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Nice photo showing the 'double bubble' lines of the nose transparency where it meets the fuselage.

I can never decide whether to do a Marine one in that old classic white undersides or the later blue lizard scheme. Even in 1/48 they start to demand a lot of space without being all folded and crabbed so, choices....

Mr Ezell's Seafire 47 restoration was an outstanding achievement. RIP

I can't recall seeing an F-4 centreline tank camouflage painted that way before.

Some companies such as Eduard, Hasegawa and Tamiya - even Airfix, sometimes - can do panel lines that look much finer and have a more in-scale appearance. Why Italeri seem stuck at a lesser level of technical competence is a mystery, as their kit design is generally excellent.

Although dealing with 1/48 scale kits, there's some good information on bomber Mosquitoes at http://soyuyo.main.jp/mosquito/mosquito.html

There is a set of clear vacform parts by Falcon, although marketed by Tasman, which provide much better profiles than the HKM ones. They are designed for the Revell kit, but might be worth investigating. The nose blister shape is a big improvement

It's looking good to me. Another common feature are the black streaks on the intake flanks where groundcrew use their heels to slow down as they slide down onto the wing, around that textured patch.

There are online builds that I can recall where it's tackled. AFAIR they involve mounting the intake throat further forward to match up with the intake ring. I can't recall what any consequent problems were.

A couple of stills from my favourite Thunderball First the dodgy Italian Colonel boarding Vulcan B1A XA913 on the Waddington flightline. The Vulcans were in stage 1 lo-level camo in 1964 when these scenes were filmed. The in-flight scenes used Vulcan XH506, but at least it was still a B1A. The ditching scenes were a model of a B2. And as my nav dad never tired of pointing out, there is no crew door into the bomb bay on a Vulcan.

I've seen Swiss F-5Es with some sort of box mounted there. Not sure what it is but it has distinctive red warning stencil panels toward the front. Maybe a chaff/flare container, with the plates being the airframe mounting hardware location?

It's still weird to see Photo Phantoms with slatted wings.

That would be an ideal one, thanks Iain and Anthony

Looking great Ben. Have you thought about just printing a step pattern decal to suggest the upper wingfold hinges? Easier than scribing on an uneven surface and visually hard to tell the difference.

'Where I Was Not - And Back. A Homing Odyssey and Memoir of the Sparrow-Cogent Wars' is published by DARPA-Collings and distributed by Yule Seas next month and will be available from all good (and some frankly questionable) bookshops.

I haven't forgotten the rest of the intake stuff Anthony. I'm just surprised that with the online cockpit shots so few clearly show the upper vents and their bracing struts. So if anyone gets up top on a Spey intake, some nice clear shots of the vents would be well received.

I was following all that until I wasn't and when I wasn't I didn't, although I probably could if I had another glass.

I was providing Kim at HobbyDecal with material and blurbs for his sheets at one time, bu haven't heard from him since 2008.

That's not a slat. That's an awning.

Looks like you have the space to epoxy another couple of invisible brass rods aft of the 'authentic' one to beef up the strength of the attachment there, Max.

Your lighting, especially the formation lights look brilliant. Just right. I've found with some brands of old toothbrushes the colours can fade to very faint shades with age. I used to scavenge broken brake light lenses from minor car accidents for red clear material, and even managed to find part of a broken green dome from a doctor's emergency light, which were far more colourfast. But now while I still use my stash, I give them a thin brush of Tamiya clear colour which makes them a bit more bold,

I'm sometimes puzzled by the 'No Push' stencils on the leading edges of Phantoms. And the you see photos of herds of sailors manhanding the beasts into place all lined up along the front of the wings. I don't think they're pulling.

You're over complicating it Fozzy. Go to your postimg account and call up your photo. Right click on the photo (or do whatever your platform of choice requires) and 'copy image address' Click the 'insert image from URL' panel at the bottom of the post frame. Paste in the image address URL. No extra codes, just as you copied it from your image. Click' insert into image' and you're done and the image will present. Look forward to seeing your progress.

I used the GT resin ones as they are correctly sized. But I also stuck foil impressions rubbed down over the Aires ones to the petals to replicate the weld seam patterns that GT omitted.

I endured some ridicule when I posted in the course of some discussion or other a while back that my Monogram B-58 had gone AWOL. (How can anyone possibly ... something that large etc. etc). I knew I hadn't only imagined having one because the two rudimentary decal sheets that came with it were in my decal shoe - well, boot box - really, but no sign of the kit. It was only when moving out of my old flat last year that I discovered that under the kitboxes sitting quite obviously on top of the wardrobe was a recessed space which very successfully held and hid the B-58. I had no recollection or knowledge of it even existing. My sanity was relieved at being vindicated, although the mystery of its apparent disappearance for a dozen years or more had subjected it to a good shredding in the meantime.