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Jennifer Franklin
Looks like an impressive project, following 🙂

Robert Podkoński
Watching for sure!

Steve Desarzens
This project is huge ! Love it 🤩
I also have the kit and the idea to build it one day. Didn't look for reference photos yet. Do you already have some ?

Ard S.
I am curious how it will go. Looks like a great project so far.

Villiers de Vos
Jennifer, Robert, Steve and Ard: Welcome aboard.

Steve, there are plenty of photographs and videos available online.

Villiers de Vos
The first phase's assembly is straight forward. The only portion that I did not enjoy was using a hot blade to melt the components of thee front suspension together. There is not a lot of plastic to melt. I plan to use a soldering iron on the drive chain.

Jennifer Franklin
Lots of good progress, curious to see how the instrument panel works out.

Mr James
Nice progress pics. Is that actual brass on the chassis or very good painting?

bughunter
The next big car parts comes together - I'm in!

Villiers de Vos
Jennifer, your wish is my command. The Micro Kristal Klear securing the bezels is still drying, but I am happy with the outcome.
James, painting only. First airbrush (I had to paint engine parts as well). I then cut the painting fine by hand. Thank you for the compliment.
Bughunter, you are welcome.

Jennifer Franklin
Oh, very nice!

Villiers de Vos
I am still following the instructions/assembly sequence. No major issues so far.

Ard S.
It looks really good so far.

Bruce Huxtable
Looking very smart indeed 👍

Villiers de Vos
Thank you Ard and Bruce.
I have started on the engine. Except for drive chains the engine seems to be the focal point in as far complexity and colour. This is not a "shake and bake" kit, but I have enjoyed it very much so far. Fortunately there are a lot of reference photographs available online.

bughunter
Incredible what kind of details are possible in this scale 👍 And you know I love details!

Ard S.
What would be the size?
Cause it looks great on all the details

Mr James
Pic42. Again, its hard to believe that that's painted plastic.

Jv
Yes fantastic work Villiers

Jennifer Franklin
That engine is gorgeous.

Kyle DeHart
Diving into another one of these? I've missed it somehow up until now. Can't wait to see it get finished up. That engine is a work of art. It's all looking great.

Stéphane Jayet
what an engine !!!

Jv
Engine is is different word for motor

Guillaume Blanchet
Nice project. I have always loved this car

Andy Ball
Wonderful- can't wait to see it pass the chequered flag.

Bavel Cat
Wow! A huge model. It seems that it will need a garage for storage 😀
A very interesting project 👍

Jean-Daniel Aebischer
Superbe travail Villiers, pour moi qui suis mécanicien c'est un vrai régal. Bonne continuation 👍👏

Zsolt Czegle
Great work! 👍

Lochsa River
sittin in....

Alexander Grivonev
Oh niiiice 👍

Kyle DeHart
That engine is just a lovely work of art.

Rui S
Looking great 👍

Villiers de Vos
Thank you my fellow Scale mates for your kind words. Believe me when I say that it is humbling.
I am nearly finished with the wiring of the engine (a real mojo killer), the carburettors and fuel and oil lines.
Photographs of my adventures on page 15 of the instructions will be published soon.

Richard Berrie
Outstanding work Villers. Really love the subject and the reference photos. Your attention to detail is inspiring. Awesome work!

Hanno Kleinecke
Wow, rhat engine is just phnatastic !

Villiers de Vos
Richard and Hanno, Thank you for your kind words.
The wiring of the engine has been completed. Fortunately there are many reference photographs available.

Bruce Huxtable
I will be shocked if that engine doesn't run, by the time you have added the fuel lines, etc! Very smart and pristine work 👍

Michael Kohl
Coming along nicely.

Pietro De Angelis
Impressive!

Kyle DeHart
Really making me want to track one of these down Villiers

George Williams
Lovely model of a real monster of a car.

