paul fisher

Thanks guys! I will do my best to avoid acting my age!

Many thanks for your good wishes, Susy and I are doing well and I must say it's a pleasant surprise to see this model again.It was easily the most successful kit I ever produced and it's a lot of fun for me to remember the long hours we put in trying to make enough of them at first.I could never manage something like that now, too old and lazy! I'm looking forward to seeing how it goes!

What a marvelous subject for a it in 1/32 scale! Many years ago I had enlarged a simple general arrangement drawing of the Mirage IV to 1/32, it will make a very impressive model!

As stated above, Halberd is the best of the best, along with SBS I don't know of anyone doing better work.The Goblin kit is just a treasure.

Milling styrene is fine, if you can rig up a source of gentle air blowing over the cutting area. Alternatively to blowing compressed air over the cut you can get much the same effect from clamping a vaccuum cleaner hose close enough to move air and chips away from the cut, the effect is much the same. As long as you keep the area of cut fairly cool and clear the chips you should have no trouble.Try to avoid taking deep aggressive cuts since you can't cool the part of the cutter that's buried in the plastic. Don't run your rpm's too high and move too quickly.Practice on some scrap until you are comfortable.

I bought the 1/48 kit since I have been restricting myself to smaller stuff for space reasons, it is simply one of the finest pieces of work I have ever seen and I have no idea how Halberd manage to continue considering how close they are to the front lines but I can't say enough about what a great product they put out .Last I heard they were working up a very large and unloved piston engined Navy attack aircraft.....I can't wait!

Absolutely gorgeous!

What a great project! Can't wait to see this unfold....

Nice to see this....Back in the early 1980's when I still lived in San Pedro I got to see these under construction at Todd Shipyard, all long gone now but it was cool coming home from work at Northrop where I could watch F-5E's being built and drive past the yard where these frigates were being built...Ah, the good old bad old days.

Wow! What an outstanding build project, love the subject and all the surface detailing.Gonna take a lot of paint!

I have been hoping you might fall into this rabbit hole! I have a great love for these aircraft left over from my younger days in 1/72 scale when I could see and had steadier hands...Won a fair few contests with worked over Supermodel and Italaeri ( they spelled it that way for a while) kits.This is going to make a worthy companion to your Sea Fury....

Outstanding build!

I thought about doing this up in 1/32 so many times over the years....It would make a very compelling model in big scale.

Great to see 1/32 scale becoming more prevalent at the NATS, I was really tickled to see a couple Sea Fury kits built up as well as a Fat Face Spad....It's great to see them on display instead of in the stash.Looks to have been a great turnout across the board!