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Another model on the workshop this time it is a Fairey Gannet AEW.3 in 1:72 scale from the company ‘Sword’. In the box, in addition to the frames, we have resin parts, a sheet of film and a mask, that is the model with extras. The decal sheet includes markings for two machines, the model to be built will be in box camouflage with HMS ‘Ark Royal’.

Hello Gents ! First of the year for me. The end of the line of this so nice family of Japanese navy fighters . The nicest of all in my opinion. With an armement of 2X13 mm +4X20 mm ( like a FW 190 A8 ) , powerfull power plant, and maneuverability as of the Zero sen he could have been a real match for allied planes at that time. But only two were build, plagued by their power plant. Aoshima offers us the possibility to build what is the best option of this plane at all scales !! 😈😆 I just added Master 20mm japanese guns and build the inner landing gear doors mechanism on to the pics now, hope you'll like it ! 🙏 All the best !! and happy modeling !!

Hi all I present to you my build of the Airfix 1:72 Shannon Class Lifeboat not my usual genre of modelling as I’m mainly an aircraft modeller anyway this was an enjoyable build compared to the Revell mosquito that I’ve also just finished needed something to keep me going and it was something different. Tamiya paints used throughout thanks for looking and happy modelling

Irrational to start a KUTA thread for a kit this big, as there's only ten days left - unless we get an extension - and enough KUTA threads already for one man. But. For a long while I have felt the desire to get back to painting something in RLM 65/70/71 scheme. As there's no GB in the horizon, where I could build a proper Luftwaffe bomber this year, 💔, I must leave my four Junkereses, two Dorniers and a Heinkel rest in pieces. All kits bought after the WW2 Twins GB we had last year . Their time will come! Luckily, on my shelf of shame is this bigger Heinkel, the 177 A-5 Greif, that I started in the Bombers/ground attack etc GB three years ago. Today I got reacquainted with the kit, it's instructions and where did I leave it back then. I started by attaching the navigator's cupola base, a pair of bomb bay doors and ended up first joining the port wing halves together and the attaching the wing to the fuselage. No IKEA-build this time Please don't ask me about the progress of the Kittyhawks or the second Me 410. Or maybe you can ask about the latter - but not the Kittyhawks V-P

Hi I'm in with this Hasegawa F-16N kit. The only aftermarket to be used will be an Eduard canopy mask set. I may modify those AIM:s a bit, though. Did/does the US Navy use these with its Vipers too (I mean the P51303A, not the AMRAAM ) Vipers are addictive! V-P

For long I intended to build the “Analog” but the current project was started by the small disappointment caused after seeing the Modelsvit kit parts “in plastic”. As an Eduard MIG-21 MF was queueing for another conversion - less radical – the plan was changed on-the-fly… Eduard kit will provide all but the specific wings and those are supposed to be drop-in replacement from Modelsvit offering… not really, as the resulting main landing gear track was far smaller than “suppose to be”… more on that after the first batch of images (far more interesting than my story telling abilites)

Hil all, it's been a good while since I posted anything here, so I'd like to share one project from 2024 that I'm most proud of. Airfix's 2010s era He111 is was what you Brits might call a curate's egg. Some aspects are excellent. There are great interior details, things scale out just right, and the complex curves of the wings and canopy are captured perfectly. The engineering of the complex landing gear is done very cleverly, and I like that Airfix gives you the option to open the unique vertical bomb bay (curiously, there are no bombs provided). On the other hand, fit was a little tricky in places, and I used more filler than I have on other Airfix models from the period. I had a very hard time fitting the four piece glass nose, but I think much of that was due to user error. My advice is to glue the three main pieces together BEFORE you add them to the fuselage. The fit of the lower wings and flaps was also tight, and the fit of the side windows was extremely tight side windows didn't fit at all without major shaving. What really surprised me was the low quality of the decals. Airfix has established a track record of supplying excellent decals printed by Cartograph. Indeed, the box side says Cartograph. But these have a thick flat finish, and were a little stiffer than any Cartograph decals I used before. They reminded me more of old Italeri decals. They also had very poor adhesion, and some of the smaller stencils fell off after they had dried. I hope I just got a bad batch, because this was totally uncharacteristic. As for the build. It went quickly. I think I finished the model in about three weeks, which is very fast for me. Despite some of the fit issues, the kit is designed to be quickly assembled. I added some paper belts, and replaced the stick-like Airfix MGs, with the somewhat overscaled, but more MG-ie looking guns from the old Italeri heinkel. I also used a set of resin wheels I had laying around. The model was painted with Mr. Color RLM 65, 70, and 71. I also applied several shades of green, brown, and drab colored oil paint filters (basically dirty thinner), to shift the colors and add some tonal variety. The exhaust stains are Tamiya smoke. I lightened the greens just a touch in an effort to achieve the look of an airplane under sunny skies, and I didn't want the model to turn into a heinkel-shaped black hole on my display shelves, with the two very dark greens. These might look too bright for some color purists, but I think they make the model visually more interesting. Alse the colors have a lot less contrast when not under my bright photography lights. So there we have it. On a scale of 1 to 10, I give this one a 6. The fit issues were one thing, but the poor decals really brought this one down by one or two points.

