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Never mind the cat : I am impressed 👍 ! Hubert

Love it ! Hubert

The Trumpy Wildcat is not bad at all. In terms of fitting, it is also mostly Ok, but for the wing-fold joint which is a PITA if you deploy the wings (another reason - the main one being a yellow-wing scheme - why I bought the "Early" version). Go for it, Phil, I got my ticket as well ! Hubert

What did I just get ? … The flu ! After having missed the 2020 window thanks to social distancing and hygiene measures, I believe the flu virus came back with a vengeance this year ! It’s a nasty one, and with many of the symptoms of Covid-19 on top of it. I have felt truly miserable all week, but Patricia fared much worse, to the point of ending in hospital yesterday … And, of course, given the symptoms, we had to follow the Covid-19 circuit, until tested negative. She was actually the worse off of all the people in the Covid-19 emergency ward of the regional hospital … So, my advice is to get the flu jab asap : we have had no time to organise it before being hit. Another « gift » from a one-week stay in France … Hubert

Lovely result 👍 ! Hubert

Did you notice this turkey has something sticking out of its rear end 😏 ? Hubert

Very display of one of the most impressive bombers ever built. One question from an ignoramus : shouldn’t the main LG boggie be parallel to the ground just after take-off, and return to perpendicular to the MLG trunk when the retraction sequence is initiated ? Hubert PS: got my answer by doing a quick search. It’s neither, nor . It looks like the articulation of the boggie to the main trunk is forward of the boggie center, and the rear wheels of the boggie are just « hanging » by gravity and being lower than the front ones when not on the ground. https://www.alamyimages.fr/photos-images/avro-vulcan-landing.html

Yeaahhh … I’m with Peter here ! So …. You know now how to fill the voids to guess what I am writing : i. i. d… y.. ? Hubert

Very nice 👍 ! Hubert

Looking at the number of sinkers, you probably have more than 100 grs already. Hubert

Looking forward to see your Mustang painted and decalled Hubert

I hope things will improve for the better from now on. Good to see it seems so, my friend. As for your mother, it’s terrible to read such a story. One would expect this does not happen anymore in a « civilised » country …. Hubert

Busting your balls with a cricket bat ? Inquiring minds want to know ... (ouch ! that must hurt !) Hubert

Totally agree. Hubert

Thanks for the pics, Dennis. I know the correction is well nigh impossible, but, every time I see one, I still can’t get on with the funky airfoil profile and wing incidence of the HB B-24 Far more visible than Cyrano’s famous nose IMHO … Hubert

I had barely noticed that you had started a Spit, and now it’s already finished, and very nice at that ! Congrats, John, for another great build. Hunert

I don’t know how I missed this one. VERY nice result ! Hubert

😂 … 15 years it’s going to be released the following year 🤣 😂 So funny, sort of ….😭 😩 Hubert

Methink this one will have difficulties taking off, even more so in hot and high conditions … Just my Hubert

Beautiful ! Well done ! Hubert

NIce, clean work and painting, as usual ! HUbert

I’m with Gary and Rob. Your work got me thinking. My style of modelling is to go detailing ad nauseam, to the point of getting stalled all too often by the dreaded AMS syndrome, to look for accuracy and scale rendering. Just as well, I have always dreaded the painting stage, and, in truth was never that interested in it. But the reality is that most of the detailing and accurazing is most often lost or invisible, so I am just left with the lonely satisfaction « to know it’s here », whereas a good - or an oustanding, like yours - paint job will make all the difference. I am not sure I am able to change my habits now, but it’s definitely worth having a hard thinking about them. In which case your work is one of the best tutorials I have seen for a long, long time. Hubert

If the 3D design is already done, I just need the 3D file, either in a usable 3D format or as .stl file (.stl is for 3D printing already). It can then be scaled down to the size needed on the slicer program. If you have only a 2D drawings of, say, a spinner, I need basic dimensions like diameter, length, size of openings, profile. Translating a 2D spinner drawing in 3D is easy enough. Doing a 3D design of a wheel is a lot more involved, as the shape becomes complex. Hubert

Time is free, and material cost infinitesimal given the likely weight. Hubert

Not at all Martinn. I am just asking not to do the basic research: as you well know, LW things are not my daily cup of tea ... Hubert