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  • May 23, 2004 at 10:23 pm in reply to: New colours for TD248 #1830843
    Mark V
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    And you wonder why the people who work on these aeroplanes rarely appear in print on these pages..??

    😀 😀 😀

    May 22, 2004 at 4:04 pm in reply to: Corgi Models – not amused! #1831333
    Mark V
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    Albert, I am referring to the proportion of the outside blue band to the overall emblem. It should be one eigth of the radius of the inner circle containing the star. The bar is half a radius high. On the BBD it looks too thin.

    May 22, 2004 at 9:03 am in reply to: New colours for TD248 #1831487
    Mark V
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    Probably not – it looks messy. The nearest representation of the ‘authentic look’ can be found on the static P-47 in the AAM at Duxford.

    May 22, 2004 at 8:32 am in reply to: Corgi Models – not amused! #1831502
    Mark V
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    Albert, could you provide Corgi with the correct information on setting out the USAAF ‘Stars and Bars’ please (at least with reference to BBD)?

    May 22, 2004 at 8:12 am in reply to: New colours for TD248 #1831510
    Mark V
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    It is a temporary wash off scheme.

    Regardless of the merits or otherwise of the new scheme, a very great deal of work has gone in to putting it on the aircraft. It takes a lot of time to paint a Spitfire, particularly in an invasion stripe scheme. There is no significant saving in time using water wash paint, just the added task of removing it all a few weeks later.

    May 20, 2004 at 1:23 pm in reply to: Couple of old pics #1552535
    Mark V
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    I might be stirring things up, but doesn’t it look like the upper wings, upper fuselage, tail plane and wheel cover are red. You can’t actually see where the red of the roundel ends, and the red of the tail flash seems to match these tones. YR

    The red of the roundels (the centre spot) ends where the white inner ring starts! Did you mean to say ‘blue’?

    May 19, 2004 at 4:17 pm in reply to: Quick question – SM832 #1552923
    Mark V
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    No there was no re-painting done prior to the departure for the USA. If you click this link to the official TFC website http://www.fighter-collection.com/ you will see some of the last shots taken prior to the aircraft actually going in to the sea container (at the bottom of the page). There is also some news of the latest TFC prize draw 🙂

    May 17, 2004 at 9:04 am in reply to: Yak – a close one. #1554798
    Mark V
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    😮

    May 16, 2004 at 8:05 pm in reply to: Seafire restorations #1555085
    Mark V
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    If Kennet get their Seafire and Gannet flying it would make a very nice double act.

    More like a Double Mamba act 😀

    May 15, 2004 at 4:00 pm in reply to: Spitfire Cowling Question. #1555578
    Mark V
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    The headrests were standard fit on the early marks but phased out later (ecconomy?).

    May 15, 2004 at 3:56 pm in reply to: Seafire restorations #1555582
    Mark V
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    The Kennet Seafire 17 is likely to appear very late Summer or early Autumn, certainly before the year is out and hopefully before the end of the display season.

    The Wally Fisk Seafire 15 PR503 is now very close to a first flight in Minessota.

    Other members closer to the Seafire III may be more helpful than me on details of progress.

    Its funny, nothing for over 40 years then three in one year!

    May 14, 2004 at 7:16 pm in reply to: Spitfire. In the pink? #1556002
    Mark V
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    Yes – dead easy – its cheaper to get paint put on out there. The markings are the tricky part but manageable if you know what you are doing. It therefore mase sense to leave the fidly bits off and have them done over here. I have another picture somewhere…..

    May 14, 2004 at 10:38 am in reply to: Steve’s Tour mini competition #1556326
    Mark V
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    Surprised the forum naughty word police did not pick up the lettering on the right hand side of it 😀

    May 14, 2004 at 12:22 am in reply to: Name the biplane #1556509
    Mark V
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    The biplane is a 1933 Waco UBF-2, at the time of the movie it was owned by Henry Straunch, reg NC13075.Septic.

    Can you be more specific? 😀

    May 13, 2004 at 10:02 pm in reply to: Westland Whirlwind (fighter) #1556611
    Mark V
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    he reckons the Hornet was a turbocharged hot rod which had no vices at all

    Well we can hope – nothing is impossible, perhaps one day the Hornet, the ultimate piston, engine fighter will return 🙂

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