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Eddie Mann
These are only in Diecastmates.

Eddie Mann
25083 is a metal kit, not a completed diecast.

Petr Kokeš
That totally makes sense. However, I still think some Bburago items match the diecast much more and do not look like a kit.

Eddie Mann
There was one completed model, I've moved it.

Łukasz Gliński
I have to watch this

Michael Kohl
Lukasz, of course you have to watch this.😉
Feel warmly welcomed.

Maciej Bellos
I have to watch also! Could you show us a photo of the decals? When were the decals produced?

Robert Podkoński
Joining the party, of course! 😉

Michael Kohl
My friends. I am really happy to have you around as I was sincerely hoping that this build will arouse the interest of the three of you.
Maciej, are you referring to the kits decals or the ones from RSmodelle. Concering the latter, I cannot tell you, as I have not received them yet.

Maciej Bellos
I have the kit, courtesy of Robert.

I was referring to the BSModele decals, as masking the scheme was really challenging and, ehm, painful!

Michael Kohl
Here us the link to the decals at their homepage:

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Looking at them, I am afraid some decent masking is still ahead of me.

Maciej Bellos
Thank you Michael! It looks that masking is needed indeed...

Bernd Grün
Nice start, Michael. Following!

Robert Podkoński
Good job so far, Michael! (you can find some walkaround photos in my albums, if you wish to 😉 )

Guy Rump
Looking good. 👍

Michael Kohl
Wellcome Bernd and Guy.
Robert, thank you for the invitation. I already helped myself. 🙂
And thanks folks for your likes. Motivates even further.

Michael Kohl
Today the decals arrived from Ukraine.

Łukasz Gliński
Progressing very well. I hope the pilots don't mind being polished 😛

Michael Kohl
🙂 they didn't complain. That was enough confirmation for me. 😉

Michael Kohl
Thanks mates for your interest and the likes. Hopefully I will be able to progress this build soon.

Isaac Kite
Taking a seat. The Iskra is a sexy plane, no idea why the Delfin won that contract. Let me guess. Political elimination? Regardless, looking forward to watching this develop.

Michael Kohl
Funny. Just the evening before your comment, Isaac, I dusted them planes and finished the cockpits. Let's move on.

Isaac Kite
*thumbs up*

Michael Kohl
Took them out of the shelf another time. Quite a bit of sanding had to be done. Particular the inner rear area of the wing where the box of the intakes tapers towards the trailing edge of the wing is much to thick in the kit. A bit of elbow grease was required there.
A fresh comparison with a machine in flight revealed some more issues I adressed. So, some more filling and sanding. Now I gotta wait till my trusted Mr. Hobby primer sets properly.

DerMattes
Looks great so far 👍

Raphael Bernecole
Very Nice : following ! 😉

Łukasz Gliński
Good to see you back with this duo

Michael Kohl
Welcome (back) mates.

Mr D
Cockpit's are really good 👌👍👍

Alec K
Taking a very, very belated seat. Great project, had a few chuckles reading your captions 😄

Mr D
At least all the preflight checks will be done with German pilots 🤣 just keep them away from Starfighter be ok 😁.
Looking good nice fun project... Cockpit is great,
I use "Nail liner brushes" for cockpit n detail work... there used in beauty parlours for Painting pictures on nails.... There quite cheap and much more accurate than most fine paint brushes out there. 6 or 7mm best.
Good luck with next steps 😃👍

Michael Kohl
Hi Mr D and Alec K. Welcome.
@Alec: I deliberately take loooong brakes with this project so thay even the slowest out there can catch up 😉
@Mr D: I will look out for them nail liner brusher and see if they might serve my needs. I have tons of brushes but 90% of my hand painting is done with Winsor & Newton No. 7 Size 2. Hurts when you buy them, but they are of an incredible quality.

Jan Peters
Following this 👀

John
Interesting subject! I had thought the kikka was almost a direct copy of the Me-262, kind of like the shusui/Me-163 but I see that's not the case. How is the kit? Looks good on the sprues at least.

