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Jean-Philippe Desmeth
collector ça !

Franck Drebin
En effet. Il m'en faudra peut-être une deuxième si je veux la monter 😉

Jean-Philippe Desmeth
ah, tu es collectionneur 🙂

Jean-Philippe Desmeth
PS: ton avatar ne ressemble en rien au Lieutenant Drebin de la police de Los Angeles 😉

Franck Drebin
En fait, je suis surtout un maquettiste nostalgique qui prend beaucoup de plaisir à retrouver ces madeleines de Proust après y avoir longtemps résisté. Très bien vu cher Sonny Tuckson 🤠 Mais la photo de John Belushi dans 1941 correspondait mieux au côté aéronautique.

Franck Drebin
Je note que tu es particulièrement sensible au charme puissant des lampes à souder 😉

Jean-Philippe Desmeth
Oui, car c'est dans ce monde que j'ai débuté ma carrière, au milieu des F-16 à Beauvechain 🙂 (si tu as du temps, ou envie, tu peux me retrouver sur FB). Dans quel coin vis-tu ?

Franck Drebin
Je suis dans le Sud de la France. J'ai grandi dans l'axe d'atterrissage de la base D'Istres. J'ai donc essayé de me rapprocher des Mirages que je voyais passer mais je ne suis malheureusement pas allé jusqu'au bout du processus de recrutement pilote. C'est donc sur des hélices civiles qus je me suis rabattu. Les Têtes Brûlées m'ont aussi beaucoup marqué dans mon enfance 🙂
Je ne suis pas sur Facebook, Scalemates est mon seul réseau social avec LinkedIn. Sinon, toujours dans l'aéronautique? Et trouves-tu assez de temps pour le maquettisme?

J35J
Found this gem on the web. Time for another vacu kit!

Torsten
WOW, very exciting and challenging, I'll be watching

Duster_d
Oh, it's super interesting! I'm taking a seat

Skyhiker
Fun...fun.

J35J
Welcome to the project mates!👍🏻

Alex K
... joining the gallery...

Gordon Sørensen
Following!

J35J
Thanks Alex & Gordon for your intrest!

gorby
Looks like an interesting and challenging project.

J35J
Thanks Gorby! This is my second vacu kit build and this time it feels a little bit more straight forward…
My experience so far with vacu kits is that you have to spend a good amount of time on fitting, sanding and putty work to get a nice base for paint and finishing. Also spending quite some time reviewing old photos to get a good picture of the details. This as there is a fair amount of scratch work to get a decent build.

Łukasz Gliński
Brave idea

Robert Podkoński
You're a brave man, indeed! I will follow this thread with pleasure, for sure.

Michael Kohl
Me too

J35J
Thank you everyone for you supporting words! 👍🏻

Mr D
Nice, Nice 👍👍, lalways wanted to see a vacform build, Do you have to make up other parts to add on ??
Thanks for upload 😃👍

J35J
Thanks Mr D for your comments.
There will certainly be scratch build involved, mainly regarding the details as it looks for now. Otherwise I will raid my spare part stash first in order to save time and frustration.
If you are intrested in vac kits you can also have a look at my first vac kit:
McDonnell XP-67 Moonbat | Album by J35J (1:72)

Mr D
Thanks 👍👍 great, will do , l have an intest...as l enjoy making parts, lve had to do it few times, when parts lost or broken or details missed of kit...even canopy once 🤣.
Will check out the XP-67

Mr D

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J35J
Thanks for the link Mr D!👍🏻

Mr D
Need a good pair of scissors ✂️🤣, do you use the same Poly glue's

Skyhiker
Any behind the scenes progress going on?

J35J
@Mr D - yes you will need some good scissors as a start😅, for the fine tuning of the parts I normally use saw razor blades and sanding paper of variuos grits. Regarding glue I use "normal" Tamyia Extra Thin, the vacu kit plastic is often quite soft and melts easily.

J35J
@Skyhiker - Happy to hear that your following with great intrest. Usually the building pace goes down during the sommer period as I have been reminded that we have a garden that also need some TLC…😂
Nevertheless, yes there is planning and ordning of parts going on behind the scenes. Cockpit need to be done, rescribing the full kit, alignment of wheels as the mold was totally off-set. Drill out all machine guns for after market parts etc.
The main work will be to prepare the plane for NMF look also including some aluminum dope areas. Will try AK's metal paints this time. Stay tuned!

Łukasz Gliński
Luckily the old Russian saying applies to Sweden too - "we have only 10 months of winter, but all the rest is summer!" 😄

J35J
@Łukasz - Spot on! 😅

S M
Following!

J35J
Welcome S M!

Ben M
Tasty

Cuajete
Good job so far 👍

Mr D
Interesting 😃, quite an unusual wing it had.
Nice little project 😁👍

Zbynek Honzik
Good luck with Broplan! I keep my fingers crossed, I'll watch. Let there be enough motivation to complete this monster!

