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Thank you for kind words. Seb, answer is 'yes' - all of reference material will be available to all visitors of our site. Sincere regards, Srdjan

Dear friends and modelling coleagues, It's a pleasure to announce official forming of IPMS organisation in Serbia, Europe. Founded on June 9th 2011, IPMS Srbija is officialy registered national modeling society within IPMS community. Our main goal is to promote kit modeling as a hobby in Serbia, with the implementation of high standards of IPMS. We are in a process of organizing and updating our internet site, as well as preparing material for galleries of our kit models, reference galleries, and modeling articles. This 'initial' period of work will include gathering and compiling referen

I sanded a bit these styrene "add-ons", and recoated with Surfacer, but didn't make new photos as I want to make some more progress... Quite busy at work in recent days so no much free time to spare :( Thanx for following anyway ;) Regards, Srdjan

Thnx Deacon. Here are the photos of some progress.. I've glued cowling, and sprayed Mr. Surfacer over areas where I did some interventions... Canopy on my example of this kit was distorted in right side - lower frame had shape of sinusoide - so I've cut that frane off and levelled it with sanding stick... Also, on right side, glass had some texture - consequence of bad mold probably - so I've managed to polish the outher side, but inner side is not reachable for polishing so I left it as it is... but still, looks better than it was! I've made new lower frame of canopy from styren

After long break, I've continued work on this one... First, I must make an appology for not taking a photo of decals as I promised in my previous post, but I will do it! Anyway, here are the photos of progress... Upper parts of wings and horizontal tails are glued to the fuselage, and almost all joints are puttied with Mr. Surfacer I've rescribed missing panel lines on bottom of cowling and also the hinges on it. Some panel lines on bottom part of fuselage are also scribed... Exhaust pipes are drilled with hobby knife... I've also drilled gun barrels and small intake in fron

Spit1A, your CF-18 turned out very nice in the end - you matched the upper blue-grey shade used on Canadian Hornets, while spotlight is a real "cherry on the top of the cake" :P I've only once used LEDs on model kit, but it was the Peterbilt truck, so it was easier to install the wiring :wacko: Good job, cheers! Srdjan

I'm not sure whether I had to post photos of finished model in this topic or in original topic with in-progress photos, so, here are the photos of finished model here too <_< Comparison with my favourite "reference object"... Regards, Srdjan

I'm not sure whether I had to post photos of finished model in this topic or in original topic with in-progress photos, since there are no replies in that topic, so, here are the photos of finished model here too <_< Photo with my favourite "reference object" And "group photo" with its Canadian brother... Regards, Srdjan

Thommo, I think that these are thin ones - they are old Airfix decals. I've seen decals in new Airfix boxings and I'm not impressed at all with them - they look quite glossy, thick, and printout is "rasterized" Anyway, I have quite a few ideas if decal glue is weak <_< but, let's wait until I reach decaling phase I'll make a photo of decals in my next "photo" post, so we can all try to judge them... Thanx for advices anyway! Srdjan

Thanx for the warning Shaun, but I don't have so much other choice than these decals for D-9, especially as I would like to stick to the "Out of Box" slogan Maybe I have som other decals, but somehow I would really like to do the Oskar Romm's machine as it had pretty colourful look - all thos RLM colours, while bottom of the wings go in 3 colours, so... pretty challenging for masking too. I hope that decals are not missprinted as Heller decals per example can be - now that is awful to see! <_< Regards, Srdjan

After finishing two Hornets for "On Canadian wings" and "Centennial of Naval Aviation" groupbuilds, I'm getting back to this one :D In the meantime fuselage halves were assembled, and today I've glued lower wings and engine cover on fuselage. There will be some sanding and puttying... Regards, Srdjan

Few photos of details.... Comparison with my favourite "reference object"... And "group photos" with its American brother from VFA-115...

Thanx for kind words Charlie and Phantom Today I can say the work on this project is finally done! I've finished some small paintings and glued tiny details in recent days, and also weathered kit with Tamiya Weathering D set (exhaust nozzles with burnt orange and blue, and few oil stains on wings and on the bottom side of rear fuselage) Enough words, here are the photos! I hope you've enjoyed this build of mine as much as I did Thanx for reading and please do comment Srdjan

Photos of details... Photo with my favourite "reference object" And "group photo" with its Canadian brother...

Today I can say the work on this project is finally done! I've finished some small paintings and glued tiny details in recent days, and also weathered kit with Tamiya Weathering D set (exhaust nozzles with burnt orange and blue, and few oil stains on wings and on the bottom side of rear fuselage) Enough words, here are the photos! I hope you've enjoyed this build of mine as much as I did Thanx for reading and please do comment Srdjan

Miss ***** Galore... as dirty as she can be... Great job Emre, this one is also very nice, both regarding to dirty stains, or final look.... Cheers, Srdjan

Blister antenna you've scratchbuilt looks really good :) So, this one will be pretty dirty looking plane? Cheers, Srdjan

This one should be interesting - NMF + blue tail! Keep going :) Srdjan

Stunning work so far! Cockpit is just great, while weathering on upper parts look very real! Keep going, Srdjan

I guess this one WON'T be a tailsitter? :)

Good job Darwin, I like the finish, and especially congrats for white canopy frames that were brush painted freehand! :) Cheers, Srdjan

This one is a real masterpiece regarding to details added! Can't wait to see painting phase :) Keep going! Srdjan

Both kits are looking really good Emre! I like the shading effect near the panel lines, and faded camouflages turned out great - maybe yopu could just fade markings a bit, as they are more colourful than camouflages? Regards, Srdjan

Thanks Spit1A What I was most afraid of was the question "Will this kit be tailsitter?". Well, it turned out all well! Kit stands steady on landing gear without any balast in nose! Exhaust nozzles were brush painted with Model Master Metalizers (few shades), and buffed in the end - I will add some more weathering on them with a little help of Tamiya weathering sets... Spotlight on left side of nose was painted with Model Master Chrome Silver, while "glass" over it was made with Microscale Kristal Klear and glued with gloss lacquer. Same story goes for landing light on nose gear. I've

What I was most afraid of was the question "Will this kit be tailsitter?". Well, it turned out all well! Kit stands steady on landing gear without any balast in nose! Exhaust nozzles were brush painted with Model Master Metalizers (few shades), and buffed in the end - I will add some more weathering on them with a little help of Tamiya weathering sets... Landing light on nose gear was painted with Model Master Chrome Silver, and after that I put "glass" over light. I've made "glass" from Microscale Kristal Klear, and glued it with gloss lacquer. I've also brush painted "traffic lights"