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Alexandros Marinos
Sunday and some basic progress was done with the cabin and tail cone section!

Alexandros Marinos
More progress,
-Masking of clear parts with Eduard masks
-Some details on the main fuselage were not suitable for the variant -B so I removed them but also added some others from my spare parts
-Resque hoist provided by Italeri is suitable for -A variant only,so I made another from my spare box which is almost the correct one (will add some wiring also in the end)
-Added seatbelts on the seats

Cuajete
Good start 👍
Following.

Oleg Bogolei
Following!

Alexandros Marinos
Weekend's progress:
-Cockpit-cabin painting
-Added clear parts and weight (10 grm) at the nose section
-Close the main fuselage
-Added tail cone section
-Checked alignment and proper fitting

Michael Kohl
Great metal effect on the double radial engine, but very basic in detail. 😉

Ok, kidding aside. Lovely progress. I am in for the ride.

Alexandros Marinos
Back on the bench and I found the time to:
-Add the main landing system with hydraulic lines from tin wire
-Add the low grille on the engine cover despite the fact that Italeri missed that part in the instructions
-Fill a gup (maybe missed spot at the factory) with evergreen rod at the tail cone section
-Add the resque hoist and and it's wiring
-Prepared the main and tail rotor blades
-For the end I primed the model with black 1500 finishing surfacer
That's for today!

Cuajete
Good progress! 👍

Alexandros Marinos
Thank you for watching mates!Stay tuned,soon more progress with metal finish!

Alexandros Marinos
Re-primed the model again with gloss black and then painted with Alclad white aluminum!
Decals will follow!

Michael Kohl
Nice progress. Time to swap the teaser to a pic of your model.

Zsolt Czegle
Greeat work! Following!

Naram
nice metallic paint

Michael Kohl
Nice new teaser. 😉

Alexandros Marinos
Final WIP here:
-Decals by LM Decals
-Gloss varnish gunze uv cut
-Pin wash with tamiya black panel liner
-Unmasking clear parts
-Added the main and tail rotor, wheels and antennas on the upper part of the fuselage.
Final photos will follow!

Tibor Szilvai
Nice! 👍

Cuajete
Great! 👍

Rui S
Beautiful work. Impec. 👍

gorby
Lovely job!

Clement
Such a simple and elegant livery. Nicely done!

Naram
very cool !

Martin Weinpold
wow!!!

Thomas Kolb
Absolutely beautiful!

Живко Джаков
It looks great.

Agnius
Lovely!

Alexandros Marinos
Thank you all for your comments!

J35J
Great work! Congrats 👍🏻

Nik Watson
Very nice indeed, smashing job 👏👏👏

Elias Korompilis
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Ronan
Very nice 👍

Troy Campbell
Thanks alex

Troy Campbell
Thanks jean-louis

Troy Campbell
Thanks villers de vos

Troy Campbell
Thanks mr E

Troy Campbell
Thanks walaroo

Troy Campbell
Almost done with deck fixtures

Troy Campbell
Thanks LucLuke B

Troy Campbell
Thanks ben

Lochsa River
sittin in

Troy Campbell
Thank you lochsa river
Best take your shoes off and get comfortable...
It will take a bit...lol

Troy Campbell
Thanks alexander

Ben M
👁️👁️

gorby
Nice work so far.

Troy Campbell
Thanks gorby

Troy Campbell
Thanks prdrag

Troy Campbell
Thanks ben

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Troy Campbell
Thanks guy

Troy Campbell
Thanks Jiri

Troy Campbell
Thanks mona

gorby
Nice work!

Neuling
I agree! But where is the Kettenkraftrad?

Rui S
Great paintjob & weathering 👍

Spanjaard
nice 262

Yuki H.
Thx for likes and comments! This is my first time to try scratchbuilt in aircraft. I'm still looking for ways to make the wear effect more real.

Yuki H.
And about the Kettenkraftrad... I haven't painted him yet 🙁

Neuling
Looking forward!

Nicolas
👀

Naram
following

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat too.

Alec K
Me too 👍

Daniel Klink
Oldie but goldie .. Nice start 👍

Guy Rump
Thank you Daniel 🙂

Guy Rump
Vallejo Model Air RLM 71 added as main base colour to top of fuselage. I have finally got round to continuing with this model....

Guy Rump
Vallejo RLM 70 added as other main top fuselage colour.

Guy Rump
Thanks Roland 🙂

Guy Rump
Underneath fuselage, Vallejo Model Air RLM 65.

Guy Rump
A long time coming but I have now completed this model. The canopy was a challenge to say the least to attach.

Stab/KG 53 Lille Air Base, France, Summer 1940. KG 53 was named the Kondor Legion. KG 53 took part in the invasion of France & the Low Countries in 1940 before being moved to Poland in June 1940. On 1 July it was moved again; taking an active part in the Battle of Britain including The Hardest Day on 18 August and the raid on 15 September known as Battle of Britain Day.

Guy Rump
Many thanks for your support as always Roland. The 111z? I haven't one in my stash yet.......🙂

Andy Ball
splendid! "base-metal to gold" alchemy on the Revell

Guy Rump
Many thanks Andy 🙂

Dave Flitton
Nice work!!!

Guy Rump
Many thanks Dave 🙂

Guy Rump
Many thanks mate for your interest and like Casey B, it's been a long time since I looked at this project. Thanks for looking. 👍

Mark Sherwood
Like it. 🤟🥸👍

Guy Rump
Thanks Mark for the kind comment. 👍

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Dave, Cuajete, Gary, Mark S, Franck D, Pietro DA, Mr D & 2 other mates. 👍

Guy Rump
Many thanks mates for your interest and likes DURAND S, HSC1932, Jennifer F, Dave F & Djordje N. 👍

Guy Rump
The next project will be this old tool Italeri Horsa glider. My first glider, so here's hoping it will be a good experience. 🙂

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat here!

Nicolas
I'm going to build this one too. Im watching with great interest.

J35J
I'm in!🙂

Guy Rump
Made a start today. First thing to do was decide if a MK.1 or Mk.2 was to be built. I've decided on the Mk.1 so I had to cut out the parts as shown in the photo. 🙂

Welcome along Robert, Nicolas & J35J, nice to have you with me. 👍

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Robert P, Neil, Chris & J35J. 👍

Finn
Following

Guy Rump
Seats and flooring now installed inside fuselage. 🙂

Welcome along for the ride Finn. 👍

Many thanks for your interest and like Franck D. 👍

Guy Rump
Today I finally completed the cockpit and fitted the cargo door into the fuselage. 🙂

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Rui, Tim v D, Duster_d & Sukhoi 242. 👍

Guy Rump
Cockpit, fuselage & tailplane now altogether. Tail was difficult to get together, Added 5g of weight to the nose and 15g of weight to the front of the fuselage. 🙂

Many thanks mate for your interest and like Andrew B. 👍

Guy Rump
Wings now together. I intend painting the wings before attaching to the fuselage. Hurricane added to show the size of the glider. 🙂

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Alberto M & airjuneau. 👍

Guy Rump
Underside of wing painted with Vallejo Model Air black & insignia white. 🙂

Guy Rump
Did the upperside of the wings with Vallejo Model Air Dark Earth and Dark Green. Invasion stripes to be added next. 🙂

Many thanks mate for your interest and like Pietro DA. 👍

Neil Patrick
I built this about 20 years ago Guy as a gift for a WW2 Horsa pilot who was a friend of my wife's family. He'd flown Horsas into Normandy and Arnhem. He loved the model and it sat in his living room for the rest of his days. It's a nice kit as I recall.

