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Villiers de Vos
Interesting subject. Nice work on the interior.

Nicolas
Oh, a kit from my favorite area of interest. I'm in. Great start with the instrument panel.

Michael Kohl
Like the plane and the livery you are going for.
My two cents on one or two aspects: I found the brass undercarrige and the cockpit section you listed as aftermarket pretty useless. The undercarriage doesn´t solve the problem to ease the alignment of the landing gear and the cockpit section doesn´t provide any better detail than the kit parts. I set both aside and rescribed the soft outlines of the cockpit doors. Pouring transparent resin into the cabin windows gave a nice flush appearance. You may consider that.
Good luck with your build. I will follow with keen interest.

Stephan Fässler
Thanks Michael and Nicolas. As my second kit to build, I thought I spice it up a bit with some aftermarket stuff, indeed, the new cabin with the new windows gave me some head scratching as to how install it, then figured it eventually out. My alignment looks a bit messy and I hope u can make it look aligned with putty etc… so far my opinion as an inexperienced builder is that you could safely leave it stock, as is….
I did not come yet to the brass parts and hope it will be better with these parts. Let's see 🙂

Thomas Kolb
I am happy to take a seat! I personally find red liveries extremely difficult to pull off, so I am watching with great interest!

Łukasz Gliński
Following this challenge.
The Aerocraft cockpit will require a lot of sanding, but the original windshield is definitely too narrow - been there, done that 🙂

Zbynek Honzik
Taking a seat. And fingers crossed that the strength and motivation will last until successful completion!

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

J35J
Great work so far! Looking forward to see the final result.

Stephan Fässler
Calling it complete for now.
Overall I enjoyed this kit, tricky to paint the red stripes and the nose was not properly done.
As a beginner I probably would not recommend the cockpit mod unless you have the proper tools, which I was missing sometimes 🙂
This was brush painted and spray can paint from revell I purchased with the kit to get started, meanwhile upgraded my collection with Mr Hobby and MRP. Revell is just awful for airbrush and mediocre for brush painting, but then again, I am no expert.
Unfortunately the „twotter" has some slight tilt, one of many mistakes happened during the build, but I'm happy I did not have to bin the whole thing 🙂
Cheers and onwards to the next one. You may deboard now…

Martin Oostrom
Making mistakes and learning from them is a big part of this hobby. It helps that there are a lot of folk here, who already did the mistake part, so you can do the learning. You're well underway in that department.
Well done for a 2nd kit Stephan.

Łukasz Gliński
Exactly, good job for a 2nd kit and agree with your conclusions - bin the Revell paints 🙂

Mid Franconian
Great BMF Zipper 👍🏻‼️

Mr D
Nice 👍👍 Very nice, my Favourite airframe shape.
Brilliant work... really like it 👌

Maciej
@Mid Franconian: thanks!

Michael Rieß
Very nice set!

Skyhiker
Oh, this looks like fun!

Chris Parsons
Oh ya!
Built a couple of Broplan vac kits, a real challenge but great for the feeling of overcoming a challenge and creative accomplishment

Thomas Kolb
OMG, what a challenge! 🙂 Those panel lines look quite uneven, will you try to rescribe them or just take them for what they are? In any way, I am super curious how these sheets of plastic can be turned into a model, so I will watch with interest!

DuperScale
Welcome mates, the panellines are aweful but the material is so thin, i'm scarred that i cut right trough it when i try to rescribe them.

Łukasz Gliński
Another BroPlan fan, welcome to the club 😄

Nicolas
Following. Got my first vacu kit this weekend. I hope I can learn something here.

Robert Podkoński
Ambitious project! Watching.

Chris Parsons
Hi DuperScale, I built a couple of Broplan vac ATR kits, converting one 72 500 to a 42 300. A few pics of the work in my "albums" if you're interested in the kind of model you can achieve from a Broplan kit with a bit of work…sweat and tears, foul language, alcohol and time….

Cristian A
Following along.

Mike Fuller
Hi Heiko,

At the moment I don't have a solution to be honest. The items I had on Shapeways were things that I didn't want to be bothered with printing at home, that's how I decided what went on Shapeways and what I printed and sold on eBay. Furthermore, I had just over 100 items listed on Shapeways and I'm not really interested in keeping inventory on those 100 items, plus the nearly 40 I already sell on eBay. One potential option is Cults. If you're unfamiliar, it's a marketplace where people sell .stl files that they then print on their own. But it's fraught with issues as there's nothing keeping someone from giving your file away once they've purchased it from you. And of course the obvious; you need to have a printer yourself, or know someone who does. So while I have opened a Cults store, at the moment I haven't really done much with it:

cults3d.com/en/users..odelCorner/3d-models

That being said, I will be taking some of the Shapeways items and selling them on eBay. At the moment I'm looking at the DDS (Dry Deck Shelter), SDV (SEAL Delivery Vehicle), and GUPPY sails, plus also probably the P-61 radar set. For now.

Hipsta
Lovely work, painting and weathering is excellent!!😊

gorby
Fantastic! You could easily mistake some of those B&W photos for period photos of the real thing.

Spanjaard
picture 3 is simply perfect

Dieter Bihlmaier
Thank you Hipsta gorby and Spanjaard !

Dave Pluth
The b&w photo is really killer. Makes it feel period!