Hírfolyam

Rui S
Great Dio. Congratulations 👍

Mark Rozendal
Thank you!

gorby
Excellent!

Mark Rozendal
Well, there's always room for improvement ;o)

Neuling
Top build! I like the paintwork with the moderate weathering and the well placed accessories.

Lebloge
Superb work 🫡

Rui S
I like it very much 👍

Joe K
like it too, great 🤘🏻

Neuling
I agree!

Roland Sachsenhofer
I started with Revells Arado for another round: this time I aim to get a representation of a civil floatplane, used in Sweden in the mid 40´s. Decals are from "Topdrawing 14", I trustfully hope they will work as good as they are looking...
You can see three building steps, next will see the decals fixed and the cowling painted blue. I am quite pleased with that subject -and looking forward to finsh that nice looking floatplane in the very near future 🙂

Christian Bruer
Hi Roland, interesting colors. This seems to be a really unique Ar196!

Stefan Schacht
Hi Roland, interesting, i'm tuned in

Kevin Foureman
Looking forward to seeing this one finished. Looks like a very interesting paint scheme.

Roland Sachsenhofer
I am pleased you are interested! As soon as I got to know about that version I had to have that Kagero decals...
Look at that site (in German language) to get a very informative "biography" of that special Arado. It´s an article from "Flugzeug Classics" illustrated with rare pictures of the late SE-AWY.
flugzeugclassic.de/z..=240&show=seite1

Kevin Foureman
I will try to go check it out thanks. 🙂

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos
Fine! Nice variant. Great work on the Engine!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Yesterday I got the decals applied, the parts of Kagero/ Cartograph proved to be of excellent quality and have been a pleasure to use.
Thank you mates!

Gordon Sørensen
I really like the variation in the silver, and thanks for showing how you did it! The engine looks great too!

Aghis Barberopoulos
Another Arado !?! Nice work on the engine

ole moller
looks great mate,love the engine

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you guys! Yes Aghis, another one... 🙂

Roland Sachsenhofer
The Swedish Arado got finished wirhout any further troubles; I did a decent and, as I hope, adequate amount of "wear and tear" similar to the condition shown in the few pictures of the real thing.
That was a rather dense build; enabled by the excellent and innovative Revell moldings and the trouble-free Cartograph decals. Anyway, for me it will be the last Arado floatplane for a while... 🙂

Wim van der Luijt
a very good looking threesome. This latest one turned out very good, I really like the tonal variation in the silver of the airframe

ole moller
they do all look fantastic,its one aircraft i would love to build one day

Vorya hidaryan
Very nice roland 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you very much guys, your words make me happy!

Michel Huijghe
Roland this one is for me the best you've made.👍

Christian Bruer
Well now you should be able to build them without using a construction manual😉 Great stuff mate, very nice!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Michel, Christian, I recommend to everyone that fine Revell kit- even if the inovative canopy construction is a little bit of an unresolved problem to me. Your comment makes me quite proud, thank you both!

Stefan Fraundorfer
Und wieder eine erstklassige Arbeit von Dir - gratuliere! Kannst Du mittlerweile eine Arado 196 blind zusammen bauen? So wie wir es damals beim Bundesheer gelernt haben, ein Sturmgewehr blind zu zerlegen und wieder zusammen zu setzen.

Jens
eine edle , vollkommene , überwältigende Ansicht der Versionen und Exoten die man aus der Revell Arado machen kann , einfach nur Klasse 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Hallo,
Stefan, vielen Dank! Naja, ich vermute einmal, dass der blinde Zusammenbau mit der Arado derzeit besser funktioniert wie mit dem StG 77... 🙂
Jens, beeindruckendes Worte die mich sehr motivieren- danke!

Alberto Bianchi
WOW! Great job! Bravo

Fab Fantin
Great job and very nice detailing work as beeing a land surveyor i would say the map on radio navigator station is 100% accurate !

