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Robert Podkoński
Nice!

Martin Oostrom
Very nice work indeed

Spanjaard
love it

Alain Mazeyrac
Merci 🙏

gorby
Lovely job!

Alex K
Indeed - chapeau! 👍

Ben M
As someone who drinks 1/2 gallon of skim milk every day, I approve of this diorama.

Dietmar Bogatzki
Nice Job, Alain 👍

Neuling
Nice work!

Michael Kohl
Lovely scene.

Dominik Weitzer
very nice built. well done

Rui S
Very nice vignette 👍

Kesa Tiho
Lahe! Kust need eesti õhuväe märgid said? Tahaks endale kaa paar.

Clement
Nicely done!
The contrast between the camouflage and Estonian markings is very interesting.

Rui S
Very nice camo 👍

John
Nice construction phase, that main gun looks mean and the muzzle brake is 👍

DuperScale
following, love that muzzle break.

Ron
Looks good! I am working on my Academy-version.

Rui S
Nice work 👍

Michael Kohl
Following

Rui
Great work Chris! 👍

Neuling
Excellent work. And: Same question as Michael.

Chris Vandegrift
I've not been able to find out why. The shark teeth, eyes, and armour tan were also part of the special livery.

Villiers de Vos
Which Harrier kit did you use?

Very nice work.

Chris Vandegrift
Trumpeter 1/32 AV-8B US Marines

Rui S
Great work on this big one 👍

Steve Wilson
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Top job Rui S!!!👍😄

Rui S
thanks for your nice words Steve. I see you are always aware...

Kim Branders
Top.

Rui S
Thanks' Mate, but not yet Top

Rui S
Thanks' Michael. Coming from a Pro it's a great compliment...

Ulf Petersen
Very nice scene!👍
The Italeri-RSO and Tamiya-Kettenkrad are another ones of my first model kits of the early 80s. 🙂 Nice to see that they still are able to make attractive models.

Rui S
Thanks for your nice comments Ulf. I used to look to the RSO as a very strange vehicle but after building this kit, I started to like it a lot...

Rui S
Thanks for your nice comment Hanno. I'm very glad that this dio made you remember your grandfather and relive his stories (I'm sure very interesting ones)...
P.S. Thanks for sharing that information...

Donald Medley
Kind of reminds me of Alaska Huh?

Rui S
hehehe because of the RSO?

Thomas (Tommy) Rumley
This is so realistic, excellent work.

Rui S
Thank you for stopping by and your kind comment Thomas.
Glad you like this one.
Much Apreciated.

Neuling
You really brought these old kits to life. Nice to see them in this realistic scenery.

Rui S
Thank you for your kind words and stopping by and comment, Neuling.
Comming from a Dio Master, feels even better. Much Apreciated.
And also thank you James C (Jim C); Paulo ( Parrais)
and all mates for the new likes.

Николай Романов
Rui S, отлично выглядит..очень реалистично👍

Rui S
Wow, another Master commenting. I'm feeling proud Now.

большое спасибо, что заглянули и прокомментировали Николай Романов

ценится.

I hope the translater got it right🙂

Николай Романов
Все ок..мне приятно слышать это от вас🤝

Neil Patrick
Only just saw this Rui. I love how the Steyr RSO turned out. I think I have one in the stash somewhere and you've prompted to me to go searching. 🙂

Johne 69
Well done Rui 👍

Olivier
2015 ? Better late than never...

John
Amazing dio, Rui.

Ingo Green
Nice one… Great job

Rui S
@Николай Романов, it's what I think.

@Neil, thanks for stopping by and comment with your kindness. I look forward and will be watching your RSO project.

@Johne 69, thank you for your comment. I'm glad you like this one.

@Olivier, thank you, yap a very old project already, but another one that was done in 2 diferent phases and a enjoyable one.

@John, thx for stopping by and for your kind comment.

@Ingo, thank you for your kind comment, I'm really glad you like and stopped by on this one. Like all the others it helped a lot in the learning curve.

I also wish to thank All the 31 mates that liked this album. Apreciated.

Alan G
Excellent work again Rui

Rui S
Thank you for your kind comment Alan. Apreciated.
This is a old one and with some bad photos. Maybe one day I will take new photos.
I also thank the 16 mates for the new likes. Apreciated.

Lothar Linke
I really like how you work the camouflage

Rui S
Thank you for your comment Lothar29. Glad you like this old one. Apreciated

Kurt Shepard
Beautiful model, Great work!

