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Heinz , you are correct, it is a Bomerang, here is a closer cropped shot, Wildcat should like this as I missed it earlier when posting some other Aussie stuff.
 

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Gnomey don't sound so disheartened besides I thought the models that you did post, and I think from memory you did post some, looked good.
 
I thought we went through the shiny justification. Unless I was mistaken, someone posted a good rationale for why shiny was historically accurate. News to me I might add. Was that theory debunked and I missed it?
 
Hi Matt308, the shiny was at the start of the thread, and still goes for early Japanese Navy aircraft, not so sure about Army aircraft, I think in this case of the Ki-44 (Army)that Wurger is right, the Gloss finish is probably not quite right being a natural metal japanese aircraft, mid war time frame.
 
To be honest I'm still convinced that the models of Japonese a/cs should be varnished with semi-gloss varnish not a gloss one.
There is a pic I've found somewhere via Internet (but I don't remember source).As you can see in the pic the metal covering of the planes is much more matt that gloss.Especially,that it is aluminium and rather it wasn't polished.

BTW, there is a link to nice site I've found going through Internet.
AIRPOWER Magazine January
 

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I would not have posted them in this thread but I wish I had my camera when I was at the mall the other day. The local modeling club had a RC plane show at the mall and it was amazing what they had.

There was a Do-335 that had a wing span of about 8ft I would say. They also had a Bf-109G and a P-51D in the same size.

The 2 that I thought were the coolest though were the jet powered RC planes that they had there. They had a Me-262 and a Sabre painted up like Erich Hartmanns Sabre. It was really cool.
 
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