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Damn! Worth a try! Selwyn

Got one of these in the stash. Going to give it a go in this group build! Selwyn

What about the F110? (I know it became the F4!) Selwyn

THIS might help. Oh, by the way the aircraft is called a Gannet, not a Gannett! Selwyn

Are you sure? Because I know a lot of in service aircraft used this stuff on their undercarriage systems. Selwyn

The wax oil was called PX32 IIRC! Selwyn

Just what i was looking for, just wonder if i can find the same for the whirlwind! Selwyn

The sidewinders should be grey not white, and the target detector behind the head should be a similar colour to the head, The head should be a metallic greeny grey colour, not sure what the red bit at the front is the tip is smoked glass in real life with a shiny metal ring just behind it. AIM9L Selwyn

Trying to find some details of the frames used on Whirlwinds and Wessex that fitted to the aircraft spine and secured the blades when folded. Can anyone assist? Selwyn

Confusingly quite a few of the FIII Meteors did not have airbrakes either, there are ar to air photo's of a FIII painted in the overall white scheme without Airbrakes. The Early FI/ FIII Meteors were really development aircraft and had a multitude of differences. Selwyn

You give two examples here that give good examples of national colours. In the RAF Drill weapons have Oxford Blue Bands, Acquisition rounds (CATM) are grey with two roundel pink bands, hazard colours that I believe are not used by any other NATO country. Selwyn

Don't paint your vehicles RAF blue! They were camouflaged in WW2. Selwyn

This was an official report compiled on scene and for intelligence reasons it must be accurate, especially in relation to Gruppe colours, and also because it was unusual in having the balloon fender. If the report says yellow then it was yellow. It would be a small but critical piece in determining the overall Luftwaffe order of battle and what unit was using what equipment. I see far to much of this "the report was wrong" in modelling forums, because trained intelligence officers by their nature must be incompetent? Selwyn

Selwyns A13 cruiser tank

Decals on, quick highlight and lowlight wash, good fun! Calling this finished! 3 hrs 50 mins elapsed! More images in the gallery.

Nice coat of Green and a quick wizz over the tracks in steel. I love quick drying acrylics! Decals Next, Blitzbuild going well!

Kit assembled into three main component parts, great fit would put a lot of major manufacturers to shame! Next to get some paint on!

I'm in with this: Two kits in the box, but only building one, its a wargaming kit with minimal bits so I thought I would give it a go. And I am Off!

Balloon fender?? Selwyn

A quick foray into google maps, shows RAF Langar with both pan and spectacle type dispersals. Selwyn

UK did not manufacture any sidewinders, All models of sidewinder were produced from the 1960's by a European consortium for European NATO air forces. They were painted to US standards using FS paints. Selwyn

The actual colour you need is BS381c 224 Deep Bronze Green its the Colour used on British tanks 1950's to 1970's Extracolour do it in their range. Selwyn

The hazard colour scheme for weapons is a NATO standard, all NATO forces use this standard (including armies and navies) There can be a national variation, for example the colours used on UK manufactured stores are painted in British standard colours, US stores use FS standard colours and German stores use RAL standard colours, but they are recognisably equivalent. I would ignore Hasegawa's colour callouts its plainly wrong, probably used on a development/trials round. you rarely see a model instruction sheet with the correct store markings on it anyway. A service Practice round would probably be grey with light blue bands. Please note "practice round" does not mean inert. so you could conceivably have a missile that can be fired but has a practice warhead, so the missile would have a brown band around the rocket motor indicating the presence of a low explosive propellant, but a blue band around the warhead. A live missile would have a yellow band around the warhead indicating it contains high explosive. along with the motor brown band as above. Selwyn

A few problems with your Paveway II (UK) bombs, the two straps around the centre of the bomb body are a feature of the enhanced Paveway II(UK) bomb that was introduced in the 1990's so need sanding off, the deep bronze green bomb colour you have used is far too bright for real DBG, and you need a yellow band painted just behind the front nose fairing. These bombs were poorly researched when they did the moulds, they could not even get the weapon name right, which does not inspire confidence! Selwyn

Try here http://thecombatworkshop.blogspot.com/2018/08/get-basic-understanding-of-ordnance.html Selwyn