I started another Spitfire for my growing collection. This time, it will be photo recon FR Mk IXc in striking PRU pink scheme from 16th Squadron in second half of 1944. Discussion thread: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235146219-spitfire-in-pink-options/ Initially, I planned to paint PR Mk X in this scheme but it turned out that KP decal option is not real, so I decided to convert Eduard Mk IXc (late) into FR. Major change is obviously oblique camera installation. I had to cut round window in a radio hatch, trying to get size and positioning like in the photos. I chose to glue square piece of transparent plastic so I had to thin the hatch significantly. It proven to be quite difficult and I broke the edge of opening in one place forcing me to perform delicate repair. Still I think it was less problematic then other option - trying to fit round window in the hole. It also allowed me to glue strengthening strips one the inside. I also built body of the camera, but it is very crude as only the lens is visible. Next was cockpit, built out of the box with Eduard profipack PEs. Sides of the seat were thinned a bit, I added some wires, oxygen pipe and I decided to move upper part of control column as I glued ailerons slightly offset. Cockpit was painted with Pactra (grey green), Citadel (silver) and Kimmera acrylics (seat and details). Camera lens was painted with Molotov chrome marker.

Here is the last kit I finished this year - 1:72 Dassault Mirage F.1EE, aircraft no. C.14-69, 462-18, 462 Esquadrón "Halcones", Ejército del Aire (Spanish Air Force), Gando AB, Gran Canaria, 1980s. Special Hobby kit with Master metal Pitot tube, Yahu instrument panel and LP Models resin ladder. Painted with Mr.Color C series and Alclad paints with satin varnish. Thanks for watching!

