Rare occasion of actually flying for a good couple of hours instead of modding, had a lot of fun with the new Spitfires. Starting and managing the engine, getting to height, and dogfighting will never be the same lol make sure your safety is off before you engage!
For those of us who were pre-teens/early teens in the '70s, a major bonus that came with models by Monogram at the time were the diorama tip sheets by the late great champion of the diorama, Sheperd Paine. These things were like model building porn! Even if you didn't build the diorama in question, the tips they gave were still useful, and they just looked so cool! The only full diorama I ever built was this one, but I'm sure I used the decals that came with it as my skills were not enough to specialize it as Mr. Paine did. From the tip sheet:
"The aircraft that was modeled does not depict any specific aircraft of the 381st bomb group. Although the overall color scheme is accurate, the aircraft name and squadron code is fictitious. This enabled us to portray an aircraft that exhibited many of the marking and finish details found on the average WWII heavy bomber after extended use in the skies over Europe."
Great skin, threedp! On showing damage for plastic models, as a kid I found that breaking open a small cracker (Tom Thumb) and lighting the wick, produced a spray of sparks which burned very realistic bullet holes into my aircraft ...
We're just moving on to the MKV's, still early days, but I can get my skins more or less done, here's one of S/Ldr Jan Zunbach's Vb's from 303 (Kosciusko) Sqd, Kirton-in-Lyndsey Sept 1942.
We're just moving on to the MKV's, still early days, but I can get my skins more or less done, here's one of S/Ldr Jan Zunbach's Vb's from 303 (Kosciusko) Sqd, Kirton-in-Lyndsey Sept 1942. ...
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