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Beautiful work, John. I've always thought the Sea Fury landing gear was interesting. It had a lot of travel and the hose arrangement was rather elaborate. Without two pictures its hard to see how it achieves all that motion. http://goldeneramodel.com/msc/seafuryldggear.jpg http://goldeneramodel.com/...

The Airfix newer kit is much better than the Revell Germany kit.

Martin Bishop (Bish) ran a Falklands GB on FSM not long ago and I built the Victor for it. Lots of interesting info in that thread.

Hard not to think how much simpler that bombing campaign would have been had the Brit's had the time to lease a few B-52's from our boneyard.

You can look at mine for free, Carlos! The Victor that stretched the range for the Black Buck mission to the limit, XL189.

For what it is worth the forum is up and running a few minutes ago and is very fast.

The Tamiya A6M3 model 22. The paint scheme was the thing I most wanted to get right on this one, as there is a much published photo of it showing the random mottling and a unique pattern on the forward fuselage. That photo is the basis for Tamiya's box art for this kit. I think I got close but getti...

Two more Zeros slid into the display cases today, the Hasegawa A6M2-K and the Tamiya A6M3 model 22. The Tamiya kit was a gem to put together, the Hasegawa kit was less so in comparison but it is a high bar. There were two versions of the trainer, one with the A6M2 model 21 wing and engine, the other...

That would be fun, to see what different things people come up with. I'm thinking PBM!

Thanks for the heads up. Everyone else is too late.

It may be good for FSM, Flying and Plane and Pilot are both old time titles. But they are shadows of what they once were, especially Flying. But then so is the industry. I subscribed to Flying from the Gil Robb Wilson days until the mid 90's and still have them all in the closet and I also picked up...