Craig Baldwin

Yes very common, I think it achieved a better fuel used/range ratio than with both tanks.

You have the eye for detail. Your beautiful workmanship gets me digging through old photos and I will take this opportunity to share with you and the other followers. They are all scans from prints and the colour on a few are off but the details are still there. Note on 101057 the yellow object mounted on the armament door, I don't remember what it was for. This has been a great ride down memory lane for me, and you provided a classic for it. Cheers Craig

Wow, excellent job with everything.

Your details blend right in with the kit. That is real modelling, and that well wheel color, I remember it well! Good things come to those who wait.

Discovered this in my collection

I hope you can put it in afterburner and finish up, it really looks good. I'm sure your build has a few of us looking to purchase this kit. Your work is fantastic.

Retail price is the big difference between the two. They must have had some number crunchers look at the sales figures and decided that the Spitfire didn't warrant the increased tooling to provide similar income to the company. I will add that I like the comparison photos from the earlier post. I don't have the fondness for the multiple rivets molded in as on the Eduard products.

Thank you for the follow up.

Okay thanks jester, I will check more reviews.

Are Old tool Eduard 1/48 Bf 109s still floating around hobby shops and mail order shops? Did Eduard make any efforts to purge them out of the system?

Your linkage on the landing gear was referred by us as the "shrink link". The compressed air in the oleo leg needed to be released so the landing gear would fit into the wheel well. This linkage would ensure the leg was compressed as it was retracted. It is a very complete package of upgrades you've carried out on that kit, and continues to impress.

That box of styrene parts is really turning into a great representation of a classic. Impressive attention to detail.

Stuff like this is why I keep coming back to them.

Holy Crap, that guy near the aft end during the launch. WOW!!!

Loving the way the progress keeps chugging along. The results are inspirational. Yes that bird got dirty in the back end, those older engine left half their fuel as soot out back. Keep it up Giovanni.

Yes it is Revell but they carried over the errors from the Monogram kit. Although Giovanni has corrected them nicely.

Sometimes big projects need that extra push to complete. Your work is outstanding. The small round windows on the side panels are for checking the hydraulics systems, the lifeblood of any aircraft. The Revell/Monogram kits again for their age still show superiority, as the outlines of the canopy and windscreens are excellent when compared to the upscaled Kitty Hawk release.

Nice to see the corrected panel as well. This beauty continues. Went into my collection and posting this taken by a friend Capt D Foulds spring 1984.

I see this bird moving closer and closer to the paint hangar. What I like about the Revell 101 is the shape is very good, just some TLC on the modelers part.

This airframe is getting a complete overhaul, great to see. The underside of wings from many kit manufacturers seem to get overlooked but you are doing a great rescue job. The wing fences were quite thin so good idea to remove them and add thinner ones.

The F/CF-101's used two different styles of external tanks Streamlines and Stubby as we called them. Those of course pictured are the Streamline while Monogram and KH provide the Stubbies. As maintenance we hated the Streamlines, awkward to install and work around.

Nice efforts Giovanni. I had PM'd you about this because since the detail was as you said almost invisible when looking down the intake even on the real thing. It was referred to the "Dog Cock" and behind it a one time use high pressure accumulator that store enough high pressure are for a single start in the air if needed. I can picture the parts in my mind still but have no pictures of it.

That's excellent work. The splitter plates were occasionally removed to allow access to an access panel for a cooling radiator mounted inboard (can't remember which system it was for). The radiators took air from a small opening between the engine intake and fuselage. 👍

Your work continues to impress so many of us. Glad to see this build continuing.

We are all here happily waiting. Those numbers on the flaps look very familiar. Flaps were either up or down and made airframe spotting in the lineup a little easier.