Guy Rump
Invasion stripes are now on the wings. Next is to start painting the invasion stripes on the fuselage. 🙂

@ Neil, it is quite a nice kit considering its age. The fact that you gifted a Horsa model to an actual Horsa pilot veteran is something that must have been hugely gratifying. 👍

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Villiers DV, Sebastien C, Neil P & 2 other mates. 👍

Guy Rump
Fuselage painted Dark Earth, BS Dark Green and black including invasion stripes. Gap is for where the wings are added. 🙂

Many thanks mate for your interest and like Chris. 👍

Guy Rump
Wings attached, decals & undercarriage added. 🙂

Many thanks mate for your interest and like Dom S. 👍

Guy Rump
Finally completed, my first glider done. 🙂

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes William J, Mirko R, Cliff K & Finn. 👍

Nicolas
Nice result Guy. 👍

J35J
Great build and paintwork Guy! Congrats👍🏻

Guy Rump
Many thanks Nicolas & J35J for your kind comments, I really appreciate them! 👍

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Treehugger, Nicolas, Gary V & Cuajete. 👍

Guy Rump
Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Dave & Lukasz G. 👍

Robert Podkoński
Fantastic job, Guy!

Stephan Fässler
Great work mate!

Neuling
You brought this oldie to life!

Guy Rump
Many thanks for your very kind comments Robert, Stephan & Neuling. I appreciate them greatly! 👍

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Vassk9, Villiers DV, Mona, Juskifo, NordMito, Stephen F & Mark B. 👍

Guy Rump
Many thanks mate for your interest and like Joseph L. 👍

Guy Rump
Many thanks mate for your interest and like Desert Marlin. 👍

Guy Rump
Many thanks mate for your interest and like Franck G. 👍

Guy Rump
Many thanks mate for your interest and like Tcamp. 👍

István Szücs
Wonderful!

Mr D
Like it Guy 👌
Was this one of the invasion glider's??

Guy Rump
Many thanks for your kind comments Istvan & Mr D, it is greatly appreciated. 👍

@Mr D, yes the glider is in the D-Day invasion colours with identification stripes. 👍

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Istvan S, Skyhiker & Mr D. 👍

Guy Rump
Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Sergio O & Bozo. 👍

Guy Rump
Many thanks mate for your interest and like NLAWScametovisit. 👍

David Taylor
You need a MK5 Stirling now Guy.

Guy Rump
I have a Mk.1 in my stash David, I think that will have to do otherwise she who must be obeyed will not be happy! 🙂

Many thanks mate for your interest and like Durand S. 👍

Stephen Lesley
Wow, this one brings back memories. As a teenager I loved looking through the Italeri catalogues and marvel at the paint jobs on the models. Most of them were painted by Francois Verlinden and I remember thinking I will never make models like that!

Guy Rump
Yes, the Horsa was always a model I wanted to build and as a teenager never got one. As well as the newer tools, it's always nice to build older models that we wanted when we were young. 👍

Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Curatorm & Stephen L. 👍

Guy Rump
Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Patrick VV & Andre S. 👍

Jennifer Franklin
Did you paint the white strips, or are they decals?

Guy Rump
Hi Jennifer, I painted the black and white strips. 👍

Jennifer Franklin
*wow* How did you get then so perfect?

Guy Rump
They're not perfect Jennifer but I did take my time on them with masking etc. Thank you for your kind comment! 👍

Guy Rump
Many thanks mates for your interest and likes Marc & Jennifer F. 👍

Guy Rump
Many thanks mate for your interest and like walaroo. 👍

Nicolas
👀

Moreno Baruffini
Following as well!

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat!

Michael Kohl
Me too

J35J
Taking a seat

Shar Dipree
Look great so far.

Dave Flitton
I have this kit. It will not look as wonderful as this one you are building though!

Rui S
A jewel 👍

Guy Rump
Excellent job so far, following. 👍

Alec K
Lovely 👍

Skyhiker
That sure did come out fabulous. Congratulations.

Shar Dipree
Fantastic Typhoon. 👍

Nicolas
Superb 👍👍👍

Robert Podkoński
Great!

Neuling
I agree with everyone above!

gorby
That would be an excellent result for 1/48. In 1/72 it's stunning!

Thomas Kolb
Well, that's a competition winner, but I guess you know this already. Excellent!

Andrea Brenco
Thanks to all for your comments and for the time spent following the construction and finishing of this model! The beautiful 3D printed engine from CMK helped a lot with the final result, even if being in a single piece it was not easy to paint it and enhance all the minute details

Moreno Baruffini
Ciao Andrea, your builds are always awesome, but this one it's probably one of the best!

Felix
Incredibile!!

Thomas Bischoff
thought first it is the 1:24 kit … 1st rate result!

Guy Rump
1st class modelling, congrats! 👍

Alain Brshl
Joli début !

Steve Desarzens
Merci Alain 😉

Thomas Bischoff
I love these colourful birds! Nice start - the seat is from photoetch? Looks great

Robert Podkoński
Yellow wing! Taking a seat for sure! 🙂

Steve Desarzens
Thank you Thomas and Robert ! Yes the seat is from the Eduard photoetch set.

Kenneth
Looks great 👍 Just bought that kit myself, had to have it 😳

Pierre-Louis Ganty
Au top Steve 😉

Steve Desarzens
Merci PL 🙂🙂🙂

Steve Desarzens
Kenneth, it's a great kit, really amazing detail and the fit is really good 🙂

Thomas Bischoff
top 👍

Robert Podkoński
Beautiful!

Skyhiker
Good luck Jennifer

Robert Podkoński
I'm taking my first row seat here 😉

Kenneth
Wow 👍 The kit looks fantastic but also very challenging. Best of luck, Jenny, looking forward to the build!

Jennifer Franklin
Welcome, Skyhiker, Robert, and Kenneth.

Kesa Tiho
Looking forward to the complete build. Hope your little helper doesn't get any stray fur under your decals which FYI: is not a good time 😄

Jennifer Franklin
Hi Kesa, welcome. Yes, fur is a constant challenge.

Naram
following !

Jennifer Franklin
Welcome, Pierre!

Hans-Jürgen Haag
👀👍

Jennifer Franklin
Welcome Hans-Jürgen!

shuai shao
A perfect first step

Guy Rump
Following! 👍

Michael Kohl
It is supposed to be a very nice kit. Wish you happy modelling hours.

Jennifer Franklin
Welcome shuai, Guy, and Micheal!

Villiers de Vos
Booking my seat as well.

Felix
Taking a seat!

Mr D
Nice project Jennifer 👍 put your masking skills to the test .
Good luck with the build 😀👍

Mr D
If you collect enough Airfix flying hours..... They include a free 🐈😺 cat on you next purchase, Good British value folks 😁👍

Miguel Vaquero
Probably, my most ambitous project yet. Im going to try and recreate a sinking of a submarine with depth charges, droped from a destroyer. Everything in 1/700 scale. For this, i bought the Battle of the Atlantic set, wich comes with a J-Claas destroyer, a type VII German submarine and a Short Sunderland amphibous plane.

gorby
Sounds like an interesting project, I'll tag along. 🙂

David Taylor
Yuup.

Jay Dubya
Permission to come aboard Captain Vaquero?

Landlubber Mike
Looking forward to following this one!

Miguel Vaquero
Welcome aboard guys!! Happy to have you along.

Of course Jay! There's always room in my ships😁😁

Miguel Vaquero
Sub already done! It was small but detailed. The PE parts were really a challenge. Some weathering it's all it's left.

