. I've a long term plan to do YH-Y of 21 Sqn for one of the Operation Carthage aircraft, but can I find the relevant letters? No. Modeldecal and Xtradecal only go up to 30in.

True, and invariably it's *always* MM417 EG-T.

I mixed my own and have used it for some years, consisting of a full bottle of Xtracrylix White with 5 -6 DROPS of Xtracrylix Red Arrows Red (as that was the nearest red I had to hand). And it looked good enough to me. All of those commercial available are simply too pink, whereas PRU Pink is just an off white. Your mileage may vary, of course.

There was a French resin cottage industry outfit called Hi-Tech who did a lot of bits for the Mosquito, intended for either the Matchbox or Airfix kits. One of which was a set of wheel bay inserts which fitted snugly inside the Airfix nacelles. You trimmed off the attachment points and they fitted in with ease. Long OOP - I tried for over twenty YEARS to get their cockpit insert, only for more modern kits to make them redundant. They're still useful as many want to revisit older kits.

May be worth doing it as a commercial release with some additional 487 Sqn aircraft? I do have several interesting photos sourced from t'interweb of 487 Sqn aircraft, including one with the codes in roundel blue. May as well add one of the 489 Sqn aircraft that we have a photo of - they briefly had Mosquitoes, taking over 404 Sqn's aircraft after they disbanded in April '45 before 489 were themselves disbanded in June of that year. Interestingly, some of those aircraft were sold to New Zealand but did little more than fester in storage. PM me if you want to take it further.

There's proper diagrams in the Richard Franks Datafiles on the Mosquito (he's made a number of errors in all three volumes, but even he couldn't cock up an official diagram) but I don't have scans to hand. However, there's these which may give you a flavour of what I mean. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fdh-tr-33-sea-mosquito-cut-away-v0-2eto7yq344s81.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1080%26crop%3Dsmart%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D48843fa33f70982173b332d9ee0bce6e20ae1b7d https://postimg.cc/4KWHxHRN. https://postimg.cc/F7wgjhhG https://postimg.cc/mcKh5gfV https://www.alamy.com/de-havilland-mosquito-tr33-tw294-image504788034.html?imageid=EDAE80D4-CD1E-4695-BA0B-4B1D14D0ECDD&pn=1&searchId=861ba785fb719228d85d00224b72e124&searchtype=0 https://www.alamy.com/de-havilland-mosquito-tr33-image504787998.html?imageid=B8377A00-FE7C-48BF-A913-974D24BD329C&pn=1&searchId=861ba785fb719228d85d00224b72e124&searchtype=0 And this page has a load of photos of the Sea Mosquito TF.37. https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/de-havilland-mosquito-tr-mk-37/

That's looking really good! As an aside, could you have a look at designing/printing the revised Lockheed u/c for the Sea Mosquito? Preferably as a complete unit.

One other thing for any Mosquito pre-March 1944 - the stiffener pads on the u/c doors have to come off. Airfix have them as a raised oval panel on the 16, whereas on the II/VI/XVIII it's a raised oval line.

I've got my fingers crossed that they'll have some early overtrees at Telford. They did several boxings of the mk 16 as overtrees that have yet to see release proper, so it's possible. And yes, I'd be happier giving Eduard my few remaining Great British Pennies. As good as the IBG ones look, I'm adamant that I will not pay more than twenty notes for a single seat fighter in injection.