LSP Dan

Fantastic job!! Great photo shop work also!

Wasn't Tigger making masters for MDC or somebody??

I'm, all for it !!!!!! Fellow staffers chime in please!

WOW! I am actually tearing up as I write this! I enjoyed following Russ' builds , not only for the great modeling talent but his wit. I will certainly miss him. My deepest condolences to his family. How sad.

Not much work has been done due to my relocation in my "real" job. Still working out the kinks there. The conversion will be for the Trumpeter kit and will probably not fit the Revell kit. Years ago Horizon made a vac conversion for the Revell kit. I sold the molds ( after I bought them all out ) to Roberts Model. Ask him if he still had them. Hopefully I can gt started again on this conversion in the not too distant future.

I'll take a set also rockets or not!!

Put me down for 3 also, Chris!!!

Radu makes a set on his site.... RB Productions. They look very nice!!! Have to pick up a set myself!

Amen to that Ray!!

What are the issues with the -4 cowl? Undersized like the -1 or other issues? Dan

There is a conversion for the Matchbox kit is the FR47 Seafire I believe the Mk III has nothing in common with the Mk 22/24.

Thanks!!! Your Ju 88 info was totally awesome! I'm sure the He 111 pics while be just as valuable!! It just keeps getting better for 1/32!!!

"Later on, I may well look into wing gun bay modifications - plus anything else that modellers would deem to need updating/detailing for this aircraft (all subject to obtaining accurate references of course - I do not want to produce inferior work!" On the subject of the gun bays, Aires has just released this: Fair use etc.

And your canopies are minty fresh!!

Hi Ray, Exhaust area does need work. I have a Moskit resin/metal exhaust conversion for the Revell kit that may need some rework to fit the Trumpeter kit. Either CMK or Aires does a gear door & wheel well replacement. Black Box ( or whatever their name is now !) and Verlinden do cockpit sets. So what's wrong with the wings? I think plugs for the -1C cannon and replacement weapons doors would work instead of replacing the entire wing. The radar stuff seems plausible. Same with the -4B. The -5 is a WHOLE 'nother story though!!

Derek, Let me clarify; It's the cowl flaps I meant need correcting. The MC cowl flaps don't fit the Trumpeter F4U cowl at all. Whether due to shrinkage of the resin cowl flaps or the resin master of the Trumpeter cowl used to make the cowl flaps had shrunk and therefore the domino effect in full force. The diameter is too small. I had the same problem with the MC P-47 cowl flaps. They actually fit inside the Hasegawa flaps with a little rework on the inside of the Hasegawa piece. I'd go with a "universal" cowl correction. The Revell cowl is overall better shape and size. Some minor rework of the trumpeter fuselage may be needed ( again see Chris' article ) but at least this way all bases are covered with one set. I have a spare cowl and even a prototype F4U-1 Birdcage conversion I was working on I could send you if it helps.

What Chris said, in a nutshell. The MC flaps are well detailed but......My thoughts would be do them as a set. The cowl's no good without the flaps and the flaps are no good without the cowl!

I'd play the wait and see the Montex pieces first. The Trumpeter kit DOES need a corrected cowl and flap set though.........nudge, nudge, wink, wink.......

Nice job! He somehow looks like a young Harrison Ford to me! Not a bad thing by any means, just an observation. Dan

I know Jerry Crandall sells the 190 & 109 sets and has nice pics on his site. I'll see if I can get a link or borrow the pics.

Probably both! Ernie does GREAT work! I have his TBM, Bf-109, and Fw-190 sets and they are excellent!

I agree with the "Announced" listing which, as Kev said, could be changed to "Canceled" or "Available" when the time comes. Or, in the case of the Trumpeter TBD and A-6 "Perpetual Hold" Got your PM Kev.

Excellent collaboration Bruce and Kev and any other dedicated LSPer that helped!!!

The Ar 234 was Craftworks, Scratchbuilders didn't have one to the best of my knowledge.