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Dave Burgess
Updated photos (better lighting)

Dash Rendar
Great build, well done!

Torsten
Awesome build and pant job 😎 😎 😎

Dave Burgess
Updated photos (better lighting)

Dave Burgess
Updated photos (better lighting)

Dave Burgess
Updated phtos (better lighting)

Dave Burgess
Updated photos (better lighting)

Mr D
Good going 👍👍
Always plenty on interesting models to build.
There is a YouTube video..... about an old boy who built every RAF plane over 40 year.
Think your catching up 🤣

Rui S
What a beautiful Man cave and display cases. Lucky you 😉

Dave Burgess
Mr D, if I could count all of the Airfix kits between 1960 and 1971 that I built as a child (don't have any of them now; gave them to my cousin when we moved out of town), that would add about another 80 different RAF aircraft to my collection

Hans-Jürgen Haag
Extrem Nice!👍

Dave Burgess
Pictures updated. They were originally taken before my hobby room renovation, and the lighting was very poor. The new pictures are much better lit.

Łukasz Gliński
Nice, I love that livery 👍

Lorraine Lin
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Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat too.

Dave Burgess
Decals were a bit of a bugger the blue ones are pretty fragile, even when softened with decal set. They cracked in a few places on the 'Eagle's wing'. I was able to match the paint to the decal and hide the problem areas. Turned out pretty well.

Alberto
Great finish 👍

Dave Burgess
Decals only

Dave Burgess
Thanks, folks! I've got another one upcoming in the next few months - gonna take the Execuform 1:72 XP-54 Swoose, and convert it into the XP-68 Tornado. Vultee was going to upgrade the engine to drive contra-rotating pusher props. The project neverr left the drawing board, and the XP-54 project was canceled.
It involves a) working with the very BASIC Execuform kit, and modifying the fuselage to include intake scoops in the fuselage above/behind the canopy, and modifying the vertical stabs to a more rounded appearance. First tho, I have a number of Anigrand resin kits to complete in this US Fighters series.

Villiers de Vos
Fantastic work.

Dave Burgess
Interior completed with photo-etch. A few touchups to be made. Wings & tail surfaces attached. Just need to mask canopy then we're ready for airbrushing.

Dave Burgess
White primer and gloss white applied; Waiting for a few days for paint to cure properly before beginning decalling.

Ekki
Excellent work!

Dave Burgess
Thanks, guys! My favourite CH-113 of the two is the old red, white & blue RCAF version, not for the paint scheme as much as dealing with the missing parts, replacing them with resin cast replicas and finishing the model. Nice thing was - the guy who I bought from on eBay refunded my purchase and let me keep the kit. So the price was certainly right.

Dave Burgess
Continuing the build, while I wait for the decals to arrive. It's at the painting stage now. I still have to mask the canopy.

Dave Burgess
First problem: Got the white base coat down, and started to apply the decals. Unfortunately, the Microscale decal sheet is so old that it's dried out and the first decal completely fractured when I tried to apply it. So before doing any more, I need to trip down to the local hobby shop and get some decal fixer. I've also scanned the decal sheet, and in the event that the decal sheet can't be used, I'll print another. That's plan B, because the pale blue colour of the backing paper means you have to colour adjust the scanned image to remove the blue background, and the dark blue of the decals comes out more black. Kinda ruined my day!

Nicolas
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Dave Burgess
Continuing the build, while I wait for the decals. It's at the paint stage now; just have to apply the canopy mask.

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat here!

Dave Burgess
This project turns out to be a bit more complex than converting the Bell P39D into a Bell P-45 (P-39C) by snipping off a couple of wing guns. In this case, three P-3Ds were modified for ground & flight testing. The intended engine was the Continental 1430, but they were only ever flown with the AlLison V-1710. They were used to test various wing and tail configurations, and the fuselage was lengthened by 21". The production variant was to be called the P-76, so the designation used during testing was XP-39E. The only pic I have, shows one of the XP-39E's with clipped wings and tail surfaces, like the P-51. The wingspan was 35'10" almost 2 feet greater than the P-39D (34'0")
So - the plan is: get a P-51D kit; scavenge the wing and tail surfaces (i.e. chop off the back end of the Mustang fuselage); do the same with the Airacobra and graft on the Mustang's tail; re-sculpt the Mustang's wing to match the contour of the XP-39E; remove the wheel wells from the Airaicobra's wing (which I stupidly glued in already; cut openings into the Mustang wings to accommodate the Airacobra's wheel wells. Sounds like a LOT of putty's gonna be involved in THIS one! Wish me luck!

Dave Burgess
Bell P-45 (P-39C) Airacobra. A fairly simple conversion:
"After completing service trials, and originally designated P-45, a first order for 80 aircraft was placed 10 August 1939; the designation reverted to P-39C before deliveries began. After assessing aerial combat conditions in Europe, it was evident that without armor or self-sealing tanks, the 20 production P-39Cs were not suitable for operational use. The remaining 60 machines in the order were built as P-39Ds with armor, self-sealing tanks and enhanced armament. -Wiki
Since the added pilot armour and self sealing tanks are not visible externally, a couple of snips to remove a wing gun on each side, converted this P-39D model into a P-45 (P-39C). I stuck with the decals provided (Soviet A.F.)

Dave Burgess
According to Wiki - the trapeze and belly tank were a P-39D modification, but the interior of the tank was critical for me to get enough weight forward of the main LG to keep this model from being a tail-dragger! The interior construction of the forward fuselage and placement of forward LG made it VERY difficult to get enough counter-weight in there; a problem I did NOT experience with the RS Models kit.

Ben M
For my next project i have tentatively I was going to try making my own decals. I've also used stsdecals in the past.

Robert Podkoński
Good job as always, Dave!

Dave Burgess
Decal sheet only

Matthew A
A friend who's uncle flew a fury in Korea told me how the yank jet pilots got really angry when Furys sped past them. Brilliant job

Dave Burgess
Not surprised. Korean era jets were notoriously underpowered.

Konrad
Nice one 🙂 I have it in my plans too 🙂 I'm "buing" an idea with shaft 🙂

Ekki
Beautiful colours. Well done.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Dave Burgess
Pics have been re-taken after I realized I'd installed the forward landing gear back-to-front, and corrected it.

Ekki
Good result!