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Armor_Aficionado 1/48th Battle of Britain diorama.

                               Airfix 1/72nd Spitfire

armornut pacific Coast Models 1/32nd Tempest

Bish Xtrakit 1/72nd Canberra PR.9 (Completed)

       Skunkworks 1/72nd MQ-9 Reaper

bobbaily Tamiya 1/48th Mustang III

Bossman  Hasegawa 1/48th Hurricane

BrandonD Eduard 1/48th Brisfit

BrandonK  Tamiya 1/48  Bristol Beaufighter, Night fighter (Completed)

castelnuovo Italeri 1/48th Harvard Mk. IIa (Completed)

checkmateking02 Airfix 1/72nd Handley-Page Hampden

crown r n7 tamiya 1/48th Gloster Meteor F.1

damouav Tamiya 1/48th Mosquito Mk. XVII (Completed)

DantheMan85 Airfix 1/72nd Avro Lancaster B Mk.III

DasBeav Airfix 1/48th BP Defiant (Completed)

                Smer 1/48th Supermarine Walrus

Eagle90 Matchbox 1/72nd Victor (Completed)

              Airfix 1/72nd Buccaneer  (Completed)

              MPC 1/72nd Vulcan (Completed)

ExtremeTeam Airfix 1/72nd Whitley Mk. V

fjs3 Hobby Boss 1/48th BP Defiant

Fredthefoot'sModels Heller 1/72nd Hurricane Mk. IIc

Gamera Eduard 1/48th Hawker Tempest

Greg Eduard 1/48th Hawker Typhoon

goldhammer Monogram 1/48th Mosquito

iSteve Airfix 1/48th Spitfire Mk I

jgeratic Eduard 1/48th Sopwith camel

Justinryan215 Revell Dambusters Lancaster

lewbud Fujimi 1/72nd Canadair Sabre F.4

modelcrazy Hasegawa 1/32nd Spitfire Mk.V (Completed)

                   Hasegawa 1/72nd Type 52 Zero (Completed)

                     Hasegawa 1/72nd Tornado GR.1

                  Italeri Hurricane 1/48 Mk. 1 Trop.

plasticjunkie Revell 1/32nd Spitfire Mk. IX/C

Rigidrider Typhoon 1/48th Mk. IB (Completed)

                 Hobby Boss 1/72nd Eurofighter Typhoon

                 Airfix 1/72nd Hurricane (Completed)

rooster513 Airfix 1/48th Hurricane

                   Hasegawa 1/32nd Spitfire Mk Vb

scottrc Roden 1/32nd S.E.5a

SteveCB Airfix 1/48th Hawker Fury

taxtp Airfix 1/72nd Chipmunk

         Master Box 1/32nd RAF pilot & friend

tempestjohnny Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.1 (Completed)

                         Italeri 1/72nd Jaguar T.2 (Completed)

Texas Tbone Tamiya 1/48 Spitfire Mark Vb Tropical

Toshi Tamiya 1/32nd Mosquito FB. Mk VI (Completed)

Ready for action

DasBeav Airfix 1/48th BP Defiant

 Bish Xtrakit 1/72nd Canberra PR.9.

 Rigidrider Typhoon 1/48th Mk. IB

modelcrazy Hasegawa 1/72nd Type 52 Zero

 BrandonK  Tamiya 1/48  Bristol Beaufighter, Night fighter

 Eagle90 Airfix 1/72nd Buccaneer

modelcrazy Hasegawa 1/32nd Spitfire Mk.V

 castelnuovo Italeri 1/48th Harvard Mk. IIa

 tempestjohnny Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.1

 Toshi Tamiya 1/32nd Mosquito FB. Mk VI

 tempestjohnny Italeri 1/72nd Jaguar T.2

 Eagle90 Matchbox 1/72nd Victor

Eagle90 MPC 1/72nd Vulcan

 Rigidrider Airfix 1/72nd Hurricane

I'll sign up for a 1/48 Hawker Fury from Airfix.  The cockpit is pretty pathetic, but I found a detail set for a Hurricane.  I'll substitute that and hope it works.

Oh what the hey, I'm in Bish...

Eduard 1/48th Hawker Tempest

I'm in, Bish, with a 1/72 Airfix Handley-Page Hampden from the Victoria Cross Icons kit.

You know I'm in!!!!!  I'll be serving the Queen by flying (building) a Victor!  Desert Storm era.  I saw them there when I was there and thought they were beautiful...not to mention the British were allowed to have MUCH better nose art then we were.  LOL!

Put me down for this one boss!

Bobby

Hi Bish,

I'm thinking that this GB may need a single engine WWII fighter - so there's really only one choice - right ?  

Please count me in with this one:

Of course this is only the kit . . . She'll have RAF markings - and most likely - she won't be set up as a tropical version.

Pardon my ignorance - but what is the significance of the red crab on all the badges ?

Chris

Bish,

Don't know what it will be, but it will be 1/72 and most likely an Airfix kit.  

Got you all down guys, thnaks for signing up. Bossman, is that kit 48th, wasn't sure so have not aded a scale.

