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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
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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.

Michael Kohl
Welcome mate. Always nice to have you around.
Yes, Mr D, I use the black primer to identify imperfections as the grey one is too close to the plastic color and with the white one, flaws are not that visible. The downside is that it takes a lot of color to cover the black. So next time I will most likely go for a lighter primer color.

Shar Dipree
Following!

Mr D
Thanks 👍👍 for letting me know, l built the Yak-3 made by Zvezda, lit was quite nice to build, some of the fine parts were really accurate, but then it was bit gapy around the wing, but otherwise pretty good.

Robert Dowsett
The Car Transporter Trailer I am pretty sure only holds 5 vehicles so the convertible Jaguar will miss out. I am planning a small layout of a workshop with these 5 cars being loaded onto the car carrier. The three on the top and "mezzanine level" (immediately behind the cabin) will be the lightest cars - presumably the "Gullwing" and the Porsche and I'll have to check on the weights of the others. the only Aston Martin DB5 I could find was the James Bond edition that was built after the "ordinary" Doyusha (No. NY-1-1800) 1964 Aston Martin DB5. I had to be the 007 Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5 (Doyusha No. 07-1-2800) but, on checking the 2800 007 Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5 is the Doyusha 1964 Aston Martin DB5 with extra parts for the 007 version that can be omitted to build a standard DB5. At least that is my read of the instructions for both models - otherwise there might be some serious scratch work required.

The other curiosity here is the Fujimi Porsche 911R Coupe from 1967. Originally released in 1985 as a Porsche 911 Carrera RS '73 it was then retooled in 1986 as a Porsche 911 S Coupé '69 and with new parts then re-released in 1986 as the Porsche 911R Coupe '67. The 911R was a small series of racing versions that focused primarily on weight reduction. This meant most of the panels were refabricated in lightweight fibreglass including the doors, hood, engine cover and bumpers. Along with the standard interior delete and lightweight windows, the 911R was only 810 kg, some 230 kg less than the standard 911 (supercars.net/blog/1967-porsche-911-r/). So that would have been a major rebuild for this model to go from the standard street 911S, Model F to the lightweight Model F 911R designed for the track only.
There were some throwback releases of the original Porsche 911 Carrera RS '73 and then, in 2019 2 reboxed versions appear: the standard street 911S and the lightweight 911R, both Model F. The box art of the 2019 release of 911R looks like the 911S but the actual model parts are closer to the 911R. And the Model F 911R is such a minor part of the 911 lineage. Only 4 prototypes and 20 production cars were delivered; all designed for racing.
Scalemates outline of Fujimi line of these Porsches mixes the 911 Carrera RS '73, the 911S Model F '69 and the 911R from '67. And I appear to have the exceeding rare 911R for which production ceased in 1968 because it was not competitive in its class. So an interesting side note in Porsche history. But it's not a Grand Tourer. I'm not sure at the time any Porsche really were GT cars and so my search continues.

Rui S
Welcome to scalemates🙂

Headintheclouds
Thank you Rui S, took me a while to do it though.😃