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Dear All.. a new year and another kit offered for RFI. I hope you enjoy this RFI as much as i enjoyed building it! I am indebted to Wellsprop for the inspiration to do this kit. EG-T reg no MM417 served with 487 New Zealeand Squadron, the squadron famous for raids such as Jericho as well as low level attacks on Gestapo headquarters in Aarhus and Copenhagen. I decided to build this kit with the bomb bays closed and a full weapon payload on the wing pylons. Painted with Hataka paints and lightly weathered to represent a machine that didn't see a huge amount of use before it was hit by flak and force landed at RAF Hunsdon on 26th March 1944. This aircraft was based at RAF Hunsdon which is an airfield very local to me i decided this was the example i'd do . For this kit i first used the paper mask to do the RAF cammo pattern. (Great idea to include in the kit!) I wasn't entirely satisfied with the results so decided to have a go usin gthe Bluetack masking method. I enjoyed this process very much. The results are not absolutely perfect but the more times i do it the better i'll get at it! Hopefully! This was a lovely kit to build. Tamiya kits always are it seems and in my book worth the extra money. I used Hataka Red Line RAF Set colours used on the underside and the ocean grey. Tamiya RAF Green 2 for the top cammo. The RAF Ocean Grey topside is in my humble opinion 'spot on' . The pitot tube was very fragile and fell off so i fashioned a new sturdier one from a cut off paper clip!
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