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Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Rodrigo José Barbosa Francisco Schrijver

Thank you very much.

gorby
Nice result.

Rodrigo José Barbosa Francisco Schrijver
Thank you very much.

Spanjaard
count me in 🙂

Guy Rump
Very nice! 👍

gorby
Very nice work for 1/144.

Spanjaard
nice

Rudy Poseika Schrijver
This will be a totally fictional experiment and historically inaccurate. An incomplete kit picked up from a boot sale.

Rudy Poseika Schrijver
This is no longer a Gloster Gladiator but a Gloster Rudiator...

Rudy Poseika Schrijver
Fiction is done. A modified Gloster Gladiator - landing gear and 3 blade prop. Republican tried to strafe the 109 but flew too slow and magically bounced and landed in between the branches of the tree...

Spanjaard
not sure if a tree would survive de crash of the gladiator, but it is a nice way to present it 😉

Rudy Poseika Schrijver
The minicraft B24D model sprues said it was a B24 J model. On a clear sprue was the front part of the B24 D. Instructions show that you need to remove the front parts of each side of the fuselage and attach the new parts. So far so good

Dave Flitton
Looking good so far!

Spanjaard
i got mine half done for ever....curious to see it finished on your bench 🙂

Cuajete
Good start 👍

ImaginationInScale Schrijver
There's plenty of room for mistakes. It's not an easy kit, it'll take some corrections and improvising.

Nicolas
Great project, I'm following. 👍

Sergej I
Following, good job so far 👍

Łukasz Gliński
Interesting, following

Cristian A
Following

Guy Rump
Following too! 👍

James Barrett Schrijver
Youtube Video

tigremodelismo Schrijver
Hello sir

Yes, it´s still for sale 🙂. Tell me your location so I can calculate the shipping costs

Best regards

G&JM

John Hughes
Gents, you are posting publically.

Hans-Jürgen Haag
Nice build silverbird!🥰

Clifford Keesler Schrijver
Thank you very much.

gorby
Nice work!

Clifford Keesler Schrijver
Thank you very much gorby.

Nathan Dempsey
Looking great Clifford! Reminds me that I need to finish up that A model in the stash…

Robert Podkoński
Great job, Clifford! (it is a pity that there are no good kits of these early jets...)

Clifford Keesler Schrijver
Thank you very much Robert. I agree, there are a lot of early jets that I wish they would do good kits of.

Sy Bar Schrijver
Had hoped to build this great looking car OOB but I've some how mislaid the all be it limited decal sheet. I was going to have a go at doing my own decals or stencils but in look for info I found a sheet from DECALDOC.COM which includes all the extra advertising.

Alberto
Nice effort with the scratch building, it's a great improvement 👍

Sy Bar Schrijver
Thanks #Alberto.
While I know some go for total accuracy I thought with this scale I'd go for the appearance for reality which give impression of what is believed to be real

John Lambert
That's great work on this kit. I was gifted one last year and built it pretty much straight from the box. Your additions really take it to the next level.

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Mark Sherwood
H'mmm. At the moment it's looking like a Machinen Krieger flyer. Masterful work on that old kit though. 👍🥸🤘

Sy Bar Schrijver
Cheers folks sorry for the tardiness of progress, things just keep getting in way.
Hope to get some colour on today finally

Michael Kohl
Following

Sy Bar Schrijver
The shop.decaldoc.de/index.php decals are great design but are a bit of a challenge for me. I find them tricky to get into the grooves so much so I totally messed up the roof top gold and had to cobble together a cover from extra gold decals. I'm not sure how they will take the layering yet so will leave them over night. I like the use of a silver base layer to boost the decals colour and prevent paint colour leaking and affecting the top decal. Another point on decaldoc decals is the top film is the whole decal sheet so you have to cut each out and there is no placement image so a good subject reference is required.

That all said they look good so 🤞I don't mess them up any further

Ben M
Neat trick with the silver. Thank you for showing us.

