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Doubtingmango
Great cockpit detail!

Mark Sherwood
I agree with Doubtingmango, observing. 🤟🥸🤘

Thomas Bischoff
I'm in 👍

Jakub Fiala Autor
Thank you, mates, and welcome here!
Yes, the level of detail in this kit is really nice.

Juergen Klinglhuber
👀

Sergej I
following

Johannes Schendlinger Autor
Nice to have you here guys! 😊

Music_On
I have the original Two Bobs version in the stash - following with interest!

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Mark Sherwood
I do like the shape of the Buckeye, nice start Johannes.👍

Stefan Fraundorfer
The Buckeye is probably not one of the most elegant aircraft, but I still enjoy watching your build progress. I'm looking forward to the finished model and hope you enjoy it until then Johannes.

Ricardo Reis
Uhuuu! Looking good! I have one of these in my stash, following!

Juergen Klinglhuber
nice progress,....

Gary
nice build does that say "irish men make good pilots always in the air about something " lol

Johannes Schendlinger Autor
Thanks for yopur comments mates!

@Stefan: I agree with you. I think that's why I've always been fascinated by Navy aircraft; they often prioritize function over form. The results aren't exactly beautiful, but they are certainly eye-catching.

@Gary: Yes, exactly. I chuckled when I saw it, too.

Michael Kohl
Maybe not such a nice plane but definitely a very nice build

Guy Rump
Great job, congrats! 👍

Mark Sherwood
Lovely job Johannes. Spot on. 👍🥸🤘

bughunter
Very well done 👍 Nothing to see of those fit issues at the end! The light mirror effect on the glass creates a good photo.

Stefan Fraundorfer
Ein top Ergebnis Johannes. Das fertige Modell würde sich noch ein paar Fotos mehr verdienen.

Karlos221
Congratulations for such a beauty 🙂

Villiers de Vos
Booking my seat.

Chrisswe Autor
Hope I can make it interesting to follow.
The kit doesn't seem very complicated and the Eduard photo etch is mild level. Just the open doors are a new thing for me. They might cause problems when painting and building modules together.

Guy Rump
Following too! 👍

Chrisswe Autor
Progress has been slow but I got some work done last days.

Jörg Schäfer
Come on board too.

Chrisswe Autor
I think this project will pick up pace now when I have finished Schleswig-holstein. This is the first ship I build with waterline option and it was very hard to fix the hull seam. I did several cycles of filling, sanding and priming and still it is very visible.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice progress.

Chrisswe Autor
Thanks Villiers! My daughter asked me today if I had only built two ships and one small plane after working such a long time. She looked incredulous when I told her that was actually the case🙂

CaptGPF
The notorious "pocket battleship" Graf Spee! Taking a seat for this one!

Alec K
Had this in my stash for years, watching with interest 👍

David Taylor
Watching.

Jan Peters
Cool subject, will follow this 👀

Villiers de Vos
Very nice clean lines on the hull. My respect working with the small and delicate photo etch assemblies.

Chrisswe Autor
Thanks Villiers! The PE isn't very complicated on this kit but I do feel I have made improvements since my last ship.

Agnius
Following. Nice progress!

Chrisswe Autor
Thanks Agnius. I'm trying to stay focused on this project and progress has been good lately.
Unfortunately I had an accident today, I dropped the turmmast on the floor and two PE pieces were knocked off. I think it is repairable and could have been much worse.

J35J
Great progress!👍🏻

Ricardo Reis
Nice, following!

Jörg Schäfer
Fantastically painted. 👍

Chrisswe Autor
Thanks J35J, Ricardo and Jörg! I'm happy with the painting, trying to find the right balance between the contrast effects and realism. I know ww2 ships and planes shouldn't look like space marines but I like when shading and highlights make models pop a little.

Rui S
Looking Great 👍

Chrisswe Autor
Thanks Rui! I hope I can surpass my previous work.

Chrisswe Autor
Working on the boats and the result is ok for my Graf Spee. But comparing them with the boats Jörg are doing is like comparing a kids crayon painting with the Mona Lisa😥

Jörg Schäfer
Come on, your boats look very good. And I build on a larger scale, which is easier. 😉

Villiers de Vos
Very good progress. Exceptional detail painting skills.

Chrisswe Autor
Thanks Villiers!
I'm kidding a little Jörg but your boats are the best i have seen. I should compare with myself instead of with you and then I see I'm making improvements.
My boats are a little boring and it has a lot to do with the very limited PE upgrades. I soon want to try to play in the big boys league with much more detailed PE, brass and resin parts🙂

Jörg Schäfer
I'm really looking forward to it and I'm sure you'll master it. 👍

Chrisswe Autor
Thanks Jörg. I'm building one more ship on easy mode and then I will take the leap and try to build a ship with a super detail set from Flyhawk.

