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and look at the weathering on that.....

You're correct. The plot thickens... and indeed searching in the Australian War Museum archive there's a pic of a semi-yellow Battle with a RED fuselage stripe. So I guess the fuselage band is some kind of squadron/flight identification marking.

@Tigerausfb @brewerjerry Thanks. I didn't see that one at all. Why would an RCAF plane be in the Australian War Memorial archive....?🤔 Looks like some research to be done there. Oh well at least it exists.

Does anyone have definitive evidence of this scheme? I am about to start the new FRROM fairey battle, and I see it has a scheme for a RCAF aircraft in what I describe as 'semi-yellow' -which it states is prior to conversion as a TT., which I'm keen to do. But I can find no evidence on the interthingy of this scheme as applied to RCAF battles. Even the usually authoritative Harold Skaurup (https://www.silverhawkauthor.com/) has no mention of it. Plenty of pics of completely yellow TT Battles but none in this scheme. I'm assuming FRROM must have based it on something. As per the third one here.:

Here is my effort at the venerable Matchbox Heyford. I'd read some horror stories about this kit, but it was a pleasant surprise in how easily it actually went together. As you'll see from the pics however the 45 year old decals didn't stand up too well. I replaced the upper wing and fuselage roundels with nice new ones, but persevered with the others. The underwing serials went on easily enough, but with large areas of silvering, but even that nicely dissapeared once varnished with a matt fixatif. Also I was surprosed at how well the old decals conformed to the corrugations on the front fuselage. However the wheel spat decals are sadly pretty bad. The main reason for my attempting this was to for the first time to try and make a representation of the rigging for a biplane. I've done a number of biplanes in the past, but never with rigging. I figured with the Heyford being so large and a not particularly complex rigging pattern (it's just a single bay biplane after all...), that rigging it shouldn't be ... too bad. I used stretched clear sprue. I didn't attempt complete rigging just enough to satisfy me and give a solid representation of the way the Heyford looks. I'm pleased with the final result I am left with a true admiration for those of you who rig 1/72 small biplanes.. you must have laser cameras for eyes and tweezers for fingers! And yes I'm fully aware of the were they/weren't they controversy around camouflaged Heyfords, but damn she looks good! I painted the bombs various shades of buffy yellow to get a bit of interest rather than a row of bright yellow... Hope you like it. Not a patch on some Heyfords here, but I'm quite proud of it.

https://militarymatters.online/defense-news/canada-drop-f-35-for-hal-tejas/ Makes sense to me! 🤣

Nice work. but somehow the RAF one doesn't look right - I don't mean your model is wrong, just the overall concept for it doesn't work for me. The RN one by contrast absolutely looks the part....

@Tankers14 you might also want to look at this:

@hendie and once you've sorted out the Otter's nose how about this: Harbour Air's electric beaver. Anyone up for this?!

@Tankers14 Nicely done. If I may, there's a bit of an obvious seam in your front radome (see third picture) Are you familiar with the mr Surfacer range which are useful as fillers and primers to help in eliminating such seams. Absolutely invaluable. Apart from that, well done. In passing I wasn't aware the SU-35 had vectoring nozzles, and my first thought was your nozzles were out of alignment, but no I looked into it and "Thrust-vectoring nozzles on the Sukhoi Su-35 ......canted slightly outwards, each can be deflected 15° vertically and 8° horizontally " So once again the Britmodellers is a source of education!

Fantastic work, and stunningly quick too (well if you ignore the years in storage 😁) I'm always surprised when people say they don't build a rare kit because it will 'reduce its value'. As far as I'm concerned building this has added imeasurably its value. Well done.

yes it seemed to go on forever, but then I spent all day sunday on it (massive Ice Storm here so nothing else to do!) and managed to get almost all of it done. then a couple of hours this a.m. and voila! Thanks everyone for your encouragement and feedback during the build!

Front 'OMD' probe fitted, first front rotor blades clamped. Rear Blades Clamped A smattering of prominent stencils and, with the exception of the final white serial number, I'm going to declare that finished. ......and so on to something relaxing.. Oh My What Have I done now?😲

Paint! Final front windscreen touches incuding the OMD to do Then rotor blades And I need to source some white serial numbers.

Indeed: but considering the marvellous work so far, isn't it a bit ridiculous to be criticising what the loon looks like! Now just model the one foot sticking out of the water, and the baby on its back..... 😁