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Didn't they try something like that on the F-82 Twin Mustang, only to discover that the Allison-engined types had noticeably inferior performance, or do I misremember?

Ah, splendid. Thank you very much!

Holy crap! That looks amazing. Please tell me you didn't have to bend all those little seat bits.

I've long dreamed of a "Made in Germany - Finished in England [or Normandy/The Channel/ etc.]" decal sheet of nothing but downed Luftwaffe aircraft.

I think the 50th Sentai also had them as well, but as long as they were fighting UK/Commonwealth forces, I'm fine with them being in Indochina. Do any such decal options in 1/72 exist?

Has anyone done a boxing of the Ki-84 with Burma-appropriate decals?

Oh my god, YES! Penury looms!

I had heard that a fairly creditable Sea Fury could be made by using a few of the PM/Airfix parts on the Trumpeter kit. Have I heard wrong?

AFAIK, there's only the Special Hobby Blenheim V in 1/72, correct? Can this be built with the early solid nose?

Maybe Hobbico was as outraged by the nacelles on the new Halifax as we are, and decided to right the wrong at the source?

How do you get the camo so uniform with just brush painting? Do you use a template or masking?

By clicking on the quote option under each post you wish to reply to, and then clicking the reply option at the bottom of the page. The Lightning is beautiful. Looks like a tiny guy might hop in and taxi it away at any moment.

My respect and admiration for your late father and his compatriots knows no bounds. Also, that metal Halifax is amazing.

Golly! How did you achieve the effect?

Whoah, crazy! I was just wondering if anyone had ever done that, too.

My local shop does carry Alclad; my understanding is that there's a special primer and process needed for it, is this correct?

I have been painting my exhaust stubs a copper color from an old tube of Vallejo paint I've had lying around, but it strikes me that this is probably not terribly accurate. What's a good acrylic color to use? My local shop carries Modelmaster and Tamiya, so something from them is of course preferred.

Wowsers! The -17 looks way better in RAF camo.

I don't believe you'll be able to build a Zero of this type or a similar type and paint it grey accurately. I ran across this in my travels: http://www.j-aircraft.com/research/zeroclr.htm , and it seems to indicate that Type 0s were painted green on top from 1943 on, which I believe would include all later-type Zeros.

I'm weirdly fond of the hapless old Fulmar. Can you imagine having to dogfight Zeroes over Colombo in one, though? Poor brave devils.

Okay, I knew of the IXc, and the IXe, and about clipped wings, and broad-chord rudders. But what visually differentiates the IXb from the IXc? Is it just a convenient name for an early conversion IXc? (Does that freightdog resin set for an early Mark IX=IXb?) "Johnnie" Johnson's first Spitfire IX was an IXb, correct?

Phenomenal! Will it come with decals? I imagine not for that price.

Quite right of you to bring this up, I should definitely clarify! I am indeed referring to out-of-the-box accuracy.

I've seen, in my perambulations about the web, many a list of the best 1/72 kits for the various marks of Spitfire. Foolishly, I ignored one of these lists once and purchased three Tamiya Mark Vs, which look alarmingly hunchbacked, among other problems. They sit sullenly on my workbench, and I hear the bells of Notre Dame whenever I glance their way. So to avoid this, I thought I'd ask one of those tiresome "which is best" questions, but for all marks of the Spitfire, so I can print it out and memorize it, and maybe even keep it in my wallet, using the space formerly occupied by all of this money I have just sitting there*. So, what are the best kits in the various scales? I hasten to add, injection-molded kits, resin ones I know are often nicer, but I'm a simple man. I sort of assume the Airfix Spitfire I/Ia/II is the best for the Mark I/II family, but am I right? Who makes the best Vs? Sword? AZ? The ancient Airfix Vb? A Scale Canadian's blog suggested the Italeri Vb was one of the best of a kind of bad lot. Is the Airfix IX the best? Are the Hasegawa IX/VIIIs truly out of scale? *=I don't really have any money.

Thanks! Happily, CanadaMoe has already very kindly helped me out.