DocRob

Like Phil said, lots of bravery with the canopy. I've done it once with lots of Dymo tape as guideline and Kabuki for general protection. It worked, but was wearing my nerves also. Yours should look perfect with a coat of paint. Cheers Rob

Lovely, I like the contrast between the olive green PC and the sky blue. Looks much more appealing than the brown livery. I will keep it in mind when I reach mine, while stash digging. Cheers Rob

I second that, when I built my TA-152, I absolutely hated the heavy rasterized PE IP. When I put it into the fuselage, I found that without an endoscope it's not even visible and with some cursing about the quality of the product,I used it. For glazing bezels I use Pledge on a toothpick and apply it at least two times, which looks good to me. Cheers Rob

Thanks Carl, there seems to be some echo about the dio . I'm not so sure, when it will happen. I was planning my first acrylic water display for my 1/48 Walrus, beside a life raft. Let's see, first the figures and if they look ok, then maybe.... Muchas Gracias Harv, great kit, great result, the quality of the plastic and engineering makes it easy to score. Cheers Rob

Nice detail work Jeroen and great looking wheel wells. I have to second harv, these hinges look absolutely fiddly. I wish you luck to get them assembled to the fuselage without probs. Cheers Rob

What's wrong with you Carl, you got followed by scale submarines, sent wrong packages to draw you into the LHS, what is next, an Alien handing you the last existing WNW kit for some dough . We are among us here in LSM or is your wife peeking? I think you are a role model as a SuperExcuser . You have my deepest respect for that . Cheers Rob

When I built my TA-152 I used the concept notes as reference. It contains nice detail museum pics of a TA-152 waiting for restoration, which were very helpful and different step to step builds of the kit. There are also removable 1/48 scale drawings included. The downside is, they use an ultra tiny font for the English text, with capitals not even reaching 1,5mm height . The format of the book is smaller than A4 format for comparison. I also own the CN for the Horten, where the font is a tad larger and readable without a microscope. Cheers Rob

Thanks Gaz, it looks almost Greek , maybe a bit overdone, but it was the look I was after. Muito obrigado for your kind words Hubert, the fun I had while building erased my bad taste, because I was not able to buy a W.29 instead. After building the W.12, I like it even better. Thank you Bill, the Lozenge was relatively easy done, with the great Aviattic decals, which were problem free, even given the large areas to cover. Some hints of how to prepare the szurfaces, I sourced here, for example from Mike 'sandbagger'. Tamiya Smoke for preshading over Tamiya gloss white seems to be a good combination, with the needed high shine finish. In the end I liked the contrast, between the printed wing Lozenge and the 'painted' fuselage and tail Lozenge, where I used the kit decals, which were less forgiving. The tail plane made me wonder too. First I thought WNW had overseen something, but I couldn't discover any mechanism on photos too, very strange. Cheers Rob

Muchas gracias Phil, these great kits make it easy to achieve good results, you can fully concentrate on painting, decaling and weathering and of course rigging, which is easy with the Kamel, but not so with the Camel, I guess. I still have to build a British plane with flat double wire rigging and these boring PC-tones, but I don't know if it will be a Camel, Snipe or the 1/48 F.K.8, but definitely not the Fe2b , that's for later when I'm completely tranquilo. I'm sure your Camel will look great, don't doubt yourself, just do it, mate Cheers Rob

Thanks Gus, sounds like I have to try the stuff. To me it looks perfectly flat, with juuuuust a little bit of shine. That is an area, where my trusted method of mixing Pledge with Tamiya Flat Base tends to get a little whitish residues. Cheers Rob

Thanks Gus, oil colours have risen on my wow scale rapidly during this build. Working with them is a learning curve, but I love the possibilities and the results. The floats were the first parts I built on the Kamel and I had the idea to heavy dent them and how to do it. That was, where the fun started... Cheers Rob

Aren't we all weak sometimes . For me it's one of the very good shops, because non the least, they don't charge the German VAT for me on the Canary Islands. That means for purchases under 150€, I don't have to pay any VAT taxes at all. Cheers Rob

My last stash addition has a small, but nice story behind it. I ordered the premium edition of the AW F.K.8 in 1/48 and received only the standard version. After contacting the Sockelshop, a trusty German online shop, I use since many years, I was told, that there was a mistake in their system and the premium edition is no longer available. I was promise, that Sockelshop will contact Copper State Models directly and ask for sending all the missed goodies to me and voila, some days later a small package was on my doorstep continuing all the premium stuff like resin engine, metal exhaust, extra PE and tiny engine decals. Now that's what I call service By the way, if you have interest in WWI planes and 1/48 doesn't sound heretic to you, try to get some of the final premium editions of CSM, if available. The kits look great and well engineered, with PE rigging points! and manuals, which were often described as WNW copies, but I like them even more, especially the better rigging diagrams. I try to source the Dolphin kit, but haven't found one lately. Cheers Rob

