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The more I see the chosen subjects (read Nazi targets ), the more I am tempted to have a go at LV72, or a MFV, both from Operation Neptune Hubert

Good to see an allied aircraft in the middle of all these Nazi targets Hubert

It took me Martin’s pics to realise these were 128 mm (rather than 40 mm - got misled by the name on the kit pic) Would not have wanted to be an allied bomber in the path of one of these shells ... Hubert

Yes ! Looking good. This is going to be a unique Lanc when it’s finished, for sure ! Hubert

I’d have thought the weight and the recoil of these would just split the Kubelwagen apart ... Hunert

+1 ! Hubert

I thought I had learned that you threw the glass over your shoulder (or in the fireplace) only after you had had a toast to the Tsar’s good health (because it would then be unfit to have other toasts in the same glass). If this is true, then a high level Party official would not have done that - even though he was otherwise relishing in the same luxury and using the same preserved precious furniture used by the Tsar and his family ... Hubert

Awesome work and detailing. And I agree that the blue and white one will go nicely with these 1970’ seats Hubert

Nice catch, Ernie, just in the wrong scale .... Here are some of my finds, that arrived yesterday, all in an (almost) correct scale : The PZL - H, in which Zulawski was unfortunately killed, comes with laser-cut cardboard frames: Then there was also this small almost-military addition And, don’t tell anyone, but I also got in the same parcel a 1/200 USS Brooklyn, with its laser-cut frames as well. I just love these pre-dreadnought battleships Hubert

Really nice result, and a great tribute to your craftsmanship and devotion to get things right . Funny personal feeling I want to share : I know this build is triggered by the Blue Max movie, but a WWI German single seater with the fuselage covered in hexagonal fabric just looks odd to my eyes. Interesting how we get into fixed cultural representations of things ... Anyway, great work and result ! Hubert

Not sure I will participate, given my abysmal record on anything GB, and lack of time at the bench, and also because I do not like cameo things, being with wings or targets, very much ... But ... If I participated, I'd be tempted by this subject : Alternatively I was thinking of this one, but, although the decaying hulk still exists today, much modified from the 1944 period, I would have to find a way of drawing the hull lines first ... Both would fit my bill of not-too-military subjects, and the GB requirement, I guess ... Hubert PS : both pics posted under fair use principle, of course

I’d check the Archer site for this kind of (armor) markings. For the parts themselves, I’m sure that you can find some in armor AM offers. Hubert

I’d say plastic ... Hubert

I’m a bit like you, Ryan, Must be linked to my modelling culture and past. I never flinch facing a difficult assembly, and quite the contrary tend to yawn when it’s too easy. Add to that the choice of subject, which is very often too mainstream for my tastes (at least for Tamiya, not WnW who created a new modelling model and market), and I end up with a lot of Special Hobby, or resin kits, and few, if any, Tamiya. Hubert

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I can hear the choir of unfinished kits singing a capella « You’re so weak, Martin... » Hbert

I think this report of the public exhibition in Shizuoka, published on The Modelling News, gives a good idea of what the Japanese modelling market is all about (besides the talent everywhere) https://www.themodellingnews.com/2019/05/58th-shizuoka-hobby-show-2019-modelling.html# Hubert

Not for me to say anymore, Jeff ... It’s a big chunk of resin though ... I’d expect a price point between, say, a Fisher jet or a HPH Walrus, or more than a HK twin, and less than a four-engined one ... Before seeing the master, I was thinking of a price between 135-150 €. Not sure I’d have made any profit at this price, after I saw the (complex) masters ... Hubert

There is always the possibility to adapt the Dumas 1/32 Brooklyn tug to a LT-5 tug, but then, it may be difficult to complete in the time frame (don’t ask me how this idea came to me ) Hubert

At the risk of appearing to sow dissent here (hang on, maybe that’s really what I am doing ), I am not disappointed, because I am not that interested with Tamiya new releases (you know, single seats - but for the Mossie -, heavily-camoed WWII fighters, yaaaawwwwnnnn ), even though I recognise they are truly outstanding kits... Being a weird-subjects’ scratchbuilder at heart, at a definite procrastinator when to comes to painting, I am not that keen on easy-to-assemble-with-almost-no-filling-just-need-to-do-a-proper-painting-job kits. I was disappointed when HpH chose to release a C-47 rather than a DC-3, and at at a price point, with VAT, above my self-imposed (already very understanding) budget limit, I was disappointed when ICM released an O-2 rather than a Cessna 337, or when Trumpeter’s much awaited TBD turned into vaporware, but not when Tamiya San failed to release another WWII single-seater (my bet is still - since 2014 - on a 109 G-6, btw, which I got right so far, but for the scale). And I agree we are very lucky to have so many new 1/32 subjects available in-between new releases by Tamiya . Just to finish and cheer you up, some of you may know I initiated the development of a 1/32 DH-89 Dragon Rapide resin kit. Life choices and other constraints have held me from bringing the project to fruition for quite some time. You may be pleased to know that I have just struck a deal with a very competent resin-kits’ manufacturer to take over the masters, and finally release this kit. Isn’t LS modellers’ life wonderful in our times ? Hubert

It looks like you did your mold vertical, from tip of the blade to root of the blade. For a long and thin part like this one, I believe it is probably more efficient to do the mold « horizontal », with a big casting block along the leading or trailing edge. Thus any trapped bubbles have less way to do to escape from the viscous resin. I have also read that having your mix cup high above the mold, to thin down the fillet of resin flowing down into the mold, has the effect of removing some of the bubbles trapped in the mixing process. Hubert

Making great progress, Ernie Hubert

Hey, I have seen this movie ... So, who is the Alien, and who is knitting around here ? Hubert

... or using the old ID vac form, whose shape is most likely dubious ... Hubert PS : thanks to Westland, there was a civilian-registered Whirlwind for a short period of time after WWII. which gives me a good reason to buy the kit, without breaking my « no camo » self-inflicted rule

It takes less than 3 hours to drive around Flores, which is roughly 15 x 10 kms ... This said, it’s absolutely enjoyable if you like wild, preserved nature, flowers, birds, volcanoes and waterfalls . Fairly different from Ibiza, as an island Hubert