Villiers de Vos
Bruce, Michael, Pietro, Kyle and George, thank you for your kind words.
At long last some progress. The wiring of the engine was difficult, but adds a lot of realism. The next steps are straight forward up to assembling the drive chains.

Kyle DeHart
Ah man. It really looks awesome sitting down in the car. Fantastic work.

Jennifer Franklin
I've been out of the loop, so I'm a little late to comment, but I have to say that the engine is magnificent!

Guy Rump
Beautiful modelling! 👍

Mick Burdett
That is brilliant work

Villiers de Vos
Kyle, Jennifer, Guy and Mick, thank you for your kind words.
Progress should be quicker until the drive chains are reached.

Kyle DeHart
It's been an outstanding build to follow along with. Should I ever acquire this kit I'll certainly be returning here for reference

Villiers de Vos
Kyle and JD, thank you for your kind comments.
Work inside the engine compartment is nearing completion.

Rui S
A motor with wheels 😄 👍

Kyle DeHart
More fantastic work. This thing is too cool

Villiers de Vos
Well summarized Rui!
Kyle, thank you for your kind words.

Slow progress continues.

bughunter
Wow, that is sooo beautiful 👍

Alexander Grivonev
Really lovely work, I like it very much 👍👍

Kyle DeHart
Surely is a beautiful build.

DuperScale
Love the details.

Giannis Kaltapanidis
What a beauty...

Villiers de Vos
Gentlemen, thank you for your kind comments.
The end of the build is in sight.
All those welding points as well as cleaning up points led me in assembling the drive chains led me to explore alternatives. The closest that I could find was Tamiya's Assembly Chain Set for 1/6 Scale Motorcycle, part number 12674.

Villiers de Vos
I am calling this one completed. In general this is a very detailed model.

Thank you to everyone that stopped by, liked and your fantastic comments.

Guy Rump
Beautiful build, congrats! 👍

Tom ...
Wow, Villiers. That is outstanding work! And a lot of it! Well done. One day I will do this kit and I'll use your build as reference!

Kyle DeHart
I agree with Tom. An incredible build and an incredibly excellent build log. Thank you for sharing the entire process. I have designs on building this one day as well and will surely return here to make my own build go more smoothly.

Jv
Congratulations Villiers fantastic work

Villiers de Vos
Guy, Tom, Kyle and Jv: Thank you for your kind comments.

Andy Ball
Bravo, V!!

Villiers de Vos
Thanks Andy.

Anthony lfk
Wow, nice vintage car built ! Great built catalogue you have here, very detailed.

gorby
Beautiful result!

Neuling
Definitely! 👍

Holger Kranich
Hey Nelson!
Your dio´s are high level work! I like them very much! Congrats!

nelson
thank you my friend. A lot of time invested in them.

Holger Kranich
I can imagine!

Holger Kranich
The SEAL dio is amazing!!! Did you used the Dragon or the Verlinden LSSC?

Michal Z.
really nice dio's! 🙂

nelson
it is the dragon model. Fyi the nipa palms are lime colored paper with a coat of HU38

Luc B
👍

Hunter Cummins
Awesome where is the barrel on the 48 in the second to last picture??? And can we have some more poctures of the prime mover diorama??
But som awesome stuff

Choppa Nutta
awesomo !!!!!!!! 😄

Anthony Flanagan
I am with Holger. The SEAL dio was my favorite too. Really, really nice body of work. My compliments on your camera work. 👍👍

Alan Rush
Hi Nelson. Great work and a real pleasure to look at! Lots of activity to attract your eyes and figures and vehicles look great.

nelson
thank you for ur kind comments. Its encouraging.

nelson
concerning the short barrel of the M48 its in fact a M728 CEV 😉

nelson
new batch of photos long overdue

Marcin Jakubowicz
Great job!

J K
These are excellent

Rui S
Nice Dio collection 👍

nelson
Thanks Guys 4 ur kind comments

Neuling
A large collection of creative dioramas. Inspiring.

