Perete

Steven Van Dyck
The hood is dry-fit on the frame and it seemed that one fender had to be rearranged. I prepared the PE for the rear view mirrors that are quite complicated. I also built the Gecko Models pallet truck as a dio element. It's a very fine kit, there is only one pallet contrary to the image with the 4 pallets on the truck.

Steven Van Dyck
I added the Italeri 20ft container to the project as one of these is clearly visible on the Tankograd pictures. I got it from the store next door. I might cjt up the container to get a better composition on the dio and like that I can get 2 out of 1.

Desert Marlin
It only gets better! Keep it up!

Steven Van Dyck
Thanks, Marlin. Now the braking lines, airbrakes and the front landing gear are fully detailed. Strangely only about half of the mecahical parts of that gear are not in the kit, so I had to do a lot of scratch to complete it. Also at the main gear an actuator is missing. The decals are all done now but those of the large wing pylons are impossible to get fitting. The shape of the AIM-9 pylons is wrong and I should have replaced these with some aftermarket. I noticed the viggen is a toe-top-sitter, the nose wheels are a few millimeters up. This is a problem if I want to put it on a mirror. The only solution wold be to knock out the camera glass again and put some weight in there.

Steven Van Dyck
Thanks for the interest. For Jacobsen see fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famille_Jacobsen , it's apparently a family of infamous corsairs also related to Jean Bart. It even mentions the medal at the end.

Steven Van Dyck
Both medals have now arrived. These will be useful as nameplates on the base. One had the description "paquebot Strasbourg", translated as cargo ship, and would be cast in 1950. I started with sanding the hulls to remove the casting traces, these are apparently broken off the sprue leaving two scabs. I noticed one difference, Strasbourg got a degaussing cable. I removed one breakwater from the front deck, taking care not to remove the detail around it. The drilling locations are not very clear, indicator lines passing multiple holes. I started removing Dunkerques sloop rails as I noticed that in the Strasbourg Woodhunter deck there are some PE ones, but now I notice that Shipyard wasn't planning on replacing the plastic rails in their wooden deck. And these rails are lying on the wooden deck, so they're very thin. I'll have to compare very well.

gorby
Nice progress.

Pepe
Wow....what memories, I studied this vehicle to the point of exhaustion when I built mine.... I never managed to find out where the fuel filler neck was, it stuck in my heart....a very promising job....I really like what I see.

Steven Van Dyck
Pictures today include the visiting club stands and the contest from the first rows at the entrance until the military vehicles. Figures and planes will come tomorrow.

Steven Van Dyck
The second part of my report is just posted, with more than 400 extra pictures. The Columbia won silver in masterclass and all returned home safely.

Lost_Erik
Thanks for posting all of these! Good show.

Congratulations on best in show and the bronze recognition! 👍

Steven Van Dyck
Thank you, Erik. Today also the SMC report will be completed.

gorby
WOW! Absolutely stunning work on both of them.

Rando
Simply amazing work, and all the more so that you made two of them! Congrats!

Kesa Tiho
Following with interest

Steven Van Dyck
Thanks. The frame is now assembled after removing of sinkmarks on both beams. These were not present on the four wheel truck frame that is still included. The first set of three SKP lights is added to the rear.