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I promise i wont bore you anymore with weathered north African aircraft after all we all have google :-) Proof they were sprayed in the Field :) again interesting surface texture/finish Again Americans in Malta and well worn finish I think i have idea in my head now of what i want to...

I dont need to tell anyone here how much space they take up or how dusty they get without a cabinet :)

Up until recently i have only ever kept 3-4 of my builds so not much to show but i did buy a cabinet at the end of last year so things will change :) _.

I dont know this time Bob I just scrapped one of the resin rims :-( fortunately i have several more. The spokes on the front leave the rim at a hell of an angle and obviously you have to drill the hole in the rim at that angle Then i found a picture of the real thing to use as a reference...

This is a project I shelved years ago as I simply didn’t have the know how to do what I wanted to do. As usual with these old kits the spokes in the wheels are 1mm, scaled up that’s 9mm and it spoils the model having double thickness spokes. ~you don’t have a chance of fooling anyone its not a...

I think also the Canadians and Australians and New Zealand commands were within the RAF during the was so were not allowed to paint their own roundels till after so 417 was an RAF Squadron (Canadian) where as the SAAF were integrated but never part of the RAF ?

I supose you might if you had a comparison or reference but i think you would have to be looking for it. well done RichB, i wondered how long it would take a Canadian to spot 417 :-)

What in a Spitfire :cool:

https://www.italeri.com/uploads/news/m0H2ETdXEaGQXiJMctrQbfhwFy7xwUJRornocTdM.pdf for me there is an all new 1/12 Mercedes vintage race car and 1/9 Matchless G50 vintage racing motorcycle so very pleased :-) Shame i just bought the Matchless in its original Protar form :bash:

Brave to put about 1 ton of engine and engine bearers on a couple of rusty oil drums :) Poor old EN364 suffered an undercarriage collapse in Dec 1945 in the Picture and was scrapped as the war had finished.

I was right about the Guy getting in the Spit not being colorised as i found another from the same set marked "not colorised" And just for fun...how do we know the picture above is RAF and the one below SAAF ? Another interesting point is the Vokes filter top v the Aboukir filter below...

Blimey my typing is terrible :-) Yea i watched the film, my thinking is these aircraft were basically not just constantly sandblasted but baked as well. I remember my brother frying eggs on his chieftain tank in Cyprus in the 1970's .....so Tunisia would have been even hotter i suspect. I agree...

This also shows come authentic surface detail this just made me smile :-) of course most of these photos were set up and carefully posed however...........Here we see a pilot patiently waiting for his aircrew to finish painting the roundel on the Fuselage so he can go and bash Rommel :-)...

What is that oval thing in front of the Fin it looks quite wrong in the sharper picture which i think is the colorized doctored version? it looks like the shape and size of the tail wheel well ? The back of the prop does all the work. :)

I have a Tamiya Spit MkIX to build. it might make a change from bikes and cars. I am thinking desert Camo ? Don't take everything at face value..... note the Kiwi on the tail :)

if anyone comes across "ORIGINAL" pictures, not colourised, of Spitfires in the Desert i would love to see them My theory is that prop blast and high speed mixed with sand and high temps equals death to paint. of course people look at restored aircraft and other peoples models but i think the...

Ha ha you are right Barney :-) what color is Sky ?, its dark grey today, its was bright blue yesterday :0)

Sorry this build has wound up so fast, it could have had more build detail and WIP but i have done this while trying to sort out other matters which have had my attention, not least the inland revenue :)...anyway here it is. Its been fun and its nice to try something different . Obviously its...

The stirrup type pedals enabled the pilot to pedal faster to reach take-off speed.

Wow the flat coat has given that a 10000% improvement and knowing how macro pictures can show up faults that often aren't even there...i would say you nailed this. I would be overjoyed with that in 1/24 let alone 1/32. I still have a spit to build for a guy that asked me and this could be the...