Pegasus MB5

[Procopius]

I recently "won" (if that is the proper term for being willing to pay more than anyone else for something) a Pegasus 1/72 Martin-Baker MB5 kit; the MB5 and the Spiteful/Seafang are probably my favorite late-war prototypes, so I'm very excited. What can you all tell me about the kit? Is it complex? Will it test my limited skills? Does it look like an MB5?

Also, can anyone recommend squadron codes and a scheme to paint the MB5 in; I'd like to depict one in the squadron service they never had a chance to be in.

[bentwaters81tfw]

If it's up to Pegasus' usual standards, it will give you grief and despair in equal amounts.

Do yourself a favour and send it to me. I have a tendency to build such crap, albeit over a period of years.

If you do decide to make it, I'd go for 56 sqn markings, as it spent much of it's life at Wattisham, which was the haunt of 56 for many years.

[Robert Stuart]

I can not comment on the kit, but I'd think about using the MB5 to replace Mustangs in squadron service. There's a vauge visual similarity between the types

I'd be tempted to go for 19 squadron, they were first for a couple of types

For a list of Mustang squadrons try http://www.wwiiaircraftperformance.org/mus...stangunits.html

Edited August 29, 2011 by Robert Stuart

[Procopius]

If it's up to Pegasus' usual standards, it will give you grief and despair in equal amounts.

That sounds...promising...

[The wooksta V2.0]

It's one of Pegasus better releases and one I've built several of over the years. Goes together fairly well with some judicious sanding, although the canopy could do with a vacform replacement and the wheels are better off nicked from a Heller Tempest. It's a nice kit and well worth picking up if you see it.

The Magna one is a beauty too