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Miguel Vaquero
Next proyect, this beautiful pre war plane. I've always liked this plane, so when I saw this kit fairly cheap I couldn't resist to buy it. I will make camouflage pattern, even though the book comes with two livery possibilities. This time around, the build Is going to be completely out of the box.

Ben M
The stripe livery on the box looks pretty sharp too

Doubtingmango
Watching!

Miguel Vaquero
I don know what I'm going to do Ben. I love the stripes too, but I don't like the plain green camouflage. Maybe I'll combine the stripes with something different to at least use them.

Ben M
It'll look great no matter what. The plane has very clean lines!

Miguel Vaquero
I'm loving this kit so far. The only downside is the amount of flash, and that the fit with some of the parts is a little bit bad. Nothing that some time and love can't fix. I think so far it's turning out pretty good

Robert Podkoński
Good job so far, Miguel. Keep it up! In fact, this type was used pre-war, during war and build in Poland (under license as CSS-13) post-war too. Here you can find some close-ups of the one kept in Herringsdorf collection:
Hangar 10 | Album by podkon

Miguel Vaquero
Thank you Robert. Those are some amazing photos. The striped engine is so cool, being able to see all the parts in its glory. I'm sure I'll use those pictures for the rigging later on. Here in Spain we also have one, and flying!! They are truly wonderful pieces of history.

Ben M
Wow, looking good!

Miguel Vaquero
Thanks Ben!

A lot of advances on the build now. I finally decided to make the box livery, and I'm not regretting It a bit, it just beautiful. All the main exterior paint is donde and decals in place. Although I'm a little bit bad with large decals, and I ended up painting the stripes with the airbrush. At the end I think its turning out lovely

Miguel Vaquero
3/4 of the model done. Only left is the upper wing and rigging. Then some minor weathering this time and I'll call it good. I'm enjoying a lot this build. The only thing Ive had problems is the flash on smaller parts, and how delicate they are when removing that flash. Also some pieces have problems with fittings but is not the norm. Overall it's a really well designed kit, with some flaws, but nothing that cant be worked around

gorby
It's looking very good.

Miguel Vaquero
Thanks Gorby!

Top wing and the rigging of the controls done. In not sure if in going to do the wings rigging now, I had all the cables set up on the top wing but had to take them out, so now it's double difficult putting those in.

For now, the only thing left are the windshields and I'll call it good. Maybe in a later date I will try to set up the rigging but not right now.

Doubtingmango
Looking great!

Ben M
Beautiful little plane. Hope you get to the rigging someday!

Miguel Vaquero
Thanks guys. Yeah someday ill do the riggin. I think what in need to do know is take my mind of this kit for a while, cause while trying the riggin i broke some pieces and at the end the result was far from what i expected. So im going to try and focus on something else and come back later for it

Pierre-Laurent Magnin
bonjour je suis intéresser pour acheter votre F-16 XL au 1/32

Pierre-Laurent Magnin
MON adresse e-mail : plume7@bluewin.ch

Patrick Boogie
Guten Tag in die Schweiz.
Er ist erhältlich.
Gezahlt wird mit paypal friends.
Ich versende mit DHL mit Sendungsverfolgung.
Sollte etwas mit dem Paket passieren (Verlust, Defekt), ich übernehme keine Verantwortung. es gibt kein Geld zurück.
DHL Preis ist allerdings sehr hoch in die Schweiz, 27€
Gruß Patrick

Pierre-Laurent Magnin
alors vite aller au traducteur Google ;-P

Pierre-Laurent Magnin
hello alors ok pour moi sa 27euro sa va de la suis pour l'Europe sa tourne de 25 à 45 FRS

Patrick Boogie
Wenn sie mit meinen Bedingungen einverstanden sind, dann wären es insgesamt 77€.

ok?

Pierre-Laurent Magnin
et le payement par PayPal c'est ok " transaction entre proche "ok je fait également les payement par PayPal

Patrick Boogie
Zahlung an: boogieebay@arcor.de

Pierre-Laurent Magnin
ok le total et de 50euro + 27euro DHL = 77 euro c'est ou pour toi

Pierre-Laurent Magnin
je t'envoie mes coordonnée postale merci bcp de me la vendre sa va faire 4 ans que je la recherche sur internet

Martin Oostrom
You got your work cut out for you

Carlos Proença
This will be one of the easiest...

Guido
First time I'm seeing the Tamiya tyres being completely cracked up...

Should be interesting to see how you'll get along with it. Good luck!

Carlos Proença
Good question Guido.... dont know how!!!!

Carlos Proença
From my research on the subject, I will opt to use Stormsure "Black", which is more flexible.

I will prepare the edges of any cracks that run all the way through the carcass by gently roughing them up with a small file or piece of wet and dry paper, and then apply no more glue than necessary – a pin can help to get very small amounts of glue into the cracks.

shadowlight
@Guido: I have a Tamiya 1:12 Lotus 49 Kit unbuild with cracked Tyres out of the factory ^^
@Carlos: what happened to these Kits? Exposed to weather, temperature, sunlight? Wrong enamel color become yellowish? Just wondering how to preserve build Kits a better way.

Carlos Proença
@Guido: The issue of cracks is actually a bit complex. On this model, the rear tires are perfect, but the front tires are cracked. I believe this is because the model was placed on its front on my shelf at home, and perhaps it was exposed too much sun. Furthermore, I have had this model for many years. As for the yellowing of the decals, I did not protect them with varnish, and the excessive sunlight ended up causing them to become that way. As for the rear tires, I am already soaking them in glycerin to keep them as they are.

gorby
Lovely work!

Felix
Thank you, Gorby!

Alec K
Well done, despite challenges 👍

Dave
Very well done, so used to seeing a lancaster with Merlin engines. Forgot about the few with radio engines. Nice work.

Neuling
Top work. Beautiful colors and camouflage paintwork!

Felix
Thank you all for your kind comments! @Dave yes it's a somewhat odd look but she looks like a rugged warhorse nonetheless!

Soeren R.
Really nice paint job.

Brian McColl
thanks Soeren

Andrew Eadon
Great work on the spit Brian, top effort

John Thomas
Nice work

Brian McColl
thank-you

Ulf Petersen
Very nice Spit, Brian!👍

Brian McColl
Cheers Ulf

Martien Lourens
It is nice to see a spit in French nationality marks. Nice build and great paintjob.👍

Brian McColl
Thanks Martien, nice change to green and grey.

Choppa Nutta
Really nice style Brian 🙂
You been watching Plasimo Models ? 😄

Brian McColl
😉 some good stuff on there! I picked up some good techniques from Plasmo and other youtube contributors like genesis models. Thanks 🙂

Choppa Nutta
yeah I like Gennessis models too, but you caught the Plasimo style very nicely though 🙂

Brian McColl
thank-you, I'm happy you like it. 🙂

Charlie Spitfire
i love spits and to see this one in soo much detail makes me inspered to make more

Clifford Keesler
Very nice Spit.

Thomas Kolb
Lovely camo paintjob on this one!

Neuling
Yes! Beautiful colors!

Moreno Baruffini
Really a great work and a beautiful painting !

Olivier
And another French spitfire... Nice !

Felix
Wow, this is gorgeous!

Palo M
Looks fantastic!

Lebloge
😮 Exceptionally real 😲

Mr James
Wonderful distress and weathering work. Expertly done

Rui S
Yes, great weathering 👍

CarlosR
looks great!!

Laliscale
Many thanks guys!