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Hiya Folks, Me again,......but the last one for a while! This is another one which has been underway for a while but I`ve finally got around to finishing it and it was a very nice kit to build, it just needed a bit of fettling along the way. Markings are mostly from the kit but the roundels and fin flashes are from the spares box as the colours in kit ones were a bit bright, and unfortunately the crown on the 33 Sqn badge on the fin is a current Queens crown rather than the correct Kings crown from the late 1940`s! As I have a soft spot for 33 Sqn (they put me forward for an award while serving with them in Turkey!) the model represents SN213/ 5R-S from this unit when it formed part of the post war British Air Forces of Occupation (BAFO) in Germany, Although the kit includes highly accurate drop tanks with clear fairings I left these off the model as these were not present on my reference photo of the real thing. Anyway here is the model; The main silver paintwork was from a Tamiya rattle can but the rest was brush painted with Xtradecal WW2 Roundel Blue for the spinner and Polly Scale matt varnish added to the silver to better represent worn RAF High Speed Silver which was applied over the original grey/green finish. The only addition to the basic model was the use of Barracuda Cast resin post war Tempest wheels which had the distinctive block tread. I can now move on to my part built PCM Hurricane Mk.I which will have a Vokes filter,....probably a Malta aircraft but who knows?? Hope you like it, Cheers Tony