Clunkmeister

Beautiful work, Mike! Stunning! Good news from Europe, Alexey is still in the game, hunkered down and staying safe. As are most of our other Ukrainian suppliers. Roden lost their illustrator, but that man was the only casualty I’ve hard about in our little circle. So far at least. Alexey states he’s no warrior, so he’s lending his support in other ways.

My jaw just hit the floor, y’all.

OH AWESOME

No problem. The speed brakes sit 1/32” too far back when closed and leave a 1/32” gap between them and the fuselage when installed closed. Look closely at the attachment points and you’ll see about 1/32” of plastic on the hinge attachment part that is past a very slight mold line. Just snip that off on all 4 hinges and then sand off all the internal detail on the brake boards. Then they’ll install perfectly. Martin’s the one who cautioned me on the fit. He used Evergreen to fill the gap, I went the other way. Tomato. Tomato…..

Everything Ukraine Ready for Inspection Sub Forum open for posting finished builds.

Awesome news, Hubert. Glad you had a good vacation. I’m waiting for some digital pattern masks to arrive from Bulgaria, and then my 29 will be in some paint. These Group Builds are nice at times. Without this, I would never have contemplated a 1/48 kit, and a MiG-29:in Ukrainian colors even, so these get us thinking outside our normal thinking processes. We will most likely extend the Group Build to a full 6 months, being that we have some decent participation.

Haha, not even close. But I bought a set of digital masks for this model from DN Models in Bulgaria. I’m going to build right up to that point and then stop to wait for them to arrive. Im having a lot of fun building this, and it’s heartening to see the plethora of builds on this Group Build.

Welcome to LSM, Mirage!

Armadillos courtesy of us Texians. We obviously missed a few on the Interatates and Farm to Market roads. Not doing our jobs I guess. I’d still take Armadillos over hogs, though. I probably personally drop an easy 50 a year and others do many more, yet they keep reproducing. Evil creatures them.

Exactly. Nessie sure is an elusive beast! I’ve heard rumours of Vorpel Bunnies In the caves along the shore as well.

Thanks! Not my best work, but it’ll do for a quickie build

Thanks y’all. I should put up the pics after I revisited it and added some variation to the Polish khaki. I honestly can’t recall ever having such a great time building a kit as I had with this one. Simply put, an awesome model of a very overlooked aircraft. An amazing result for IBG’s first 1/32 kit. Here’s hoping we get more Polish WW2 models from them in the future

The rest is rolling right along. A pretty simple build, almost oOB and so far, I’m thrilled. Not as much detail as man scale, but it’s still a stellar kit.

Martin did warn me about the fit issues with the speed brake boards and the Mother of All Gaps being present between the boards and the fuselage, so, I had a little look. Both upper and lower boards are used open or closed, and like many models, they are best used open. Ifclosed, the gap appears. A close look finds a 1/32 extra filler piece molded in the front of all 4 hinges, so it’ll provide a stronger anchor when open. Trim the front 1/32 off, recontour the hinges, and Bob’s your Uncle. They fit. BUT… now you need to thin the internals to clear the Donkey Dong, otherwise they’ll sit proud. I could have spent more time fitting them, but I just blew through it and just did a press fit. This is the result and where I’m gonna leave it.

You’re a lucky man. We have no natural lakes in Texas. Our lakes are all manmade. But we got plenty of oil and plenty of cattle. Copperheads, Cottonmouth, Killer Bees, Rire Ants, foot wide tarantulas, foot long centipedes, cougars, coyotes, chupacabra, and even a Vorpel Bunny or two.

Came yesterday.

No kidding. I did my flying surrounded by the limes of Beavers, Otters, Twin Otters, Caribou, and Buffalo, and I thought I knew STOL. Then I saw a PC-6 takeoff and it made the Twotter look like a slouch. It’s all about big power, high lift, and density altitude. Lightly loaded helps too. 😃

Either that or it’s just happy to see me. Too much glue sniffing, obviously.

OK, I’ve been picking away at this over the weekend, and my tiny little mind stopped dead while building the braking parachute container and cover. It looks vaguely pornographic.

They need to stay out of sight and get through the next bit. Nobody knows what power crazy idiot children will do, especially when they have the power of life and death over unarmed civilians. Help will come, I expect.

Welcome back, Maxim! Good to see you again my friend and we’re all glad you’re safe.

Clean and straight build. Amazing precise work as usual.

Amazing work!

Exactly. That’s something that’ll sneak up on a guy. I also used the plain inserts. Are the other ones for chaff dispensers?

Thanks for the tip. Well taken and Wilco. I really don’t like having stabilators in place now. They’re extremely fragile and seriously in the way. One thing I did notice is that according to pics, the spine strikes ahead of the fins are reversed in the instructions. I cross reference it with pics and three views and those two parts need to be reversed.