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4 Air racers in progress

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These are all 1/72 scale kits from some to numerous years ago. Clockwise, from the white a single:

Academy 1/72 Grumman F6F-three Hellcat. Nicest kit of the lot, and newest. Plausible cockpit detail, great shapes, choices for -3 and -5. Brushpainted with Polly Scale Railroad Refer White waterbased paint.

Hasegawa 1/72 Nakajima Ki-44 Shoki (TOJO), &quotCalico Cat&quot colors, right after my old pal, Moustache. No actual cockpit detail, two various canopies, no gear effectively boxing or detail, but you do get bellows over the oleo struts on the primary gear. I locate black, white and gold make the most striking calico pattern- I know genuine cats aren’t metallic gold, but none of the orange/gold/golden-rod or other ‘real’ strawberry blonde colors I’ve tried looked remotely good, whilst gold looks wonderful.

Hasegawa 1/72 Mitsubishi J2M3 Raiden (JACK), &quotAdvantest&quot corporate colors- wine-red and a cool grey. All their equipment is painted these colors, and the firm newsletter is known as &quotWine Red&quot. I believe the gray was my version of &quotBAC 707 Gray&quot, the standard Boeing, Douglas, and so on, gray painted on factors (composites) that are intended to blend with bare aluminum. I use one particular of the FS 595 grays, diluted with white, three to four. The red is Polly Scale Fantasy Gaming colors, &quotDark Red&quot. The Raiden’s cockpit was less crowded than most Japanase fighters, it appears quite empty by means of the huge canopy. The kit comes with a huge clear part for the bullet-proof glass inside the canopyBoth the Raiden and the Shoki appeal to me because they appear like they had been created as racers in the 1st location- tiny all round, large engines, light airframes, extremely tapered, cockpits nicely aft so the fuel can go proper in the middle. The Hayate is less radical and a lot more mainstream-hunting. The tail surface on the Shoki are tiny!

Hasegawa 1/72 Nakajima KI 84 Hayate (FRANK). Paint is Tamiya vibrant blue, glossy, brushed, three coats over Polly Scale white as a primer over the kit’s dark green plastic. Cockpit detail is pretty sparse, seat, stick, instrumet decal, but the exterior seems about correct. No wheel properly specifics. I do not recall any boxing in.

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Mitton & Mitton rubber stamp mirror flip vertical, so we can read it.

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The rubber stamp was from his accounting enterprise which H.A.Mitton had from the ’20s.

We have had this for years, so possibly it is time to clear out yet another cupboard…

Harold had two organizations.. &quotStyle Clothes Organization&quot and &quotAqua proofing&quot.

As with plumbers and mechanics, his youngsters never got new raincoats, he repaired the old ones with his personal seam sealing machines.

Ahead of, in the course of and after the War, he created uniforms for the armed forces, the police, nurses and schools… Till he sold the factory in 1960.

He had the first heat seam welding machines for plastic raincoats. Instead of needles, they had hot wheels.

He imported a couple of of them from Germany.

At the starting of the war, Harold handed control of the factory to his company companion, who had a household not in a position to go to war, and he went off to Tobruk.

We still have many off cuts from material from dressing gowns he created, along with Duffle coats and so on. He produced me a dressing gown which I had for years.