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[HubertB]

Yes. The famous parallax has hit again … 😂
 

Hubert

[BlrwestSiR]

Flaps are on. They were badly warped  and I couldn't get them fully straight so they are what they are.

[KevinM]

Getting close to some decals still have a few panels on the bottom held in with pronounced screw heads.The panels I highlighted were basically ones with those screw heads.

[Count0]

1/48 Eduard P-39 Airacobra. Will be Russian. They seemed to have the most fun with these.

Added stiffeners and a roof to the front landing gear bay. The bump at the back is correct, allowed clearance for the drive shaft.

That later was covered with a box to hold lead shot, but I didn't take a picture of it like I thought I did. It can be (barely) seen in the tail sitter balance photo.

 

Mock up for balance see how much weight it needed.

Dihedral seemed off, side to side, so I made a Lego jig and some spars and a central box from .060 Evergreen to try and even it up. Hopefully it fixes the corresponding wing root gap on the low dihedral side.

I am working on an actual, honest to god large scale model, just not ready to post it yet. Someday.

 

[belugawhaleman]

Got some clear flat and tools on the Tamiya Sherman kit

Remember; this is the "single motor" kit I started awhile ago...not really a serious build,  it was just

a bit of fun. it did come out OK but I wouldn't recommend it unless you could get it cheap as I did at Plaza.

[BlrwestSiR]

Nice, clean looking Sherman there Paul. Absolutely nothing wrong with a simple fun build. Keeps things interesting.

[BlrwestSiR]

I finally spent some time at the bench last night. First time in almost two weeks. 

Of course this prompted a desire to start something new. 

Infinity DH Vampire:

We'll see how this goes. So far, lots of dry fitting and tweaking but kinda fun problem solving the issues. At least it's all plastic. 

On the easier side,

@DocRob's MaK build was an influence, not to mention the kit has been at my feet under the bench since I got it. 

[HubertB]

9 minutes ago, BlrwestSiR said:

I finally spent some time at the bench last night. First time in almost two weeks. 

Of course this prompted a desire to start something new. 

Infinity DH Vampire:

We'll see how this goes. So far, lots of dry fitting and tweaking but kinda fun problem solving the issues. At least it's all plastic. 

On the easier side,

@DocRob's MaK build was an influence, not to mention the kit has been at my feet under the bench since I got it. 

 

Hubert

[DocRob]

1 hour ago, HubertB said:

Can´t see any Christopher Lee dental work on that squirrel, Hubert. The nut shouldn´t contain any blood, also .

Cheers Rob

[belugawhaleman]

Probably, well certainly, out of place on this topic, Anyway, regarding Squirrels ; A short-tailed squirrel

has been showing up among others to our house to be fed. A while back he disappeared for some time.

Later, he returned, thin, haggard, and showing signs of injuries. We started caring for him, giving peanuts

and lately giving him cookies that he devours happily. Well yesterday, a large cat attacked him....We thought

he was lost.......Today he returned showing signs of some injury.  I must admit, this squirrel is a fighter!!!!

 

 

[KevinM]

The F-84G is thus far coming together rather Nicely methinks.

[belugawhaleman]

looking Great Kevin! Is that the Tamiya kit?

[Count0]

On 3/7/2025 at 6:26 AM, BlrwestSiR said:

under the bench

Is under the bench cleaner than the top? Lmao. Idk how you manage to keep track of anything, always so many parts on your bench.

[Count0]

On 3/7/2025 at 6:26 AM, BlrwestSiR said:

So far, lots of dry fitting and tweaking but kinda fun problem solving the issues.

Not saying it is, but some of the interweb Aero engineers on that other forum were saying the nose is the wrong shape? Opinions?

[BlrwestSiR]

37 minutes ago, Count0 said:

Is under the bench cleaner than the top? Lmao. 

If you looked under this bench, I'd say yes.

But if you look under my second one that just to the right... it's probably just an extension of the bench. 

The stuff on the beach to the right is my son's so that's not my fault. 

[BlrwestSiR]

Back the Lunadiver, I've got the majority of the hull assembled.

Lots of different shaped parts here. The underside has lots of rounded bits which made for an interesting parts breakdown. 

There's also the pair of Hughes 500 fuselages on either side. 

