DocRob

Very nice paintjob and great looking kit overall. Cheers Rob

I don't know about the pancakes, but the company Fokker was found in my old hometown of Berlin in 1912. After 1918 the company moved to the Netherlands. Anton Herman Gerard „Anthony" Fokker, the founder, was born on Java, a Dutch colony by the time. Cheers Rob

I've not seen too many builds of the cut away Cat. I was tempted often, but, it's to much for me. Keep up the great work. I'm sure you know about the one exhibited in NASM Pensacola Florida. Cheers Rob

Nothing long about the 'O', it's a short 'O' as in 'Rocker' or 'mock' or Rob. Cheers Rob

Your pit looks great Kai, like Gaz said, it looks perfectly used in the best way. Cheers Rob

Nice looking engines, like in a Ford factory of the 20's last century. The Fokkers look also great. Cheers Rob

Looking great Gaz, there are too few ship builds here. I love to see, how you continue with the Kurfürst and maybe some day, I will have the power to start my Trumpeter Queen Elisabeth with all metal galore available. But before that, I will build a wooden ship. Cheers Rob

Great build all around, but the most advanced feature are your figure painting skills . The Fifie is on my list too. Cheers Rob

Looks great, nice detail work on the turret. Cheers Rob

No need to be sorry Mike, It's interesting to read your motivation and your approach on wooden ship models. You seem to dig deeper and deeper into the building process and there will be complete building from scratch as I understand. I'm primarily a plastic model builder and motivated by the appeal of a subject. I like to learn new techniques and to work with different materials than plastic only. Shipbuilding from wood has a special fascination to me, since my teens. Working with wood is different and can be very rewarding, if properly done. In the last years, I've done a lot of woodworking in the house, building chairs, tables, a very complicated kitchen with organic shapes,..., and learned a lot about working with wood. I feel prepared now, to start a project like the Duchess, mainly, because the perfect design of the kit makes it easier for the beginner, as it takes a lot of burdens from the builders shoulders. Generally I prefer larger scales and therefore smaller vessels. I can't stand to much redundancy in modelling, so no four engine planes for me and no ships of the line as well. Larger scales make detailing, painting and weathering easier, but ship modelling has developed a lot in the last time, incorporating materials, techniques and designs, which were more originated in advanced plastic modelling, like the use of photoetch and resin and painting and weathering techniques too. Let's see, where the journey ends, I have a lot of anticipation for the duchess and hope to see more of your great builds here. Cheers Rob

Today, the Küster showed up. It took not even a week to get him to my tiny island, record time for a recent purchase, where it took decades of waiting for the kit to appear in my sight . The kit is a Wave reissue of the Nitto Kröte, with some sprues recently made for this version, but the rest is old Nitto stuff, which looks fairly crisp for it's age. The license wars must have been brutal, even the old sprues show erased info. It says only Nitto and Kröte, no year no nada. When I was a mid teen, I always wanted to own a Kröte, a Jerry and a Hornisse, but I couldn't afford them. They were not cheap, being Japan imports. If I had known, how expensive and hard to find these kits became, after Nitto ceased the production, I would've spent less money on girls . Since Hasegawa started to issue some new MAK kits since ten years, others followed, like Wave with partly reissues and new kits as well. I'm happy, that I own a more or less Kröte now. The Küster is very similar. Cheers Rob

On forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com there was a thread about WNW documentation and somebody made an archive to download everything in separate folders. Instructions, historic pics, schemes and pic of the models. I can't really search there, as I'm not a member, but I guess you will find it. Cheers Rob

This is a gorgeous looking interior, which oozes the lots of work, which have gone into, out of every pore. Will there be some weathering too? Cheers Rob

Turretless armor, right down my alley. The UC looks exceptional and I really like the figures. Nice details to spot everywhere, did I mention the nets on the helmet? Welcome to LSM by the way and feel free to post a WIP about the Archer. I have both, the Archer and the UC in my stash, but the Universal Carrier is the Riich incarnation. I nearly forgot to praise the great presentation. Cheers Rob

