Wiadomości

Finn
Following

Jennifer Franklin
me too

Dietmar Bogatzki
taking a seat

Landlubber Mike
Thanks guys! Hope I make it worth your while!

Nicolas
Following

Neil
Me too 👍

Landlubber Mike
Welcome aboard Nicolas and Neil! Thanks for your interest.

Lochsa River
have to sit in...this is in the stash...I was looking at it yesterday...

Lochsa River
A tip...others who built this kit had trouble around the cockpit....

Guy Rump
Following! 👍

Carlo
Nice, a flying boat. Hope this(or Sword) kit gets re-issued one day soon..

Alec K
Taking a seat.

Landlubber Mike
Thanks for following guys. Lochsa, you're right about the canopy. There are fit issues in general with this kit - most of which aren't too difficult to deal with - but the canopy is a bit of a mess. I'm not really looking forward to that part of the build.

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat here too!

Landlubber Mike
Thanks for joining Robert!

Michael Kohl
Didn't know the subject, like the projekt, love to follow.

Landlubber Mike
Thanks Michael - glad to have you along!

Ben M
💺

Zbynek Honzik
Taking a seat!

Landlubber Mike
Thanks Ben and Zbynek, welcome aboard! Thanks for looking in!

Alec K
Nice detailing and progress 👍

Transall NG
A nice and strong landing gear !

Landlubber Mike
Thanks guys! Transall, it seems a lot stronger than the kit parts which were made from pretty thin plastic.

Pietro De Angelis
Beautiful work, congrats!

Landlubber Mike
Thank you Pietro! Still a long way to go. In the middle of priming the fuselage and having gap and other problems popping up. This is the build that never seems to end 🙁

gorby
Amazing work on the landing gear.

Landlubber Mike
Thanks Gorby! This was my first time trying to scratch build landing gear. Took me probably 20 hours 🙁 I ended up using Albion Alloys brass tubing for a lot of it, along with music wire, copper wire, plastic tubing, and other materials. I've bumped it a few times already and it is very stable so fingers crossed it makes it to the finish line!

gorby
I'm interested in this project so I'll tag along. 🙂

gorby
What was the problem with the PVC foam?

René "Lord Bilbo" Bartholemy
Taking a seat.

Ben M
👀

littleblackbear
The foamed PVC was a nice medium that I'm sure I'll find a project for, but for now I just found scribing and cutting just a bit too fiddly to get right. That's more of a skill problem than a problem with the material. But I have a hot wire cutter that makes very quick work of foam, and the brick carving process is far more enjoyable for me on XPS.

gorby
👍

Jan Peters
Cool subject, as a resident of Arnhem this is special to me 🙂Although you show some great craftsmanship, this sort of houses aren't typical for Arnhem. These houses are more appropriate for Amsterdam. If you look at pictures of Arnhem and Oosterbeek from 1944 you will see more houses build in in the 1800s, and stately houses.
Just to let you know, in case you want your diorama to be historically correct.
I don't want to rain on your parade!

littleblackbear
Thanks Jan. I need to update the project it's attached to. I'd already decided that it wouldn't be going into the Market Garden diorama given the regional architecture inaccuracies you pointed out.

I modeled this after houses on the canal streets in Harlingen after spending some time there (and elsewhere around Fryslan).

littleblackbear
Updated!

littleblackbear
Jan, what would be some examples of typical Arnhem architecture?

littleblackbear
By the way, I cycled the fietselfstedentocht this last year. You have a beautiful country.

Jan Peters
Friesland is very nice indeed, I've spent some holiday time there as well 🙂
Some typical architecture may be found here:
martijnreinders.com/..j-het-museum-arnhem/
It is in Dutch, but Google Translate may sort that out.
These kind of buildings are typical for many areas where fighting took place.
Also note the fences, these are also very common (many are still there, even today) I will try and find some more websites with pictures of the area, and share them here.

Jan Peters
Here's some more information.
liberationroute.com/../3/the-war-in-arnhem
This site is in English too.
The hospital is where I was born by the way, many moons ago 🙂 It has now been converted into apartments.

Jan Peters
And some more:
battle-of-arnhem.com..ty-center-of-arnhem/

Jan Peters
And a cool video:
Youtube Video

littleblackbear
Massively helpful, thank you Jan! And very cool. You live in a beautiful place.

I'll end up scratch building a different structure for Market Garden that's a bit more regionally appropriate, architecture-wise.

For this project, I couldn't get over how much I liked the architecture of the canal houses, and ended up starting there instead of a proper Market Garden-esque house or building.

littleblackbear
I've done quite a bit of research on the Frisian resistance as I have a relative that was arrested and executed for being part of it.

I'll end up making this house as part of a liberation of Harlingen vignette, I believe. That Liberation Route site has been a good resource on that research, and I'll be putting together something around the Canadians and Dutch Resistance taking back the area. It'd have been the 7th Reconnaissance Regiment Duke of York's Royal Canadian Hussars that had first contact with the occupying forces, at the time, so I'll likely include a Humber or Staghound or Universal Carrier.