GazzaS

I swear with every build!

Jaw droppingly good!

Looks great, Harv!

Dats beautiful! Gaz

Good!!

Tragic!

SWeet!

Thanks Rob! My first WNW build I fought with the PE belts for hours. Although the HGW belts were fiddly, I'm much more satisfied with the results. Thank you, Phil! The cigarette paper idea was given to me by a guy who disappeared from online forums in October. I still wonder how he's doing. Another thing to do with cigarette papers is flags for warships. Print your image onto plain copy paper, tape your ciggy paper over the image with cellophane tape, put the paper back into the printer, print it again, cut the image out of the ciggy paper, scrunch it into a ball, then glue it to your rigging. Thank you, Jeff!

I'm a buttoned-up kind of guy. I'm not thrilled by pipes and wires, but by sleek and/or deadly when to comes to aircraft. If I did a Komet, it'd be climbing for the sky with a serious effort made to hide it's supporting acrylic rod in exhaust gases. I think I'll just abstain for now. Hopefully somebody else will build one before I have-to-have-one. I'll just live vicariously through yours for now, buddy. Gaz

Oh, very nice!

With the MiG now finished, I can dive deeper into this Pfalz. With all WNW kits, there is some interior work required before you can do much else. So, without further ado.... The Mercedes D.III. I'm not one for detailing things that won't be seen. So, I added some plug wires, and lagged the intake manifold pipes. To ensure that the lagging didn't cause a fit problem later, I thinned the manifold pipes with a file and blades then used CA to glue narrow strips of cigarette papers which were wound around. The bits that will never be seen once the cowl is on, won't be painted at all. WNW heresy...but what to do.... The machine gun ammo container and the exhaust pipe. I have read that the German exhausts of the period were made with a copper alloy. I will use washes to give it a burnt metal look. A set of cockpit photos. I did the interior rigging with monofilament. Made a seat cushion with milliput. All of the instruments have decals which really make the cockpit nicer. I used HGW fabric belts for the first time. I can tell you that it won't be the last! The deck beneath the pilots seat is my stab at a light stained plywood. Thanks for looking! Gaz

I have a shortage of unbuilt LS aircraft. Got plenty of LS tanks, tho. ...inventory... 1 trumpy P-40B 1 revell Bf 109 G6 with a boatload of AM 2 Roden WWI kits 5 WNW WWI Kits Enough armor kits to field a full strength tank battalion.

I like the additions, too. There are so many little things that add depth to a vehicle build that don't come with most oob. Gaz

Nice! I like the clean scheme!

Do you have a beading tool, mate?

This should be a great change from your awesome Mustang. You'll have to fight the years-long-held belief that they were skinned in just CDL. Gaz

Man, I almost bought this kit! So glad now that I didn't. But I applaud your efforts! One of the first models I bought when I came back to the hobby was an Eduard Fw-190A8 in smaller scale. The box art was awesome, and the moldings looked utterly fantastic. But none of the access hatches fit closed. I still have the kit. It's for spares, only. Gaz

Thanks Rob!

Looks sweet in NMF and red! How many Canucks took how long to sand her that way?

This could be an awesome looker! Gaz

Looks interesting. I hope it is accurate enough for the veterans who were there. I hear about the battle often, but don't know the particulars. This is the second trailer I've seen with the "Shell's-eye" view effect. I don't know that I'm a fan of the effect. When I was with the artillery (0811) we would fire RAP rounds. R-rocket A-assisted Propulsion. It was weird to see the smoke trails appear in the sky as the rockets ignited and then the winds up there made the smoke trails turn into squiggles. But the red rear end effect? We didn't have tracers. Gaz

That's just stunning. Gaz

Whoa man! That is just amazing!

Well. The MiG is finished. However, I'm not very happy with it and I don't think it deserves a photo finish. There were a few 'wanting to give-up' points, but since it was a gift, not completing it wasn't an option. My main warning for those who build the kit is to be aware of the many fine protruding bits that are molded on the main parts. The ICM plastic is very soft and these tiny parts are easily marred, bent, or broken off. I replaced a number of them more than once. I'm not a dainty person and there is a reason I often leave tiny, fragile extensions until very late in the build. Hopefully some time in the future I'll build another one and avoid the mistakes that made this an unhappy completion. My apologies to those who were following, hoping for a great looking finish. I did use the model to help me try to take some better pictures with my IPhone. Here's two: Gaz

Welcome to the Forum! Excellent build! Gaz