JeroenPeters

Saweet! Missed this build completely....

Adding details from the spares box

The tail in this kit is the metal version, but the version I'm making has the wooden tail. This means: - removing some detail on the inside of the tail. You can see in the reference photo that the inside is smooth and bare. - Sanding down all the detail on the hatch and rebuild it with green card. Needs some more work: smoothening out the corners and it needs the two locks. - the detail on the tailwheel assembly is poor... I'm building this from scratch.

Great work! Impressive amount of work (and photo's)!!

Sweet! And what a cool line up!

Hi Wouter, Any updates?

Some more colours on the engine and engine bearers..

Nice detailing!

Exact! They are black. And the rest of the engine is aluminium that I lightly sprayed and chipped with medium grey to match the photo's. Crawling along!

Wingroots? Who need wing roots when they place the wings on a separate jig?

I will definitely add those pipes! Started painting the engine. First basic colors, some chipping and first wash. I'm trying to match the colors in the reference photo's. Black cover, grey / alu main body, black turbo, brown hoses, etc.. Oils still wet in these pictures.

I did see that Fran posted this news on the 14th of october on LSM Facebook.

Truly sweet... and the first time I've seen this built! How many models do you finish in a year??

What the..... Are you kidding me? More pics please! Since I can't believe my eyes...

About to close the fuselage:

Used some Uschi woodgrain decal for the wooden hatch: and added copper wiring for the tail / rudder control cables.

Wow! Is that official?

Nice.. I've heard this is a great kit. Nice subject, goodies and preparation! Usually that's half the work. Except in our hobby

Cheers for that! The two large hoses are for oxygen in the cockpit according to my ersatzteilliste... There are oxygen tanks in the tail, but maybe they were only used at heights where outside oxygen became too thin? Now.. the smaller thin pipes you see running below the thick hoses, those contain the window cleaning solution. The forward tank is actually the 55 litre oil tank. Look at the pic below from ZM. It's cute they give you detail, but it's just a crude representation. What's the use?

That is one super clean build!

At home with the man-flu, causing me to speed things up. I don't work very neatly or organised. Just do what pops up. I discarded the exhausts stacks as supplied by ZM. Again: I can't get over the soft, undo-operating plastic and fiddly fit... Decided to replace the exhausts with some old Moskit exhausts I still had. Scratching the housing for these. ZM did break up the wings in the right place. Saving me lots of work. Downside: my lovely painted fuel tanks won't be visible.

Thanks a million!! These pics are amazing... Especially the one showing the inspection panel in the tail.. Never seen that part before. Cheers!!

Lovely! So far I have only seen great results from this kit, so the bar is high! Have one in the stash so following this with healthy interest

Cheers, Any info is welcome. Especially pics from inside the fuselage... Here's a small update.

Amazing stuff...