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Spanjaard
fantastic dio. great details. love the tarp and the bays open. great job on the camo of those figures too

Mr D
Very nice indeed 👏 well done...great tribute 🇺🇸

gorby
I have no idea why it won't work for you, I've just tried it and it worked fine. Were you able to rotate any of the photos?

Liane Lonesome Аутор
I also have no idea. I do it like you mentioned before (pm) and it worked at first. Then there were some another new images which are also wrong in rotation and I "managed the album" and rotate them there. It shows right, yes. But back then to the Album it's all like before. Not changing at all. Very curios. In other words: In manage modus I can rotate them, but back to the album then, no, all the old rotations are shown, not the new corrected ones. ^-^

Spanjaard
report the issue with a link to the album in "Feature request" it is for new features, but also to report bugs.

Zach Wilson
looks like a beast

René K Аутор
Hey zach Wilson, oh yes you can say that. I'm curious how I'll deal with it 🙂

Zach Wilson
So am I🙂

Sy Bar
Wow

Christian Bruer
Nice to see another Belfast WIP. You made an excellent start on it 👍
I started mine in 2013 (not a joke) but had a lot of time in between not working on the model. I hope to finish her soon. Feel free to have a look to my WIP here on Scalemates:
HMS Belfast | Album by Christian Bruer (1:350)

I used the Flyhawk Set as well, but also the White Ensign Set and scratch building.

Looking forward to your progress and Happy Modelling 🙂

Christian

René K Аутор
@Christian Bruer: lovely work, christian! I can then use your wonderful model as a reference if I don't know what to do 😛

Christian Bruer
Thx R K 🙂

You're welcome to use it as a references.

Erik Torp
Some top notch PE work there!

René K Аутор
Thanks, Erik!

Pietro De Angelis
Impressive!

Treehugger
Q: How do you deal with any annealing issues? I thought that annealing metal small might melt off the smallest parts. Haven't tried annealing yet myself, except for a large PE piece on some project.

René K Аутор
@Treehugger: I generally don't glow PE parts. I glue all PE parts with the MXBON superglue in viscous, liquid and very liquid. Due to the capillary effect, the adhesive quickly gets into the crack, so I can press the part with a pin, two seconds and the part is fixed. If small gaps remain, use a fine pin to put a very thin layer of superglue (it has to be very liquid!) into the gap and press it down again with the needle. So far it works very well for me.

Michael Kohl
Convincing beginning. Some decent PE work to be seen.

Rui S
What...👍

Villiers de Vos
Very nice progress. The PE work on the aeroplanes are very good.

Christian Bruer
R K check the hight of the boat deck house aft of the forward funnel. I extended the hight a few milimeter, otherwise the boats on the cradles below will not fit! Check image 112 - 118 in my WIP. Add the one or other milimeter more than I did because of some layers of paint on the deck, cradles boats etc.!

Nice progress by the way 👍

Happy Modelling, Christian

René K Аутор
@christian Bruer Thank you for the hint! I had already seen that when looking through your pictures and in fact the height doesn't match.

René K Аутор
Height correction made on the middle deck. Thanks to christian for the tip! 🙂

Christian Bruer
NP glad to help. Looks very good with the correction 👍

Villiers de Vos
Fantastic progress and my hat off to with your photoetch work.

Dave
Absolutely love the details.

Michael Kohl
Don't put it to water! It is gonna sink with all those metal! 😜

Kidding aside: anxious to folliw along the last meters.

Hans-Jürgen Haag
Absolut awsom detail work excelent 👍👍👍👍

René K Аутор
guys, thank you!

David Taylor
Looks great.

James C
Looking fantastic 👍

René K Аутор
The final steps to completion! Tomorrow the flags will come and then there will be the final photos when the sun is shining!

Jörg Schäfer
Sehr schönes Modell.

Naram
beautifull, congrat

Zach Wilson
excellent work Rene. What are you using to hold the smaller pieces in place as you glue them together? Looking at image 21 I am baffled by how precise and clean that work is.

James C
Stunning looking build Rene, congrats on an awesome finish👍

Michael Kohl
Just received a picture of the original in London. Now you complete yours. 🙂 Great job, top result

René K Аутор
Thank you so much folks! @zach: With a magnifying glass, a calm pulse and good superglue ("VMS glue on power!"), I somehow managed to do it that way. I was amazed myself! 😉 @Michael: You were in London and saw her? I envy you!