Alberto
The Ford is looking nice, Sy! I didn't know about the silver either, it might be useful in the future 👍

Sy Bar Schrijver
#Ben M &#Alberto thanks for the comments as for the silver under the top decal they work great and are provided the correct size and shape by the decal producer Decaldoc of Germany. I'd never seen this approach before and I'll keep the unused silver decals for future use on my own work as they really give the white a punch - seethe wee Ford logo on the side strip (no silver under ) compared to the white discs!

Sy Bar Schrijver
Well the terror of removing mask struck and in internal glass is all messed up, it looks like moisture however time in sun and in airing cupboard does not help.. I'll continue to gloss and polish the bodywork then I'll take stock befor next steps. I may have a go at cutting out the glass to clean and replace testing a side window first, 🫣 yet more work on a fill in kit 🙄.
Lesson for today is do not fix glass with external masks on check the internal glass is clean, but there you go this is modelling not assembly. Least I've had practice replacing glass see my last model - RNLI Shannon Class Lifeboat | Album by Sybar (1:72)

gorby
Shame about the glazed parts as it looks very good otherwise. Maybe it was caused by fumes from the glue you used.

Ben M
Just call it the hotbox ford.

Sy Bar Schrijver
Cheers guys. I'll try and remove the drivers side window and see if can tell what caused it to fog and if I can restore it, then go from there

Thomas Bischoff
I'm in - nice show 👍

Sergej I
Looking good 👍!

Rich K.
Awesome work! Learning a lot from your posts and looking forward to the final result!

CaptGPF Schrijver
Thank you everyone!

@Thomas! Looking forward so seeing your Douglas build!
@Sergej- your F-35 is looking good! I heard that was a bad kit, but didn't realize it till your post!
@Lorraine - Your builds are always amazing! Using a laser cutter to create your latest Spitfire is brilliant!
@Rich - looking forward to seeing another dual build with you and your wife!

Dietmar Bogatzki
Fantastic start Capt. 👍

CaptGPF Schrijver
Thank you Dietmar! I plan to have the maintenance hatches open on this puppy, but not as impressive as your cut-out Millenium Falcon!

CaptGPF Schrijver
Sloooooooow progress, the main painting is done, now onto the munitions!

Paul Moore
Will be watching eagerly!

Rui S
Looking Great 👍

Villiers de Vos
Very nice progress.

Sergej I
In photo 24, are you following a reference with the yellow de-icing surface? I thought they were only yellow on slats...

CaptGPF Schrijver
Thank you Paul for the notes on the A-6!

@Rui - watching you Mariupol build with interest!

@Villers - love your cars, and watching your Maharaja edition with great interest!

Hi Sergei - I referenced it from the paint schemes in the instructions and checked the photos on the internet - and most of them have the yellow de-icing on the leading edge of the wing roots. After taking a closer look, seems like I missed the tail! 😀. Will work on that as I start the weathering. 😀

Adam Gudynowski
Great

Desert Marlin
Looking very awesome!!!

David Taylor
Looking good.

Neil
Agreed! 👍

Paul Moore
CaptGPF,
The build is looking great. As a former A-6 pilot, the only time you'd have both sets of flaparons up and speed brakes out would be on landing roll out. Just so you know. And at times I adjust my builds just because I want to show some various capabilities that interest me. So I get it. But I thought you might be interested in that just in case you had something else in mind.
Paul

CaptGPF Schrijver
@Adam - I love your Aston Martin - can't wait to see the final result!
@Desert Marlin - I loved t-your SUFA, Can't wait to see the Ra'am!
@Dave - would love to see your Falkland builds before I start working on my small armor kits
@Neil - don't know how you pulled off that Revell Tomcat, but you did it!
@Paul - I had originally planned to make this n in-flight Intruder, but the Hasegawa pilots wouldn't fit at all, so I opted to have everything flared out and open as if it was undergoing maintenance. Would these be realistic?

Desert Marlin
Thanks! The Ra'am is my Summer build!!!

Martin Weinpold
You are brave!

