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gorby
The 1/48 Tamiya model?
You might need to narrow that down a little. 😄

a6a80871
Thanks! My bad! It is the Tamiya model of the F-35B (Item 61125). I think spell cheque mangled my second sentence (above) but there are three rows of what appear to be buttons or switches....I just curious about their functions? 😎

gorby
Don't know if this will help or how accurate it is. It's a user manual for a F-35 flight simulator. Cockpit info starts about 1/3 the way though (Note to Microsoft, page numbers would have been useful 😄 ):
orbx-user-guides.sto..ser-guide-76797d.pdf

a6a80871
OK thanks!!! When ever I'm appalled by terrible things some people get into, I'm always amazed and stunned by all the wonderful things that people do. What a nice thing. I'll read it and let you know if I find the answer🥇

gorby
That's a very nice thing to say, thank you. I try to help this lovely community when I can - it only took about ten minutes on Google and as I'm retired time isn't an issue. 🙂

Oleg Bogolei
Looks great! nice and clean build. Any problems with the model or any advises?

gorby
Nice result from an ancient kit.

Ekki
Good work!

Bartosz Medyński
Thank you mates. It was a lot hard work, but effect is quite nice in my opinion. I have several old kits in my stash 😉.

Thomas Kolb
This Fulcrum looks great! Keep it coming! Did you find out what was the reason for the problem with your airbrush? Have you tried replacing the silicone seals in the nozzle? If they leak in even just a very small amount of air, everything goes wrong.

Cristian A
Good morning Thomas!

Thanks, I hope I will finish the Aggressor Mig-29 over the following days, it has a very nice decal design.

The airbrush problem was complicated, it was initially clogged (I'm blaming Humbrol acrylics for that, I always take good care of the airbrush and clean it after each spray) and while trying to clean the nozzle with a needle I enlarged the nozzle head bu mistake. I changed the nozzle and needle and the airbrush sprays beautifully now, decided on using Tamiya/MRP and Vallejo paints for the new projects.

To get to the root cause of the problem I still need to use the old needle in the new nozzle and the old nozzle with the nee needle, as a needle can be bended without easily noticing.

Nicolas
Nice progress so far, following.

Cristian A
Thanks Nicolas, welcome!

Oliver
Watching!

Dave Burgess
Another one of my 1:48 builds from the early '80s. Like many of my models back then, the photos taken on my film camera back then have been lost, but the models have survived. Finally took them out of the display case, dusted them off, and updated my photo albums.

bossy122
A nice 80s effort! Do you recall how you did the red on the nose? I have 2 Thunderbirds in the stash and its memories of building one as a kid ( mid 70s) and trying to brush paint the red that haunt me still!