(If this post shouldn’t be in this section please let me know) Hi fellow modellers (Pre-warning this is a rather long post please feel free to skip to the pictures as you wish) I brought a BPK 1:72 Beoing 737-200 (no7206) around 4 years ago And straight away I had and idea to do it in a What-if scheme so over the next couple of months I came up with a few ideas and did a some drawings on my wife’s MacBook. anyway the project was put on the back burner till late September this year when basically on impulse I got the kit out of the stash and the project was on. This is the first BPK kit that I built and I knew from the word go this was going to be a challenging project and it certainly fought me every step of the way (partly self inflicted) but hopefully I’ve beat it into submission. If I was to build this kit again I’d certainly do things differently now I know how it goes together. The Kit. BPK first released the 1:72 Beoing 737-200 back in 2012 with this iteration was released in 2019. The Boeing 737 (FACT) The Boeing 737 is an American narrow-body airliner produced by Boeing at its Renton factory in Washington USA. Developed to supplement the Boeing 727 on short and thin routes, the twinjet retained the 707 fuselage width and six abreast seating with two underwing Pratt & Whitney JT8D low-bypass turbofan engines and offered seating for 85 to 130 passengers as well as cargo. Envisioned in 1964, the initial 737-100 made its first flight in April 1967 and entered commercial service in February 1968. The 737-200 was a 737-100 with an extended fuselage and entered commercial service in April 1968. The 737-200 Advanced was a improved version of the 737-200, introduced into service in May 1971 and the 737-200 Advanced had improved aerodynamics, automatic wheel brakes, more powerful engines, more fuel capacity, and hence a 15% increase in payload and range over the original 737-200s and respectively 737-100s. Boeing also provided the 737-200C (combi) which allowed for conversion between passenger and cargo use. RAF INTEREST (FICTITIOUS) The UK’s Royal Air Force was looking for a new type to supplement the Vickers VC-10 Fleet of Number 10 SQUADRON at RAF BRIZE NORTON Oxfordshire and Boeing were approached in September 1970 with a request for a hybrid version incorporating both the upcoming 737-200 Advanced and the 737-200C (combi) Aircraft. Boeing’s designation for this type was 737-200AC but would be known as the Boeing Hermes C.1 in RAF Service. This advanced combi version of the 737-200 was Accepted by the Royal Air Force in May 1971 and an order for 5 Aircraft was placed with delivery due to commence the following year. The first aircraft XR811 made its maiden flight on the 15th May 1972 and was delivered to the Royal Air Force on the 28th July 1972 and the second Aircraft XR812 making its maiden flight on the 25th June 1973 and was delivered on the 1st September 1973. The remaining 3 Aircraft on order XR813-814 and 815 which were due to be delivered over the next 2 years were cancelled in 1974 by the new Government due to defence cuts. (Well done for reading this far) RAF USAGE The Beoing Hermes C.1 in RAF service was put to good use from flying military personnel, Royalty, dignitaries as well as Cargo to wherever needed within Europe and the aircraft being configured to whatever role was necessary at short notice. The Hermes C.1’s main routes being to RAF Akrotiri Cyprus,Germany or anywhere else that was needed within Europe for diplomatic purposes AIRCRAFT HISTORY XR811 had a fairly short career with the RAF having been written off after a heavy landing at RAF Akrotiri on the 13th August 1980 and was uneconomical to repair she was stripped of any useful equipment and ultimately scrapped in early 1982 XR812 had a long distinguished career and soldiered on right up to its retirement from RAF service on 31st July 2015 having served 41 years and 9 months. XR812 had several upgrades during its career mainly internally plus a couple of scheme changes XR812’s story doesn’t end there after her RAF career she was put up for sale after a year in storage at St Athan with all military equipment removed she was sold to Buffalo Airways and flown to Canada soon after being re designated 737-200AC with the civil serial C-ACCI flying cargo across Canada she was permanently retired on the 1st September 2023 50 years to the day when she first entered RAF service. THE BUILD This is the scheme that i decided on when I thought of the idea but with 4 different marking options and literally right at the decalling stage is when I settled for these markings after asking opinions of 3 fellow modeller mates and they all picked the same option. Cheers guys 👍 The kit itself was built pretty much out of the box the only extras was some brass tubing for the engine exhausts and the various aftermarket decals to make up the scheme. It’s painted as XR812 of 10 SQUADRON at RAF BRIZE NORTON Oxfordshire as it appeared in 1998. The model is finished using the following products Primer Halfords grey primer Paints used Mr hobby C1 white upper surface Mr hobby C332 light aircraft grey lower surface MRP Marking Blue for the lightning cheat line The decals The RAF wording are from a 1:72 VC-10 sheet by F-DCAL (FD72-018) The underwing serials and tail fin number are also from the above F-DCAL sheet as was the 10 squadron badge on the tail. The fuselage serials are from XTRADECAL (X48-044A) The fuselage and wing roundels and fin flash are from XTRADECAL RAF D TYPE ROUNDELS (X037-48) The cockpit and cabin window decals are from AUTHENTIC AIRLINER DECALS The door markings and engine decals are from 26 Decals THE UNION JACK decals are from a mates spares box (cheers Steve 👍) Plus a few of the kit decals used. Varnish MR hobby GX100 gloss Tamiya XF-86 Matt This was a throughly enjoyable but challenging build Comments welcome and thanks for taking the time to read through this post Enjoy and happy modelling Now the pictures

Well, it's been a pretty 💩year for me so far, especially in terms of model building. Hoping to recapture some modelling mojo, I thought I'd gatecrash this Group Build. What to build ? I had a search through my stash for something Ukrainian. AModel ? Check. Art Model ? Check. ICM ? Check. Modelsvit ? Check. Ok, going to have to choose according to something other than kit manufacturer. I need something that screams 'Slava Ukraini' , while sat on Snake Island flipping off a cruiser and eating borscht. And then my eyes lit on this : To work ! Here's the 'I'm not cheating' picture of what's in the box. I have a horrible feeling the carpet monster is going to get well fed with this one !! It's TIDDLEY !!