Miguel Vaquero
Today i wanted to work on how i want my diorama to look. So i hoped on blender and downloded some free assets and placed them together to see how i want it to look. I think for the quantity of resin and the accuracy of the scene this is going to be more or less the final desing of my diorama.

Miguel Vaquero
Starting with the destroyer. Awesome detail too but a million tiny parts. Good challenge for sure

Miguel Vaquero
Destroyer assembly done! To the paint booth

Jay Dubya
RAAF 10 Squadron Flying Porcupine next please, Miguel ?!!?

Kesa Tiho
I am in love
Fantastic build

Miguel Vaquero
Thanks Kesa!!

Miguel Vaquero
I don't know if I'm going to finish the Sunderland😞😞. The fitting between the fuselages is too bad and fragile, using putty is not going to do the trick this time cause it will hide a lot of the nice detail and I will not be satisfied. I'll think about how to do it but there's not much hope now😓

Miguel Vaquero
To get my mind of the plane. I decided to destroy the sub.it turned out perfect, as I intended

Jay Dubya
Not really where you are headed with your diorama, but this might give a bit of context to my 'historical' comment Miguel.

"A Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Sunderland (of No. 10 Squadron) made the type's first unassisted kill of a U-boat on 17 July 1940.[3]"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sunderland

Flying Porcupine
"Two examples, in particular, stand out: on the 13th of April 1940, a Sunderland operating off the coast of Norway was attacked by six Ju-88C heavy fighters – the Sunderland shot down one JU-88, damaged another so seriously it had to quit the fight, and drove the rest away.

A 1943 encounter with JU-88 was even more savage when a Sunderland from 461 Sqn RAAF was attacked by eight JU-88C long-range fighters. Despite the Sunderland being heavily damaged with most of the crew wounded, the Sunderland downed three attackers, damaged and drove off the rest and made the 560-kilometre return journey to Britain where the heavily damaged aircraft was beached at Cornwall."
planehistoria.com/short-sunderland/

10Sqn RAAF Photos -
adf-serials.com.au/sunderland.htm

Keep up the great work on these tiny models.
Cheers

PS The nickname 'Flying Porcupine' was probably just a bit of allied propaganda as there's not a lot of evidence the Germans ever referred to a Sunderland as one. It's a lot like the Japanese with the Beaufighter and Whispering Death.

Miguel Vaquero
Thanks for all the info Jay! I really appreciate it. And they could fit very well with this diorama. They actually performed anti submarine operations from GB and they actually sunk 6 U-boats.

I'm sure if I'm able to fix my Sunderland, I'll paint it with their colours. I loved their history

Miguel Vaquero
The U-Boat has exploded!!💥💥

gorby
The explosion effect is very realistic.

Miguel Vaquero
Thanks Gorby!!

Miguel Vaquero
I've already glued the U-Boat to the acrylic sheet. As the background for the diorama states that the aft reserve torpedo exploded, to hide the cables I made some bubbles coming down from the exploded compartment. It's not the best but it's better than to have some cables seen.

Miguel Vaquero
The acrylic sheets mold is done. The ship is now lifted with nylon cord to place on to the resin without sinking. And the u-Boat is secured in the container.

Next step, the resin pouring. I've never been so nervous about a model.

gorby
Good luck with the resin Miguel.

Shar Dipree
following

Miguel Vaquero
Some bubbles formed. Not the best result, also they are positioned in places where some bubbles would be formed. Overall I think it turned out great.

Jay Dubya
Absolutely 'killed it' - well done Miguel!

Miguel Vaquero
Thanks Jay!

That bubble on the bow is killing me. It's right on the surface of the resin but I don't know how to get rid of it, and if I'll make it worse if I try something

Steve
wow, absolutely love this

David Taylor
Brill.

Landlubber Mike
Wow, really cool man! Well done!

Rui S
Excellent work 👍

Miguel Vaquero
Thanks a lot guys! There's still some work to do. But it's getting there.

I've made the form of the waves with some acrylic gel. Let's wait for it to dry and then to make some foam

Guy Rump
Great job, very impressive. 👍

Miguel Vaquero
Thanks Guy!

I ended up making and painting the Sunderland, flying the colors Jay suggested. The end result, I think it's salvageable. I'm wondering if I should put it in the diorama. The downside is ill have to stick it with some transparent acrylic rod. It's going to be visible but not too much. I think if I mask the bottom part of the rod, the one closer to the water, as a droped depth charge from the porcupine, the result might not be bad at all.
What do you guys think

Jan Peters
Very cool set up, and very ambitious. You're a braver man than I.
Love the effect of the explosion, very convincing.

Miguel Vaquero
Thanks Jan!! Im not really brave, I was really really scared 🤣🤣. Its just a matter of trying and if I fail well, from everything we learn. In the end it turned out great, so that is that.

It's really great having all the support from all you experienced guys. I've only been modelling for a year or so, so your comments are really encouraging

Miguel Vaquero
Testing the Sunderland. What do you guys think. I'm not sure If I loved or hate it

gorby
I like it, I think it adds another element of interest (mind you I reeeeeally like the Sunderland so I might be biased). 🙂
I just want to comment on the how you've done the surface of the water - excellent, particularly the effect of the exploding depth charges.

Mr D
That looks fantastic Miguel 👌👍👍

Miguel Vaquero
It really does add a lot to the scene Gorby. I'll have to think thoroughly but I'm starting to like the diorama more with the Sunderland in it.

Also thank you and thanks Mr D for you kind words! The good thing about this diorama is that it really doesn't need any special abilities. It's as simple as it can get and it will give you a great result

Mr D
It's has plenty of life to it 👏👌.
How did you get the bubbles in the right place 🤔??
I am starting a Diorama once l get my next build sorted, lm trying to rap up the X2 projects I'm working on and then l start my Mi-8 it's going to be part of a Chernobyl disaster Diorama, l have the damaged power station ready for paint,
I would like to create explosion n smoke like you have done here and LED.
Nice work 😀👍

Villiers de Vos
This is epic. You manage to capture the observer with your dynamic and realistic scene.

Ben M
Remarkable diorama. How did you get the resin so deep? The stuff I use, you can only pour 1/8" at a time. The diorama is so dynamic and exciting!

Miguel Vaquero
Thank you Villiers. Really glad that you like it. Your words really mean a lot coming from such a great modeller.

Well Mr D, the big bubbles coming out of the explosion are mainly produced by the gap a created when cutting the U-Boat. The air trapped inside came to the surface while the resin was curing, and it cured faster than the bubbles could scape to the surface. They as well appear because of the cotton I used to create the explosion effect, but mainly because of the first reason. Also Ill make sure to follow your build. It really sound amazing, and watching your prior work, Im sure it's going to be awesome.

Thank you also Ben!! I'm glad you enjoyed the work. As per the resin, I really used the cheap one from AliExpress. I mixed well the two parts till the resin and hardener were completely clear. Then I poured it and that's it. The instructions said I could pour up to 2 centimeters per pour. I did four centimeters deep at once and it cured great. The only downside I found is that not all small bubbles rised to the surface and couldn't be popped with a torch. I should have poured a little, then torched and then poured the rest. I didn't expect such a Good result from this but guess I got lucky.

Mr D
Thanks for the Info Miguel 👍 it's all worked out for the best.

Miguel Vaquero
It did worked. Now the only thing left is to crate a base to go with it and finish the wiring.

Bruce Huxtable
Very impressed with your execution of this evocative scene. No escape for those poor souls..... Your creative solutions worked very well indeed, but I'm curious as to how you formed the surface of the sea? There's a lot going on, including the expanding circular waves. Superb!

Dominik Weitzer
great!

Pietro De Angelis
Awesome dio, congrats!

