Ed Russell

The CMR kit is not that hard to come by but it is not cheap at all. It does not have the extended tail etc for the armed version. It was planned but was a step too far for CMR. There is an armed version available but it's not the one you want. https://www.redroomodels.com/product/red-roo-raaf-c-class-empire-flying-boat-conv-1-72-scale/ Note that, at that price, it doesn't include a flying boat kit 😀

or maybe....... "if only I was bigger"

Most of it is about the philosophy of modelling rather than the Airfix starter set. Most of it well expressed but a few not understanding what is happening here. I will definitely buy one!

Larger version here, where the bow serial is quite visible - it must be 332, 382 or 392. https://www.facebook.com/OldKelowna/photos/a.692259397506007/738718699526743/?paipv=0&eav=AfYAJTXBpVGSyvqepGWjBum3Ttg0HegvwJpP7tV8Sy4iBbbDLnvogIQAx9i3S1eXLLs&_rdr Given the list above, 392 seems most likely.

That's very nice. Having made a couple I appreciate the difficulties! The radial engine was a good choice as the various different cowlings for the Ranger engine are a can of worms. Good looking finish and paint too. @G.E.SAUNDERS - There is a build article here with an undecarriage jig suggestion.

That's what I thought. It could well be black, Light Slate Grey or some other colour! My reading of this is that they should be black. https://www.hrmtech.com/SIG/coastal_cam.asp

They are debating - "triangle pointing inwards or outwards?" 😀 Nice picture. Whatever Sea Grey it is, it is certainly weathered. Where is the black serial number on that photo?

That is what I would do!

Thanks @Retired Bob and @SafetyDad for your inputs which are very helpful. It looks as though the decal designer was neither completely right or completely wrong. It looks as though, given the wing changes are more involved than the fuselage, the best way to model 2N+DD would be to start with an Italeri 210 and work forwards rather than an Airfix 410 working backwards.

@dov - Not sure what you mean. Unless you do an advanced conversion, you can only model a Me 410 from the Airfix kit. I believe SBS are working on one. @Graham Boak - Ditto. Which kit are we taliking about? Like 81-er I liked the colour scheme above with the white tail and WGr.21 tubes. The Xtradecals profile is referenced to p111 of this book, apparently only owned by @Retired Bob. It apparently does not validate the Xtradecals profile. If it is a genuine Me 210 scheme, I have an Italeri kit (077 from 1998) which I could use. This seems a lot easier than converting the Airfix kit. https://www.scalemates.com/kits/italeri-077-messerschmitt-me-210-a1--120243

There are some answers here to my 210/410 question but they are not definitive. https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235136246-messerschmitt-210-to-me-410-conversion-in-11-scale/

That would be my thought too. Can somebody scan p111 of Messerschmitt 210 / Messerschmitt 410 An illustrated Production History and send it to me so I can decide for myself whether the profile is justified by the reference. Thanks for contributuions so far.

There is a (seemingly) 500 page thread on Britmodeller here about WW2 Vildebeests in Malaya and various other posts here. A browser search will turn up many. You may find the specific Mk I, II, III information in them.

Using one of the options in the Xtradecals Me 410 sheet means there are several left. There's one obvious use for a second in the RFI post here but another appealing one is this From the caption WNr 2102251 was a 210 "repaired after a crash to 410 specs". Would there be any external differences between this and a new build 410 as represented by the Airfix kit? Would it be reasonable to think the WGr.21 tubes may have been unpainted metal? Edit - I see @81-er noted that it was not converted. https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235134328-messerschmitt-me-410a-1u4/ A reference for that would be very helpful as I have a 210 hidden away somewhere! Edit 2 - seems to be lack of reference that is the problem. The thread quoted immediately above has lots of Me 410 information and a lot about the lack of it!

Dimensionally the Airfix kit is more accurate. The rivets are a bit much! The SH is a lot newer but they worked from the wrong plan. The SH kit lacks the scalloped panels behind the canopy, the doors are flat and the wheels are NQR. All fixable of course https://www.redroomodels.com/product/red-roo-boomerang-enhancement-set-1-72/ RAAF Sky Blue tended to fade very rapidly in service to almost white so Humbrol 65 is a reasonable choice. It was fun sorting out which of the various Airfix colour iterations over the years was correct. @Will L You have done a nice job on the kit. Colours look fine to me.

