[Soo.... What did you just get???]

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Finally, after a long time doubt about to purchase one or not, i did it............ 

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Score of today shopping at the Antwerp modeling convention........

Hi Danny,

From zero with doubts to two. The Mosquitos are swarming around you. Yeah, once you get bitten you are infected. I will stay with my Tamiya one and a lot of AM an give the MK IV a pass. Hard to say no .

Cheers Rob

[BMW 801 D2 Radial engine from Fw190 Type A8]

I have the Brassin-BMW engine in my stash, so if I start with my two R8 projects the pictures will help a lot
Thanks for sharing

Cheers Rob 

[1:24 Hawker Typhoon Mk.Ib car-door]

Wow, wonderful result, great convincing finish.

I'm looking forward to build my non car door version, albeit since I read your comment about the seams I am a little afraid .

Cheers Rob 

[Ta-152H-0 awaiting restoration at the NASM]

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I know i should... just have a feeling many modellers won't understand and it will take away a sense of quality from the build... 

Doubting my next move. 

Hey Jeroen, why caring about the opinion of others, when you feel different about it?

Maybe the Lady from the Lake has some suggestions about aged canopies.

Cheers Rob

 

[1/32 Special Hobby Heinkel He100 D Tropical]

A very special bird you built there and a great result you achieved. As a friend of strange "what if's" or to name it in a more recent term "alternate facts", i have to applaude. Nice touch with the white wall tyres.

I missed that plane in Chino, they must have hidden the Heinkel by the time I was there, what a pity.

Cheers Rob 

[Revell 1/32 Bf109 Erla G10 Yellow 24]

Hi Bevan, it indeed caught my eye, mission accomplished

Cheers Rob

[Mosquito - Half Naked]

Hi Jase, thanx for your answer. It is a pity that there seems no way to purchase the figures, because I really like their natural poses. There are not so many convincing RAF-Pilots on the ground out there. Maybe I will contact HK about the source of the pilot-figures. I will not tell them that it is for a Tamiya Mossie build .

Cheers Rob

 

[Revell 1/32 Bf109 Erla G10 Yellow 24]

Great result and a marvelous paint job. Everything looks just right. Is the position of the tail wheel on purpose (maybe a dio)?

Cheers Rob

[Mosquito - Half Naked]

As I have the Mossie in my stash (along with a lot of AM), I'm really looking forward how your daring planned finish works out. I like the half and half Idea.

Who produces these resin figures you where showing? I like them a lot and would be interested in a hint where to get them.

Cheers Rob

[another jv44 dora]

There is really no need to spoil your 190D-9 with a cheap- (Jeep-) Shot . Beautiful result. Sometimes it feels just great to build one straight forward more or less out of the box.
Nice Job with the masking and the not too red underside.
The Jeep is of course a completely different story.

Cheers Rob

[Revell bf 109 g6 Erich hartmann]

Very nice result on the G6, heavily mottled and aged but not overdone. Not too many scratches, the ones which are there are in the right places.
Congratulations to that worn fighter.

Cheers Rob

[B-17G Aluminum Overcast, 10/24/2014]

Wonderful pictures poet, just great shots, nice lighting and perfect "closeness" to the subject.
I had sworn to myself to life out of my well filled stash for some years, but you are planting doubts in me about purchasing a 1/32 B17.
I will give that some thoughts, in fact a lot of.

cheers Rob

[HK Models Mosquito B Mk. IV Series II (FPU) - (Diorama Finished)]

Impressive outcome as we got used by your work. You have a real talent to capture a near cinematic moment in your Dios. I can't believe how you can be so fast and so good. It is hard to comment your work in the speed it is done .

Cheers Rob

[RAAF Kingfisher]

Very nice result on a very beautiful plane. I specially like the at least for me unusal RAAF paintjob. The worn walkways look great and the "used" finish screams: salt, water and drops from seagulls .
 

[The Art of Flying]

What an experience, sadly not many of us will ever make. Thank you for sharing that inspirational moment.

Cheers Rob

[Yet another Tamiya Corsair Birdcage 1/32]

Can't see enough corsairs here and you did a great job on yours. what I specially like about your build is that you will open the hoods and do the interior jobs.
You nailed the wiring on the engine in a way i get a little jealous while seeing .

In another thread I posted some pictures of a stripped Corsair in restauration. It might help for the detailing inside.

