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Tony May
How did I miss the fact that my RAF Spitfire Mk.Vb was going to be represented on my shelf by a Pro-Modeler kit? I considered doctoring it up with a PART PE set, some wheels & Master guns but even then it wouldn't come close to the brilliance of this 24 year old beauty. I will STILL build the Pro-Modeler kit only that it will likely be built in Israeli, Italian Co-Belligerent or Free French markings.

Tony May
These babies are the reason my MPM kits are going up for trade! I love the new & improved Kovozávody Prostějov; I just don't have nearly enough of them! 😄 I'll need one of each to replace my MPM kits. Incidentally one comes with decals for a First Arab-Israeli War Bird & the other comes with a Malayan Emergency combat aircraft. I'd LOVE to see the instructions!

Tony May
I'd prefer a trade over a sale of this model kit. It's pretty nice since it comes with markings for an RAF Mk.XVIII caught up in the midst of the First Arab-Israeli War & an RAF Mk.XVIII used operationally during the Malayan Emergency. This is a bagged model kit, it likely has a cut out from the box & everything the box contained. It is currently in storage but I'm willing to draw upon it the moment you wish to make a trade! (Yes, I have 2 of these on hand & both are bagged.)

Tony May
I'd prefer a trade over a sale of this model kit. It's pretty nice since it comes with markings for an RAF Mk.XVIII caught up in the midst of the First Arab-Israeli War & an RAF Mk.XVIII used operationally during the Malayan Emergency. This is a bagged model kit, it likely has a cut out from the box & everything the box contained. It is currently in storage but I'm willing to draw upon it the moment you wish to make a trade!

Tony May
I was thinking that I would have to wait until next month's model money budget to get this one from OWL directly BUT I was again taken by surprise. I found a listing for two bottles of unopened Model Master Acrylic RLM24 & wondered if the seller had anything else I could tack on to the order to make the transaction worthwhile. Hitting the back button this decal sheet was literally right next to the paint listing! The rest is history~

I'll be using this with a Revell Fw-190A-8, that also comes with the parts for the R11 version, plus it'll be doctored with the old Extratech PE set. Since I have it planned to build an Airfix Fw-190A-8 with Airmodel slipper tanks on the wings to mount on top of my AMTech Ju-88H, plus the Eduard Fw-190A-5/U12, Fw-190A-8/R8 & Fw-190F-8; I thought a Fw-190A-8/R11 would fit in quite nicely! I'm undecided if I'll tack on a Kora Fw-190S-5 & Kora Fw-190S-8 just yet. I DO have two training variants of the Bf-109 so I'm kinda thinking that I should? That said the price difference between the AZmodel Bf-109S & AZmodel Bf-109G-12 compared to those from Kora are quite different in price; Though the latter two are based on the fantastic Eduard kits. Never mind the gorgeous IBG Fw-190D-9 & IBG Fw-190D-11; Plus the epitomes DML Ta-152H-1.

Now if I can just break free from the impulse buys on eBay, the monthly orders of reserved kits from Super-Hobby, then maybe I can get a replacement Airbrush & a decent compressor with an air tank! You know ... something I need to paint ANY of these above mentioned birds?!

Tony May
I've already got the decals for this conversion, which came with markings for a PV-1, F6F-3N & TBM-3D. However the kit I picked up for the possible conversion is pretty interesting in & of itself. (Although the price made me want to vomit blood...) Either way I go it's an absolute MUST to get the Aires 7001 & 7007 detail sets. (Yes I know that's for a TBF/TBM-1C but if you don't tell I won't tell.) Honestly I was really disappointed in Hasegawa's rendition of the TBF/TBM. Although it's almost 30 years old we were starting to see a lot of nice detail in our kits at that time; It just seems like they rushed it & settled for standards that were already obsolete.

Tony May
I'm torn on this build. RN FAA Suez Crisis machine OR use it as the basis of a TBM-3D Night-Fighter conversion. I'm leaning towards the latter since I have a TBM-3W reserved over at Super-Hobby which I already plan to build as an RN FAA Suez Crisis machine. WW2 still remains my main focus in builds - after all!

Tony May
I was incredibly surprised to see this at such a reasonable price on eBay! Yeah, I know that that all of 2 of these types of aircraft were officially appropriated for military use, but it's still such an iconic type that I just couldn't resist. Incidentally the MPM kit that could be used to build the RAAF appropriated aircraft was also available at a nice price. One is Vega is enough for me though. 😉