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Hello, Here's my Kinetic 1/48 NF-5A in Royal Dutch Air Force markings. I started this kit in november last year, but it was put on hold for a while because I was waiting for some rocketpods that I wanted to put on the wings. Sadly, fate wouldn't let me have these, so I opted for some recycled Hasegawa Mk.82 Snakeyes instead, that I turned into inert ones. These kits came with a mold flaw in the clear parts, and the wingtip fueltanks are identical, not mirrored like the real ones. I emailed to Luckymodel, and they provided me with correct parts for a small fee. The instrument panel is not correct for a NF-5A, but who's going to notice. I did change the leading edge flap a bit, to make it more like the NF-5 ones. I used MR Paint on it, and Dutch Decal markings to make it like a 314 Squadron one, based at Eindhoven AB. The big E was applied for the 1978 Tactical Air Meet at Wildenrath. The real K-3047 later went to the Hellenic Air Force. Thanks for looking, I hope you like it.
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One of the great things about Britmodeller is that the builds of others inspire you. So when I saw the build of Ced B. who built a Frog spitfire MK. XIV with an V1 flying bomb. In one of his posts he showed a picture that he used as his desktop. The orange triangle under the windshield points to a Dutch pilot. The plane in the painting is one included in an old Dutch Decal sheet I have. It's a 322 Dutch Squadron one. 3W F was flown by Flying Officer Rudy Burgwal. Born in the the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), he came to the UK when war in Europe broke out to fight for freedom. And just to put this in perspective: he wasn't ordered, he did so voluntarily. As a pilot in the 322 he claimed five doodle bugs in one 90 minute flight. In 3W F he scored 6 V1's in 17 flights. His total was 19. Total for the squadron was 108 destroyed. He was KIA being shot down by flak escorting a bombing raid over the south of France in august '44. Rudy in the cockpit. On this photo he's the guy pushing the propellor. So having the decals, it was about getting a kit. I first thought about a Frogspawn one, which has the V1, but although Ced made a great beauty out of it, I don't think I will do so well. So I decided to do an easy build, although Procopius said it looks like an XIV on donuts.... The Academy one it will be. The kit The decalsheet. I've already built one option a few years ago: another spit -
A bit of history to start. In WWI the Dutch airforce (Luchtvaartafdeling, LVA) had a large number of different airplanes, most of which landed in the Netherlands (neutral territory) after engine trouble or by mistake. The Nieuport was one of those. After tests in 1916 the LVA ordered 10 Nieuports. These were delivered in 1918 and remained in service until 1925. The planes were silver doped, and had the then standard dutch orange roundels. These were nicknamed "gehaktballen" (meatballs). A few of the planes had a black cockerel* on the sides. Dutch Decal provide a nice sheet for these machines. I'll be building one of those. Well... that's the planning. I have the decalset... I'll will let you know when I get the kit... *I'm rather happy I found a "cockerel" named in another post. Normally I would use a shorter word, but then the title would be very... uhm... let's say fitting for a complete different kimd of forum? And telling an Irish friend what I was doing wasn't helpful either. She understood me as saying I will be "mating a french model". Well, entendre (as in double entendre) is a French word, isn't it? So, that's French fancy for you!
