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Looks awesome all in one piece, Ron!

Oooohh! Color me interested!

I'll be interested in seeing what happens at the seams. Keep up the great work!

Really Awesome, Martin! I like a shiny plane covered with dimples and rivulets. Digital photography really changes the way the props look, too.

I like both P-39 and P-63.... but couldn't really find a pretty enough pic of them in NMF.

What in the heck is that?

Nice Work! Love the effect that paper masks give. It's my go-to method, anymore.

I respect you for your devotion. I have fasted before... but never been restricted on water. I work in a physically demanding job, and probably drink a litre each hour I work. I would need to take a vacation to even try going without water.

For me, most interwar planes suffer from too much "Tubby-ness". Whether it's Siemen's Schuckert, or I-16 RATA. Short, squat fuselages just don't do much for me. Even great photography cannot do enough for them.

Limitations? haha Very Impressive stash! I actually had to get up and get a serviette to absorb the drool.... Anyway... gotta go back... I'm only up to "M".... And I agree.... about the light touch.

Nice start!

That looks awesome Dale!

Thank you! I made 80mm long masks with my Silhouette Portrait, then airbrushed em. I'm hoping that by simple enlargement I can use them for 1/32 scale/

Fantastic! Love em both!

One of the toughest aspects of painting camouflage is trying to get it as close to the historical version as possible. In this shot, I made my best so far attempt at the scalloped leading edges common to Messerschmitt wings: And in this second shot you can see what the mottle looks like when distressed with wet 8000 grit micromesh:

PE rigging is terrifying. I resolve the issue by not building anything that uses ovoid wires. Be2c? No thank you! I;ll just wander off now.

Well let;s see... they might not put a Nazi Swastika on the box... so they can sell it in places where is outlawed.... Finns, Bulgars, and others flew them... So... issues solved! You can build as many as you want, Hubert!

I think that might change with a full fuel load (plus auxiliary tank), and a bellyful of 500 pounders.

Good Luck, Maru!

Splendid!

Great video, thanks for sharing! For the curious, Carl Vincent is 200 feet or so longer than the Lexington.

Aye Caramba! That's a lot of paints, Carl.

Perhaps my view will come around once my period of mourning is over. Thank you for the kind offer! I'll look forward to normality, then. It's a sweet build of a kit, if you haven't had the opportunity, yet.

It's all just one huge disappointment. What were they thinking? The list of slow sellers is pretty big. Whatever they were doing, it wasn't about making money. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Ernie has listed many of the Turkeys. so I won't repeat it. I don't care if the Czechs or Chinese re-pop everything that was produced. I have enough of the ones I wanted. (unless you have an unwanted Pfalz D.III sitting around) But now I feel bereft of hope. There is no tomorrow when a new WWI aircraft model will be released. Let alone 2-3 a year.

I would build it... I just wouldn't know what to do with it once done.