Nigel Bunker
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A word of warning - I quite like the Airfix F-4 but it has the thin wings only applicable to the F-4A,B & N models. It can make up into a nice model with some detail added.
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An educated guess only, I'm afraid but I'd go for Dark Green, Ocean Grey, Medium Sea Grey with a Sky fuiselage band, codes in Red with a White outline and a Red spinner.
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I also used Xtracylix Red Arrows Red on my Airfix 72 scale Hawk. Looks fine to me.
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That is excellent - I had been thinking of doing something similar myself.
A wonderful whif.
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I'd check the gauge of that railway - I think Russian railways are on a different one to the rest of Europe - is there an expert in the house?
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Seek and you will find. Wondeful thing, Google.
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Not strictly WW2, but Spitfire 21/22/24 and Seafire 45/46/47. At a reasonable price so I can afford to buy several, so that means from a mainstream manufacturer (are you listening Airfix?).
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FGH
That is a marvellous piece of work, but I for one would love a fuller explanation. How and where was the fuselage shortened? Tou tell us about the fin but what about the tailplanes? What did you do to the wings? Did you scratchbuild the indercarriage or modify the kit one?
This is an excellent build and I'm sure we'd like to know so much more about it.
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C scale did a rather nice white metal Pave Tack Pod - they do appear 'under the table' at model shows and also very occasionally on Ebay.
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just as a point of interest, RAAF acquired four F-111A as 'attrition replacements (A8-109, 112, 113, 114). These were initially operated with short wings in SEA camouflage until they were bought up to F-111C satndard (including long wings).
Here's a picture of my RAAF F-111A, which started life as a Hasegawa EF-111A which I picked up at a cheap price.
And folding the wings on this kit is a major exercise - I wouldn't have done it if I had known how much fun it was!
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It's easier to build an RAAF F-111G from an FB-111A. This might help with construction and I know from personal experience Roy at Southern Sky Models does a very good and fast mail order service for decals.
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Well I bought the latest copy of MAM yesterday and I regret it will probably be my last. I only took up buying the magazine when Neil Robinson took it over and the content changed to something I was interested in. Many years have passed, and now the magazine is back where it started - not the type of magazine I want to buy.
And the latest copy was tucked away with wargaming in my local WHS. The change of title and content may be it's suicide note.
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Can I suggest you go here. Either post your question or pm tsrjoe - he has lots of information on this plane.
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Right - I have done some checking and the model I am going to build is RC-135V with CFM-56 engines, which is what I presume the RAF will be getting - if they don't, it will be my biggest What If.
So it looks like I will need to make the bigger nose myself.
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Cheers Haydn
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Does any manufacturer make the nose for this variant in resin?? I have the side pods from Spectre Resins to convert my KC-135R but unless somebody makes the nose, looks like it's down to plastic card and milliput. I have spoken with Mark ar Spectre and he has no plans to make a resin nose.
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The acknowledged expert on the Su-27 is Ken Duffy who posts here as Flankerman.
This link shows how he made an Su-27 into an Su-30, admittedly in 72 scale but as they say, the principle is the same.
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With regard to the two Sky finishes, my money is on a typing error, 338 & 358 being very similar. Unlike today's word processors, to sort the mistake would have meant re-typing the whole page. This was before the advent of Tippex, the typist's best friend.
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Well having built the Project X P1154 RAF vac-form in 72 scale, to convert a Harrier to a P 1154: Build Harrier undercarriage. Keep pylons and stores. Throw rest of Harrier away, Using spares box and plastic card, scratch build P1154.
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I just bloody 'ate these BBC vid's that are biased just cuz I'm a Yank, "sorry this is not available in your area"..where am I on bloody Jupiter!!!
It's to do with where they have agreements to show the film or programme, normally with the participants and makers. It's no consolation but I get the same message if I try to watch some video links to US or Aussie sites, or if I try to watch the BBC when I am on holiday abroad. . I guess that they read your IP address which tells them which country you are in, and let you view or not.
If only some nerd would come up with a way of letting us overcome this annoying feature.
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I brush paint my models and use Xtracylics for preference. The problem I have noticed is that there now appears to be some colur variation between pots (or batches). I painted a Scimitar in EDSG/White and needed to touch it up. Having moved on to a new pot of EDSG, once the paint had dried the touch up was noticably lighter than the original - not light enough to suggest that DSG had been wrongly labelled but just light enough to notice.
has anybody else had this problem, or am i just unlucky?
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If you need a picture, I refer you to page 115 of "British Secret Projects: Jet Bombers Since 1949" by Tony Buttler (MCP 2003) which shows the first two F-111Ks at the General Dynamics factory, one having been fitted with standard wings, whilst the other has yet to have wings fitted. Also, the artists impression on p 114 shows a camouflage scheme.
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Pausing to stick my head briefly above the parapet:
I think the Crowood book is wrong about the wings - the F-111K was to have had standard wings - the idea of longer wings comes from a cutaway drawing done at the time showing the erroneous long wings. The main undercarriage was to have been the same as the FB-111, designed to take a higher loading.
This was all thrashed out on www.whatifmodelers.com about a year or so ago - a search there should bring up the threads on it.
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As to the Typhoons, the Revell of Germany ones are far better than the HobbyBoss ones, and also cheaper! And you'll end up with some spare weapons at the end. Both have the inner pylon missing, but some plastic card should fix that.
43 Squadron Spitfire VIII, France 1944
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Next guess - sky band overpainted in Ocean Grey?