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you mates!
Fab, you are right 🙂 Have you seen the set square on the navigators table- and the divider? Revell has definitly a sense humour 🙂

Fab Fantin
Yes Roland i saw it this is amazing and the level contour lines on the map also killing me ! Next time i will try to find this map series hoping these are not out of date 😄

Mike Grant
That's absolutely beautiful 👍

Xenia V.
Unglaublich! Schönes Arbeit wie immer, Roland!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Hello! Thank you very much for your encouragement- I feel motivated! Danke vielmals, Xenia!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you for "Liking" this very old one!

gorby
WOW! That was a stunning build Roland. It was posted the year before I joined ScM so I've not seen it before.
Hope you are doing well and your injury isn't causing you too much discomfort.

Markus Antonius
Occasionally happens, when kits ar re-released @Ronad Sachsenhofer 🙂

Pietro De Angelis
As they say,
there is no 2 without 3,
beautiful Arado,
congrats!

Roland Sachsenhofer
I appreciate your feedback - thank you! That was actually one of my first "three-part projects" where I got stuck on one topic, so to speak. Gorby, thanks for asking, luckily I'm well looked after. As I only move around with crutches and my wife cooks for me, I just have to make sure I don't put on any weight in the next six weeks 🙂

Pietro De Angelis
💪

Guy Rump
Beautiful! 👍

Rui S
A Beauty, indeed 👍
I've this kit and if you did it OOB I'm very pleased with that. Your albuns will be most interesting when I tackle mine 😉

Chrisswe
Very nice! Perfect finish.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you for these very kind words, mates!

Neuling
Sehr schöne Arbeit. - Für Dich gute Besserung, Roland!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Danke- für beides! 🙂
Thank you -for both! 🙂

Zbynek Honzik
Great job, Roland! And unique livery for this aircraft. 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you Zbynek, I was also glad to have found such an attractive and rare mark at Kagero/Topdrawing. The decals, I remember, were wonderful to work with.

Villiers de Vos
Fantastic work and weathering so far. Impressive scratch building.

Martin Oostrom
Nice job rusting that car. It'll be a heap of rust before you're finished 😁

Kyle DeHart
Your weathering on this is incredible!!

LucLuke B
Nice idea, I've seen similar ones in South American markets, still being used but well worn out.

Rui S
Great weathering work 👍

Dave
Ken that is a work of art. Beautiful.

Marcel
Love the weathering. Excellent way of turning a mediocre kit into something great.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Tim Hofstetter
You used plastic welding staples for that seat spring, didn't you? Good choice of material!

Kenneth Gifford
No, brass wire for the springs

Yngve N
😮 this is some truly amazing work 👌

Neuling
Good work with interesting details!

Rui S
Here we go... 😎

Bozzer
I'll hop in with Rui. These builds are always an education 🙂

MS K
Thanks guys.
This time, I plan to make light modifications to a few areas and finish it quickly. Don't expect too much. 😉

Bozzer
Lol, yeah, we've seen your subtle modifications. I'm definitely sticking around for the Finale 👍

Martin Oostrom
What you call a few modifications, is usually a full rebuild to me.

Alexander Grivonev
Nope, not expecting much from you MS K....just the usual boring OOB stuff 😄

Spanjaard
fully agree with Bozzer, Martin and Alexander 😄 😄

Davide Vitali
What a nice, clean, enjoyable build! Following

Pepe
Inside

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work so far. Booking my seat.

Yngve N
This will probably be just as interesting as other builds you did MS K. I take a seat and really wonder what "light modifications" means in your book

Kesa Tiho
Tiger I 👍

Mona
🙂 👍

Neuling
Top work in scale 1/72 !

Neuling
Excellent work! Details, weathering, accessories ...... gun smoke on the empty cartridges ......

Tim Ryan
Great color on the block, seems accurate. Looking forward to seeing the kit completed.

Christian W
Agree! That silver parts looking great too. What color did you take? And: what do I have to imagine behind "Milton's Corvette"? I didn't google that so far 😉

Yngve N
Following this

Yngve N
Following this 🙋🏽‍♂️ about the primer: does the black primer do any difference to how the aluminium looks, compared to grey or white primer?

