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Nicolas
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Живко Джаков
I am here too!

Ferenc Sarka
Welcome onboard Mates!

DerMattes
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Patrick Hagelstein
I'm in as well!

Guy Rump
Me too! 👍

CaptGPF
Taking a seat - how's the kit so far with regards to fit, finish and details?

Nagy-Meszler Csaba
I follow with interest 🤩

Ferenc Sarka
Thank for the likes. CaptGPF, the kit is beautiful, nice thin crispy.lines, and rivets. One of the best kit, i have ever seen.

Mr D
What do you think of the Academy kit so far??? would you recommend them

Ferenc Sarka
Mr D. Yes i recomend it, defintly. Most of the places, the fit is perfect. A small misalignments are there at the jet intakes and at the nosecone. The without glue technic is interesting. Sometimes give you a little headache, because after paint the elements don't want to go together. You have to remove the paint from the alignment pins. The panel lines are nice and crispy. I used glue everywhere to be sure. Summary:excelent kit.

Mr D
This Revell/ Zvezda yak-3 I'm doing is alot of click together parts, l run a bit of extra thin in after too.
The reason l ask is they sell Academy's kits reasonable price on AliExpress n was tempted.
Good stuff thanks 👍

Ferenc Sarka
Ready.

Guy Rump
Very impressive result, congrats! 👍

Gerald
Hello Welcome here 😉

Dimitris Z
Thx.Nice to meet you

Guy Rump
Following. 👍

John Mulhall
Very nice work!

Dom SAVE
Thanks gentlemen, I try to go slowly in order to be more clean

gorby
Excellent work so far!

John
Looking really good. I can tell its going to be a lot better than mine, which is turning into a slog, so I'm not giving it 100%.

Dom SAVE
@John, Thank you very much, I still have plenty of time to mess things up! 🙂 I looked at yours and you came out superbly, maybe it's worth putting it aside while waiting for the taste to come back? I have a bit of the same feeling at the end of assembly. The 2006 kit was not easy to line up.

John
Dom, thanks. However, I am so far in that I am determined to finish it. I have a bad habit of never coming back to a "paused" build, so onward it is!

Dom SAVE
@John so I'll continue to check for updates 🙂

Pietro De Angelis
Beautiful work, congrats!

Dom SAVE
Thanks a lot @Pietro De Angelis

Shar Dipree
Very nice! 👍👍👍

Dom SAVE
Thanks @Shar Dipree

John
Great result Dom! 👍 I love the scheme and the presentation/dio as well.

Eelco Gregoire
A beauty!

Guy Rump
Great job, congrats! 👍

bossy122
Yeah, this probably isn't the kit you want to start your F1 collection with, it's really bad. I don't know if you've gotten to the gearbox or worse still; the exhausts, but none of it lines up properly. Those early Tamiya kits were BAD compared to the later kits. From about the BT 46 going on is when the quality improved. M23, JS11, Lotus 78, 312T, Wolf and this P34 were all more glorified toys than models.

Jakko ‌
TBH, the only reason I bought it is because I've always liked the oddball appearance of the P.34. Luckily, I'm not planning on starting an F1 model collection at all, so not a problem there at least 🙂 I very quickly noticed the kit is showing its age, and it seems to have also been available in a motorised version (see the battery compartment in the floor plate) so I guess that also contributes to it being less than stellar …

As for the gearbox, I did get to that already, but it's still loose from the engine — that's why I need the glue clamp to hold things in position to fit the exhausts. Those are easily the worst part of the kit I've encountered so far. Fiddly to clean up because of the bends and the stupid metallic-coloured plastic, they're hard to fit even with the rear exhaust pipes temporarily in place, and the fourth pipe pushes everything out of line even when the glue has dried on the other three …

bossy122
Fujimis P34/2 is a good build.

Jakko ‌
If I had known that a year and a half ago (and seen it at the model show I bought this kit at on a whim 🙂 ) I would have gone for that one … as it is, this one is going to get finished! 🙂

bossy122
Ooh. Just realizing this is the Japanese GP. That PE rear wing support wasn't fun for me but maybe your armour building skills will help with that. I got one picture of my completed project, went to move it and the whole thing crumnled on me. I had to go back and change to the #4 Depallier car. Be sure to watch the markings in the instructions as I believe each car had different Japanese text on it.

Jakko ‌
There's a sizeable sheet of etched parts, but they're all pretty large compared to what you get in typical aftermarket AFV sets, so it didn't phase me, no 🙂 I've put together the vertical sides by now, which was slightly tricky but not too bad. The exhaust pipes were worse, but I haven't got to the "cage" that holds up the rear wing yet, that might change my mind 😉 Still, being a Serious Armour Modeller™, I own a folding tool, which will probably make it easier to put those parts together.

The Japanese text in the markings is transliterations of the various names from Latin letters to their corresponding katakana, so yes, I do need to be careful to put the right ones on 🙂

Martin Oostrom
Keep it up Jakko! You're doing fine for an AFV guy 😁

Jakko ‌
Thanks 🙂 Still, the further I get with this kit, the more I agree with @bossy122 that this was probably not the best kit to pick for my first F1 car in 35+ years, and the second ever in my life (I built the Surtees TS 16/03 (Matchbox PK-305, 1:32) when I was young, that's it 🙂)

bossy122
Don't feel bad, i've been building F1s for 20 some odd years - including 2 Tamiya P34s - and had my ass handed to me TWICE last year trying to complete ONE P34.
When I saw your completed rear wing PE thing, I recalled that a big problem I had was getting that contraption mounted to the gearbox/rear end/ what have you.

Jakko ‌
Oh, I don't feel bad about it — though I kind of wish this one was done already so I can start on that Sherman BARV I've been wanting to build 😉

As for the rear wing, I test-fitted it when the glue on it was dry and it seemed to go on easily enough. However, I'm hazy at the moment on how it's supposed to STAY on …

bossy122
Yeah, that was the problem. Like I mentioned before; I went to move mine and it all crumbled.

Jakko ‌
I guess I'll take that hurdle when I get to it 😉 For now I'm making good progress, having just painted the body etc. blue so the end is starting to get into view …

bossy122
Onwards and upwards!

Laurent VILLANUEVA "HELLER-forever"
super !

Jakko ‌
Thanks, but you clearly haven't seen it up close 😉

Jason Marson
They can still be moved but just not in unison.

matsal _
You have 3 options.
- Movable wings : Default
- Closed wings : C30 and C31 parts
- Fully extended wings : C29 and C32 parts
When the wings are in asymmetrical wing sweep, the F-14 can fly and land.