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Ah, that's good news indeed!

Wow, great build!! I love the result! Weathering is just fine. I personally would have replaced the kit seats but that has nothing to do with how your work turned out. Please let us travel with you in the journey of your next model! I hope you'll open a WIP on that! Cheers, mate!

Thanks for your very comprehensive asessment of the kit, Edgar! What do you think of the shape of the spinner? As for the metal ailerons; If I have read it correctly they were indeed metal on the Mk.II, but also retrofitted to Mk.I's, at least some? IIRC it was mentioned in the biography of "Sailor" Malan that he came across those metal parts and scrounged as many as possible for the aircraft in his unit. Could also have been Alan Deere, I forget.

BTW, what is needed to make it a Mk.I? I think I have seen that the kit features metal control surfaces, while the Mk. I had fabric? Anything related to the Coffman starter would have to be removed. Does the kit feature a metal or a "bakelite" seat? The prop and spinner would be good for a Mk.I I'd think.... And of course the oil cooler must be made circular, but that's a thing that should be done, no matter what. Anything else?

Hmmm, if the cockpit is corrected it's starting to sound more and more interesting!!

Wow, Pascal! This really looks super!

Wow! Great progress!

Wow, great project.... My condolences for your shattering loss....

Nice, nice, nice!

I have no experience with that but am afraid that enlarging 1/72 and 1/48 decals to 1/32 will result in soft details and possibly ragged edges in the artwork.

Maybe we can schedule an LSM-Of-The-Americas-Get-Together? Huub and I will be visiting the convention from the Netherlands.

Great progress!!

Bad-ass looking machine!!! Owh, and BTW; 1300 posts!

Nice slippers! Next time make sure that the subject is better in view. Now we get distracted by those old Brassin sets...

I usually spray with Gunze or Tamiya acrylics. For adding a pinwash I spray Gunze/Tamiya clear (Future or one of the similar products can be used too) and then I use an oil color diluted by "wasbenzine"; Google Translate translates that as "benzene", but I'm not sure if that is correct... I also use regular turpentine, whatever I have at hand. Regular turpentine / white spirit shouldn't attack acrylics but as far as I know, the Vallejo's, Xtracrylics etc. are are somewhat more vulnerable than Gunze/Tamiya. Maybe it's an idea to use the color of your choice on a scrap part, seal the paint with Gunze/Tamiya clear or Future and then add the wash. Remember, use a bit of oil colour and a lot of turpentine to mix a watery brown/black/whatever colour in a dish or some other container. If you bring on some of it with a number 000 paintbrush it should flow through the panelline because of the capillary action of the wash. If all else fails you can get water-based washes by MiG, Ammo or Vallejo, AK. It won't hurt your thoroughly dried paintwork but won't flow as easily either. Good luck!!

This really looks good, Petr! Almost can't believe it's short-run injection moulded! Very fine details on the plastic! Good work!! (That promises something for the Tempest!!! )

Ey Cees, Will you please after finishing post some pics of this brute in the Beaches To Berlin Finished Builds Post? Purely as an appetizer....

Dave, can you still have a look at which options should have the pointy spinner? Thanks!! Erik.

Ah Petr, thanks for the info!

You did a very nice job, Tim! Love the poisonous pea-green paintjob... Reminds me of meals at British Motorway-diners... But that's for the food, not the model!! As I said, great job!!

Translation: "Looking very good... Noticed it on Facebook the other day." Hi Peter, can you please post in English as most of our members and visitors don't speak Dutch. If you include some light banter / joke in Dutch with your post as the other Dutch regulars sometimes do; please include an English translation, so everyone knows what it's about. Thanks and enjoy your time here on the forums!! Erik.

Ah, okay. Too bad in a way, but I can understand. Most important is that you have fun at your hobby! Anyway, thanks that you do share your progress with us!

Okay, then I really hope to see it IRL someday. Are you a member of a Belgion modelling club? I often go to the "beurzen/bourses" of KMK, Moveleo, MBC Lier, IPMS Antwerpen and MBC Willebroek.

Waaaaat???? That shouldn't be possible, unless you immerse the plastic in turpentine for a prolonged time... Please show some pics of the "wounds"...