Max Headroom

Excellent! And the wooden base gives it a surreal effect. MH

and a new tool B-17G in 1/72 MH

If this is one of your "lesser" efforts I might as well give up this hobby and take up extreme knitting or something! MH

You have my deep admiration on this build and can't wait for the final product. You will have a unique model at the end of the process of which you can be proud. Having said that it is deeply disappointing that a brand new, state of the art kit seems to be so way off the mark and makes me wonder whether an Italeri or Airfix kit is still the way forward? MH

Lovely build! I have a 3/4 finished one also using the Italeri kit but using home brew transfers. I also had a disaster with the painting - must be something to do with Humbrol Oxford Blue. I quite like the kit (I think I must be the only one!) I replaced the spinner, aerial and oil cooler with ones from the Airfix Vb which in my humble opinion is fit only for parts. Well done MH

Count me in. I have a model half built and a back story fully thought out! MH

Tin Lovely kit, nicely built! Your weathering is just right. I built mine in RAF colours and had no fit problems at all. MH ............erm, it's not USAF (post war anyway) but NAVY so you may want to change the header!

I recall seeing a drawing of a retracable probe fro the wing tank of an Israeli F-16 many years ago. I kept looking out for photos but I they never got around to it - no domestic need I suppose. MH

I know more about colliding large hadrons together than aerodynamics, but why not make it a delta? More room for internal fuel that way. Whilst you are at it, give it a double delta like the Draken. MH

My understanding is that ex factory, Va's had the fabric aelirons of the I/II and Vc's metal and that the changeover occured sometime during the Vb production run. Of course once in the field........... MH

Mighty fine build General! MH

Right then - why no Short Sperrin? MH

I seem to remember that the mainwheels were incorrectly positioned and when looking at it from the front should hang directly underneath the position of the booms. Miggers' linked article doesn't seem to adress this. MH

Gorgeous build. Mine will only be a shadow of your superb effort. MH

There is one such vet flying today a late Westland built example 1a AR213. There have been numerous photos over the years (originally in FlyPast) which show her coded JZ*F (or was it U?). Her cowling has horizontal red white and blue stripes and the serial painted on the fin flash. Less well known is her sister '212 which appeared with a solid yellow nose. I've been Googling to see if picture of either turn up. No luck so far. MH

Back in the mid 70's I recall an edition of Airfix Magazine. There was a photospread of a Hurricat ready for action. One shot was from above, the plane on the catapult and I assume the pilot sitting on the wing. What interested me though were at least three tonal values for the upper surface camo, suggesting at least a partial repaint. Unfortunately, my Airfix mags disappeared many moons ago so cannot give more info. However if someone out there has them to hand........... MH

Dan This is the "Takoradi Route" from the Gold Coast, now Ghana, as you can see it was quite a long haul http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kIWY2DV0KnE/R8wq...i+Air+Route.jpg not been able to find a picci though. MH

Just watching an episode of 'Aircraft Stories' that I recorded from Discovery Knowledge this morning. It covers the Belenheim, Wellington and the Lancaster. Other types also make an appearance - well worth a watch if you come across the episode. About three minutes in there is an air to air sequence of a Blenheim IV and at least three Hurricanes flying over what appears to be tropical forest. All three aircraft have single letters but are indistinguishable. What makes them odd is that all three appear to have a uniform light colour (white?) on the rear top fuselage - from behind the aerial mast on the Hurri's and behind the turret on the Blenheim. The fixed part of the horizontal stabilizers are in the same colour. Upper surface roundels are what I still call B type, whilst the fuselage is A1. The fin flash is equal red, white and blue. Now I know aircraft bound for Egypt ferried via Takoradi in West Africa had upper surfaces painted white as a visual aid in case they forced landed. However, the 'jungle' underneath to me at least looks more far east. India/Burma/Singapore based aircraft used European camouflage and markings before adopting more appropriate schemes, so its not beyond the bounds of possibility? Is my topography to pot or not? MH

Can I start the totally unfounded rumour that Revell will bring out a 1/144 model to accompany the the C-17! MH

Logic says that since they were supplied from diverted stocks they would have been RAF bog standard on delivery. However, once they arrived with the USAAF equivalent of M.U.'s who knows? MH

The Boulton Paul Association have a link. They appear to be (very slowly) building a replica it is assumed from archive plans. See this link from 2005 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/markansell/bpa/ Cross fertilizing from the useless fact threat, the Overtrand (or was it the Sidestrand?) was the first RAF plane with a power operated turret. MH

See here............. http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=h...ficial%26um%3D1 looks pretty level to me. Yes it's a lovely model all the same. MH

clap: :frantic: good grief! Utterly utterly brilliant. MH

Excellent build Libor. I can't see the join - whereabouts did you perform the surgery? MH p.s. my Hobbyboss Hurri was binned because the underside fillet join wouldn't meet the fuselage at all - even with superglue.

form a queue here http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1-32nd-TAMIYA-SPITFI...=item1c0e63031b I won't be in it! Now if it was a Balliol.................. MH thinx.........could use the Merlin, prop and wheels, throw away the rest and scratchbuild?