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Looking at the sprues there might be a D 510 in the pipeline...

Thank you Jan. Nice bird, many great schemes to choose from.

Very nice..

Nice! Can be converted into a Miles Hawk Major without much trouble I guess..

It's due next week

Really impressive. Nice photography too, Ivan.

In a good way, that is..

That's blackmail....

Listed yesterday by the Luchtvaart Hobby Shop as "coming soon" for a little bit less than fourty Euro's...

That is an impressive model, John. I especially like your paint job and the restrained weathering. Looks very life-like to me.

Looks great, Alain. Looking at the size of the original airplane, I wonder how they managed to sqeeze one man in it, let alone two...

That 20 mm quad looks great Danny. Very inspiring. I have this kit as well, still lying dorment in the stash. I am thinking of doing the 1942 multi-coloured camo as she wore in Norway. There is a colour photo on the net, showing predominantly brown and green camouflage colours. I have a colour photo of the ships' other side of the same period in a camo of mostly Schnellbootweiss, sand yellow and black. These two combined should look funny on my model..

That cat is a pretty cool looking character, Eric! It is the cherry on a very nice build, I think.

A Gladiator.. good choice...also earlier I-16 models. We are being spoilt.

That is a work of art, Kent.

Looking at it I think you'll have to cut off the nacelles from the wings, and then make a large number of v-grooves on the inside of the wings lenghtwise, so that they can be formed (or bend) over templates with the correct wing profile. Then glue the templates in place, reinforce the insides of the now correct(ed) wings with epoxy and glassfiber to make them stiff again and place the wings on a flat surface to let them dry. In the meantime keep your fingers crossed... If everything has gone well, put on the nacelles again and modify the the wheel wells.

Thanks for the pics, Juvatwad. The trailing edge sits too high on the fuselage as I suspected and the airfoil is off, but it all looks fixable.

Comparing the just posted pics of the kit with photos of a real B-24 and the drawings of Philip Moyes of the B-24 D/E models (in Aerodata International no. 11) it looks like the trailing edge of the wing sits too high on the fuselage. If you draw an imaginary horizontal line from the trailing edge backwards on the fuselage, the line should run quite a bit below the window just aft of the wing. Whether that means the wings' airfoil is "off" as has been said earlier in this tread is hard to say without having the kit at hand.

I have the very old seventies Spit in the stash as well as the Hasegawa rebox..I could kitbash a prewar Spitfire Mk. 1 from these two, using the lower wing and other parts of the Hasegawa kit to dress up the old lady..

Looks great, Kent!

The FROG boxing of the very first Hasegawa FW 190 had decals for this unit, either SG 1 or 2. Somewhere in the seventies.

I have a book with a photo of Frankls' D III. When you give me your e/mailadress I'll send you a copy.

The drawing of c9 DE in Aders article is similar to the Revell box art..just change the call signs..

According to Gebhard Aders in Modell-Fan 5/77, pages 33-34 it also had Schräge Musik, a C-4 canopy, a black underside and dense 75 mottling over 76 on top and was highly polished. The same camo was used on c9 AE, a C-6 he flew during the same period. At least one photo of the latter aircraft exists.