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Maciej T.
... and Old Cinema 🙂
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scaleffect
Beautiful, I can't imagine how challenging that camo must have been

Maciej T.
Thank you 🙂 But believe me, all you need is patience, because it won't come out in one "puff" 🙂

Simon
Really nice work!!! Camo looks fantastic! My Ar-555 is still in work 🙂

Guy Rump
Very impressive build, camo is excellent. 👍

Maciej T.
Thank you man 😄

Łukasz Gliński
Great job, the black undersides make it look even cooler me thinks 👍

Maciej T.
And Old Cinema 😉 Youtube Video

David Taylor
Wow.

Spanjaard
Wow, amazing duo

Maciej T.
Thanks men 🙂

Neuling
Perfect work! So many interesting details to see, all of them taken care of with great attention. Great modelling!

Maciej T.
Thanks Neuling 😄
As an author, however, I can see some mistakes - fortunately I don't have to point them out myself 😉 😛

Neuling
I didn´t notice any mistake whatsoever ....... keep on making mistakes, Maciej, they´r a joy to watch!

Maciej T.
😄 😄

Michael Kohl
I think 9 pics are sufficient- for each of the figures. And then a couple of dozends more for the rest. Hey, what happened? You ran out of battery power? 😉
The build? Absolutely amazing - from what I can judge from the insufficient amoung of pictures. 😉

Dominik Weitzer
wow. Thats a kind of a masterpiece. I'm very impressed.

Maciej T.
Gentlemen, you put me to shame.... Thank you very, very much 😄
Michael: it seems to me that in the video you can see virtually everything (including the interior after the tower is raised).... But if you want I can take some more close-up photos.... Just from which side? 😉 😄

Olivier
Top notch result !

Rui S
Well, it's a Maciej T. Work what to expect? An Excellent Dio of course 👍
If I'm allowed, just the shiny uniform's... 🤔

Maciej T.
Yes, these uniforms in normal daylight are OK. This effect of "shining" can be seen only under the influence of photographic lamps (softbox)... Although the figures are finely powdered with satin varnish....

Rui S
Like said Maciej, Great work and Dio, I would go with mate varnish on clothes 😉

Tom B.
Gorgeous work mate 👍 Remembering the Panther´s realiability issues and hard to access transmission, this scene must have been a common "event" for tank repair crews!

Pietro De Angelis
Fantastic work and dio.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice.

Jv
Very interesting must have been fun to build

Maciej T.
It was very fun to build 🙂. Although putting chains on Strabo cost a lot of "ugly words" 😉

Mathias Decommere
Congratulations!

Dominik Weitzer
excellent model.

Bohrmann
Impressive work.

Maciej T.
Thanks men 🙂

Skyhiker
Oh, this looks like fun!

Chris Parsons
Oh ya!
Built a couple of Broplan vac kits, a real challenge but great for the feeling of overcoming a challenge and creative accomplishment

Thomas Kolb
OMG, what a challenge! 🙂 Those panel lines look quite uneven, will you try to rescribe them or just take them for what they are? In any way, I am super curious how these sheets of plastic can be turned into a model, so I will watch with interest!

DuperScale
Welcome mates, the panellines are aweful but the material is so thin, i'm scarred that i cut right trough it when i try to rescribe them.

Łukasz Gliński
Another BroPlan fan, welcome to the club 😄

Nicolas
Following. Got my first vacu kit this weekend. I hope I can learn something here.

Robert Podkoński
Ambitious project! Watching.

Chris Parsons
Hi DuperScale, I built a couple of Broplan vac ATR kits, converting one 72 500 to a 42 300. A few pics of the work in my "albums" if you're interested in the kind of model you can achieve from a Broplan kit with a bit of work…sweat and tears, foul language, alcohol and time….

Cristian A
Following along.

Michael Kohl
Mee too.

