Noticias

Stefan Fraundorfer
Here are the first photos of my new project: I upgraded the cockpit with PE parts from Eduard. The nozzles and air intakes come from ResKit and are miles better than the kit parts.

Michael Kohl
Nice

Petr Kokeš
Looks great so far

Juergen Klinglhuber
Wonderful. Looking good!

CaptGPF
If the rest of the bird looks like the cockpit, this will be a real stunner!

Stefan Fraundorfer
Thank you gentlemen for the motivating words. Here are a few pictures of the current condition of the Rafale. While the aircraft itself is still in a completely innocent white, the additional tanks look a little more interesting. I didn't do any preshading because I think it would look a bit excessive on a completely repainted aircraft. But a panelline wash is a must. I've already done this for the additional tank in the foreground, all that's missing is a semi-matt clear coat.

Alex K
I'm in - of course...

Michael Kohl
I only and sincerely hope that you quadruple checked your references that the original plane didn't have an "Airfix" molded on the cockpit side walls - lest you have to scratch new ones. 😉

Łukasz Gliński
My heart broke when I had to do it 😁

Nicolas
I'm in. Got the Airfix kit and the Pavla detail set in my stash, but I'm thinking about replacing it with the AVI kit. I think your report will be a big help there.

Cuajete
Great! The Bird Dog Society has begun. I have felt a great disturbance in the Force, but I remembered that Łukasz is a great tamer of hard plastics 😉

It looks like those photo-etches are doing a good job 👌

Alex K
So... if the AVI kit is destined for the representation of Major Buang-Ly's plane... I'm also eager to see what the Airfix kit will be...

Łukasz Gliński
You're absolutely right Alex - AVI's going to be Major's BirdDog and Airfix is destined to be boxart DJ-coded one.
I was thinking of Maltese markings for it, but there are none available.
Cuajete, the PE are quite good, but the Airwaves set has quite unclear hand-drawn instructions, which is challenging sometimes.
Nicolas, wish I could fetch the Pavla tail set, I need to try restoring the raised lines after having to remove the injection marks.

Nicolas
I'd wish there would be a conversion kit to a Siai SM 1019. But I think I have to scratchbuild the different cowling, propeller and tailsection.

S M
I'm in!

S M
I'm interested to see how oil pastels work

Zbynek Honzik
Good luck with Broplan! I keep my fingers crossed, I'll watch. Let there be enough motivation to complete this monster!

Łukasz Gliński
I'm in, being Broplan fan too 👍 Would love to buy Eurolot's 42-200 variant.
The cockpit looks great 👍

Paul
Following. Never built a Broplan kit (or any other vacform for that matter), but they have some unique subjects. I suppose the entire interior is scratchbuild? Pretty impressive!

Gordon Sørensen
Thats a lot of seats... but aren't they suppose to be Blue? Getting the decals from Arctic?

Oleg Bogolei
Interesting project. Following.

Chris Parsons
These images are 3-4 weeks old sorry. The model is basically completed (very close) today. I'll keep updating the pics here until they're up to date

Łukasz Gliński
Lovely progress, what livery?

Chris Parsons
Summit

Alex K
Great job! 👍

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
Good work , congrats

Paul
great result!

Juergen Klinglhuber
Great !! Love it.

Mirko Römer
Incredible effort - paying off. What a stunner!

Chris Parsons
Thank you very much guys!!

Łukasz Gliński
Missed the finish somehow, fantastic 👍

Zbynek Honzik
Now that's a heroic act indeed! Considering the quality of the kit, this is an absolutely amazing result! I completely missed finishing it, but luckily I just happened to come across this project.
Bravo Chris! You have my deepest respect! 👏👏👏

DuperScale
The result is awesome, Hope mine will be nearly as good

Neuling
Clean work!

Michael Kohl
Impressive result.

Transall NG
Huge work !!!!
I really love that !
Thanks !

S M
Bravo! Well done finishing a vacuformed kit!