This is a truly very interesting subject and I’m very glad I began this thread. Thanks to all who’ve posted. I would absolutely love to get into this sort of thing myself.

Here in Cambridge we celebrate Armistace Day (unlike most places in NZ as our national day of remembrance is ANZAC Day). But in Cambridge we have the sobre day on ANZAC Day, and a more upbeat celebration of peace and remembrance over the weekend of Armistace Sunday. Last year we held the first of what will now be an annual Victory Dance. About 300 people almost all in World War Two uniforms and costumes. Most were reenactors from all over NZ who display with a big battle on the Town Square on the Sunday, but others too. I was going to wear my RNZAF SD’s but found they somehow no longer fit, so I went as a NZ Home Guard!

There were only a couple of airmen sadly, all the ‘organised groups’ were in army uniforms, NZ, British, US, and even a few Gerries etc. I’d like to go this year as RNZAF if I can, after all, that was my real service.

Does anyone know if there are any RAF/RNZAF related reenactor groups in my part of the world?

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Check out these links to some excellent groups. That 533 Sqn Typhoon is of interest

http://www.stby.com/553Sqdn/

http://ops1940.homestead.com/ops1.html

http://members.aol.com/pkgruppe/602.html

http://www.rafatwar.co.uk/

Wow, I’ll bet they have some great weekend at the airshows.

I have found this, semi-related, Airborne forces
http://www.6th-airborne.org/index.html

If I lived in the UK I might get into this stuff – both RAF and Home Guard

Thanks Yak 11, that sets my mind to rest over most of them now. My memory may have been playing tricks over the BF109, it may well have been an E. I’ll have to check that one up one day

Thanks for that. I wonder what has happened to the Corsair since 2002. Has anyone visited that Wings of Dream Museum, in Sao Carlos, Brazil?

That colour scheme chosen for the P40K is awful. I remember there was a very similar scheme on an Otaki 1/48 kit of the P40E. I’ve never liked the P40’s with big shark mouths or skulls or tigers or whatevers on the cowls though.