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Robert Podkoński
Taking a first-row seat, of course!

gorby
Welcome to the (occasionally fictional) Show Robert. 🙂

Robert Podkoński
se non è vero, è molto ben trovato 😉

Neil
Make me an early attende along with Robert also mate! 👍 🙂

gorby
Muchas grassy arse Robert (see! I speak foreign perfectly. 🙂 )
Welcome Neil!

Robert Podkoński
LM(grassy)AO! 😄 😄 😄

Landlubber Mike
Great details gorby! Nicely done!

David Taylor
You like most of us waste our lives fiddling away on our own little projects only you do it better than most.I try and resist building OOB to make it more challenging and interesting,sometimes OOB.LOL

Bohrmann
👀 aking a seat

Spanjaard
not to be missed, no doubt 🙂

Rui S
What a beautiful scratch you're doing in such a small kit. This is Unbelievable 😮 at least for a person with tired eyes like me. Do you use a microscope? 😄

gorby
Rui, these days I can barely find my work bench without my optivisor. 😄 😄
David, I do it because I like the challenge as well...and I can't write symphonies. Scratch-building in 1/72 also gives me a chance to practice swearing. I'm getting quite good at it now. 😳

Thanks all for tagging along. 🙂

Pepe
😳😳😳

Kesa Tiho
Glad to see your working on another project. Intrested to see how this will come along, or what it even is.. anyways following with interest 👍

gorby
Thanks Kesa, welcome to the show. 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
Good to see you back with another lorry contraption 👍

gorby
Thanks Lukasz. 🙂
The original intention was to do a quick out of the box build...then I saw what was missing and I've sort of got carried away. 🙂

Mr D
Nice model, l remember seeing a video on simulator truck...used to deliver coal.
Nice 👍👍

gorby
Thanks Mr D. 🙂

Alec K
Another scratch project? I am of course in 👍. A wee bit of a depressing preamble (lots of which I identify with), hope you are ok mate 👍.
Excellent progress btw.

Mr D
Nice to see scratch build 😃👍
Always inspires and helps to learn new skills.
Looking great so far... Good work 😁👍

Ben M
Interesting vehicle and I appreciate reworking a kit like this.

gorby
Sorry Alex, I thought I'd attached the (very basic) kit to the project, and I'm fine - thanks mate.
Thanks all, I'm enjoying adding a few bits to this thing and glad you like it. 🙂

David Goodchild
I feel like I'm a bit late to this party, but this is really fantastic; not just the effort you're putting into it gorby, but the history, the humour and the imagination and research too. It's your model, you make it your way and it's a pleasure to see so much experience and skill put to such satisfying effect. 👍👍😎

Łukasz Gliński
X-4, my fav colour! 😄 I have to admit this colour setup looks very die-cast-Matchboxish 😄

gorby
Better late than never David. Thanks for the lovely comment. I think some people take this hobby a bit too seriously so I like to do the exact opposite. 🙂

You're right Lukasz, the colour does look a bit die-cast doesn't it? 😄
I need to drag myself away from using X-4 – even if I think it suits oldie-worldie vehicles. I don't want to be thought of as a one trick pony. I'm at least a two trick pony. 😄 😄

Łukasz Gliński
Nah, X-4 fits much more than that: Blue Jetstream (SP-KWN) | Project by Woody (1:72)

gorby
Oooh that does look good. 🙂

David Goodchild
People always like to take things seriously, even when they possibly shouldn't! Really look forward to the next update! 👍

gorby
👍

Mr D
It happens sometimes! I've had this alot with brush painting, l think the brush would push paint under.
I use a masking fluid on top of any awkward masks now.
You will get it tidied ok.
👍👍

gorby
Thanks Mr D. Repairs are going well. 🙂

bughunter
Cool 👍 I like your scratched additions!

gorby
Thanks Bugs, good to see you back again. 🙂

gorby
I completed the build yesterday and other than the headlights being a bit too big I'm happy with how it turned out. I ended up really enjoying the build and thanks to every one for following. 👍

John Hughes
Keep on like this and we'll have to start calling you Zsolt II!