Maciej Bellos
Looks very good!

Marius
Very good looking so far!

Christos Gravanis
Phantastic!

Rui S
Excellent work 👍

Jos Jansen
Phabulous...👍!

Stephen Fitzer
Gorgeous project, very detailed. You must be quite proud.

CaptGPF
Phenomenal build! ❤️❤️❤️

Eric Thornton
Awesome 👍

TV_scalemodels Autor
Thanks! I forgot that I haven't put the video link here. But here it is :
Youtube Video

DuperScale
Looking awesome. Great Phantom

Łukasz Gliński
Impressive job 👍

Zbynek Honzik
Very nice result. 👍 Are the engines and flaps & slots from LACI or from scratch?

Michael Kohl
Very nice. I like it with all the flaps exzended

dawei xu Autor
Zbynek Honzik：LACI

Neuling
Clean and careful build

Zbynek Honzik
Thanks dawei xu.

Karlos221
Perfect model. You have really a special set of skills to complete such a beautiful model 🙂

Bill Newcomer Autor
I thought I would share a way I came up with to hold sandpaper. I needed precise control to sanding body putty. Folded over sandpaper was not doing the trick as the edges kept leaving gouges. The smaller the piece of paper the harder it is to hold too. I have watched panel sanding on cars on TV and thought how could I make a 1:25th 'longboard' sander. Here is my solution: 1" squares of sandpaper that are binder-clamped to some lengths of 7/16 styrene I-beam. It is very easy to hold and control. I have set up 4 grades of abrasives for whatever surface finish I need to get to. While it does not replace my jewelers files, I can remove material
with very fine control with no finger fatigue.

Rui
Great idea. Especially being able to hang them with the label visible to be able quickly grab what you need. On more than one occasion I have grabbed the wrong grit. 🙁

Bill Newcomer Autor
Rui, At first I just had the red 600 and really coarse and superfine in black, It was really easy to tell by the feel. I recently added a third grit in black so it was best to label them.

Jv
Yep thanks for sharing

Liane Lonesome
Sometimes it's the simple things which makes life easier! Great idea! ♥

Bill Newcomer Autor
I saw this video on YouTube for mixing paint. I too had an old jigsaw and a Harbor Freight mini clamp. A little metal trimming and I mixed my entire inventory in less than an hour.

Youtube Video

Spanjaard
Insanely simple! I love it

Treehugger
Hmmm. Bottle might come loose for some reason and suddenly the room is painted silver here and there I think.

Spanjaard
Yiu can do it inside of a box, so it will not go far

Dave
Great idea. And if paint spills, oh well!

Bill Newcomer Autor
I have not had any paint spills. You do have to keep an eye on the shaking bottle. Sometimes it drifts out of the clamp and falls.

Rui S
Excellent idea 👍 I've to buy a good clamp. Thx for sharing oh oh my old Humbrol enamels 😄

Bill Newcomer Autor
Harbor Freight sells them pretty cheap. The tricky part is you need an old school jigsaw that uses screws to hold the blade. Most all of the newer ones have a tool-less method of holding the blades.

Rui S
Yap, i I thought so becouse mine is like that, But I'm planing a diferent method.

Ludvík Kružík
Simple and functional! 👍

For example, a kitchen electric knife can be used with the same success. It works on the same principle as an electric jig saw.

Kitchen electric knives have a simple tool-free blade attachment, to attach the plastic clamp, simply copy the shape of the blade end (which is used to connect to the electric knife drive) to the end of the clamp. The modified end of the clamp is then inserted into one of the holes (it doesn't matter if left or right) for the blade and the shaker is ready for use 🙂

Martin Oostrom
Don't add mixing balls to your glass jars with this mixer! 😉

Spanjaard
probably not a good idea! 😄 😄

Rui S
@ Ludvík Kružík. Nice alternative, tThx 👍

Liane Lonesome
HA, what a great idea! ^_~

Łukasz Gliński Autor
While being on holidays last week I came across this kit in the local hobby store.
I was very happy to get it, but disappointment appeared when I looked at it more closely back home - Hasegawa kit with raised panel lines! 😮
So, I decided to give it a quick go, no rescribing included.

Robert Podkoński
Taking a (back) seat! 😉

Lost_Erik
Agreed; Have fun with it regardless of panel lines!

Cuajete
Hi Łukasz! I had this kit, but I changed it when the Platz one came out. I'm sure this Hasegawa one will have a magnificent finish in your hands.
Nice cockpit 👍

Łukasz Gliński Autor
Thx, I believe Platz is way better, but after bringing it 9000kms back home, I decided to stop hunting for Platz, it's a very rare sight!

Michael Kohl
I'm in.

