Nigel Bunker
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I wonder where the rest of those moulds are?
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Lovely to see those box lids. Some of those moulds have done some work - the Gannet and Fairey Delta are still available.
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I'm pretty certain it is the old Matchbox kit (thimble nose and fin extension).
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Welcome to Britmodeller, Pavel - and your English is fine. It doesn't need to be perfect, just understandable.
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I use patches of red decal, it uses up those off-colour roundels as I believe these patches are one item where the colour varied. And decal is about the same scale thicknesss as the doped cloth would have been.
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Go and get a simple kit of a subject you know nothing about. then build it OOB, following the instructions, and try to do it in a weekend.
Guaranteed cure for AMS.
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I'm just back from my local model shop - four new Airfix kits hit the shelf (Spitfire XIX, Bf 109G, Red Arrows Hawk, Hawk 128), the first to sell out was the 109, followed by the Spitfire and they have just a few of each Hawk left looks like Airfix may not have satisfied the cognoscenti with the 109, but the customers like it.
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Oh yes Graham - I'm waiting to see it finished.
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Before we too wound up about colours, look at these pictures by Monet. they are of the same haystack, painted under different lighting conditions.
What interested Monet was the expression of transient appearances – the motif itself would be unvarying and viewed always from the same angle, only the light would change, depending on the season, the weather and the time of day.
His method was to work on several canvases at once, devoting perhaps no more than a few minutes at a time to any one of them. It was necessary to work swiftly to capture the ‘moment’ before it dissolved. In this he was greatly assisted by his stepdaughter Blanche, who would slide the canvases into position on his easel.
On 7 October, in full flight, he wrote to Gustave Geffroy: “…the further I get, the more I see how much work it will need to convey what I am searching for: ‘instantaneity’, and above all the external ‘envelope’, the same light spread everywhere…”
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To my eyes, the tonal value of the dark colour is a close match to the roundel red, and this ties in to a memo found under the carpet at the MoD when the offices were refurbished.
An extract from the memo dated 01.04.45 (obviously written after a liquid lunch) from Flt Lt Julian Clary says "........Now this nasty war is over, why don't we repaint the fighters in red and pink to show we are now friends with those lovely Russians......"
This is obviously conclusive proof, and Bader's plane must have ben a trial aircraft in this scheme.
How much does Neil Robinson pay for articles?
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The old 109 tail can be cut down from the one in the kit. Get the basic shape, then fill and rescribe, and you're there. Fortunately, the tail is a separate item, which makes the job easier. Steer away from the AS variant and the job becomes simpler. You just need to source the old style canopy (unless the plane you're modelling has the Erla canopy).
Have a go.
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Well I'm converting one back to F-2 standard, so the answer is yes. Get some plans and away you go.
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Nice to see a decent choice of decals though. And don't forget this kit is designed to replace the old 109 which kids still bought. It has about the same amount of interior detail as the Spitfire I & V, which is what i suspect Airfix were aiming for.
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I always treat Mr Lucas' ideas with a big pinch of scepticism. I normally rely on the works of MJF Bowyer or Ian Huntley, both of whom were actually around during WW2 and made contemporary notes. Discoveries made 60 years after the event I treat with caution. It's not the notes some Civil Servant issed that count, it's what the squadrons and MUs actually did. Interpretation from B/W photos is unreliable, even in terms of shade - photographs degrade over time.
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I am currently building the 21st century kit and the cockpit walls are really thick, so unless you wand to do lots of thinning down, I'd forget it.
Besides, after some painting, the 21C cockpit comes out quite nicely.
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72nd scale - a Rafale update set so we can do something with those Italeri kits (you might sell a few across the channel) and as has been said before, the missing pylons for the RoG Typhoon
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the Lee Hawkeye is a copy of the Fujimi one - rumour has it that the Hawkeye sold by Heller is the Lee kit. Certainly the Heller kit made up into a passable Hawkeye - it will be a cold day in Hell before I pay over £30 for a Hasegawa one.
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Even better if it was in the shops! Dear old Airfix are getting a bit presumptious with adverts in the press months before the kits hit the shops.
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Just to advise you of something that may be of interest.
On Tuesday 28th April at 7 pm there will be an illustrated lecture on "Wycombe's contribution to the aviation industry" by David Scott & Ian Simmons, and as this subject covers from the birth of Geoffrey de Havilland to the F-35, it should be a good evening.
To be held at St Birinus & St John's Church Sycamore Road, High Wycombe, HP12 4TJ. Admission will be £2.00, and this normally includes refreshments at the interval.
I look forward to seeing any other Britmodellers there.
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I remember hearing that when 25 Sqn became active on the Tornado F.3, the CAS was ex-25 Sqn and had "suggested" that 25 was reformed. Regrettably I cannot find any paper documentation (magazines, etc) to support this.
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Bring back 74 Sqn - Tiger striped Typhoons rule!
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Anyone know if the Eurofighter uses a recce pod? Not at present
Anyone know if the Eurofighter will ever use a recce pod? Waits and waits for crystal ball to clear.....................
British Sabre
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To my mind, the best sheet available in 72nd scale for the RAF Sabre is Modeldecal Sheet 97 which has lots of them. I believe Hannants can supply these.