DerMattes Schrijver
Thank you, I guess? 🙂

Cristian A
Buche meinen Platz bei diesem fabelhaften Projekt!

DerMattes Schrijver
Nose sanded and first primer test. Fitted the air intakes and did some riveting after rescribing all panel lines. Will check some panels for correct lines and a rough idea where to put rivets.
Thanks for the interest / Danke für das Interesse 🙂

Finn
Following

Dave Flitton
Watching!

DerMattes Schrijver
Thank you for your interest, Finn and Dave 👍

DerMattes Schrijver
More filling and sanding, we will see after priming if the fuselage is smooth now.

Laurent VILLANUEVA HELLER ForEver
following ! If you need information, ask me

Nicolas
I'll take s eat. Nice start.

DerMattes Schrijver
Thank you Laurent and Nicolas for your interest and Laurent for the offer! 🙂
As always I am thinking about the colors. I will use Vallejo Model Air and tend to select 71.327 for the lighter shade and 71.143 for the darker. Both seem a little bit too light, but with thin coats over black primer and a dark brown oil wash, this should work i think.
The weapon loadout will be the one mentionen on dstorm.eu hope that makes sense?

Laurent VILLANUEVA HELLER ForEver
yes to DAGUET 1991 = good war armament is MAGIC II , MATRA 530 and ventral reservoir ! for air defens superiority ! on the 2000 under the engine fuselage at the rear, a central decoy box was fitted as a matter of urgency in place of the parachute housing and on both sides!

DerMattes Schrijver
I will check for the decoy boxes, thanks!

CaptGPF
Taking a seat! BTW, where do you get your 3D images for printing?

DerMattes Schrijver
The files for 3d printing are from cults3d, the engine is linked in the project. The company sells this as STL files on cults or from their own shop as printed resin parts. The missiles are from cults as well, they were free files but the modeler seems to set a price to his models after some time. To be fair, a very reasonable price for the quality! Link: cults3d.com/en/users/Sufa312/3d-models

CaptGPF
Thank you for the link!

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

DerMattes Schrijver
Thanks for your interest mates. Got the base colors down, next is detail painting and the nozzle.

Cristian A
Painting looking good, looking forward to the details and wash👍

Desert Marlin
I like it! The paint scheme looks awesome!!!

DerMattes Schrijver
I am currently doing the decals. Nearly every little bit is wrongly numbered, I am using a picture of Italeri's promo build from the Spielzeugmesse as reference because most is not clear on actual photos of the Mirage. Stay away from this kit if fun is something you want when building a model.

DerMattes Schrijver
Oil washed the underside, trying longer drying time this time. Hope the wash drys and stays in the panel lines.

DerMattes Schrijver
Antennas added, small parts painted and did some additional weathering at the exhaust and overall with the airbrush. I faded the colors a little in some spots and tried to add weathering like in some pictures of this particular aircraft.

Cristian A
Very close to the finish line! Looking great!

DerMattes Schrijver
Finally reached the finish line 🙂 I had my ups and downs with this build, the kit itself is kind of weird. The big underside delta wing piece has nice, finely recessed details. Then there is the fuselage underside with fixed gear bay doors for the front gear. The upper side is more rough, the radar cone is famously wrong for a production aircraft because of the panel lines from the prototype. Where the wings meet the fuselage the fit is not good, with huge gaps on both sides. Just filling them leaves a flat area, so I filled and sanded it multiple times. The riveting I tried is barely visible at all, which is a good thing as I clearly need more practice with this. The pictures from the project banner where my references for the weathering and the panels where the unique desert camo paint is missing. I really like the 3d printed exhaust! The fit was simply perfect, including inside the fuselage. The designers surely knew what they were doing, as this addon was one of or the best fitting part on this kit 👍 😉
There are decals provided for the tank and the missiles, but only the placement of the tank and missiles is mentioned in the instructions, the decals for them not at all.
Overall, a challenging kit for me. Thank you all for the likes and the interest! 🙂

Desert Marlin
Bravo Zulu!!!

Well done!

Günther Debiscop Schrijver
Hi, is it possible to communicate in English?

