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Other link, same book, very much recommended:

https://www.scribd.com/document/1805975 ... c-Card-pdf

By the way, I have understood that this is with approval of the writer.

Is there a tutorial you could steer me towards for push molding canopies? Sure. What I do a very basic, use the old canopy as a mould. Put some clear plastic on a frame (the smaller/precise the the cut out out is the better the result). Heat the clear plastic over a flame (like stretching sprue you...

Nice one Duke! And a nice personal touch with your nephew flying this bird.

Some more progress, I made replacement canopies. A simple push mould. Success rate was 2 out of 5.

Congratulations Mike!

I am currently on holiday in Normandy. And today we visited the V-1 site at Val Ygot. The Tempest was one of the planes used to intercept V-1’s. So that was a nice link with my current build. https://i.postimg.cc/Pf7JLVBK/IMG-0719.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/C59xWdj9/IMG-0720.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/k...

Yea, reading glasses, I am still getting used to mine A little update. I have decals for only one Tempest (can’t complain for 1 euro). So one Tempest is going to be in RAF colours. And the other one in captured German markings. The so called Zirkus Rosarius used several captured allied planes for tr...

Firstly, get well soon!

And secondly, I just got the same Super Metallic paint. Looks like they are as good as I hoped.

Lastly, I really love the Pucara. I have the Special Hobby kit so I will use this tread as reference.

Wonderful work on a wonderful kit. And Indian colours will be a nice variation. You don’t see that very often.

I have been very busy lately and building some very simple Revel mini kits to get back into the groove. I recently bought a Hellcat and two Tempests for two euros. One of the Tempests is missing a canopy so I am going to heat smash two new ones. I will use the canopy of the complete kits as a mould....