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You’re a machine, Mike, and each new kit seems to just up your game 👍. Hubert PS: « machine » is meant as a compliment to both the speed and the quality of your builds

The famous Gilbert F-120 prototype … Hubert

The theory by Wings/Airpower (who are not reputed for their objective and prudent approach to headlines and reporting) was that the new-born USAF was keen to wipe the first B-26 out of memories, given its poor reputation as a widow-maker in WWII … Their gripe against Martin is also given as the explanation for choosing the B-57 over the B-51, FWIW. Hubert

Well, the TBD seems real enough. It’s announced by Aviationmegastore for end of April, at about 90 € … Hubert

Well, it’s coming, in the end ! Just (pre)ordered mine on Aviationmegastore’s website. Scheduled end of April 🍾 🎉 ! Hubert

Nice choice, and at least, unlike the Hobby Boss 1/32, this one will look like an A-26 without major prosthetic surgery Hubert

A Corsair 🙄 ? Hubert.

And another gem, cut and polished in record time 👍 ! Hubert

WOW ! Getting better and better (if that was possible) Hubert

Beautiful 👍 ! Hubert

Ah yes ! You have a sharper eye than me, Carl 👍 ! Hubert

Well, by the 31st of April, we will know better, won't we ? Hubert

Given the layout of the page, I doubt it, but then we have seen Trumpeter do other msitakes, so why not on the catalogue 😂 ? Hubert

This is a age of Trumpeter’s catalogue … Besides the 1/32 TBD, still with a photo rather than the boxart illustration, the eagle-eyed among you will notice some interesting news in 1/35, like an ACH-47 and … a Fairey Fulmar and Fairey Battle (but 1/35 … ) ! Hubert

Have you seen all these ejection pins marks ? Sloppy design from DH engineers 🤣😂🤣 Hubert

Difficult work, but the result speaks for itself 👍 ! Hubert

Very nice effect on the exhaust painting 👍 ! Hubert

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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