seawinder

Beyond what I consider the snarkiness of your response to my and WymanV's posts, I don't understand what you're proposing. Could you elucidate further please?

Thanks for the clarification.

IMHO two-piece wings are going to complicate rigging for those of us who do pilot hole/through hole approach with monofilament.

Is there an issue with Tamiya's fin? If so, can somebody elucidate? Thanks!

Can someone explain what's going on with the wing parts in the photo ya-gabor posted? Looks like a one-piece upper wing, but what are the three pieces to its right? (Sorry if I'm being obtuse)

I've been waiting a long time for a good F4B-4 in 1/48. Hope this one fits the bill.

For those interiors, I start with white and streak with Soot colored Tamiya Weathering Master (set B).

I'll be getting to my copy sooner or later and will probably ignore them. I seldom display my models upside down.

The nose ring piece for all variants besides the bis is on sprue C, included in all boxings. The issue for doing any other variant will be the spine/tail. The bis boxing has Sprue J, the MT/SMT kit has Sprue K, and the MF boxing has Sprue H. I'm not sure what the specific differences are between the tail shapes, but the spine bulge is different for all of them.

Are you talking wartime or postwar? If the latter, Hataka has Golden Yellow, which appears to be the right shade. Also Humbrol 154 Insignia Yellow is mentioned as a good match. I suggest you do a google search on RAF Trainer Yellow. There are lots of threads at Britmodeller and Hyperscale that may be helpful.

Whew, looks as if I dodged a bullet! Thanks for the info.

I'm not going to lose any sleep over it. I do wonder why Eduard has the flat hatch in their recent, supposedly well researched K-4 kit.

Thanks. Too late now in any case.

What about in the K-4? Hasegawa's kit has the protruding box; Eduard has a flat hinged hatch (which I scratchbuilt for the Hasegawa I did this past year). Thanks!

Are you talking actual anhedral (wings angled downwards) or lack of sufficient dihedral (wings angled upwards)? I've never seen the kit or a build in the flesh, and it's really hard to tell from photos, but I think perhaps the photos at the end of Cat Barf's links might show less dihedral than needed; certainly not angled downward however.