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KIWI
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This outfit provided the modeller with conversion kits mainly in white metal , some also with vacform canopies and panels . Produced in the 1980's they were for their time pretty good quality and mostly accurate , all the kits I know of are in 1/72.
AC1 Westland Seaking HC4
AC2 Westland Seaking HAS5
AC3 Westland Lynx HAS2/3 , weapons , pylons , aerials , FOD guards etc
AC4 Douglas Skyraider AEW1 , exhausts , doors , pylons , aerials , vent , fins , leading edge slats , wheel well blanks etc in w/m while in vacform there was a canopy , radome , rear decking etc .
AC5 Westland Seaking HAS/AEW2 , FOD guards , radome , fuselage strake ,radome mount , radome strut , Orange crop gear , antennae and aerials , tail rotor etc in w/m , a radome in resin and vacform windows .
AC6 Fairey Firefly T1/2 , Fairey Firefly FR1 , Hawker Sea Fury T20 , instrument panels , control columns , mirrors , floor , bulkhead , wing fences , gun sight , aerials , radar pod etc in w/m , canopies and rear decking in vacform .
AC7 Avro Vulcan K2 tanker .
AC8 English Electric Canberra TT.18/T.22 , banner target containers , flares , Rushton target , fins , Rushton winch propellers , Rushton winch bodies , T.22 nose , aerials , vents , antennae etc all in w/m .
AC9 Black Buck Avro Vulcan , pylons , Westinghouse AN/ALQ 101D ECM pod , Shrike missiles , missile pylons .
AC10 Harrier T4M , FRS1
AC11 DH Sea Hornet , DH Sea Mosquito
AC12 Jaguar GR Mk1 .
AC13 Gazelle , Puma
AC14 Tornado F2 ADV
AC15 English Electric Canberra T17
AC16 C130 tanker ?
AC17 Blackburn Buccaneer stores
AC18 Tornado GR1 stores
AC19 Attacker , Barracuda , Gannet COD
AC20 ?
AC21 ?
AC22 ?
AC23 Canberra B57G/Patricia Lynn
AC24 EC 130E (RR)
AC25 ?
AC26 Grumman A6F KA6D Intruder
AC27 ?
AC28 Tornado F3
AC29 F111F weapons pack
AC30 Wasp HAS1
AC31 Grumman Intruders
AC32 Neptune OP-2E White Igloo
AC33 ?
AC34 Meteor TT20 , Firefly TT4 , Sea Vampire F20
AC35 EB-66C
AC36 ?
AC37 Canberra PR9
This is it as far as I have discovered so far , the missing kits I am sure would include one for the Harrier GR3 and another for the Mohawk RV-1D , maybe a Victor . If anyone knows what they were feel free to add them .
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