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Clair Greenwood
Precision approach, Im loving it. Is that putty around the bogies to hull fitment? Just curious 🙂

Eddy Marshall
Cheers Clair... Just for fitting to the hull... The connections between the running gear and hull are extremely loose... Not to mention the rocker arm assemblies have a tendency to be misaligned... Just mocking it up at the moment and see where I need to shore things up... Happy modelling...

Clair Greenwood
Ahhh ok, doing it the smart way, thats something I probably wouldn't think to do.

Rui S
Looking Great 👍. I'm in 😎

Nigel Chapman
Yep found it. Well done. It's amazing what you can find but those days are getting fewer

Bozzer
Totally agree mate. But I've noticed things on eBay are getting cheaper too. Good for buyers, bad news for sellers

Gary Victory
Lovely build and finish Ricardo. Top Job Sir.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Alexander Grivonev
Oh that looks amazing, so much variety in color and little details, great markings. Beautiful paintjob and subtle weathering as well👍👍

Ricardo Reis
Thank you @mates, much appreciated!

Neuling
I fully agree with Alexander.

bughunter
You can be proud of this colorful bird 👍

Ricardo Reis
Thank you @bughunter, coming from you that's quite a compliment 🙂

Zbynek Honzik
Very nice!

Paul Eden
Beautiful!

Thomas Bischoff
Excellent work - all the pain paid off👍

Ricardo Reis
Thank you very much, mates

Rui S
Bonito 👍

Mojo DeVirus
Wow !!!

Lebloge
Hooooooo it just leaves me speechless 😯

J R
Great build mojo I love 1/72 armor

Treehugger
A lot of fun for being 1:72 armor I think. 🙂

Neuling
Top small scale build!

João Moura
Thank you for the nice words mates 🙂

Rui S
Excelente 👍

George Williams
I like it a lot, especially the stripes.

Robert Podkoński
Beautiful!

Rui S
A Beauty indeed 👍 Great photos too 😉

Maciej T.
... and Old Cinema 🙂 Youtube Video

Rui S
Beautiful work 👍 Congratulations

Martin Oostrom
As an in between, hidden behind the Köln truck, build.
Making it for my mother in law, who used to drive one in the 70s.

Martin Oostrom
Klear kote is still slightly tacky

Michael Kohl
Following too

Ben M
👀

bughunter
Clean build which looks like bigger scale 👍

Spanjaard
looking good Martin

Martin Oostrom
It is decent. Don't exaggerate too much. Assembly was started today

Martin Oostrom
And done. Completed - WIL Mobile | Album by Mahoo76 (1:32)

Juskifo
beautiful paint and scratches on the body I will follow the rest with interest
Dragon kits😍

J D
Hi, Juskifo.

Thx for your comment. I made my own RAL 8020 for this Pz. III J. Hope I could still have some spare time to continue my work in next several weeks.

Rui S
I agree with Juskifo. I'm in 😎

J D
Thx for your approval, Rui S.

Pietro De Angelis
Beautiful Panzer III!

J D
Thx for your support, Pietro De Angelis.

Rui S
I agree with Pietro. Well done 👍

Skyhiker
Oh, this looks like fun!

Chris Parsons
Oh ya!
Built a couple of Broplan vac kits, a real challenge but great for the feeling of overcoming a challenge and creative accomplishment

Thomas Kolb
OMG, what a challenge! 🙂 Those panel lines look quite uneven, will you try to rescribe them or just take them for what they are? In any way, I am super curious how these sheets of plastic can be turned into a model, so I will watch with interest!

DuperScale
Welcome mates, the panellines are aweful but the material is so thin, i'm scarred that i cut right trough it when i try to rescribe them.

Łukasz Gliński
Another BroPlan fan, welcome to the club 😄

Nicolas
Following. Got my first vacu kit this weekend. I hope I can learn something here.

Robert Podkoński
Ambitious project! Watching.

Chris Parsons
Hi DuperScale, I built a couple of Broplan vac ATR kits, converting one 72 500 to a 42 300. A few pics of the work in my "albums" if you're interested in the kind of model you can achieve from a Broplan kit with a bit of work…sweat and tears, foul language, alcohol and time….