Cristian A
Following 👍

Rui Reis
Cool!👍 Im also building one of these but as a PoAF gunship used in the Portuguese colonial wars in Africa.

Guy Rump
Following. 👍

Michael Kohl
Me too

Jan Peters
Following this 👀

gorby
WOW, remarkable work!

Lorraine Lin
The details looks great, following

Sven Schönyan
Amazing work Kendrick!

Alexander
Agreed, looks really good so far! Especially like the paint job on the rotor blades! 👍

Spanjaard
amazing details and great paint job so far, it will be a truly stunner at the end!

Guy Rump
Great work so far, following. 👍

Lorraine Lin
Wow, I'm waiting for the moment when you tear off the masks👍

DuperScale
Stunning

Alexander
Really like the exhaust stains you made with the masking! 👍

J35J
Impressive work 👍🏻

Kendrick Brown
Thank you everyone for the comments. Almost to the finish line on this one and I'm glad I could share a bit of the process.

Steven Van Dyck
About picture 51: this is not a kit issue, you removed 2 essential parts from the sponsons. I initially had the same problem with the Revell reboxing of it. The sponsons should not be glued flat against the fuselage but the interior spars should be visible for a few mm. This will bring the wheels to a straight angle. You made a beautiful model of it, with those open doors!

Kendrick Brown
You know come to think of it, I did have to trim down the posts on the sponsons wings since they weren't sliding in all the way. Guess it was like that for a reason haha. Must've been up too late for that one. I've seen a glimpse of your sh-3 in your ch-46 album. Would definitely love to see more of it.

Steven Van Dyck
That was before my Scalemates introduction, but you can find it here with a Dutch log: modelbrouwers.nl/php...php?f=1&t=27448

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d hadley
That is one sharp 5.0!

Ian Doody
Time to start updating a very old model. 1984 Airfix release of the 1983 MPC A-WING.

Ian Doody
WIP, 1983 ROTJ Airfix/MPC A-Wing Light Starfighter. Getting there, still deleting details. Airfix has the crappy tinted canopy, may switch out with a scratch built one from a F-14. Guns will be all converted to brass rod and wire detailing, need two cheap Revell 1/48 F-16 air intakes for the rear hyperdrive engines, as the kit part is naff. Side Torpedo launchers will be cut out and scratch built. I've already moved the rear central bulkhead further in so it's more scale. I won't actually use the landing gear, it'll be on a stand eventually. Size comparison to the 1/72 Rogue Squadron A-Wing I built last year

Ian Doody
Working on the rear Jump engine area, these will need replacing with 1/48 F-16 air intake parts, two stacked on top of each other, and some flatter jet nozzles, like the Bandai 1/72.

Felix
Not to mention the wing😭

Nicolas
Following. Nice to see that you got spare parts.

Felix
Dear Nicolas
Thanks! Yes, happy and excited. It did take them a month BUT they told me so from the beginning and i got all the parts. Very happy with this kit so far. What do you think of the interior yellow green?

Nicolas
Hey Felix, a very promising start. Unfortunately I can't give you any tips on the interior color, I only know that with American aircraft it sometimes depends on the factory, as the same type was painted differently in different factories.

Thomas O'Eh
Looking great so far! Any ideas on the markings yet?

Felix
Thank you, Thomas! I am going with the yellow plane from 15 AF. Thinking of paintin the yellow crosses instead of using the decals. And i am a bit worried about the large decals for the nose art.

Kenneth
Following, looks very nice 👍

Thomas Bischoff
enjoy your build - looks great 👍🏻

Felix
@Thomas, danke dir! Eine Woche lange geschliffen, jetzt kommt der eigentliche Spass mit dem Bemalen.

Felix
@Kenneth, thanks a lot! The sanding me took a long time but i really wanted to get it right, it's something i always struggle with.

