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Thank you Andy for your nice words of encouraging and support! But the world looks to go mad and sometimes it's getting me down badly. Cheers! Alexander

20 years! That's quite a delay! But you got back to hobby and made a real success. 😉

Nice build! Bare shining metal looks awesome! Cheers and happy modeling! Alexander

Thank you guys for your interest and support! But the older I become the more I feel losing my interest to the modeling. Yet two years ago I was quite enthusiastic to this build and was tend to believe that would complete it in two years or so. But now I found myself to be a reluctant modeler. Does getting older really mean to live aside some previous habits and even the hobby? Alexander

Hi each and everyone. 🙂 After a long delay I decided to post some images concerning the exhausts. Among the kit sprues I found a CL drop fuel tank so I thought it would fit nicely due to its length and diameter to make two pipes. Another sprue contained bombs with the nose suitable to be shaped into that bulbous thing one can see on the engine's rear end (have no idea how they call the stuff). 🙂 So this is how it turned out:

Aha, again someone use images of the real chopper and disguise them for the images of the model. LOL. Seriously, absolutely amazing build! Very nice paintwork. I suppose the kit itself is super detailed. I hope you faced no problems while assembling the parts. Cheers and happy modeling! Alexander

Still our fingers caress the plastic. LOL

Hi Oliver, Thanks for asking. Not so well. Problems with my hip joints. Getting older sucks.

Great! Things you do always grace my eyes! 🙂

Non scale of mine but gonna follow with much interest. Cheers and happy modeling! Alexander

Well, more updates. Now on the ailerons and flaps. As the hinges I used some brass stuff leftover from my wooden ship kit.

Hello Karl, The yellow stuff was this:

BTW. Thank you guys for the interest and nice comments (Greg, you da man.) Back to the progress. One more pic on the wings. The grooves where the pylons are to be placed are in wrong position so I had to fill the grooves and drill holes to place the pylons where they are to be.

Hello Karl, Nice to hear from you. Light curing putty? I actually use Mr. Hobby's Mr. White Putty. Can't say it works good. After having dried it sometimes tends to peal off. I used to use Tamiya gray putty (very nice stuff with very good adhesion) when it was available in the local Hobby Shop but now it scarcely can be bought even via internet. Cheers! Alexander

OK. I'm not gonna rush on it that no way to disappoint you. LOL.

Hi Greg, Don't worry, I've got that furniture piece all right. 🙂 The only thing to worrying about is that the build is a big time eater. LOL. Cheers! Alexander

It is more than a year past by since I started working on the wings and only now I'm to show what I did so far. Before gluing top and bottom parts together I added stiffening ribs of plastic 1 mm thick. After the parts were cemented together I added some lengths of plastic to the fore edge of the wings to make the edge to be more rounded as closer to the prototype. Then I removed the long protruding element (have no idea what it is) from where the wing forms a V shape right closer to the main gear sponson and replace it with a scratchbuild part. BYW, the in-kit sponsons ar

Hi there, Some more images as progressing on the main gear nacelles.

Some more updates on the main gear wells.

Some more updates. Now on the chaff/flare dispensing system. I removed the in-kit part and scratch built the one using a part leftover from another kit.

Hi guys, After a long delay on the posting I managed to post some images concerning my progressing on the build. Now into the main gear wells. I soldered one element (have no idea what its name is) and pinfiled some details to fix on the area within the wells. And some images how they look after some more details have been added. Cheers! Alexander p.s. Please, give me a clue how to move the cursor below the images field to type below them.

Hi Oliver, This is what I'm working on: After some delay I'm back to it. But I'm progressing slowly as my modeling mojo is getting down year by year. 🙂

Have been lurking around. 🙂 Like your work? Like... Damn, I 'm just stunned with all you do. I always follow each your thread with much interest and admiration. Sure this one's gonna be a real bomb shell effect when it's finally done. And , of course, a real show stopper wherever you expose it. Alexander

Man, but it's at least six times smaller than the pics shows! Your skill rocks! Top notch build! Cheers!

Nice headless staff. LOL!