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Brilliant build , and the sepia rendering looks stunningly real ! (and thank God, DH went on to produce beautiful airplanes, after this ugly duckling ) Hubert

+1 ! They just show what can be achieved by a gifted paper modeller, and how far their design has gone thanks to CAD, compared to the old Eastern Block models of the 70s and early 80s And if, like me, you believe that ships have to be in 1/200 to be "meaningful", then paper models are about the only option you can have (and a lot cheaper than the big Trumpeter plastic battlewagons, great as they are). Hubert

Good catch Ernie. I had the Avia once in the past, then although it's a very good looking aircraft of my ear of predilection, I decided I would not build it and sold it off. As for Fisher kits, they soon been rarer than hen's teeth, unfortu ately for Paul. And finally, the Hornet needs correcting around the nose / vanopy rails area. Did Iain not have a WiP on LSP ? Hubert

If you really looked for them (like me), you’d be really surprised by the number of 1/32 models that fill my bill, Gaz Now, considering my output, tiddlywinks may be an option for my spare time Hubert

Well, for me it’s the aboslute rerverse: guns, bombs, camos, and Nazi swastiks are an absolute repeller. Whilst I understand the marketing reasons for a C-47, I am still waiting for a HpH DC-3 .... Hubert

I am with Gaz on the ‘58 ... Btw, both exist as 1/32 paper models. I happen to have the B-58 paper model file. And this is an outstanding model. The same apparently can be said for the big Tupolev model. Hubert PS : Ernie, your bench is now more orderly, but methink you made it too small (although, whatever their initial size, benches end-up being a square-foot )

Nice subject. I confess my utter ignorance. Is it 1/32, or the abomination 1/35 ? Hubert

Looks as outstanding as your props (which I cannot praise enough) Hubert

Nice job Gaz (And I am with Ivan, all this plastic turned into 109s gives me the creeps ) Hubert

I have tried both, with a single hole or many holes. It works about the same, and that the air could be sucked through a tiny (less than 0.5 mm) hole amazed me the first time. (And made me wonder what it can be when this hole happens in the hull of a spacecraft, or a submarine). I’d say the number of holes is just commen sense judgement. If you have a big cavity, more than one hole will help suck air more quickly. And you want the process to be as fast as possible before the plastic cools down and cannot be formed. Hubert

If you use male molds (we keep in the same vein as krow, don’t we ? ) you will not have sharp corners, and your mold will in theory have to be smaller by the thickness of the plastic you are forming on top of it. If you want better definition, even panel lines, and mold a piece the same size as your original, then you need to use a female mold, i.e. 1) make your master, then 2) make a mold in a rigid matter (resin, plaster) around this master. You will need to have a suction hole in this female mold. Best is to insert a piece of monofilament - that will not adhere to the mold matter - or wire, « planted » in you master part. If its diameter is half the thickness of the plastic you are forming, or less, there will be no dimple where the suction hole is. Make sure your mold is large enough to cover the grid of your vacforming machine, so that air can only go through the small hole you have done. 3) heat and form your plastic sheet on ths female mold. If all vacs used the female mold method, then it would have a greater success than it sees nowadays : better formed parts, surface detail where it matters, i.e. on the surface of the molded part, easier to achieve conformity to the desired dimensions, and finally clear definition of where to cut the part from the backing sheet. Unfortunately, only a handful of British kit manufacturers ever used it... A final note. PETG (one common commercial brand in Europe is Vivak, by Bayer) is the only transparent material that does not yellow with age. It has one drawback however, in that it will trap ambient moisture, a bit - to a much lesser degree - like cotton. When you form it, controlling the temperature is critical. A bit too cold, and the sheet will not form. A bit too hot, and steam bubbles from trapped moisture will form inside the sheet. On typical chinese dental vac-forming machines that you find relatively cheap on ebay, the window between too cold and bubbles is something like 2 or 3 ... seconds. To get better results, it is recommended to do what plastic injecters do, i.e. dehydrate the PETG sheet. Two hours in your kitchen oven at low temerature (50 to 60 ° C) should do the trick. HTH Hubert

Sorry guys, the irony of announcing French subjects from WnW was too good to miss on this date Hubert

Damn, I have been unmasked by Kent Hubert

A Spad XII « canon », and a Caudron G3 ! And history will record it’s been announced first, here, on LSM, on April 1st 2019, by a Frenchman (the date it’s been announced being the most important piece of information) Hubert ( )

Cool project . I think, but I may be wrong, that it is the same Pegasus that were planning an IM 1/32 Ryan NYP « Spirit of St Louis ». They got entangled in a financial dispute with the Korean tool-maker, and the molds were held « hostage » by the tool-maker... To think there might be somewhere perfectly viable tools for a 1/32 IM Ryan NYP ... Hubert

I remember having had (private) discussions with Glenn about this one back in early 2012 ... I hope this could be a good omen for another of my pet projects, which we discussed at the same time Hubert

You keep besting yourself, Kent Hubert

For some reason, my heart missed one or two beats, when I misread "zeros" instead of "eights" in your post, Jeff ... O well, here is hoping Hubert

I did not leave any of my favorite Schwarzwalder Torte either Sorry, Jeff, maybe next time ... (to quote a French politician « Promises only commit those who believe in them » ) Hubert

Well, if you add the speed of the land, then the fastest I went with the 996 was approximately 1565 kph ... still faster than rubble methink . Hubert

This was my ride for some 4 years, until I sold it off to but some piece of land to build a house ... A 3.6 996 Targa with a Tiptronic gearbox .... Fairly rare on European roads, with the Savanna Beige interior ... Needless to say the new acquisition (the land) does not move as fast as the previous one In the background of the last pic is my wife's then and still current ride, a Mini Cabrio, red with black stripes and black-lacquered wheels ... Hubert

Properly thinned, the primer in bottle works just as well as in the rattle can ... and it’s cheaper as well Hubert

Wow.... A Breguet XIV and a Caudron G-3 (rather than another German or English aircraft) ! ... WnW sure know how to surprise the world ... Oops, sorry, looks like I got it all wrong again Hubert

Saw it on another place that shall not be named .... Happy birthday, mate (as they say down under) from your elder by just 7 years Hubert

What Harv said ..l Hubert