Rodwolf Schrijver
Ciao mi dispiace ma non riesco...hai provato con google trasleter? Ciao Rodolfo

Vincent
Very nice!!

Rui S
I like it too 👍

Shar Dipree
Very nice Warhawk.👍

Villiers de Vos
A beautiful finish.

Mark K
Superbly done!

builder_squirrel
so much details for the scale, are you using some aftermarket parts? like for the engine? wich ones? Congrats again for the build

Neuling
Very well done! Looks like a bigger scale model.

Petr Z Schrijver
@builder_squirrel - yes, i used CMK kits aftermarket details - engine, bombs, gunbay and pilot seat.
I highly recommend this kit and CMK/Special Hobby detail sets!

Dave
Very nice work, nice details for that scale.

Rui S
An eye catcher 👍

Maxim Novikov Schrijver
Thank you 🙏

Aris Grey
Superb!

Rui S
Great paintjob 👍

George Williams
Nice Datsun.

Aris Grey
WOW nice painting

Eddie Mann
Personally, I class them as Detail Sets, as they are used with other items.

scalemates
I'll bulk correct them all during the weekend

scalemates
Fixed 👍

gorby
Looking forward to another bargain basement wonder. 🙂

Mr D Schrijver
🤣👍 Hopefully 😁

Tianyi
Nice pick! I can't imagine they sell this kit in UK. It is one of those kits commonly seen in stores near schools in China. When I was a kid, I usually spent my pocket money of the week and enjoyed them during the weekend.

Mr D Schrijver
Hi Tianyi 👍
We can purchase them on eBay and Alibaba, some model shops stock Minihobby models, they are a sister company to Trumpeter.
They are fun inexpensive little kits ...this is my 5th one.... they can have big gaps sometimes but l enjoy making-good
Thanks for your interest 😃👍

Lorraine Lin
Another interesting one. Indeed, Mig-25 or Mig-31 are so big compared with other jet fighters. Following.
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Vincent
This looks like a hard build. I'm looking forward to see what you can do with this.

Mr D Schrijver
Hi Vincent 👋
Thanks...glad your interested👍 keep turned 😃

Skyhiker
I've got a fox... I've got a bat... Uhhh... FoxBat.
Youtube Video

Mr D Schrijver
Hi Lorraine 👋 it's definitely an interesting aircraft, tremendously powerful engines.
Like the Watchful cat 😺.
Hope 🦊 sill helping you build 😃👍

Neil
Following 🙂👍

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Mr D Schrijver
Hi Guy, thanks..... slowly getting back into the build after hose move.
Good luck on your work 👍

Mr D
Nice job👍 Great looking tank 👏 smart work.

Yanizzz Z Schrijver
Thank you friend, this is my very first job, I have never collected anyone before.

Mr D
Great first job, you definitely have the skills to enjoy the hobby.
Nice tribute too. There all brave no matter the side..👍

Ben M
Never seen stars like those before. Looks cool.

Curtis Caden Schrijver
An interesting build. We have a club contest in November for dive bombers. I selected this one because it seemed like a good kit to build. I was a bit concerned about painting the canopy, but a fellow club member told me that FrogTape® Delicate Surface Painter's Tape worked great. It allows you to see where to cut as it is somewhat translucent. The aircraft is two-tone although my paint choices may not have brought that out as well as it could be done. As to the stars, all I can say is that it is a Navy aircraft!

Ben M
The canopy masking is super precise.

Troy Campbell
Niiicccceeee!!!! Great work..

gorby
Very nice work!

Rui S
I agree. Nice photos too 👍

gorby
Fantastic!

Rui S
A Beauty 👍

Martin Weinpold
Great!

Przemyslaw Sroczynski Schrijver
It's just the begining
Plans are for all Zumbach fighters - Model Maker decals

Robert Podkoński
Great idea! Watching with pleasure.

Nicolas
Following

Łukasz Gliński
Looks very nice already 👍

Michael Kohl
It does

Finn
Following

Michael Kohl
Following with particular interest as I collect bits and pieces right now for a diorama to commemorate the effort of polish fighters in the RAF.

