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  1. Procopius
    Hello all, How close were the MB Mk4 seats used in later (I gather) Hunters to those used in Lightnings? At 1/72 would the differences be noticeable?
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    I did it. My body is ready to experience the exquisitely smooth flow of fine graphite from the Cumberland Valley, which sounds like something that happens to Terminator robots or midway through one of those Fifty Shades of Grey books.
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    I actually bought one of the latter myself, to see if it was just the tools that enabled you to obtain your results. No. No it is not just the tools.
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    I have a Gunze GSI Creos Mr. Airbrush Custom 0.18mm that I'm quite taken with, but if I were entirely honest for you, it mostly sits and looks pretty while I use my clunky Badger 105.
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    Never Ready: Britain’s Armed Forces and NATO’s Flexible Response Strategy 1967-1989 by Kenton White Britain's Guided Weapons by Chris Gibson And, printed on demand via Lulu, a hardcopy of TSR.2 with Hindsight, the text of a seminar held in 1997 by the RAF Historical Society.
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    I'd like to participate in this one, hopefully my wretched children will make it possible.
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    Wait...left? Oh dear, I was shocked to discover it wasn't the MP for North East Somerset, but I see there's a connection regardless. On my 2015 visit to the UK, I stayed with an NHS junior doctor of my acquaintance, and I now realise he must have been incredibly spoonerism-prone!
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    Curiously enough, Mrs P uses the latter word* quite a bit as a descriptor, generally of her coworkers. The children have mercifully not picked that one up from mommy, though Grant has been known to shout "Jesus Christ Winnie!" with what I'm told is a hauntingly familiar delivery to those who know me well. Thank you all! I don't think I'm a particularly good modeller -- things never seem to end up quite how I envisioned them in my mind's eye, but I'm actually fairly happy with this fella so far. Just waiting on the pitot. I haven't been able to find many photos of P-40 exhaust weathering, but it seems like it wasn't a major issue. Anyone know of any good shots of Kittyhawk exhaust stains? If there's none to speak of, we may be effectively more or less done come the pitot. * I should note that here in the USA, this has not so much the freight of a mild "damn" but more that of "if this is heard in public I will never work again, and they can possibly kill my family, too", so I generally only use it under extreme duress, e.g. when working with photoetch.
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    That would be Model Alliance.
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    Glad I bought the decals separate. Thank you for the comprehensive review!
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    Looks like I'll have to resort to the opened version of the hood the kit includes. Just need the pitot, rearview mirror, and some exhaust weathering. What do you all think?
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    Hood's off. Not sure it can be salvaged, but I may have a spare or something.
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    God dammit. Despite my best efforts, spraying the camo for the quarterlights fouled the interior of the sliding hood.
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    That has to be the most threatening "mate" I've been on the receiving end of.
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    Well, you're welcome to use my house. It's in a suburb of Chicago, so close to not one, not two, but three large airports if you count Milwaukee, and we have a spare room. Plenty of space I reckon.
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    Several! DACO Red is difficult to obtain outside of your hemisphere, so I've never used it, but it has a reputation for Ark of the Covenenant-like melting powers on decals: https://www.dacoproducts.com/Ksetting.php Here in the USA, I use Solvaset, which can do to frail, thin decals what Regency-era rakes did to naïve maidens, but which is pretty much certain to melt a decal right to a model.
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    I've prepared a short instructional film to help you adjust to your new life.
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    We can all chip in for one of those telepresence robots that were all the rage for like ten minutes a few years ago, or maybe pick up a cheap secondhand security robot from a failing tech company and use that.
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    I've been saving this, as Wellington did with his knowledge of the ground at Waterloo, in my hip pocket for just such an occasion. The truthfulness of these can be verified for yourself by a perusal of any thread in the Rumourmonger section, particularly ones dealing with aircraft used by the former Soviet bloc.
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    Yes, well, over here, a free rubber could save a fellow thousands of pounds over, say, eighteen years.
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    Bill's a thrifty fellow, you'd be a fool to think when at home he sits on anything but chairs purloined from Scale Model World.
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    Well, those look nice, perhaps I should buy a f---JESUS CHRIST
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    So fun fact: many years ago now, I did some live-in babysitting during the summer for an American patent attorney and her husband, who was a Dutch chemist (they met through work, for where do the seeds of love sprout more readily than during complex litigation?), and he remains, to this day, the only Dutch person I have ever met in the flesh. And quite a bit of the flesh, for, as I assume all continentals do, he would stride (he was immensely tall) through his house in the morning in nothing but a speedo-style pair of briefs. I don't know if he intended it, but it was an amazing way of asserting dominance.
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    I don't want to sound pessimistic, but I do rather suspect things peaked in 2019, and not solely because I graced SMW for the first time: there's an economic downturn that seems to be a-brewin' globally, there've been three solid years of supply chain disruptions, and international travel has been badly knocked about. It will likely be several years at least before the wheel turns anew.
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    I believe the owner has had some health issues -- he mentions on the site orders may be delayed up to six weeks, which I only noticed after I'd bought some early Hawk seats.
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