Edward MacKenzie
Looks great, i am really interested in this build 🙂

Felix
@Edward, i thoroughly recommend it!

Живко Джаков
Following.

boywellum
Great work, can I ask how you went about the weighting? I tried lots of small lead fishing weights with my Airfix Mitchell but ended up having to fill not only the tiny area given but also the room, behind and just below the cockpit, also behind the control panel and part of the room just behind the cockpit, every space I could find. I'm new to building American bombers, all the RAF ones sit on their tail wheel. Do you or any of the people who have commented have any better ideas than lead? I'm really looking forwards to seeing this project develop (especially as I have the kit myself and need all the tips I can get). Thanks Richard. Following.

Tony Tonov
Nice progress, following

Felix
Dear Boywellum
Both the Mitchell and the Liberator require lots of weight. I bought liquid gravity but it's not heavy enough for the space provided. But there is an ladder for the entry door which will serve as a stand. So i have to go with that!

boywellum
Thanks Felix, that is very kind of you, these kits must have been designed with something in mind for them to work with the actual spaces provided but I have never found a definitive answer anywhere. If any other of the contibutors to your most excellent post have any ideas that would be much appreciated. Maybe Airfix expect us to mix some concrete and pour that in 😉 Cheers Felix, BW

Felix
Dear BW, some modellers work with fishing weights or lead? I haven't, unfortunately.

Nicolas
Great progres. 👍
Years ago I build the old Revell /Monogram Liberator in 1/48. I decided to glue some lead at the rear side of the engine firewalls. It helped, but wasn't enoght (I forgot the lead at the nose wheel bay).

Felix
@Nicolas, that must have been a big bird! I struggle to put this 1/72 Liberator into the paintbooth 🙂
I am glad this kit provides a ladder as support. I bought liquid weight for this build but it's not as compact as i hoped it would be and wouldn't do the job with the spaces provided.

Tony Tonov
Hi Felix,
I usually use fishing weights, the lead is more dense and has high specific weight. I fill all available space and fix it with PVA glue.
There are also aftermaket sets for the front interior, casted in white metal and intended to replace the plastic part:
B-24 Liberator Landing Gear ..aft Conversions 72009, 1:72)
This one however is designed for Hasegawa kit and most likely won't fit on Airfix one.
If non of this helps, I add more weight in front of the engine bays. This worked for me on my both Mitchell and He-219 (which btw is notorious tail-sitter kit).

Alberto
Looking great so far, it's very interesting to follow the detailed step-by step updates!

Felix
Thanks a lot Alberto, glad you enjoy my modelling spam 🙂 did you get the kit too?

Alberto
Hi Felix, no, I built the old Liberator Airfix kit a while ago and had similar issues with the nose weight. I ended up using the ladder for the back door too 😄

Pacific Strafer
Hi Felix, I built the Hasegawa Liberator kit same years ago. I built a box in the nose of the plane around the nose gear and filled the entire space with lead shot. I also glued some lead sheets into the hidden area of the radio operator's room. You can find pictures of this in this report -> modellversium.de/gal..d=8276&origin=mb

Martin Weinpold
Nice!

Felix
Dear Tony, Alberto, Pacific Strafer and Martin, thanks a lot for all the nice comments and advice regarding weight! With this build i will have to go with the ladder in the rear section, it is what it is.
To be honest, i think i should have done a flying Liberator. She just looks great that way, like on the boxart. But there are no figures provided!

Jennifer Franklin
Following!

Alec K
Little late to the party… nice build, despite the challenges and a kit that clearly failed Airfix's quality control inspection.

Felix
Dear Jennifer and Alec, happy to have you onboard…it's never too late to party!🙂 Having lots of fun with this kit!

Alec K
Wondering if your yellow issue can be fixed by laying down pink, then another coat of Humbrol 24?

Tony Tonov
@Alec K, indeed, I usually underspray the yellow areas with pink, when I am looking for a warmer shade of the yellow.