J35J
Following with intrest! 👍🏻

Finn
This will be good

Ben M
👀

Treehugger
DuperScale, how about scribing into a layer of primer paint?
This way, scribing should be a lot easier afaik, scribing into the primer layer of paing, and not plastic.
This guy on youtube did this, on regular plastic models though.

Treehugger
As for the clear parts, I wonder if it could be done this way
1) Cut out a square/rectangle shape, removing the oval form from windows. The larger the hole the better, to create some extra space around the old window shape. Enough space to work with putty later on.
2) Glue in a flat thin strip of transparent styrene on inside of model.
3) Glue in a square/rectangle shape transparent styrene, outside the model, laminated with the existing strip of transparent styrene on inside, so double layered.

If keeping the new window parts larger than the old window shape it should be easier to use some putty after adding masking tape that have the shape of the old windows. The larger these new outer square/rectangle window shapes are, the easier it is to add putty to create a smooth surface, then hopefully the center part is clear enough, to mask off the final shape of the old window shape, before painting.

Afaik a common issue using Mikro Kristal Klear is that you can't sand the clear part afterwards, because the clear part is like rubber iirc. You can iirc easily remove this clear part though, just poke/pull it out. Unsure if there would be any residue left after removing the rubber like liquid clear stuff after it dries.

Treehugger
Another thing one could do with clear parts an idea:
1) Glue in a long strip of transparent styrene on inside of plane.
2) Add some kind of epoxy or something that can be sanded, without the epoxy damaging the underlying transparent styrene.
3) Idea is to use the liquid stuff to fill in the perfectly shaped holes for the windows, then sand the liquid stuff flush after it dries.

What won't work imo, is doing multiple rounds of adding liquids to create some goo that goes transparent. I think if you sand this stuff multiple times adding more liquid stuff, you get a flawed result I think. I tried something like that with gloss varnish, trying to build up a solid clear shape. Did not work as expected.

Treehugger
In this thread, and in photo #13, the guy apparently put tape outside, and poured clear resin on the inside to fill the window holes. Unsure if such resin will react and maybe eat up or warp any thin parts ala vacuum kits. I guess this can be tested with some scrap plastic if having some piece left over.

Boeing 737-530 Smart Wings 1:144 | Album by Zbynek (1:144)

Łukasz Gliński
The UV transparent resin is usually sandable (to some degree), maybe that might help?
Similarly to Treehugger I'd reinforce it with a transparent styrene from the inside of the fuselage anyway.
Or you might leave the windows open and fill them with Kristal Klear after painting - this is what I did on my Jetstream, Avanti & Yak-40. But if you want to seal it with gloss varnish, remember to keep very thin layers (guess how I learned it 🙂).
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Blue Jetstream (SP-KWN) | Album by Woody (1:72)
Avanti! | Album by Woody (1:72)

DuperScale
Hi, thanks for the input mates. I'm quite happy with the kristal clear on the small windows and i think i do it like Lukasz said. After everything is done i do the windows as the last step.

The windscreen window could work but i think i used little to much of the kristal clear.

Mr D
Good to see a vacform 😃👍

Cuajete
Well done so far 👍

David Taylor
Watching.

J35J
Great work so far with the vac👍🏻

Mr D
Like the cockpit..👍
Lots of work but doing a 👍 job... Be rewarding when done.

Cuajete
Great (hard) job so far. Go on!

Guy Rump
Following. 👍

Chris Parsons
Very nicely done and great progress!
Keep up the great work

David Taylor
You have definitely got your work cut out.

J35J
The kit is coming together very good. You are skilled and brave!
Great to follow the journey to see the final result. 👍🏻

Dave Flitton
Wow! Keep going. it's going to work out. It looks good.

Mr D
Looking great 👍👍
Be interesting model.

DuperScale
Thanks for the nice comments, from far away it looks good but the fit, lack of detail and scale problems are really annoying.😅

Maciej T.
... and Old Cinema 🙂 Youtube Video