Roy Seine
Amazing work, i think the weathering is just right

Rui S
@ Kurt, thank you, I'm really glad you like this old one.
@ Roy, thx a lot, I apreciatte your kind comment.

gvizbi
Beautiful work in every regard. Very nice scene and the weathering is fantastic.

Pietro De Angelis
It's always incredible what you can get out of old models,
congratulations Rui!

Mr James
Really good rust effect on the exhaust. Lovely diorama

Rui S
@ gvizbi, thx a lot for your kind comment on this old one. Coming from such a talented modeler it feels great
@ Pietro, Thank you very much for your kind support. Much appreciated. I really enjoy work on oldies.
@ Mr James. Glad you like this one. Thank you.
Interesting to see this oldies come to surface 🤔

Doubtingmango
The weathering really is beautiful. I love the old Italeri kits. My first kits were the old Testors brand.

Rui S
Hi Doubtingmango, thank you for your comment. Apreciated.
I still like Italeri kits, and I have great respect for them and also some in stash that I hope to build 😉

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Pavlo Yakovenko
unusual model, very nice

Rui S
@Villiers de Vos, thank you for your comment. Glad you like this oldie
@Pavlo, thx for your kind words, when I was very young I thought this was a "what if" or science fiction vehicle 😄

Владимир Ловцов
Good job. RSO is especially good.

Rui S
Thank you for your comment Владимир Ловцов . Apreciated.
The kettenkraft was hand painted, later on the RSO was already done with airbrush, and it's easy to see the improvement from that.

Rui
Great work Rui! 👍

Jennifer Franklin
You were doing work of this caliber eight years ago!!!!

Mr James
We've got lots of catching up to do Jennifer 🙂

Jennifer Franklin
You're not kidding Mr. James

Rui S
@ Rui, Thank you for stopping by and comment, apreciated, glad you liked this one

@ Jennifer, not quite. 8 years ago I discover scalemates, and posted it, but this one was my 2nd or 3rd Dio??? Done so long ago that I don't even remember when. And I'm such a slow intermittent modeler that I used to stay years without one single build.
Than scalemates enter the scene and I was more motivated but even so my mojo it's better but still very inconsistent

@ Mr James, you may be right but don't worry, scalemates it's a never ending source of Great and new and Beautiful work's that are always appearing, that's why I'm here every single day since.

Jennifer Franklin
Okay, Rui, now I am even more impressed. For someone who started working on models about a month ago, the idea of working on them for that many years is incredible.

Rui S
Be aware Jennifer, it's an addition 😄😄 😄 but a good one, has you can confirm here in scalemates 😉

Jennifer Franklin
Yes, I think I may be addicted 🙂 🙂 🙂

Rui S
We all hope so 😉

Maxime
Hi, Rui S 🙂 ! Out of all your models, I think this one reaches the greatest level of realism and meticulousness. It's not as big as your Panther diorama but still it must have taken a long time to complete. That is some great work right there and it is definitely inspiring. I hope you have another one like this in the near future 🤙

Rui S
Hi Maxime, Thank you for your nice comment. Apreciated.
I don't know if you access all my dios. This one is an old one and I enjoy doing it and the result I got on the RSO, but in my opinion not my best work. And also not even the one with the Panther.
Anyway don't get me wrong, I'm really glad you like this one.

Thomas E.
Oldie but goldie! A "Raupenschlepper Ost" is always a great subject in my opinion. And Sa-Kuva - Please type in: RSO
There is a lovely picture. The Finns had used 10 RSO in continuation war. I think the colour is German sand, the PAK is estimated finnish 3-Tone (green-brown-grey). Finnish green and brown may be very similar on bw-photographs.

Rui S
Thank you Thomas E. apreciated. Sorry for the late reply and I agree It's a great but somehow strange subject.

MS K
You always make the best scenes.
The dirt floor looks as soft as real life.

Rui S
Looking Great 👍

Robert Podkoński
Looks good already. Keep up the good work!

Vlad Medvedovskiy
Thank you Robert! Build is completed, just need to take final photos.

John E
Beautifully done. 👍

Ignacio von Braun
Amazing!!

Villiers de Vos
Thank you for sharing.

Neuling
Deserves more pictures!

Rui S
Nice collection 👍

Rui S
Another well done Dio 👍

Alberto
Very nice start, watching 👀

bughunter
At first glance I thought of 1:48, but so much the fancier 👍

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
welcome @Alberto and thanks for your nice feedback. Also thanks @bughunter 🙂 I love working in this small scale and I do this beside the massive CH-54 - tricky to work in different scales but I missed working in 1/72 ...