As to the crab, glad you ask. The unofficial knickname of the RAF is Crab Air and RAF personel are reffered to as crabs.

Thanks Bish,

Yeah, this is a 1/48 Hasegawa kit . . .  a bit out of the ordinary for me.

Chris

No worries Bossman, got it added.

Do you mean the scale or the subject.

Hello Bish, I would like to enter in my 1/72 Avro Lancaster B Mk III.  Markings are for 1944.  The two spitfires are complete, the Lancaster unstarted. 

1 by Daniel Smith, on Flickr

Nice one Dan. Having been lucky enough to get inside the BBMF lanc, i'll be looking forward to that.

Hey Bish, I will be in with something, not sure what yet.....dont forget us South Africans (guys like Sailor Mallan, Pat Pattle and Jacobus LeRoux ) 

We "saffers" also played a minor role with the RAF ;-)

Theuns

Glad to have you on board Theuns, and don't worry, theres no way we could forget you guys

Cool, we Saffers like to give "the colonialists" a hard time , just recall the Anglo Boer war where a colony of "farmers" kept 500 000 British soldiers busy ;-)

If my long past grandfather knew I was on speaking trems with the "English" he would turn in his grave! His father was a "guest" at St. Helena courtecy of His Magisty.

How things have changed :-)

Theuns

Bish

No worries Bossman, got it added.

Do you mean the scale or the subject.

 

Theuns, indeed they have. The two regiments which merged in 59 to form the one i spent most of my time in were both at Spion Kop. And to think just 14 years later we were fighting side by side.

Bossman

 

Bish

No worries Bossman, got it added.

Do you mean the scale or the subject.

 

 

 

 

Oh - definitely the scale - I'm mostly a 1/72 guy.

 

My build shelves are about a 50/50 ratio of RAF and USAF.   The Hurricane is a favorite of mine.

 

Some of the 1/72's 

 

 

 

 

Chris

 

Same here, though i do have a smal slection of 32nd.

Nice Hurricanes there, looking forward to more of the same.

Hi Bish, put me down for a Sopwith Camel, an Eduard 1/48 kit.

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I haven't decided on the markings yet, but it will be of a Canadian pilot flying for a British unit:

Raymond Collishaw

- 2nd highest scoring Canadian ace (60)

- top RNAS ace

Donald Roderick MacLaren

- 3rd highest  "   "   "   (54)

- also most victories for a Camel pilot

William George Barker

- 4th highest  "  "   "   (50)

- most decorated Canadian

- flew most successful airframe (serial no. B6313), logging more than 379 hours of flight time and 46 victories

regards,

Jack

Nice one jack. That gives us a spread from  WW1 to fairly recent. Going to have to check those links, they seem like some amazing pilots.

And good to see the Commonwealth being represented. We would have been pretty stuck without them. There was a Canadian pilot at RAF Odiham who flew Chinooks when i was there, he was a bit of a character.

Those are fantastic looking Hurricanes Chris! 

Gotta admit I've done a dozen or so of that unmentionable RAF fighter and have about a dozen more in the stash but not one Hurricane... 

I am thinking of a 1/48 B-17 g old revell kit in RAF colours....;-)

Theuns

Theuns

I am thinking of a 1/48 B-17 g old revell kit in RAF colours....;-)

Theuns

 

That would be nice. I have an Academy 17C to do as a Fortress I, if i remember right, the G was known as the Fortress III. Would be nice to see that.

Thanks Gamera,

Like I said, the Hurri is a favorite of mine - so I consider this  . . . 

Gamera

but not one Hurricane... 

I can recommend one if you like 

I have the B-17 g kit but no decals for it, I also think to try give soem "feel" to such a large area of model in either only green or bare metal might be difficult for me. I like the way that the RAF Bommber Command's colours look on the 17, even Costal command had a few, that might also be an option. 

I have some RAF decals I can use to make up a scheme, even if the Sqn dodes are made up.

A mate is also bringing me a 1/48 Airfix Lynx I might add to the GB if there is time. The only other RAF stuff I have is a 1/32 WnW SE5 and a 1/24 Airfix Tiffy but those are long term builds :-)

Theuns

Theuns, Kitsworld has 3 decal sets for 48th Fortress III's if you wanted to take that option. One is for a Bomber Command aircraft the other 2 Coastal Command.

Afraid the Lynx would not fit as they are not flown by the RAF, only Army and Navy.

Bossman

Thanks Gamera,

Like I said, the Hurri is a favorite of mine - so I consider this  . . . 

 

 

Gamera

but not one Hurricane... 

 

 

 

 

. . .   a small tragedy.

 

There is a remedy though (actually there are quite a few !)  

I can recommend one if you like 

 

Chris

 

Thanks Chris! I've been looking at the new Airfix 1/48th kits for sometime in the future. As to now I just bought four tank kits as Christmas gifts for myself and I've been trying to stop buying so much stuff. 

This looks like a fun GB to participate in.  Although I have a rule to build what is in my stash, which for this GB might be a 1/32 SE5.  I would also think it would be a treat to build a Typhoon and F35 in the Battle of Britain or 100th aniversary colors, or one of each.