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Well, SOME of the documentation in the National Archives at Kew is accessible if you're overseas, but it can get pricey fast. (I speak from experience.)

Holy crap! That's amazing.

But aren't you...

Foreshadowing!

Not enough Spitfires.

In 1/72, the Revell Tornado GR1 kit has exactly -- exactly! -- the right Paveways you'd need. That's where I got mine from: Please to be ignoring the frog's eyes, which I put on in my youth and folly. I am wiser now. Wiser -- and sadder.

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but as my wife made me buy a Revell re-boxing of a Victor, I thought I'd try and build one of the B.1s under "Johnnie" Johnson's command at Cottesmoore in the late 1950s. I'm getting the Flightpath set, but I understand there are some magazine articles on the subject of building a B.1 in 1.72 that I might find useful? Who published them, and in what issues?

Does the two kit Czech Air Force boxing of the Eduard MiG come with a single -15 fuselage and a single -15bis fuselage, or two of each? Help me ensure that my rash purchasing decisions for 2014 are also well-informed, for a very specific value of well-informed. EDIT: I suppose I could just look at the instructions. One of each, I see. Good work, Edward! AWAYYYYYYYYYY

The Tamiya Spit comes with both Vokes and Aboukir filters as options, the only kit in 1/72 to do so to my knowledge.

Thank you very much, Ben! Couldn't have hoped for a better answer. Edit: And happily, I seem to have inadvertently, done both steps correctly for a Welland jet. Modelling idiot savant!

Love the French Jug.

It's still T-6 hours here in Michigan (where I'm vacationing, if spending a week and four hundred miles away from my models can truly be a vacation), so greetings from the past to those of you living in the future! I trust your flying cars are proving satisfactory.

While I have all of your attention, however...were the later Derwent-engined F.IIIs visually different from the earlier F.IIIs with Welland engines? Which type does the Dragon 1/72 F.III kit represent, if they were?

That vac canopy really improves the look of the Tamiya Spitfire, nice work!

Groooouuuuuuuup phoooootooooooo!

Wait a second, has anyone proposed this yet?

I believe you're referring to a 208 Squadron Spitfire FR18 of 208 Squadron, based in Palestine postwar and painted in Dark Earth and Light Slate Grey. That's the Spitfire with the Seafire III directly behind it, anyway. I thought it was kind of a cool oddball scheme.

My own stupid fault, oh well. Just have to buy and build some more Meteors, I guess...

Argh! So the white Meteors weren't used for anything but recognition training? I've badly misread volume 3 of 2nd Tactical Air Force, I think. I had, in my excitement, misread it as Derwent Meteors painted white for use in action. ARRRRGH

Freightdog Red Deans, perhaps?

Heyo, I may or may not have foolishly bid on an AZ Auster V kit, thinking Auster Vs and not AOP6s were used in Korea. How foolish I was in my youth. Now I see more clearly. My question is, are the AZ Auster kits like their Spitfire kits, where multiple marks can be built from the same sprues? I know the Austers differed greatly between marks, and that the AZ kits rely on a bit of resin, so I wasn't sure if the AOP6 was something that could be done out of the box or not. Guide me, Britmodeller hivemind, guide me.

That's what I keep trying to tell my wife!

My work scarcely bears close scrutiny, so I've gone for the "shock and awe" approach. Excuse the poor quality of my camera phone photos and my hideous kitchen. I do not, in fact, live in a tenement slum.