Miguel Vaquero
Thanks for your words guys, they really mean a lot!!

Indeed bruce. It's one of the things that fascinate me the most about U-Boats. They were deadly war machines, every sailor was terrorized by them during WW2. But it unsettles me the way all those people knew, that a single flood, could mean they would never resurface again. It's really nerve racking. Those things are what attracts me the most to this machines and their histories.

As for the water, I used a combination of two artistic acrylic gel mediums. I used one with a low viscosity for the small ocean waves and normal ripples. I then used one much more dense, to simulate the water effects created by the destroyer and the depth charges explosions. The gel, once dried, it stays hard as if it was resin, and also stays transparent. Then I painted the high ripples with a diluted white and extended it with a soft bristled brush along the ripple and it's surrounding area. I did the same were the bubbly foam would stay after the ship passed, but with a more diluted white and more gentle passes with the brush.

Ill try to upload some better pictures were the effects are better seen once I complete the diorama.

Bruce Huxtable
Many thanks, Miguel. You clearly have a very good 'eye', re-creating reality in a very convincing way.

Miguel Vaquero
Thank you very much Bruce. Im glad that you like it!

Christian Abraham
The dio is really awesome

Miguel Vaquero
Thanks Abraham!!

Kesa Tiho
Breathtaking. I hope when i make my first ship moc it comes out as beautiful as yours. Any tips?

Mr D
Hi Miguel 👋
Was a good set of X3 you got , l recently purchased the Flyhawk SBD Dauntless, li looks really good from what I've seen so far in the box.... What do you think of there kits ??

Miguel Vaquero
Hi Kesha. If your are going to do it with resin, my main advise is to try and eliminate bubbles the best you can by pouring a litle bit and removing the bubles then repeating thee process till you get the desire amount. And id you put any object inside it ñ, try and seal it the best you can so no air can escape. Also, when tinting the resin, always think less is more. Try a few drops of the colors you want to use, and build it from there. Id recommend you buy some uv resin, to fix pieces quickly and to seal the mould in Wich you will plur the resin. And finally, don't be afraid, a big part of this hobby is to challenge us to exit our confort zone, and if you make a mistake, to learn from it. And please please, if you remember, once you start your diorama, please let me know. I'll love to follow your build.

Hi MrD, well I can't talk about other kits and other scales, but, for this one in particular, the quality was surprisingly good. The material was perfect, almost no flush. Also the details moulded in to the surface were incredibly good. It was my first kit from them, but I'm sure its not going to be the last. I've also looked the SBD, it looks amazing, I'll make sure to follow your build to inspire me if I end up buying that kit.

Mr D
I got it for a great price on an AliExpress sale, the box content is amazing for the price 👍👍

Miguel Vaquero
I'm glad to hear that. Looking forward to see what you cand with it Mr D

Miguel Vaquero
Waiting now for some materials to finish the base and the project. While they arrive, I'm working on a little resin printed Darth Vader diorama. Feel free to check that out too and leave your opinions.

Miguel Vaquero
Well. I finilly finish this diorama. I ended up using a 3d printer to make the base. Not the best result but i wnated to try it out.

Happily i can finally say this project is done. I enjoyed it a lot and learned many usefull things along the way.

Hope you like the final result mates

gorby
Very impressive result!

Bob Hall
Yeah 👍 SpongeBob took the words right out of my mouth !

Shar Dipree
Cool 👍

Ben M
Absolutely top notch and very creative.

Miguel Vaquero
Thank you guys really. I'm really flattered by your comments. Really glad you like this build.

Neuling
Mission accomplished! 👍👍

Mr D
You done great Miguel 👏 a great action packed piece of Model art 😃👍 well done

Spanjaard
really interested in seeing what you do with it 🙂

Miguel Vaquero
Welcome aboard Spanjaard.

I've decided I'm going to represent the plane putting out a wild fire. For that I will need to make the plane with the gear up and flaps down, wich the kit doesn't include an option for neither. I'm also going to make it with the water door open, so plenty of scratch builds for this project. It's going to be a long one again

Spanjaard
no rush 🙂 have fun

Живко Джаков
I like this machine. I've seen newer ones work. I'm joining the show.
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Thomas Wirsching
nice choice, I will watching your Argentine Walrus with interest! I do have the same with all available Eduard etched sets and the rigging wires, too. I also can also recommend you the resin engine set from VECTOR (huge improvement of the exposed engine)

Lochsa River
Welcome aboard!...now, that is pressure....you have all the same stuff...im not a pro, Thomas but you are welcome here.

Lochsa River
Many online comments about this model mention being extra careful with fuselage construction, because there is a lot of plastic that can get in the way, due to the excellent interior detail.

They are right and I have used several modeling sessions just working to get that fit as good as i can.

Not real exciting stuff...no photos...but, it is time well spent.

David Taylor
Took hrs of styrene rod on the old Smer kit.Airfix have come a long way.

Norbert Steffens
I'm in. The idea to build an argentinian walrus is inspiring

Thomas Wirsching
After market rigging wire which don´t fit is very annoying. Where did you get these streamlined wire from RB? Seems like it is easy to find like a needle in the hay. But as far as your work: very nice progress! I am curious how it will look after all wires are at their place.

Predrag Ivanovic
I have this kit in my staash and also planing to do it the same way, with "big edd" set. So i am in ,and can't wsit to see your progress here.

Lochsa River
Where did you get these streamlined wire from RB?

...you are right...tough to find now....not sure where i got it.

Lochsa River
Can you say orange? sure you can....

Lochsa River
There has been what can only be described as a modeling disaster as the masks came off the windows....photos are almost too gruesome to post.

....not at all sure what went wrong but the paint just came up and the edges were ragged....there was a layer of primer over the clear plastic for sure...so, it was primed.

....there was a layer of glosscoat over the paint but not a thick coat...i thought....honestly, no clue what happened...

...bottom line, this Walrus is going to get done, but this canopy work will need some creativity and may show its character....

Thomas Wirsching
What a pity! You did used EDUARD masking tape? Never had a problem with these, but I had similar experiences with cheap plastic masking foils. Maybe you ask AIRFIX for replacement canopy parts? Show us the pics, modellers are used to see gruesome pics 🙂

Lochsa River
....well...if you insist...i suppose it would be good to have a photo record of this disaster...

Yes, these were eduard masks....I think the overcoat was just too thick...there are signs of that elsewhere and overcoats have been a sticky point for me in the past...

Thomas Wirsching
Could have been worse... Maybe you can scratch off excess color with a sharpened wooden toothpick. Worked for me before already.

Lochsa River
Scraping and painting and scraping again was the window plan.... it turned out sorta bleah but its time to move on and decide this model won't be anyone's prizewinner but at least its done....

David Taylor
Looks good to me.

Thomas Wirsching
I also think you made a good job in restoring the windows ?

Lochsa River
Thank you for those kind comments....the windows?.... only OK but it was time to move on to decals.

Love the footprints!

David Taylor
Looking forward to seeing a swath of orange.

Lochsa River
....back to work on the orange walrus....(how many hobbies have orange walruses, anyway?)

Lochsa River
All done....please ignore the many flaws and enjoy the orange wings....

Robert Podkoński
Fantastic work, Lochsa River! Are there flaws? I havent noticed any, frankly speaking... and I love your choice of the painting scheme.

David Taylor
Ticks all the boxes for me

Juergen Klinglhuber
congrats - 👍

bughunter
That is for sure a beautiful biplane 👍
It's a real shame that RB products are no longer to be found! 🙁

Thomas Wirsching
great outcome! I was enjoying following your build here and can just congratulate you to this remarkable model 🍻👌

Lochsa River
This is a friendly and supportive community.....who has no idea where the flaws are (like i do)....anyway, thank you for your kind comments and hopefully you will enjoy the new flash pix just posted.