Michael Kohl
Well unfortunately it wasn't me who was in London, but a friend of mine. He visited the Belfast.

Shaun Rosario
Wow this is just amazing work!!!! I can only strive to be this good of a modeler.

Neuling
Great work! Stunning detail work! 👍👍

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Jonathan
Fabulous. I've just invested in AIP's re-boxed version of this kit and if I can get looking half as good as your's I'll be more than pleased!

David R.
Fantastic

gorby
WOW, stunning work!

David Taylor
Beautiful build.

Dave
Beautiful work

Bozo
Ouch!!!!

Kenneth
Mindblowing 😳

nlr
Wow! Some inspiration to get moving on mine that has been on the shelf since atleast 2015 standing silent vigel with conning tower and a few turrets in place while time past it by it does feel like the result will be a little underwhelming when you see one with all those extra goodies

Villiers de Vos
A classic. Very nice work.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Villiers de Vos
Beautiful work.

Mark Sherwood
I'm pulling up my overstuffed comfy chair. 👍🥸🤘

Nick Dragone Аутор
Warning, I work at a glacier pace at times. Grab a pint and ease in 😄

gorby
Looking forward to another bargain basement wonder. 🙂

Mr D Аутор
🤣👍 Hopefully 😁

Tianyi
Nice pick! I can't imagine they sell this kit in UK. It is one of those kits commonly seen in stores near schools in China. When I was a kid, I usually spent my pocket money of the week and enjoyed them during the weekend.

Mr D Аутор
Hi Tianyi 👍
We can purchase them on eBay and Alibaba, some model shops stock Minihobby models, they are a sister company to Trumpeter.
They are fun inexpensive little kits ...this is my 5th one.... they can have big gaps sometimes but l enjoy making-good
Thanks for your interest 😃👍

Lorraine Lin
Another interesting one. Indeed, Mig-25 or Mig-31 are so big compared with other jet fighters. Following.
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Vincent
This looks like a hard build. I'm looking forward to see what you can do with this.

Mr D Аутор
Hi Vincent 👋
Thanks...glad your interested👍 keep turned 😃

Skyhiker
I've got a fox... I've got a bat... Uhhh... FoxBat.
Youtube Video

Mr D Аутор
Hi Lorraine 👋 it's definitely an interesting aircraft, tremendously powerful engines.
Like the Watchful cat 😺.
Hope 🦊 sill helping you build 😃👍

Neil
Following 🙂👍

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Mr D Аутор
Hi Guy, thanks..... slowly getting back into the build after hose move.
Good luck on your work 👍

Bozzer
Here we go again!
You're gonna run out of kits, at this pace?

Bozzer
There's a couple more, for you to seek out 😉

Qwertzel Аутор
Thanks Boozer. But I think I will build my Unimog first before building this truck. So I won't run out of kits. I always wanted to buy the recovery truck and convert it to a German one, simply changing the cab to a Mercedes Benz Actros or MAN TGM.

Andre Louis
I also got that kit recently! Looking forward to your modifications. My one will be probably just out of the box

Esoteric Surgeon
I seem to remember KFS used to offer a off-road conversion kit for MAN trucks. I'm pretty sure it at least included the bumper which might be hard to scratch build if you can't print it. Can't find the kit anymore tho

Qwertzel Аутор
I searched on the internet for this kit but I couldn't find it either. We will see how this trick turns out

Esoteric Surgeon
Just realized the bumper out of the box is accurate for offroad already since it's a 4x4, and the same as in your pictures. I had started working on a similar project but with the older MAN TGA kit from Revell as a basis and that required heavy modifications all around. I'm glad you're moving towards more custom projects because they are a lot of fun to get into, and watch other people get into...

Goldman
Nice stocking up and scratch building... Should be a very interesting build.
Actually, I never saw this concept of fire truck with a rear lift and wheeled equipment carts. Can see the benefits of this when a lot of equipment needed to be moved fast (at least until hitting the first step...).