@Felix, if you can mask the areas safely, I'd recommend to spray light layer of pink and then yellow. There are no decals there, aren't they?

Bob Hall
That is clean ! Sweet build ! 🤘😎🤘

Martin Oostrom
Nice one. That colour is so right for the car.

István Szücs
Nice ride!

Rui S
Well done. I especially like the Chrome on the bumpers & rim Caps 👍 How did you do it? 🤔

Rainer
Rui, they came as chrome parts with the kit. Not my work, I must admit. Thanks for the kind words, everybody. 😊

Rui S
Ok thx Nice work any way 👍

Spanjaard
lovely beetle,very nice little dio

Chris Reimann
Really nice, looks great!

George Williams
It's essentially a car built by Nazis for Nazis.

Rui S
It's basically a car that outlived the Nazis by 58 years, was manufactured or assembled in 20 countries, 21,529,464, units were manufactured, of which a 1963 model had already traveled by January 25, 1994, a World record 2,434,575 km, and reborn as the Beetle and is still around now running on electricity.

Bob Hall
It was a car built for the people, the German people, unless your insinuating all Germans are Nazi's.. Thus the name Volks, " The People's car"

Gerald
👍

Yngve N
Definitely a nice way to make the display into more than a dust protection 👍

Yngve N
You're tough when you wire the on your first build in many years., and I think you did well! I want to try it on my next project. Did you buy the cables, hoses and stuff separately or was it part of the kit?

M4A1
Started building the M4A3 Sherman Cougar kit from Asuka. No big plans with this one. Just gonna make a small base under it and a crew member refuelling on the engine deck. Have been using PE from Aber and Eduard and other after market stuff like stowage from Tamiya, Bronco and Legend on this model. Replaced the Asuka gun parts with a full gun mount and breech from Resicast. Don't know if I'm gonna use the figures on the pics. Just took them out of the spare box to see if these could work with the model.

M4A1
Not much happening here. Ordered a track link set from MiniArt and started building it to check the quality. Quality and detail are good I think.
Gonna replace the Asuka belt type tracks with these from MiniArt.

Jakko ‌
It's a bit late to mention it, perhaps, but those MiniArt tracks are not accurate for a late-model M4A3 like this 🙂 They're the T41 type, which were only used on early Shermans (and most M3 medium tanks), but by the time your tank would have been in service, if it had plain, flat, rubber-block track, they would have been T51. You can get those most easily from AFV Club: M4 T51-Track (AFV Club AF35026, 1:35)

M4A1
Thanks Jakko for the like and your input. And you're right. I already replaced the MiniArt tracks. Gonna use them for an early M4A1 Sherman in the future. I'm using a Bronco T51 track set now.

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Jakko ‌
You're braver than I am, using Bronco Sherman tracks 🙂

M4A1
Thanks Guy! Do you have bad experiences with Bronco, Jakko? 🙂

M4A1
The Sherman painted in it's OD base color.

Jakko ‌
They're a right pain to put together, and the track pins are a pain to just remove from the sprue. They're too thin, so they break easily, and it's very difficult to glue the halves of the blocks together without getting glue on the pins as well. I started on one set and never did complete it because it just sapped my will to go on with them 🙂

The MiniArt tracks are much better (and, I assume, the new Gecko ones too, as they use the same method of construction as MiniArt) while the AFV Club T51s are easier still — but on their T48s, some of the end connectors are too loose and will fall off. You have to file an ejector pin mark off each block with the AFV Club tracks, but that's nowhere near as bad as putting together the Bronco ones, IMHO.

M4A1
Thanks Jakko for sharing your experiences with Bronco. I've completed 3 track sets of them and experienced what you said as well. I also completed a MiniArt Sherman track set, the one I originally intended for this project, but for some reason Bronco works better for me. I also ran into problems with the MiniArt set. The most important lesson I learned, regardless MiniArt or Bronco, is to be carefull with the amount of glue.

Kesa Tiho
Good luck with building your brethren, following!

M4A1
Thank you!

