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Remco van Haren
Following. 👀

William Joel
Thank you all for the likes. Still a work in progress. More pics to come.

Dietmar Bogatzki
Amazing build

William Joel
Thank you Dietmar. More pics to come, just finished the engine & tender body painting, getting ready for the camo finish. We'll see how that turns out.

gorby
Nice work so far. I enjoyed building this kit although spraying the camo wasn't easy.

William Joel
Gorby - what was your approach to the camo. My thinking is to keep the engine/tender separate from the undercarriage, paint the camo and then assemble. This should minimize any retouching of the undercarriage, keeping it black.

gorby
I built it all and only then thought about painting it. 😄
Probably not the best way but it worked out in the end. Leaving the underside gubbins off might be a better/easier way to go about it.
Incidentally, I remember that the painting instructions only show one side view which make it a pain to work out what the other side should look like. I checked online and if it helps this is my build: Gorby's loco (but you knew that anyway). | Album by gorby (1:72)

gorby
Just remembered, the only thing I didn't fit before painting was the two side shield things at the front.

William Joel
Looked over your finished model, very nice. Noticed the red parts and the addition of the flak gun on the back, nice touch. Liked the camo too. Again, very nice job. Did it ever get into the dio that you were thinking of doing. I too plan to create one, but in the future. Regarding the side shields, I plan to attach them and then do the camo.

gorby
Yes I did add it to a diorama at a later date: In the last six months I could have achieved great things. I did this instead. | Album by gorby (1:72)
It won't be easy to paint the sides of the boiler if you attach the shields before painting.

William Joel
Gorby - looked over your dio, great job. I too have the Morser Karl completed and considered including it in a dio. I have the HobbyBoss munitions transport vehicle too, but not built.

Question - where did you get all the figures?

Regarding the shields, I came to that conclusion too, so they will be added after.

Alex K
Taking, once again, my seat to watch this...

Duster_d
I had not understood before why artists draw "Blochs" "crookedly", but it turns out that they themselves are not quite straight 🙂

Slackbladder
I can only think this is to offset the propwash hitting the vertical tail fin in order to allow the aircraft to fly straight. Most modern training aircraft now have the tail fin offset to counteract the corkscrewing air of the propeller hitting it, lessening the pressure required on the pedals to keep the aircraft straight with a lot of right rudder.

Duster_d
Slackbladder, yes, you're right. The engine is offset from the longitudinal axis so that the aircraft is not pulled to the right by torque. Modeling is a constant source of new knowledge for me, and it's great!

Dave Flitton
I'm glad you caught that! I would have never known.

Lost_Erik
Looking good!

J35J
Little late but taking a seat!

Thomas Kolb
Duster_d, but it works only at a certain power range. Normally the increased left turning tendency with large power changes, e.g. during take off or when performing a go-around, due to prop wash (and the p-factor) is counteracted with applying right rudder pedal. Mounting the prop shaft with such an extreme angle to me seems more like a sign of trying to fix to a flawed aerodynamic design. But man, your French camo paint job looks perfect!

Nicolas
I missed this one so far. Joining.
Nearly all single engine prop planes have eigher the engine build in with an angle or an asymetric / angled profile at the vertical stabilizer. As Thomas said it works just at one power seting and speed (normaly for cruise speed and cruise power), so at every other setting you have to use the peddals or the rudder trim. I also noticed that some french planes get it to the extreme with the angle of the engine like your Bloch ore the Morane Rally series.

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Duster_d
OK, regarding the displacement of the engine from the longitudinal axis of this "Bloch", yes, the displacement by 2.5 degrees did not help much, and the designers had to redo the tail anyway.

Alex K
It's a shame you are (once again!) let down by bad-quality decals... really pity... :/

John Wilkes
Colours are awful and not accurate, these parts can work you just need to paint them the right colours. That sounds counter intuitive but what I mean is they can be stained with acrylic paint and altered to a more realistic hue. If I had an alternative I would have chosen it.

Christoph Kunz
I'm taking a seat.

Stephan Fässler
Welcome Christoph to my first build since 35 years 😉
Cheers

Sergej I
looks good so far 👍 taking a seat 🙂

J35J
Great start!👍🏻

Davide Vitali
The way it really looks like metal is impressive

Henry Ch.
Großdeutschland div.

Doubtingmango
Looks great! Nice weathering

Rui S
Nicely done Stug 👍

Neuling
Very good paintwork and weathering!

Mr James
Agree with Neuling. Like the damage on the mantlet too

Schwarzadler
Thanks you all!

Mathias Decommere
My god! Brilliant!

scalemates
fixed

bughunter
Thanks! One strange thing: see PM

gorby
Nice collection! You must be an expert at applying decals by now. 😄

Thomas Faber
I'm not an expert yet, but 25 years of model building has given me some experience.. 😄 😄 😄 😄

Neuling
I agree with gorby, my favorite car is the blue Golf though ........

Thomas Faber
Thanx!! 😄 😄

Rui S
Beautiful collection 👍

nikfrost
Great cars, personal fave is the Quattro S1 E2. Would love to build that one day.

Michael Kohl
Very nice. I'd go for the green Skoda and the 037. Would be interesting to read a word or two on the kits you used and maybe even the experiences you had with them.

Thomas Faber
Rui S. Thanx!! 😄 😄

Thomas Faber
nikfrost. Thanks! The S21 is a great set, I can only recommend it! I also have another set with a motor!

Rui S
Welcome to scalemates🙂