Qwertzel Аутор
Thanks Goldman. There is another reason why these trucks make sense: You can carry different stuff which is normally loaded by special vehicles. So you don't need different vehicles just this one and the equipment carts and you are ready for nearly everything

Goldman
The headlights guard looks very good to me. Did you use plastic or metal rods? I don't think you can get any thinner with plastic

Qwertzel Аутор
Thank you Goldman! I used cables. I bended them to the right shape. The outer and inner parts are from the same cable just with and without isolation

Goldman
The tires looks great. Much better than those in the kit. Well worth the investment

Esoteric Surgeon
I have had some success printing thin parts for the kind of headlight detail you are working on. They are very fragile and I've never tried painting them but I think there's a lot of potential for this kind of application. I uploaded a picture here: FDM 3D Printer experiments | Album by Ecko

Qwertzel Аутор
Currently I don't have a 3D printer but I think of buying a resin printer for such purposes. It would help me a lot with scratch building. Lets see wat the future brings

Andre Louis
Just make sure that you are aware of potential hazards that come along with resin printing.

Esoteric Surgeon
Yes handling resin and post processing it takes a lot of extra work to do properly. And space too. I can't do it at home because I live in a flat with my cat and I have found a filament 3d printer can unlock many possibilities to enhance scratch builds without the hassle and hazards of resin.

Bozzer
I've gotta admit, I had fun with my entry level filament printer, but I now own 3 resin printers too, and they're never turned off. Yes, they do have to be taken care of, especially with regards to the resin, but it's worth it.
At this point I'd better add, all mine are in my purpose built mancave, however I did run them in the house kitchen, for a while.
Each one has it's own personality, kinda like a cat or a car? But once you hone into it, you can create almost anything? The details are immense and your own imagination, is your limit!
I've literally just printed a 1/14 truck, with all the bells and whistles, and I'm happy with the results. It's taken me around 2 weeks, but I did use 6 bottles of High Speed Resin, which without, probably would've taken me another 3-4 weeks?
For you guys in the know, Standard resin prints at roughly 4 layers a minute. High Speed Resin is around 12 layers a minute.
My love for the printers, is because I can print models, that we can't buy?
I love scratchbuilding, but now I can flick my finger and the cab, hood and sleeper are printing, while I'm building the chassis? It's definitely been a game changer in my life, without a doubt.
You definitely need to be aware of the dangers though. Plenty of ventilation, gloves, mask and goggles. I also have mini air purifiers in each printer, and heaters.
And whatever you do, don't smoke near the 99% alcohol!
And most importantly, don't drink it!

Qwertzel Аутор
Thank you Bozzer for your information and opinion. I will see what the future brings and if it's time to by a printer, I will definitely research and inform myself about it a little more and maybe come back to you guys, because you know the terms of 3D printers definitely better than I.

And don't worry, I do not smoke or drink alcohol. So this won't be a problem 🙂

Goldman
One tough looking rolling chassis 🙂

Adam Gudynowski
Following

David H
Joining the spook group build ???

Fernando Ramirez Аутор
I'm not shure, but I planning to 2022.

Maciej Bellos
Great reference photos. Watching!

Rv
Nice project ! to join the GB, edit your photo album, and select the F-4 GB ("Group build (optional)").
The GB will start on January the 1st.

Fernando Ramirez Аутор
Thks. I will do it!

Desert Marlin
Picture 32 is awesome! I seem to hear Robert Duval in the distance claiming how much he loves a particular smell in the morning...

walaroo Аутор
So here are two Hobby Boss 1/48 kits; F8F-1 and F8F-1B. They both have the Eduard cockpit PE set for the Hobbycraft kit, which took some cutting to make fit. Like most Hobby Boss kits that I have experience with, there are a larrge number of inaccuracies and oversimplifications. Still, they will look like Bearcats when completed. The fit is very good, the panel line look like they will take a wash well, and there is an option to fold the wings! I decided I want to do a US Navy with folded wings, and a silver Thai Air Force...

Ben M
👁️👁️

Łukasz Gliński Аутор
Welcome to the first kit in my life that I can call overengineered for sure.
The white parts are scratched to take the place of PE parts or offerings to the carpet monster (did I mention I have no carpet in here?)
Cockpit solely contains 21 parts (including PE) + decals (fuselage walls not included) 😮
You have been warned.

Friedrich
Following with interest! Happy new year

Alec K
Sweet! Taking a seat.

Robert Podkoński
Watching with pleasure 😉

Cuajete
Woww... I like the overengineered from Łukasz 😉
I can't resist to follow it 😛

Łukasz Gliński Аутор
It will be slow, I can assure you 😄
And I might need stronger magnifying glasses too 🙁

Gary Kitchen
Following too!

Juergen Klinglhuber
I will participate too,....

Nicolas
I'm in, good luck with this kit (and your non-carpet monster).

