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Welcome to the Workbench.Drongo CO 67 Squadron, on which I spent a year, was one of those less-known units that came and went, in the Middle East in WW I, in Burma and India in the Second World War and in Germany for the beginng of the Cold War. My time with them, and subseqently 148's Valiants, must have contributed to my abiding interest in squadron histories and markings, particularly RAF, and has been a constant factor in much of my modelling. I have seen a few pictures of 67's aircrft over the years, but I've only ever seen one of a Spitfire in Burma; so to find one included on the DK decals was a real treat, not only when it It's occurred to me that my younger reader may not know just how big the Javelin was but everyone knows the size of a Spitfire; here's a hint I do like SEAC roundels! Oh, Sir Geoffrey! It's always reassuring to find out that a "new" What If? possibility was a genuine project, especially when a subsequent model can be based on a available kit. I understand that the information for this pair came from a company brochure which, although unsuccessful when offered to a possible customer, can be based on an available plastic; is this case as I hope you can recognise it's the recently re-issued Airfix Dominie (the RAF would insist on using scholastic names for its trainers). It's a good idea for Airfix to re-issue some of these earlier kits, especially as they seem to be of subjects that haven't been covered elsewhere (you may well see the Jetstream, or at least parts of it, here later). What did surprise me was to find the date of the Dominie'a original issue on the inside of one upper wing half; given that I must have made it when it first came out, 1968 astonished me a little, not least because it was the year in which I joined IPMS and when my older son was one! I had always planned to apply the green/white checks of 764 NAS to the radar trainer; consulting Ballance and Sturtivant one of its tasks had been weapons training - hence the radar Red Tops, also by Freightdog - and the mixed scheme I applied was partly based on that worn by the unit's Hunter.T.8s, so I could use Fantasy Printshop's decals. The last time I'd applied dayglo I'd used Humbrol acrylic 209, but this time I could only get enamel, and I'm a little uncertain of the shade. The same tome gave me a colour picture of a
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