Kenneth ONeill

In the UK it will vary from council to council, but some may accept complete runners as being recyclable styrene.

Further to my 13:22 on 23rd March 2017, I looked at my old tool Spitfire Vc/Seafire IIIc kit last night, and it has parts for 4 different gun fits, 3 carburettor intakes (normal, Vokes filter and an armoured intake), clipped, standard or extended tips. As a result all 4 of the kitted aircraft will look different to each other even without being painted and decalled. That's before considering that it also has 2 radiators (marked for different versions in the instructions) and undercarriage and/or flaps up/down options.

I've said much the same thing about aircraft, all the P-51's, Spitfire's etc that keep getting pumped out year after year. The die hard's take it rather personally and offer up all sorts of silly excuses. What they are too zealous to understand is, I don't need more of the same. @Saxony - How many different refits or marks of the SS Cutty Sark are there? (not including things like how much of her total press of canvas you fit). I can get about 30 different marks of Spitfire/Seafire, without counting things like the Va, Vb and Vc as 3 different marks, and without considering differences like camouflage styles, air forces, or indeed the post-war unit bars.

@T2B - I don't own a digital camera, or presently own 10_000 rivets in loose formation!

I agree; 5_000 shots seems more like breakeven for a brand new steel tool, even if you can use lidar scanning to produce a 3-d scan that can be used to produce CAM designs for the tool.

Like lots, particularly since I've got something similar in mind. Also, FWIW, there are still some WW2 built airfields in use that have the WW2 dispersals extant, so this may have happened at least occasionally.

Thanks Susanna. So "it's complicated" then, but the GR MkV, VI or VIII would be the variants I'd want one of (I happen to live about a mile from my local airport, which was first built as a WW2 Coastal Command base).

To save you a search, this means there's too much flat base in the mix for the batch.

Susanna, you obviously know the Lib way better than I do; which variant(s) and turret(s) are applicable to RAF Coastal Command aircraft?

Well I still haven't built mine, but if the kit's going on Fleabay for 5*original_RRP then I'd agree there's a market for a re-issue.

With 12 "fire and forget" missles that had a range of ~50 miles you lock the targets up, fire at ~45 miles, then yo-yo to head for home (and yes the Vulcan could yo-yo).

@Shubi - Enamel (or acrylic, cellulose (you shouldn't meet cellulose paint, and it disolves styrene plastics anyway) refers to the medium in which the colour particles and/or flatting agent (for varnishes) are carried.

Matt Cote is an enamel varnish (so are Gloss and Satin Cotes); see answers upthread.

There are no creep mark decals (or even mention of creep marks) in the "normal" 1/48 or 1/72 kits.

And that's where web fora come in; Ok, you can make a case that we're self-selecting and hence not representative, but it's cheap market research (look at the fora and find the "most requested types") and you can then honestly say things like "people have been asking for a kit of the RFA Peter Mandleson" (The fleet's new oiler) or whatever. You can even get guys like me who think it a little deeper and say how you can get multiple variants from a single tool.

Nice. As to your criticism, bricks are not a single standard size, and neither are slates or tiles. Ref the roof colour its within bounds for "tile cilour", but, since this was designed as a WW2 ruin, I think the roof would probably have been slate, and hence grey.

Which has given me yet another idea (oh dear). One of the bigger RHIBs (like the Llandudno boat), with the trailer and beach tractor. Tool the tractor on separate runners, and carefully, and you can release it separately with a dozer blade too.

Just a Tamar? I'm greedy enough to ask if we could also have (eventually) Arun, Waveney and Oakley class boats as well?

I was going to say that, and I'd buy one as well. It's not even like the original green and white colours look like "Herald of Free Enterprise" did.

I see wher these arguments are coming from, but I'm actually less likely to buy, say, yet another mark of 1/48th scale "well known WW2 fighter" that's well represented in its main variants than, say, different Grummans with a sensible folded wing option (The Airfix 1/72scale Wildcat and Martlet exemplify what I mean here, since AFAIK they're about the only 2 kits (and yes I know they're mostly the same tools) that have the characteristic Grumman wing fold without a lot of cutting and scratch building structure).

I have the impression that Japanese (all services) colours were very standardised, so that only official unit markings would differentiate , say, aircraft from different IJN units, and kill markings just didn't happen. On the more general point about image sizes, they show as 924x524 pixels (full colour?). If you want to reduce the size, try loading them into Microsoft Paint, or maybe GIMP, and zooming them down that way, then save as JPEG under new file names.

Much as I'd like to see the re-release of some of the 1:600 warships. There's only about half a dozen people on this thread who seem interested. 60 posts in 10 weeks isn't exactly indicative of massive interest. I see your point, but rather than number of posts, how many of the total active posters have expressed some sort of interest in warship models?

I find myself wondering how many people who actually build this kit will build it as anything other than a Banff Strike Wing or Amiens prison raid aircraft?

Given that the model paints are probably matt or silk, and it wants "bringing up a bit", rather than full gloss (based on access to pampered trials birds through work), I'd suggest brushed Johnson's "Klear" (Future in some markets) floor polish. This may "sound strange" but if you haven't tried it don't knock it.

Personal wish list:- 1/72 scale RNLI Arun, Oakley and Waveney class lifeboats to go with the Severn. "Greedy Ken" says he'd also like full sets of names, pennants and station allocations for these as well. 1/350 scale Type 26 frigate (once design finalised) to go with the Type 45 destroyer. Then maybe a "Queen Elizabeth" class aircraft carrier to complete the battle group.