Fil d'information

Alberto
Very nice start, watching 👀

bughunter
At first glance I thought of 1:48, but so much the fancier 👍

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
welcome @Alberto and thanks for your nice feedback. Also thanks @bughunter 🙂 I love working in this small scale and I do this beside the massive CH-54 - tricky to work in different scales but I missed working in 1/72 ...

Alec K
Taking a seat for sure 👍

Edward MacKenzie
I'm in, very interested in this build

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
Welcome @Alec and @Edward! Both cockpits are finished and fuselage half are going to be put together now. I just took a few closeups - D-20 is OOB and D-5 is made from Eduard resin print. I bought the cockpit print and the kit at the same time and after finishing both there pros and cons on each, but I would not spend extra money for that - the kit cockpit is very highly detailed. What is your opinion? BTW - I saw some cotton bud fibers in the pics now - that will be cleaned up ... in this sale it´s so hard to see that with the naked eyes ... Looking forward to your feedback. Thanks all

bughunter
Looking great, as I said not like 1:72 👍
Your seats with belts looks good - I wonder why Eduard sells now 3D printed seats with seat belts on the seat?! Makes the paint job complicated 🙁
Example: F4U-2 Seat With Integral Belts PRINT (Eduard 6481048, 1:48)

gorby
Interesting. Is this going to be a full scratch-build?

Andy Dallibar
Yep, apart from the brass undercarriage (bogeys). I was left a part built GP40 when my dad passed away, trouble is he got the dimensions wrong and it was 4cm too short, and not the right height.
I have to consider that if it's wrong, it is not correct, and the task will be harder to amend the build to match its size.

So I'm starting again. I found some drawings online and scaled them using Photoshop. I intend to RC it too. Then I'll have to lay some track in the garden.

Michael Kohl
I love your scale 1:43 stuff. Anxious to see where thus is going.