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or 1/72 for that matter;(ignoring the Matchbox caricature). Anything boxed as an 'E' is not an 'E' Tony

yup, page 168 has station and datum lines on a blueprint style drawing. I'll put it up on the Arrow FB group Tony

you can find him on Facebook, easy enough

Kermit Weeks' Kermie cam on a P-51 shutdown at 10:50.

for modelling purposes, a C-54 kit (and a conv kit) would suffice for a North Star, as most of the differences are internal and indistinguishable. A shortened Heller DC-6 would make a perfect C-5. Tony

They are fairly equal in my view

the Academy nose gear is just as bad as the Hasegawa fork. It should be a smooth tube with no stupid angles

I made resin copies of the Monogram nose leg to replace the hopeless inaccurate angled Hasegawa nose fork. Tony

stupid photobucket, never mind

Save your rage, it was a fake document

ALL Canadair built Sabres(MK2,4,5 &6) were actually F-86Es; just some were more like 'E's than others. The Sabre 2 and Sabre 4 were identical except for the flat windscreen on the '4'. here is a data plate from a Sabre 6

announced at Chattanooga is the future release of the much waited on Fokker DRI/FI. It's all over the interwebs by now.

or there is this; https://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?/topic/48788-kittyhawk-132-t-6g-texan/page/11/

IIRC, It was a Mike West article in Hyperscale that illustrated a fix

nope, it's just off on its measurements, it is supposed to be a Sabre 6 wing. I did this a few years ago;

the Heller kit's ailerons go all the way to the wingtip, so of course it's a standard span 6-3 slatted wing of the Sabre Mk6

I modified the blades to the old style, wasn't hard to do. I just tried to make them look like a Fujimi kit blade Tony

Its the new Airfix yellow SAR release with some PE thrown at it and the required conversion from a Westland; with the Belcher Gulf war conversion and some scratch doing. Way better than the Fujimi it, by the way Cheers, Tony

If you can't find any, PM me your address, I have enough of my two sheets of SeaKing markings to make up one, and some Arrow Graphics numbers to make up what I used. Cheers, Tony PS ignore the too-tall rotor mast on my Airfix job. 😞

the Belcher set is the only one that i know of, however, when I used them, I found them to be a bit light and the markings tended to disappear into the grey. I repainted my chopper a lighter than prescribed colour and then a better contrast resulted

Airfix;

the Airfix F-51 comes with the un-cuffed HS prop too. It comes down to price and/or availabliity. I have both kits, if all things were equal, I would go with the Airfix kit, despite the L/G leg situation and the inaccurate horizontal stabs. Cheers, Tony

the effectiveness of black basing and pre-shading ultimately depends on your application of the main colour coats over it, no ? It's all user dependant and no one here can say if it is too much or little. Good luck Tony

How could they ever get tired of vacationing in the South Pacific?? mind boggling

Nicely done ALF. Glad to see it completed Tony