Robert Podkoński
Fantastic job, Przemek! Looks terrific!

Rui S
Excellent work 👍

Rui S
I'm in 😎

Ben M
👁️👁️👁️

Villiers de Vos
Booking my seat.

Danny Ray
This looks better than my Panther. Then again my Tamiya was/is (it's in the paint shop) my first ever 1:35 scale AFV…if I ever get to your level of build quality I'll be a happy cockney 😘😇😊😊😁

Danny Ray
By the way, you can always trust you Jakko to have an interesting subject matter. Something a little quirky or different. Never knew the allies had one. It was relatively common to use an enemy's vehicles I believe but it's still somewhat of a shock when you actually see it.

Jakko ‌ Schrijver
There are a good number of photos of captured Panthers used by the Allies, but Cuckoo is probably the best-known. For a lot more pictures of all kinds of captured German vehicles, take a look at this thread on Missing-Lynx: tapatalk.com/groups/..-allies-t337227.html

Danny Ray
If you look at the new hatch door you built, if you zoom in a little it looks a little bit like the palm tree part of the DAK marking that has the tree with a swastika half way down its trunk. Or am I going mad? They do say the human brain tries to find familiar shapes in everything. Could be a case of that! 🙂

Jakko ‌ Schrijver
You mean on the Zimmerit? That's an arrow pointing up, to ensure the hatch would end up the right way round 🙂 I had to take care that the ridges and grid pattern on the hatch line up with those on the turret, and the arrow helps with that.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice progress so far. This threat also is a good tutorial.

Jakko ‌ Schrijver
Thanks, I like model threads that actually show what the builder is doing rather than just posting the finished article 🙂

Danny Ray
Ahhh thanks for the explanation Jakko. I thought it must've been intentional!

Doubtingmango
Love the narrative

Jakko ‌ Schrijver
Thanks — and see my previous post, above 🙂

Spanjaard
wow fantastic details, looking forward to the rest of the show

Jakko ‌ Schrijver
Bedankt 🙂 I now have to figure out what most of the other stuff is that was on the real tank when it was photographed near Geijsteren and in Tilburg. Some of it's easy, like a couple of jeryrcans, a bucket, etc. but other bits are very hard to make out.

Spanjaard
sure you will figure out 🙂

Pepe
Inside

Robin (WhiteGlint)
👀

Neil Schrijver
Welcome Robin! 🙂

Donald Dickson II
I did this one with the AMK kit. Been trying to find the F-4 version to do. LOL
F-14 Group Build F-14D Vandy Complete | Album by smokeriderdon (1:48)

Looking good so far!

Maciej Bellos
Missed it!

Neil Schrijver
Hi Donald & Maciej 🙂 Thanks for commenting and your interest. Much appreciated mates 👍 Checked out your build Donald - excellent work also! 👍

Chan Li
Tomcat isn't a plane that you can easily build and paint. Especially in 48th scale.
I have always been lazy to splice those pics together after a day's work, I should do it too…
Did I use the correct word "splice"?

I like your profile pic too, got some musical implications 😁

Neil Schrijver
Hi Chan Li, hope you're well thanks for commenting. Yes, hopefully I'll do a decent enough job! I'm using it as a build learning experience to be honest, first Cat I'll have made in 35+ years.

Yeah I just do it to cut down on the size of my albums, as aware my builds are all OOTB so don't wanna bore everyone too much! 😆 Yes, splice will do mate 👍

Yeap love the 80s tunes (before that was considered hip!)

Guy Rump
Looking good, watching. 👍

Neil Schrijver
Thanks Guy 👍 Welcome aboard 🙂

Lei Guo
watching，and I will start my project whith 144th scale first

Neil Schrijver
Cheers lei guo 🙂 best of luck with your build too 👍

Thomas Bischoff
Thumbs up for building this kit 👍 and I m signing in to see how this overall black cat will turn out

Slavo Hazucha
A Revell Tomcat - nice! 🙂 Joining the crowd here - some really interesting angles-in-development on doing a full-black finish - looking forward to see where this will lead and how you make it look good & interesting...

