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Please do, I would be very pleased to get some motivational boost Also I need some advice here guys. Was there a canvas in the tail wheel well?

The front canopy fits fairly well after some sanding. Only concern would be those pesky locator pins in the corners.

Thanks Harvey, I knew you will like the black bird option :). I am powering through as much as I can while being home-alone with Sofia in school. P-38 is different story, since it was operational in the Pacific theatre . British islands are green and moist and muddy and people are still mixing cream into their tea over there, for real LOL As such

And do not freak out about the preliminary scribing, it will look killer once sanded and riveted

Oh nice Bill, did you finish that bad boy, looks like you were adding floors etc. Very cool ! I am humbled by your statement Tony and Thank You again of course. Rubber ducky is holding the cowling ring, that had to be slightly reworked. Inner diameter was small, by 3mm small ! Doesn't sound like much, but it does make quite a bit of a difference. There will be more work related to inner engine compartment, later

Thank you Tony, I am glad you're in for an occasional ride here is the sheet of decals provided by Revell. I really like the colour of the insignia , but the code letters look little toxic.

You get it right? It's a challenge. NG-F serial T4638 it is. I might get a plotter to cut the code letters, Revell's decals are , well weird looking. More pictures for your convenience. Check out the variety of discolouration and distortion of sheen of the surface of this plane caused by covering placement, bone fragments of the bitter enemy etc. Is anybody even reading this? Jeeez and his buddy NG-R

Second is Nighfighter version. All in black Harvey! Black is almost a no-brainer, except....Martin never build black aeroplane and he doesn't now how to avoid the famous rubber ducky effect.

Let's talk about camouflage . Revell offers tho schemes. First BP-N There are at least 3 contradicting interpretations of this camo, raging from desert to greys etc. Despite the fact that this machine is well documented via Imperial War Museum Archive I have no nerve and time to dig in files, so she's out.

This all has been happening in past four days. Today I had a chance to reshape the observer's cupola ..... not sure how to call it, an observation dome ? Original part is too pointy Therefore I had to play a dangerous game with my dremell tool and 200 grit sand paper. Not too shabby real deal

She's a big girl.

Then I decided to glue together upper wings in order to achieve the promise land of the correct dihedral . That looked like a big success so I glued it all... and scribed it too

The lower centre section is kinda messed up. The guns have a wrong placement that I will not correct. The cross sectional profile is also less curved than it should be, but hay, If I didn't tell you, I wouldn't know. Let us keep it our dirty secret First I had to change the shape of the gun ports to oval and to hollow out the inner walls behind them for future barrels. Have only a blurry idea about the wheel wells, so I will get to it when the time comes, I already know that is going to be something scary, like British style scary... Then I had to figure out how to scribe curved lines along the perimeter of it. Shaky hands remember? Evergreen stripes glued on the sides was the cure

Inner walls are on the way, in order to make this work easier I cut out lower section of the rear fuselage. The plan is to build in visible detail from every direction. Once again VISIBLE he said

Nose will be addressed further down the road, for now I am just building up some meat to work with. Have you guys being off-roading, ever? Yes , then you know the advantages of under-pressurized tires real deal

I decided to glue the fuselage together in order to recreate some internal details,,,,schematically . Did some adjustments on the tail leading edge so as the opening for observer was altered to better represent the real thingie.

The upper fuselage is relatively ok ,I just needed to shorten the tail by 3mm and scribe new panel lines. I have to reasonable and not to fall for obsessive compulsions

I picked up this kit that I share birthday with last week. I could not wait for a new release forever. Old age is creeping on me, eyesight gone, shaky hands, fat gut etc. I sneakily scribed the outer wings, just to see if I can do it , and it was ok.

I understand, it is frustrating situation. However, I have hope. Hobby boss corrected mistakes on their armour in the past. for instance(challenger), so as Trumpeter with their Wildcat. I think it is good idea to push in some feedback. Indeed, China is socialist country, but if they want to increase the profit, they have to change their ways.

I am merely a messenger, somebody, somewhere is doing something to change the status quo

http://www.hobbyboss.com/index.php?g=home&m=page&a=index&id=132&l=en

Everyone who purchased this kit should have done it long ago. Squeaky wheel gets the grease

From what I understand , he contacted HB directly.

I would go with Master and scratch my own arms. Resin antennas are ultra delicate and prone to brake.

a little birdie told me that Hobby Boss is going start distribution of replacement ( corrected ) front turrets via. local/national wholesale suppliers within a month. It was a direct response of HB customer service to an inquiry from a customer in Czech Republic.