I did enjoy the build and, in all, do think it is fun to look at and will bring a smile for sometime.

Hanno Kleinecke
What a beautiful result ! Rigging and painting look excellent. Don' we all know these masking disasters when you ask yourself, why all the proven ways of doing things fail for no visible reason..... I think you did a great job with the canopy, no flaws visible from here ! 👍

bughunter
You know, no model is flawless 😉 A flawless model is just a packaged kit. As soon as you open the box, this dream is over.
The flash light is a bit strong?! I like the orange in pic30 more. But I know it's hard to get nice daylight photos in November.

Steve Desarzens
it looks fantastic

David Taylor
Another great Walrus.Well done.

Lochsa River
Thank you everyone for your thoughts and suggestions....Walrus Beaching Platform construction is underway....

Lochsa River
Walrus with Beaching Platform photos uploaded....

Thomas Wirsching
Great outcome with that platform 👍 Now there is just one pilot figure missing leaning at the aircraft for size comparison

Thomas Bischoff
Turned out great in spite of the mishap.
The Argentinian colour scheme is just great 👍

Lochsa River
Thank you! It is fun to have that beaching platform...someone should make a resin kit just for that....for all the floatplanes out there.....it was fun to paint the bright colors and attach "danger" decals....

Spanjaard
I do not know what a mediocre modeller would do with this Walrus, but you have done a beautiful job with it

Neuling
Wonderful work. Those colors!

Lochsa River
Gracias, everyone.....

Luc B
love the colors! 👍

Lochsa River
thank you everyone...this is a series of photos where i quickly bend the antenna and then fire a shot...and then bend it again....and again....poor little guy gets no respect and gets in the way of everything...

if orange wings with footprints are your thing...look no further than the Walrus painting crew in Argentina....

Lochsa River
NeOmega Walrus mount and catapult added....

David Taylor
Nailed it Lochsa.

bughunter
Nice addon for a nice biplane!

Kyle DeHart
Very cool

Erik Leijdens
Impressive build mate, looks like a difficult kit. The catapult is a nice addition. Any further diorama plans with it?

Landlubber Mike
This is one of the nicest Walruses I've seen - really nice job! Thank you also for posting detail pics of the NeOmega catapult. I'm in the middle of building mine, but have spent the last few hours removing the parts from the plugs and otherwise cleaning them up. Your pictures are very helpful.

Nice job!!

Rui S
Beautiful work 👍

Mark
Awesome build

Neil
Magnificent!

Lorraine Lin
Wow, take a front seat, I cannot miss this
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Rui S
Humm, this will be another interesting subject as all you've built 😎

gorby
Joining the audience for this. 🙂

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat as well!

Naram
following

Alexander Grivonev
Welcome everybody!

Davide Vitali
Wow! With your skills this is gonna be an absolute masterpiece. Also, I wanna see how you'll handle the black overall paint... Popcorns are on me, guys!

Palo M
Taking a seat. Very curious how the extra details will work - I have the base kit, but haven't decided whether to expand it with such nice details yet. Good luck!

Spanjaard
really curious about what you do with it. joining the club.

Alexander Grivonev
You know guys who is the most curious on what and how I am gonna do? Me 😄 My philosophy is "just start, ask questions later". It is the most enjoyable approach, you encounter problems on the go, you find solutions, try new techniques and create new ideas. Which is very rewarding. And in the end you have a nice result. Not a perfect one, but one you can look back on and smile or shake your head...

Alberto
I'm in too 👍

Neil
(Like many) I too have the kit. Following with interest 👍

Steven Van Dyck
I was planning to have lots of figures in this diorama, but the guy who uploaded this kit to Scalemates had guessed the scale as 1/100 and it is rather 1/250. Therefore my HO scale Greeks are completely overscale and will not be used.

Rui S
Interesting 👍

Steven Van Dyck
I started with changes to the access steps, I had to saw these flush with the base as can be seen on reference pictures. Also I had to remove a terrible warp, I did this without a base plank by connecting the corners with thick wire and bending that. I found out that Italeri reconstructed the inner naos columns like on old drawings with both colonnades equal in length. Most of the modern day reconstructions show the top row smaller, so I sawed of the first row and used this as a lengthening part. I also made the architraves thinner, these are really ugly from the box with a slanting side.

Ben M
👀 perhaps 1/250 Greeks can be resin printed.

gorby
Looks interesting. 🙂
If some bloke called Elgin turns up you may have to tell him to bugger off. 😉

Thomas Espe
👀

Ben M
I bet you could get some z scale figures (1:220) and paint them however you like

Steven Van Dyck
Thanks for the tip, Ben, but I will solve the problem with some 1/200modern figures I got yesterday. I'll slice them and add 1mm, then cover it with a stola. I also had to perform lots of changes to the interior structure of the temple, using a floor plan I rescaled to 1/250. It appears Italeri has moved the pronaos and opisthodomos colonnades to the inside, to make up for the walls they made much thinner. I sawed out these floor parts and moved the colonnades to the outside. I thickened or replaced these walls with styrene. That meant engraving the outside of the styrene walls with block patterns. I also reversed some entrance walls because only one side of the gate part got a stone texture. I made the textureless side to go inside the wall. I moved the first two Ionic columns to fill the new space. I don't understand why Italeri is messing with the proportions of this building, just to be able to minimize the sprue variety to two shapes and as little wall surface as they could, while wanting to show off the inside. They also added the arm support to the statue, though that existed only on marble copies.

Steven Van Dyck
The increase in length of the sidewalls is compensated with the unused inner wall parts. The four cutouts are made but I changed the sizes by recutting each part. The inside of the walls is covered with the cutout parts, taking care to continue the masonry. Between the layers I will add another sheet of the same thickness to get to 4.5mm. I will have to use styrene for the plinths, all of these were used for the gates.

Steven Van Dyck
The inner walls are now connected to the outside with spacers. The plinths are machined from styrene plate so the walls fit to them. Four antes are added to the front walls. The inner tympanons are connected to the colonnade, that will fit in newly drilled postholes. I will remove the triglyphs there, they should only go on the outside and not be inclined. This colonnade isn't lined up with the outside anymore, the architrave will have to be skewed. More than 40 columns are now prepared.

Steven Van Dyck
The outside colonnads are completed with the different architrave lengths connected At first I tried to connect these in series but there is an inconsistency in the triglyph bases (guttae). This disappears when the parts are connected in parallel. I also removed th middle triglyph because this was split, I exchanged with a complete one. I cut the moved tympanons of the interior colonnades to make fit the roof parts. I also shifted the outside tympanons a few millimeter outward, so they would extend like on the pictures.

Ben M
I feel like I need a degree in classics and one in architecture to follow this build. The corrections you are doing are fantastic. This will be something special when you are done. How will you paint it? Seems hard to get in all the nooks and crannies.

Steven Van Dyck
Thanks! I'll be using a Rustoleum Ivory spray can for primer. Then the usual modulating. It helps to have a degree in archaeology, there was even a small copy of that statue near my classroom.

Robert Podkoński
Truly impressive!

Steven Van Dyck
I leveled the front walls with the middle structure and joined the ceiling parts after removing a small strip, so the pattern would match. Then I compared the 2 kit figures with some Schulcz figures I had. The kit figures are larger than 1 cm, so these are over 2 m 50 long in reality. They can only be used as statues. My added 1/200 figures are about 9mm to 7mm, so these are more realistic. To make them look like ancient Greeks, they are dressed in alu foil.