Sebastian Meyner
Following as well 👀

Klaas van der Wielen
It's a beautifully molded kit. Very fine detail. Fit is okay, except for the wings to fuselage, but nothing too concerning. There are a couple of sink marks though, which forces me to look foor other main wheels. The Kikka used Zero wheels so that's an easy fix. All in all I like the kit a lot, it looks delicate and to scale, unlike Airfix for example. I already built their A7M1 Reppu, so with the Kikka as a subject I didn't think too long when I came across this one.

Guy Rump
Following. 👍

gorby
Nice work.

Guy Rump
Great job, congrats! 👍

Klaas van der Wielen
Thanks, mates!

Nathan Dempsey
Nicely done! I found this to be an enjoyable kit when I built mine.

Ian Doody
. SDR Piloten Christof Motti, painted him up, and slapped him in, basically just the stock pilot, with the Super Jerry blind cockpit gear, added cables, may have to sand his butt down, as you can't see much of the poor swine, when he's sealed in his walking coffin. That'll do for today.

Nathan Dempsey
Your pilot is looking great. Following 👀

Pepe
Looking

Rui S
Interesting 👍

Doubtingmango
Watching

Robert Podkoński
Taking a first-row seat, of course!

gorby
Welcome to the (occasionally fictional) Show Robert. 🙂

Robert Podkoński
se non è vero, è molto ben trovato 😉

Neil
Make me an early attende along with Robert also mate! 👍 🙂

gorby
Muchas grassy arse Robert (see! I speak foreign perfectly. 🙂 )
Welcome Neil!

Robert Podkoński
LM(grassy)AO! 😄 😄 😄

Landlubber Mike
Great details gorby! Nicely done!

David Taylor
You like most of us waste our lives fiddling away on our own little projects only you do it better than most.I try and resist building OOB to make it more challenging and interesting,sometimes OOB.LOL

Bohrmann
👀 aking a seat

Spanjaard
not to be missed, no doubt 🙂

Rui S
What a beautiful scratch you're doing in such a small kit. This is Unbelievable 😮 at least for a person with tired eyes like me. Do you use a microscope? 😄

gorby
Rui, these days I can barely find my work bench without my optivisor. 😄 😄
David, I do it because I like the challenge as well...and I can't write symphonies. Scratch-building in 1/72 also gives me a chance to practice swearing. I'm getting quite good at it now. 😳

Thanks all for tagging along. 🙂

Pepe
😳😳😳

Kesa Tiho
Glad to see your working on another project. Intrested to see how this will come along, or what it even is.. anyways following with interest 👍

gorby
Thanks Kesa, welcome to the show. 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
Good to see you back with another lorry contraption 👍

gorby
Thanks Lukasz. 🙂
The original intention was to do a quick out of the box build...then I saw what was missing and I've sort of got carried away. 🙂

Mr D
Nice model, l remember seeing a video on simulator truck...used to deliver coal.
Nice 👍👍

gorby
Thanks Mr D. 🙂

Alec K
Another scratch project? I am of course in 👍. A wee bit of a depressing preamble (lots of which I identify with), hope you are ok mate 👍.
Excellent progress btw.

Mr D
Nice to see scratch build 😃👍
Always inspires and helps to learn new skills.
Looking great so far... Good work 😁👍

Ben M
Interesting vehicle and I appreciate reworking a kit like this.

gorby
Sorry Alex, I thought I'd attached the (very basic) kit to the project, and I'm fine - thanks mate.
Thanks all, I'm enjoying adding a few bits to this thing and glad you like it. 🙂

David Goodchild
I feel like I'm a bit late to this party, but this is really fantastic; not just the effort you're putting into it gorby, but the history, the humour and the imagination and research too. It's your model, you make it your way and it's a pleasure to see so much experience and skill put to such satisfying effect. 👍👍😎

