Old Dog

Any kit from Mach 2 or Foundrie Miniatures

I have enough kits in my stash to last me until I'm well past 100 and while there are a few new kits I would like to have it's unlikely I would ever get to them. With apologies to the Beatles... I fixing the hole that the stash fits in to stop my mind from wandering...

Nice review, not something you see every day but interesting none the less !

I too suffer the dreaded burn out now and again but I'm blessed with dual afflictions, planes and trains. Model aircraft are mostly a winter hobby for me unless it gets really nasty outside and trains are my summer hobby as I have an outdoor layout and I like being outdoors when the weather is nice. Usually by the end of seasonable weather I'm beginning to burn out on trains and welcome getting back to aircraft and vise verse. It's not always that reliable and I have had some years when the urge ran opposite to the seasons but either way I get a break and a chance to recharge now and again.

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Excellent review, thanks !

I have one of these in the stash so will be watching with interest. I bought the H-1 when it came out but the H-0 release seemed so much improved I sold it and got the H-0. Your works looks great so far ! Keep them coming !

Holey smokes, what a great review ! The kit is way beyond anything I would consider tackling but I'm sure plenty of others will.

I'm not knowledgeable enough to offer constructive criticism but am following your progress with interest. From my perspective you are doing great so far ! I would love for Tamiya to release one of these in 1/48. Yes I know there are are or were conversion kits but the older I get the less anxious I am at getting involved in long term conversion projects.

Yes, I too have a love hate relationship with PE, I have found that since moving up to 1/32 that the older style Eduard panels are too one dimensional. The newer Yahu and Eduard Look ones are better but some what limited in availability. I have a couple of Eduard panels (for the 190 I think) that include separate bezels for the instruments and I cringe at even starting those as the IP could take longer to do than the rest of the kit with my shaky hands. One thing I've found helpful, especially for those pesky levers than are almost always a butt joint is to leave the little connecting piece at the bottom attached to the lever and drilling a small hole for it to fit into so it has something other than the glue to help support it. On multi engine consoles cutting a slot with a JLC saw for the levers to fit into also works a treat.

Nice job as usual, the markings make it a real standout !

Looks like a lot of oil canning for a fresh off the assembly line bird, a result of the speedy build process I assume.

Nice, thanks for the photos !

I don't even plan on getting a Lanc but I think this would be a great stand alone kit !

Work on the turret looks great (as does everything else so far) but when I look at this photo It looks like the lanc is tossing its cookies !

Well, the SH kits are certainly not shake and bake but I haven't found them to be all that bad, I built their I-16 and P-36 and didn't find them all that taxing and they came out to my satisfaction

The Special Hobby Westland Whirlwind should be out before the end of the year, photos of some of the mold tooling has been posted on their Farcebook page. This one is at the top of my acquisition list !

Not a Mac guy so can't help from that aspect. That said I recently downloaded some fonts from a website and when I next opened Firefox I found myself in Bing, had me sweating for a bit till I found out that while downloading the fonts it also changed my selected Firefox home page to Bing, fortunately it was easy to fix.

Very nice !

Yep, cold bending works, just go slow and easy. Depends a lot on the plastic, softer stuff bends easier.

Sorry, not meaning to derail the thread but I'm curious about that fairing in front of the observers canopy, does it perhaps house a defroster for the canopy ? It appears to be hollow and I don't see any other purpose for it. Great work so far Martin, keep em coming !

I have not tried mine yet but I did note a couple things, in one of my sets one bottle had a loose lid and it had leaked enough to adhere the bottle to the packaging. Might not hurt to make sure they are all tight when you receive them. One thing I miss about glass bottles is that it is not easy to tell how well mixed the paint is. I dispensed some into a glass jar to thin it and thought for a bit the tip was clogged. If you turn the bottle fully upside down the ball inside will find it's way into the tip and block paint flow. One thing I'm curious about from those of you who have been using dropper bottles for a while, how do you return unused paint back to the container ? I assume for brush painting (yes I know it's supposed to be for airbrush use but I almost always need to do some touch up) do you dispense it into something then return the excess to the bottle ? OK, the mark one eyeballs are even worse than I thought, I now see the dropper part is removable and that solves my question from above. I sprayed my first color last night and was suitably impressed, now I need to order more. My first order had containers with two different style tops, one black and one orange. I assume the orange is newer. The seal better with the orange ones in that they don't slip past tight when you torque them down. The one that leaked was a black one. The only thing I don't like about the orange top bottles is that they are about 1/8" too tall to sit on my paint shelf. The black one do fit, just barely. Just nit picks, if they all spray like the one I used last night these will be my new go to for paints !

Another beauty

Lovely ! Certainly looks the part and and great paint work !