Nigel Bunker

I believe it was K as in United Kingdom.

Lancaster?

Very nice model.........and you have the patience to do a big jigsaw as well - I am impressed.

Well I just checked Abe Books for a second hand copy, and prices started at £80.00 plus p&p! I can wait till a cheaper copy appears.

Thanks Georgio - I think I have a tin of that colour - result!

I have just started building the Revell 1/72 kit. Does anybody have a reference for what colour the topsides were painted? Revell give a paint mix but I am sure there must be a RAL Specification for this colour. I have discovered French ones used Gris blue Clair whilst Dutch ones used Medium Sea Grey BS 687 but no informaton on German ones. Can anybody help?

Any chance of a link?

I don't know much about WW2 Luftwaffe aircraft, but Airfix do a 1/72 Do 17 E/F, and there was an article about building it in Model Aircraft Monthly , Vol 4 Issue 1 p 32 according to my home made index.

Here's two pictures of the last Harrier to fly off Ark Royal - I expect somebody will do a transfer sheet for it. Sorry for the quality but I "borrowed" them off of a video. Hopefully somebody has some better pictures.

That is a shame - always sad to see a model shop close.

RC-135V into : Scrutineer R.1, Surveyor R.1, Spotter R.1, Scout R.1? Pretty sure they'd like something in the line of Sentry/Sentinel.

Considering the re-release of the Airfix TSR.2 as a Stratos 4 is imminent (and it can be built as a standard TSR.2 kit) , he might be well advised to wait for a bit.

I seem to remember Ian Huntley providing conversion details in SAM to make the kit look like a Battle. I believe it was a lot of work.

I have just built the new Airfix Trafalgar class submarine ans i was wondering whether it would be possible to convert one into a Swiftsure class submarine? Can anybody point me in the direction of some plans (either on the net or ina book) so that i can take this idea further? Thanks.

To any contributors who feel insulted by my use of the word "padding", I offer an unreserved apology.

Well I forked out my £3.99 at WH Smiths, and once home gave it a look. It is a typical modern magazine, begat of all the other magazines on the shelf. How to paint a tank,how to build a Phantom, how to build a Spitfire, how to build a house, how to build a car, how to build a Sea Vixen, how to build a Saturn V and how to advanced build a Su-17/22 (an advanced build obviously being buy kit, buy resin accessories, buy new decals - then build kit). Well like a lot of people here, I have been building kits for rather more years than i care to own up to, and there is very rarely anything of interest for me in "How i built the xxx kit of the yyy". I look back with nostalgia to the days of "how to make an accurate kit of zzz" using perhaps two cheap kits where by using parts from each, along with filler and a little skill, it was possible to make a decent model. Those articles gave me information that I did not have and helped to improve my capabilities. The old IPMS Magazine and Scale Models were particularly good at these. Regretfully, only Mat Irvine's article in this new magazine does anything like this. The rest of the articles remind me of my old English homework of "write an essay on ..... and make sure it is at least two pages long" And boy, did I pad those essays with anything I could think of that was barely relevant to fill that second page. So to all those involved in producing the "Airfix Model World" who read this - I won't buy another copy of your magazine, it just doesn't appeal to me. Oh for a magazine for modellers rather than assemblers.

Smoke pods perhaps?

Well it's a relief to see some new decals on this kit - I think Airfix have been using the same two colour schemes for their 72 scale Spitfire Vb for nearly 40 years.

Seema a plausible start. Check out the cannon blisters on the Spitfire you want to model, and don't forget to rub down the raised lumps over the machine guns which porport to be tape covers.

I believe the answer is yes. I have somewhere in my loft a resin radome marked as being suitable for most of the above aircraft.

As I recall, in the Detail & Scale book, they recommend combining the Airfix & Monogram/Revell kits to produce an accurate one, though I have yet to see one built this way.

Ray, that is amazing. Considering what that kit costs, I would be tempted to send a stiff e-mail to the makers regarding accuracy. Have you thought of approaching the filler manufacturers for sponsorship?

Well I have enjoyed the 11 issues of MAW I have read (still waiting for the final one to hit my WHS) and I will miss it. But money is tight, and I cannot afford to buy a magazine where I am only interested in half its content, so hail and farewell Spence, it was good whilst it lasted.

As my mother used to say, you live and learn. Thanks guys.

I checked in some books and hadn't realised before that on Mks I & II, the boyttom edge of the widscreen sides were convex whilst on the mark V & later, they were concave. Hopefully this drawing will show what I mean.