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You need to go direct to model monkey.com and then click on news and specials. Hope that helps. Regards. Andy

Hi Pete, Never thought of that but will remember for the future. Thanks for the tip!! Regards. Andy

With a day at home I spent this morning removing parts from the support tree's which is tricky as the resin used to print these parts is pretty brittle so its a case of slowly but surely! A test fit of parts shows all location points/ etc on parts to fit to the tub are slightly over size and need trimming to fit. Here is the cockpit tub with seat, instrument panel and a few other bits and pieces test fitted. The control column is a pretty delicate part with a lot of support tree to remove. and as careful as I was I sill managed to break it Fortunately I still have the broken parts so some careful reconstruction required. Speaking of broken parts I found one of the fuselage halves had a massive crack in it coming from the wing root area. Here it is with a large amount of Tamiya extra thin applied. I'm thinking I need to be pretty careful with this old plastic as I dont want to have these numerous repairs going on and I've not even started removing the old internal cockpit location tabs etc. My plan is to get the new cockpit tub fit sorted between the fuselage halves before moving on to a re-scribe of the airframe. Thank you all for looking in on this one and hopefully I can do some justice to this old kit. Regards. Andy

I've been wanting to build this one for some time now but when I saw Model Monkey had been working on 3-D printed cockpit and tail plane update sets I decided it was time take the plunge and dust this kit down. When my update parts arrived I have to say I was super happy with the quality of these 3-D printed parts far far better than any I had seen before. I have always wanted to build a RCAF coastal command machine with a full complement of rockets so I also ordered the Aviaeology "Canadians in Coastal Command # 1 "decal set as well. Very impressed with the packaging from Model Monkey, everything carefully bubble wrapped and in perfect condition on reaching me. So first things first I will carefully remove the cockpit tub from its printing blocks and check the fit between the fuselage halves. As you can see, the quality and detail of the 3-D printed part is pretty flawless but needs some careful work to remove the tree from the main part. So with a quite day at home planned I'm looking foward to start breathing some new life in to this old kit! Regards. Andy

Very impressive Kent. Regards. Andy

Very nice indeed, your masking work is exceptional and the colour scheme looks fantastic. Regards. Andy

Like this one Brian, a very well thought out build. Regards. Andy

Just brilliant Mike, I really am on your updates on this wonderful Fokker build. Regards.

Now this is shaping up nicely, really like what you are doing here! Regards. Andy

Would be fantastic to see you back on this build. Regards. Andy

Absolutely amazing and good to see you working on this one again Alex! Regards. Andy

Stunning finish. Regards. Andy

Truly exceptional build. Regards. Andy

Excellent news to see you back with a WIP Kev and great subject. Looking foward to your progress. Regards. Andy

See what you mean about the conductor guy in the middle Kent! Forgot about those Airfix multi pose figures from way back as well. Regards. Andy

Very nice colour scheme and good job on the repair. Regards. Andy

After finding out that John has just retired his vac mould tool for the lower floor and completely re-vamped his G-6 set I ordered 3 new resin parts from the new set to try and help with this build. Very happy with what I recieved. and the old vac floor Very heavy panel lines so this is now in the bin now I have the new resin parts. However the new floor needs a little work for it to fit as I was quite a way in to the cockpit build before this update was released. Also I need the foward wing spar in place as a Fw-190 will be sitting above. The new resin lower nose piece to replace the clear kit is really good but once again I need to cut this to fit my build as I am to far on to use it as is but still a usefull part for e on my build. Also made a start on the engine nacelles as I was feeling the need to make a mess and cut and build some nice big chunky parts! Its only three parts but needed lots of time due to trim, test fit, hot water, adjust. hot water, adjust ........... and took quite some time to get to this point. and once taked together with cyno I added epoxy resin internally to give strength to the assembly to stop it falling apart. and a quick test fit of the assembly to the wing. Minimal filling required on the main joint and ery happy with progress today, Port side nacelle next as well as cutting the foward cockpit floor to fit Regards. Andy

Thank you Kent, will be keeping this one clean assuming just a shake down flight after being rolled off the production line. Regards. Andy

Those seats look just brilliant Kent and with no seat belts was probably safer than the occupants of the cabin below I'm guesing!! Regards. Andy

Coming along nicely. Regards. Andy

Excellent finish Gaz, I like the way you have just gone for s quick fun build and forget the historical accuracy side of things. Very nice. Regards. Andy

Just like my Tamiya Corsair Max, a beautiful kit but I just got plain bored with it. Lovely work on the Harvard by the way. Regards. Andy

Now that looks damn nice Chris. Really like what you have done with it. Regards. Andy

Looks really nice Joachim, coming along nicely. Regards. Andy

Very nice work indeed. Regards. Andy