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My Tamiya 1/24 Toyota TS050 arrived yesterday. A little bit simplified for the money but a nice kit nonetheless. I was a bit dissapointed in the fact that you cannot make an accurate Le Mans or WEC machine out of the box as Tamiya seem to have scrimped on paying the license fee's for the logo's for the 24 Hrs, WEC and Total as these are missing from the decal sheet. There is a update decal sheet from Blue Stuff that rectifies the deficiencies in the kit decals which I've ordered from Hiroboy.

Nice build. Got soaked a couple of times by this jet while on exercise at Binbrook.

It builds pretty well out of the box and the kit includes seat belt material, vinyl for mud flaps, window masks and an etch sheet which includes seat belt buckles.

I still use MEK on a daily basis as a solvent/additive in commercial inkjet printers. It was always the last cab of the day that would shed its blade tape. Stood on the SARTU pan you could hear it whistling well before it reached the airfield boundary.

Beemax Audi Sport Quattro and etch set arrived today. For anyone who was wondering, the missing HB logos from the kit decal sheet are included on a small decal sheet in the etch set.

Very nice. The real thing flies over our house almost daily on its way into and out of Broughton.)

Beemax have an Audi Sport Quattro on the way, to be follwed by a Lancia Delta S4 and a Peugeot 306 Maxi Kit Car. ( all info from their Facebook page).

Belkits are to release an injected kit of the MG Metro 6R4 in two versions. RAC Rally and Monte Carlo Rally 1986. http://www.dominotest.be/belkits/images/downloads/MG64R.png

I built one very similar to that for my dad a few years ago. He met George Beurling when he was staying in our village after he left Malta, and George mentions meeting two local lads (my dad and uncle) in his book Malta Spitfire.

Hannants have two Xtradecal 1/48 Tornado F3 sheets listed in the Future Release section on their website. No details as yet as to what schemes will be on them.

They were called Jet Pipes in my day.....

What is a "Jet can" ?

Audi Sport Quattro S1 on the way from Beemax.

Xtradecal X48186 is due for release which includes markings for a grey 111Sqn and a grey/green 43Sqn jet. The following sheets are out of production but do turn up on eBay occasionally: - Airdoc 48007 Almark AKA4802 Xtradecal X00248 Xtradecal X00148 If you Google 1/48 RAF Phantom decals you can see what options are on the sheets.

Very disappointing.