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Hi Danny, thank you for your answer. What you have planned sounds like a very interesting project and I can understand the top prio on the jets and helmets for you. In fact I didn't want to push you into WIP-ing ahead into the Fe.2B, I just wanted to know, because your build is very inspiring. Actually I have no idea, when I start mine. As being a little geographical isolated, I build only for my own fun and after my own not very strict schedule, which is also rattled by lots of other hobbies. Have fun with the Phantom and tons of luck for a good APH-deal. Rob

I have to join the "wow-chorus", great work. Chears Rob

Hi Danny, you entered the Jet Age and I'm tempted to follow this one, but what about the old school stuff. I mean your great and encouraging Fe.2B WIP? Cheers Rob

Nice, sleek, aaaaaaaaaaaand wingless

Thanks guys, more or less 50 parts for one barrel is no fun ride, next time I will choose some WW2 stuff like a Sherman . Thank god the tracks are finished, that was simila painful to do, but that I will show later, so now it's time to cash in the fun parts of the build. @Jeroen: I hope it will turn out cool, because this will end up as a snow and ice covered caucasian beast.

Hello Friends of delicate plastic (and metal), I started a new summer (easy going) project with the thought in mind "and now to something completely different". After browsing my stash I decieded to give Mengs T-90A a try, using some aftermarket stuff to enhance detail. I will go into detail about that later, now the kit is halfway finished. Today was one of those more painful days being a modeller. Having bought a Voyager barrel, I was skipping through the manual and got a little afraid. Lots of stuff to bend, some brass parts I couldn't even see with my bare eye and turned barrel parts made from brass and aluminum. This is defenetly not made for the beginner and for the owners of carpets under their workbenches. As you have to bend a lot and due to the volume of the barrel I decieded against soldering, which I normally prefer to CA-glue. So this is the result of one full day with magnifying glasses and the use of many unprintable swearwords and an aching back. On some of these warm summer days you should go surfing instead of sitting at the bench, but that's for tomorrow. All looks to be a little twisted and bended, but that's not really visible with the bare eye. More than once I thought about using the supplied plastic barrel, but did not even try to, to not get tempted. More on the kit and further used AM-stuff later, when I hopefully receive my photo tent for better quality pictures. Cheers Rob

Coooooool .

You get a big thumbs-up exclusively from me for this one . I have a Resin-Stempunk-Submarine in my stash and the hull will be displayed underwater in a look of corroded and beaten copper and brass with lots of patina, so I will follow your more Heavy Metal way of getting steel look like a piece of rotten art. Cheers Rob

Luckily not, at least not in Reality

Nice and clean finish. You have a great pair of Spit's there which show the evolution of the bird. I'm normally not a Revell-guy, but your bird makes me thinking. Cheers Rob

Being born in West Berlin with the Wall around, I was more than delighted to see that Uschi van der Rosten has this part of (my) history in their shelves, at least until now, because I got No. 10 of 10, which indicates it's the last one. The Berlin Wall was teared down and thanks to Alex I got the last !/35 reminder. The wall will be the background of my entry to the Resin-GB, a Sci-Fi, What-if or whatever non-serious Dio with some russian Smurfs and a strange hovering vehicle. The Box with intriguing Boxart And that's included, not the Tamiya colors of course or did you think the Wall was yellow ? Cheers Rob

That's connected. Cheers Rob

Nice presentation Danny, the best end of a project is if the problems occuring through the building phase are not noticeable on the finished thing. Chapeau, you nailed it. Cheers Rob

Sulphur Yellow is the name of the game . That paintjob is great, the fulfillment of ugliness, which disrupts the slender, even a little elegant shape of the bird. What is the story behind the original plane? Was it painted for reconnaissance in toxical wasted areas ? At first sight it seemed only primed, but the last picture suggests, that it is flying that way. Great job. Cheers Rob

Hi Mauricio, that might be the best way to go, just to deciede step by step which AM is useful and which is not. Cheers Rob

Hola Senhores, more than a week ago I noticed that some sections of LSM are not showing (I get error messages), when I try to open them. That is 'Profiles', 'Leaderboard', 'Search' and most important 'Unread Content'. I tried with different browsers, signed in and signed out and even on the phone, nothin' doin' . I sent a mail to the team via contact, but no response. Folks is it just me missing these sections. I hope there is a solution. Cheers Rob

