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Alex K
I'm in - of course...

Michael Kohl
I only and sincerely hope that you quadruple checked your references that the original plane didn't have an "Airfix" molded on the cockpit side walls - lest you have to scratch new ones. 😉

Łukasz Gliński
My heart broke when I had to do it 😁

Nicolas
I'm in. Got the Airfix kit and the Pavla detail set in my stash, but I'm thinking about replacing it with the AVI kit. I think your report will be a big help there.

Cuajete
Great! The Bird Dog Society has begun. I have felt a great disturbance in the Force, but I remembered that Łukasz is a great tamer of hard plastics 😉

It looks like those photo-etches are doing a good job 👌

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Tony Stark
Thanks guy!

Ekki
I"m in.

Mid Franconian
I need to watch this!

Cuajete
Me 2!

J35J
I'm in!

Łukasz Gliński
Me 4, might be my reference in the future 👍

Robert Podkoński
High five!

Nicolas
Joining.

Marius
And I thought starting my third such kit from KP/RV Aircraft is self torture. The truth is, once you had finished one of them in the past, the frustration decreases with each new one.

Any idea how you will treat the taxiing lights?

Thomas Kolb
Marius, I honestly don't think this kit is so terrible. There are some fit issues for sure, but I have built much worse kits. I constantly keep reminding myself that I only do this for relaxation and fun, and not for a competition or as a profession.

Are you referring to the swiveling landing lights underneath the intakes?

Marius
Thomas, I share your opinion about the kit and hobby too actually. The kit is dreadful in a few areas, but overall more than decent. I finished two of these already and I must say, they really stand out my collection, despite the kit's reputation.

Yes, I was refering to those lights. If I remember it correctly, there are some transparent parts included in the kit, but the intakes are completely flat, where the lights should go. I made the mistake to install those lights in the closed position, instead of the more interesting setup, when they are deployed downwards. In any case, it's just a heads up, in case you might want to add some extra detailing.

Thomas Kolb
Yes, I see your point regarding those lights, but I will probably just stick to my usual middle road - easy to accomplish and still produces a cool result. 🙂

Martin von Schreckenstein
haha, love the topic and kit selection. you are definitely more meticulous than I was 🙂

Thomas Kolb
Martin, I saw your MiG-23 project - it is way more ambitious than mine! I am not so meticulous, just very, very slow, only having an hour or two to spend here and there.

Thomas Kolb
A bit of a setback here. I just realized that I had foolishly been following the assembly drawings and thus ended up with the wings upside down. Bottom side up and vice versa. It may not be something that is easily noticeable, but knowing myself, I would never be able to unsee it now. So I am backtracking my steps and need to change the way the wings are facing without ruining the fuselage. Mamma mia, what a noob mistake-a to make-a.

Łukasz Gliński
Great you found it out before it was too late. I see we used to watch the same TV series 😄
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Dave Flitton
Watching!

Thomas Kolb
Łukasz, yes, haha, you found the hint.

Finn
I'm in

Jiri Vybihal
good luck 😄

Guy Rump
I'm in too. 👍

Cuajete
Good job with the air intakes 👍

S M
I'm in! I'm also working on KP's MiG-23 and had the same issues with fitting and wings. Damn I didn't notice that the wings are upside down...

Cristian A
I'm taking a sit as well 🙂

Thomas Kolb
Thank you gentlemen for your encouraging words! 🙂 The twin seater assembly is done, and now I need to finish the single seater. I am now thinking about which individual aircraft to represent and which camo to use.

aetios
This is looking great. watching with interest!

Cuajete
I agree with @aetios 👍

Cristian A
Hi Thomas, nice progress. I think the Tamiya paints are my favourite so far. They apply well and they don't smell so strongly.

Thomas Kolb
Cristian, yes, they are mine too. They also react superbly well to the Mr Color Leveling thinner and level out to perfection. Too bad that the color range is a bit narrow, you need to mix almost everything.

Cristian A
Thanks for the tip Thomas, I recently discovered Tamiya paints. The hobby shop seller recommended "Aqueous Hobby Color Thinner" and using that works well also.

Mirko Römer
Respect! 🙂

Michael Kohl
Following

Thomas Kolb
Damit, ran out of white paint.... I decided to also order the Mr Paint Hungarian set to see if they are any good.

Łukasz Gliński
Mr Paint is grand, but more stinky than Tamiyas

Mr D
If l cut an item of the spru and it has a possibility of mix up, l up a little bit of making tape with part number on it to label it up, l do this as made this mistake before with wheel bay doors !! " Wanded when so much sanding needed!" 😆.
Every build has it's niggle...once it's been on shelf a month...soon forget, good work

Thomas Kolb
Mr D, yes, it's a good tip. But it doesn't help when the assembly drawing is wrong! The best is to constantly keep referring to real photos - sometimes even apex companies, such as Tamiya, Special Hobby or Eduard make silly mistakes.

Mr D
I know, I'm doing a Tamiya and they missed of colour required for 3 different parts!

Thomas Kolb
The masking of the standard single seater is a pretty relaxing task, but Iván The Terrible (no 20), with its blotchy, multi-color camo is proving a real challenge. I am trying to add the colors in the order as they were applied on the real aircraft to make the pattern realistic, but man, it is tricky!

Ekki
Following.

Zoltan Grotz
Very nice work!!!

Rui S
An eye catcher 👍

Ekki
Beautiful result!

Ekki
Watching

Kendrick Brown
Would love to see more photos of this display!

David
Kendrick, I have more photos at my website of this VF-161 Chargers build - See: flypastrush.com/post..demy-f-4b-phantom-ii
I will add some here for you as well - Cheers

Kendrick Brown
Wow! That is quite the collection you got there! And an excellent page! I'm going the have to spend some time reading through those builds! Very impressive!

David
Thanks Kendrick - Hope you enjoy the other pages as well, That website of mine has taken quite some time to put together, however it is great to have all my builds in one place... Four years in and I am closing in on the finish line... unless I build more models... Oh, oh best start planning for year Five 😉

Rando
Love the look of the Chargers Phantoms. Amazing work.

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... :/

Duster_d
I will finish the project "as is". If it is possible to find better quality decals for the "Bloch", then I will remove the old decals, and repaint the model where necessary.

Alex K
i) I do have the Smer kit from a more recent edition (this one: Bloch MB 152 (Směr 0840, 1:72) ), I won't need the decals, I could send them to you if you wish. They seem less off-set (although not perfect), but of course I don't know how they will behave. ii) There seems to be a replacement set available: Bloch MB.152-C1 Smer #160 (APC Decals APCR72025, 1:72) I guess these could be really better - but of course this will have some cost...

Duster_d
Alex K, the first option would suit me. But I need to find out a way to offset your postage. Because of the sanctions, it doesn't look as easy as it used to be, direct transfers don't work from Russia.

Guy Rump
impressive build. 👍

Neuling
A funny thing happened on the way to the forum .......... and it is very well done

Grant Dalzell
Thanks guys

gorby
Very nice work! The figure looks particularly convincing.

Rui S
Beautifully done 👍

Grant Dalzell
Thanks again guys