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Admiral Puff

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  1. At least the ancient Revell moulds had cowls/nacelles closer to the right size ...
  2. Probably means "new decals" - shame, because I'd like to see those cowls/fairings fixed!
  3. A 1:24 Tempest makes some sense, given that they've already done the Typhoon; on the same "variation on a theme" theme, how about a 1:24 two-stage Mosquito? Other than that, I'll settle for some two-hole Meteors in 1:48, thanks ...
  4. I imagine that they will - they can't have got full mileage out of those moulds yet - but the "when" is another question. I can't see it happening in the immediate future.
  5. Not that I know of. And you're right - a 1:72 FE conversion set, with all the FE bits Airfix left out of their "FE" Lancaster, would be a no-brainer. Lancasters, Lancastrians, Yorks ...
  6. Thanks for that - it gives a really good idea of the tropical nacelle layout generally and how much deeper the tropical radiators were. The intakes below the spinners were for carby air - note that the standard inlets on the sides of the nacelles have been deleted. And yes, a lot of Lancastrians used the tropical radiators, especially (but not only) those operated by Qantas and BOAC on the Kangaroo Route. That's one of the reasons I'm asking - my 1:32 Lancaster (whether HK or WNW) will be done as a Qantas Lancastrian, and in that scale the difference will be noticeable. The FE kit was a disappointment in more ways than one. Apart from the White/Black paint job, it seems to be the standard B.I/III without any of the tropical mods such as the radiators or the cabin cooling inlet on the starboard side of the fuselage above the wing - almost false advertising!
  7. Thanks for that. The Airfix FE release has the standard sized radiators (either that or the new moulds all have tropical ones ...) but I haven't laid eyes on the newest of the new as yet. As to Hasegawa, they long ago priced themselves out of my interest ... I'll try your photo search and see what I can come up with.
  8. If they do a Mk V, let's hope it's a Vc - we have more than enough Vbs, thank you!
  9. I know that the radiators fitted to Tiger Force aircraft, and others intended for use in similar climes, were deeper, to provide better cooling. I've not been able to confirm how much deeper they were than the standard radiators - can anyone oblige, please?
  10. It's a Mach 2 kit ... That said, it's better than some of Mach 2's earlier efforts. There are problems with the wingtips, but Neil is doing a correction set to address that. The positive is that it's the only 1:72 injection moulded Brit. you're likely to get, and there's nothing in the box that I've seen that isn't capable of being put right.
  11. For the sake of completeness - we did send a couple of CAC Mustangs to 77RAAF in Korea, but the vast majority of the aircraft they used in the conflict were NAA-built airframes.
  12. Can do - pm me your email and I'll get it off to you.
  13. Bless his little cotton socks! The DC-7C conversion will be streets ahead of the Contrails one - a valiant attempt, but lots and lots of hard work grinding down superfluous resin!
  14. Drove back from Sydney yesterday via my usual route - shock, horror! Not a sausage worth commenting on! Not even a Highway Patrol car! What is the world coming to?
  15. Please let one of them be an Avro 504 ...
  16. Mine's planned to be a Lancastrian - no prizes for guessing which version I'd prefer ...
  17. IIRC this kit is a repop of the ICM kit, which in turn is a clone of the old Tamiya kit. In Step 3, the lugs on C3 shouldn't be there, and should be completely removed. C3 should sit flush against the bottom of E5 as shown in Step 5. I imagine the same sort of reasoning applies in Step 20, to remove unnecessary protrusions.
  18. I believe the company's known down here as "Cathay Pathetic" ...
  19. Steady on - I've just finished breakfast! (And would much rather it stay where it is at present ...)
  20. You're right on that, but given that it's most unlikely we'll get one, let's be grateful that SOMEONE has made the effort ...
  21. I believe not. I've done a bit of research on this, since I've looked at the same conversion. The prototype Sunderland had wings essentially identical to the C Class ones. In the course of flight testing it was discovered that the CofG needed to move aft; the quick and dirty fix for this was to sweep the wings back by (I think) 4.5 degrees, with consideration of a more refined solution deferred until later. Apart from the mods necessary for the sweep, the wing structure (including the nacelles) remained unaltered, so that the panel lines weren't affected but simply rotated with the rest of the wing. When the quick and dirty fix was found to work without any other adverse effects it was adopted as the solution. Thus the conversion back to a C Class simply involves rotating the Sunderland wings forward to take out the sweep, and Jack's your Aunty. IIRC someone in Melbourne (the late and much lamented Fred Harris, I think) did this conversion many years ago, and at the time wrote an article for a local magazine. I thought I had a copy, but can't find it, so can't help further on that score. The conversion did involve a new, scratch built vacformed fuselage, copies of which were available from one of the Melbourne hobby shops. I had one, but again can't find it now. Others from this part of the world may know/remember more ...
  22. For a start, you don't have to scratch build the louvres: www.redroomodels.com/red-roo-resin-132/red-roo-p-51-air-intake-louvre-cover-132-scale/. The Revell kit should build up as an RAF Mustang without too much difficulty - ditto the RAAF aircraft, which in Italy were drawn from RAF stocks. The main difference is, as you say, the props. The RAF designation "Mustang IV" covered both the P-51D and the -K, the main difference between them being that the former had a cuffed Hamilton Standard prop while the latter had an Aeroproducts unit. I think the kit comes with the cuffed HS; the Aeroproducts (if not in the kit) is also available from Red Roo. Note also that the louvres weren't fitted to all airframes, and short of a reference picture there's no hard and fast way of being sure which airframes had them and which didn't. Other details (e.g. radio fit) were different, but there's nothing that a bit of fiddling with the kit items or some minor scratch building can't cure.
  23. The trip home from Sydney this morning produced a veritable cornucopia of automotive pulchritude - a gaggle of Corvettes of various vintages, two Austin-Healeys (a 1000 and a 3000 rally replica in metallic blue[!]), a gorgeous maroon Citroen Traction, several Mustangs, a Peugeot 206 GTi (the only one I've ever seen in Australia) and the inevitable Highway Patrol car (but only one of them, and its driver was busy breaching the driver of a Disco heading back towards Sydney, so he didn't bother me!).
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