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Airfix turning away from WWII models ?

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Old 7th Oct 2005, 19:53
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You forgot the landing light?

e-Hookie, please!
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Old 8th Oct 2005, 00:21
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deliberate error!
You left a Train in the background.
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Old 8th Oct 2005, 05:57
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Beags is closest so far, its air frame specific is the clue!

Oi photo! some of my bestest frends are traynes! (gets coat...)
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Old 8th Oct 2005, 08:08
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Radar antennae?
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Old 8th Oct 2005, 08:29
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Nup, its not a bit I haven't put on yet like aerials etc, Its an Airframe item, well a pair of them! and the kit manufacturer got them wrong, and it was a long time before anyone spotted it in the modelling fraternity.
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Old 8th Oct 2005, 11:59
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DF & radio antennae?
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Old 8th Oct 2005, 12:10
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Nup, airframe, think wings and things, (js gets coat ready in case of hasty exit requirement...)

It should be finished this week by the way, then its a P47/Lancaster/Typhoon(WWII)/A7e/UK F86 to be done amongst the toy train commissions. What do prooners want to see next off the bench then?
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Old 8th Oct 2005, 12:16
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Something daft like the tailplanes are upside down?
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Old 8th Oct 2005, 12:35
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Engine Exhaust or Missile Racks?
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Treadi has the correct components and something is indeed upside down, but its not the tailplanes themselves!
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Old 8th Oct 2005, 13:18
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Elevator tab linkages are incorrect - they should be on the lower side of the tailplane.
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Old 8th Oct 2005, 14:39
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Beags wins 2 pints of Hookie then!
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Old 8th Oct 2005, 15:20
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What is that stub on the port wingtip?
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Old 8th Oct 2005, 15:54
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Gainsy, thats where I haven't fitted the nav lights yet!
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Old 8th Oct 2005, 18:09
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"What do prooners want to see next off the bench then?"

An Airfix TSR2 in 35 Sqn colours as it should have been in the mid-70s (dark green/grey wrap around camouflage) if the aircraft hadn't been killed off by Mountbottom, Wislon and the rest.....
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Old 8th Oct 2005, 18:25
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TSR 2 "what if" schemes to go with the new Airfix model.

http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=X72059

http://www.hannants.co.uk/search/?FULL=X72060
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Old 8th Oct 2005, 18:28
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There are pictures of the TSR.2 and the new Spitfire models on the Airfix website.
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Old 8th Oct 2005, 19:49
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Some of those markings are just plain daft. Such as the Air Support Command two-shades-of-$hit and ETPS schemes....
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Old 9th Oct 2005, 15:02
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the props turn backwards.



oh wait a minute, I see that competition is closed now
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Old 10th Oct 2005, 19:49
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Its finished,

http://greengoscale.fotopic.net/p21344572.html

http://greengoscale.fotopic.net/p21344575.html


TSR2 eh Beags? got to admit the wrap round F4 style grey-green scheme sounds appealing...
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