Avia B.21
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About 25 years ago, I built this airplane, but it was from Kovozavody Prostejov and it was the wheeled version. This is some serious nostalgia. I like it a lot 😉
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Thanks mates! @David: I did the same, 30 years ago😉. Serious nostalgia indeed, glad you like it.
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@David: 👍 @Christian: I appreciate that Christian. Coming from an experte such as yourself, doubly so.
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Nice build and nice project description. However I decided to stick to KP's kit and hope to build it one day😉
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Thanks Lukasz. I have the KP kit in my stash (I grew up with the brand) and seriously considered it. And then I remembered how fun it was to build the Matchbox Helldiver 😄. As KP kits go, however, the BH-21 is one of the nicer ones 👍
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I fell the same nostalgia, therefore I plan to build all KP kits in 72nd once again😉
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Looks like you are well on your way, Lukasz. Looking forward to seeing your work 👍
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Since my initial post, I have been wrestling with wing and tail surface detailing. The kit does a poor job representing the visual effect of these surfaces. After reading a very lively discussion regarding this on Modelforum, I decided to simulate the ribbing according to contemporary photos of the actual aircraft. Here is my result...
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I bet gluing those threads in place needed some serious mental powers 👍
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Thanks guys. It's getting close! Working with the thread was not too bad, but I know I don't have to do THAT again for a while 🙂... and the rigging is yet to come 😄
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Hehe, adding all the threads seems to have a meditative touch. I imagine sitting in front of the wing and add the first thread, second thread ........ 😄
Joking apart, adding all the ribs is an excellent and detailed work. Very very nice and inspiring work to add these extra detail to get a unique model 👍
Cheers, Christian
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I admire you patience too, Alec. Always wondered whether those "ribs" on old kits make sense, took it for a trick to hide flat wing surface, but it's more to it than meets the eye 🙂 Thanks for that lesson.
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Thanks Lukasz: I went down this path only after I saw how "boring" the wing surface was without anything. I wonder if I should have done this with stretched sprue (I have never mastered stretching sprue, so not sure how well this would have worked for me).
Christian: yes, meditating while modeling is all the rage: it's called "zen modeling". However, I strongly recommend placing a small pillow on the bench, in case one's forehead makes sudden contact with the benchtop whilst meditating... 👍😉 🙂
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😄 I have the same problem with those famous stretched sprues, thus I also tend to use some kind of nylon thread
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Well, at least I am not alone 🙂. I wonder if anyone thought of selling thin stretched sprue (maybe someone did, I just never came across it). I sure would buy some.
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Zen modeling hahaha great, seems to be the next step to AMS 😄
Yep, head impact on the bench isn't that good with a lot of WIP on the bench😉 Let us all take care of it!
Cheers, Christian
P.S. about streched sprue I can highly recoomed to take a look to us ship modellers and especially the master of working with streched sprue Mr. Jim Baumann
shipmodels.info/mws_...php?f=4&t=37536
Enjoy 🙂
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Done with the decals, rigging, and details. The rigging was definitely an educational process. I'll have the "completed" pics up in a week or so.
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Looks really good. Especially impressed with the details under the fuselage. Great propeller too.
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Many thanks mates for your kind words. I wish that I had done a better job with the rigging. Until next time...
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One of the last models I put together as a teen before coming to the US was a BH-21 by Kovozávody Prostějov. When Fly came up with its short run version of this aircraft, I had to have it.
The 72020 boxing includes a version with skis, of which Avia built several. Despite the importance of this type to the Czechoslovak pre-war air force, there is paltry reference available, and I was unable to find anything but few pictures of this variant.
The kit contains nice resin details to appoint the cockpit and the ski undercarriage. There are additional resin details to build the BH-21J version, of which only a prototype was build (this type was the precursor to the later BH-33). I believe that the 72020 can produce the standard BH-21, although a separate boxing was released for this version (72012).
I also secured Brengun's PE set for this kit. In the event, I only used less than half of the parts from the fret (the kit's resin seat, for example, is superior to the fret's PE version IMO).
The kit overall is go