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bughunter
The weather was ok today to try some outdoor pictures of the finished Pfalz D.III.
The pictures were taken 65 kilometres away from the airfield of the "Bayerische Militärfliegerschule 5" in Gersthofen - the place where the original photo was taken.

Alec K
Beautiful! And what a cool historical tie-in. 👍

Martin Oostrom
Your biplane shrinking machine is working as well as ever Bugsy. Another one to be proud of.

Dieter Bihlmaier
Wunderbar! Great build and fantastic pictures.

Doubtingmango
Another masterpiece!

Zbynek Honzik
A true masterpiece! 👏👏👏

bughunter
Thank you very much mates!
Dieter, the pictures are taken outdoor with two tripods.
I just added some pictures made in light tent.

Dieter Bihlmaier
Thank you!

Pietro De Angelis
WOW!

Kyle DeHart
This is a stunner Frank!! A gorgeous airframe and I absolutely love the paint scheme as well. Your typical eye for beautiful detail in all the right spots push this to your usual next level build. It is truly always a pleasure to watch one of your builds

gorby
I may not know much about WWI aircraft but I know a beautiful aircraft and model when I see one. Another stunner Frank.

Joerg R.
Toll geworden!
Bin auch eine am Bauen, bin aber noch nicht soweit, wie du.
Will mir noch den Motor in 3D erstellen und drucken.
Gruss

Bruce Huxtable
Soo nice - what a delight to the eye 🙂

Ludvík Kružík
Bughunter, that's another great result of your work. Perfectly built model and well presented. Congratulations! 👍👍👍

Nathan Dempsey
Beautiful work as usual!

Jakub Fiala
Beautiful !!! I was following the build with pleasure and the result is amazing 👍
Excellent pictures, as well 👍

bughunter
Hello mates!
I went on a hiking holiday straight after the release of the final album of this project. That's why I haven't replied here yet. I can make up for that now: many thanks to everyone for the kind words! ❤️️
In case you have not seen it: there is also an Work-In-Progress album attached to the project.

Kyle DeHart
I hope you enjoyed your holiday, my friend!!

Kyle DeHart
So many decals. Don't be alarmed by the missing hit of green on the air box. I stuck my big fat thumb on that and ripped it off. I do have a spare sheet of decals so I'll get that repaired.

George Williams
Sticky thumbs happen to the best of us. Nice work so far.

Marcel
That looks like a nice vintage Tamiya kit. Which driver version will you make? Looking forward to the final result.

Kyle DeHart
Thanks George! A ton of decals with this one means many opportunities to mess things up. I'll get it straightened out.

Thank you Marcel. I have to say this is really an excellent kit. Not fiddly at all, even the rear wing element gave me no issues. And it's a lovely car. As for the driver I believe I will go with Zanardi. I was never a fan of him as a driver but after his horrific accident and what he's done since has been most impressive.

Sarah-Jane
Coming along nicely, despite the thumb issue. I built this some years ago and also did a Lotus 107C from it, they're nice kits, model on

Kyle DeHart
Thank you! I wouldn't mind having the full lineup of 107s. I like how the car looks and it had some excellent period liveries. I agree. Nice kits. Thanks again!

Marcel
I like your choice. Alex wasn't great in F1 for some reason, though quite succesful in other series. But he has had some major accidents to recover from. Not just his racing accident, which he has handled remarkably well, but also a very severe cycling accident in 2020 and a fire at his house in 2022 which also left him hospitalized. I've read that he can communicate, but I'm afraid he's not made a full recovery at all from his cycling accident. Still a very tough and inspirational man.

Kyle DeHart
Yes indeed. My thoughts exactly Marcel. He was a remarkably talented driver despite the issues in F1. He came back with a vengeance following his horrific racing accident. And then the cycling accident and I had heard about the fire. He has gone through a lot and has at least attempted to come back and remain positive each time. So I felt it would be cool to have this model of his.

Kyle DeHart
Getting very close to the end now. An enjoyable build

Kyle DeHart
Last of the decals are complete, wheels and tires are dullcoted and the final paint and glue is drying. I'll try to wrap this up after work.

Marcel
Nice work with those decals. Looks great. 🙂

Kyle DeHart
Thanks Marcel!

Kyle DeHart
And it's done. Totally oob build. A truly excellent kit.

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
👀

Hans-Jürgen Haag
👀

Skyhiker
Welcome Hans-Jürgen. Enjoy the show.

Rob
Crazy Project for the real Ufologists... 😄

Sarunas D
Will it include a probe? 😄

Skyhiker
Welcome gents. I'm not sure if these are the guys with the probe or if they're the ones who steal cows. They definitely don't want to be taken to our leader.

Skyhiker
Added primer and doing more filling.

Robert Podkoński
I am so curious about the final outcome...

Ben M
Oh yeah! 💊

Skyhiker
It won't be much different that it is. the description of this thing is literally a pure white tic tac shaped object without markings. 40 to 46 feet long with two "L" shaped antenna underneath. No obvious forms or propulsion.

Ben M
Those are it's legs, not antennas

Skyhiker
I thought maybe those were the famous probes we've all been hearing about. David Fravor compared them to a Cesna's antenna in one video. If you have a better description please post the link here. It's hard to get all the info.

Ben M
Just my crazy imagination. I'd hang it from the ceiling next to my Chinese spy balloon.

Skyhiker
Hmm then I would need to build my F-22 to go next to the balloon. The tic tac will be put on my wall next to my super hornet.

Skyhiker
Ben a Chinese spy balloon in 1/72 scale would be almost 3 feet by 2 feet. It's actually a cool idea but I don't have enough space for that.

Ben M
Mine is 1:500 as that's the biggest I could do in my 3d printer.

I like that you're posing your tic tac next to a plane!

Skyhiker
Stupid "feet" attached.

Skyhiker
Tomorrow I hope to finish this Tic Tac UAP.

Ben M
Take me to your leader