Jan_G

and some higher quality pics posted on Gothaforce FB, still no price info

more pics posted on britmodeller

another pic posted on FB

first kit part posted on Gothaforce FB

and no 6.

another revealed

Awesome work John!

Superb build! Wow! Finish is awesome, it looks like real thing Jan

interesting launch of new kits so far they have revealed two boxes of DVII (each as premium and limited release) there will be another 7 kit reveals from tomorrow till next Saturday, however it is not clear whether these will be other boxes of DVII with other decals or there will be another new kit as well. https://www.gothaforce.com/pages/discover

Wow! Such realistic NMF. Impressive build

seems that this will be released soon Mirek posted pictures over on model forum https://www.modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=105045&start=5670

great build Mike! I especially like the finish.

Thank you all so much for your comments—I truly appreciate them. Jan

Hello All, I’d like to share my experience building the Jetmads C-21A kit, based on production number 204 out of 500. While the kit is definitely buildable, it requires significant effort and patience to achieve a good result. Unfortunately, despite my initial high expectations, the project turned out to be a major disappointment. That said, I’m still glad to have the C-21 in my collection. The kit is a mixed bag. While some areas are decent, the overall design and production quality are poor. The packaging is premium, though I didn’t care much for that. The Cartograf-printed decals are excellent, but it would’ve been great to have decals for the wooden interior parts. The kit could benefit from PE parts or 3D decals, especially for the IP, which is poorly printed and difficult to fix. The printed seatbelts are also useless; PE, 3D, or fabric ones would have been far better. It’s puzzling why they didn’t include masks for the cabin windows, given that the designer had all the data. Manually creating two sets of masks was a hassle, especially since the windows aren't uniform in size or shape. The instructions are average, with small, low-quality color schemes, forcing you to rely on references. It’s frustrating considering there’s a beautifully printed internal cover that adds no value. There’s also no front view for the wing dihedral, which is crucial since nothing helps guide the correct wing position. Sanding the fuselage was the most rewarding part, but many 3D parts were subpar. Some small parts were so poorly printed that I had to replace them with plastic profiles. The resin parts were disappointing—after six months in rather cool dry storage, both wings and stabilizers warped. All the main resin parts had some defects. Wings had visible 3D printing texture which had to be sanded down. One wing was not fully casted, where part of aileron was missing, The horizontal stabilisers are not the same size, one of it is smaller by 1 to 2mm on trailing edge of elevator, rudder is too short in upper part which needs to be adjusted by some plastic profile. Wings do not have same thickness of the profile, horizontal stabilisers ditto. All, proud moments of Jetmads quality control. Ventral fin is off in vertical geometry or to state it mildly the whole rear resin section of the fuselage is off in geometry so some compromise with proper adjustment is required here. Clear parts are disappointing as well. Front cockpit windows are too small creating 2mm gap on one side. To get some decent fix you need to sand down heavily the front fuselage part and mounts of clear parts. Another proud moment of the quality control. Cabin windows have visible layers and the guy did not consider during the design that maybe people will sand down the main fuselage part and paint the windows frame so again you will need to adjust fuselage part and windows to get some decent flat fit. The fit of the main interior parts is so bad that for the first time in my modelling life I went mad or maybe (jet)mad, because literally all parts had to be heavily sanded down sometimes loosing big portion of it including details to get decent fit. All seats needed to be adjusted by some profiles and sanded down heavily. The pilot seats are in their own league. With so many references and high resolution pics around one could wonder what was the intention of the designer to design such, and let’s stay polite, simplified generic seats (it looks like some generic simplified design for some 1/72 seats of unknown plane???), which instead of most of the interior are clearly visible through the front cockpit windows? So yet another proud moment of the quality control. Fit of fuselage parts is tricky with different thickness especially between rear fuselage resin part and main fuselage 3D part. However, the front 3D fuselage part did not fit far better and extensive use of putty, sending and polishing is required here.Most of the panel lines had to be rescribed, thankfully there is not a lot of them on C-21. To achieve final geometry of fuselage, wings and tail is undertaking by itself without any designed proper support system. And finally the wingtip fuel tanks. Honestly, once I checked the parts I was laughing. They are ridiculous low quality, with different cross section when compared to each other and definitely does not have the circle cross section. And the guy decided to split it to accommodate the front parts of the U-36A version. But why? To save cost or weight? With the wisdom of hindsight I went back through the emails I have received during the waiting for the kit to be delivered. And in the first email announcing the delay there was this statement (quote): “It has been our practice to have three independent and experienced modellers, non JETMADS members, build two kits each before we start shipments of any release. Our team makes several test builds before any production for sure and to us all seemed to be ok in general, however these outsiders have flagged out areas of improvement during their builds in early May, giving common feedback leading to the necessity of some redesign of a few parts and modification of some others for a better assembly, fit and modelling experience.” So who was checking what and when??? That remains a mystery to me. Jetmads should have done better. And I hope they’ve improved with their more recent releases. Thanks for looking, and sorry for the long post and low-quality photos. Jan

wow, this is great Walrus Bruce! congrats on crossing the finish line with HPH kit. I really like your finish and chosen subject.

Very sad to hear about your loss Kev. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Jan

Super finish and interesting camo Miloslav! wow!

Well, looks like impressive model. I have expected such price, catapult/base seems to be included which is nice touch and justify the price even more. And while HPH kits deserve a lot of attention and patience, their chosen subjects are exclusive. And the most important - it's flying boat! we need more planes in 1/32 that can land at sea and take off again

Superb build Dave! Amazing finish

Great build Chuck, wow! The finish is awesome

wow that is one great build Miloslav!

new rebox - SWS 23 https://hobby.ec.volks.co.jp/item/4518992232492.html

Would love to have one as well Thierry, but I hope that they will keep price somewhere in 600-700€ range, when considering there are no engines and no undercarriage and I would guess they will sell catapult separately. They will be in Moson during the weekend so maybe we will have some price estimate.

Mirek posted some progress on this one https://www.modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=105045&start=5580