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J35J
You are certainly the NOVO/FROG master!👏🏼
Taking a chair 👍🏻

Ben M
This is fun. I built the prototype D.XXI that went to the east indies.

Duster_d
Ben M, in fact, this model (FROG F156\F223) is more similar to the prototype of the Fokker D.XXI than to the production version.

Dave Flitton
Watching!!

Nicolas
Following.

Duster_d
Apparently, I'll have to fork out for a Japanese or German airbrush. I'm tired of "fighting" with the Chinese airbrush. 🙂

Ben M
It's one of the tools that is worth it. I have an H&S and it is much easier to get a good result than with my Paasche. I wish I'd got an Iwata though as there is local parts availability, so I don't have to deal with internet and shipping nonsense.

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