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New DK decals 72014 - 72018 / RAF B-17's, B-24's, 100 group etc.


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Hi Paul,

Due to great interest of the sheet 100 Group is ordered a reprint of a sheet 1/72, along with new sheet 1/48.

I'm very happy to hear that the 100 Group sheet has been very popular.

Perhaps sheets that depict aircraft from other RAF groups (1, 2.... 5,6) etc. might also be winners as well?

Cheers... Dave.

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Hi Paul,

Due to great interest of the sheet 100 Group is ordered a reprint of a sheet 1/72, along with new sheet 1/48.

Hi

It might be better for sales ...

to remove the stirlings from the 1:48 sheet

and replace them with B-17's,

or maybe even a beaufighter, or another mosquito.

As far as i know there is only one 1:48 stirling and it is a vacuform which many dont build vacuforms anymore

Cheers

Jerry

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Hi Franta, Love the 100 Group sheet. How about a 100 Grp Mossie sheet for 85 & 157 Sqdns. Also No.8 Group Pathfinders, 35 Sqdn Halifax,582 Sqdn Lancasters and 105 & 109 Sqdn Mossies. Fabulous stuff, niche market. :popcorn:

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Hi guys,

I´m interested in building a Coastal Command Liberator. I tried to get Hasegawa´s Liberator B-24J Coastal Command Limited Edition but it´s just to hard to find and expensive. I have the Jolly Rogers one. Can someone tell me if I can build accurately OOB one of the B-24´s pictured in the B-24 RAF or 311 Sqn sheets from DK Decals? I want to build one with the Extra Dark Sea Grey/Dark Slate Gray upperside camouflage and White fuselage and underside.

Thanks

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Be careful what you wish for. "Accurate OOB".....oh dear. Not because the kit is inaccurate, in itself, but because of the sheer variety of these noses. The book "Consolidated Mess" from MMP covers all the variations seen on production nose-turret B-24s, and the RAF serials can be used to find just which of the varied shapes should be applied. Or, indeed, which one is represented by the kit. The Coastal Command boxing of the kit contains the same plastic as the standard kit.

The subject has been discussed in some depth on this board, so it may be worth your while digging out earlier threads, but I'm pretty sure this won't run to a detailed cross-checking of which transfer offering requires which amount of work. To be honest, if you aren't interested enough to buy the book you might as well just make the kit with whatever transfers you like, and save the aggro.

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Hi Graham, thanks for your reply. I want the one with the animal mouth on the nose: http://www.dkdecals.cz/B24_RAF_navod.jpg but I don´t know if the standard Hasegawa B-24J kit has all the pieces to build that one. The only aftermarket I want to add is the PE set for the cockpit and eventually the dorsal radar if that particular B-24J carried it.

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RCAF 3742 was a B-24J-100-CF, with the Emerson nose turret and the H2S ventral radome. Outward-opening nose doors and a thin flush vertical window on the fuselage side behind the astrodome. I don't know exactly how this compares to the kit but it wouldn't seem to be a difficult proposition. The key point may be the bottom line of the nose and the kink to the transparency.

Stevehnz: Some subtlety regarding B-24 noses? Oh yes, lots.

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Thanks Graham. So, to build 3742 I also have to buy the the ventral radome not included in the kit. Freightdog has a resin one, but for the Halifax.Would that one do the trick? And I just remembered that two years ago I built a Coastal Command Halifax from Matchbox that had the radome in the box but I didn´t use it.

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