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Mike, 1/48 twins are rare. Have you considered a Helicopter instead? There are 1/48 Wessex and Whirlwinds available Heller also do a Puma, Might be a better option?

As the QL refueller boom system was a post war modification to this bowser I would assume that the same was true of the Matador.

Remember that the Replacement aircraft donated from Peru were given the same numbers as the shot down aircraft.

Are you sure about this? the 155 pod single shot was selected by the internal A/B (remember A=All, B=Bits!) switch not the aircraft.

RAF blue Grey 633 was reintroduced in 1948 in UK on bowsers, it differed to pre war colours in that the blue was gloss and and the mud guards were black, the tops were painted golden yellow, except in the middle east where it was white. In RAFG in the 1950's all MT including bowsers were Deep Bronze Green. To look at some great pictures of 1950,s RAFG MT in general, (Some in colour) search "Jever Steam Laundry." and go to RAF Jever - Pictures menu. Hundreds of pictures of MT with clear markings, also lots of misc aircraft, and lots of Vampires, Sabres, and Hunters as well!

I know, Till very recently worked in one of the companies listed above!

We shouldn't be buying US aircraft at all!

Falklands They were painted Oxford Blue - BS381C 105 overall. You could of course do the Argentine Navy Lynx as well!

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If it was a "Great kit" you wouldn't have to spend all this time and effort (and Money?) sourcing replacements for all the unbelievably basic mistakes in this £50 kit! Trumpeter should be embarrassed putting this on the shelves.

The RAF blue colour would not have been used for new build Trolley Acc's in WW2 SCC2 is more likely, especially the ones with the petrol motors on the top. Originally the trolley Acc was used on permanent bases and when the batteries ran down they went to the battery bay for recharging. Later with dispersed operations they were produced with a small petrol motor and dynamo on top so that they could charge themselves in situ.As they were used in the field they would be camouflaged. The one above is in a museum. Always a problem for correct colour schemes!

Perhaps if you looked for the standard Vickers K gun mount rather than the lewis gun as the lewis was obsolete by then

For daily weapon practice 68mm SNEB pods or CBLS, Wartime load was BL755 Cluster bombs. In the field on exercise no tanks. we would simulate a 4 bomb BL755 load between sorties. Aircraft never flew with BL755. Recce pod was standard fit on 4(AC)Squadron only.

Interesting that this article does not mention the white coating seen on images, I wonder if this was for another purpose?

The Ring was painted white with a special paint that reduced "glow" at night. There was also a black version of the paint that was used on Beaufighter night fighters.

Mike this is on a carrier, very much not the norm for airfield operations, and if you notice they are not "Near" the aircraft they are in a huddle having either a pre flight brief or a as seeing their is no practice bombs on the Buccaneer carrier, a quick post flight crew /groundcrew debrief.On airfields crew interaction would be in the line hut where the crew would sign in or out the F700 for an aircraft, and report faults to the maintenance control. Pilot walkround would last for at the very most 5 minutes. for single seat perhaps more for larger aircraft, you would in most cases be waiting longer with the pilot sat in the seat waiting to start! On landing the crew would basically tell the crew if the aircraft was serviceable or not and then disappear for debrief. If the aircraft did multiple flights during a day I would be surprised if a pilot spent in total 15 minutes stood near the aircraft in that whole day. I speak from experience from working on several squadrons in my career.

Mike this illustrates the problem doing on ground dioramas. The one person you very rarely see around an aircraft on the ground is the pilot. Pilots turn up go flying, land get out and disappear. There is a problem with very few groundcrew figures available, and the ones you see are mostly posed in ridiculous ways. Also RAF wartime figures are usually taken from posed for the camers images with groundcrew in full service dress with hats!

I was told that after my Vasectomy I wouldn't have kids anymore. You can't believe how disappointed I was when I got home and they were still there!

Bedford QL The Airfix refuelling set version is actually a post war version with the refuelling booms, Wartime versions did not have booms. Certainly used into the Mid 1950s I have pictures of them refuelling 613 Sqn Vampires. Also "S" type Bedfords in the early 1960s onward. Also Matadors with different tanker bodies and booms

Not just the P39 with an unfounded reputation. The WW2 aircraft with the best kill to loss ratio? The Brewster Buffalo!

Its called a Multi Function Rail Launcher (MFRL) and is used to launch ASRAAM AMRAAM Also IRIS-T, but not Meteor IIRC. https://acma.aero/what-we-do/ (scroll down)

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Which country? Several took part in the Airlift

match to; BS381C Post Office Red/Cherry (538)

You can use white decal paper but the problem is that there will not be clear decal around it. So you either print your letters with the finest line around them and then cut to the line exactly, or have the same background colour as your camouflage scheme. I have had some success by painting a 50x50mm square of card in the camo colour, scan it in to your computer as a jpg file. Do the same with your black letters. I then use powerpoint as a tool by bringing up the coloured square, size it as big as you need then paste the letters onto the square, change the colour to white, crop/ size it as required and print it on decal paper. remember to clear varnish the paper to seal the colour, when dry cut and apply the decals.