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George Williams
Nice work so far.

Martin Oostrom
I agree

Bozzer
Your masking has definitely improved, mate. Nice job!

nikfrost
Thanks Bozzer! I think I'm getting the hang of this gloss finish also...hopefully.

Mr D
Nice 👍 very nice, the cast texture on the engine looks good, it's the prv V6 is it ?
I had an RC version as a kid .
Will look fantastic when the decals go on.
👌

nikfrost
The cast texture is Tamiya flat aluminium XF-16 very poorly sprayed by me haha, I think it was drying on its way from the airbrush to the surface and kind of built up.

Rando Dude
Had this on my shelf staring at me for a couple of months. This comes with a ton of PE, so lets see how much I can enjoy it.

Nicolas
Following with great interest.

Robert Podkoński
Me 2!

DerMattes
Watching

Rando Dude
Hello and welcome Nicolas, Robert and Mattes!

S M
Eager to see how you manage all the PE 😄

Bas Tonn
Lowering the HUD is your best and easiest option. Also, I'd test fitting the seats (and pilots if any)

Rando Dude
So I ran into a bit of a fitting issue. However I don't think it is the kits fault and I can really only blame my own laziness. Okay, maybe also the instructions..
The cockpit does not fit anymore with all the PE parts in it because I only scraped off the surface structures of where the PE instrument panels go instead of also filing off a good bit of the plastic below to compensate for the additional thickness of metal. In my defense, the instructions don't mention any of that...

Rando Dude
Hello there S M and Bas 🙂

I have already test fitted the seats and they don't fit. It's really tight in there but in this case has nothing to do with the PE parts. The seats just need to have a bit filed off on the sides to get them in.
I am probably going to rip it apart again and redo the whole thing. Not just for the cockpit but for some other issues (blame my laziness again lol) that need fixing.
Thanks to the magic of this being a Dual Combo I won't even need to buy a new kit..

neo
Hi, so far, so good.
I think, your problem is the incorrect alignment of part A10. It is too steep.

Rando Dude
Hi Neo, thanks, you are correct, it was incorrect alignment 🙂

Tip to anyone interested in building this:
The fuselage has ejector marks on the inside in the cockpit area. Remove those, unless you really like fitting issues.
The alignment pins of the fuselage also don't align very well. Remove those too.

S M
Good advice! 👍 I have wanted to build one of these, but I want to make Estonian version.

Живко Джаков
I'm following!

Rando Dude
Some more updates:
As mentioned, I had to open the fuselage again, mostly to salvage the internal engine parts and most of the PE from the cockpit. But I feel I am on a good track now.

Another tip: Test fit at every step! This is not one of Eduards best fitting kit I must say.

CaptGPF
Stalking

Thomas Kolb
Cool build! Makes me feel like I should build mine as well. I am definitely learning from your experiences here!

Mirko Römer
Following

Łukasz Gliński
I like planes that are OK, will follow 👍

Rando Dude
Hello Capt, Thomas, Mirko and Łukasz, welcome to the show.

Bernd Grün
I'm in. 👍 Following with interest.

alessandro magrelli
Very good, working on the same (schemes A and B)

Rando Dude
Hello Bernd and Alessandro.

Well, I'm done with this one for now. It took a bit longer to finish than anticipated, mostly because a lot of things got in the way and I also for a time lost complete interest in it.
The keen eye may notice that the external tanks are missing. I just forgot to paint them and when I noticed I just didn't feel it anymore. Maybe I'll add them someday.

S M
Great you managed to complete this. That figure is a nice addition👍

Ekki
Very nice result!

Łukasz Gliński
It's way more than OK, hats off.
Makes me wanna build one 👍

bughunter
You can add a new topic on your own, by adding a kit for it. Only empty topics are auto-deleted.

Alex K
Sure, dear Frank, but I can't add a topic if there is NO kit available - but there are, instead, a number of interesting gallery articles for scratch-built models of said subject... like in this case:

scalemodels.ru/artic..ovskijj-bich-22.html

bughunter
Then I would add a gallery article and edit it afterwards. There is also a topic field.

Alex K
Unless I'm terribly mistaken (and apologies if I do), you can NOT add a NEW topic by using the topic field on the edit form of gallery articles... (as is the case with new kits). The same also used to apply for new entry books, again if I'm not mistaken...
See, for instance, always in the case above: scalemates.com/articles/article.php?id=437176&m=edit
The topic field in the "edit gallery article" form in fact only allows you to select from a pre-existing list of topics - if you simply write the name of the new topic, the topic still "doesn't exist" - unlike what happens when you enter a kit for a new topic...

bughunter
I must admit that I have not tried this. Thanks for the explanation! May be the behavior of the topic fields should be identical.
Otherwise, if the topic is added and the article is not assigned "quickly" (within the timer) it would be auto-deleted too?

Alex K
Edit: Yes. And also the reverse: It has already happened, for instance with this gallery, which had been added in the past: maquette72.free.fr/a.._db70/index_gm89.php
But since no "Dyle et Bacalan DB-70" topic was created soon enough... ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyle_et_Bacalan_DB-70 ) the added gallery simply vanished, after a certain time...
That's why when a gallery article. for such an esoteric topic with no kit available, is added, one has to ask for those mates with the power to add topics... to do so.
Or else (as I think I have asked Tim before), one should be able to add new topics when adding the relevant gallery articles and books...

Eddie Mann
It would be better to merge :
SCM Topic: Short S.23 into
SCM Topic: Short Empire as there was also a Short Empire S.30