Nigel Bunker
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Phil
The decals fitted where they touched. The Fujimi kit has a taller fin and a narrower wingspan - I had to trim the fin decals and touch in the wing ones where they failed to reach the tips - just millimetre or so in each case.
But the Fujimi decals were a joy to apply - the background paper is slightly coloured so you can see the white decals, and there is spave to cut around them easily - Airfix please take note!
Nigel
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Following the issue of the Airfix Hawk kits, here are some I have made recently.
Airfix Red Arrows Hawk in kit markings.
Airfix Red Arrows Hawk kit in Saudi Hawks markings (taken from Fujimi kit - lovely decals by Cartograph)
RoG/Italeri Hawk kit finished as one of the Finnish Air Force 'Midnight Hawks' team. Roundels are oversized, but were the smallest Finnish roundels i could find - I'll change them if I can find replacements.
Airfix Hawk 100 finished as RAF Hawk T2.
Airfix Hawk 100 finished as a RAAF Hawk 127 LIFT using Model Alliance decals (Wing decals missing as I'd already used the ones in the set for a RAAF Hawk in standard markings - it does annoy me when a decal set has insufficient non-standard roundels to do all the options).
Italeri Hawk 100 finished as CAF CT-155 using Model Alliance decals
And now the cuckoo in the nest!
Airfix AlphaJet (Heller boxing) finishedas Qinetiq AlphaJet from Boscombe Down (finished using a mixture of spares box and home made decals to represent the latest paint scheme)
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Scale Aircraft Modelling, Volume 5 No. 1 (October 1982)
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Shopuldn't this be in the Chat section?
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Original Hawk colours were BS 381C 437 Very Dark Drab, BS 381C 222 Light Bronze Green and BS 381C 627 Light Aircraft Grey.
They now wear a grey schems of BS 381C Dark Sea Grey upper surfaces and BS 381C 637 Medium Sea Grey lower Surfaces.
I hope this is of help.
By the way - watch out for Wing fences - there are 3 types of wing fitted to Finnish Hawks as they are upgraded, the most noticable difference being in the wing fences fitted. Do try and work from a photograph to ensure accuracy.
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The wing being too high occurs in the Frog kit, both Matchbox and Airfix are about right (and interchangable with a little fettling).
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From ARC (http://www.arcforums.com/forums/air/index.php?showtopic=187432&st=0&p=1751331entry1751331)
“In October 1989 a Syrian pilot flew a Mig-23MLD to Israel. Israeli modeler Yoav Efrati had a chance to examine the color scheme of this aircraft and published an article about it.
According to his analysis, the aircraft was painted in colors equivalent to British BS381C/388 Beige (approx. FS13523), BS381C/450 Dark Earth (approx. FS 20095) and Green FS34098 on the topsides, with the undersurface painted FS35622 on the forward part of the underside and wings and FS35526 on the aft section of the fuselage. The radome was painted FS26152 gray.”
I hope this is of some help.
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You appear to have become the Britmodeller expert on these.
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Welcome aboard Steve - you have some nice models there. You'll fit right in.
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I have done some research, and the MA decal sheet is for a camoflaged version. However, Fujimi have re- isued their hawk with Saidi Hawk markings (by Carotgraph). Our own Andy Mullen has built one here.
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Antony
Does somebody do decals for the Saudi Hawks or is it a do it yourself job from the spares box?
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I'm ready to be corrected on this.
Johnson had 3 Spitfire IXs:
IXc EN398 JE-J which he flew as Wing Leader at Kenley - no D-Day stripes applied to this whilst he was flying it
IXc MK392 JE-J which he flew as Wing Leader of 127 Wing as part of 2TAF - this had D-Day Stripes applied.
IXE MK329 JE-J JR which was a "spare" he had as Wing Leader of 127 Wing as part of 2TAF - this had D-Day Stripes applied. I think it is this plane in the photograph. I believe it had bomb racks for the carriage of beer barrels and was really a squadron hack.
Unless of course you know differently.....................?
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Yes they're both the same kit.
I seem to remember there's a problem with the engines on this kit, though your mate probably won't notice.
Good luck.
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I haven't tried but looking at the picture, I expect it would work though some fettling & filler might be needed.
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Tried the search function? This question keeps coming up and has already been answered.
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Well I see Mr Lucas has replied, not via this website, but in a letter in the latest copy of MAM. I would reproduce it, but copyright laws.................
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Tamiya also did a rather nice British Phantom, which I remember as being very accurate.
Also Faller (more normally associated with model railways) did some 1/100 aircraft kits. Coincidentally, i saw one of these at a car boot sale a few weeks ago - 109 as i remember.
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Early 1960s, an Airfix SR.53 from Woolworths in Reading - the days when Woolies stocked every Airfix kit.
Oh, and a tube of Weldtite cement, of course. No need for paints - a white aircraft moulded in white plastic.
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It is difficult to guess as it was photographed using orthofilm, which has c hanged some tones.
Do what you think is right - who can prove you wrong?
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Bagged Airfix Hawker Hart?
(not mine as the camera isn't working, but it looks the same)
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One of the 32nd scale 21st Century Toys kits?
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At £10 for a 4" x 8" piece, it will have to be really superior before i consider using it.
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they are reputed as being at the bottom of the South Seas.
I am always sceptical when I hear this, as over the years I have been told that moulds went down on ships only to find out that many years later the kit is re-issued. I suspect that somewhere, at the back of plastics factories, in the deep and dark recesses, these moulds still exist and will one day be bought to light.
Air Sea Rescue Spitfire II C
in Aircraft WWII
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The description of that photo in the IWM archives is:
"Ground crew loading a dinghy into a Supermarine Spitfire Mark IIA, P8131 'AQ-C', of No. 276 Squadron RAF at Warmwell, Dorset, during an air/sea rescue exercise."