M4A1
Work on the tracks has begun. Goes well so far. 🙂

M4A1
The left side track is done. Now working on the right side. Because duckbills had the tendency to break I didn't attach them on all the endconnectors.

Rui S
I'm in 😎

M4A1
Thanks Rui!

Jakko ‌
You seem to be doing a good job on those tracks 🙂

M4A1
Thanks. It goes well indeed so far. 🙂

Ben M
Just an idea: recently I got to examine an M7 priest in person with the track extenders. In addition to a few being missing, there were several where they had partially broken off.

M4A1
Thanks Ben. I'm aware of that and it's a nice addition. Think I'm gonna use it. Left side track is on the Sherman for visuals. It's very loose because it's a dry fit.

Jakko ‌
I think you need to remove a link from it, yes 🙂

Ben M
Yes, I see some now broken off 👍

M4A1
@Jakko, based on the pic I understand you think that. But I haven't connected both track ends yet. I have to put both parts of the track shoe visible under the middle bogie on top of eachother. Then the track should be fine.

M4A1
Painted the tracks and glued them together on the right side of the tank. Need to add the last endconnectors. Also added the decals and started painting the details on the tank.

M4A1
Painting of the tracks is finished. I've put the tracks on the tank and after wheatering is done they won't look so clean anymore. 🙂 Still working on painting the details.

Thomas Kolb
Very clean and neat build! I like this a lot!

Олег О
Здорово! Сам хочу такой собрать. У этой модели складываются крылья?

Denis Dogadov
Да, крыло можно сложить.
Италери не рекомендую, поищи что-то другое, посвежей, Фуджими или Трумпетер.

André Knippenberg
Nice build!

Mark Sherwood
Very nice cat Jose. 👍

Jose Freire
Thanks, Mark. It´s a great kit by Eduard. I had problems with the landing gear alignments but the rest just went fine.

Mark Sherwood
I seem to just have problems with Eduardarrrgghh!!!! 🤣🤟🥸🤘🤣

Jose Freire
Eduard kits just seem to me to be the best kits available in the market right know, with the pe sets and masks and level of detail, has nothing to envy the japanese or chinese brands on the market. But that´s my humble opinion.

Steve Zodiac
Time to blow the dust off this one, first job. See where I got to and what I was thinking. A pencil comes in handy. 🤔

Steve Zodiac
Sub sections 1, 2 & 3 completed, as I am not used to doing a battleship I paint and do a light weathering as I go, so hull weathered wooden deck weathered added metal chains. Next weathering the torpedo launchers. 😀

Steve Zodiac
Working on part 4 instructions, 😀

Steve Zodiac
Little bit of hand painting, then I work on No 5, which is the top of the smoke stack I believe 🤔

Steve Zodiac
Calling it a day, glued, painted, glued and finally a dry fit.😀

Steve Zodiac
Now completed stage 5 including a light weathering, time to move on to stages 6 & 7. 😀

Steve Zodiac
Slow progress, but progress. And finished off with a dry fit. 😀

Steve Zodiac
Today has been a day of consolidation and preparation. And last a little dry fit to see how she coming along.😀

Steve Zodiac
Letting my eyes rest today, so did some prep work on assembly No7 ready for the wooden deck. And a quick dry fit. 😀

Steve Zodiac
Wooden decks added, with a little help from watered down PVA glue. Will let dry for 24 hours before weathering. And last a dry fit. 😀

David R. Meizoso
Nice progress, following!

Mark Sherwood
Thank you Matti for the like and the previous plastic basher. 🤘🥸👍

gorby
Nice work Mark.

