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Contents Model <strong>Air</strong>craft | December 20133Never in a Month of SundaysWe have an absolutely crackingissue this month, with somereal hands-on modellingof the type Ilike the best – enthusiastspursuing a threadand making a modelbecause something hasinspired them. Regularreaders of SAMI will beno strangers to DickClark and his eclecticbuilds, and I am particularlygrateful to him for his Dogfight over GoodwinSands piece, as it is the kind of article that really makesme just want to go and built a kit just like the one I’vejust been reading about. That Do 17 is a cracker! Oh fora new tool in 1/48…Weʼre never happy, are we? Give us a lovely new kit in1/72 and we complain that itʼs not in 1/48. Release a Mk IXand we wish it was a Vb. Give us a new-tool Blackburn Skuain 1/32 and weʼll complain that it has the wrong markingswith it – we will… honest!Unless, of course, you want to tool up an injectionmoulded Blackburn Blackburn in 1/48. Hopefully someonewill have had a word with Meng at Telfordabout this pressing matter. Perhaps Ishould have gotten up a petition. Wewill have to waitand see…Gary HatcherEditorModel <strong>Air</strong>craftCONTENTS – VOLUME 12 ISSUE 12British Spooks By Peter ScottF-4 Phantoms Plans and ProfilesPages 39-46McDonnell Douglas Phantom FG.1 XV597 of the Aeroplane and Armament Experimental Establishment(A&AEE), based at RAF Boscombe Down, Wiltshire, in 1991.In this Issue48IPMS UK ColumnWhat do I get?By Chris AyreKit News66687072Accessory NewsEventsWorkbenchBritish HellcatBy Trevor Pask04<strong>Air</strong>wars <strong>Air</strong> Arms<strong>The</strong> <strong>Hellenic</strong> <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong>By Andy Evans18Three Shades ofFrog<strong>The</strong> T-2 in Warpaint!By Andy McCabe22 Top CatBuilding the Big LynxBy John Bisset26 Dogfight overGoodwin SandsA Triptych in 1/72By Dick Clark32Easy BuildBuffaloHobbyBossʼs F2ABy Bruce Leyland-Jones34<strong>Hellenic</strong>HurricanesHawkerʼs Finest in Greek ServiceBy Kyriakos ʻKirkʼ Paloulian788082BooksShop & Web GuideAnd FinallyCover Artwork by John Foxwww.avroart.com50 Off the Scales! 56 Red Dog’s 62 Firefly ForwardAntonovʼs An-124 RuslanBy Ken DuffeyReplicaA new approach to ModellingBy Colin PickettFairey Firefly walkaround– Yeoviltonʼs TT.4By Gary Hatcher