My first entry in this GB. I built the ancient Airfix kit a very long time ago, and this tank has always been a favourite of mine. I bought this kit not long after it was released in the early noughties, it being the very first Roden 1:72 AFV kit. The kit comprises about 125 parts, including flexible tracks. My preferred subject is an Egyptian tank, but I doubt I'll be using the recommended Humbrol 63 Sand for that. Something much, much paler seems to be required, such as Humbrol 121.

Originally by another Ukrainian company, Omega-K. ICM seems to have acquired all the Omega-K toolings sometime in the late 1990s. I bought this second-hand late last year, possibly around the time this GB made the cut. One of the subjects (not shown here) has a two-tone camouflage, and that will probably be the one I'll build. There's also an ambulance option, without the machine gun. While the kit looks simple, it does include a full interior. But since I'll be leaving the doors closed, I will dispense with those parts.

Good evening all, It's been a busy few months but I've finally got a few builds under my belt that I can share! Those of you who attended Scale Model World 2024 in Telford this year, will probably have seen this beast on the Revell table. They kindly asked me to build this for their table due to the re-release of this kit due soon. A beast of a kit from 2002, this went together surprisingly well for the size. The large internal super structure helps keep everything together to be built around. Finished in a mix of Tamiya and AK colours, she boasts the rather odd RLM72 / 73 / 65 camo used on most naval or maritime patrol aircraft of the period. A custom made stand was made for it to sit on with the help of a cotton bud to keep the rear of the aircraft level. Please enjoy these photos and if you'd like to see more, let me know as these aren't all that I took. She'll be handed over to Revell permanently next week which I'm glad about as I simply don't have the space to store her! Cheers all! https://www.facebook.com/jamesbuildsandmore/

Hi! Here is my 1:72 McDonnell Douglas F-15C Eagle, 84-0027, 493 Fighter Squadron USAF, RAF Lakenheath, 2016. Hasegawa kit (F-15J converted to F-15C MSIP II), Eduard PE set for cockpit and Caracal Models decals. Missiles and launchers from spares. Painted with MRP paints and Alclad metallics. Thanks for watching!

Finally built a model instead of just buying them. An age since I last put a kit together so starting small. The kit is OOB with some minor scratch build to add detail to lights, muzzle brake, towing eyes and stowage. Splattered with VMC field drab, then brush highlighted before modulating and weathering with oils. Needs some tinkering to add aerials and tie downs https://hobbyphotohost.com/album?i=212 All comments and suggestions welcome

There was a time when this was considered state of the art, or maybe it was just me when I built it circa 1983 or 1984. Back in 2015, I managed to grab two second hand, both the original 1977 boxing, and the late 1980s Aircraft of the Aces edition: Then I got yet another as part of a second-hand 2004 Airfix fighter collection, same as the Me 262 which I am also building. This will be the kit I am building. It is basically the Aces kit: The mold stamp tells no lies:

Hi all, It's been a while since I last posted, but I finally got round to finishing and photographing my most recent build. Commissioned by Revell to be displayed on their stand at Scale Model World 2024, this is their most recent boxing of their lovely 1:72 Arado E.555, part of their new "P-Series" of kits. A kit first tooled up in the mid nineties, it still holds it's own today if you're a fan of Luft'46 subjects like I am. A bit of work on the leading edges but otherwise, everything went together without a hitch. Working with the Revell UK team, we came up with this "What If" scheme whilst utilising the existing decals provided in the kit, to show what can be done with a bit of imagination! I also used Coastal Kits Display Bases to give it some context of size in the images. Please enjoy these photos and any questions are welcomes and I shall answer when possible! Cheers!

Ah yes, the old Me 262, from 1960 or thereabouts. In 1979 - which was my first "full-time" year of modelling - I built this kit from a blister pack, a packaging format that had been discontinued several years before in favour of a box. My memory of the kit was that it was crude, especially the undercarriage doors fit. Now, normally I wouldn't touch a kit like this again with the proverbial, but this GB calls for sacrifices above and beyond the normal call of duty. This is the artwork from the boxed release. Someone can confirm if this was the work of Roy Cross, which I suspect it was. A couple of years ago, I bought an 2004 Airfix fighters collection second-hand, which included this "gem". The instructions for the 7 included kits seem to have been all taken from the most recent available boxing. I intend building this mostly OOB, except that I will replace the bombs and pylons with something more accurate (which is a very low bar TBH), and fill in the upper cannon ports, as befitting the bomber version. The colour call-outs are of course gloriously inaccurate. The basic scheme would be RLM 81/82 over 76.