Neil
Agreed! Great work mate! 👏

Mark Sherwood
Thank you Gorby and Neil for your kind comments. Not as prolific as you Neil, nice work on your Diavoli by the way. Gorby, re: Scammel Scarab. British Transport information films keep popping up on my YouTube feed about these 😳 regressing me to my Yoof' and making me suspicious of these algorithms, insidious?🤔🤨🤣🤘🥸👍

gorby
Must mean that deep down you reaaaaaally want to build a Scarab. The algorithm can't be wrong, you must obey. 😄

Mark Sherwood
Gorby. 🤣🤣🤣👍

Mark Sherwood
Thanks Noel and everyone else for the likes. 🤟🥸🤘

Guy Rump
Great job Mark! 👍

Mark Sherwood
Thank you Guy for the support and like 🤘🥸👍

Dave
Mark you did a great job with my favorite aircraft. feel bad about that wing snapping off, but end results is nice. If i get time in the next little while i'll make my way over to the local air museum to get photos of the one they had restored a few years ago.

Mark Sherwood
Cheers Dave. My favourite plane too in all it's iterations.

Mark Sherwood
Thank you for the like J35J 👍and everyone else too 🤘🥸🤟

Mark Sherwood
Thanks Sergej, for the like. 👍🥸🤘

Mark Sherwood
Thank you Marc for the like. 🤘🥸👍

Mark Sherwood
Lorraine thanks for the like 👍🥸🤟

Mark Sherwood
This is a challenge. Thank you Ceprin (no reverse Cyrillic N on me qwerty) AHA piaHOB. (Apologies mate for mangling your name.) for the like 🤟🥸👍🇺🇦🤘

Mark Sherwood
Desert Marlin, thank you for the like and everyone else too. 👍🥸🤘

Jose Freire
Is it a nice kit? I am planning to build a Hurricane and have not decided which one to buy yet.

Mark Sherwood
It is a nice kit considering it's age. The problem being, the wing comprises five parts. Gear bay, front of the gear bay, port/ starboard upper wings and a whole under wing. Because the build was going well, I duped myself and constructed the wing. This caused alignment problems and a massive step on the portside. Subsequently, it snapped on forcing the issue. Luckily I have a donor kit, which I am dry fitting at the moment to see how it aligns and the best way to fit it. Posting pic's and description soon.

Mark Sherwood
Rich K, thanks for the like. 🤘🥸🤟

Mark Sherwood
Rui Rodriguez, thanks for the like and every other plastic basher and beer drinkers too. I've had a fort, Beer Drinkers and Plastic Bashers sung to the toon of Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers by ZZ Top (I'll have to stop listening to my brane when I'm on 6/2)

gorby
Very nice work so far.

Cuajete
Nice cockpit. Following.

Woit
Hello! I need to change seatbelts and gunsight. These are not correct for this version.

Michael Kohl
Nice start. Why did you fill some of the panel lines? Whither material did you use for that?

Łukasz Gliński
Interesting. Can you write sth more about that silver goo you spread onto the wings?

Woit
Michael/Łukasz. New Mustangs has the wings primed, sanded, primed again, sanded and then painted. Exceptions are the landing gear access panel, ammunition access panels and fuel tank access panels under the wing.
I mixed Tamiya putty with 1500 black surfacer and a little of Levelling Thinner.

Casey Beckett
Laminar flow - Mustangs had their wings 'waxed' to improve airflow -

Cuajete
Well done so far 👍

Nicolas
Great start 👍

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Denis Dogadov
I had a big fight in the next topic on P-51, where the author stubbornly wants to depict the rivets on the wing.
But everything is correct here, but not quite. You still removed one line of embroidery in vain. The P-51 had detachable wing parts and the line should be there.
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Woit
Hello! Many thanks for comments. Especially to Denis. Now, I need to discuss it with myself 🙂 Should I scribe it or maybe paint it with different shadow to mark the line.

Denis Dogadov
Well, to be precise, one more line, I hope you are not tired of me yet.
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Woit
I appreciate any attention, especially that documented like this. Thank you Denis.

