Happy birthday!
Will be interested to see the P.11. Have been wondering what it’s like.
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Hi Stephen
Many thanks! 
Re: the PZL, my reaction went from a diplomatically (hopefully!) concealed “ohh…” to “OHHH!” as soon as I took a look inside the box! I’ll do a review soon, but my first impressions are that it’s a little stunner!
All the best
Rowan
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Happy birthday, Rowan! Wishing you luck and (most important) health!
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Thank you Torsten!
This is a good opportunity to extend your wishes for good health to all our Kitmaker community and wider readership! 
Take care everyone and stay safe.
All the best
Rowan
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Second (or possibly third) hand from Hannants is this vintage Revell Liberator.
A real shame that the box top is faded and stained, I bet that painting was gorgeous when fresh! Importantly all the parts are present and that’s the important thing. I was pleasantly surprised at how sharp and clean the surface details are in this kit. Far superior to the Airfix Liberator. Nice panelling and even the rivets seem in scale. Interior on the other hand, is non-existant. Nothing a bit of scratching can’t solve. The decals are yellowed and probably unusable. My aim is to build it as an RAF Coastal Command GR.V using some Pavla conversion sets. I’m excited about building this one. The Liberator has always been one of my favourites. I’m still hopeful that either Airfix or Revell will follow their very nice B-17’s with one in the next couple of years.
And a pair of AZ Models SR.53’s.
One to build as the prototype on display at RAF Cosford and another in one of those WHIF schemes.
I missed the original prototype release, but easy to do with a serial number change.
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My first two aircraft kits in a very long time (mostly do 1/35 armor)
The Corsair is one of my favourite WW2 fighters and the F-16 my all time favourite plane. First adventure into 1/48 aircraft and all I can say is wow are they big. Here is the F-16 fuselage next to my 1:35 T-54 WIP, it’s almost 1.5 times the length
Both kits look awesome in the box. Not sure which I’ll tackle first.
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Hi,
Would you consider letting go of those JASDF decals?
Thanks,
HG
Best Belated Sir.
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Yes, I’m going to use the CDN livery. PM me your info and I’ll send them to you.
Cheers HG
All the best
Rowan
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So this came as a surprise late birthday package from a friend on another site in the mail yesterday.
which also included these nice resin cockpit update sets
I don’t own a Spitfire Mk. XIX… but now I have an excuse to get one…
Many thanks for the generous gifts Bruce!
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How do you like it? The David Union?
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Just arrived from Hobby Link Japan!
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I love mine- the sander is exquisite as well!
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Oh that control unit and all those tool heads for the motor tool look very useful! Great score!
So lately I have stumbled across a guy on eBay who sells decal sheets for a much more reasonable price than most are going for nowadays, so I have picked up a few sets.
For early A-10s: pre “Charcoal Lizard”
For the F-5A in my stash
And for the F-89D/H in my stash
I also finally came across a guy in France who makes the Matra Super 530 missile in 1/48… nobody makes them in AM, and unless you scavenge them from another kit, there are no options in 1/48 to get any… until now. These look to be 3-D printed and are not bad at all, especially the pair on the right. The left pair are a bit softly detailed at the tail fins.
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Landing today is an Airfix Kate and some decals and bits for that Liberator.
I believe the decals are the same set Eduard had in their rebox of the Hasegawa kit. Seem a bit strange, they have a film over the top that has to be pulled off the day after applying to the model. We’ll see how well that works in practice.
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