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Łukasz Gliński
I have to watch this

Michael Kohl
Lukasz, of course you have to watch this.😉
Feel warmly welcomed.

Maciej Bellos
I have to watch also! Could you show us a photo of the decals? When were the decals produced?

Robert Podkoński
Joining the party, of course! 😉

Michael Kohl
My friends. I am really happy to have you around as I was sincerely hoping that this build will arouse the interest of the three of you.
Maciej, are you referring to the kits decals or the ones from RSmodelle. Concering the latter, I cannot tell you, as I have not received them yet.

Maciej Bellos
I have the kit, courtesy of Robert.

I was referring to the BSModele decals, as masking the scheme was really challenging and, ehm, painful!

Michael Kohl
Here us the link to the decals at their homepage:

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Looking at them, I am afraid some decent masking is still ahead of me.

Maciej Bellos
Thank you Michael! It looks that masking is needed indeed...

Bernd Grün
Nice start, Michael. Following!

Robert Podkoński
Good job so far, Michael! (you can find some walkaround photos in my albums, if you wish to 😉 )

Guy Rump
Looking good. 👍

Michael Kohl
Wellcome Bernd and Guy.
Robert, thank you for the invitation. I already helped myself. 🙂
And thanks folks for your likes. Motivates even further.

Michael Kohl
Today the decals arrived from Ukraine.

Łukasz Gliński
Progressing very well. I hope the pilots don't mind being polished 😛

Michael Kohl
🙂 they didn't complain. That was enough confirmation for me. 😉

Michael Kohl
Thanks mates for your interest and the likes. Hopefully I will be able to progress this build soon.

Isaac Kite
Taking a seat. The Iskra is a sexy plane, no idea why the Delfin won that contract. Let me guess. Political elimination? Regardless, looking forward to watching this develop.

Michael Kohl
Funny. Just the evening before your comment, Isaac, I dusted them planes and finished the cockpits. Let's move on.

Isaac Kite
*thumbs up*

Michael Kohl
Took them out of the shelf another time. Quite a bit of sanding had to be done. Particular the inner rear area of the wing where the box of the intakes tapers towards the trailing edge of the wing is much to thick in the kit. A bit of elbow grease was required there.
A fresh comparison with a machine in flight revealed some more issues I adressed. So, some more filling and sanding. Now I gotta wait till my trusted Mr. Hobby primer sets properly.

DerMattes
Looks great so far 👍

Raphael Bernecole
Very Nice : following ! 😉

Łukasz Gliński
Good to see you back with this duo

Michael Kohl
Welcome (back) mates.

Mr D
Cockpit's are really good 👌👍👍

Alec K
Taking a very, very belated seat. Great project, had a few chuckles reading your captions 😄

Mr D
At least all the preflight checks will be done with German pilots 🤣 just keep them away from Starfighter be ok 😁.
Looking good nice fun project... Cockpit is great,
I use "Nail liner brushes" for cockpit n detail work... there used in beauty parlours for Painting pictures on nails.... There quite cheap and much more accurate than most fine paint brushes out there. 6 or 7mm best.
Good luck with next steps 😃👍

Michael Kohl
Hi Mr D and Alec K. Welcome.
@Alec: I deliberately take loooong brakes with this project so thay even the slowest out there can catch up 😉
@Mr D: I will look out for them nail liner brusher and see if they might serve my needs. I have tons of brushes but 90% of my hand painting is done with Winsor & Newton No. 7 Size 2. Hurts when you buy them, but they are of an incredible quality.

Michael Kohl
The main filling and sanding job done on one of the birds. A handful of details will be added before the final prepaint sanding. The canopy needs some work too. The frame of it is too coarse and will be sanded (almost) flush. Apart from that are there fit issues at the windshield that need to be addressed.

Eddie Mann
These are only in Diecastmates.

Eddie Mann
25083 is a metal kit, not a completed diecast.

Petr Kokeš
That totally makes sense. However, I still think some Bburago items match the diecast much more and do not look like a kit.

Eddie Mann
There was one completed model, I've moved it.

Jan Peters
Following this 👀

John
Interesting subject! I had thought the kikka was almost a direct copy of the Me-262, kind of like the shusui/Me-163 but I see that's not the case. How is the kit? Looks good on the sprues at least.

Sebastian Meyner
Following as well 👀

Klaas van der Wielen
It's a beautifully molded kit. Very fine detail. Fit is okay, except for the wings to fuselage, but nothing too concerning. There are a couple of sink marks though, which forces me to look foor other main wheels. The Kikka used Zero wheels so that's an easy fix. All in all I like the kit a lot, it looks delicate and to scale, unlike Airfix for example. I already built their A7M1 Reppu, so with the Kikka as a subject I didn't think too long when I came across this one.

Guy Rump
Following. 👍

gorby
Nice work.

Guy Rump
Great job, congrats! 👍

Klaas van der Wielen
Thanks, mates!

Nathan Dempsey
Nicely done! I found this to be an enjoyable kit when I built mine.

Ian Doody
. SDR Piloten Christof Motti, painted him up, and slapped him in, basically just the stock pilot, with the Super Jerry blind cockpit gear, added cables, may have to sand his butt down, as you can't see much of the poor swine, when he's sealed in his walking coffin. That'll do for today.

Nathan Dempsey
Your pilot is looking great. Following 👀

Pepe
Looking

Rui S
Interesting 👍

Doubtingmango
Watching