Patrick Hagelstein
Whoah!!! Beautiful build and very interesting discussion. 🧐

Denis Dogadov
I see that my advice has come in handy.
As for the wheel niches, at some point the manufacturers got permission not to paint them with a primer. Later, in combat conditions, places with corrosion were found in the niches. These places were painted with a primer right on the field airfields. Then the niches began to be painted at the factory again. The color of the soil could be different.

gorby
Est-ce ce que tu cherches ?
scalemates.com/products/img/4/0/3/945403-51-instructions.pdf

Cuajete
Following 🙂

Alex K
👀

Robert Podkoński
Feel warmly welcomed, My Friends!

Łukasz Gliński
Curious what connects that plane with Mr Gorbs 😄

Jan Peters
More stranger things from the Podkónski stables, I'm in 👍🏻

Cuajete
You are not the only one, Łukasz 😄

Robert Podkoński
I am happy to have you all on board, Mates 🙂 @Łukasz & Cuajete - read the description of the project 😉

Thomas Espe
👀

Robert Podkoński
Welcome, Thomas!

Łukasz Gliński
The airplane of the size of an earbud, interesting

Nicolas
'I'm in.

gorby
Wow the audience is filling out already. It'll be standing-room only soon. 🙂

Matti Thomaes
nice work, just a tip, but you might want to paint the inside of your walls black, it stops the light shining throug so it comes out of the windows only.

Roland
Taking a seat!

Guy Rump
Following as well. 👍

Sy Bar
Welcome aboard, it's an interesting build sofar updates incoming

Łukasz Gliński
Following, planning to get this kit at some point in time

Sy Bar
So far so good. Apart from the parts A9 A10 everything going together well the gaps you see in pic 4 are my fault I did check then promptly forgot to sand my bad gate removal fully but it wouldn't be modelling if there was nothing to fill then sand

Matti Thomaes
Following

Martin Weinpold
Looks good!

Sy Bar
I used Ammo's Cobra acrylic paint - 'Gulf Orange' as I had it to hand and like the colour. The Cobra paints are good covering and tough. One caution do not use their "cleaner & lacquer thinner" to thin it as I did, by not reading label, before adding to the acrylic unless you want an airbrush full of a custard like substance 🫣🙄. When you use their Acrylic thinner it works a treat 👍

Roland
Looks like a relatively straightforward built👍 I think I need one of this too in addition to the Severn Class kit.

Sy Bar
Welcome all those following
The decals are great and work well with micro sol/set. I was concerned I'd mess the long single colour stripe so cut it into smaller sections. The first went well but the second split into smaller pieces on the paper while soaking, not sure if I did this by forcing it flat? Apart from that they work great as can be seen in the hatch decal on front of boat. I still chickened out with the other side but only cut in half and didn't unfurl till transferring and it remained in complete sections 👍

#Roland I too have the Severn kit but have heard it trickier than this modern example

Ben M
I love these colors so much.

Sy Bar
If you are going to replace the solid mooring cleats with your own leave till near the end as I've now managed to knock most of them off at t once 🙄

Łukasz Gliński
Love these RNLI colours too 👍

Sy Bar
All was going well until I looked closer and realised I'd forgot the windows 🤪 I had added the ones I cut out at the rear but some how left the main one out 😳. I also used CA glue and do the cabin is now solid and the whole thing will be bin fodder if I attempt to remove it.
Do I'll try and add the glass pane by pane 🤞I don't make it worse

Roland
Oops! But I'm confident that you can add them piece by piece. Will be tricky for the last one though. Keep my fingers crossed!

CaptGPF
Beautiful - but like a nicely done steak, you didn't take enough photos and left us wanting more!

Wakisashi
Thank you for your positive comment….A few more pictures to follow.

Jennifer Franklin
Very nice, the dio is stunning as well

Richard Davidson
Looks great !

Rui S
Great work 👍

Wakisashi
Thank you all for your positive feedback

Jamie Struck
This is pretty inspiring! Well done!

Spanjaard
very impressive

Mr James
Ha, I agree with CaptGPF

GCB
Amazing work! On top of adding pictures, you could have given us some tips on your build.

Dominik Weitzer
wow. that looks great. the water is outstanding!

Neuling
Top modelling skills ...... congrats!

Finn
Cool!