Steven Van Dyck
A small change was done to the front wall to improve symmetry. The base was filled in where I had changed components. One of the interior pillars was straightened and now the colonnade and the temple inner walls could be connected to the ceiling, that was only held up by the thin outside Italeri wall. For this a series of strips was cut out in thin styrene so all ceiling beams could get postholes in the outer walls. Then these strips were split in half so you get copies for each side. The same was done for the colonnades, but with a piece of sprue in between two strip halves. That creatded an architrave that could rest on the colonnade near the goddess statue. A smaller version was made for the rear room. Now the ceiling was completely closing up and I could create a link between the inner portals, that at this point were still two loose colonnades with a roof triangle on them. I closed up the ceiling on top of these with thicker styrene plate and then connected the portals with a 21 cm long sturdy strip. Like that, you can lift the two portals as a whole and dry-fit it on top of the inner walls. Now the only thing left was to finish the roof. I connected the four roof sections with a styrene plate and left some room for the distance that I had moved the outer tympanons. That gap was filled in with styrene and then the tile layers were sawn out of that, which took some time to do thoroughly. One last omission from Italeri are the imbrices on the roof, you only get the tegulae as continuous tile rows without the capping tiles between each of the two cover tiles. I currently have no solution for this IMO unnecessary omission; Italeri could simply have cast these vertical tile rows on the parts. I finished with adding the acroterions. Maybe I can look for an existing N-scale roof, because adding styrene tile profiles would be madness with about 10 meters needed.

Steven Van Dyck
The ancient Greeks are primered grey and the building is primered in marble colour. For the roof I have found a solution in Redutex stickers. These have the approximate dimensions of the roof, but will have to be cut up to fit exactly. Then they will also be repainted.

gorby
I'm amazed how much work you've done to correct this kit.

Steven Van Dyck
"Meden agan" is an ancient concept that doesn't apply to me... Today the painted figures have provided a sacrifice of animals, but the difference in scale means that they caught some aurochses in stead of regular oxen. I also covered the empty roof with Redutex tiles and painted these in marble color.

Ben M
They sure toga'd up nicely.

Steven Van Dyck
Thanks, Ben. The stone parts are now shadowed with Tamiya Dark Yellow 2 and then highlighted with white. The ceiling, doors and portals are masked to paint with Gunze Wood H37 and Tamiya Fieldgrey for bronze. The goddess statue was painted white too, then masked with gum and sprayed gold with a small rattle can.

Steven Van Dyck
I painted the stars on the ceiling in AK True Metal gold and started on the decorative elements with Vallejo paints.

Steven Van Dyck
The statues in the tympanon are painted according to some websources. Light blue is added to the frieze. I also bought more Redutex products to embed the temple in its surroundings.

Rui S
I'm in 😎
Are you going to correct the rear trunk doors? 🤔

Sebastian Em
Honestly I will change back of truck to add Flak38

Rui S
👍

Guy Rump
Following. 👍

Martin Weinpold
👍🏻

Rui S
Great work, as always 👍
Any issues with the kit? 🤔

F Matthews
Thanks so much!
Very well engineered-quick build!

Rui S
👍

coporado
Started assembling the crane and steel beam of the lasercut kit. This is a wonderful kit, really looking forward to that base building 🙂

Rui S
Looking good 👍. Already weathered?

coporado
Thanks mate! No - just clicked together straight out of the box to see what this kit has to offer 🙂

Matthew Stec
It look great so far. How do you like the building?

coporado
Thanks! I Just bought the crane and the steel beams as I'm going to Do the building structure with styrofoam. All the parts I'm using from the kit are really great. Perfect matching, easy to assemble and lovely detailed, thumbs up!

coporado
Started working on the wall of the tank workshop

Rui S
The bricks look great. Very well done and painted.

Brian Eberle
Following. Looks great so far.

coporado
Thank you, much appreciated 🙂

Spanjaard
looking interesting already 🙂

Brian Eberle
A truly interesting kit and very well done painting.

coporado
Thanks Spanjaard and Brian, much appreciated! @Brian the wall does not come from the kit, this is scratch build from styrofoam. From the kit I use the crane and steel beams, which is indeed very nicely.

Rui S
Very nice detail work and paintjob on the lamp and pipe 👍
Like the detail on the wood Window😎

coporado
Thanks mate 🙂

coporado
Finsihed painting the second wall and started working on that crane.

Rui S
Nice weathering on the wall. What did you use to make this wall?. Also like the paintjob on the crane motor 👍

coporado
Thanks mate! I use Depafit for the walls. It´s kind of styrofoam/ insulation board which is available at the hardware store. Very nice material to carve and easy to paint. Carved the damages with a pencil. Then lighlty sanded the whole surface. Applied a very thin blackgrey wash. Then painted different sand and greyish shades all thinned down to a wash.

Mike Kryza
Interesting build! Count me in!

Rui S
Very Nice progress coporado. Your scratch work on the locker door and wiring is Great. 👍 Keep it comming

Stefan Schacht
very nice so far, I take a seat

coporado
Thanks gentleman, much appreciate your encouraging comments! Mike, Stefan welcome here and good to know you´re watching!

Rui S
Glad that you made it structured enough to hold the Crane. Looking good 👍

coporado
Spanjaard, Rui thanks so much for your kind comments! Prepared the concete floor in order to attach the walls. Scratch bulid fire basket as little detail for the outside

coporado
Finaly, the walls were mounted to the base and all the bathroom stuff was attached.

Bernhard Schrock
First class scratch building especially the TGA (Technische Gebäude Ausrüstung). I love your details in the "restroom" (newspaper, Bürste and 3-Lagiges!) and electrical installation included black distribution boxes (Bakelite!!). 🙂

coporado
Thank you Bernhard, happy you like it. Was quite hard to sacrifice 3- Lagiges for the dio in these times 🙂
Made some progress with factory utilities.

Daniel Klink
Ah Sascha how could von I miss this
Great work again ... following👍

coporado
@Bernhard yes Bakelit switch, eagle eye 🙂 I remembered These from my grand Patents home 🙂

coporado
Thanks Daniel and good to know you are in 🙂

coporado
More details for the factory. Had a nice welder set, unfortunately without cart. Scratch built this one from plastic profile, wire and some remaining parts of a completed kit.

Soeren R.
Nice start😉 Count me in!

coporado
Thanks Soeren and welcome 🙂

Christian Lehmann
Very nice details

Rui S
Nice workbench, Mate 👍. I would go for a darker tone ir color on the wood top, just a two cent😎

coporado
Thanks Christian and Rui 🙂 Rui the workbench still needs weathering, this will tone down the wood color to a darker shade

Rui S
Yes, i agree Mate, i thought it was done 👍.
But as you mention that... You know what i thougt when i saw photo 45, for the first time? It would be interesting to creat contrast between the Bath Room floor and main workshop floor, maybee with some kind off chess ceramic floor??? But i thought it was too late. Anyway just a two cent opinion. I'm not famliar with the 40s tank workshops, but bath rooms usualy have that kind of pavments and walls to ease the cleaning...😎

coporado
Hehe Rui I had the same idea with the locker floor 🙂 Got these floor tiles --> 3D Floor Tiles - Design A (Reality in Scale 35111, 1:35) Putting them on the floor or even on the wall it came out like a hotel or private bath room. They looked just too noble for a factory locker room. So I discarded the tiles and left the floor in it´s concrete look.

Spanjaard
those desks look amazing now! and the touch of the panzer drawings is sublime!!!

