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Well, he's a polarising figure after all.

You were wise not to mention it. But now that you have, they'll be coming for you. Just like an Anime Doll would. I've said too much. S

Ooh, nice. How's the quality of the casting?

A year beyond remission now, but it killed my Father so once a year still and it's - Yoink - up the spout again! Talk about thread creep...

She's happy. After 14 procedures for Bladder Cancer (and what they have to do to me to get in there), I'm just glad that everything still works!

Well that's obviously a fake photograph... He's got a shirt on! Speaking of pop-ups... I got this one just now while browsing H/S. Try explaining this to the Wife: "What the hell are you looking at?" "Just Plastic Models... I swear!" S

IIRC the PCM G-55 was a Sword mould. Not sure about the Fiat, but the early Saetta has been on SH's future release list for a decade now.

What a lovely little GSP Carl. I bet she's giving your Dog a work-out Steve

I think my Therapist must be Moonlighting at that particular Medical Facility Martin... Just the other day, I paid $100 only to have him tell me to have a good, hard look at myself!

As always, this depends entirely on the way the original is measured, and the source of any plans or drawings used. And then, how the Design team correlate that information and apply those two dimensional measurements to emulate a three dimensional object. S

Good choice with those wheels.This is a factor we never have to deal with here, needing a different change of wheels and tyres for winter. But a friend living in Victoria where it gets much colder during Winter tipped her Landrover / Horsefloat combination on Black Ice once, when she just didn't notice the transition from wet road to frozen. They all survived thankfully (although not the Landy.)

Lovely detail and casting. Although, the Pocket Money kit comment... not everywhere. S

So... Construction that began on the other side of the Pacific eh? Truly an Epic build!

Very well done, a nice departure from your usual fare with those horrid crooked crosses! But would some WIP shots every now and then kill ya?!

Honey Boo Boo? My eyes, my eyes...

Your patience and persistence is paying off Peter. That engine really came up a treat! Steve

You deserve for Mike Swinburne to gift you the free kit he'll be getting!

You're not on your lonesome by relying on Hyperbole on the Web Ernie. But a case in point... the limitations of moulding and extruding styrene mean that 100% accuracy is problematic for even the best researched subjects. The diameter of the BMW801 motor is 1290mm... The Revell motor in 1/32nd scale is 38mm across, short by over 2mm. It needs to be so they can get it inside the cowl parts and have them still able to be assembled closed. Revell will get a pass on this. If Kitty Hawk do the same, which they probably will need to if they're putting a motor in theirs, there will inevitably be a group of Usual Suspects ready to use it as yet another excuse to rail against them and blame poor research... when it's merely a necessary evil of the moulding process. S

I would say both! For me, either Company's approach would be a different yet entertaining build, of a subject I would welcome. Tamiya would be ahead of the game, having already done the CAD work for their 1/48th release. But they won't be telling you it's coming until it's almost ready. Z/M would have done the measurements already to have tipped us off. However where does it fit in their release schedule? Behind the Hs-129 and half a dozen Fw-109's? Either way, we'll be waiting a while.

An early Tatzelwurm and colourful Wappen will always be in demand.

Ah, but the game's not over yet Nicholas I have only the one A-1 kit, with an AIMS C-4 conversion to do an early N/F variant. Also had another A-1 kit with the full G-6 conversion; but sold it at a local swap meet after the big C reared it's ugly head, and my Oncologist advised me to stop using resins. Kind of regret that decision now.

The exact problem with the new tool Revell Bf109 G-6... They measured the G-4 in Speyer, which has a narrow cowl to house the MG17's and no associated cowl bulges, and transferred those measurements to the kit. Subsequently, they guessed the shape of the bulges and the position of the cockpit air vents and got them both wrong... and none of the SME's picked it up. Had they respected the subject in the first place, there wouldn't have been a problem. I felt a little for Lyn, who got a bit titchy there for a while, because if you put your name to it and it's somewhat less than accurate you end up owning someone else's mistakes. The thing about the Luftwaffe subjects is off on another tangent altogether. One fellow constantly complains that the colours are boring. It's the internet equivalent of leaning over your Neighbour's fence and shouting "Why did you buy a Samoyed, they only come in white?"

100% accuracy would be wonderful, but it's probably just not possible in our scale, given the intricacies of reducing the size of certain objects while retaining fidelity of detail. At the time, I wondered whether Z/M had cut in to the wing around the wing gun covers because of the limitations of being able to successfully mould the interior of the cover, needing that little bit of extra depth to get the necessary detail inside. Then, I saw that Eduard managed to do it with their 1/48 Fw190 kits... so did Z/M take a short cut, or has mould technology progressed that much in a few short years? Who knows...

Too true Mike... Sarcasm is really the best weapon against that type of Passive Aggression. Should you engage them in any discussion about these kinds of attitudes, you're only end up feeding their petty attitudes, and that of the others that enable them.

I think there is an indentation into the wing surface on the outside of the starboard cut-out, it's just that it's not visible due to the lighting perspective used. But they really shouldn't be there at all, only the cut-out section in the wing with the cover sitting flush on top. At least the cover itself actually looks like the real thing. The Revell kit's representation (on the right here, behind the Hasegawa) is too long, too narrow and completely the wrong shape.