HubertB

You’d see just a pile of white boxes, but ... let me give you the list from top-of-mind memory - F7U Cutlass - F 4D Skyray - TF-8 Twogar - F9F-8 Cougar - F5F-2 Panther - Sea Fury - PT-22 - Bell X1-E - Red Baron - Pitts S2-A - Bulldog Pitts Special That’s about it. In case you are wondering, yes, I love Fisher kits. Of course this list fades away completely in the shadow of Ernie’s one Hubert

The South Vietnamese one looks very much like the one Major Buang Ly, with his wife and 5 children as payload, landed on USS Midway on 04/29/1975, at the fall of Saigon. Hubert.

Agreed, it’s a Fouga Magister. Non-reglementary flying suit though ... Hubert

Landplanes : - Used by Laos : - South Vietnamese Air Force : By the French in Algeria, in green ... ... or grey ... I trust you can find US versions easily. Most were not very colourful nor unique. Hubert

I do not know what you want to do, but this one is certainly unique, and can be done with the Roden kit : Then there is this italian example, a bit of a mishmash between decos : And of course, versions for up North : Focused on floaties, I know, but I cannot resist them Hubert PS: sorry about the weird compressed look in the first two pics.

Hi Tony, I don’t want to be overly pedantic, but during WWII, you had liaison aircrafts like the Piper Cub or the Stinson L5 Sentinel, but no Cessna Bird Dog, whose first flight was in 1947. And of course, you had also liaison and observation aircrafts built on the British/Commonwealth side. I suppose you are looking for a US bird ? If you were using the « bird dog » expression as a generic term, then this remark is of course void. Sorry that I do not provide pics as expected, but I was a bit confused by your query Hubert

Outstanding soldering skills, on top of all the other skills Hubert

Tsss Tsss Tsss ... choosing the lazy way out aren't you ? Hubert

Since you mention it, how about that resin Mig-15 in Korean markings ? Hubert PS: nice haul, Martin

Neat and fast work, in short typically JohnB ! Hubert

Very sad to hear this. We had become friends over the distance, and I loved his witty humour and fighting spirit in everything he undertook. Blu skies my friend. Hubert

Even your scale jacks and trestles are stylish ! And I love your cutting mat, btw, and the clean bench Hubert

Varied of my side, and most of the time, silence, which is OK ... What I know is that you start with listening the Walküre, and you end with a desire to build a 1/32 Huey, or « Götterdammerung » and end-up with a wrecked Ta-152 or Me-262 Hubert PS: « When I listen to some Wagner, I finish with a furious desire to invade Poland », to quote Woody Alen

That black is really ... brilliant ! Hubert

Whilst it does not solve ALL issues, like small parts taking a ballistic trajectory to the other end of the universe, I have found that a jeweller’s apron has saved my knees many times, (as well as my head knocking on the desktop when crawling under it and battling with the carpet monster). As I have no need to collect precious metal dust, mine is not in leather, but in ordinary fabric. Very high on my useful tools list, just behind the scalpels and tweezers. Hubert

Actually, the smaller instrument on the left looks like a turn and slip indicator, whereas the central one looks more like the classical artificial horizon. I confess I am anything but familiar with the Mirage instrument panel design, but maybe the flight characteristics of the delta wing made the use of the turn and slip indicator, as a sign of the commands’ coordination, on top of the reference of the horizon, necessary ? In my quest for understanding, I could see that the later variants like the « E » had the radar scope in the middle, and the artificial horizon on the left. Hubert

A genuine ignoramus question : is the double artificial horizon on the IP prototypical ? Very nice work, Alberto Hubert

I sometimes wish I had a miniaturising machine like you do ! Hubert

Slow shipping may be an issue for Rog. He may have exhausted his stash before replenishments come along Hubert (who should have thought twice - at least - before making fun of someone else’s stash size )

Oustanding, vey inspirational build ! You attention to detail is second to none . Hubert

What’s money when you have the looks and brain, plus all the other hidden advantages ? Hubert

The intakes look much better now ! As do the nose and tail. Hubert

Amazing. Just to remind me - and I guess all others - about the material. Are you using paper/cardbord as the main mdedium, or have you transferred the paper parts to plastic card ? Whichever, your work is gobsmacking. Hubert

The French in the 30s still had a view derived from the 1918 victory, i.e. that infantry won wars, and tanks were there to support infantry, just like most aircrafts, apart from those aimed at chasing the enemy's observation planes from the sky, or protecting their own support aircrafts from the enemy's fighters. The most influential military guys of the era were Petain - the "victor of Verdun" - and Gamelin, both infantry generals. The C2 reflects this retrograde - viewed from today's hindsight - thinking, including being long enough to cross trenches, and a rear-firing turret to kill the enemies ambushed in the trenches it just crossed. A French colonel of the late 30s had a different idea of how to use tanks in the forthcoming battlefields, along the same lines as e ceratain Guderian. His name was Charles de Gaulle... End of the broadcast of History Chanel . Very neat build of an interesting and certainly unique subject. Hubert

Excellent ! A nitpicking comment, but you are striving for such excellence, that I thought I’d share it: the plate on which the intake « mouse » slides IRL (« behind » the mouse) looks a bit thick on the kit compared to the original, especially on the left intake. Or maybe it is just that the mouse is not as pointy as on the right side ... Hubert