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  1. Must be a 1/72 Ninak...you wait decades then three come along at once...
  2. I built this kit a couple of times as a youngster, and for some reason it’s a strangely satisfying build despite being pretty average even for its time. Yet trying to bag one for reasonable money on eBay eludes me...the superior hasegawa goes for less
  3. Talking of supervision by a terrified parent, if I tell you the extent to which I banged on to the boy about how to safely use a sharp blade with plastic, you will not need me to elucidate as to which one of us promptly cut himself with it...
  4. If you first started making kits at, say age 10 or thereabouts, a 1:72 kit would have looked and felt about what a 1:48 does to an adult...
  5. It’s a good way for Airfix to service its traditional kids market, when the centre of gravity of the overall market is now older, seeking more detail and paying more for it. i built the spitfire Vc starter kit with the boy. tbh in terms of parts it’s really not much different to a 1970s Airfix kit, but more accurately moulded. As you say, there already several “full fat” 1/72 F35s, so why compete directly with those?
  6. Another trick you can do with filler is to use masking tape to restrict where it goes...tape a little either side of the join, apply filler, then whip the tape off before the filler starts to harden. Most of the time it leaves behind a neat strip of filler ready to cure and be sanded....occasionally the whole lot comes away.
  7. What tools are you using? Something like this is a handy resource https://www.scalemodelshop.co.uk/cut-n-trim-flex-i-file-8575-p15048/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMInumSwfOo_AIVTJ7tCh0-WQHPEAQYAiABEgIbf_D_BwE
  8. If you read all three of the books by harrier pilots in theatre (ward, Morgan and pook) its pretty clear that they could have had quite a good three way war going on even if the Argentines had stayed out of it. I recently read the book about the abortive SAS raid and the same theme continues. To be fair it seems to have been a nadir of inter-service cooperation which led to some reassessment and grown up thinking being applied ever since.
  9. So many variables...altitude, airspeed, temperature, weight...AoA might be enough, it might not.
  10. Re an earlier post, be wary of air to air photos and flap positions...it may just reflect that the photo platform is a much slower aircraft type and the fast jet is struggling to match its speed for the shot.
  11. Ward’s squadron (I forget which was which) would habitually toss a 1000lb GP bomb in the general direction of Stanley airfield on the way out to a CAP.
  12. wombat

    DIY paint shaker

    Good idea - I might copy that. Ive previously bodged a diy stirrer...based on a milk frother of the type where the shaft detaches from the handset. Take an old lid, drill a hole just big enough to thread the shaft through, enabling a reasonably good seal on the tin that being stirred, and cut down the frother head to something smaller. Still leaks a little through the gap though, even when packed with damp tissue paper.
  13. I’ve seen many references that say Harts in India had bigger radiators but no details. Is that a visible difference?
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