Nigel Bunker

Try Abe books - always good for secondhand books. Link

Just to liven things up, identify it and it is yours. ideally, post a picture or plans of the actual thing, and you can have it.

Thanks Occa - great that you could attribute a source - if only all could do that.

From whom? It would be helpful if you could tell us from where this information comes. I really think people making statements should give a source.

I suggest posting an advert in the Wanted section of Buy and Sell on this forum - I am sure somebody has some unused decals that they can supply to you. (You need to have posted 30 times to use the For Sale section, but I believe there is no such similar restriction on the Wanted section).

I think the best thing that Liam Fox could do is to ring up his opposite number in the US and say that we'd like to buy 25 P-8s (in standard USN configuration - not anglicised). Then he could go and buy 4 second hand 737-800s and fit them with the appropriate gear to replace or suppliment the Rivet Joints.

I have stuck the model together with blu tack and using drawing software, "fitted " the canopy. perhaps this will help identify it. If I am right, then the small two bladed prop goes at the front of the plane.

It has a small two bladed propellor, but I see no indication as to whether is is a pusher or puller.

It can't be a Mig 8 Utka as it only has one tail surface, not two. The hunt is still on.

Long ago, before the Berlin wall fell, I used to trade models, and one day I got this aircraft in a polythene bag marked RB.17 or KB.19 (ink has smudged). Google yields nothing. Can anybody tell me what it is? The wingspan is 115mm which equates to 8.28m (27 ft 2 inches). The position of the ailerons shows that the main casting has its nose to the left. I am guessing it is pre-war, though it could be a post war design. Could it be an early canard type? Sorry for the quality of picture but the camera has flat batteries so I have used my phone.

Most Welsh Models are vac-formed fuselage with the rest (wings, tailplanes, lumps and bunps) in Resin and Undercarriage legs and props in White Metal. I should expect if it is a conversion kit that it is in Resin.

Aeroclub do a nice one.

let me see - in a few years time we realise we need planes, so we buy 12 P-8 Poseidons. Thanks to the MoD deciding to ensure it has UK components, they end up costing twice as much and taking twice as long to deliver as standard P-8s. Be honest, whose stupid idea was to re-manufacture 40 year old airframes. In my years in engineering, I learned it is easier and cheaper to manufacture new rather than re-furbishing old.

Now that is a detailed build. I am very impressed.

Thankyou gentlemen - shame there are no F-1 decals listed. Guess I'll have to make my own.

I was reading Military In Scale/Model Aviation World, March 2011, and contemplating getting my 72 scale Hasegawa kits of Mitsubishi F-1 & T-2 out of the loft. Does anybody do aftermarket decals for these kits - I had a hunt and couldn't find any.

Putnam were taken over by Conway Maritime Press Ltd in the 80's/90's. Conway seem to have been taken over by a company called Anova Books (who are publishing a book by our own Jonathan Mock). The Putnam name is tied up with Penguin Books - I wonder if Conway had to cease using the name when they were taken over? Putnam books are always a handy reference to have - good concise histories.

A very nice article, and a very good model build. I liked the articles on the Mitsubishi F1/T2. A type that doesn't get a lot of coverage. Time to dig those old Hasegawa models out of the loft.

Volume 1 is scarce, whilst Volume 2 is more readily available. To give you some idea, I paid £5.00 for volume 2 several years ago, but I do think I got a bargain. I seem to remember that the author was selling copies of Volume 2 at abot £40, and it has a cover price of £75.

Well if it came out at the same price as the Nimrod was originally at , £35, I'd take a couple. Mind you, I might not get to build them - my wife would kill me!

This is the grey bagged one, though I do have the whitemetal set from the boxed one to add to it (amazing what gets found in boxes under tables at model shows). I like Pegasus, but it is annoying when you flatten each side of the fuselage to get a good join and they don't match in cross section. But I will persevere with it.

I pulled this out of the loft and have started work on it. Two fuselage halves, wings and the tail (which needed to be thinned down a lot). My son watched me rubbing down the filler on the joins (that is every joint done so far) and commented "I didn't know Stevie Wonder designed kits". I think this could be a tube of filler model, but I will persevere.

If I make a Hawk, it will take the room I have reserved for my P-8.

Simon Why not save yourself some work and frustration and offer your FB-111A as a trade for a Hasegawa F-111 D/E/F?

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