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Jeroen, Thank you so much for sharing your experience with the decals. Your suggestions make perfect sense and I'm certain that I'll benefit from your insights. BTW, I DO have decals with the "lozenge rip tape," so that will be an additional challenge. Thanks again!

So, I've got a set of lozenge-pattern decals for use on a Wingnut Fokker D.VII. However, it's not completely clear from the instructions how to join the decals for the top and bottom of the wings. Is the idea to have it be a simple "butt-joint" at the leading and trailing edges, or should there be a bit of overlap? My concern is that I'm gonna end up with gaps between the top and bottom segments.

Lots of great pics there of you’re very fine build of the AM kit. Question for you… Did you use the canopy masks that came with the kit?

It really had to do with the side of the plane that the pilot sat on in a two-place cockpit. Pilots taxied planes to locations near structures and needed an unobstructed view. Everything else really evolved around that necessity. An exception can be found In GA aircraft, like an A-36, where the door/hatch is on the right so that passengers or co-pilot can enter second. Otherwise, they'd have to climb over the pilot!

Not educating the faithful by stating this, but there's a kind of bedrock principal of economics in play here. It goes something along the lines of, "as the cost of a good or service increases, people will buy less of it." Those are my words, but I believe that they capture the essence of the concept reasonably well. So, it would appear that Airfix is shooting to capture a large pool of buyers with its pricing of this Spitfire kit. There's no reason to believe that they won't be successful. One might ask why Revell and Airfix operate this way. One possible explanation is that they're simply better capitalized than some of the smaller manufacturers that modelers look to for product. It's a shame that not all makers can approach the business in a similar fashion.

Considering the scale of the model, its assorted sub-assemblies, and the parts count, this Airfix kit really looks to be "the deal of the year" in LSP. Here's hoping that other manufacturers take notice of its relatively modest cost.

That's the version that I'm really interested in, along with a Mk I. That'll do me for LSP/Hurricanes.

So, what is there for 1/200 carriers besides the Yorktown-class kits?

Good deal. Interesting how our idea of what's a reasonable cost for a kit evolves over time. I'll leave it at that, as I don't want to age myself for our readers...yet again!

Revell 1/32 kits? Relatively inexpensive, that is.

Website indicates 119€.

Diecast technology and manufacturing has improved a lot over the last twenty-years, or so. Because of that, there are some reasonably nice, 1/200 model-planes to be had. However, in looking at the FoV deck modules and island you linked us to, I'm not sure that particular product really does the planes complete justice: https://www.forcesofvalor.com/product_detail.php?pid=132 A step up from LEGO, perhaps, but still pretty primitive in its rendering.

On the USA side, personnel shortages and fuel costs, along with increased demand for parcel delivery services.

And relatively inexpensive.

Another huge plus for the kit is it's apparent value. Currently selling for about $120USD, it looks to be a tremendous bargain, particularly when compared to the smaller, 1/32 Kotare/Spitfire I.

Had no idea, one way or the other, so thank you.

Real question for you, as I don't know. Is Andy's shipping $$$ as reasonable as SB?

Hurray, got my models, a Camel and a Fokker D.VIIF. Thank you Sprue Bros for not gouging your customers!

So, its two calendar-weeks later. Could the Wingnut Wings offering have come and gone without my realizing that the party was over? I ask because "the Kansas City rail yard" is awfully close to the SB warehouse.

There's a part of me who really does believe that these guys have life figured out: I suggest that because it would appear that their worldly needs are largely fulfilled, excepting women of course, and all on the back of a pack animal. It's funny how different people can be, as a lot folks are really into possessions. I'm reminded of an old adage, courtesy of William Blake, "excess of sorrow laughs, excess of joy weeps." I think that excesses of most sorts are the same way, vulgar in a manner. For folks who love airplanes and enjoy working with their hands, modeling is a natural pastime. However, "hoarding" kits and finished models would be borderline PITA for me, as sooner or later, I'd wake up one morning, and run the whole lot out to the nearest dumpster. For collectors of all sorts, I'm certain that sounds like a kind of heresy. To me however, the exercise would be more like taking a good dump. Then again, I'm not a collector. I'm the guy on the camel.

Visited Scalemates looking for more information on the model: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/revell-04968-hawker-hurricane-mk-iib--1395506 This is what modelers are greeted with in the way of a promotional image: No, it's not the browser, as I tried three (Firefox, Edge, IE). It appears that the pic caused some degree of heartburn to more than just a few LSP members. Hence, the camo-job!

It's a Cold War strategy game called Twilight Struggle. Card-driven, it's enormous fun, with lots of twists. That said, most newbs will have to play 4-5 times to get a handle on the cards, themselves. I've played much, much more, but certainly don't consider myself any manner of expert. https://www.gmtgames.com/p-927-twilight-struggle-deluxe-edition-8th-printing.aspx

So, my model arrived, adorned with substantial quantities of Ukrainian stamps: And inside an ICM kit in more or less perfect condition: Admittedly, this was something of a sympathy purchase. And I'd NEVER advise anyone short on pocket change to order a kit from a warzone. However, it did serve my, perhaps, ham-handed desire to express a degree of solidarity with modelers eight time-zones distant. I'm gonna save the stamp sheets to display with the model. Hope the war ends soon, for the sake of all involved.

Nothing in the way of criticism. However, in my VERY limited experience with Tamiya clear-sprays, I found it difficult to get an even coat on the surfaces of "small scale planes," props with a lot of uneven surfaces. Put another way, at times it seemed like I was taking a shotgun to a job that would benefit from more precision in application. The other difficulty that I ran into was that TS clears could come out of the can really "hot," and want to deform/decompose decals. That's all really...oh, and I find rattle-cans to be somewhat wasteful, even when everything is otherwise cooking for me.

You use the term "Gloss Clear Spray," above. Are you talking about the rattle-can product?