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Learstang

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  1. Built is right. There can't have been much of the wooden components of the original airframe they were able to use. Inevitable with wooden aircraft, I suppose. That's why there are no original LaGG-3s nor La-5s around, flying or otherwise. Still nice to see a rebuilt Mosquito flying, no matter how much of it is original. Regards, Jason
  2. You're very welcome! And thank you! The book should be available in April, according to the latest intel from my publisher. Best Regards, Jason
  3. Every time I read about that smoothly wooden-fuselaged WWI German fighter with the 'V' interplane struts, or the later Czech jet trainer, I hear that in my head, or I even say it out loud, if no one else is about. Regards, Jason
  4. Most impressive! I suppose I need to get started on my 1:1 scale Il-2 Shturmovik in resin. Regards, Jason
  5. You've just given Tom an idea for his next project, after he finishes this one, and the 1/32nd scale Shackleton (actual project - nearly done)! Regards, Jason
  6. Hopefully the book I'm the editor of will be a nice balance! Best Regards, Jason
  7. Nice job on the Spad! Regard, Jason
  8. It does look rather like a kit-bash of two completely different aircraft. A very interesting-looking aeroplane! Regards, Jason
  9. Brilliant work on the Yak-3! Despite your problems with it, this is a kit I'd like to get (unless of course, ICM get to it first!). Just as an historical note, Soviet fighters very seldom had the flaps down on the ground. The control surfaces weren't always at neutral, but it does appear that normally the flaps were up. But yours is the exception and there's nothing wrong with that! Beautiful job! Regards, Jason
  10. Excellent job on the Me 262, also one of my favourite aeroplanes! Welcome to the site! Best Regards, Jason
  11. Blimey! That reminds me I need to change the year on my Tu-16 Badger book! Thanks for the unintended reminder, Kev! Best of luck with your publishing this year! Hopefully, I'll have two books published this year - my book on modelling, and my Tu-16 Badger book. Best Regards, Jason
  12. As I recall, those Yak-1B are resin, aren't they, Dennis? Is the Yak-3 the Special Hobby kit? As you know, I can't get enough GPW Soviet kits. Regards, Jason
  13. To go a bit off-topic for a moment, is that Falco in your avatar the ICM one? That's one I'm seriously considering buying, as I already have the Gladiator, I-153, I-16, and Yak-9T. All lovely kits. Regards, Jason
  14. Beautiful work on that interior! I'm sure you'll survive the wilds of Alsace. Regards, Jason
  15. I agree. A Seafire Mk.XV would be brilliant, in both versions (A-frame hook, and stinger tail). A Seafire Mk.XVII/F.17 would also be brilliant - really one my top favourite two or three Spitfire family variants. It was interesting as it really didn't have a Spitfire equivalent - the nearest would be a bubble-top Mk.XII, I suppose, but none were ever made like this. Regards, Jason
  16. Thank you, Dennis! We definitely need more VVS subjects in 1/32nd scale (if Border Models ruins things by coming out with them in 1/35th scale, I'll probably have a brain embolism!). The Yaks have gotten some love in 1/32nd scale, but it is more than time the Lavochkin fighters were represented in plastic in 1/32nd scale, also. I'm sure the HPH La-7 will look great when finished - as I said in an earlier post, the La-7 was a good-looking aeroplane. One of the most streamlined radial-engined fighters of the war. Best Regards, Jason
  17. A 1/24th scale Mk.XIV? Really, and here all I was hoping for was a conversion kit for a Mk.VII/VIII (hate the fixed tailwheel on the Mk.IX - really spoils the lines whilst in the air, I guess on the ground it doesn't matter, but I still know it's fixed). Regards, Jason
  18. That sir, is the very one! As you can tell from the rusting, it's all made of steel, rivetted to the aluminium rudder structure. Two large rivets hold the 'pickle' to the steel rod. All very sturdy, as you might expect from the Il-2. And you're welcome - I'm very glad I was able to give you some advice in your build! Nice to see that again; I haven't seen that bit in a while - it's presently in a storeroom, along with a nearly priceless top of a wooden fin from an Il-2, complete with a part of a red star and the rest of the painting intact. Best Regards, Jason
  19. That tadpole, the external rudder balance, in my experience is inevitably knocked off during assembly. You are very correct about just cutting it off - that way you can keep it in a safe place until the end of assembly. It's funny, as I have the real item, and you'd need a nine-pound sledgehammer to knock it off the metal rudder structure, and I'm not sure even then you could do it. It's all very solidly built. Regards, Jason
  20. I remember when this article came out. An amazing job! I'd love to see someone do this with one of the HB Il-2s. No, it won't be me. I do not have the skills for such an undertaking. Regards, Jason
  21. It would certainly make sense, but as I'm sure you're aware, not everything in the modelling world makes sense. Still, I'd be first in line for some nice Lavochkins in 1/32nd scale. Regards, Jason
  22. Who cares? At that bastard scale it could have a rotor from the Tarhe on top of the fuselage and I wouldn't care. Me, I'm sticking with 1/130th scale, God's scale. If it was good enough for Revell in the 1950's, it's good enough for me! Regards, Jason
  23. They look under-scale to me. The whole kit looks seriously under-scale to me. Regards, Jason
  24. Most of the early arrows (A/K/A 'Il-2M3) had wooden-covered outer wings, except those from z.18 (the factory which was the headquarters of the Ilyushin OKB), which apparently always built its Il-2s with metal wings as Sergey Ilyushin hated the wooden wings (heavier, easier to damage, and harder to repair). The fixed horizonal stablisers were always metal. Always, whatever Il-2 version. The elevators, like the rudders, and the ailerons (after the early metal-winged single-seaters, which had all-metal ailerons) were of metal structure covered by fabric. And Massimo's site is definitely the place for information overall about the Il-2 (something which I mentioned in an e-mail to him just today). Warning: Shameless Self-Promotion - Other than my book, of course. Best Regards, Jason
  25. You're correct! I realise that ICM don't really venture into big, multi-engine types for their 1/32nd scale kits (although I'd dearly love to see them 'scale-up' their B-26K to 1/32nd scale!). However, the Lavochkin fighters, like the Yak fighters, were fairly small single-engined GPW fighters. These would be right in ICM's wheelhouse, as they say. Regards, Jason
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