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Jean-Philippe Desmeth
collector ça !

Franck Drebin
En effet. Il m'en faudra peut-être une deuxième si je veux la monter 😉

Jean-Philippe Desmeth
ah, tu es collectionneur 🙂

Jean-Philippe Desmeth
PS: ton avatar ne ressemble en rien au Lieutenant Drebin de la police de Los Angeles 😉

Franck Drebin
En fait, je suis surtout un maquettiste nostalgique qui prend beaucoup de plaisir à retrouver ces madeleines de Proust après y avoir longtemps résisté. Très bien vu cher Sonny Tuckson 🤠 Mais la photo de John Belushi dans 1941 correspondait mieux au côté aéronautique.

Franck Drebin
Je note que tu es particulièrement sensible au charme puissant des lampes à souder 😉

Jean-Philippe Desmeth
Oui, car c'est dans ce monde que j'ai débuté ma carrière, au milieu des F-16 à Beauvechain 🙂 (si tu as du temps, ou envie, tu peux me retrouver sur FB). Dans quel coin vis-tu ?

Franck Drebin
Je suis dans le Sud de la France. J'ai grandi dans l'axe d'atterrissage de la base D'Istres. J'ai donc essayé de me rapprocher des Mirages que je voyais passer mais je ne suis malheureusement pas allé jusqu'au bout du processus de recrutement pilote. C'est donc sur des hélices civiles qus je me suis rabattu. Les Têtes Brûlées m'ont aussi beaucoup marqué dans mon enfance 🙂
Je ne suis pas sur Facebook, Scalemates est mon seul réseau social avec LinkedIn. Sinon, toujours dans l'aéronautique? Et trouves-tu assez de temps pour le maquettisme?

J35J
Found this gem on the web. Time for another vacu kit!

Torsten
WOW, very exciting and challenging, I'll be watching

Duster_d
Oh, it's super interesting! I'm taking a seat

Skyhiker
Fun...fun.

J35J
Welcome to the project mates!👍🏻

Alex K
... joining the gallery...

Gordon Sørensen
Following!

J35J
Thanks Alex & Gordon for your intrest!

gorby
Looks like an interesting and challenging project.

J35J
Thanks Gorby! This is my second vacu kit build and this time it feels a little bit more straight forward…
My experience so far with vacu kits is that you have to spend a good amount of time on fitting, sanding and putty work to get a nice base for paint and finishing. Also spending quite some time reviewing old photos to get a good picture of the details. This as there is a fair amount of scratch work to get a decent build.

Łukasz Gliński
Brave idea

Robert Podkoński
You're a brave man, indeed! I will follow this thread with pleasure, for sure.

Michael Kohl
Me too

J35J
Thank you everyone for you supporting words! 👍🏻

Mr D
Nice, Nice 👍👍, lalways wanted to see a vacform build, Do you have to make up other parts to add on ??
Thanks for upload 😃👍

J35J
Thanks Mr D for your comments.
There will certainly be scratch build involved, mainly regarding the details as it looks for now. Otherwise I will raid my spare part stash first in order to save time and frustration.
If you are intrested in vac kits you can also have a look at my first vac kit:
McDonnell XP-67 Moonbat | Album by J35J (1:72)

Mr D
Thanks 👍👍 great, will do , l have an intest...as l enjoy making parts, lve had to do it few times, when parts lost or broken or details missed of kit...even canopy once 🤣.
Will check out the XP-67

Mr D

a.aliexpress.com/_EQ0vBTd

J35J
Thanks for the link Mr D!👍🏻

Mr D
Need a good pair of scissors ✂️🤣, do you use the same Poly glue's

Skyhiker
Any behind the scenes progress going on?

J35J
@Mr D - yes you will need some good scissors as a start😅, for the fine tuning of the parts I normally use saw razor blades and sanding paper of variuos grits. Regarding glue I use "normal" Tamyia Extra Thin, the vacu kit plastic is often quite soft and melts easily.

J35J
@Skyhiker - Happy to hear that your following with great intrest. Usually the building pace goes down during the sommer period as I have been reminded that we have a garden that also need some TLC…😂
Nevertheless, yes there is planning and ordning of parts going on behind the scenes. Cockpit need to be done, rescribing the full kit, alignment of wheels as the mold was totally off-set. Drill out all machine guns for after market parts etc.
The main work will be to prepare the plane for NMF look also including some aluminum dope areas. Will try AK's metal paints this time. Stay tuned!

Łukasz Gliński
Luckily the old Russian saying applies to Sweden too - "we have only 10 months of winter, but all the rest is summer!" 😄

J35J
@Łukasz - Spot on! 😅

S M
Following!

J35J
Welcome S M!

Ben M
Tasty

Cuajete
Good job so far 👍

Mr D
Interesting 😃, quite an unusual wing it had.
Nice little project 😁👍