I have a specific memory about the first time I built this kit in the early 1980s, about being on a half-day from school, and scraping together the money (IR£ 1.95) to buy my first ever Stuka. This series 3 kit was originally issued with eye-catching artwork by Ken McDonough, but by the time I bought it, the Artwork Police had caused most of the detail to be airbrushed out in true Stalinist fashion. This scan is my own: What I did not realise until a few years later was that this was an improved version of the series 2 kit (also my own scan): I am building the A03030 version boxing of the "full" tooling, which was the last to be released before the "new" 2015 tooling. It is very unlikely this 1970s tooling will ever see the light of day again, other than second-hand.

I built this kit only last year as the JV 44 subject with "candy stripe" undersides, and it has already been built at least twice already in this GB. But it's too good to pass up. It's always a kit I've had a soft spot for, having first built it in the early 1980s. If Airfix doesn't have a new Dora in its plans, then a Vintage Classics release of this would be very much welcome. The original Ken McDonough artwork for the first kit I built, and the near-identical boxing that I built last year: This is in the stash from the early 1990s, and is the kit I'm building this time. The gloriously inaccurate painting guide. All parts present and correct. I will probably replace the drop tank with something better, but keep the pylon. Now for a detour. The Italeri kit is of a similar vintage, and was re-released earlier this year with a superb new decal sheet. Were it not for this re-release (of which I've bought two), I might not be building the Airfix kit now. The rear box cover doesn't even convey the full variety of these schemes, as some have different wing and fuselage camouflage colours. "RLM 84" is probably a later variant of RLM 76. Of these 6 schemes, B is out because I did it only last year. D and F both have a flat canopy, which the Airfix kit doesn't have, and scheme D also has a bomb. No problem, as the other 3 are all good options. Scheme A is the one I've chosen:

Not London to Melbourne 1934, but London to California 1987. I'll let you have fun guessing for now, but will add clues later.