Alec K
Taking a seat for sure 👍

Edward MacKenzie
I'm in, very interested in this build

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
Welcome @Alec and @Edward! Both cockpits are finished and fuselage half are going to be put together now. I just took a few closeups - D-20 is OOB and D-5 is made from Eduard resin print. I bought the cockpit print and the kit at the same time and after finishing both there pros and cons on each, but I would not spend extra money for that - the kit cockpit is very highly detailed. What is your opinion? BTW - I saw some cotton bud fibers in the pics now - that will be cleaned up ... in this sale it´s so hard to see that with the naked eyes ... Looking forward to your feedback. Thanks all

bughunter
Looking great, as I said not like 1:72 👍
Your seats with belts looks good - I wonder why Eduard sells now 3D printed seats with seat belts on the seat?! Makes the paint job complicated 🙁
Example: F4U-2 Seat With Integral Belts PRINT (Eduard 6481048, 1:48)

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
thanks @bughunter - the side panels on the D-5 are also from the resin print set. In 1/72 and 1/48 I like using PE seat belts. In bigger scales they are too flat. Thanks for sharing this - I didn't know that they offer this now - I agree with you that I don't see any benefit on this. That is interesting, indeed.

bughunter
If available for a type I prefer HGW belts. Eduard is at least involved with providing the metal parts for the sets.

Alec K
I think the printed seat belts are more realistic looking, despite drawbacks with painting. This works well in 1/72. Steel is just too rigid, plus they flake on me sometimes.

Simon O'Gorman
The detail is amazing! Especially for a 1:72. Great work.

Edward MacKenzie
I am really impressed mate. Wow...

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
@Alec: did you already try it? I would be interested in the result. @Simon and @Edward: many thanks for your nice feedback - appreciate it a lot and I´m glad you like it.

Jakub Fiala
Excellent work on cockpits 👍

Alec K
Thomas, I have not. I should qualify my statement: I think they look more realistically shaped (twists and bends) than what can be done with Eduard PE or steel belts. How well one can paint the 3D printed ones remains, for me, to be seen.

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
@Jakub: many thanks for your nice feedback - appreciate it a lot! @Alec: I thought you might have done a printed seat - no worries and I hope you didn't get this wrong .. I'm really interested in how a seat with printed belts looks like. I think in 1/48 and bigger it can be nice, but 1/72 would be really tough to paint.

Alec K
🙂 👍

Michael Kohl
I build the Tamiya one, but Eduard doesn't have to fear the comparison. You brought all those details nicely to effect with your paint job. Anxious for more.

Alec K
Forgot to ask: how do you do your dark wash (interior side walls, specifically)?

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
@Micheal: don't make me blushing .... @Alec: well, good question and I have to say I didn't apply any wash on the panels. What I did was black primer and a real heavy dry brush with white or off-white. And then I sprayed a thin layer of interior green in 90° to the panels to get a kind of base coloring. Final layers were then applied from a smaller angle (almost 90° to the wings just to explain). With this technique the shadows created them by themselves. I then used very little amount of black panel liner to pop out the smallest details. Let me know if I could explain understandable ... not en English native 😝

Alec K
Aha, thanks for the explanation (very clear and concise 👍. I think I have read about this somewhere, but the dry brushing with white is new to me. The effect is very nice imho 👍

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
Welcome Alec - any time ☺️ if I do dry brush after painting main color I would match the color. If you do it directly on black primer you have the highest contrast and you are able to blend with main color until it's just enough visible to pop the edges a bit. So can create a bit of depth at least this was my idea 🤷‍♂️

Michael Kohl
You achieved a nice 3D-effect with this technique. Maybe you wanna try to spray pure highly diluted plain white from your imaginary light source afte the black primer. On top of that come light coats of the base color. This gives you highlights and shadows in a pretty natural way. I like it with figures and cockpits.

Alec K
Thomas, I think you have succeeded. Thanks again for the detailed how-to. And thank you Michael for the optional airbrush highlight technique tip 👍

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
@Michael: thanks - I used this technique one the figure I made for my Fw190 vignette, but I haven't thought on this on a cockpit. In my opinion this technique probably does not pop the edges as much as dry brush done before spraying the main color. Maybe a combination is good in bigger scales ... I will think of it on my next builds. @Alec: welcome and thanks for your positive feedback ☺️

Rui S
Looking Great 👍