And it seems I've found a second Lunadiver kit in the stash. I thought I had the Falke and found a different release of the Lunadiver instead. Whoops. 

[BlrwestSiR]

40 minutes ago, Count0 said:

Not saying it is, but some of the interweb Aero engineers on that other forum were saying the nose is the wrong shape? Opinions?

I saw that but don't know enough on the plane to really get into it.  If the kit is a bit fat in the nose, I can live with it. 

[Count0]

2 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:

Lunadiver

I have all, or at least most of the modern Ma.K kits. I had almost all of the originals at some point, but I sold them off. Very special, unique kits, but just a pain in the ass to build. The modern ones are clearly better. I have a Falke about halfway along, it got packed up during various moves and just never made it back to the bench. And I now have the new 1/35 scale one as well.

I saw Docrob's build of the Knight. That's really my only no on these kit's, just hate that design. And the Grosserhund. Will not buy one, ever.

[BlrwestSiR]

I'm not a fan of the Grosserhund either. Looks like the evil cyborg from Hardware. 

I mentioned it previously but there used to be a comic shop here in Toronto that had a few shelves of the Bottom MaK kits back in the day. Crazy expensive kits (for the time) in a fairly plain looking box. 

Meantime, I've got most of the seams on the lower hull cleaned up and puttied.

Most of the smaller subassemblies are together now as well.

Somebody's 911 kit is missing a set of doors. 

They're used as shields in the Lunadiver kit. 

[KevinM]

On 3/8/2025 at 6:58 PM, belugawhaleman said:

looking Great Kevin! Is that the Tamiya kit?

Yes it is Paul very good fitting kit.

[Count0]

17 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:

Somebody's 911 kit is missing a set of doors. 

Kow stole them. And the Hughes 500's and booms from P-38 Lightnings. Throw in some ping-pong balls cut in half and a little Bondo and you have a WW5 (or whatever) anti-gravity fighter/bomber.

He used those 500's for a lot of the "German" power suits as well.

Everybody in the know claims they are not space Nazi's, but one look at the paint jobs and marking kinda kill that argument, for me anyway. And, at least early on, a lot of the "Allied" vehicles had invasion bars painted on them...

17 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:

Crazy expensive kits (for the time) in a fairly plain looking box. 

That's what drew me to them. I was just learning about Japanese Anime/Sci-Fi kits, and that semi plain box with just the machine as art work was the hallmark of those kits. The best, IMO, are the early Macross kits from Imai and Arii. Beautiful painting of the mech on an otherwise plain but brightly colored box.

[belugawhaleman]

18 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:

I'm not a fan of the Grosserhund either. Looks like the evil cyborg from Hardware. 

I mentioned it previously but there used to be a comic shop here in Toronto that had a few shelves of the Bottom MaK kits back in the day. Crazy expensive kits (for the time) in a fairly plain looking box. 

Meantime, I've got most of the seams on the lower hull cleaned up and puttied.

Most of the smaller subassemblies are together now as well.

Somebody's 911 kit is missing a set of doors. 

They're used as shields in the Lunadiver kit. 

The 911 doors made me chuckle....they even have the little holes for the door handles. I have two

of these kits: Hasegawa's Camel and some kind of space suit thing made by Wave. I was wondering

if these kits have ABS parts...or will regular Tamiya extra thin cement will be fine?

[BlrwestSiR]

Paul, the Hasegawa kit should be regular styrene. I'm fairly sure the Wave kit is as well. 

[BlrwestSiR]

There's also a couple ways to tell on Japanese kits what type of plastic is used. 

Almost all Japanese kits list on the box the type of plastic, especially those from about the last 20 years or so. 

On the kit box, there will be a small info box that says what materials are in the box. So for example,  on this Hasegawa FW190 D box, it shows PS and PE. The PS is polystyrene, PE is polyethylene (for the poly caps). No ABS.

If a kit has multiple plastics in it, you an check the sprues themselves. Look for a tag moulded onto the sprue. On one side it will have letters identifying the type of plastic. 

So PS for polystyrene again. 

As far as I can tell, this applies to Japanese kits from roughly the last 20 years or so. Earlier ones may not be so labelled. So hopefully this helps out. 

[belugawhaleman]

Thanks Carl, very helpful😀