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Folks, this is the kit that got be back into modelling when it came out 5 years ago. After these years of learning new techniques (and buying an airbrush!) I decided I wanted to redo it and do it justice. I've gone for a Cold War version, so I lost the back bins, square side bin (replaced with a spare Chieftain side bin, as was the fashion), and the cam pole holders. All were post Cold War additions. I added a carry handle to the GPMG which Takom had missed. Also swopped out the fire extinguishers for the older smaller green one which were still in use back then and the drivers mirrors for the older type. The yellow fuel caps was down to use having a mixed fleet of petrol mark ones and diesel mark twos. When you pulled up to a refuelling point in the middle of the night in the pitch black you didn't want the wrong fuel put in. Diesel was yellow, petrol was red and AVGAS/kero purple (?). This was colour coding is used on jerrycans as well. Paints were a mixture of Mig, Tamiya and Humbrol acrylics. The IRR green is Mig NATO green with a few drops of yellow ochre. Quick Shine for the gloss coat, pin wash oil paint and terps, and Vallejo matt varnish. Mig dark earth and dust pigments for the weathering. And this is the comparison It was enjoyable revisiting it and correcting my earlier errors but I the kit had a lot more flash than I remember - maybe the tooling it getting worn. Still a great kit however of a Cold War warrior - I saw somewhere we are sending 200 to Ukraine - I didn't think we had 200 left. Bill
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For this group build I will be doing the Vickers 432. An aircraft originally intended to hunt at high altitude enemy intruders. Unfortunately, for Vickers it was not a successful aircraft. I have been obsessed with this aircraft since the mid 90s and even turned a wooden plug, with the vain hope of vac forming over it. Here you see it in comparison the the resin Kora fuselage that I will be using for my build. My first source was Aeroplane Monthly, March 1992 that really got me excited about the subject. I reckon I must have scaled up the general arrangement drawing from the Putnam book on Vickers to give a shape for my wooden fuselage. Here you see displayed on a page of Tony Buttler's " British experimental combat aircraft of WW II". The box art is a bit 'pony', but I hope to make a half decent job of the kit. Big question, What colour was the topside ? Dark Green and Dark Earth or Oceon Grey and Dark Green (or whatever the Grey/green camouflage was ?) Answers on a postcard
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Well Gents, I got my latest stash-mates in the mail today; they include the CMR Westland Welkin, a Special Hobby A-35 to be painted up as a Navy TBV Georgia, and of course the Kora Vickers 432 high altitude interceptor (amongst others ) After careful reading on wiki I understand that only two aircraft were considered, and in 1944 the test flight plane was scrapped. If this beauty had gone into service, what sort of camo would it wear over the skies of Great Britain? If you have any suggestions as to which other roles it might take on, I would be happy to hear those too. Please do throw in your suggestions, the P scheme with yellow undersides does not agree with me.