This is the relatively new Airfix Me 410 kit. This is a really nice kit to build. It is complex enough to be interesting and it has no vices like ill-fitting parts, poor instructions or accuracy issues which plague many modern kits. Like most modern Airfix kits, the fit is precise enough that you should take care to avoid paint on joining parts or leaving little plastic sprue remnants on any parts. I have built the Frog and Fine Molds kits and have all the others unbuilt and it is superior to all of them in accuracy, detail and surface finish. It is finished as the cannon-armed aircraft of Lt Rudi Dassow. He was the second highest scorer on the 410, credited as top by some, but that was more likely the CO of II/ZG 26, Hptm Eduard Tratt. I normally follow the dictum of @Troy Smith about profiles but there appears to be no picture of this aircraft. For a change we will believe the artist! Me 410 schemes are pretty uniform so it can't be too wrong. The kit is built OOB apart from adding the sighting telescope seen on most cannon armed 410s. If it didn't jam and there were no Thunderbolts or Mustangs about, the 50mm cannon cold knock down a bomber with one hit. It seems the all of the other armament was removed so I dutifully filled the muzzle holes for the secondary armament until I looked at lots of cannon armed 410s and realised that they were left even if there was no gun! So I unfilled them! I was resigned to doing a lot of tape cutting until I tried the KV Models Fine Molds cockpit masking which fitted with very few alterations. (https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/KV72502 I could not find any RLM 75 paint so I mixed my own from Humbrol 123 and Xtracolour PRU Mauve 2:1 - Grade 1 match to my Kiroff paint chart. The 76 and 74 are Xtracolour. I did a Fine Molds kit a few years ago as a sort-of commission build some years ago, modifying only the engine nacelles. No pictures as I suspect the client wanted to pass it off as his own work! 😀 I did the Frog kit sometime in the late 1960s / early 1970s. I haven't still got the box but looking up 2H as a code, it's a bit fishy. It belongs to Epr.Gr 210, the development unit for the Me 210. it is not worth spending much time on but a set of exhausts (which have gone missing) and one of the remining multiple options from the Xtradecal set might make it look a lot better. Now here's a question - I will post it in WW2 but maybe @SafetyDad, @Werdna or @G.R.Morrison would like a try? One of the options on the Xtradecal sheet is WNr 2102251 which was a 210 "repaired after a crash to 410 specs". Would there be any external differences between this and a new build 410 as represented by the Airfix kit?

That looks nice. It may have been painted like that but it would be unusual. There is a Boomerang in these colours about to fly but it is incorrectly painted. You can make a good case for overall Foliage Green - RAAF specified scheme for transports - or Foliage Green / Earth Brown / RAAF Sky Blue - usual scheme for impressed aircraft. It's well made and maybe was in this scheme?

A slightly contentious topic but I think @Tbolt is correct. There will be variation depending on how much tint colour was used in that particular tin. We must have read dozens of posts on the subject doing the research for this..... https://www.redroomodels.com/product/brisbane-tank-1-48/ https://www.redroomodels.com/product/brisbane-tank-1-72/

All the work has been done on the Moth Minor so they should have it out tomorrow!

There was a review in Mushroom Models Monthly wherethe reviewer said words to the effect - "Model News continue in their quest to make a really poor model of every Mustang variant".

HMS Reaper according to this link, which confirms serial and code are congruent. https://www.hms-vengeance.co.uk/abrief.htm

Here's a complicated recipe - From https://www.stormomagazine.com/ModelArticles/FiatCR42/RichardDavenport/FIATCR42_RD_1a.html To replicate the base color of havana I used a combination of Vallejo Leather Brown (70.871), Yellow Ochre (70.913), Tamiya Flat Yellow (XF-3), and a little LifeColor Giallo Mimetico 16 (UA 528). It probably varied and any light medium brown will look similar enough.

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235114689-limping-lizzie-75-sqn-raaf-f-4a-1-lightning-completed/ There is a company called Novascale which used to make some F-4 and F-5 decals. Poor quality and service according to many posts. Best avoided.

13 might be the ICM kit as it comes with those markings.

Looking at Chris's picture above you can see the sequence was to first paint an area including under the canopy but also below and behind the rear of the canopy then attach the canopy. There would be no sense in doing that with any colour other than the camouflage colour.