The other day, I realised that I only have a year or so before I celebrate 50 years of gluing plastic together. A sobering thought, of course, when you think of what good you could have brought to the world if only you had invested your time more wisely. Thankfully, thoughts like that quickly dissipate, and are replaced with more meaningful queries. Have I built every mark of Spitfire yet? Just what colour were the spaghetti swirls on those Hurricanes? Is RLM83 really dark blue? And speaking of the Luftwaffe, have I built every mark of 109 yet? OMG. Not only haven't I built every mark of 109 yet - I haven't made even one single model of the bloomin' 109. Not one in almost 50 years! How can I call myself a modeller? Oh, the shame if this gets out at a club meeting. I'll be banished from the IPMS - International Plastic Messerschmitt Society. But wait! I have this sweet little Airfix kit in the stash, and I can build this up quick, OOB, put it in my display case, and no one will be the wiser. Heck, it's even on top of the stash because the box is so small. Let's do it! Here's what was in the box: Oh crap, there's Eduard stuff in the box! So much for the OOB idea. Well, I decided to do it anyway. For starters, I added the nice photoetch rudder pedals. Next, I added the bracket that will hold the seat adjustment lever. Typical small photoetch part that you have to fold into a U shape, providing you can even see it. Eduard have you make the lever itself out of plastic rod. Remind me to do that at some point. Next up I painted the cockpit with some Gunze H70 RLM02, and the instrument panel with Gunze H416 RLM66. Eduard provide some very nice pre-painted instrument panels, and I just had to have a look at them through a magnifying glass. Yes, you can actually read the instrument dials. In 1:72 scale! Aye carumba. At this point, I switched over to the wings, where that nice Mr. Ed has designed some improvements to the wheel wells. Airfix has some nice detailing in the roof of the wheel well, but when the upper and lower wing sections are put together, the walls of the wheel well have a nasty seam running right down the middle. Eduard has photoetch to cover that up, but it looks tricky. Here is what we start with: I removed the Airfix detail from the roof of the well with a sharp no.11 blade. I then added the photoetch roof, which bends into a nice concave shape when you press it against the wing: Next, it's time to glue the wing sections together. Here I discovered something a little odd. If I aligned the top and bottom wings using the pegs and holes moulded by Airfix, the leading edge of the wing is not aligned - to fix this I had to cut off the pegs and line everything up by eye and then glue it. It was like building a short run kit. But at least everything is lined up, and I can add the photoetch walls. Once that was done, here's what I had: (You can see the nasty seam in the other wheel well.) It looks like an improvement, so I followed the same procedure for the other side. Oddly, I had to cut the pegs off of this side, too, in order to get everything lined up. Here is an in-process shot that shows how I tackled the wheel well wall. I took the flat piece of photoetch, and formed it around a wooden dowel, so that it was a smaller diameter than the wheel well. I applied some CA glue to the area where there is a notch for the landing gear strut, and then I worked my way around the wall, using very small amounts of CA. Lastly, I added the separate piece of PE that is glued into the indentation for the landing gear strut. Eventually, both sides were finished. Too bad the real wheel wells weren't brass, I wouldn't have to paint them. Then I went back to the cockpit, and added the PE harnesses to the seat. I also added the gun sight to the instrument panel. Next, I added a lot of PE detail to the cockpit sidewalls. The cockpit also got a light wash of burnt umber something or other. (I forgot what's in the bottle!) I didn't bother to fix the large ejector pin mark on the rear cockpit shelf, as there will be some PE covering that up later on. Some shots of how it will go together: You may have noticed that the edges of the cockpit and instrument panel have been sanded. I found this was necessary to get things to fit together properly, especially the fit of the wing assembly onto the fuselage. Without sanding down the edges of the cockpit, the fuselage is too wide, and when the wings were added there was no dihedral. I just kept sanding away at the cockpit until everything fit together with no difficulty. It wasn't much to remove really, and once I got to that point, everything fit together very well. Now it was time to address the fatal flaw of the kit, the one that makes it unbuildable. Of course, this is the infamous starboard wing root moulding flaw. On the wing root there is what looks like a strengthening strip of some kind, and this is reproduced nicely on the port side. The other side well, not so good. There is something there, but it hasn't been fully moulded. Airfix have fixed this in later versions of this kit, so I figured if they can do it so can I. First, I made a pencil rubbing of the good side. I used this as a template to cut out a thin strip of 0.010" styrene, which has a slight curve to it. Here it is just sitting on the starboard fuselage half: Next I used liquid cement to attach it to the fuselage: So far so good, but the strip is too thick (even at 0.010")! I sanded it down until it seemed to be the same thickness as the strip on the good side. At this point, I also glued the fuselage halves together. The strip on the good side has small holes evenly spaced along its length. To duplicate that, I need to mark off where the holes need to be and then add them. I measured the good side, and found the spacing was 1.5mm. I marked that off with a sharp pencil, nothing fancy. Next, I used a 0.016" drill bit to make the holes. I used my fingers as the drill; I rotated the drill bit between my fingers, finding it quite easy to remove the soft styrene. It's not perfect, but I think it will get the job done. I plan on sanding this down some more, and I think that it will look OK under a few coats of paint. To give you an idea of the scale, here is the model, the drill bit, my set of drill bits, and a euro buck: That last photo is not magnified as much as the others, so it looks more "real life." Anyway, that's where I am for now. I'll be taking a couple days off as my youngest daughter is graduating from university this weekend and you know what that means - no more tuition!! Woo hoo!! Cheers, Bill

My first RFI upload in over a year! Been busy with University stuff so not as much workbench time, working on many projects though and just finished this one. Overall the kit wasn't a huge nightmare, some faults here and there, the ejection seats are the wrong variant, I couldn't get aftermarkets so that's a mistake I made, I also messed up the canopy which bothers me but apart from that I'm happy with how it turned out. Because of bad weather I can't take decent photographs right now so this will have to suffice. Another added to the RAF Camo collection! I am unsure what is next on the workbench, but I'll try to post better photos of the hawk later. Thanks for looking!

Hi! I recently bought KPs Spitfire PR Mk X due to attractive PRU pink scheme. Long story short, I learned mk Xs were most probably exclusively available in blue. Is it true? As I would like that special scheme though, I consider using spare late mk. IXc from Eduard for conversion it into FR mk IX. What changes are necessary except installation of camera window in radio hatch? Are there any other options for "pink spit"? I know some of the early PRs also could be painted like this? As for mk. X I now consider heavily worn out PRU blue scheme. How far this color deterioration could go as at some point it may start to look a bit like hi-alt scheme of grey over blue...