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    Airfix announcement - 1/24 Spitfire

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    I want one and whatever Peter makes for it. I'm sure that aftermarket support will be there like it was for the Hellcat. It's not Tamiya but it would really suck if I have to wait for Tamiya to come out with all the models I want to build. I'm way more loyal to my interest than I am to any brand. Yea, I'll take two now that I have thought about it.

    Hasegawa Kawanishi N1K2-J Shidenkai

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    On 8/21/2020 at 7:14 AM, dennismcc said:

    Hi Alex according to Aero Details 26 the numbers were there for identification purposes during training but many examples were seen bearing them through to the end of the war.

    The Montex masks do have the 15 in the Hinomaru, it's just a bit faint in the diagram but it is there in the masks.

     

    I had quite a panic yesterday as I looked for my trusty Thorpe book on IJN colours to see if it could shed some light on the subject , it was not on the section of shelf that I keep all (not many) Japanese books on, I searched all day for it and could not find it, so I looked online to see if I could replace it and was shocked at the prices I saw, luckily in the end I found it sandwiched behind and between two other books.

     

    I've checked a load of profiles of A1343-11 and a lot of them agree with the Montex version, in fact the Hasgawa instructions for the 1/48 scale kit do say that the fuselage stripe could have been before or behind the fuselage Hinomau.

     

    However I will carry on looking, the only clue that I did find was a diagram in a book I have on Camouflage and Markings of Imperial Japanese Navy fighters in WW2, it shows three versions of the stripe, double before the Hinomaru, single before the Hinomaru and single behind the Hinomaru. It is a Japanese text book (Model Art 272) so I do not know what the description says. See below.

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    Cheers

     

    Dennis

     

     

    1/32 Nakajima Ki-27 - 77th Sentai - Burma 1942

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    10 hours ago, Alex said:

     

    Curious.  What browser are you using to view the site?  I use Chrome (on Mac OSX) and pretty much never run into trouble seeing the images in anyone's post.  For the record, I'm hosting my photos on my FB page in albums I have labeled as public so that I can link them here...  I know a lot of folks use Photobucket, but FB is free, and I could not figure out a way to do this from Google Images.

    I'm running Firefox and I have to use "view image" and then I can't use the "back" button to get back to LSP. I ended up using "copy image location" opening a new tab and then using "paste and go".

    1/18 Scale Blue Box F4U-1A Corsair Modification

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    10 hours ago, JayW said:

     

    Now there is some stuff I have never used, and wondered about.  Would this be for the purposes of filleting inside corners, or for filling very small imperfections, or for general texturing?

     

    I have some fairly thick flat or semi-gloss gray paint that is going to cure a few ills so to speak.  Whereas the primer is very thin.  Later on. 

    Start at the 7 minute mark and you will see what I mean.  

     

    1/18 Scale Blue Box F4U-1A Corsair Modification

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    On 4/20/2020 at 9:49 AM, JayW said:

     

    Good question.  I actually have a very grandiose plan - to make it like the real thing.  That is to have a permanently installed nose cowl attaching to the front row cylinder heads with many many little ribs and links, and a permanently installed cowl flap ring with the flaps attaching to the aft row cylinder heads with many many little links.  The large cowl panels between the nose and the flaps will be removable.  Also, I intend for the panels over the engine compartment aft of the cowl flaps to be removable.  If Tamiya can do it, then by god so can I.   With all those removable panels off, the engine will be very exposed.

     

    Really?  Much easier said than done.  What I have described will be an enormous challenge especially for it have good gaps and other edge matching, without steps, and with good alignment relative to the engine centerline.   If things are not working out well, I will have to change the plan accordingly.  And if it goes extremely poorly, maybe I throw away teh Corsair and just display the engine!

     

     

    I have learned in my own modeling that the limit of my ability extends to the number of times I can get it wrong before I get it right and my sanity. I wish you success!

    1/18 Focke-Wulf Fw190C V18 'Känguruh'

    in Works in Progress

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    On 4/6/2020 at 2:35 AM, LSP_Ray said:

    I am surprised how well the model compares to the drawings! I assumed you would have to do a lot more work than extend the fuselage a tad.

    BTW, for those of us with the Hobby Boss 1/18th FW 190A's, could you do a short run on those PE parts you will undoubtedly do your magic on? I am sure a good number of the parts will work for late A's and the cockpit needs the most attention, like your C model.  

    That might get me to finally pull the trigger on that huge Fokker...

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