Finn
As I

Łukasz Gliński Autor
Welcome mates!
Of course I wouldn't be myself if I haven't started adding some handmade details.
I try to restrict it to cockpit only so far 😄
I plan to start priming next.

Cuajete
Those details look good, Łukasz 👍
Now it looks like a Fuji T-1.

Thomas Kolb
Wow, a model of an aircraft I haven't heard of! Will it be red and white like the photo?

Łukasz Gliński Autor
So it would seem 😉

Djordje Nikolic
Love it and that camo will be interesting. Every time when I hear Fuji I think film cameras hah

Adam Gudynowski
Following

Thomas Kolb
Cool! Glossy red-and-white is my nemesis, so I will take notes.

Nicolas
I'm watching as well.

Łukasz Gliński Autor
Welcome to my little white and red project.
Tomorrow I'm off for Bytom Scale Modelling Festival, but I hope to spray something on Sunday.

Juergen Klinglhuber
checking this one out,...interesting

Łukasz Gliński Autor
Herzlich wilkommen JK 👍
I managed to spray some pink this evening, enjoy 🙂

Łukasz Gliński Autor
The plan was to highlight the raised panel lines with a pencil and wash the recessed ones with dark gray marker and then to cover everything in white until they're slightly visible.
I have the feeling my cunning plan worked so far.

Cuajete
I also think it works... Or so it seems to me 👍

Thomas Kolb
Clever trick with the pencil, I have a set of AK acrylic pencils, and I will definitely try them.

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Łukasz Gliński Autor
Started decalling and well the decals' fit is poor if not worse- see the pics.
Luckily Signal Red marker by AK is almost the same shade of red. And the orange will be corrected using AK orange marker too.

Lost_Erik
👍

Skyhiker
Sweet

Thomas Kolb
This is coming along quite nicely! Great save on the decal misalignment issue with the AK paints.

Cuajete
I agree with Thomas 👍

Lost_Erik
Looking good!

Adam Gudynowski
Nice!

Łukasz Gliński Autor
Completed. Not very happy with the raised panel lines and the thick decals, but here it is.
Will add some daylight pics tomorrow.

Robert Podkoński
Congrats, Łukasz! Looks really good.

Thomas Kolb
I think it turned out really attractive, but it certainly made you struggle a bit.

Hans-Jürgen Haag
Super Detail work!👍😍

Robert Podkoński
Indeed!

Spanjaard
nice details

Maciej Bellos
Top work!

Sergej I
Great details! 👍

István Szücs
Nice details!

Rui S
Beautiful work 👍 photo 15 could be the teaser in my opinion 🤔

Liane Lonesome
♥ Great work! Very loving! ♥
I was at the Intermodellbau Dortmund 2025 and got a MiniArt catalog there. I also found this Lathe Machine in it and thought to myself at first, "uh huh, well, not so interesting for me."
Now I see these pictures and want the kit immediately! ^_~

István Szücs
Interesting build, I'm watching!

István Szücs
If I'm right, you need to detail the stripes on the running boards. I may use BMF...

Liane Lonesome
Great built so far! Lovely! ♥
For silver detailing you mentioned try to use a wooden or PLA stick (or similar which fits to your benefits) and brush it slightly with your paint of desire, then roll it over the parts you want. Alternative to paint is a Sharpie/Edding/Molotow chrome pen: You can paint the stick and then roll it over the details as often you need to. Sometimes I do this because I have no Bare Metal Foil. Hope it helps! ♥

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Bill Newcomer
Very nice job. Good color combo. I built this one as a kid.

My brother and I played one on one demolition derbys with many/most of our models. We had a long hallway with oak floors. We would slide and smash them into each other from our end of the hallway. Whos ever engine fell out was the loser and the winner would get to keep the other ones smashed up model. My 56 was glued together with no paint. I won like 6 of his models before he finally won it by using rubber bands to hold his engine in. Technically it could have been considered cheating but we did not agree in advance that it WAS cheating.

George Williams
Sounds like a good game to me.

István Szücs
Simple and beautiful, great job!

Rui S
Looking Great 👍

George Williams
Fantastic model of a fantastic car.

Guy Rump
Following. 👍

CaptGPF
Wow! I can't believe I didn't see this! I love the dramatic, yet subtle mods! ❤️❤️❤️

Mark K
Great work!

Neuling
I agree.

Cristian A
wonderful!

Robert Podkoński
Great idea and fantastic execution! Chapeau bas!

Michael Kohl
I am in.

Matteo Pescarin
looks interesting already! nice challenge

Rui S
I'm in 😎

Yngve N
I'm here too. "It is expected to be a pure assembly with little modification" 🤔 whatever it means when you're building 😉

Martin Oostrom
Sure, oob. That would be ams for me.