Petar Žorić
Picture 12 to 16 says it all, glad you documented how hard it can be to deal with this kit, but you've made amazing progress also 😄 Can't wait to see finished product 😄

Neil Schrijver
Hi Thomas and Slavo, thanks very much for your interest and commenting. 🙂 I am slowly moving forward with this build, currently on some general touch-ups here and there at the mo prior to a gloss coat and the decals. Hope to get some new images on here soon 👍

Neil Schrijver
Thanks Petar 👍 you're very kind. It's not a particularly accurate rendition anymore, but hopefully the overall effect will be pleasing enough, I'll be glad if it turns out as nice as your Tomcat mate 🙂 thanks for recent likes guys too.

Neil Schrijver
Next album to be updated the Revell 'Black Tomcat'. This is another older build, I started it in 2021 and it's taken me awhile to get around to sorting out some final shots. I may well update these at a later date. I'm not sure about some of the backgrounds on the final images. Hopefully it gives you an idea of the finished result though 👍

The kit isn't the greatest fitting in a few places and I made several build and paint blunders, all of which I attempted to subsequently rectify, some more successfully than others. In the end it became one of those builds I was pleased to just finish. Hahaha! If nothing else, I learnt a lot about how to try and attain a respectable black finish featuring some kind of colour depth - I didn't completely succeed. But this one along with my F-117 and F-19 have all helped me understand how to try and hopefully get some 'flair' into a flat black finish.

If I were to build this kit again I'd likely just go for a straight gloss black as I think no weathering at all would suit the subject better. I apologise again to those who like realistic depictions, as always with my work, it has a basis in reality, but there are paint liberties taken here and there 😉 Anyways, another album closed off 🙂

Rui S
Oh well, another Beauty Mate.👍 Great work. I´ve heard that painting planes in black it's extremely difficult to attain great results 🤔 but you have the experience and nailed it 👍

Dave
Beautiful work.

Mr D
Nice model 👍 unusual to see a black version....was it for nigh time operations?
Really like the Design of the Tomcat, l Googled "best looking aircraft and the f14 , Starfighter and Su-30 were top of the search.
Nice job, how was the revell kit ?
😃👍

Stefan Fraundorfer
I love your black cat Neil.

Guy Rump
What a beauty! 👍

Neil Schrijver
Thanks very much talented mates for your interest 🙂 you're all super kind to comment. I'm very pleased that you like my efforts and thanks also to those who have liked too 👍

As far as an all black finish goes, I made quite a few errors, but @Rui I'll take that anyday, especially from someone as skilled as you ☺️

@Mr D, I believe it's a bit of a US Naval tradition. I'm not the best to talk about squadrons etc. Though I am also aware of the same Bunny livery being applied to F4s.... I hope this link is of some help mate...

theaviationist.com/2..-bunny-us-navy-vx-4/

Patryk S.
Nostalgia level 100! Great build, love the scheme!

CaptGPF
I heard nothing but tales of horror about this kit, yet you really made this cat shine! ❤️❤️❤️

Steven Van Dyck Schrijver
The start is quite straightforward with the track suspension, the wheels and the two jigs to assemble the link-and-length parts. The body is then built with only the clearparts as the only intermezzo. I added the main gun with the Aber barrel and closed down the turret, but the secundary weapons will have to be attached from the inside out.

S M
Interesting subject! Following!

Robert Podkoński
Watching too! (I have this kit in my stash, of course)

Guy Rump
Following too! 👍

John Hughes
This one is on my wish list, so I'll pull up a seat.

Steven Van Dyck Schrijver
Thanks for the interest, the last part was glued today. Only 4 Voyager PE parts didn't end up on the MG. I also paid attention to the seams between the facets, they couldn't show up and had to be sanded sharp. Some clearparts are quite thick, it was hard to put chrome on the backside.