Guy Rump
Like it! 👍

Cristian A
Thanks Guy!! 👍👍

Anthony lfk
Nice Mig-29, this kit look as good as the GWH kit !

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work on the Mig.

Cristian A
Thanks a lot AceFactor I really enjoyed building this kit, especially after working on Italeri's MiG-29. The quality difference is extremely noticeable—Zvezda's MiG-29 9-13 stands out with excellent fit and overall precision. I also have Zvezda's MiG-29 SMT, which shares a similar look, and I'm looking forward to adding that one to my collection next!

Many thanks Villiers !

subotai
Good looking train!

Rui S
Very nice work 👍 and displaycase also.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work. The complete line-up brings real scale to the subject.

AJ
This was a relatively easy build that took less than a week - the base/rails took longer to create. As always with my models, I build/paint/decal how I want and am not that bothered about historical accuracy. These models are very simple and would be great for a younger/novice modeller. Good, quick and enjoyable fun.

DerMattes
Following 👍

Cristian A
Welcome my friend 👍

Sergej I
following 👍

Cuajete
Me 3!

Łukasz Gliński
Me 4, will follow before this kit makes it into my stash 🙂

Cristian A
Welcome Sergej. Cuajete and Lukasz!

The kit is very nice and I love the decals, they show exactly the 43 blue in my photo posted here. So far I've found a small fitting issue to the front, but if you start slowly and work your way towards the wings it gets into place.

Oliver
Oh, I take a Seat

Guy Rump
Following as well! 👍

Łukasz Gliński
These colours look great indeed 👍

Cuajete
I agree with Łukasz 👍

★ Starfish ★
Incredible! Also thank you for those reference photos!

Cristian A
Absolute pleasure to have you here, thank you Mike_AUT

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Great looking engines! Your diorama is also shaping up nicely.
The little patch of green really breaks up all the dark colours from the aircraft and the apron as well. 👀 👍

Cristian A
Thank you Robin! Glad you like it! I also think the green patch adds a nice contrast to balance out all those darker tones 👍 😊 it took me one week to mask and paint the engines, now they are barely visible between
the vertical stabilizers 😄

Dave Flitton
Watching

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Cristian A
Thanks a lot @ Villiers !
Welcome @ Dflitton!

I'm hoping to get this project finished soon, even if there are plenty of details / touchups needed to be done before I can assemble everything together.

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat, of course!

bughunter
Welcome Robert! Which one you want to take, the yellow or a green one? 😉

Please do not miss the project description, for the _VERY_ important reason for this project!

Robert Podkoński
👍 A green one, please 🙂

Marcel Klemmer
Hi Frank, I am in and do not need a seat. 😉

Ludvík Kružík
I'll sit down too. If I'm not mistaken, one green seat is still open. 😉

Spanjaard
I am certainly in

Martin Oostrom
Green two for me

David H
Be rude not to join in. 👍🏻

gorby
I'll join the audience as well. 🙂

bughunter
Hello my friends! A warm welcome to each and every one of you!

Working on the parts of this kit can be considered bodily harm! The bright yellow hurts your eyes and you can't see any details or damaged areas that need work. I would have preferred a more common gray!

Michael Kohl
Moin Frank. Nimmst mich mit?

bughunter
Aber sicher doch, wenn Du eine wilde Fahrt aushälst 😉

Kenneth
Hallo Frank, the set with lap belts only could be intended for the US Navy variant of the Stearman, the N2S. Until US entry in WW2, US Navy aircraft mostly did not have shoulder belts. I read this in a review of a 1/32 Vought Kingfisher while looking for seatbelts and wondering about the same thing for my 1/32 Revell/ICM N2S Stearman kit.

