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  1. 4 hours ago, DocRob said:

     ....Don't forget to include a smashing panel, as the Russians tend to throw their empty Wodka glasses over the shoulder after a toast. ...

    Cheers Rob 

    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

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  2. 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

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  3. 2 hours ago, kkarlsen said:

    Hi Hubert, just wanted to make sure, I didn't mean any offence.

    I just cannot keep my motivation going if the project hasn't got some kind of angle. Believe me, it's a bit of a 'curse', I've been trying to 'shake' it off repeatedly, without any success... In fact the 'angle' is expanding.

    Happy modelling: Kent

    Neither did I mean any offence Kent, and I hope you did take it as such. I actually admire and am in awe of your dedication to get the best and superdetail the kits you start.

    When I see you tackle a new subject, it is with trepidation, because I know you will put your magic to it, and produce an unique masterpiece. Of course, you are not an OOB kind of guy, much to our collective pleasure.

    Can’t wait to see you Aeromarine conversion finished, btw ;) 

    Hubert

    PS: re your Aeromarine conversion. Great find with the Preiser figures. I would advise a quick check about their size, though. I had to hack a few mm off the legs of one Preiser figure I want to use on my still-in-being Gee Bees’ build. Without this surgery, he’d be a real giant ;)

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  4. Really nice result, and a great tribute to your craftsmanship and devotion to get things right :unworthy:.

    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 :thumbsup2: !

    Hubert

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  5. 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 :

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    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 ...

     

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    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

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  6. 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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  7. 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

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  8. At the risk of appearing to sow dissent here (hang on, maybe that’s really what I am doing :stirthepot: ), 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

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  9. 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

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  10. 2 hours ago, GazzaS said:

    There is no need to fear.  Think of it as an opportunity to use your acquired model building skills.  At least it should be a few degrees better than scratch building your own.;)

     

    Gaz

    ... 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 ;)

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  11. On 5/10/2019 at 10:28 AM, GazzaS said:

    Meh...  Islands!   To get anywhere you need to buy airline tickets.  When I was stationed on Oahu I found it depressing that if I went on a three hour drive I arrived back at my starting point.  But hot chics did abound!

    Enjoy your stay!

     

    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 :thumbsup2:

    Hubert

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  12. 1 hour ago, RAF Liberators said:

    Yes the wing root is wrong but you shouldn't be able to see it from the photos I've taken, it's not something you'll really see unless you're looking from the other end and you can't because the fuselage is in the way.

    As I said from my first post, there are faults with the kit but nothing to stop you building a good example of it. people should stop listening all the armchair modellers and build stuff.

    PS Engine cowlings are correct for the variant, people often forget that the Liberator was built across 5 factories by 4 different companies (one built from preassembled sections). Often the differences were quite vast. Another misconception is that the De-Icing boots were solid rubber and weren't susceptible to chipping etc. The solid de-icing boots were stopped after the LB-30 (I had an armchair modeller try to tell me otherwise when I built my Monogram kit, he got put in his place lol).

    The profile shape can be appreciated from a front quarter angle as well, but it is true that the « issue » comparing the kit and the real aircrafts happen aft of the main spar, and is a result, on the 1:1 aicrafts, of the profile as well as of the incidence.

    It’s true as well that the Davis profile can appear very clearly like on this pic :

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    ... and not so much on other pics, like this one :

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    And finally, the following pic illustrates both the visible Davis profile from front quarter (IMHO) and the cowling shapes variations you rightly mention. 

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    I am not trying to be an « armchair » expert, btw, just sharing feelings about my memory of what a B-24 « looks like », compared to the kit.

    I reiterate my sincere admiration for you to have completed the kit, in a truly masterful way.

    Cheers.

    Hubert

     

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  13. Arrived this morning, for one week vacation, in Europe’s westernmost town ...

    Exactly mid-way between Lisbon and Newfoundland...

    This is my view for the next 7 evenings ... If you get on your toes, you might glimpse the Statue of Liberty, 3 600 kms from here ;)

    Hubert

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    PS : the town is called Fajā Grande, on the west coast of Flores Island, one of the Azores islands.

     

     

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