Łukasz Gliński Аутор
Welcome Gents to this very frustrating project.
The designer(-s?) went full ahead towards the full compliance with the original as far as I can see.
There is maybe 1/4th of the cockpit visible now (w/o the canopy!) and they really think that a plastic mast glued to transaprent windshield can withstand the rigging.

Cuajete
Łukasz, I think it would have been better to make the Amodel's kit because of the great experience you have with those hard old tools, 😛

The last part with the mast and rigging seems very complicated. It might be better to drill a little carefully into the windshield so as not to glue the mast flush and try not to make it too weak with the wire tauting.

Łukasz Gliński Аутор
True señor, considering starting a Hansa Jet or sth like that next 😄
And regarding the mast - this is exactly what I did - drilled a 0.4mm hole to insert 0.3mm tube, squeezed flat on the inside part (the outer part will be made flat later).
The only problem was - I damaged the PE gunsight inside, so I had to rob one from the second kit in the twin set.

Bernhard Schrock
Interesting type of AC. Watching

Łukasz Gliński Аутор
It can be considered the very last branch of the Polish gull-wing family - the rear fuselage and tail were incorporated from P.24 licence production line.

Cuajete
Well done, Łukasz! 😄 👍

Jennifer Franklin
Following!

Stefan Schacht
nice start, count me in.

Łukasz Gliński Аутор
Welcome Jennifer & Stefan!
I finally started spraying the main colours, the first layer being the famous pink primer 🙂 and RLM04 soon after.
Warning to all future builders: watch out for the cowling, in my case the fit was appaling.

Łukasz Gliński Аутор
Well, the detailing of this kit kept me frustrated more and more - so it landed on the shelf of doom.
It turned out I wanted the fuselage band to be too yellow and I flodded the damn rivets. And then when trying to wash the paint off, I took wrong bottle (Mr Hobby Tool Cleaner instead of the levelling thinner) and I melted some rivets completely.
No idea when I'll go back to it, maybe if I buy a very tiny riveter, who knows...
Thanks for watching

Robert Podkoński
Sorry to hear that...

Thomas Kolb
Oh no, what a pity! 😥,

gorby
That's a shame, it was looking very good.
Galaxy Tools do a good and reasonably priced riveting tool which I would recommend:
scalespot.com/review..axy-rivet/review.php

Łukasz Gliński Аутор
Many thanks mates.
I'm looking at various riveters, but the fact I can barely see the rivets in 1/72 makes their restoration a challenge on its own.
I definitely need a break from that kit, perhaps I should switch to this one (being A-model mold actually) 😛
IAR-80A (SOVA-M SVM-72013, 1:72)

Cuajete
It's a shame to read that, Łukasz 🙁

It was meant to be. Felicia is calling you 😛
Maybe you can use some parts in the Amodel/SOVA kit.

Alexander Grivonev
That looks totally salvageable. I have the Galaxy tools riveter too, it is quite usable. Bought mine from eBay directly from China

Thomas Kolb
Łukasz, yes, probable salvageable, but I know the feeling when you just cannot make yourself backtrack your steps and rather start over again.

Łukasz Gliński Аутор
I'll have a closer look at the riveters, I promise. Not sure my sight will follow, I might need some magnifying glass too.
Let's see if my budget can cope with both 😄

Nicolas
What a pity.😭
I hope you will continue work some day.

Jennifer Franklin
I am sad to see you stop this project, it's a pity, hopefully some day.

Alec K
Sad to hear. Let it sit for awhile, mojo shall recover 👍

Łukasz Gliński Аутор
Alright, I went back to it way faster than I initially thought 😄
Bought two sets of riveters and 0,3mm turned out to be the one.
I need to correct the left side of the fuselage before applying the yellow again.

gorby
Good to see you continuing with this build. 🙂

Guy Rump
Looking good, following. 👍

Łukasz Gliński Аутор
Started spraying the undersides today, fingers crossed all these rivets survive that 😄

Mr D
Looking really Good Lukasz 😃👍 Like you put the antenna through the windscreen.. correct. I relocated my one to the side as was worried about breaking glass as was stupid thin!
You got cowling nice in the end.
Good luck with the next steps 👍👍

Thomas Kolb
Cool to see you back at this project again! The riveting looks good and the paintjob is awesome too!

Nicolas
Good to see you continued this project. The restored rivets and the paintjob are looking great.