Rui S
Ohw yah??? Hehe. But that ones where very expensive tiles and with diferent formats, (small pieces for the corners??? That's for rich people mansions or chalés. 😄 i was thinking something simpler pathern more like, One squared black Shaded /one square white... with some craks. Or only white if on the walls😉
Hey Mate, I agree with Spanjaard 👍

coporado
Thank you spanjaard, thank you Rui, much appreciated and happy you like it 🙂
@Rui Unfortunately I didn't found any apropriate tiles. Tried to scratch build with styrofoam and styrene but the result Was rather poor. So I left it with the concrete.
Completed the workbench with adding more Tools and some tank parts. The machines got their wiring and were plugged to the Power supply.

Rui S
Great detailing work 👍

Tom ...
Only seeing this now. Incredible work. Just amazing. The detailing and treatment is perfect. Following for sure.

coporado
Rui, Tom thank you so much for your warm comments!

Rui S
Nice detailing progress. Very impressive 👍

coporado
Thanks for your kind words Rui! Browsing through some pics of old factories I discovered carts used for carrying small stuff and loudspeakers installed. Found these would be nice detail for my dio. Some residues, plastic sheet and sheet metal helped to scratch built both.

Daniel Klink
That will become a great scene Sascha👍
Again

Rui S
Very Nice addons😉 👍

coporado
Daniel, Rui thank you for your comments. Finally I completed the missing part of the crane to lift the Panzer IV turret.

Rui S
keep it coming Mate 👍

Olivier
du grand art !

Danny Meer
Such an amazing artwork, so realistic 👍
Love it how you scratchbuild all those little details

coporado
Many thanks to all of you, much appreciated 🙂

coporado
Started the figures. To achieve the look and feel for the scene, some kitbashing was done. Heads come from Hornet and are just lovely in in their sculpting.

Spanjaard
poor guy on his knee is thinking he is going to see snowy landscapes soon😉

Norbert Steffens
Hi Sascha, how did you paint the walls and the floor? Looks realistic. Nice weathering

coporado
Thanks mates! @Spanjaard: Bad day for the youngster, he´s in charge for the beer later 🙂

@Norbert: basic material is Depafit, a styrofoam type. Available in your DIY store.
It´s more stable than Styrodur, comes with a lightly structured surface like plaster and can be sanded.

First I carve any structures like damages etc.

Next steps apply to the the whole wall:
First coat with silver grey, once dry another coat with a mix of 50/50 silvergrey and pale grey is painted. Once this coat is dry a black wash is done, to create a good contrast for the details. Therefore the wash should be pretty thin to keep a good balance between base color and black.
Once this has dryed properly, the whole wall is sanded with 600 sanding paper. The sanding brings variation into the colors, as the black is removed more or less in certain areas and releases the base color.
Finally certain areas receive detail painting using a less thinned black wash for deeper areas such as cracks. Base color, white grey and any other colors at your desire are used to highlight certain details, like edges of cracks.

I found this technique in the "bible" of styrofoam modeling by Emmanuel Nouaillier. Absolutely worth having that in stash. --> amazon.de/Perfekt-bi..tungen/dp/3837511634

Olivier
The result of this technique is impressive !

Norbert Steffens
Yes very realistic look. Thanks for the detailed description.

Rui S
Very Nice plumbing 👍 😄 Nice progress.

The figures look good but the one with the head looking upward looks a bit forced. I think the eyes could do part of the rotation not the head, just my two cent, Mate 🤔

coporado
Thanks Olivier! I´m quite happy with this technique as it applies to all scales and is quite easy and cheap, achieving nice results.
@Rui: Thanks and you´re right, the position of the head brings pain in the neck 🙂 I cut the necks a bit and rotated the heads to a more healthy position 🙂

Rui S
I'm glad that my humble constructive opinion matters . Thx 👍
IMHO, one thing that i have noticed in the modelers who use these extremely well detailed heads is that they leave the necks too long and end up ruining their very realistic appearance even when they are excellently painted😎

coporado
@rui the proper length of necks is a tricky job. Lots of factors such as age, constitution, body shape etc need to be considered. I struggle here as well figuring out the best solution. Though I appreciate any hints 🙂

Rui S
Yes, I believe you, I was generaly speaking, Imho, many fail to adress that issues well.
Your two guys are looking good now 👍 keep it coming😉

coporado
Thanks Rui 🙂 little progress here on the figures and detailing.

coporado
Checking images of the original tank workshop I encountered the crane was operated from a platform mounted to the crane bridge. From residues and plastic sheet this one was scratch built.

Dietmar Bogatzki
Ganz großes Kino was du hier zeigst, Wahnsinn die Details wie Steckdose, Bohrmaschine usw..

Olivier
That is a life project.

coporado
Dankeschön Dietmar!
Olivier thats true, the more more progress it gains the more Detail comes to mind. Hope to complete that one Day 🙂

Rui S
Again, Nice scratchwork 👍 detailing makes the diference. keep it comming Mate😉

coporado
Thanks Rui! Honestly, detailing is the most enjoyable job, you know what I mean - flipping through your Marder dio pics 🙂
Figure conversion is done so far. Next is priming and corrections.

coporado
Finally, started the painting on those figures. Skin parts are most challenging, so this is the task for the next days/ weeks. First head completed, painted in acrylic.

Olivier
It looks very fine to me.

Spanjaard
looks fantastic to me

Slavo Hazucha
Seriously cool work all over - and excellent skin/head-job on the first figure too! 👍

Pose & Expression suggest this could be a German WW2 version of American Chopper? 😄

Hanno Kleinecke
Yeah, only with tanks instead of bikes - quite an idea Slavo 🙂 ! Your own bespoke custom panzer III....
I wish I could paint figures like that, excellent !

Spanjaard
you are not the only one Hanno 😄

Rui S
Nice face 🙂 a bit angry yah 😄. keep up the good figure painting 👍

coporado
Thank you for your encouraging comments, mates! Your patient attention to this neverending project is much appreciated!
@Slavo: For an American Chopper he definitely misses a beard, though it´s only a German Chopper :-D

Next face completed during the weekend. This one was not going as well as the first one. As the expression is different to the first one, the surface and details are much smoother. Found it quite tough to place highlights and shadows at the right spots. Challenged my patience seriously.

Daniel Klink
Kümmeltonne👍 🙂

Olivier
I like the new guy on the block

Rui S
Hi mate, as I perceive you😉... Keep them coming

Xerxes
Great project. Looking forward for the final result🙂

coporado
Daniel, Olivier, Rui, Xerxes - many thanks mates! After a long break I put some color on the next face. Some corrections and blending still to be done.

Spanjaard
Wow!

coporado
Thank you mate!!! 🙂
Next face completed, still 5 to come 🙂

coporado
Slow progress on those figures, 5 of 8 faces painted. Keen to have faces completed in 2021 :-D

Rui S
Keep them coming Mate. Looking good 👍

Bruce Huxtable
Stumbled across this album for first time today. Amazing crafting skills demonstrated from beginning to end. Blown away by your great eye for realistic detail, and how you create atmosphere. Brilliant 👍👍🙂

Pepe
😳😳

Spanjaard
Rome was not built in one hour, and neither your amazing dios. No rush🙂

Rui S
We say: "Roma e Pavia, não foram feitas num dia" 😉

Nelson Paulo
A W S O ME !!! Trully

coporado
Thank you for all your kind comments, mates! Started to put some paint on that clothing. Some more blending on the shirt is neccessary. I recognized that Khaki isn´t very handy when it comes to light and shadow 🙂

Jv
Not sure why I only seen this one now
What a great job
Love all the detail
A big job
Amazing

coporado
Thanks Mate!

coporado
3 of 8 Figures done 🙂

Ricardo Reis
Like, wow, how did I miss this? Definitely following!!!

coporado
Thanks Ricardo and great you're in 🙂

gorby
What an incredible project!
I'm in awe at how well those figures are painted. You should give them names because they look like they might come alive. 😄

Tom ...
Wow the shading is amazing!

coporado
Thanks gorby and Tom!
@gorby: giving those figures names might end up in psychologic therapie for me in case my wife will find out 🙂

gorby
😄 😄

coporado
Wohoooo this one is still alive 🙂 Time to blow off the dust and get it finished. 2 more figures were painted the last days - 3 more to go. Just some shots with the painted figures to give a brief idea where the journey goes 🙂

Spanjaard
keep them coming 🙂 the almost look alive!

