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Portamus
PostPosted: 19 Jul 2011, 10:12 
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So I was browsing the Jeffery Stein site and discovered two things (they're news to me, at least)....

Tamiya have just issued a new 1/32 Spitfire... an XVIe....
http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/item.p ... t-id=60321
and is she a beauty or what!!!!!

Also... Italeri have just seen fit to reissue their 1/48 F1C kit.. sadly the AZ nose is missing from the sprue... as with their last edition.

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PostPosted: 19 Jul 2011, 14:59 
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Portamus wrote:
Also... Italeri have just seen fit to reissue their 1/48 F1C kit.. sadly the AZ nose is missing from the sprue... as with their last edition.


The Italeri F1C kit has been available for a while now, I got 2 from the Aviationshop about 2 months back.

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PostPosted: 19 Jul 2011, 18:12 
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lol,

I'm sitting on 5 F1 kits..... :mrgreen:

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Portamus wrote:
lol,

I'm sitting on 5 F1 kits..... :mrgreen:


At least one will become a AZ :?: I hope at least :wink:

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3 AZs... 2 CZs.... :mrgreen:

Scaleworx is going to be very happy with me...

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Portamus wrote:
3 AZs... 2 CZs.... :mrgreen:

Scaleworx is going to be very happy with me...


lovely :smt023 \:D/ \:D/ \:D/

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Portamus wrote:
3 AZs... 2 CZs.... :mrgreen:

Scaleworx is going to be very happy with me...



Yeah right,
You'll have to break your piggybank, because you've been trying to get one for almost three years now :smt044 . All your money is spent on your lady and visiting her. :lol: :twisted: :lol:

By the way, how are things at work? We still need to get together for a braai someday and kill a few beers.

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Portamus wrote:
So I was browsing the Jeffery Stein site and discovered two things (they're news to me, at least)....

Tamiya have just issued a new 1/32 Spitfire... an XVIe....
http://www.tamiyausa.com/product/item.p ... t-id=60321
and is she a beauty or what!!!!!



Ja, just splashed R1,200 on one from Jix ! But I think well worthwhile - have built the Tamiya 32nd scale Mk.IX highback. The Mk XVIe is a short conversion to a post war SAAF Mk IXe - as far as I understand, the only difference between an LF IXe and a XVIe was that the latter had the US built Packard Merlin 277.

Here's a pic of the Mk IX in French markings (as used in south east Asia in the early 50's) :

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What are the bits protruding through the wings behind the canon bulge?

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What are the bits protruding through the wings behind the canon bulge?


Those are the landing flap actuators - I didn't know about them before I built the kit !!
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