Lots more LRDG stuff on the Hannants website if you're interested

Is that US Midnight Blue?

Totally agree, great work.

I had to do a re-paint, I found some info on the Svalbard a/c that contradicted Revell's instructions.

Coming along nicely.

Are you doing it as the box top R2 from 6/St.G 2?

A bit like an IBG kit then?

Lots of fettling and adjusting later the fuselage was closed up, the wings and tailplanes were also fitted. The area around the cockpit canopy needed some work to get it to fit but I'm still not sure about the front so will check photos. After masking the upper wing and tailplane areas they were sprayed Vallejo Dark Grey for the Extra Dark Sea Grey required. Once cured the undersides were sprayed with Halfords Appliance white straight from the can. Overspray meant the grey had to be touched up.

As ever the build starts with the cockpit which was painted with various Vallejo, Humbrol, Tamiya and Mr Hobby colours. I used part of the etch for the rudder bars but had to adjust this to get a reasonable fit. I used the kit console and decal as the etch looked too big to fit. I've also fitted the engine, which won't be seen but you need it for the 'rhinoceros' exhaust later.

It would look really good with the obligitory statue of Lenin hailing a taxi on the nose. That's right up your alley!!!

I'd been thinking about buying this kit for a while and when I found a toy/model shop in Trondheim last year, which I thought could be the northern most one in Europe unless there's one in Murmansk, I thought 'why not?' It probably cost more than twice what it would have paid here but hey ho and to add to the memory I bought a set of decals for when it was used during an expedition to Svalbard. I've since bought an etch brass set as well. To digress we'd initially been in the shop but went back as Tracy wanted to buy some items for our children for Christmas, this is June but she plans ahead!!! So as we're buying them the owner said "do you want them wrapping?" and produced Christmas wrapping paper. He then asked me if I wanted the model wrapping and proceeded to do the same. So that's the back story onto the model. It's the Starter set of the F.13 with an option for making the F.13W with floats, which is wht I'll build. Online articles say that the underside of the tail and the bottom of the rudder are wrong for a 13W ut I'll check that out once I open the box (take the money - showing my age there, lol!!!)

Great finish, well done. I like the sleaker look of the Ds and Gs to the earlier models and if you look at the twin tailplane prototype you can really see how far the design progressed.

Borrow some of Chris W's greys and go for North Atlantic.

Great paintwork, well done. I built the Revell release of this about 50 years ago and still have it in my collection, minus the rigging which I knew nothing about fitting at the time, so I may have an attempt at that. Thanks for the inspiration.

There's an article in a recent edition of Scale Aircraft Modeling of a Ju 87 in Regia Aeronautica markings with the Balkankreuz overpainted by the Italians using their green. Nice finish to both aircraft and Luftwaffe a/c had a satin finish so you were correct in using it.