Skyhiker
This is a test...this is only a test. If this were a real emergency my AMS would take over. I want to see if I can do an out of the box build. So far I have almost never been able to. Wish me luck.

Skyhiker
I think this is my first time with an ICM mold. The kit has a lot of flash and is very subtle in its markings. This creates a bit of a challenge cleaning things up because I have to stop and figure out what to take away and what to keep. But I think when everything is cleaned up it should be pretty straightforward.

Thomas O'Eh
following!

Michael Kohl
Me too. I have my ICM to finish too.

Skyhiker
I think I am becoming an ICM fan. The mold is not the easiest but the subtle details and perfect scaling are great.

Robert Podkoński
I will keep my fingers crossed 😉

Cuajete
Following.

Alec K
Same. Fingers crossed for the OOB goal to last 👍

Skyhiker
There was one piece that was too big to fit. The instructions said that it was the backing for the control panel for the navigator. I started filing it down but then realized that Revell screwed up the instructions and it was actually the pilot's headboard. Now I have to repair the headboard.

Chris T. An
I'm in. Good luck with that kit. 😉

Nicolas
Watching with interest.

Skyhiker
Well I blamed Revell for getting the instructions wrong but when I checked the ICM instructions they had the same mistake. The piece clearly belongs behind the pilot if you look at the kit. So either the engineers who designed the kit got it wrong or the graphics department got something wrong. Either way I went with the kit and not the instructions.

Skyhiker
Today I was going to paint most of the day but my airbrushes were not cooperating so I ended up brushing the interior.

Skyhiker
I finished the cockpit and started with the wings today

Alec K
Nice progress 👍

Skyhiker
The more I work with this model the more I am truly amazed at how finely detailed ICM was able to make the mold. It's incredible. I hope I can keep any of those details without the paint just filling it all in.

Jennifer Franklin
Following

Skyhiker
More progress made

Cuajete
Well done so far 👍

Neil Patrick
I'm definitely in for this.

Skyhiker
Welcome everyone. It's starting to come together. Soon it may even look like a plane.

Skyhiker
A bit more progress made today. Now I have to wait for everything to dry before attempting to put on the landing gear.

Skyhiker
Landing gear is on.

Skyhiker
A set of masks would have saved me a lot of time, but after shipping they would have cost more than the kit.

Bozo
Ouch, seen the very first picture.
few flashes but lovely plane with this inline engine version.

Skyhiker
Yeah, there was a lot of flash on the kit. It took me a day to get all the parts cleaned up but in the end the kit is actually not too bad.

Skyhiker
I primed the model today. Tomorrow I will start painting.

Moreno Baruffini
Really a great progress! Bravo!

Cuajete
I agree with Moreno 👍

Skyhiker
I got the bottom painted but I think I am going to give it a day to cure before masking it.

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Skyhiker
This build is making me question why I predominantly use an airbrush instead of a paintbrush.

Moreno Baruffini
I agree with you, I use use mainly the brush when modelling

Mr D
Hi Skyhiker 👋
Always pays to give paint good drying time before more work, l like 48hrs on main airframe, probably why l tend to have couple of builds on the go ..... something to do between drying periods.
Looking good , l always hand paint my wheels, lve done 67 in 2yrs 🫣
Good luck on next steps 👍

Skyhiker
I got the base layer of RLM71 down. I'm not happy with the windows but I couldn't sand them down flat without damaging a lot of details. I'll have to see how it looks when the paint is dry.

Mr D
Coming along nicely 👍
An interesting wing shape.. interesting aircraft generally, nice 🙂👍

Skyhiker
The wing shape reminds me of a flying fish.

Michael Kohl
The wing shape actually gave inspiration for the Spitfire. Rolls Royce - if I recall that right - acquired a He-70 for test purposes. Here the designer of the Spitfire saw the plane.

Skyhiker
That's an interesting bit of history Michael. I didn't know that but I did notice the similarities. As a matter of fact I was just comparing the two a few days ago.

Skyhiker
Well, somehow the landing gear broke on me, so I had to scratch build a new part. Seems to be working now.

Skyhiker
Camo down

Cuajete
Good progress 👍

Mr D
Good job on the camo, every plane probably has variations in camo so box art is good, it does work well as a camouflage that pattern, breaks up the profile well.
Nice build 👍

Jennifer Franklin
The camo looks great.

Skyhiker
I managed to get the flu so I'm not getting much done right now.

Nicolas
Gute Besserung.

Skyhiker
Danke Nicolas

Thomas Kolb
Get better soon!

Cuajete
Get well, Skyhiker!

Jennifer Franklin
Get well soon!

Skyhiker
Working out the kinks today.

Jennifer Franklin
I hope this means you are feeling better

Skyhiker
Thanks for asking Jennifer. I'm slowly getting back on my feet. My fever is gone now, but I'm still pretty tired. I'm taking it one day at a time.

Mr D
Very nice 👍👍

Greg Baker
As I said on Focke-Wulf project, I'm starting to clear out the shelf of doom and this project was a parallel to the The Battlefield - The Black Knight of Berlin (part 1) | Album by strobez (1:144) - mainly because the Platz boxes came with two kits in one. However, even though I've long since finished the Black Knight project, the "alternates" have sat warming the shelf ever since. About time I completed them. Truth be told, some of the early pictures in this project are also the same ones published as part of the Black Knight ones... but they're separate projects and represent a twin build process, so I'm hopefully forgiven.

Greg Baker
Now with an updated pic. Does anyone else have a problem with Tamiya XF-16 Aluminium getting a bit "splotchy" using Tamiya masking tape? No matter how long I let it dry (and in this case is was almost a whole year!), I always seem to end up removing a bit of the paint and leaving "tape marks" behind. I'll have to remask the coloured bits and give it another coat of XF-16 I think, but what a pain.

Robert Podkoński
Good to see you back at the bench, Greg! 😉

Spanjaard
i certainly will follow this one 🙂

Jay Dubya
Keen to see your solution to the XF-16 issues, Greg, and the end results!

Greg Baker
Well, the solution, seemed to be to just to mask the coloured bits and add a fresh coat… decals next. 🙂

Greg Baker
Got the decals on. The Platz ones went on like a dream, but for the larger yellow numbering on the engine cowl, I cut up some decals from the Hasegawa F11F kit I had leftover after one of my Area 88 builds (AREA 88: F11F-1 (Gary Macburn) | Project by strobez (1:72)). The ancient decals disintegrated almost instantly on my first attempt. I got it done eventually. Now just the propellor and a few minor adjustments left to work on.

Guy Rump
Following with interest. 👍

Desert Marlin
Same here! Love this topic!!!

Rui S
A Beauty 👍

Cristian A
Many thanks Rui, yes it was a splendid plane in real life as well 😊👍

Łukasz Gliński
While the kit is quite poor itself, your job is the exact opposite 👍 Great colours 👍