Juergen Klinglhuber
Schau ich mir auch an,...

bughunter
Welcome! Thanks Kenneth! That makes sense, as the kit offers also a yellow Navy plane with red stripes. Luckily my wife want it blue-yellow. All the pictures I found shows also shoulder belts, but that was mostly still flying machines and I guess the shoulder belts was added later.
I had already downloaded the ICM manual as an additional reference and looked at reviews because of an oddity on the upper wing. More on this later.

bughunter
Because I was still in soldering mode after the seats, I immediately turned my attention to the tank on the upper wing. I like the look of the metal fuel tank now.

Robert Podkoński
Perhaps you will find my photos useful for your build:
Hangar 10 | Album by podkon

bughunter
Yes, definitely 👍 Thanks!

bughunter
Found a nice page: stearman-aero.com/

bughunter
The wing is yellow again, but now the look is better!
I used here MRP-142 Orange Yellow. If someone remembers my Piper: the yellow was "Dark Chrome Yellow" also from MRP. Even this one here called "Orange Yellow" it looks more yellow compared to the Piper.

Ben M
👀

Alec K
I was just wondering where the heck is Bughunter, and here he is! Lovely progress and topic, following of course 👍

bughunter
Welcome Ben and Alec!
The lower wing is now also painted yellow. I only not sure about the blue. I want to go with the darker later blue, tried AK Pure Blue, but I will also try others.

Jakub Fiala
Nice work on this interesting type of aircraft so far 👍 Following for sure!

Ben M
Love these old trainers. They used to show up at airshows a lot when I was a kid.

Greg Baker
Sign me up!

Zbynek Honzik
A joy and pleasure to follow such a project! 👍

Christoph Kunz
Ui, da habe ich den Start ja irgendwie verpennt. 🙁
Aber jetzt bin ich dabei.

Kenneth
Noch was, je nach dem, was das Vorbild ist: Part 71 in Point 4 of the instructions is in my opinion not correct for a WW2-era Stearman. Such a box typically houses a radio, intercom, transponder etc. on modern, restored examples

David Taylor
Watching.

bughunter
In the spirit of "Piano man": the regular crowd shuffled in ...
Welcome!
Oh, can someone wake up Kyle? 😉

Juergen Klinglhuber
Kyle! - come on, you will miss a good portion of the show and have to put the stool again in the back... 😉 Just kidding. It is never to late for a bughunter-show

bughunter
Kenneth, thanks for the hint! Interestingly the Eduard manual of the PE set here on SM told me to remove the mount points for this part 71. After that hint I checked some pictures of original machines and found the modern equipment. So thanks for the confirmation! After my PE set arrived I found out the remove of that mount points is missing in my paper version! Luckily I have checked the corrected online version first.

I would like to build a original equipped plane, but this is somehow limited. I have only the kit decals for a US Army plane "136" dated 1941. There is no serial number mentioned. I have not found photos of that plane yet. So I will build it according the information I have, with "educated guesses" on some points. Later more.

bughunter
I made the instrument panels. May be you know the Eduard sandwich method of multiple PE parts? Here we have a special thing!

Kenneth
Fuselage innner side colours are also totally wrong in the instructions (overall aluminium). See flugzeugforum.de/thr...103126/post-3062086 where I posted some thoughts about this.

The „thick" plate on the instrument panel which you chose is correct for the period, it's a padding saving an unfortunate student pilot's face when smashing it against the instrument panel…

bughunter
Kenneth, thank you very much for your great support 👍 Highly appreciated!
Now I understand, why the bolts of the instruments are hidden by this padding.
According to your picture I painted the fuselage halves bright linen and added the read brown tensioning varnish. It will not be very visible after closing the halves.

The inner structure is not in scale: much too thick! As it will be not very visible later I do not go the extra mile to replace the structure by brass wires!
Did someone say Jehovah? 😎

bughunter
The seat belts (what a fiddly job), the seats and the cockpit as a whole are finished. What beautiful interior!

Have I forgotten something, or can the fuselage halves be glued?

Ben M
Pancakes! (IYKYK)

gorby
Lovely work on the cockpit Bugs. 🙂

Kenneth
Looks perfect 👍 I was wondering whether there shouldn't be a fuel cock (the red lever on the lower left side in the front cockpit) in the rear cockpit as well, but found quite a few photos were this indeed not the case (but also some with one).

