DocRob

Please keep us in the loop, I have one to build and before that I like to see yours develop . Cheers Rob

Nice pair of Liberators, congratulations. Seeing your display case makes me a little envious, but on the other hand, I don't display my builds . Anyway, always nice to see you putting together an 'unbuildable' kit with such a nice outcome twice. Busted the busters . Cheers Rob

Welcome to our place Michael. I got the pre last of the PZL's . Cheers Rob

Nice Mustang Kevin and in a striking scheme. Welcome to LSM, I hope you feel comfortable here with us laid back plastic nuts. Cheers Rob

This morning I had my first long swim in the Atlantic since three month . It feels great. Actually I wanted to surf, but the waves were too small, but what the heck, it was marvelous, lots of nice fishes to see and feeling the rusting muscles work is like a small step back to normality. There are four tiny islands in Spain, where there are no more Covid infections since weeks, and these are the guinea pigs for the rest of Spain. I'm lucky to live on one of them, as restaurants are open again, individual sports are allowed, but of course with the rules of social distancing. So it's a lot of mountain biking, running with the dog, swimming and hopefully surfing to get the strained back healed from modelling stiffness. Cheers Rob

Family business then , mine has a 2,8 liter Diesel engine, with enough torque for our steep mountains. We have different engines here in Europe than the US Jeeps. Cheers Rob

Nothing with the old ones, except I can't find a place for my knee . Cheers Rob

Nice, I got mine three month ago and believe me I know about the smile . You got the new JL, very tempting, but I went for the very last JK edition. Seems we both skipped the Meng offering, though. Cheers Rob

Poco a poco (step by step) like we say in Spain, I finish preparations for closing the fuselage. I decided to reinforce the wheel strut- wheel well joint. I drilled two 1mm holes into the wheel strut and glued in some brass rod. The holes in the resin wheel well were widened and I glued in two pre cut brass tubes with an inner diameter of 1,1 mm with two component epoxy and let everything dry correctly orientated. I start to like the idea of having slide fit wheel struts and will consider this for other builds as well. It makes transport, painting and weathering so much easier and you are able to assume the necessary nose weight early in the build. Cheers Rob

You can even put some black yarn between the planks, to let it look caulked, but for 1/64 scale, I don't know. Cheers Rob

The first planking on my Kutter, which is about the same size was perfectly rounded, due to the rigidness of the planking material, no dents, no dimples. I used blocks of wood only in the foreship area, where the rounding would be a problem. My Kutter had that too and it looked ok. I attached the deck some years ago and when I pulled the kit out last year, I found the deck not satisfactory anymore. It would have been a problem to really plank it now, so I went for a 'cheap' solution and added plank cuts and nails with a pencil. Given the scale and visibility of the deck I would consider real planking and nailing the next time. Cheers Rob

Slow progress, more time to think . Do you guys, who have built the Arado reinforced the wheel struts? On the pic you can see how Fly thinks, it should be done. The 2mm plastic knob glued into a resin hole. Not very convincing, the Arado is no lightweight. I'd like to add the wheel struts after painting the plane at best and think I will use one or two 1mm brass rods glued into the struts and matching slide fit brass tube in the wheel well, glued with epoxy. The two rod variant will make the alignment easier of course. I would be interested, how you would tackle this, better, how you solved it yourself. Cheers Rob

All of these looking great, how comes that the Henry Ford of WW1 kits has so much awareness of detail, incredible and inspiring work, thanks for showing. Cheers Rob

No worries, I have no idea how my strange self schooled English sounds to your ear, but I have the idea of a crackling vinyl . Living in Spain, I notice every single day how difficult it is to speak a different language and my Spanish isn't even fluent. Cheers Rob

Thanks Wumm, the area is still missing two instruments and a little fine tuning. The area, where the red dots are is the most overpainted trouble zone in the whole build. It always looks good till the pre last knob and then something happens. I have to rework it a bit. The oxygen regulator is actually a decal meant to be used on the outside of the fuselage, for the oxygen supply, but it looks like the 'real' thing in my Kagero renderings and how I deal with the outside vent, I will see, when time comes. By the way, it's Wunderschön, but thanks a ton . Cheers Rob

The preparation of the cockpit, operator cabin and wheel wells take their time. You can work on these areas for days without getting nearer to the finish line, but It's fun detailing them and demanding too. There are so many details to work on, a good plan of working on these is necessary. The cockpit (only loosely fit) got some painted details, placards and HGW seat belts, phew. It still lacks the pedals and dials, which will be added later. Operator cabin lacks the seat, because I have to finish the seat belts first, but other ways ready to pluck in. The wheel wells will get a wash applied to enhance the details. Cheers Rob

Double planking is good news, it's so much easier to get a fine unpainted look with the thin an noble wood planks on top. Keep on. Are these two threads about the same thing I'm posting in . Cheers Rob

Looking great Ernie, do yourself a favor and use lengthened planks for the deck, like the original ones. It adds much to the realism. I haven't done so years ago with my kutter and improvised with pencil now, not the best of choices. Cheers Rob

I found the announcement first on the Ammo of Mig page and it says 'estimated for the second week in May', more or less like now . Cheers Rob

For the fans of the momentarily growing sector of inter war airplanes. I happen to spot the Dewoitine, while browsing the internet, so forgive me, if it's already yesterdays news. https://dorawings.com/news/117-dewoitine-d500-dw32001-on-sale.html Cheers Rob

Amazingly beautiful little plane, love the lively green shade. Cheers Rob

Hannants has five P.11 in their 'damaged' section for 40 GBP with a (that's why) damaged box. Hot offer, that I will skip for not risking serious trouble with my wife, after buying lots of WNW stuff. So hard to resist and for me it's even without taxes. Cheers Rob

Two face FT , like before and after, nice Harv Cheers Rob

Don't over-Baldrick here . I use a triangular shaper for pre drilled holes, where you don't have the fitting drill bit. Cheers Rob

Thank you, that's a very thorough description and I will store it. My actual build of a MIG-31 will be covered in stencils and I have the HGW set for a first timer and will follow your experiences. Cheers Rob