Matteo Pescarin
oh that's really cool work you did with the aluminum rod, what did you use as a chisel?

MS K Autor
@Matteo - What you see in the photo is a lathe blade.
At first I used a lathe blade, but I don't know if it's because the aluminum is so soft, but it doesn't cut sharp 🙁
So, unlike in the photo, I carved with a diamond file, cut with an art knife, and polished with sandpaper.
I would like to recommend Oilstone.

Christian W
You are crazy 😉

Sy Bar
Enjoying so far, not sue3 I'm organised enough to do 3 at once I'd cross contaminate them 🤪

🍿 ready for more action

István Szücs
Really nice work!

Robert Podkoński
Fantastic!

Michael Kohl
I like it too

Rui S
Beautiful 👍

Rich Deacon Autor
Thanks everyone, it's a great kit to build.

gorby
Fantastic work!

Michael Kohl
Which kit is it?

Rich Deacon Autor
It's the Emhar 1/24 Bedford Tanker.
Bedford 'OLB' (EMHAR EM2403, 1:24)

gorby
Looks like it was an excellent show, thanks for the photos.

Spanjaard
impressive show, and I am sure this is just the tip of a fantastic iceberg

Hans-Jürgen Haag
Excellent ! Thanks for Sharing!👍

René (Lord Bilbo) Bartholemy
The "Love forever" (pic 92) is the most romantic thing I ever saw in this hobby! Sniffle...

Bozo
Yes impressive work.
Some subjects are even borderline in a model. I mean the statue of liberty making an ugly gesture and others…

Rui S
Beautiful models 👍 Thx for sharing.

Spanjaard
great exhibition, thanks for sharing!

DerMattes
Looking forward to the Eurofighter build with the new decals 👍

★ Starfish ★ Autor
@DerMattes I've been working on them since I returned from the show. It's a challenge to say the least... 😅

S M
Thanks for sharing! I spotted one MikroMir's Draken. Great to see ones built.

J35J
Thanks for sharing, great exhibition! Is the ME 323 in 1/72? it is a quite big build😅

★ Starfish ★ Autor
@J35J the 323 is 1/32! It absolutely stole the show!

Neuling
Thanks for sharing! Very interesting: the diorama showing the assassination of Heydrich. Living history.

Rui S
Excellent work 👍 As always.

Dave
Nice paint work, great effects.

subotai
Before someone else will say it: looks like 1:35 😄

Spanjaard
i wish my 1/35 models would look half as good as your 1/72, amazing!

Jeremias H
Amazing detailing! Colours on the three-tone camo blend nicely together.

Mark K
Very nice!

Neuling
I agree with everyone above!

Mark K
Great work - love the camouflage pattern!

Neuling
So do I. Not to forget the convincing weathering on the underside of the aircraft.

Clement
Great save and lovely end result. Well done.

Thomas Bischoff
excellent work!

Robert Podkoński
Terrific!

Spanjaard
she looks amazing in NMF and yellow!

Michael Kohl
Indeed

Mark K
Spectacular!

Andreas Apostolopoulos Autor
Thank you friends, its amazing how easy someone can build a model if it isn't oriented for contests 🙂

Martin Weinpold
Fantastic!

Neuling
A masterpiece.

Rui S
An eye catcher, indeed 👍

Neil
Agreed!

Hans-Jürgen Haag
An excellent silver cata👍🥰

Zbynek Honzik
Wow! Masterpiece! 👏👏👏

Villiers de Vos
A nice clean build.

Neuling
Yes!

Rui S
A Beauty 👍

Mike Thomas
Very nice!

Ben M
Really cool!

Neuling
Looks swell. Good choice of color!

Mr James
Well done Pawel. Nice build

Rui S
I agree 👍

brad.G1965x
You shouldn't have the vision port blocked.

Mark K
Very well done!

Neuling
Very good work on this Tamiya oldie! Skill makes good models!

Ignacio von Braun
@brad.G1965x why?

Michael Hatch
Excellent paint job. Thanks for posting.

Robert Podkoński
Fantastic!

brad.G1965x
Ignacio von Braun, because it's difficult to drive a tank if you can't see. I guess you could go into battle with your head hanging out of an open hatch, but that makes no sense. The extra plates were on either side of the vision port.

Ignacio von Braun
Brad I am pretty sure you can not drive a scale model. Also Tamiya gives the option in the instructions to cover it an looks cool like that.

Neuling
Congrats for #7 !

Djordje Nikolic Autor
Thank you! 🙂 off to #8

Rui S
Great Vignette 👍

Djordje Nikolic Autor
Thanm you Rui!

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Mike Thomas
Wow. Is that ever....green! I like it!

Bill Newcomer
I need sunglasses to view that one!