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Thanks Andy, and yes, I'm intending to replace my Luftwaffe BoB collection, lost in a house move 20 years ago. I'm considering making the He111, Do17, Bf110 and Ju87 (JU88A-5 already done, from KG30) from units which took part in 'The Hardest Day', 18th August, which really should be 'Battle of Britain day', rather than September 15th.
And when I get current stuff finished, I can continue with the 1/32nd scale Mosquito conversion.
BTW, it's highly unlikely that I'll ever use the Hs129 or Do335 canopies, so if anyone needs/wants them, let me know - first come, first served!
 
Couldn't help myself yesterday....really want to do a couple of the late model Spitty's so now I have one, the other when I find one the Mk22/24....and the D-9 well that sort of jumped into my arms, amazing huh!
 

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Good find there Wayne! Come to think of it, I need to look into getting my Seafire build back on track as well. BTW MK.22/24 shouldn't be that hard to find... and if need be you could always piece one together from the Seafire kit I think it holds all the pieces for the Mk.22/24 plus additional parts for the seafire variant. Decals of the original spitty Mk.22/24 kit are cr*p anyway (way out of register and quite rough earlier airfix quality) so you would want to have those replaced I reckon.
 
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There's a couple of places I know have the kit in it's original issue from around £16 pre-owned (all complete and untouched) to around £22 new; the decals in my 1997 release are in perfect register.
 
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the decals in my 1997 release are in perfect register.
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Funny, I have had three in my stash, all '97 releases (one of which has been build in the mean time) and without exception the decals in all three kit were/are utter rubbish
 
Thanks for your comments guys... will put my hand up for help if I can't score a specific Mk.22/24 locally...and Your right Jelmer, looks like all the stuff is there in the 46'47 kit...didn't know that!
 
The other day I got these two sets of Super Scale decals for P-40E's/Kittyhawks at a good discount from Hannants. With too many cool subjects to not build them (Cresswell's multi-flag noseart mount is a no-brainer though) I figured I needed some more P-40E kits as well. The prospect of having to buy a bunch of Hasegawa P-40E's isn't exactly cool as far the finances go. So as I was searching on EBay for something suitable I came across this guy who sold a good bunch of AMTech P-40E's (incl. replacement fuselages) packaged in lots of three...for $20. So a good bunch of decals and a package deal on some P-40E's. Even in a worst case scenario (customs fee) I still end up with 3 kits shipped in from the USA for the price of two similar kits ordered here in The Netherlands
 

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Nice find Terry, it will be good to see you working on the Mossie again.

And Wayne you'll love that Seafire kit. One thing I know about it is that the angle of the rear frame of the windscreen/forward frame of the canopy is not at enough of an angle. I used the Squadron vac canopy on mine.
 
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