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Scott
Very nicely done! Excellent weathering and painting.

Rui S
I agree 👍

Mr James
Scott says it all

Gary Curling
Great model and weathering

gorby
Lovely work!

Doubtingmango
All those rivers just pop

Rando
Very cool, I'm getting the Mikro Mir kit, interested to hear how it goes together

Patrick Hagelstein
True! Joining in as well to see how this builds up. Enjoy the build! 👍🏼

J35J
Joining, have one in my stash waiting, watching with intrest👍🏻

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat, of course 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
Following too

Martin von Schreckenstein
joining in. looking good so far

Robin (WhiteGlint)
A Draken 👀

Dave Flitton
Watching.

S M
Welcome, mates! I'm building also a Hasegawa kit alongside with this for comparison and for testing painting.

Oleg Bogolei
Following! Very interesting comparing!

S M
Welcome, Oleg! I just got Afterburner assembled, and the cockpit is ready.

Łukasz Gliński
Seems like Hasegawa is not that bad after all 😄

Finn
Following

Patrick Hagelstein
Łukasz, I was thinking the same. That 'old' Hasegawa kit isn't that bad after all. The MikroMir kit is only marginally more refined as it seems.

S M
Hasegawa has only 60 grey parts and 3 clear parts, but it is pretty smartly made and easy to build. MikroMir has 150 grey parts, 5 clear parts and 67 mandatory PE-parts. Being a short-run kit its parts need more work to fit. Still MikroMir contains more details (and Falcon missiles) than Hasegawa so it's comparatively cheaper.

Patrick Hagelstein
OK, so you do think the MikroMir kit is the more detailed one? Good to know when I get to my Austrian Draken project (sometimes this century.... )! Following your build with interest! 👍

S M
Well my background research is still going on, but atleast the cockpit is more detailed.

Patrick Hagelstein
That's good to know already! ☺️👍🏼

S M
I have to update that MikroMir's IRST is not as good as Hasegawa's. The seeker head is a clear part and there is one PE-part fin, but the two-part frame is bulky and doesn't have panel lines. Luckyly the Draken version I'm goingt to make doesn't have an IRST so I used the clear part and the PE-part to improve my Hasegawa-Draken's IRST.

S M
New photos starting from 36. The airframe is assembled.

J35J
Progressing nicely👍🏻

Mirko Römer
Interesting model kit, following

Urban Gardini
Intresting mate!

S M
Slow progress, but I'm very proud of this simple tool that I made in 15 min to make 0,8mm diameter styrene circles.

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

J35J
Great work with setup of tool and outcome of the chaff & flare dispensers👍🏻

S M
Thanks, J35J!

Rando
Amazing idea with that tool you made! Gonna remember that

Michael Kohl
Following

Rando
Man. Struggling away with the clear parts on my RF-8 right now. Toughest part of modeling probably. Nice work on your canopy!

J35J
Progressing great S M!

S M
Thanks! @Rando I agree it is one of the most tough and riskiest parts. They took me 3 days because I wanted to make them pretty shiny with Humbrol Clear, but it takes lots of time to dry and it has become too thick. Next day when I check the clear parts they have some ugly residues and unevenness +hair. On the other part I just sanded and polished some minor points, but the other part I cleaned the varnish away with isopropanol and tried to dip it in varnish again. Next day still unevenness so I just sanded and polished them avay and dipped it in my more reliable floor polish that also dries faster.

Rando
Yeah I've always had that with dipping parts in the floor polish, it doesn't dry evenly for me so I just polish with Tamiya and Novus compound. Good to get over the hump and onto painting and decals!

S M
Bad luck with painting. I have to redo the top surface by removing most of the paint. It was a bad idea to preshade yellow with pink.

Clement
I've had better luck using tamiya XF-3 or any other flat yellow and following with a gloss varnish.
Gunze gloss yellow, orange, white etc are virtually useless to cover anything.

S M
Yeah my choice of paints haven't been perfect, but I have settled for them and now the decals have been added. The big wisent needs some fixing.

J35J
Final strech, good job with fixing the paintwork and decals👍🏻

Clement
Looking good! Given how short lived that scheme was, no preshading is probably the right call anyway 🙂

S M
I hope this gets finished in one day, because only landing gears are missing. I almost ruined this model with bad painting and bad choise of gloss varnish.

Robert Podkoński
Looks fantastic already! Keep it up, S M!

Thomas Kolb
I love the detailed build log! The Draken looks amazing too!

S M
Thanks J35J, Clement, Podkon and Mimoid! The model is now ready, but I will take better photos tomorrow.

S M
Now the final photos are taken

Guy Rump
Great job and interesting livery. 👍

Łukasz Gliński
Great job on this unusual livery indeed 👍

gorby
Lovely job!

Doubtingmango
And another beauty!

gorby
Another beauty!

Doubtingmango
Pretty tiger!

Rui S
Nice Dio 👍

Doubtingmango
Got to love a dio with a reindeer!

Neuling
Nice dio indeed!

Thomas E.
Thank you for comments and likes.

gorby
Very nice dio!

Robert Podkoński
Cool!

Guy Rump
Hopefully, this should be quite a quick build. 🙂

David Taylor
This takes me back.

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat.

Alex K
I'm in - of course...

Michael Kohl
I only and sincerely hope that you quadruple checked your references that the original plane didn't have an "Airfix" molded on the cockpit side walls - lest you have to scratch new ones. 😉

Łukasz Gliński
My heart broke when I had to do it 😁

Nicolas
I'm in. Got the Airfix kit and the Pavla detail set in my stash, but I'm thinking about replacing it with the AVI kit. I think your report will be a big help there.

Cuajete
Great! The Bird Dog Society has begun. I have felt a great disturbance in the Force, but I remembered that Łukasz is a great tamer of hard plastics 😉

It looks like those photo-etches are doing a good job 👌

Alex K
So... if the AVI kit is destined for the representation of Major Buang-Ly's plane... I'm also eager to see what the Airfix kit will be...

Łukasz Gliński
You're absolutely right Alex - AVI's going to be Major's BirdDog and Airfix is destined to be boxart DJ-coded one.
I was thinking of Maltese markings for it, but there are none available.
Cuajete, the PE are quite good, but the Airwaves set has quite unclear hand-drawn instructions, which is challenging sometimes.
Nicolas, wish I could fetch the Pavla tail set, I need to try restoring the raised lines after having to remove the injection marks.

Nicolas
I'd wish there would be a conversion kit to a Siai SM 1019. But I think I have to scratchbuild the different cowling, propeller and tailsection.

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!