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    In fairness, Peter, Hannants do not charge you. You can fill your basket as much as you want, but when you try to checkout, you’re told « sorry, no checkout possible at the moment ». Even if disappointing, this is actually responsible customer service. And they must be really p...ed to have to refuse orders because of a mess they have no responsibility over Hubert
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    Given the complete mess the UK Post Office, and overall Cutsoms' process, are following Brexit, and the fact that they got thousands of parcels returned because of this Brexit disaster, Hannants do not allow any checkout for non-UK customers ATM. Ask me how I know ... Hubert
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    Jetmads have announced a re-run of 500 kits for their 1/32 Viggen ... You better hurry if you want one. Me, I am waiting for a Draken , by anyone ... Hubert
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    You’re obviously far ahead of me in the design of the engine . If you want to share the file, my offer to print it for free still stands. Hubert
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    Wow ! I had not found this pic anywhere ! Thank you ! And dang, you are absolutely right ! So now, I have to modify the engine, or forget about my intended scheme, which is unlikely, because, frankly, olive drab schemes are not for me . I was procrastinating about a trivial issue, which was how to represent the ignition harness ring of the Mercury, not being convinced about the IBG-supplied PE. it’s good I did, in the end. Now I « just » have to design the GR engine, then 3D print it. At least I can focus on the cylinders (a bit of my nemesis, as I stalled for 5 years on the design of the P&W R-985 cylinder head) as most of the rest will not be that visible. I owe you a printed GR, for pointing me in the right direction. Follow this space and just ask me when I’m ready, if you are interested. Hubert
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    Hello Marcin, Thank you for your feedback and comments. I followed, in awe, your build threads of the early PZLs. Your work is absolutely outstanding, and far above what I am attempting. As far as the engine is concerned, I went through the documents I had about the prototype I want to represent, as I had some concerns about the way the cowling was painted, some representations having what would be the frontal exhaust ring of a Mercury engine painted, which would be an aberration given its nature. From what I have read, I have come to the conclusion that the prototype shown in Paris had indeed the Mercury engine, which was a bit of relief, in all honesty - I just hope it was not wishful thinking from my part . Thank you for the data on the wheels and radio compartment panel. I have been sidetracked lately by my experiments at 3D printing the components of a Travel Air Mystery Ship and a P&W R-985, but at least I have learned that designing and printing wheels is among the easiest things of kit design . I now need to find a way of removing the panel line of the radio compartment hatch without destroying the adjacent surface details. And in fairness, I’ll probably live with the kit’s stabilators, unless I can figure a way of designing a new one consistent in surface detail with the kit. Please do not hesitate to contradict my engine certainties for the Paris Air Show bird, if you have the data. Hubert
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    Now, because of this review, I am poorer because I ordered the book and some more items ! Hubert
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    Hey guys, I don’t want to be pedantic, but - first pic is a Horton - second pic is a Horten : I don’t know about you, but I see a difference bigger than an « e » or an « o » Hubert
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    You get my unreserved admiration for working in such a small scale, and what a result on top ! I was working one day on the capstan of a 1/600 Mauretania, and decided these scales were just too much pain for my strained eyes. Now, I focus on even smaller details ... in 1/32 scale Hubert
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    Very thorough review, Fran. Extremely well done and interesting. It looks like this the book to buy to get started, or make real progress, on figure painting. Hubert
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    Although, whereas the Horten is a real replica of the original, the Mustang’s structural details are a bit fancy for the most part. Which does not make the kit any less impressive. Hubert
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    Nice B-24. Congrats ! Hubert (although I personally cannot unsee the flat wing airfoil and funky wing incidence )
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    Now, that’s a lot of wheels. How do you even make a turn pulling this ? Hubert
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    A reminder that the Lukgraph Friedrichshafen FF33L, a WWI seaplane is due soon. And the RWD 14b is even closer. And Lukgraph have announced a DH 90 Dragonfly . A little brother for the Dragon Rapide, wow ! All 3 above are 1/32, of course. Hubert
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    So purdy Hubert
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    Viewed from this angle, this is an impressive broadside, which certainly would have a British battlecruiser Commodore slightly worried ... Hubert
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    As I was looking for something else, I, literally, just unrolled a 1/32 drawing of the CF-100. I'd still be a taker, but , gawd, it is really a big, and I mean BIG, sob ... The other drawings in the same scale I unrolled at the same time looked small in comparison, even the EE Lightning ... Hubert
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    The day after I went to Shuttleworth for the Dragon Rapide, we went to the Newark Air Museum, and I had a photo spree on the Folland Gnat. Just another project still waiting to come to fruition. But, with - at last ! - the current interest in LSP trainers, who knows ? Anyway, here is the link to that album, of 282 pics only ( ) this time. If you wonder where the in-cockpit pics are coming from, no, they did not open the canopy, nor did they obligently cut the Gnat, for me. There was a section of the front cockpit, used for training purposes, I guess, displayed next to the Gnat, under the giant wing of a Fairey Gannet. https://hubertboillot.smugmug.com/Folland-Gnat-Walkaround-Newark-Air-Museum-052013 Hubert
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    When reviewing the pics, some of them are actually not relevant for the DH-89. The day we visited, they happened to have in the same hangar DH-86 Comet G-ACSS, the London-Melbourne race winner, going through some maintenance. So I took pics as well. The red wing, and all pics of black-enamelled retracting undercarriage are for the Comet, not the Dragon Rapide. I'll leave them as they are interesting as well, IMHO. So that makes 410 pics of the Rapide, and 11 of the Comet Hubert
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    I now regret to never have taken the plunge on the Skystreak, bot the Jetmads release and your sale, Mike. I am however like you on the Learjet, and have reserved one. And I'm game as well for the Skyrocket, and the Ouragan, and the Trident, if they ever come to fruition. I am still reserved about the X3. It looked spectacular, but ... Hubert
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    Thre is an excellent 1/32 (not 1/33) paper model of the Tu-95. Now, THAT would dwarf you, my friend Hubert
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    Some of you may know that I had initiated the project of releasing a 1/32 resin kit of the DH-89 Dragon Rapide. The project went as far as having a master created, then life, business and the ancillary choices associated with both came in the way. To cut a long story short, the - huge - step of moving from master to kit never came to fruition, all of my (un)doing . And then, Lukasz, of Lukgraph, had the very good idea of releasing its own kit, which was done last year, which folded definitely my project. Such is life ... In the preparation phase for this project, I, and the modeller producing the master, Martin Field, asked the Shuttleworth collection if we coud come, measure and photograph their Dragon Rapide, to which they graciously agreed, all for the price of just two entry tickets. I thank them again for their excellent welcome. We were able to crawl around, in and out of the Dragon Rapide, me with a camera, and Martin with a measuring tape, tees and squares. Attached is the link to the walkaround of the Shuttleworth Dragon Rapide I did that day, all 421 pics of it (which is why I did not download them directly on this site) I hope you will enjoy it. Hubert https://hubertboillot.smugmug.com/De-Havilland-DH-89-Dragon-Rapide-walkaround
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    Here’s a brave man tackling a great subject Hubert
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    And the engine ahead of the crew compartment ... Hubert
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    The forerunner of the Merkava ! Hubert
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