JonathanReed

OHHH MAN! Love it! I would love to have a desk like that. I am starting to work on my cave. I want to make it military theme and looking for an old military style desk. That is AWESOME!

Nice! Very Nice!

Very nice. The PE is definitely good looking!

Gorgeous!

Beautifu! I have no other words for it...

It looks Magnifico! Great work! Very pleasant on the eyes!

A lot of work and by the looks of it, well worth the effort! Nice paint work.

Impressive area. My son just moved out a couple of weeks ago and cant wait to build me a cave! Thanks for sharing!

Very nicely done! Love it!

Man, all of you are WAY to kind! The motor! WOW! Love it! Its so sinking small though that I'm scared to mess with it until i mess other stuff up first. Thank you for the thoughts about my burns. They are getting better but still having some issues that I will definitely get through. I have an update! After looking more closely at the door that I cut and opened, I wasnt happy. The walls were to thick and didnt look right from the outside. Especially the groove, so, that said I cut it out, thinned the walls and roughed in the track. I still have a lil filling and shaping to do. It looks so big in the pictures that I'm like, man that looks so crooked and ugly LOL! It does make the aluminum side look more to scale and the door more flush to the wall, not great but better. I scratched off the molded wing pins on the rear cockpit panel and added some the tabs. I stretched some sprue to mulitple thicknesses and added them to mimic the wire and pin. Ok, because I like asking for trouble I cut the ( I am going to take the liberty to call it a quadrant) and punched out some round .010" thick bits. Placing some of the left over sprue from before to mimic the controls, I sandwiched them between the rounds. (No Pics), but its in the overall pic. I may redo it because the split got too much glue in it to make a clean line. I tried my hand at wood effect and am pleasantly surprised. It has some resemblance of a board. I didnt add grain effect all the way across thinking that as the Udet stepped in, and more than likely from the same way every time, it would wear the wood and give it the solid look. Artistic flavor?? LOL Here it is roughed together. I also cleaned up the hand pump. And the rigging..?? I tried using the 1/48 turnbuckles thinking they were more to scale in this area and had no luck getting it to coperate...too small! I did it with the 1/32 and they appear very big in this pic but dont look too bad in the flesh. The front ones i took more stretched sprue and placed it on the wire to mimic them and well its ok. Any suggestions, thoughts? Thank you for the long winded post! Jonathan

Sweet! Love it! Keep it up and keep us posted.

This is loking SOOO good!

Sorry to hear of your health! Amazing how life takes and shakes you awake at times. I too have jumped in way over my head with the EIII. It helps push the limits though, I feel it may be ugly but I learned something and I fel like people in this forum will go out of their way to help from what I've been reading. Throw your soul into it and se what happens. Heck its just money and you cant take it with you! Good luck and will definitely have you in my thoughts regarding your health.

Amazing stuff eh? It is hard to imagine living in that time. I guess you become what your surroundings are, and you cant miss what you never had. But still hard to believe that the chances of life ending were so high and you do what is required of you. Amazing. Sorry for getting all philisophical. LOL!

Suweet! Love it. Subtle and convincing weathering! Beauty. Bet it looks better in real life Get to work and give us more! LOL

......................(cant talk cuz jaw is broken from hitting the floor so hard!).......................

Very nice pics indeed! Thank you for sharing. Its amazing to see the lack of care? taken on forming the skin. That time of the war for Germany when resources were getting very short. Nice stuff

Indeed! That first pic made me look not twice, but four times! Nice work!

Nice! That is sum good stuff!

Any finished pics on this! Would love to see it as it is looking great in the post!

Got mine in a few days ago...nice book!

Oh Yeah! Cheers Mate! That looks so good right now!

Nice! Merry Christmas! Hoping all your families are safe and able to get away from the jobs so ALL can have a wonderful day, or days!

This look fantastic! I came across this post by looking for Doug's props! Amazing work. As always!

Nice review! Definitely appreciate this as I am still looking for a good all around brush for "doing it all" well.