Łukasz Gliński
I'm in, being Broplan fan too 👍 Would love to buy Eurolot's 42-200 variant.
The cockpit looks great 👍

Paul
Following. Never built a Broplan kit (or any other vacform for that matter), but they have some unique subjects. I suppose the entire interior is scratchbuild? Pretty impressive!

Gordon Sørensen
Thats a lot of seats... but aren't they suppose to be Blue? Getting the decals from Arctic?

Oleg Bogolei
Interesting project. Following.

Chris Parsons
These images are 3-4 weeks old sorry. The model is basically completed (very close) today. I'll keep updating the pics here until they're up to date

Łukasz Gliński
Lovely progress, what livery?

Chris Parsons
Summit

Alex K
Great job! 👍

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
Good work , congrats

Paul
great result!

Juergen Klinglhuber
Great !! Love it.

Mirko Römer
Incredible effort - paying off. What a stunner!

Chris Parsons
Thank you very much guys!!

Łukasz Gliński
Missed the finish somehow, fantastic 👍

Zbynek Honzik
Now that's a heroic act indeed! Considering the quality of the kit, this is an absolutely amazing result! I completely missed finishing it, but luckily I just happened to come across this project.
Bravo Chris! You have my deepest respect! 👏👏👏

DuperScale
The result is awesome, Hope mine will be nearly as good

Neuling
Clean work!

Michael Kohl
Impressive result.

Transall NG
Huge work !!!!
I really love that !
Thanks !

S M
Bravo! Well done finishing a vacuformed kit!

Dutch
Chris, Terrific work finishing this beasty! Lovely results. I finally returned from my overseas travel and will check on the DHC-8 for you. Kind regards, Dutch

Curatorm
Great work!

Chris Parsons
Thanks very very much mates!

Julian Herrero aka Yuri
Impressive. Congratulations

Zbynek Honzik
Taking a seat and I keep my fingers crossed that the building will be joyful and successful, Michael!

Mr D
Really like the subject 😁👍👍 Good stuff, l built one as a boy in the 1990's

Łukasz Gliński
Can't miss an IF project 👍
That windshield is terrible - what's your plan for it?
And most importantly - are you going to build Lady Agnes? 🙂

Michael Kohl
Hi mates. Nice to have your interest and you on board. Thanks Zbynek. So far it took much more effort than I expected. Lets see how it continues.
@Mr D: childhood memories. I suppose you build it in scale 1:100? VEB Plasticard?
Lukasz, I bent and glued it und sanded it flush afterwards. As I will use the Authentic Airliner decals for the cockpit windows, they do not need to be transparent.

Mr D
Hi Michael 👋,
Yes it was the Veb version, very basic....but l was enjoying building it as fast as l could.... Glue finger prints n all 🤣
Can you sort the cockpit glass ?? Surprised.... Zvezda usually very good.
Thanks for your upload..... I'm big Soviet era fan.

Łukasz Gliński
Good choice Sir, the AA window decals are super cool.
Unfortunately some of their livery decals have some errors.

Michael Kohl
Yeah, I was surprised by the fit issue too. On the upside are definitely very fine and consistent engravings which I hope to preserve.
And - by the way - it won't be Lady Agnes¹. I like to represent the plane I flew to Moscow with. Unfortunately I do not have a picture of this particular aircraft and am thus not sure about it's actual registration. The history of some a/c is available to me, so I can rule out some. And I photographed two parked IL-62M too while taxiing which I can rule out too.
With these informations I ruled out registration: SEW, SEC, SEF, SEG, SEY and SEK. So right now I will go for registration DDR-SET.

¹ a word for those not familiar with Lady Agnes. She is obviously an IL-62M too and was flown to Stölln. After being stripped of everything unnecessary she landed on a 900m grasstrip (how on earth did they manage to get a permission for that?!) and is used now as a Cafe there in it's original Interflug livery.
You've never heard of Stölln? It is located in the federal state of Brandenburg, about 40km west of Berlin and is the oldest aviation site on earth and in the history of mankind. No other that Otto Lilienthal tested some of his gliders there.

Robert Podkoński
Watchimg with pleasure! Of course, I remember VEB Plasticard kit very well 😉 And thanks for the interesting story!

bughunter
Oh, a very personal project - watching! Sorry, I digged so deep into my build that I missed yours.
So I'm now in and good luck!
Regarding putty: I'm now a fan of Tamiya light curing putty which hardens quickly with UV light.
If wee meet again I like to hear more background about this trip and can provide other insights 😉

Michael Kohl
Hi Frank. No reason for apologies. You are welcome anytime.
Looking forward to our next meeting.

Spanjaard
a bit late, but I am in. nice detail added in this intakes

Ben M
💺

Mr D
Looking good, really nice shaped Airliner 👍
Do you use the black to find imperfections?? Or is it a pre-shading??
I'm in process of building the Veb Be-6 Soviet flying boat, and may help me to do similar.
Thanks for your uploads... Like anything from Soviet era n russian.