Hello all...I hope you don't mind that I drop in and contribute a build to this fine GB? I will be building SH's 1/72nd scale G-23 Delfin, aka the Grumman FF 'FiFi'; Goblin...the first carrier aircraft with retractable landing gear, although that wasn't an issue for the Spanish Republicans during the Civil War. From the outset it looks to be a nice kit with some well moulded plastic and some good looking resin parts. A small card of photo etch and a clear sprue (canopy) have been supplied and the decals look in register at first glance. The kit supplies decals for three Republican machines and two Nationalist. I'll be building a Republican aircraft although I am not sure which one yet. The box art gives me some good ideas for weathering. Not a successful aircraft by any means against the Nationalist forces, but a unique one and one symbolic of the end of the biplane fighter era. They were pretty well decimated by the German and Italian aircraft flown by the fascists. Some survived the war and were relegated to training roles post-war.
--John