Cheers Rob

 

[Another Corsair, Daphne C No. 7 flown by James Cupp]

Thanx coolbox, when you build such an almost perfect kit like the Tamiya Corsair that leaves a lot of headroom for painting and weathering.
The Brassin engine was a story of love and hate. It is not easy to build, lots of resin and PE parts and in the end it didn't fit under openable cowls, but lessons learned. I will be more decisive now, if to open the easy way is not an option it s open or closed .
Anyway I'm looking forward to build more Brassin engines for my BF-109E and my FW-190 A8 but next time no PE-piping and wiring, it's just not the right deal.

Cheers Rob   

[The Art of Flying]

Very nice pictures crazypoet, it gets more and more difficult to get decent pictures of iconic planes mostly due to the surroundings. Bad indoor light, crammed museums, sometimes to many people, too many (often understandable) restrictions to access.
But there are these rare chances, where everything is right, composition, lighting and then it is a pleasure to hit the trigger of the camera.

You had all that combined with the eye for the right angle and moment combined in your pictures and created something of beauty about that beautiful B-17.

That is the spirit that topic is all about.

Cheers Rob

[Construction Horror solved, Tracks for the Lazy Ones]

I think I'm not the only AFV-builder who does not like Rubber-, DS-, Magic- or segmented tracks.
Gentleman, there is a solution to our needs, somebody heard our cries.

AK-Interactive has a range of different tracks in their Web Shop
They carry tracks for Tiger I, Panther late, Panzer II, T-34, T-54, T55, T-62, Sherman, Panzer III early, KV 1, KV 85, SU 152, and BMP3
and the good thing you can get a limited amount of sets already assembled for a fortune (ca. 10 €).

These sets are cast from white metal and look very similar to the Friul ones. The only difference I found was that there is steel instead of brass wire used for the connection.
the whole length of the track is assembled, but the rods are not glued in. I didn't count the connected links but the length looked suitable. There are five spare track links per side.

I love that offer and could hug the person who connected all the links and got bored instead of me

Cheers Rob

My set of Panther late tracks

That's what is in the box. The tracks are separately packed with a short piece of wire and the spare links. 

Left - Magic tracks (not to bad but do not clip securely)               Middle - Friul ATL-28                                                         Right - AK Spare tracks

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Friul

 

AK

And that is how it fits around the idler wheel of a Dragon Jagdpanther G2 without cleaning, I'm satisfied.

One complete track. Its up to you to count the track links

[Ta-152H-0 awaiting restoration at the NASM]

Fantastic work Jeroen, very convincing. The Art of deconstruction.

@levier: Close but no cookies, Ausgezeichnet would have been right

[IDF F15C Commando]

There is always something to improve, but what you show here is a very fine result. Nice paneling and the steel surface in front of the nozzles looks particulary great.
On the Fotos I hardly see any stencils and while I think they are there this is good news. On my 1/48 IAF Eagle I had tons of problems with silvering stencils, while the insignia and colored markings went on perfect. Stenciling modern jets is always boring and painful. The builders should manifest the handling in a manual .

Cheers Rob
  

[Focke-Wulf Fw 189A-1 in Slovakian markings]

Back to the big parts, it seems. When we collect the removed resin in that GB we could make some new kits out of the dust and scrap.
As much as I like your attention to detail in the camera area, I can't wait to see how the big picture goes together. And now it starts to look like the real thing.

Cheers Rob

 

[The Art of Flying]

Some more pictures.

Feel welcome to add some more not only documentary pictures of the stuff we modelers dream of.

Cheers Rob

[MIG-15 UTI 1/72 Eduard]

Thanx Jeroen, sometimes I thought it would have been better to start with the single seater , but then what the heck with a little help of colored Photoetch everything gets a little easier with the cockpit.
But building this little plane was in some ways a reminiscence of my days as a kid with an Airfix Phantom in 1/72 and no PE, no resin, no airbrush and no weathering at all. Modelling has changed a lot and lost some of it's innocence, but so have I. Anyway, I like to have all that stuff around nowadays and to challenge myself in building different kind of kits and learn new techniques.

Cheers Rob     

[Zoukei Mura DO 335A Pfeil]

Actually they have two different versions of the Do 335 in their portfolio, a B-2 and a A-0/A-1. And it looks like there is more to come, like a two-seater version.