Cristian A
Following along.

Michael Kohl
Mee too.

J35J
Following with intrest! 👍🏻

Finn
This will be good

Ben M
👀

Treehugger
DuperScale, how about scribing into a layer of primer paint?
This way, scribing should be a lot easier afaik, scribing into the primer layer of paing, and not plastic.
This guy on youtube did this, on regular plastic models though.

Treehugger
As for the clear parts, I wonder if it could be done this way
1) Cut out a square/rectangle shape, removing the oval form from windows. The larger the hole the better, to create some extra space around the old window shape. Enough space to work with putty later on.
2) Glue in a flat thin strip of transparent styrene on inside of model.
3) Glue in a square/rectangle shape transparent styrene, outside the model, laminated with the existing strip of transparent styrene on inside, so double layered.

If keeping the new window parts larger than the old window shape it should be easier to use some putty after adding masking tape that have the shape of the old windows. The larger these new outer square/rectangle window shapes are, the easier it is to add putty to create a smooth surface, then hopefully the center part is clear enough, to mask off the final shape of the old window shape, before painting.

Afaik a common issue using Mikro Kristal Klear is that you can't sand the clear part afterwards, because the clear part is like rubber iirc. You can iirc easily remove this clear part though, just poke/pull it out. Unsure if there would be any residue left after removing the rubber like liquid clear stuff after it dries.

Treehugger
Another thing one could do with clear parts an idea:
1) Glue in a long strip of transparent styrene on inside of plane.
2) Add some kind of epoxy or something that can be sanded, without the epoxy damaging the underlying transparent styrene.
3) Idea is to use the liquid stuff to fill in the perfectly shaped holes for the windows, then sand the liquid stuff flush after it dries.

What won't work imo, is doing multiple rounds of adding liquids to create some goo that goes transparent. I think if you sand this stuff multiple times adding more liquid stuff, you get a flawed result I think. I tried something like that with gloss varnish, trying to build up a solid clear shape. Did not work as expected.

Treehugger
In this thread, and in photo #13, the guy apparently put tape outside, and poured clear resin on the inside to fill the window holes. Unsure if such resin will react and maybe eat up or warp any thin parts ala vacuum kits. I guess this can be tested with some scrap plastic if having some piece left over.

Boeing 737-530 Smart Wings 1:144 | Album by Zbynek (1:144)

Łukasz Gliński
The UV transparent resin is usually sandable (to some degree), maybe that might help?
Similarly to Treehugger I'd reinforce it with a transparent styrene from the inside of the fuselage anyway.
Or you might leave the windows open and fill them with Kristal Klear after painting - this is what I did on my Jetstream, Avanti & Yak-40. But if you want to seal it with gloss varnish, remember to keep very thin layers (guess how I learned it 🙂).
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Blue Jetstream (SP-KWN) | Album by Woody (1:72)
Avanti! | Album by Woody (1:72)

DuperScale
Hi, thanks for the input mates. I'm quite happy with the kristal clear on the small windows and i think i do it like Lukasz said. After everything is done i do the windows as the last step.

The windscreen window could work but i think i used little to much of the kristal clear.

Mr D
Good to see a vacform 😃👍

Cuajete
Well done so far 👍

David Taylor
Watching.

J35J
Great work so far with the vac👍🏻

Mr D
Like the cockpit..👍
Lots of work but doing a 👍 job... Be rewarding when done.

Cuajete
Great (hard) job so far. Go on!

Guy Rump
Following. 👍

Chris Parsons
Very nicely done and great progress!
Keep up the great work

David Taylor
You have definitely got your work cut out.

J35J
The kit is coming together very good. You are skilled and brave!
Great to follow the journey to see the final result. 👍🏻

Dave Flitton
Wow! Keep going. it's going to work out. It looks good.

Mr D
Looking great 👍👍
Be interesting model.

DuperScale
Thanks for the nice comments, from far away it looks good but the fit, lack of detail and scale problems are really annoying.😅

Nicolas
That's the main reason why I've never dared to try a vacu kit before. I've learned a lot from you. Looks good so far.