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Really like that. Great choice of classic Delta scheme. David

Thanks, gentlemen. David

This is the ancient Contrail vacform fuselage mated to the even more ancient (1959) Airfix Lancaster wings and tailplanes. The exhausts are resin from Paragon and the propblurs are done using artwork by James Perrin. It should have an H-shaped Rebecca antenna each side just aft of the cockpit but my attempts to make them were clunky. So, I chickened out and omitted them. I struggled with which particular airframe to represent. Most photos I found of RAF machines with type D roundels bore a squadron crest beneath the cockpit. MW295 was one of the few I found without a crest.

This is the original (1959) Airfix Lancaster kit. I filled the windows along the upper fuselage, added the ones at the rear fuselage sides, removed the upper turret and replaced the exhaust shrouds with white metal stubs from Aeroclub. Too late, I noticed I missed adding a window in the cabin on the starboard side. So it's a decal. My attempts to create the the radome and radar dish and the chute below the rear turret are somewhat disappointing. I lost the port elevator. So what's there is a replacement made from an old Airfix Sea Hawk wing! I was going to do her as an RAF GR3 but reali

This is the old Airfix Whirlwind. Try as I might, I could not get all four wheels to touch the ground plus I just realised I missed some vertical stripe decals below the cockpit doors but decided enough is enough. Westland Whirlwind HAR2 XJ436,22 Squadron RAF. Summer of 1955. XJ436 first flew on March 18, 1955 and was delivered to the RAF on June 6. On August 30, she was selected to do a SAR demonstration in front of the press. She was to lift a journalist from RAF SAR launch 2749 at sea off Selsey Bill watched by other journalists and news photogr

What a great weathering job on that. David

I like that! David

Supermarine designed the 553 to meet a UK requirement for an aircraft to research the kinetic heating effects of sustained flight in excess of twice the speed of sound but the UK government chose the Bristol 188 instead. The 553 never got beyond a paper design but would probably have made use of stainless steel, to avoid the heating limits of aluminium alloy. But what if it had been under construction when the UK government chose the Bristol 188......... Following selection of the Bristol 188, Supermarine halted work on the partially completed 553 and focussed totally on

This is a later Ertl re-issue. It was a cleverly engineered kit in its day but the moulds have aged - lots of flash on the metal parts and poor fit. It also no longer comes with whitewalls for the tyres or glazing. I glazed the windscreen and back window but that's all.

It is the ancient (originally issued as the TFX in 1966) Revell kit. This is an issue from a couple of years later

A8-125 was, IIRC, the first to arrive in Australia and was definitely the last F-111 to fly ever. I added a closed Pave Tack, a correct boat tail and the chaff/flare dispensers in the tail. Decals are by Aussie Decals. The decals are silvered in a couple of conspicuous spots but I overpainted the worst bits which helps a bit. And here are some of her doing her party trick which I was lucky enough to see an F-111C do in 2006! David

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Last week if you want something mailed from UK rather than from USA

Buyers other than the UK or Europe, including the US, I will package here and advise a total cost including USPS mail. Postage to the Europe makes it too expensive for many of our members to buy stuff from over this side of the pond. I am visiting Scotland over Christmas, if anybody in the UK (or the EU) wants to buy any of these, I will take it with me and post it there. I don't know the cost of postage there as I will not package the items until I get there but it has to be less than posting from here - especially for the larger or heavier items. If you want me to post from UK,

I can make some passable ones but if anybody can spare one of the 3 sets provided in that above kit, it would make like easier. I can pay or maybe have something to trade. Thanks David (in Florida)