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gorby
Excellent dio!

András Csilléry
Thanks gorby!

Mirko Römer
Fantastic line-up!

Andrew Read
One of my first attempts at a limited-run cottage industry kit, and I am thankful I left it more than 40 years before tackling it. I now have far more patience for what is a tricky kit for a casual modeller such as me!

Guy Rump
Interesting, following. 👍

Cuajete
Interesting and unusual model. Following!

Nicolas
Folloeing

Skyhiker
This has to be followed. Classic.

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat too.

Bernd Grün
Very interesting topic, Andrew. 👍 Following with interest.

Ekki
Watching!

Cuajete
Good (hard) job 👍

J35J
This needs to be followed!👍🏻

Mirko Römer
Totallly agree with J35J!

Mirko Römer
Fabulous kit. After checking references and a visit to the Flygvapenmusem in our summer vacation I decided to stick to my trusty AK Real Colours.

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Łukasz Gliński
Cool topic, following

Michael Kohl
I got the ol' Heller kit. Following with interest. Did you have to mix the colors or could you use them straight from the jar?

Mirko Römer
Thanks mates! I used the colours straight out of the jar, with lighter US od freckles over the lighter UK od.

Thomas Kolb
I have three of those kits in the stash waiting for a triple build, so I will follow with great interest. You nailed the colors pretty much perfect. It's quite an elusive greenish brown that looks different on each photo, and not easy to mix yourself. BTW, did you have problems getting the nose weights in place?

Finn
Following

Mirko Römer
Well, it's not too roomy. I used material for tyre balancing in nose and behind the cockpit bulkhead, appr. 15g.

Hans-Jürgen Haag
Nice kit! Good pictures from Linköping 👍👍

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat, of course!

Oleg Smilyk
Following

Mirko Römer
You're welcome anytime! I started a seperate album with pictures from the museum.

Mirko Römer
Decals went on nicely, but are a little translucent and the yelloe could be more saturated. Micro Sol ist just doing it's job...

Mirko Römer
Wheels fixed. Washes need a little more removing, when the second layer has dried.

Mirko Römer
Uppdrag fullbordat

Łukasz Gliński
Brilliant job 👍 How good is the kit?

Guy Rump
Great job! 👍

Shar Dipree
Great Saab J-21. 👍

Robert Podkoński
Fantastic! Congrats, Mirko!

Mirko Römer
Thank you mates for your encouraging comments!
The kit wasn't bad at all. Ok, it is not comparable to Special Hobby's recent releases, but also a big improvement over their first short run kits more than twenty years ago. It has no locator pins, panel lines are quite good, fit was almost uneventful. Instructions are excellent and you get a small pe fret with most useful parts. I also used MPM's pe parts, which are superb, but a little too bright with the green interior colour. So I had to darken these parts with washes, used IJN interior green from Tamiya and darkened the whole cockpit with corresponding intensity. Still a little too bright, but - scale effect considered - ok. Additionally I used some smal pe lenses for the landing light. The real downside of the kit are the decals, which are almost translucent. Decide for yourself, if you can live with them . Well, now I have to. 🙂

gorby
I've not sold anything on here so I could be wrong….
Got to your stash.
The item you want to sell, click the '+' to the right of that entry.
Click 'move'. Don't worry that it's connected to the bin symbol, it won't delete it.
That will show a number of options in green boxes of which the last one is 'For sale'.
I don't want to go any further than that as I don't want to sell anything. If you need help from that step someone else will have to step in.
Hope that helps.

Michael Kohl
After that you press 'return' and then again on the '+'. Now it will show you some options like i. e. the 'price'-button. By clicking you can set a price, change the currency you wanna trade with and so on.

My two cents on selling on Scalemates: I prefer ebay. Here I encountered much less interest in what I had to offer. On ebay most of the things sold on first presentation.

LC
this sounds like quite a fun and unique idea

Nathan Dempsey
Thanks LC76. Welcome to the build!

Torsten
LOL, follow ^^

Robert Podkoński
Watching for sure!

Nathan Dempsey
Welcome Torsten & Robert!
I've started the fuselage assembly and clamps were needed.

Dutch
Nathan, I am following along as well. I have friends in eastern Ukraine, so very interested in this one. Kind regards, Dutch

Nathan Dempsey
Welcome Dutch! This build is turning into a slog. Clamps and super-glue "force-holds" galore. Luckily it is a tiny plane so I'm nearly done already, just completing all the seam sanding.

Nathan Dempsey
Working on the cowl. I had to use 2-part epoxy clay to fill a large gap on the bottom of the cowl that was created by making the cowl fit straight & level.

Nathan Dempsey
Working on masking the camo pattern today.

Dutch
Looking good. Keep up the progress. The splinter pattern will be stupendous when done.

Nathan Dempsey
Thanks Dutch! Man I just realized looking at pictures that the wing camo is a mirror image for the other wing. It won't be perfect… 😁

Ben M
Ah, amodel 🙂

Dutch
Ben, I feel you!

Nathan Dempsey
Welcome to the show Ben! I've applied the first color today. Now off to cut masks for the next color. I've been spoiled by those pre-cut masks…

Dutch
Nathan, quick question. Why not just spray the first color overall, then mask only the subsequent colors? Saves at least one step, I should think. Carry on. I am enjoying the show.

Nathan Dempsey
In this case I just got a little too happy masking. I even decided against my usual preshade since this plane's paint looks really new in all the pictures.

Dutch
Yeah, I can understand the excitement factor!

Dutch
Nathan, are you going to put kill markings on it?
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Nathan Dempsey
Well my printer is dead, but my dad has a similar one so I'm going to try… Wish me luck.

Nathan Dempsey
The second color has been applied. Slow going here as my workbench time has been lacking.

Dutch
Okay! Coming along nicely!

Nathan Dempsey
Thanks Dutch! Today I masked off the areas for the gloss black. The tan colored areas are quite small, but they're everywhere. Tamiya tape stock is going up!!

Nathan Dempsey
Well my gloss black was solidified, so flat black will have to do. Hopefully it will all even out when the clear is applied

Jennifer Franklin
Impressive detail work!

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work so far on the camouflage scheme.

Nathan Dempsey
Thanks Jennifer and Villiers!

Work continues on masking these tiny sections.

Nathan Dempsey
Well that was a whole bunch of masking for some very tiny pixels… I also added a coat of Future to help with the panel lining effort to come.

Nathan Dempsey
Today has seen the underside color selected and applied (Tamiya X-14 Sky Blue) along with masking/painting the cowl colors using Steel & Red.

Ben M
What are you using to do the panel lines?

Nathan Dempsey
I'm using both AK & Mig panel wash. For the bottom I used Grey-Blue and for the top I haven't decided whether I'll use a dark brown or black wash. Of course for the black areas I'll use the Stone Grey wash which I think is Mig.

LC
It's looking very good, keep it up!