And while the ICM fuselage structure is indeed very delicate, it stops short of the rear cockpit!

bughunter
Thank you mates!
Beside the thick structure it is a nice kit (and Eduard PE set) with great fit. Sometimes even with the famous Tamiya click 🙂

@Ben Pancakes?! You say if you know you know, but I do not know 🙁
If you mean the upholstery of the seats - I think that this task was taken over by the parachutes.

bughunter
The kit includes a clear lamp to be installed on the back of the fuselage for Navy and Army. I have not found a reference photo.
Is this perhaps an anti-collision light on modern aircraft? Add it or leave it out?

Kenneth
That fuselage lamp (probably a modern strobe light) does not appear in the manual available on the Stearman Aero site (p. 105)… from which I've also just learned that the red lever I mentioned earlier is control lock and not a fuel cock.

bughunter
Thanks for the confirmation of my guess Kenneth! I glued stretched sprue into the socket for later sanding.

René "Lord Bilbo" Bartholemy
Bughunter "not going the extra mile"? 🤔
Usurper!
What have you done to the real Bughunter? 🤣

bughunter
Don't worry, I'm okay. I still go the extra mile, but where it makes sense and is visible.
The fuselage is now closed and other small things done.

Alec K
You are making a lightning progress Frank. I can barely keep up! The added detail is, as usual, superb 👍

babak chalangi
definitely watching this

bughunter
Alec, that is a Revell Level 4 kit with only 58 parts according to the box. Ok, the PE set and the belts doubles the number and there is room for a little scratch work, but the fit is fantastic! That saves a lot of time.
I have the Mr.Paint True Blue on order and hope it will arrive soon.

bughunter
Some more little details are prepared, for example a Venturi pipe. This idea is maybe useful for other types.
But I also decided to go the extra mile to meet all expectations and made it possible to mount the rudder in an angled position for more liveness.

Martin Oostrom
Great work from the master

Ludvík Kružík
Your work is gaining momentum. It's a pleasure to watch the model grow under your hands.

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
How could I miss this build .... very very nice progress so far and kudos for the soldering work!!!! I was thinking of this approach very often, but I´m too scared and always came back to CA removing the excess with debonder. Watching this build with interest 😊

bughunter
Thank you mates for your very kind words!
@Thomas I was lucky enough to have been drilled in the art of soldering at a young age during my training as a telecommunications technician. Even though my studies were more theoretical afterwards, I now have 45 years of soldering experience. It was therefore obvious to use this experience in model making. This is also how I soldered my strip downs (see projects) 🙂

Treehugger
Any relation to the movie Where Eagles Dare? 🙂

Steve
I think this is so cool!

Villiers de Vos
A very interesting subject.

Mr James
Looking forward to seeing this

Tim
Great film

David Taylor
Broadsword calling Danny boy springs to mind.

Villiers de Vos
Nice work.

AJ
Where Eagles Dare is my all-time favourite film, so I had to make a dio. However, this ended up being a bit of an epic as I initially cocked-up the weathering of the Junkers and then struggled to find somewhere with sufficient room to display it - hence the airfield scene is most definitely a bit of a compromise. I was very happy how the bus came out given it was originally a die cast model. Just glad it's finished so I can get on with other projects.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Spitfire14
Looks awesome! Great little Diorama!

Neuling
More pictures please!

Ben M
Brilliant!

Mr James
Wow wow wow. What a superb display of weathering and painting. A stunning build

gorby
I agree. Top quality build!

David Taylor
Brill.

Rui S
Great work 👍 Deserves a base 🤔

Bruce Huxtable
Superb!

Villiers de Vos
Fantastic work and beautiful weathering. I agree with Rui, the model deserves a base.

mrva mrak
thnx guys.. base for him will be soon..

Neuling
Looking forward!