Hello Mauricio, welcome back to LSM. What a great start for a rebench . The Spit's engine looks just right, covered with a little desert dust. Is the interieur from Eduard really a step forward compared to the Tamiya offer? I will use a lot of AM for my Tamiya Mossie, but for the Instrument Panel I'm not that sure if I use PE-stuff. Cheers Rob

Dosen't look too bad to me, Danny. You build a not so perfect base kit with suboptimal to work with paints into something. Sure you can argue about wasted efforts . The best way to handle it is to say lessons learned an get the canopy closed and to move on with a refreshing drink and project. There are worse looking 104's in the world Cheers Rob

Voila Gentlemen, nearly ready for takeoff now. Yeah I know, the pilot is lacking some colorful expression and there are some cleanups and touchups to be made. I completed the wheel section, installed the engine and exhausts, the cowling and the prop and guess what, everything fitted very well. I added the guns, which where only 'rolled' in Uschis Iron Powder, which gives a convincing metal appeareance. The position lights where added using Contacta Clear and finally, tataaa, the masks where peeled of the canopy. A little bad surprise here, since there got some color under the mask of the open canopy section. After unsucsessfully trying to polish that away, I decieded to leave it that way and tell everybody that all was intended as grime on that used warhorse . After finalizing I will post some proper pictures in the finished work section, not that slightly crappy "action stuff". I really enjoyed most of the build and I hope you did as well. Cheers Rob

Wow Jeroen, the "ugliness" of the maschine is translated into a piece of beauty by your work . You should leave that thing unpainted. Cheers Rob

Hola Senhores, the weather is not so nice so it's time for the lower side of the Raiden. Used a brown-green wash for picking out the details. At least, after all theese coats I still have the effect of the preshading, so the translucent-multi layer technic worked well. Next where the pigments for the exhaust trails. I used light sand first, then earth and then dark brown, dabbed on and the excess blown away with the airbrush. Having worked on so many effects it was time to seal everything, for me always a daring moment, because I hate too see a bad spot after sealing or remember that there was another effect I wanted to have done before that. I used a mixture of 25% Tamiya Flat Base and 75% Future, which to me is a good finishing shine that unifies the previous coats. I can't wait to make the final assembly, but have to, due to drying time. Cheers Rob

Thanx CB, Made my mind up and used some oils for enhanced "stressing" of the surface. First get the bird ugly, dabbed with yellow oils along imaginary and existing spars. Then it is time for blending and after doing so my head is spinning, becaouse of the odorless but not vaporless and for sure not effectless turpentine, yeah . I used different sized flat brushes to blend the oils, always first up and then along the fuselage. On some pictures the effect seems a little to heavy. Before I decide to further reduce the effect I let everything dry for the night. The lighting on my bench is worsening the effect on the photos as well. All in all I'm satisfied for the moment. Cheers Rob

This is a truely big bird and an even so huge project. You have my deep respect for the courageous effort to start this and stay with it. I wouldn't now how to handle that beast. It seem nearly the size like an adault Albatros. Nice works on the wings an nacelles. Enjoy your refreshment after lots of dust from sanding, but a screwcap wine, tss, tss, tss . Cheers Rob

At least you are back at the bench, no tents no Tigers . Your Tony is really looking fine and six days are next to nothing. My Raiden took me a month till now and that's a speed build for me and it is not even finished yet (Two days went into rescuing my PB-pictures, getting rid of my account and rework all my LSM picture links, grrrrrrr ). Back to your Tony, I like the very even finish of the carmouflage, not easy to achieve. The white around the insignia looks very bright, do you plan to weather them a little? Cheers Rob

Love that thing, thanx for showing. (edit: just seen that this is an old thread, but my biplane-question remains and is enhanced to "what are the users thinking"-questions) Actually I'm loking for a "Jig", a solution for all my large scale planes and found JH Models and Vertigo ones. I prefer metal to acrylic or wood for theese kind of tools, so I was amazed seeing this one by BOS and tend to go that way. One thing I couldn't see in the review and in the video is the ability to rig a biplane with a properly alignment of both wings. I would be interested if there is a possibility. Cheers Rob