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Tamiya lacquer thinner works with gunze paint. Tamiya's retarder type thinner is good too, gives a better finish with Tamiya paint than Mr leveling Thinner does.

Thanks to those who removed the offending posts.

Charging sales tax on international orders is immoral, just government's being greedy. I could possibly understand the shipping portion, as that at least involves local services, but the whole order is wrong. Who even polices that the shop forwards that tax on to local authorities anyway?

That is a nice looking model. Way back when I built my Hobby Boss F-111G I had to use a spacer to widen the fuselage to make the kit cockpit fit properly.

You did a great job of hiding that nasty wing fit. Looks great

At twice the price of the Academy kit the GWH kit better be accurate, fit well and have amazing decails

Luckymodel has it in stock

Lakenheath F-15's have been busy this year.

If you were very desperate you could buy the Academy F-4c, keep the decals and sell the kit.

It was really interesting to read your notes on the drone incursions. I have been following this closely on reddit and there have been some interesting stories. Two of the most interesting being that a youtuber was sort by police for filming an incursion and broadcasting atc recordings. By pure chance I saw this streamed live, so while I do think he captured something, broadcasting atc recordings was not a good idea. The other interesting aspect is, from others who have driven to view the drones, the MP's and UK Police are don't seem concerned about the local Lakenheath

I saw two DM A-10s at an airshow at Dyess AFB in May 2015, both still had the pave penny pylon. The two DM A-10's I saw at Royal Air Tattoo in July that year both had their pylons removed.

Re: question 1. The F-111A carried the ALQ-87. Sometimes the aircraft carried two pods. Reskit make the ALQ-87 and adaptor pylon https://reskit-models.com/centerline-pylon-for-f-111-3d-printed-1-48?search=F-111 pylon https://reskit-models.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=4927&search=F-111

Really nice model, I particularly like the paint shading on the tails. The angle you have posed the model at is very pleasing on the eye too, really shows off the lines.

This pic is a bit clearer https://imgbb.com/tz84XPD

At 5:12 you can see the canopy glazing is incorrect. The top of the rear window slopes downwards but it should be straight. Might be an easyish fix with some masking. I have one on preorder, hoping for some nice RNZAF decals to go with it.