Cuajete
Good to see you continued too. I agree with mates. Restored rivets and painting job looks great 👍

Łukasz Gliński Аутор
Thanks everyone, I just sealed the little Romanian bugger for decalling.
Seems like most of the rivets are more-less visible, should be enough for an airplane that is not meant to boost the Exhibitionary Air Force 😄

Jennifer Franklin
The rivets still look good even after your paint layers. Overall looking good Lukasz.

Mr D
Paint looks great Lukasz.... getting there 😉👍

Thomas Kolb
This looks better and better, I am so glad that you didn't quit but decided to push through.

Alec K
Łukasz the rivet master! I love it 👍

Łukasz Gliński Аутор
Welcome back - this break was caused by searching a shade to darken the yellow as Techmod decals turned out to be darker than recommended RLM04.

Cuajete
The yellow looking so good 👍

Łukasz Gliński Аутор
It has been washed and I added the aerials

Mr D
Doing good job, it's looking really good now, nearly there 😃👍👍

Skyhiker
So where is the photo of the damage? The last picture looks pretty impressive if you ask me. You do know you can order a bag of 50 to 100 watch wheels online for about 15 bucks. They are used parts but you can make plenty of riveters out of them.

Łukasz Gliński Аутор
Well, pics 12 to 15, but my hands were a bit shaky, I was so irritated 🙂
Meanwhile the little annoying IAR made it across the finish line.
Only 3 pics tonight, I'll take some more in the daylight tomorrow, brace yourselves, the Hangar is coming 😄

Rui S
An eye catcher 👍

Robert Podkoński
Good job, Łukasz! Weathering is great, too.

Jennifer Franklin
I'm excited about the hangar and the daylight shots. Even in the artificial light, it looks good.

Guy Rump
Great job! 👍

Clement
Beautiful work, well done!

Moreno Baruffini
Well done!

Neuling
Very well done indeed! 👍

Nicolas
Beautiful.👍

Jakub Fiala
Very nice work, Lukasz! 👍

Łukasz Gliński Аутор
Many thanks for your motivating comments, much appreciated. 👍
Daylight pics added, enjoy!

Alec K
Nice job Łukasz. Turned out well 👍

gorby
Fantastic result Łukasz. The hangar photos look particularly good.

Cuajete
Wow... I finally see this one and it looks fantastic. I really like it. I have to buy one.
Congrats!

Łukasz Gliński Аутор
I have one more 😁
It's a twin set

rlpnfh
Excellent work.

Cuajete
@Łukasz, I only want one. I need to see if I can scam someone with the Amodel kit so I don't throw it away to stash 😄

Łukasz Gliński Аутор
Seguro amigo, take your time 😄

Cuajete
Unfortunately, that's what I'll have to do. 😄😄😄

Mr D
Well done Lukasz 🍀👍👍 great job ...got it over the finish line 👏 very nice...like the extra rivets on the fuselage.
Top job.

Juergen Klinglhuber
Excellent work.

komoras
Glad you got to finish it! 👍
That cowling tho...totally unexpected from a new tool...

Robert Podkoński
Looks good!

Gio Romano Аутор
Thanks, Robert. Just one of the few completed models 😁

Ian Doody Аутор
My very much long awaited build of Boba Fett's Starship from the Empire Strikes Back, Slave 1.

Mark Sherwood
Cockpits looking good, Guillaume. I'm in.

Guillaume Blanchet Аутор
Thank you Mark, the oil paint have done wonder with this cockpit.

Dave
I agree with mark, the cockpit looks good.

Guillaume Blanchet Аутор
Thank you Dave! I like how those "old" monogram kits packs details. They are always a nice surprise and very fun to detail.

Rui S
Nice ride 👍

Martin Oostrom
The Bluesmobile!

shadowlight
AFAIK the Bluesmobile was a 74 Dodge Monaco

Snake Plissken
Right, the Bluesmobile is as you say and easily verified in mere seconds. Thanks. The '74 is a better looking car in my opinion with a more pleasing horizontal layout of the headlights making a big difference.

Martin Oostrom
And of course you're right.

Spanjaard
it looks really nice anyway!

Brent Caughy Аутор
Air cleaners were created by cutting and stacking Evergreen sheet styrene and then sanding and painting. I came across this idea from another builder of the same kit online from a post from a few years back.

Yngve N
I'm joining in 🙋🏽‍♂️

Yngve N
Lights look very good 👍

Neuling
An iconic automobile. Well done!