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janman

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  1. Now that's clever! 😄 But I do wonder how the end result looked like. No one had ever mentioned you about a paint brush? 😁
  2. No I didn't, actually. But I went back and checked out! I just can't get enough of those box covers. Full of action and drama of war! Out of your lot, I have three kits: T-34, Hanomag and Panzer II. In addition I have a British scout car and M24 Chaffee. I got them as a package of five for 40 euros. A bargain for me, a helluva lot for "old toy kits" for someone else. 😁 I've been trying to get a hold of MiG-21MF (which had markings for Finnish bis, a version it of course didn't even depict) and AH-1G Cobra chopper. These were the first kits I really tried to make prope
  3. Thanks! Sounds about right since after my post I begun to think about my unassembled Tamiya shuttle and how it might be just a tad too small to be accurately represented in Lego.
  4. Some fine scratch building there, Andrew! The rear deck with all the towing equipment really rocks and the cable looks very convincing too. For some reason I've always had troubles finding true to scale chains but luckily you've succeeded better. Actually, on some builds I would have needed even finer chain (at least for mud flaps of my Lancia Stratos rally car). Great work with different lights too. All too often one sees headlights with reflectors painted with basic silver - which just is not bright enough. I have some Tamiya brochures where even the kit examples hav
  5. The Tiger I was constructed first and was thematically a straight follower of my previous tank, HB T-34 in 1/48. This was clearly a Tamiya kit and went together easily (as opposed to the HB kit) and had crisp details and flash free parts. It comes with a metallic chassis which, according to some modelers, simplifies parts of the suspension details. Could be, but most of it will be hidden behind the typical German multi-wheel chassis assembly anyway. I wanted a machine used on the Eastern front and I wanted it in Tank Gray. TS-4 was used as a base paint and weathering was done with oils, enamel
  6. That's quite a catch! Having built probably around ten or a dozen of these old Matchbox kits as a kid I can fully understand your love for them. Awesome stuff for young modelers of the time. Looked the part, easy construction, no need for paints! And very intriguing artwork that (at least) promised something awesome and cool! A year ago I bought a set of five tanks for my son. Matchbox tank kits are also real gems for their little diorama bases. He's still not very enthusiastic about actually building kits, so I've made a couple of tanks for him to play with. Apart fr
  7. I've read about it elsewhere too but I'm still uncertain about the scale. Has it been mentioned anywhere? We already have (well my son has) Saturn 5 rocket which is in 1/100 scale so a matching pair would be cool.
  8. Exquisite stuff. Always a pleasure to read well researched posts!
  9. Definitely something different! What a hilarious build and yet so well executed and detailed!
  10. Looks beautiful! I like the paintjob, all those streaks make it look like it's really wreaked havoc above Geman cities. I was actually considering getting one just a while ago so it's interesting to hear about your experiences. I just finished Max Hastings' impressive "Chastice" book about the German dam raids and found myself reading a lot about Lancasters and Lancaster model kits from the internet. I've understood that this kit is now the best of the bunch and really makes old Hasegawa etc. more or less obsolete. In this sense I was somewhat surprised you had some tro
  11. Nice progress there, mate! As you said, it's really getting that familiar Flanker shape. Very nice pit too. I'm taking this is just pure styrene (with obviously very neat gauge decals), no PE on the instrument panel? The ejection handles surely would have benefited from etched parts, but the seat otherwise looks very pretty. You know, I too got sidetracked from my usual scale (or was it you who lured me there..? 😁) since I just ordered my second ever 1/48 kit - from the same company! (And yes, that first 1/48 kit will be getting some attention soon too.)🙂
  12. Impressive work with the bays!
  13. From the top of my head, isn't the French blue from the TS series and Light blue from AS? This in turn would mean the F blue is a gloss colour (for cars) while AS Light Blue is a dull colour for aircraft.
  14. The amount of details on those gear legs, which are not even in 1/32! Unbelievable.
  15. I really like it! I would expect an old ESCI kit has its challenges but it seems you've overcome them.
  16. That was very interesting, Gabor! Thanks for sharing. The picture of their HQ was funny. I know they aren't a big company (compared to Hasegawa or Tamiya) but that was interesting to see nonetheless. I wonder how many employees those two heavyweights then have? Or a bit smaller companies like Fujimi or Aoshima etc.?
  17. That's an awesome model! With a right sheen for a Red Arrow machine too! In a way it sounds stupid that I then pay so much attention to your figure - which looks extremely life like! Those jeans especially, wow!
  18. A very beautiful and detailed model!
  19. Now this is something! I have had a 1/32 Trumpeter MF like 15 years (wished and got it for christmas present) and although I once was convinced it can be (pretty easily) turned into a decent bis with some work, I basically had discarded those hopes for good. From time to time I've dug out the kit from the abyssal depths of my stash and studied it in detail - just like I've studied the real aircraft live in several incarnations - only to realize it's a rather bad kit even as an MF. The nose is terrible, the spine as well, transparencies are hideous, a lot of the panel lines are wro
  20. You're right and the Fencer example was just a sidenote or an exception to the rule, not a pure comparison.
  21. Although it's often mentioned that R-60 short range AA missiles were sometimes used with a dumb bomb load, the photos proving this are elusive. I have a Russian language book on the exact subject ("MiG-23 in Afghanistan") and no such photos can be found in that book. The book includes a lot of excellent pictures of operational Floggers in Afghanistan from the period and it's always either missiles or bombs. I also have a book from the same series for MiG-27 and there are no such photos either. That being said, years ago I made an Su-24 "Fencer" with free fall bomb load
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