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I'm a retired librarian and curator who worked for 19 years in the RAF Museum at Hendon in London. I must have made somewhere over 1000 kit models of aircraft since the first Airfix ones came out in about 1956. I haven't made any since the early 90's but I've concentrated on drawing colour aircraft profiles which I first started doing as a kid of about 8 years old in the early 50's. When computer graphics became available in the early 90's I couldn't stop drawing them. So far I've drawn 1,630 profiles which I'd love to share with enthusiasts. My interests cover military fighter type aircraft from 1916 to 1980 or so, mostly RAF, but also over 250 post-war US Navy profiles, along with allied and enemy WWII types.
Inspired by Craig's beautiful model F6F, I have gathered together my Hellcat profiles. The camouflage schemes shown are all standard, including the British one in temperate sea scheme of extra dark sea grey, dark slate grey over sky [...]
Creating balance with all my Hurricane profiles so far posted, here are the early Spitfires. With all the literature that has been published on the Spitfire not a great deal is left to say, but here are a few notes for modellers.
The first [...]
Following the good reception of Martin's editorial article using some of my early Hurricane profiles and the requests for more, here is another selection, from July 1938 to late 1940.
111 Squadron was the very first squadron to get them in [...]
