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  1. I'm also glad that HKM have been taking their time with the development of this. It's looking stunning now and it will be something else when the surface detail is added. One very happy bunny Thanks for this look Jim. Looks like I need to crack on and finish up my camo masks for the Lancaster!
  2. Another great review. I will be getting one of these It is nice to see a set of masks for markings available at a good price and I would be very interested to see how the material used actually works. It will also be interesting to see if the material separates at the cut? I personally will be getting my paint masks custom made
  3. No I'm not suggesting that the camo is wrong, I have seen the camo like this but I worked from the D.H drawing Z98590, which is the same pattern but the colours are transposed I.E. the grey is where the green is (on your model and in the profile) and visa versa. I have had a few requests for camo masks and that's when I noticed this. I thought that it might be a change between bombers and fighter bombers but I can't find conclusive evidence either way. A line up of 105 Sqn MkIVs show the camo this way, but other pics show it with the grey where you have the green, so you are correct. I am trying to pin down a scheme that I want to do with opposite scheme.
  4. Very nicely done Jeroen I'm a bit concerned that I have discovered that there appears to be 2 styles of camo, both the same pattern but colours reversed. My mask set is based on covering the ocean grey, but in the opposite locations to yours and Jim's build (the green!). I have been checking and it does appear to be the case, but I am worried that I have missed something and it is driving me nuts! It is simply a case of using the masks to mask off the green rather than the grey, but I suspect that most would want to paint the grey first? Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Worrying about this is the reason that I haven't finished the canopy masks
  5. Hi Guys, I am trying to find out the serial number of Adolf "Sailor" Malan's Spitfire Mk IX, not his Mk I (ZP-A) and not his MkV (AG-M) but his MkIX, which was coded AGM. I have one photo of him in the cockpit, the A is hidden by the entry door, but the serial isn't shown! I have done many searches but all I get is the Mk I and V. This is for a mask set that I am doing for Dani Zamerbide Any help with this would be much appreciated
  6. Thanks everyone Nick, that is news to me? The IFF fit did change, but with the comprehensive plotting organisation used during the battle, it would have been pretty useless if the "plots" couldn't be identified; hence the reason for the IFF antenna?
  7. This is the Revell Spitfire Mk II finished as a Mk I. All of the markings are painted on and it represents the first Spitfire to be flown by Geoffrey Wellum, the youngest pilot to fly Spitfires during the Battle of Britain, QJ-K K9998. ] Mr Wellum lives in Mullion, Cornwall, less than 2 minutes from me so I built this for the Mullion Heritage centre. The passage is from his book "First Light" and they are the first paragraphs describing his first flight. If you haven't read this book then you are missing out. The book with a 1/72 scale model, also with painted on markings sat on top
  8. I've ordered some of this modular stuff, it does look to be the dogs
  9. I will be getting one of these I have their Walrus and although these kits are expensive they are certainly worth it
  10. Very nice Jim, I have one of these on order I am currently building the Hasegawa A-5 and this looks to be a better kit, certainly fit wise!
  11. Hi Jim, I lied, I had already managed to down load the pic and I made a start on the masks yesterday
  12. Just mind blowing Peter I think that you must have a shrink ray though because no one can produce this quality in this scale, so you must be building it 1:1 then shrinking it? Well that is the only way that I could even contemplate achieving anything remotely this good
  13. Jim can you drop me an email, I keep forgetting about the masks! And I can't save the profile, so can you send it to me please? That is looking really cool, spot on in fact. Do the wheels clip in?
  14. Seeing this being built drives me a little insane knowing that I will get to fondle actual plastic soon the fact that this is going to get better for the actual kit speaks volumes for HKM
  15. Well then you need to do penance! Looks very good, I have one of these and I do need to make a start; just too many other kits on the go!
  16. For me a Westland Whirlwind would be ideal I do like the thought of a wellington though
  17. What do you guys think about a mask set for this huge beast? It will be huge! the markings aren't so much of a problem, although the upper wing roundels will be around 4"!! I'm thinking more about the camo, would you want to see that in a set, or maybe in this case, separately ?
  18. Yes they definitely look like they will be epic kits, separate internal framing for the cockpit, as well as the one piece wing/ fuselage, I was hoping for that I do hope that HKM do the Westland Whirlwind in this scale as well. Not a model that shouts out that it would be a great seller, but done as well as this I reckon that it would be the thing of dreams Now that would definitely warrant a mask set
  19. I will be wanting every Mk of this that they will do. I'm working on the camo masks as we speak
  20. Markings painted on: Painting the invasion stripes using my "D-Day Invasion stripe helpers". The instructions for these show outlining and painting the white areas first, then masking out the white to paint the black; which is how I figure most would want to approach this. I however have a different approach in that I masked off the 3 white areas separately, painted the white, then masked these off and painted the black. The aircraft that I am modelling, ZY-B MN317 of 247 "China British" Sqn, had the areas for the "B" on the starboard side and the "ZY" on the port side left clear of the stripes, so I masked these areas off, as well as the fuselage roundel. For that I cut a dis a scale 1" larger then the roundel, which gives a 0.5" border. I used Maskol liquid mask applied with a piece of scouring pad to achieve some random chipping of the stripes.
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