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That is some nice detailpainting, especially the seat and tyres. How did you achieve that effect? By the way could you alter your signature please as the infamous photobucket noshows still show up. Cheers Cees

Well, I always have had a soft spot for the big ugly brutal beautiful Phantom. Nice one Danny. Cheers Cees

Wow Kent, that finish is marvelous! A beaten up Lanc with dings dangs and dongs all over the place. I love it. The metal skinning really stands out compared to the archaic seventies Tamiya surface. Well done. Cheers Cees

Nice and dirty.

Update time. The fun part with scratchbuilding is that you spend hours doing intensive work without any seemingly progress. Making mistakes and doing things again and again and yet progress is made. Time flies when you are having fun. The fuselage underpanel is shaping up nicely. Trying to keep true to scale problems rear there heads. One of these is that there are several slatted floorpanels with rather wide gaps between them. Painting the later might result in not every nook and cranny being reached. So I will have to paint the area below it before the panels themselves can be made. So planning is mandatory. Hope you like, Cheers Cees

What livery will you be painting the Skyraider in? Cees

Right up your alley Jeroen!

Welcome to LSM! Make yourself at home here and entertain us with your builds. Of which you already seem to have made a great start. cheers Cees

Cutting out the bombbay cell openings didn't work out and looking at the photo's my idea was wrong so I cut out one large rectangular opening. The various bombbeams are now easier to fit and that is exactly how it was on the real aircraft. Another thing learned. The floor was bent in it's various angles but it is still very flimsy. The strenghtening beams will take care of that. I also made the front spar which had sections routed out for weight presumably. I represented this from laminated plastic. The bombbay lining strips have been finished. This is fun. Cheers Cees

Wonderful, looks like you leave nothing out. Cheers Cees

That is very handy, those yellow dots probably indicate radium instrument faces. Cheer Cees

And after rougly cutting out, it looks like a fuselage undersurface. Some final cleaning up still to do. Cheers Cees

Work has begun in earnest....again. I had to get some plastic sheet to avoid running out of half way the fuselage construction. Marking out the fuselage bottom with the various openings for trapdoors, sighting windows and bombcell apertures. These openings make the sheet very flimsy and cutting them out while still on the sheet makes life easier. Cheers Cees

Some other fora seem to suffer the same problem. Perhaps a PC-act? Cheers Cees

Very handy when you have good friends like Jeroen Peters who donated surplus WNW machinegun sprues to the project. Even a scarff ring is included which was fitted on the 0/400 nose position. And the many magazines are well represented too. Thanks Jeroen. Cheers Cees

I found some pics of my previous 1/28 attempt, so don't think I have progressed already. Cees

Like!

So, no pressure then!

Thanks Rob, Here are the basic fuselage drawings to work from. That and the many pics from the Internet books etc. Cheers Cees

Noticed this: http://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=8220.0 I wonder who is first to finish? Cheers Cees

Hi chaps and chapesses! Autumn is slowly but surely on it's way and it's time for a nice winterproject next to the Manchester to keep me sane. Some years ago I started scrarchbuilding a Handley Page 0/400 also known as "Bloody Paralyser". Due to a miscalculation the drawings were enlarged to 1/28 but it worked out quite nice and the fuselage was mostly finished.....until a housemove two years ago when it was unfortunately crushed. Anyhoo!, as the chances of Wingnuts Wings releasing an example of HP's earliest bomber are remote or even slim indeed, and who am I to know, I decided to start anew. The drawings are being enlarged to 1/32 at the moment and here is the first one. During the KMK show at Mol yesterday, I stocked up on Evergreen strips so watch this space.......despite a new housemove on the cards again, oh well. Cheers Cees

About time too. I'm catching up on you with this build. Cees

Mooi zo!

Hi Neil, Yes, looking forward to go to Telford again. Cheers Cees

That pilot looks very nice. Certainly gives a feeling of movement.