Kenneth ONeill

How about a File:British Army Renault 50 series.jpg - Wikipedia ? They were used by Royal Artillery and RAF Regiment Rapier units?

The Wessex; I've never seen a Phantom kit tooled up with separate engine cowls!

Bottom left corner of the book page (top left of the scan). Is that a melodeon ("squeezebox")?

"convert from Airfix colour codes to Vallejo via Humbrol!" Don't use Vallejo paints; I've seen instances where they've claimed two different product codes to be a single FS595a value. According to my chip chart this never happens.

Yeah, but all R*v*ll colours except the ones that have a German standard attached are approximations. Israeli "ground attack underside blue" is an USA FS595a numbered paint. I think Gunze Sangyo may do the right shade?

Absolutely; take a tip from the M*tchb*x kit and make the engine cover separate, and you can make most main variants using one fuselage and interior.

The fairings and doors are separate, so given the flat to bulged bay conversion, It should be possible to convert the other way (for a closed bomb bay) by omitting the fairings and slimming the doors (memory says 2mm but I don't have a kit yet).

Yeah, use the "compressed" nose leg, and trim the "spare" oleo scissors off. I think you may have the blanks for the catapult spool parts? And you definitely have armament for a Northern Q machine (3 tanks, 4 Sparrow/Sky Flash, and 4 Sidewinder), and for "swing role" armaments (although the out of service date pre-dates the invention of the term swing role)

Yes, there is no such thing as an actually chrome and still flyable Spitfire (I'll be here for hours if I try and explain all the reasons why). What there is is a Spitfire with a mirror polished aluminium airframe, and Ratch has already identified AK Interactive product codes for that.

Some photos might be nice? Says he who doesn't own a digital camera. Anyway, aside from the instructed orange, signal red, lime, purple, chrome yellow and white are all valid colours for the self-coloured gel coat that was used on most dune buggies (irrespective of manufacturer of kit).

Hu191 "Chrome silver" isn't, not even if what you want is polished aluminium. It's a good "bright silver" paint, but not a patch on the appropriate Aluclad for what you're doing.

Great build. One question though; is it me or does the pilot look like Narn ambassador G'Kar from Babylon 5?

You may also be able to get decals (and more choices of scheme including ace schemes) by checking a large mail order model shop.

This briefly engaged me; the native colour of zinc chromate is yellow. You might find a commercial zinc chromate green paint that is about Hu38 but matt; however most chromate anti-corrosive paint is yellow or green, and similar in tones to many model paints sold as chromate green or chromate yellow.

I'd agree; I've not seen any with chromate yellow gear bays, but that could just be me.

General RAF service colours for visible areas of undercarriage (legs, leg doors and wheels; the bays are almost invisible with the wheel doors closed) light aircraft grey, except for outsides of doors which will be as per overall finish (and there are at least 4 schemes including high visibility black).

Heather, I think a BOAC WW2 scheme would look good (1940 RAF night bomber colours plus extra red, white and blue stripes underscoring the codes).

ANZAC tank corps? yum

Ironsides, I can see them. right click -> save as says the first one's a jpeg, and the second is something called a webp format.

Very easily. Open your first application (say Paint since I think we're talking mostly about photos) and the image; display it a part screen size using "reduce down". Now open your second (Word, a photo viewer, a photo editor...); display this part screen such that you can see part of both windows. You should now be able to select the image and drag it to the second application.

I'm not sure why Jess used drag and drop (which is a descriptive term for using a mouse hold to get a picture (or text) from a source window, move the mouse pointer to a target window (The click, and move whilst holding the left button is the drag) then release the left button, dropping the item into the target window. I suggest you practice this with 2 local windows on your computer. Personally, I'm more likely to use right click -> save as to get a copy of an image.

Yeah; I could never understand why Airfix issued this kit as a "Bren gun" carrier, since the Bren is conspicuous by its absence, so it would be more accurate to call it a "Universal carrier".

Scottish Museum of Flight, East Fortune aerodrome, about 0.8 miles off the B1347, and not on/near a bus route that I can find.

Does anyone know if a silicone oil might be misused as a release agent in the moulding plant?

RAF SAR "starter kit" yes. I've had no problems with that other than some windows/blanks being slightly loose, and some of the colour callouts being just plain wrong, most blatantly the dinghy pack is marked 64 pale grey, even though the correct 69 yellow is an included colour, and similarly one of the main rotor blades is yellow.