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Interesting to see how you get on. Made a start on mine tonight. Why are Spitfire cockpits so fiddly???

M20 Scout Car

Been looking forward to this kit. I know we have Eduard’s kits but this will be an easier build. Shame an earlier rudder isn't included but you can’t have everything!

P-40F/L and P-40K/M on their way next year along with MiG-15.

Airfix has to think of world wide appeal like every other manufacturer. So Bf-109G5/6 makes as much sense as a P-47 or P-51.

Thank you for your words of encouragement. Life has got in the way and it wasn`t entirely happy with the spraying green of the interior so I put the Jug away. Now have looked at it again and it isnt too bad, so will have some updated pics in a few days. Grahame

I've just checked my resin parts and like yours, the starboard rudder pedal has snapped off in the packet due to poor protection. Otherwise all very good.

IM INTERESTED TOO

I also had this kit arrive in post yesterday. Does look excellent although I haven’t taken the 3D resin out their packaging yet. Will follow with interest.

Pre-order one of these Strafer kits from Eduard today. The price seems a good deal even with postage compared to the standard HKM kit price.

Great work on your Betty. And swift progress too!

Nice to see a build of Tamiyas Betty. Always fancied having one of these in the stash but never had one. Maybe the time will be soon. Nice work you have done so far.

Lower hull sprayed with Halfords grey primer. Having primed the hull, I noticed the towing hitch was missing but was located on my cutting mat.

Made a start on the M4A3 Howitzer last weekend and made a few mistakes right from the start. First of all, I threw some of the cellophane bags away with the poly caps in one of them for the idlers, sprockets and turret. I found that that the M8 Armored Car and M20 Scout Car kits I have have two spare same size poly caps so I have used the spares for the sprockets and the other spare two for the turret! The idlers I used some Evergreen tubing drilled out to 2mm. Next up, I glued the back plate on off square. How I did that I don`t know! So I had to prise that off the following day and tidy up the joint and used a spare back plate out the spares box. too Then I made up sponson blanks up from plastic card to fill the void and glued them on too narrow!! So had to add another strip to fill out the void. I Guess the tracks will hide most of that mistake. I felt like giving up on it due to my own stupid mistakes but have continued on. Built up the six bogies with no dramas although they do need a lot of clean up. Filled the injection pins marks on the back of the exhaust deflector. Back on track now so to speak. Thanks for any comments and also for looking. Grahame

1/72 isn`t really my scale but I am seriously tempted by this Wessex from Airfix. I remember when 22 Squadron operated SAR out of RAF Manston.