From Apollo and Soyuz, to Gerry Anderson, Irwin Allen, Star Wars and Trek to Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica and those strange, doe-eyed Japanese school girls...to any model kits you can think of, that only exists in imagination.
What can I say about this kit other than "yuk"! It's the Kitech 1/72 and all I could think of was to whif it.
The idea came from a print I have of two 403 Spitfires over Normandy. The print is one that was used on collectors cards issued by a well known cigar company.
I tried tinting the canopy using an unstirred tin of dark earth. Perhaps I should have concentrated on getting it fitted better.
This has turned out to be prophetic! The CAF don't have an F-22 in D-Day colours, but the RAF has painted a Typhoon in partial D-Day livery -- the stripes on the wings and body (the latter look a bit odd since the wings blend into the rear fuse) and squadron codes with small type C roundels on the forward fuselage. I do hope someone brings out a decal sheet because this is the best looking Typhoon scheme to date.
Oh, and somewhat belatedly, the F-22 build looks great, whether it's a Kitech kit or not (have had very mixed results with that manufacturer).
Ping! Ping!! Ping!!! -- Mother Box
She's such a chatterbox, sometimes...
That's really good!
I've not had any experience of kits from this manufacturer, but whatever the starting quality, the finished article is high quality in my book
Best wishes
Jim If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing "Never put off till tomorrow, what you can do the day after tomorrow"
