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October 10, 2009 at 8:46 pm in reply to: Airfix/Hornby Customer Care #223810

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Just remembered this thread … Currently I’m building Airfix’ 1/48 Spitfire but the decals really pi** me off. I’ve never seen a decal sheet showing screen-printing markings that huge! 😡
Sould I try my luck and ask for a new sheet? (No wonder Model Alliance print the kit’s markings on their on decal sheets, too!!)

September 8, 2009 at 7:54 pm in reply to: Airfix/Hornby Customer Care #223905

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Let’s hope your replacement decals will be better than the ones you complained about … :diablo: However, I recently built the 1/48th Canberra PR.9 and found the decals – apart from being a bit on the thick side – quite good.

July 24, 2009 at 9:01 am in reply to: The Lancaster and 'Kitten Von Mew'. #1169475

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And that box is the wrong shade of green

Box? Which box? 😉

July 9, 2009 at 7:42 am in reply to: Spraying Camouflage In WWII #1186614

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I think he is talking about Squadron’s “Air Force Colors, Vol.3”., showing the use of rubber masks on a set of P-40 wings.

June 3, 2009 at 10:06 am in reply to: Question about Tower Bridge Hunter XF442 #1225629

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Hi John,

regarding the markings I used (a high-resolution version of) the following picture which was taken in 1969 as a reference:
http://www.transportphotos.com/air/photo/MIL22761
Hence the black serial and white wing tips. However, the camouflage scheme on my kit does not exactly comply with the photo, as you can notice f.e. on the port serial… Also the nose cone can bee seen to have been partially repainted, see here:
http://www.transportphotos.com/air/photo/MIL22762

Well, since you raised the topic, do these white wing tip stripes possess any special meaning? F.e. as manoeuvre / training / group marking or just to increase visibility?

Brian, Andy – thanks for the positive feedback. I hope Mr. Pollock enjoyed it too. 🙂

April 22, 2009 at 8:33 pm in reply to: Question about Tower Bridge Hunter XF442 #1197420

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Last week “my” interpretation of XF442 finally rolled off the assembly line. One of my best kits so far, yet not likely to become an award winner. Hope you enjoy it nevertheless. Kit is Revell’s 1/32 FGA.9, the markings are a mix of FGA.9/F.Mk.6 and some vintage Echelon decals.
BTW: I cunningly chose to omit the pilot’s name on the front fuselage (see first post) – in the end a wrong name is as inaccurate as no name at all. 😉

April 20, 2009 at 7:28 pm in reply to: Dambusters Remake Delayed ? #1199554

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They are probably locked in pre-production meetings discussing the name of a certain dog! 😀

No comment (and also no idea if it’s really true …)

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Dambuster-s-dog-gets-new-film-remake/article-364605-detail/article.html

March 14, 2009 at 8:18 pm in reply to: Question about Tower Bridge Hunter XF442 #1163790

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The most detailed description comes from Mr. Pollock himself – Flypast published his account about the flight in 1982. You can read the article in full here:

http://www.rafjever.org/4sqnper004.htm

February 1, 2009 at 9:42 am in reply to: Stand out Spitfire pilots #1221558

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Hap Kennedy, Charlie Fox.

[ignorant mode on]
Who? :confused:
[ignorant mode off]

January 25, 2009 at 7:11 pm in reply to: Found some pictures of abandoned planes #1229785

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Quite odd, there are posts in this thread which seemingly include pictures but strangely I cannot see any … :confused:

25th January 2009, 12:37 (Post No.1)
25th January 2009, 14:09 (Post No.10)
25th January 2009, 14:18 (Post No.11)
25th January 2009, 20:00 (Post No.24)

January 17, 2009 at 7:39 pm in reply to: unusual air combat encounters #1238753

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In the II(AC) Squadron history book, there is a reference to one of the squadrons Lysanders downing a JU87, this when they were operating in France in 1940. In fact several of their Lysanders had brushes with 109’s ect and lived to fly another day.

By the way: In “Spitfire into Battle” G/C Ducan Smith mentions an fellow 611 Squadron pilot named F/O Peter Dexter who “had started the war in Lysanders in France and had the rare distinction of having shot down a Me109 while doing a recce for the Army”. According to Smith Dexter was later killed having collided with a 54 Squadron Spitfire over the Channel.

Does anyone know more about that pilot/story?

January 15, 2009 at 11:00 pm in reply to: Les Bywaters #1161474

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Sad to hear … 🙁 He will be missed, definitely.

RIP Les.

January 10, 2009 at 9:23 pm in reply to: What Are You All Reading Now! #1166244

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Just finished Don Charlwood’s “No Moon Tonight” today. Very fascinating in its own way, even since it turned out to be totally different than expected.

November 15, 2008 at 5:59 pm in reply to: Spitfire P8088 #1221958

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Talking about model kits, Monogram offered a 1/48 Spitfire Mk.II about 15 years ago in this colours. (I built the kit, but with the alternative markings of Douglas Bader).

Currently one of the aforementioned 1/18 scale model of “NK-K” is residing on my shelf, however mis-serialled as “PS088”.

October 19, 2008 at 7:48 pm in reply to: Heinkel/Casa at Duxford #1170450

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as when it came into Dx slung underneath an HC-53 ‘Jolly Green Giant’,

and into sight came two HC-53’s of which one had a red Hawker Sea Fury slung underneath (D-CACY?), having flown all the way from Germany.

German Army CH-53s actually. Both times the pilot was Klaus Althoff.
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