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Built in a week!! Yeah! in places it shows - the weathering MAY be a tad overdone in places BUT- what a great tonic to actually finish something!!!

Anyway here she is - in all her tatty glory, as XF442 /"81" of 58 (Shadow) Sqn would have appeared whilst training future Jaguar pilots at RAF Wittering in 1974ish.

Revell's spanking new 1/72nd FGA9 - well worth the wait! Decals from the kit and a 30+ year old Modeldecal sheet!!

Paints all Xtracrylic...matted down with Revell Aqua "Farblas"......

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Bill

I can hear the 'blue note' from here, she looks damn good.

John.

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Crikey, I wouldn't. Quickboost obviously designed that nose without ever once looking at an FR.10 :confused:

The Quickboost 'FR10' nose is undoubtedly wrong, however the nose does resemble a simplified recce nose carried by some Hunters for training. This version seems to have utilised the standard nose section. I have a few pictures, which I will dig out, of Hunters (including a Wittering FGA 9) with this nose section.

Andrew

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The Quickboost 'FR10' nose is undoubtedly wrong, however the nose does resemble a simplified recce nose carried by some Hunters for training. This version seems to have utilised the standard nose section. I have a few pictures, which I will dig out, of Hunters (including a Wittering FGA 9) with this nose section.

Andrew

True enough, although it only "resembles" that style of nose as there was only one camera port (on the starboard side) instead of the two on the Quickboost effort.

That single camera nose housed an F.95 strike camera and, yes, it was a standard nose piece converted by adding a small window in the lower starboard side.

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Nce work Bill,are you going to do an FR.10 now with the Quickboost nose?

Stephen

I've already started one! Last week...its in the "Work In Progress" section, and no - I'm not using the QB nose (see thread for details - and discussion on that piece of resin!!).

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The Quickboost 'FR10' nose is undoubtedly wrong, however the nose does resemble a simplified recce nose carried by some Hunters for training. This version seems to have utilised the standard nose section. I have a few pictures, which I will dig out, of Hunters (including a Wittering FGA 9) with this nose section.

Andrew

I have seen that particular photo - it appears that the people at Eduard/QB mistook that item for a bone fide "FR/PR" nose cone, which is a bit of a shame really.........

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