Tony T

Thanks. A bit of a squeeze even with 5" focal length camera lenses. 
Intrigued that Kōtare plan, eventually, on doing all the key PR Spitfires. Will certainly be in for a couple. 
 
And a PR Mossie if they ever do one, without engines. The HKM just looks odder every time I see it, and the Revell is just too ancient.
 
Tony

Thanks. A bit of a squeeze even with 5" focal length camera lenses. 
Intrigued that Kōtare plan, eventually, on doing all the key PR Spitfires. Will certainly be in for a couple. 
 
And a PR Mossie if they ever do one, without engines. The HKM just looks odder every time I see it, and the Revell is just too ancient.
 
Tony

And Malcolm is on the Kotare team  a very knowledgeable guy behind Ventura - another company with great products

"...Supermarine's designers refused to have cameras or fuel tanks installed in the fuselage behind the cockpit.  They feared this would shift the centre of gravity too far aft.  So, in these two Spitfires [ie the two PR As], the modifications were limited to installing an F.24 camera with 5" focal length lens, in each wing, replacing the inner machine guns.  The cameras were fitted almost vertically, with a slight outward bias to cover a wider area in a single run. [my bold] The fields of view of the cameras overlapped only slightly."
P5 of Merlin PR Spitfires, Wojtek Matusiak, Ventura publications.
 
The 5" F.24 is pictured on P25 of the companion volume, Merlin PR Spitfires in detail , Malcolm Laird and Wojtek Matusiak, Ventura publications, and on P38 a photo and diagrams of the installation.

Camotint and Sky Type S are widely recognised as one and the same. The 'Type S' simply means the paint has a smooth finish, as opposed to the matt finish of previous paints. 

Have earmarked a Revell IXc to become a photo pink FR.IXc and have bought the decals and camera parts. 
Do I need a duck egg green-blue-sky PR 1 Type A too? 
Maybe.
Will it come with recce parts other than a peephole?
 
Love the reconnaissance planes from all eras.
 
Tony

Have earmarked a Revell IXc to become a photo pink FR.IXc and have bought the decals and camera parts. 
Do I need a duck egg green-blue-sky PR 1 Type A too? 
Maybe.
Will it come with recce parts other than a peephole?
 
Love the reconnaissance planes from all eras.
 
Tony

Have earmarked a Revell IXc to become a photo pink FR.IXc and have bought the decals and camera parts. 
Do I need a duck egg green-blue-sky PR 1 Type A too? 
Maybe.
Will it come with recce parts other than a peephole?
 
Love the reconnaissance planes from all eras.
 
Tony

Have earmarked a Revell IXc to become a photo pink FR.IXc and have bought the decals and camera parts. 
Do I need a duck egg green-blue-sky PR 1 Type A too? 
Maybe.
Will it come with recce parts other than a peephole?
 
Love the reconnaissance planes from all eras.
 
Tony

Not only photos on the walls P-t, but also a small bookshop where I bought this little gem:
 

 
 

They had an overall camotint camouflage scheme,  which was a pale grey-green, the top profile on the cover of the On Target book I posted earlier in the thread is N3071, one of the two decal options, based at Seclin, France, 18 November,  1939.

lol ... me too!
 
Rog

Damn, I was hoping you would say Beaufighter 😉

At last plastic recce Spits...!

2000 copies will be produced
 
/Niels

I think metal LG can be tremendously useful, but prefer metal-reinforced plastic.
 
Synthetic rubber tyres too: perfectly painted hub rims every time. 
I know, I know, it's a minority underdog thing and I must be a misguided weirdo; real modellers carve wheels from Scottish granite, just like miniature curling stones.
 
I do have Harold's sans-straps Mk.5 seats to dress up and early MLG wheels (with separate hubs, specially requested). Looking forward to building it after the planned house move. It looks to be such a great kit.
 
Tony 

I think metal LG can be tremendously useful, but prefer metal-reinforced plastic.
 
Synthetic rubber tyres too: perfectly painted hub rims every time. 
I know, I know, it's a minority underdog thing and I must be a misguided weirdo; real modellers carve wheels from Scottish granite, just like miniature curling stones.
 
I do have Harold's sans-straps Mk.5 seats to dress up and early MLG wheels (with separate hubs, specially requested). Looking forward to building it after the planned house move. It looks to be such a great kit.
 
Tony 

I really need to finish my build of the A-6B I was working on before health issues hit. As noted it is a somewhat complicated kit but wow whatever else you can say about Trumpeter I am very thankful they released an A-6 in the best scale

As a general rule, gluing halved parts together to make complete sides makes life a lot easier... Hasegawa 109 and p-40, for example. 
 
With every trumpeter kit I've ever built, especially jets, the hatches take work to close and clean up. I usually do them first thing so I can work them from both sides. If the bay is molded in, I'll drill holes or cut it away so I can use a toothpick or back of a brush or whatever to push edges flush with the outside. 

Another challenge of this project was stencils in white for SEA schemes.  I learned to use a Silhouette to cut paint masks for large markings, and bought some specialty decal papers to be able to "print in white".  I made these for @Dandiego's "The Iron Eyeball".  
 
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My apologies for the long absence.  I continued to apply stencil decals to the forward fuselage, but got bogged down with the rescue stencils, some of which needed white and other color shapes.  The ejection seat triangles were borrowed from a commercial set.   Times like this made me question the sanity of starting on a project that I couldn't easily buy off the shelf decals and parts.  I also ran into issues with my 3d printer's reliability as I added more details to the rear tail part.  Hopefully I can get back on track soon.
 

 

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Matt Lucas' comedy line "The only gay in the village" comes to mind.
Rather dazzling. 
 
Tony

Just too "noisy" on the eyes.
And it wouldn't fly. 
Sort of like knitting constricting gaudy pyjamas for your cat or dog. 
But at least a lot of people seem to like it. 
 
I prefer the desks etc made from aircraft parts, in polished metal. 
 
Tony

My, how I admire these. The RF-101C is a top ten subject.
 
Tony

My, how I admire these. The RF-101C is a top ten subject.
 
Tony