Exactly, Sasha the welding girl from Industria Mechanika, among some other of their great kits in my stash. I've seen pictures of Brick Work figures as well as Honemits figures, but don't like them too much. I seem not to be able to find the poses, I'm looking for and I'm not that deep into the babe thing, at least not in resin . Sasha is an exception here and the idea that she will wield on a heart shaped patch on a battle suit is in my head since years. The figure itself seems to be of a special type of resin. It's a little soft, almost vinyl like, but highly detailed. Same goes for the wielding cart, which needs no glue, due to the slightly flexible material. Cheers Rob

The assembly of the Ammoknight is done so far. It's possible to build it in a day. Painting and weathering will take a bit longer, but will be supported by a kit design, which allows to detach all major subassemblies with polycap connections. On the pics, everything is only dry fitted and some parts are missing, because they will be painted separately. The included pilot figure is bad and has no arms and is only usable with the suit closed. The position of the welding girl is not decided yet, but more likely as in the first picture, patching up the battle suit. Cheers Rob

Nothing to worry about Phil . In short: Most of these kits were designed by the Japanese artist Kow Yokoyama back in the 80's for the now defunct Hobby Japan magazine. Under the name SF3D or Ma.K (Maschinen Krieger ZbV3000) these comics were transferred into plastic kits by the Japanese company Nitto, most in 1/20 scale. Nitto lost the license to produce these kits, by the end of the collaboration with Hobby Japan and most of the old kits made an big increase of prices on the second hand markets (do I hear WNW?). Since 2008 Hasegawa started to issue different new tooled kits of the series, followed by the company Wave, which incorporated some of the old Nitto plastic. Therefore it was possible to enter into the Ma.K universe with a manageable invest, where for a long time there only existed mostly Japanese garage resin kits, hard to find and quite pricy. For further backgrounds and some great artwork, just search the net, which is full of related content. Cheers Rob

And I thought, they could have casted the 20 to 30 nut bolts onto my battle suit, instead of letting me cut them from the sprue, cleaning and gluing them on. I'm a sissy .

It's a Hasegawa MK-44 Ammoknight kit. There are two battle suits in the box, with different weapons. So far, I like the fit and engineering. It builds like a breeze. The firs one will be part of a little dio, the second one, well, ..., I have some ideas. Next week, I will receive a 1/20 MAK Küster (similar to a Kröte), which is based on the old Nitto kit. Cheers Rob

And now, to something completely different. Just for the building and later painting and weathering fun, I started this little fellow. What a change to the Mikro Mir plastic of my recent Fokker build. Cheers Rob

Thank you Peter, the prop came out ok, but for the future, I have to give the method some thought, because it looks, - err -, well striped. If you laminate a propeller from wood strips, the form dictates, that the laminated strips would be unequal in surface size. As this would be a big task to mask correctly, I may experiment with the real thing and carv my own props, if I can lay my hands on some proper wood. Cheers Rob

My first canopy polishing job with my Proxxon ended with said canopy hitting a wall in a distance of five meters and was scratched beyond usability . Cheers Rob

How on earth could your formidable build of the Badger have passed my attention, maybe it was caused by Christmas blindness due to heavy abuse of spirited liquids. The Badger looks simply gorgeous and there are lots of great details to spot. I love the look of the deck, with the slight variations in the colour of the planks and, like Ernie mentioned, the realistic appearing sails. I have ordered a Duchess of Kingston kit from Chris, which still is in the claws of that terrible transporting service, called after what you say, when something bad had happened. First I thought, 1/48 would have been the better scale, but wooden ship modelling refined itself a lot in the last twenty years and the amount of possible detail was enhanced by the use of photo etched parts, resin instead of metal cast, and finer woodworking in the kits. I'm looking forward to start the DUK as my next winter project and hope it suits my skills, as I only have a half build 1/48 kutter on my list. Please Mike, keep us in the loop with your future builds. Cheers Rob

This looks so real. I will store your pictures and use them as a guideline, when I build mine, but I'm sure, my result will be a bit more simplified . Cheers Rob

Nice Gaz, with these tiny parts, it's easy to mill the holding hands as well. the landing gear will look great with all the extra effort. Cheers Rob