Łukasz Gliński
X-4, my fav colour! 😄 I have to admit this colour setup looks very die-cast-Matchboxish 😄

gorby
Better late than never David. Thanks for the lovely comment. I think some people take this hobby a bit too seriously so I like to do the exact opposite. 🙂

You're right Lukasz, the colour does look a bit die-cast doesn't it? 😄
I need to drag myself away from using X-4 – even if I think it suits oldie-worldie vehicles. I don't want to be thought of as a one trick pony. I'm at least a two trick pony. 😄 😄

Łukasz Gliński
Nah, X-4 fits much more than that: Blue Jetstream (SP-KWN) | Project by Woody (1:72)

gorby
Oooh that does look good. 🙂

David Goodchild
People always like to take things seriously, even when they possibly shouldn't! Really look forward to the next update! 👍

gorby
👍

Mr D
It happens sometimes! I've had this alot with brush painting, l think the brush would push paint under.
I use a masking fluid on top of any awkward masks now.
You will get it tidied ok.
👍👍

gorby
Thanks Mr D. Repairs are going well. 🙂

bughunter
Cool 👍 I like your scratched additions!

gorby
Thanks Bugs, good to see you back again. 🙂

gorby
I completed the build yesterday and other than the headlights being a bit too big I'm happy with how it turned out. I ended up really enjoying the build and thanks to every one for following. 👍

John Hughes
Keep on like this and we'll have to start calling you Zsolt II!

Rui S
Impressive work, indeed. Very Well done Gorby 👍

bughunter
What a nice little lorry! I hear some sound of the steam engine ...
A nice street too. That might be a good idea to seal it with thinned PVA, I'll have to remember that for the future.

Alec K
Very nicely done Gorby! The colors are apropo I think, and I like that photo booth (nice dual purpose set up) 👍

Alex K
Love this! What a cutie!!! 👍 👍

Mr D
Wonderful Gorby.... Cracking little model 😁👌👍

David Taylor
Lovely little build Gorby.

David Goodchild
Fantastic result, looks so good! Really impressed with this! 👍😎

Kesa Tiho
Very nice result mate, it was worth the wait. You make the base yourself?

Ben M
You made this plain old kit very special.

Łukasz Gliński
Exqusite job! Looks like a bigger scale, 43rd at least 👍
And dat colours and weathering, like Matchbox Yesteryear series taken out of storage after all these years 😄
@John: will do, but only when we start seeing these bigly huge matchsticks 😄

Robert Podkoński
Awesome (anid quick) job, Gorby! Chapeau bas!

Pietro De Angelis
Beautiful and incredible work, congrats!

Michael Kohl
That came out nicely.

Kesa Tiho
I love that Gorby's builds comment section became like a little scalemates get together 😂

gorby
WOW! That's a very nice surprise to find in the morning. 🙂
I'm amazed that such a tiny model has had such a big response. Thanks you everyone for taking the time to comment. 👍
John: My 1/72 vehicle fixation was a Zsolt's fault….thanks Zsolt. 🙂
Bugs: What's this? Has the world turned upside down? Me teaching Bughunter something. 😄
Alec: It's also because I'm too tight to buy a photo tent, did I forget to mention that bit. 😄
Kesa: Photo 28 explains how I made the base – it's as quick, simple and cheap as it's possible to make a reasonably decent base.
Lukasz: I'm stttiiilll looking for those huge matches. 😄

Thanks again to everyone who commented or liked. 👍

Moreno Baruffini
👍👍👍 Chapeau!!!

gorby
Thank you Moreno. 🙂

Bohrmann
Beautiful model sir !!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 In the pictures the model doesn't look that small, certainly not 1/72 scale. Only in slide #34 where you can make the comparison with the match does it dawn on me that this really is a small model. Unless the matches in the Uk are a lot bigger than on the continent. 😉

Finn
Beautiful indeed!

gorby
Thanks you very much Bohrmann and Finn! 🙂
It really is a tiny little thing - only 9cm long. I did wonder what I was doing with my life when I spent several days detailing the minuscule cab area. 😄