Hola fellow modelistas, I call my build of the WNW Hansa Brandenburg done. Later there may will be figures which are work in progress right now and maybe a dio with the Kamel in the water near a beach. The build was a whole load of fun, without serious problems, the kit is fantastic, with the typical WNW 'don't leave paint between' fit. It was only my second build of a WNW kit and I'm eager to dig deeper into my stash of the said company. The only small let downs with WNW to me are, - The manual, at least in parts (got you shouting 'what'), I don't like the rigging diagrams, which show mostly unusable angles (not a biggie here, but I fear rigging my Fe2b) and some other drawings, where it's hard to see, where parts will be attached. - The weapons sprues show soft detail, all others are very crisp. - The very present but tiny springs for the valves are moulded as cylinders and looked terrible, same goes for the push rods, wich I changed to metal parts. As on most of my builds, besides the interest into the subject, this one was driven by trying new techniques or at least use them for a first time in large scale. There was wood painting with oils, using oils for weathering, working with Lozenge decals, which were not cookie cut, tincanning the floats, wiring and detailing the engine and scratching some details here and there. I used different AM sets, like the formidable and great to work with Aviattic Naval Lozenge decals (two sheets), Linen decals (one sheet) from the same producer, Master barrels, and last and completely forgettable the HGW set containing wood decals (ultra brittle-unusable), wood paper for the interior (complete brain fart), etched parts, which were partly usable (the best parts of the PE were the leftovers, which I cut as a ruler and triangle for the operators place) and seat belts, which are ok, but worse than others from HGW. The included masks were cut to fit and did their job except the one for the brass covers on the prop, which should cover the brass part, not the oil finished wood, so I used liquid mask here. The goal was to show a weather beaten and worn plane, which sways in the harsh winds on the beach of the Königshafen, a natural bay near the town of List at the island of Sylt, which was a base for naval planes in WWI. I'm absolutely satisfied with the outcome and had a tempting, but never daunting time with the build, and lots of fun trying new things to enhance the great kit even more. Cheers Rob

There is no AMK Mig 25, but I can vouch for the quality of their Mig-31, one of the best fitting and engineered kits, I have ever built. Go for the boxing with metal landing gear if interested, it's a heavy kite and the metal is not soft like SAC stuff. Cheers Rob

Very nice Gus thank you. This little tank looks like it was designed to be as small as possible around the big gun. I like the colour rendition. What type of matte coat do you use? You shouldn't have mentioned it . Cheers Rob

Looking good Phil, I like those Marines birds and especially the F4, with her unique design. Your colourful paintjob is nice and clean and so much more appealing than the low-viz schemes. Cheers Rob

Nice one Gus, I like the shading and modulation and would really appreciate some real light pics or at least some without flash. Nice touch with the vision blocks. Cheers Rob

While some oil colours are drying on the Hansa Brandenburg, I continued the assembly of the Chinese Tankette in 1/16 scale. I like the visible and partly working running gear, which is only loosely assembled here. The spring actually works, at least when the housing is added. The chain tensioner isn't functional, but looks like . Cheers Rob

Thanks for the review Francisco, it's definitely not a WNW kit, but I think you can build a nice replica out of this, with the addition of masks or alternative decals. I haven't bought one, as I think it's not so much ahead of the Roden offering I have in stash along, with some AM. As for bent parts, when I look at the sprues of my WNW Camel, I hope for the best, but the sprues are heavily bent, because otherways they wouldn't have fitted into the box . Cheers Rob

I never discovered something like that, but I also never used Tamiya (rattle can?) primer over an existing paint coat. Taking into account how the stuff smells, I think it's very aggressive and might interact with sub layers. Interesting, that the problem does occur only in parts. Cheers Rob

Will do, if you don't plan to put other large objects into the scene. I would play a little with the positioning to add some drama. Cheers Rob

It's more like putting the pressure onto me myself, by triggering it from your continent far away Cheers Rob

Smooth looking airframe Gaz, not only because of the filled gaps, but design wise too. Never had too much appetite for a Do 17, but this may change... Cheers Rob

The multiple grey shades make it alive. The speedster should look great with that base paint. Cheers Rob