HubertB
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18 hours ago, Kaireckstadt said:
Thank you Peter!
Yesterday I made a test-fit of the windshield and canopy. The fit of the windshield is really good. No gap to fill:
But the fit of the canopy is only good if you plan to leave it open:
But I‘m happy: I will leave it open...
The first subassembly without rework!
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Tsss Tsss Tsss ... choosing the lazy way out aren't you
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9 hours ago, Martinnfb said:
I truly don't know if this was a very smart purchase. They are quite large, large indeed. Flanker was undoubtably a score, Tomcat?,,, I am not so sure about. Nevertheless both are ultra sexy airframes and we need some more jets here :).... said the guy who never finished a jet. LOL
Since you mention it, how about that resin Mig-15 in Korean markings
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Hubert
PS: nice haul, Martin
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Neat and fast work, in short typically JohnB
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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
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Even your scale jacks and trestles are stylish
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And I love your cutting mat, btw, and the clean bench
Hubert
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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
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That black is really ... brilliant
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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
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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.
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A genuine ignoramus question : is the double artificial horizon on the IP prototypical ?
Very nice work, Alberto
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I sometimes wish I had a miniaturising machine like you do
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14 hours ago, Artful69 said:
From China eh? ... I've seen the Border Tiger.I tank on eBay for reasonable prices in China ... and I think I've also bought items from there before in the distant past ... before the world went crazy ...
I've been a little reluctant to pull the trigger because of negative reviews on a lot of the China based advertisers (I always check them) ... there's usually about 12-15 negatives against a few neutrals and 300+ positives. Not so bad really until you see the feedback ... selling stuff that was out of stock etc ...
Which distributor did you use and how long did it take to get there??
Rog
5 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:Rog, I usually check reviews first as well before ordering. It took less than a month to get here- shipped March 18, arrived April 5.
I ordered it from Auroramodelshop
I've ordered from them in the past without any issues. Last year they stopped shipping to Canada for some months as they couldn't guarantee delivery in a reasonable timeframe. They started shipping here again so I ordered the Me163.
Yanworld0082013 is another I've ordered from. They often have lower prices but it has taken longer for purchases to get to me. In fact I've got the Border Tiger 1 coming from them at the moment.
Carl
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
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Oustanding, vey inspirational build ! You attention to detail is second to none
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9 hours ago, GazzaS said:
hahaha. I lack the funds for a trophy wife.
What’s money when you have the looks and brain, plus all the other hidden advantages
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Hubert
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The intakes look much better now
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As do the nose and tail.
Hubert
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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
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16 hours ago, Bomber_County said:
Very tidy build, looking forward to the camo........the French didn’t know how to make tanks ............
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
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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
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I build kits, but prefer scratchbuilding ... And truth is, my display has cut down my searching time for the right size of EG strips/rods/tubes. I could almost say this has trebbled my effective modelling time
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Well, Scott's remark about visual clutter piqued me (positively), and I realised he was right and I could do better.
So, some 60 Humbrol tins have been filed vertically, the plastic boxes containing bits and pieces have migrated from the shelves to behind the closed doors of the bookshelves on the opposite wall (Ikea Billy to the rescue). The finished kits moved one shelf lower, and I now have plenty of space for the myriads of other kits I will churn out soon
The clutter is still there, but not as much and, as Phil said, there is some almost devious satisfaction on tidying the bench
Hubert
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Even though the engine is without an airframe now, I finished tweaking the design of the G&R Mistral 9 engine, just so that it's all done, and everything aligns as it should, including the pushrods
It looks like a G&R engine, methink ...
Hubert
PS: in case you are wondering, like me, what these bulges on the intake pipes were for, I just found out last week that they held a device to prevent a flame return in the carburetor. You learn every day ...
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And another masterpiece
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Hubert
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13 hours ago, Martinnfb said:
There was something off about the look of the nose that I based on the set of drawings above. So I overlap it with a picture of an real aeroplane that was scaled up to the spinner diameter just to see the proportions and realized that the drownings are incorrect. The plug was too big.
so back to the basics.
I meant mitre saw LOL
Ahhh ... the dreaded drudge of « reference » drawings
... You are not the first modeller, nor modelling company btw, to be fooled by wrong references.
And people wonder why new kits are sometimes not more accurate
I like your tools Martin. A bit cumbersome on the bench maybe...
Hubert
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The good news is that, with the pilot at its office, you won’t be missing much of the cockpit details, Mike
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1:32nd scale Hansa-Brandenburg W.20
in LSM 1/35 and Larger Work In Progress
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Outstanding soldering skills, on top of all the other skills
Hubert