DocRob

Hi Peter, after using the Havox box for more than a year now, I have to say, I'm still satisfied with it. The only upgrade I should have made is the purchase of two extra light panels, which was not available by the time I bought the box and now the big A is not sending the extra panels to my tiny island. Cheers Rob

You are a brave man Jeroen, manipulating canopies gives me the creeps. Cheers Rob

Once, back in Germany I bought a Toyota and tried to understand the function of the air conditioner by reading the manual. It was impossible to understand the function and how to's, but was a lot of fun anyway. You wouldn't have thought about what is possible in German language . Looking at the real thing, everything was clear in a second, because it was well engineered. Sometimes I fear that the same people write the manuals to weapon systems . Cheers Rob

Nice and colorful rendition of the workplace. I love the red PAC-Man-Screen . Cheers Rob

Hi John, my brain didn't fool me with this one. There was a recent build here by BarryWilliams. https://forum.largescalemodeller.com/topic/5328-faa-corsair-ii/?tab=comments#comment-67325 Cheers Rob

That's what will flatten out the squirrel poulation, eh? Cheers Rob

I tried the sanding the bottom fuselage and rescribe two panel lines method and for me that solution is sufficent. There still is a little bulge in the lower fuselage, but that is to be seen on the side drawing and on the photo of the Chino P-47 below as well. The correction job took just ten minutes. So for now I stop self WIP-ing your WIP Danny (till further questions arise) . Cheers Rob

Nice Ernie, but sometimes 15 seconds are enough for the glue tu cure I got headaches because of all that speed issues. Cheers Rob

Since there is no photo etch involved you gonna etch a little on the inside , just joking, love the stuff too, but prefer a good old Elijah Craig. Anyway the stuff keeps you from trembling while you master the fine and delicate ZM ingredients . Cheers Rob

Double applause this time , first for a beautiful built and painted bird and second because of the unique way you displayed the Hawk, chapeau. Cheers Rob

Nah, it's off scale . Nice haul Danny, will you display the Lightning with the helmet? Cheers Rob

Wow, great job on the bomb bays. Never thought about that there are so many doors involved, but it pays, the inner structure is still visible. The shades of black look bueno too. Cheers Rob

Thanks Danny, that's what I had in mind you did. It's hard to tell from your recent pictures, but by lowering the engine/cowling, it seems to me that you loose the correct shape on the upper side of the cowling/fuselage joint. There should be a little step and this to me is more important to keep, as it is very visible. A perfect solution would be, lowering only the lower part of the cowling by a millimeter and fill the gap with some sheet., but I might give the above mentioned method of sanding the lower fuselage side the preference. Thanx for brainstorming mate and I hope you don't mind me hijacking your thread about your wonderful Dottie Mae. Cheers Rob

Hi Danny, watching your great Dottie Mae developing, made me starting mine as a relax build, before going back to the dreadful Komet. So far everything is looking bueno and I have to say, that I really enjoy a kit with two fuselage halves instead of these multiple panel affairs . While dry fitting one question arose and because your pics of the engine/cowling surgery dosen't show anymore I ask you directly. The 1mm step on the bottom connection of the cowling/fuselage connection is visible on my kit too (who wonders). How did you manage to lower the engine mount and keep the upper shape of the engine cooling flaps (much more noticeable) in shape. I'm thinking about thinning the fuselage a little on the lower side behind the cowling, instead of lowering the engine mount. There are only a few panel lines to rescribe. What do you think? Cheers Rob P.S. The step looks worse on the pictures than in reality, it's maximum is 1mm, in the middle only half a millimeter.

Nice engine Peter, very clean and subtle work. On my Corsair built I used liquid mask for the exhausts and removed it after painting the fuselage. Cheers Rob

For sure I will build the D.VII or a started Pfalz) before I start my FE.2b, which is a rigging nightmare, constructed like a fishermen net . Cheers Rob

Google gave me this, have never heard of the shop before, good luck mate http://www.flashie.nl/T/DC/DC227628.HTM Cheers Rob

Not totally sure if it is a kit fault or if it is just me being clumsy. There are enough pictures of finished builds pointing to the latter. Anyhow, the kit is very detailed on the inside and has about a thousand (felt) fuselage parts and cowlings to get aligned. I did a lot of test fitting but in the end there was the GAP . Like in the old days, just me and the Komet, twenty yards between us, but what about the guns. Browns Komet didn't had any and I have only my Harder & Steenbeck . Cheers Rob

One of the coolest looking jets, brute power and it doesn't let you forget that, by viewing it, will follow definitely. The SAC stuff is casted out of very soft white metal for a heavy kit, just as Hubert said, you might get a natural suspension, but in a unwanted way . Cheers Rob

Hi Jeff, the Hasegawa one is still available, but I will finish this one or nothing .

Sweet, and a nice display shelf. Cheers Rob

Thanks for your supportive words Gentlemen. The GAP looks a little worse, than it is in reality. The side you cannot see is adjusted correctly with tape and the upper fuselage part, where the GAP is as wide as an Alp Valley, is a little bendable. With lots of glue and force it might be solvable, but I have to teak a break from that built. It's not so much about closing the GAP, it's more about the frustration doing zillion of things to avoid that, without success. Cheers Rob

Then I have two more shots . Cheers Rob

Hey, why only US citizens, loved my turkey (sandwiches ) and enjoyed seeing the Cowboys win yesterday, which let arise a thin smile on my face, the first in a long time, since there was not a lot to cheer as a Cowboys fan. Cheers Rob

Hola Companeros, what is it you hear on a tube platform in London? "Mind the gap". On that occasion here bespoken gap is maybe about to stall the Komet build. The last days I spend dry fitting, adjusting, pre assembling, loosening the parts again, cut here, rasping there, grinding, swearing and in the end there is the GAP. While doing the forementioned things, I nearly broke everything, I built before and had to fix it again. It might be possible to fix the gap with some bending, putty and scribing, but if I will go through that painful process, I don't know at the moment. I don't like to surrender, but at least I need a little break from the pocket rocket. Thanks to everybody being helpful here, I learned a lot about that special captured Me-163 through to your support. I started a Dottie Mae yesterday and had fun with it, wiring a cockpit with lead wire, a first for me. Cheers Rob