seiran01

The new Tripala conversion just landed here from Hungary. My god it’s beautiful.

Wow, just wow. HLJ is smoking something fierce! The kit is by no means cheap but the price from HPH on their web store is 640.50 euros - a little over $710US at today’s exchange rate.

They're always cool! It's a mojo-restoring build, I'd say build whatever the heck you want just make sure you enjoy it! I think the ki84 tailplane angle issue in Dale's photo above is likely from not slotting the tailplanes together when inserting them into the fuselage. I wish I could say I never made that goof myself, but I'd be lying...

Ooh good timing. I may not be ready at the start but even if I come in with 3 weeks left I may be able to knock out an OOB in time challenge accepted!

Is the C cockpit any different from the A? No one makes anything for the C that I can find. sorry back on topic... Hasegawa. Love that thunderbolt kit!

Oh? Was not aware of that, never even heard of the company so I’ll go look them up. Going to have a friend design me paint masks for the Strizhi aircraft, it’s the 9-13 (Fulcrum C) I’ll do.

If I was able to tear myself away from the current project, I’d jump into this- great idea Ern. I’m planning something similar once the current one is finally finished... maybe a Trumpy Mig29 without adding anything beyond color etch in the cockpit

Forgot to add me to the list Ern, thanks buddy!

Looking great so far! You could probably rout out a half pound of resin and chuck in a simple metal or carbon spar

Plastic Vampire? YES YES YES!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry LEM, plastic wins over resin any day when given the option. Pretty much everything on that list is of interest to me

Whereabouts is Military Hobbies? I’ll be in Anaheim for the better part of a week in early March

Damn, that sucks!! Don’t the mainstream storage places usually have security cameras? Might make the haystack a little smaller to find the needle

Count me in Ern, thanks. Unsure yet if I have anything I can donate towards the raffle, I just sold a bunch of stuff off to thin the pile to just the “needed” items. Will have a look and let you know

Hannants has it reduced too... trying to clear stock before Wingnut release maybe?

Guess that’s why we are friends

landing flaps (primary and secondary) are metal, all other control surfaces are fabric

Multiple decal sheets available for the J... Profimodeller has 2 or 3 sets including the one with giant dragon artwork on side, DK Decals did a sheet of British/Aussie Liberators recently and Novascale does a sheet of NMF Aussie B-24s. There might be more but those are already available off the top of my head.

HAD Models has agreed to scale up their Pete The Pom Inspector decals to 1/32 for those wanting a D (or H with D-style greenhouse nose) assembly ship. Will include the nose art for both Pete (B-24D) and Pete 2nd (B-24H, aka RePete if you ask Ernie). Hopefully preorder will go online in the next few days. After talking with Feri @ HAD this weekend he’s agreed the best approach from a pricing perspective will be to include a cd with templates so that the builder can make paint masks for all the giant yellow circles with their red borders. So. Frigging. Excited. Profile art from their smaller scale sheet for reference:

It took a while but I’ve got the paper plane done up in CAD and have printed a few in 1/32 and 1/24. Managed to build one up and it looks pretty good, see the pic below. Looking pretty awesome!!! Unfortunately I’ve already had the chance to build a knock-off from a seller on aliexpress. You can see the knock-off built up in the shot on the left for comparison.

Paul Fisher did a beautiful 1/24 Bugatti 100P kit...

Maybe not but I’ve been slowly working on conversion parts for the HK kit

Dammit Ern, sorry to hear about the whole situation, that sucks! Hope things go as well as then can for your parents. Hope your brother trips and falls manparts first into a wood chipper. what an @$$hole. Give this a listen, you may get a chuckle since you’re out of phoques. Hopefully a brief distraction, at the very least a good source for more ways to say that you’re out of phoques.

Pretty sure I already know how this is going to look Ern, but how’s about a comparison of the size of this, the Lanc, and something that most builders will know (109/p51 etc) as a size comparison? Or maybe a family sedan

I’d love to see some maniac make the nuke-powered B-36. There was a company that did the new nose via 3d printing a while back (click 2 detail?) in 72nd and I believe they have since folded.

Ern you can have the dipoles from my Widow if you don’t have a set, I don’t need them on the rf61 conversion