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- And 'Flightpath' (David Parkins) website for Ground Power Units among other things. Road Transport Images (Frank Waller) does a '60s/'70s Leyland Hippo refueller if you need one.

Hi Yorki, your question intrigued me so I delved about a bit and found a forum called "Shipbucket.com" where there are some great illustrations of carrier colours including one of the Centaur class carriers in 1963, so quite a bit later than your model, but may be helpful. I'd suggest dropping an email to White Ensign Models as they've done a lot of research on RN colour schemes and they have a comprehensive range of authentic paints.

Hi Bzn20 - and go anyone else reading this thread - er - much humble pie... Dartmoor Models have a website but they're not responsible for the ex-BW Fire vehicles I'm afraid - so sorry for my brainstorm and I meant Paul Metcalfe's 'Mid-Devon Models'. You can find him on Facebook too at 'middevonmodels'. So sorry again for the misinformation. Matador models have their own website so don't sell via eBay. I'll get my coat....

It has been a source of frustration to me that there hasn't been a good resin model of the RL MkII available in 1/76. Barry Wright had RLs in his extensive catalogue of white metal military vehicles until he retired a couple of years ago and his range is now being produced in part by Dartmoor models (on eBay) for the fire vehicles and by Matador models for the scout cars etc, some of which have been recast in resin, though not the RL as yet. Some of you may have visited Frank Waller's 'Road Transport Images' stand at Scale Modelworld Telford last November: Frank has just sent out his latest newsletter and he now has the MkII RL in his range!! Note you have to buy the cab, chassis, body and wheels separately and the combination isn't cheap but it's lovely! If it's a Mk1 you're after you're in luck as Frank's had this available for a while though be quick as he will archive the Mk1 cab shortly. Currently if you visit the website you'll only find the Mk1 cab available but I'm sure Frank will update the site shortly. If you've not visited before see also his other military models including a couple of 'complete vehicles'. BTW I've no connection with Frank or with RTI other than having met him and ordered some of his, mostly civilian, models in the past.

Try Neomega resin. They have resin seats and other replacement parts for the Airfix Buccaneer.

Nick, Whirlybird have a stand at SMW Telford every year and I have their price list from last year's show which includes almost all of the ex Project-X kits and conversions (and much more). One or two of the Project-X kits aren't currently listed, notably the twin seat P.1154, but the 2011 list did include 3 'new' kits from the old Project-X range. Their address is: Whirlybird 73 High Street Wombwell Barnsley South Yorkshire S73 8HS tel: 01226 345635 or 07776 141821 Hope this helps!

Just Googled TX213 and the dear old girl is apparently under restoration at the NEAM at Sunderland.

I guess you're working in 1/48 but in case it helps, the chaps at Aviation Workshop have a 1/72 Mk 20 pod. You might want to give them a call just in case they're thinking that there might be a market for scaling this pod up.

I'm afraid that xlpainter's correct regarding XE531's fate although its Laffan's Plain at Farnborough and iirc '531 actually ended up on the Farnborough runway after the turbine burst on a roller or possibly a low overshoot. The exact date of the accident escapes me but it was March (I think) 1982. Pilots were Flt Lt (forgive me Rod if you'd got to Sqn Ldr by then) Rod Sears (RAE tp) and Lt Cdr (rtd) John Leng (BAe tp); the latter was in a bad way for a while as they'd both ejected at low level and Lengy had landed uncomfortably close to the fireball. I was at Boscombe at the time, well actually I was off recovering from an appendectomy but anyway, Flt Lt Ray North and I were trying to get some time on '531 as a work up towards a plot we were working on for Ray to fly the EAP. Ray never got to fly either as we lost 531 and the EAP ran out of its (planned) very limited control surface actuator life. I've never seen any decals for '531 or any of the other two-seaters painted in a similar style. The T.7 operated by NLR in Holland was similar but orange and white and the ETPS T.7s were for a while again in a similar scheme but red and white. I've always liked that scheme and one day I'll get round to my Revell Hunters with the PJ conversions - and maybe an Xtrakit T.7 or two, painted up in these schemes.

Hi Selina, I've swapped e-mails with the AHS and they're not aware of some of the listed decals so should I assume these are 'in the pipeline'? 3 that I'm after particularly are: SM72-297 RAF AAEE B170 MAGNA SM72-391 BMA HERALD MAQUETTE SM72-436 BA LANDOR DASH 8 HOBBYCRAFT so if you've any spares or can let me know when they'll be available next I'll be happy!