Rui S
Impressive work, indeed. Very Well done Gorby 👍

bughunter
What a nice little lorry! I hear some sound of the steam engine ...
A nice street too. That might be a good idea to seal it with thinned PVA, I'll have to remember that for the future.

Alec K
Very nicely done Gorby! The colors are apropo I think, and I like that photo booth (nice dual purpose set up) 👍

Alex K
Love this! What a cutie!!! 👍 👍

Mr D
Wonderful Gorby.... Cracking little model 😁👌👍

David Taylor
Lovely little build Gorby.

David Goodchild
Fantastic result, looks so good! Really impressed with this! 👍😎

Kesa Tiho
Very nice result mate, it was worth the wait. You make the base yourself?

Ben M
You made this plain old kit very special.

Łukasz Gliński
Exqusite job! Looks like a bigger scale, 43rd at least 👍
And dat colours and weathering, like Matchbox Yesteryear series taken out of storage after all these years 😄
@John: will do, but only when we start seeing these bigly huge matchsticks 😄

Robert Podkoński
Awesome (anid quick) job, Gorby! Chapeau bas!

Pietro De Angelis
Beautiful and incredible work, congrats!

Michael Kohl
That came out nicely.

Kesa Tiho
I love that Gorby's builds comment section became like a little scalemates get together 😂

gorby
WOW! That's a very nice surprise to find in the morning. 🙂
I'm amazed that such a tiny model has had such a big response. Thanks you everyone for taking the time to comment. 👍
John: My 1/72 vehicle fixation was a Zsolt's fault….thanks Zsolt. 🙂
Bugs: What's this? Has the world turned upside down? Me teaching Bughunter something. 😄
Alec: It's also because I'm too tight to buy a photo tent, did I forget to mention that bit. 😄
Kesa: Photo 28 explains how I made the base – it's as quick, simple and cheap as it's possible to make a reasonably decent base.
Lukasz: I'm stttiiilll looking for those huge matches. 😄

Thanks again to everyone who commented or liked. 👍

Moreno Baruffini
👍👍👍 Chapeau!!!

gorby
Thank you Moreno. 🙂

Bohrmann
Beautiful model sir !!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 In the pictures the model doesn't look that small, certainly not 1/72 scale. Only in slide #34 where you can make the comparison with the match does it dawn on me that this really is a small model. Unless the matches in the Uk are a lot bigger than on the continent. 😉

Spanjaard
having the kit in my stash, i am very interested in this build 🙂 looks good so far. what is your opinion about it?

Siegfried Van den Bosch
Pretty ok so far... good fit and clear instructions. I'll keep you updated.

Siegfried Van den Bosch
Decals applied. They turned out well, but are very thin and fragile.

Spanjaard
looks certainly good with those decals 🙂

Kim Branders
Looking at your model wants me to build this model also 🙂 Nice work

Siegfried Van den Bosch
Bad luck....just messed up a part of the canopy. Cracked while sanding, so I had to be creative with smoke paint.

Spanjaard
maybe you can ask AFV Club for a new one?

Siegfried Van den Bosch
I sent them a message, but they don't seem to have the smoothest customer service 😉

Spanjaard
good luck, you will need that with most customer services nowadays....but certainly worth trying. this beautiful F-5 deserves it 🙂

Augie
Re- the spares service, when I had similar issue, they referred me to the distributor for parts service..

Siegfried Van den Bosch
Fingers crossed...

David H
Having built the saeqah 80 version of this which comes with two sets of canopies , one for the two seat version so that's 3 pieces . I used the second "main" canopy part after doing EXACTLY the same. The canopy snapped in half whilst polishing it . So I don't even have a spare I could send you. How about getting hold of a dirt cheap italeri kit off eBay? Open the canopy , you'll never notice 😉

Ok my mistake just studied the photos, I see it was the screen, still the italeri comment stands .

Spanjaard
are u going to Euro Scale Modeling (Houten) in November? I think I could make a vacuform copy of the cockpit sounds I have the same kit in my stash....

Siegfried Van den Bosch
Thanks in advance for your sympathy.... 😉 The fair in Houtem is on the agenda, but given my busy schedule I will only know at the last minute whether I will be able to go.

Spanjaard
if you give a couple of days, y may still be able to make it 😉