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Hmmmm… I thought Finland were forced to cede a part of Karelia to Russia in 1940, and this annexation still stands today ? I’d have said this stands as a long-lasting occupation, doesn’t it ? I don’t know whether the transparent resin melted some of the kit, but the result looks very convincing 👍! Hubert

Good catch, and nothing like a new challenge to rejuvenate the mojo … This said, the Tamiya Mossie is one über-kit that has discouraged some talented modellers I know of: just too much of everything for a lot of people. I don’t want to rain your joy, but this one will be at the opposite of your « regular » modelling tastes. Still, wishing you all the best for this build, and looking forward to it. Hubert

April 1st 3202 😏… If it can be sooner, of course I’m a taker … Hubert

I admire your drive to produce an accurate replica of an engine, down to the master rod and pistons. It’s a Zoukei-Mura type approach, technically interesting, but, in fairness, gloriously useless for a static model (although this is very much something I could see myself doing ) One remark concerning the cylinders’ designs. In the drive to extract more power from them, the cooling surface increased, by adding more and more fins, densely spaced. Your cylinders are more suitable for Lindberg’s Wright J-5 than for a more modern high-output WWII radial. Using a resin-casting process entails technical limitations for an accurate representation of your cylinders, even in big scale. You’d be better off 3D-printing them, especially as recent SLA printers can offer a very high resolution and thin layers to reproduce high-density fins. I am sure you have seen Airscale’s work on skinning 1/18 models with aluminium litho plates. He is a master at shaping these plates, even on ver6 tight compound curves. Keep posting your work: I really like it, and I am sure others here too Hubert

it's looking good, and better than before, Ernie ! Now you need to make the kit look like your reference pic, so you do not have to bother about a missing tailwheel Hubert

She is shaping up nicely. And I dig the modulation you have achieved in the black 👍! Hubert

Very neat result with this venerable kit, Peter. And it speaks for itself : Hubert

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No. Icelandic Models resin … Hubert

I was thinking about something in the same line « now we need a Val overflying the Arizona » Hubert

Well done, Mike ! Hubert

Vey nice result, for an interesting change of subject 👍 ! Hubert

Yes, and good luck cleaning it up from the printing supports … (speaking from - bitter - experience, trying to remove the supports from the - now MIA - headphones of a Reedoak civilian pilot) Hubert

Yes, like Karl suggested, Future will disappear with an ammonia-based cleaner... And, by-the-way, the effect of the washes was not bad everywhere. It produced an interesting effect on the fuselage and wings, but, I agree, looks bad on the elevators. Hubert

In this pic, the blister is actually opened, Rob, not removed … Hubert

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The Falcon vac canopies and nose, made for the Revell kit, look « less awkward » than the kit’s parts, and are not that expensive… But that means making the bomber nose aperture smaller, IIRC. The kit’s main canopy frame fits in the Falcon vac canopy, btw. Hubert

As for « retarded teenager » musical tastes, I was a teenager in the 70s : just after Cream, and not so much in the disco wave, nor moved into heavy metal (but AC/DC or Scorpions …😏). I suppose this gives you a good timeframe for my tastes, until the late eighties … And a high dynamics Hi-Fi set is just as good to listen to « Highway to Hell » as Bernstein’s 1989 Ninth Symphony in Berlin, or « The Wall », or Tannhaüser’s overture 😁 Hubert

Tamiya offers only the version bastardising the look of the Mossie with a guns-nose and a flat windscreen canopy … I have the HK kit, but the shape errors have pushed it to the bottom of the stash. The more I think of it, the more I wonder if the solution is not to graft the Revell nose to the Tamiya kit … Hubert

Good work on correcting the botched shape of the wing LE. I know there is a limit to what can be done, but I am sure you have noticed the leading edge shape is wrong outside of the nacelle as well …. Hubert

Scary-looking stuff. Especially as the the guard on the circular blade one seems offset from the blade plane. I can understand why an operator would move the guard aside, but it’s also a call-for-trouble action … Being a French company-owner, and having lived through a serious work-accident in 2014 on the premises - where I found out that being a business manager is not like being a doctor : you have an absolute result obligation, and putting the means in place is just not enough, whatever the intentions, and you are supposed to foresee all possible problems, including operator foul-usage -, I know an offset blade guard leading to a lost finger would have led me to a fine, if not prison … Hubert

Having had a father-in-law (well, ex- since I divorced), who spent more than the price of a (luxury) family sedan on his Hi-Fi set, I can very well understand your passion, Rob. I found out that the turntable (or CD reader, btw) had to be perched on needle-pointed posts to avoid vibrations, as well as the amplifier. I bought a set from the same supplier, only it cost me the price of a Dacia (well, not the base model ;), rather the full options one). My ex-wife kept it in the divorce - she felt my « retarded teenager » musical tastes did not warrant such fine hardware, which is not fair, as I also like classical music 🤣-. Aannnd, back on track (although a vinyl has just one, track I mean) and the Arizona. Nice progress, Rob 👍! Hubert

Well, methink you guys should spend more time procrastinating in front the computer, rather than waste it at your bench, modelling … 😂😂😂 Hubert, the expert in one of the two activities above … guess which 😁

Me 2 ! Hubert

Both are top notch 👍 , but the combination on the display base looks really crammed IMHO. Still, I wish I could do as good a job with my 108 (in civilian guise of course). Hubert