JeroenPeters

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...

Oh wow... Do you happen to have any more reference pics? These are better than any other I have found so far...

Really cool! Love all those open hatches and shiny finish.

great work from a very difficult kit!

Cool...

Back when i was still building armour this was high on my wish-list... Love it..

Nice one! Really cool little tank that you see built often these days. Like the weathering.

super-tight work!!

I'm really trying not to grab too much aftermarket for this one and work with the plastic. The instrument panel should finish up like the walk around photo. Loose wiring, handwritten texts, etc...

what a cool piece!

Supercool build! All over... Am i right in seeing that the wingtip lights are missing?

To be honest: I am often afraid to be critical towards ZM, since LSM is partners with HK Models. I will work on this kit with no prejudice but my first findings are not too positive. You'll see what my experiences are in this topic! Stay tuned.

I must admit I am not too impressed with the sharpness of the detail, the softness of the plastic and the fit... The ejector pin marks on the inside of the fuselage halves are visible and in awkward locations. Picked up some HGW seatbelts yesterday, and started painting the cockpit.