Morane-Saulnier Type AI

gorby
That's a stunner Frank. You've even exceeded your own high standards. Your best yet (probably until the next one 🙂 ).

John
Incredible build from nose to tail. The whole thing is amazing but the cowling alone is a work of art.

Robert Podkoński
Look absolutely realistic (save the ones upside down, of course 😄 ). Fantastic work as always, Bughunter!

Spanjaard
sublime, as you got used to 🙂

John E
Stunning build. The rigging looks extremely authentic.

Björn Svedberg
Wonderful pictures of a great build! 👍 👍

Alex K
Those struts!!!!!

Kyle DeHart
Looks like it could take off any second. What a truly amazing build. I don't have the superlatives to properly describe it.

Curatorm
Magnificent!

Neuling
Top build and photos. Of course.

Neil
Wow 😳

bughunter
Now I have to say Thank you for your wonderful comments, and the likes.
Gorby, not every "next project" has the chance to look this good (due to the big amount of real wood here).

Bernhard Schrock
As usual I discover new detail with every new round of looking the pictures 🙂 Top notch! By the way: very interesting baldachin strut layout.

bughunter
Thank you Bernhard!
Regarding the strut layout: I mentioned this in my build report. The layout makes really sense, as I noticed during adding the long struts, how fragile it was - until I added more struts. Each and all of them are needed.

bughunter
This bird has been adopted by Special Hobby on their blog, what an honour! 🙂

Bernhard Schrock
👍. Link?

bughunter
specialhobby.info/20..asol-148-morane.html
The cracked my name in the headline, in the text it is right 😉

Christian Bruer
What a wonderful result 👍

Alec K
Fantastic result, and nice blog entry (sans Freddy's editorial snafu…)

bughunter
Thank you very much Christian and Alec!

Willem van Berkel
What a beautiful result Frank!
I should visit here more often...

Willem

Lochsa River
Sweet build....

bughunter
Hi Willem! Very nice to see you and thank you very much! That was one of the special projects ...
@Lochsa Thank you!

I hope that the followers noticed that one too ....

Gianni
He is magnificent

Dick
Another gem from Bughunter.
And with compliments from the manufacturer..

Just wow😳, congrats!

bughunter
Thank you very much! Only modellers can guess roughly how much work has gone into it 👍

Alec K
So, roughly… 200+ hours?

bughunter
Yes, something around this. I do not track hours (on purpose - I want to avoid this "project management" shit: Planning replaces coincidence with error!). It is finished, when it's done.
The cockpit and the wooden struts have taken many hours, and my experiments with the complicated metal undercarriage where the first tries were not successful or good enough.

The next one will be an relaxing oob build. Yes, really Out Of the Box! I will replace only the airscrew with bearing. Of course with many available accessories, but no scratch work.
Is there any interest in a few pictures anyway?

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work. Well worthy of your efforts.

Kyle DeHart
I can't believe it. Out of box, you say? 😂 Definitely interested in watching the OOB build process as well. Post the photos!

bughunter
Thank you Villiers!
Kyle, a new Album was started, more pics soon.

Christoph Kunz
I can't believe you are realy going to do oob.
But I will take a seat for sure.

bughunter
Thank you Christoph, but you will need to follow the other Album. This one is finished 😉

Mathieu
Most awesome ! The struts alone are unbelievable..

Guy Rump
Beautiful! 👍

bughunter
Thank you Mathieu and Guy! The wood looks so nice in the cabinet 😉