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- I started from the engine, removed plastic spark plugs and made new ones using Vectrocut's nuts, needle pieces (0.5mm diameter) and cooper wires - painted in black as a primer and covered with aluminium on top of it, spark plugs in white and used brow wash in the end. When everything was dry I added spark plug wires - exhaust was painted in cooper - seat doesn't look as original, firstly I thought about making a new from a plastic sheet, then just decided to drill some holes. Anyway inside a cockpit with seat-belts the difference will not be noticeable to be continued....

let's start build from a small kit review. Actually it's an old Academy kit with new decals, thus it doesn't have a lot of details and very poor. - wings are not too bad, ribs should be sanded a bit - as I said interior is very poor, I do not have square plastic to make interior ribs, so I will need to wait with it and order -wheels are not correct - on Ni.17 there were no stitching on covers (as far as I know), also they should be sanded - yes both interior sides should be sanded)) - very nice decals though, for a lot of different options - kit has a wire - so nice of you, Academy/Italeri, but it should go to a garbage bin)))

Thank you guys for your feedback, really appreciate it Yes, you are right

Hi everyone, I decided to join this GB with quite old model from Italeri Pilot will Francesco Baracca, 1917, just because I'm a huge Ferrari fan and, based on one of the theories Enzo Ferrari chose his symbol - horse, for a new company. No progress so far, just a kit photos

Also I submitted video about engine build on my channel.

And more photos

Some more photos

OK so final photos, hope you will enjoy it

Work under mistakes: tail was repainted and has 13 stripes, as it suppose to be on a real plane - put everything together and I can say that model is completed a final photo session will be a bit later

yeah, that's true, thanks for point me on that mistake, I will repaint the tail

Thank you, I really try to do my best on every single model. And not just in models, but in life in general, I believe that if you do not, than what's the point even to start... Meanwhile, small update with the build: - kit offers to use decals for a rudder, but I decided to paint it - drilled some holes and added wires, I know they should be a bit thicker, but I do not have such a wire, sorry (a perfectionist inside me screams ) - Roden is one of the companies that gained during this lock-downs and pandemic, they finally managed to make an awesome decals. In this kit they are thing, do not brake, even without using Set/Sol look good These pictures were taken before covering decals with additional future layer. Thanks for watching, to be continued...

Completed a video about cockpit

Final update for this year - engine is completed - painted anti-slippery lines, removed masks and covered model with Future It's drying till next year. Happy New year to every one!!!

maybe that's the reason, yeah))) no, of course they are not, good catch though

Thanks. Christmas long weekend was very productive -painted wings in yellow, firstly I used Hataka paint for Early US planes colors, but I didn't like how it looks (used half of bottle and it was not too bright) so I repainted everything with Mr.Hobby RLM 04 Here, on left, you can see Mr.Hobby and on right - Hataka all wings are covered with Mr.Hobby RLM 04 yellow parts are covered and fuselage was painted in blue I like it very much, even though its an American plane, but it looks so Ukrainian )))

Thank you guys, let's proceed: - I painted all fuselage tubes and glues all cockpit details together - surprisingly, I spent very little amount of putty - while putty was drying, I decided to work a bit with engine. I removed plastic wires - glued both engine halves together - using nuts, medical needles and wires I made.... this hedgehog also painted all engine details in black - fuselage and wing were sanded - and covered with primer - to be continued.....

Thank you for replies. small update, that's what I managed to do this weekend: - painted all tubing interior parts with interior green, seats - aluminum, added PE seat belts, dashboards and other parts - glued all cage together - painted inside fuselage parts in red brown - as you can see, another "perfect" fit - it's RODEN baby))) luckily - it easily can be fixed - found my prototype picture

Thanks guys, so let's start - this kit has not ideal plastic, I would say 6 out of 10, so I spent 2 evenings to remove, send, give nice shape for interior details for example seats, they were awful - glued together some interior parts, radio, control stick (it also was not straight), pedals etc. - painted all interior parts in black quick question - what color should I use for interior sides of fuselage? instruction says light red brown, but I have some doubts about it. On real planes that I found pictures, they have different colors: plain metal, grey, blue (to match outside colors), so I'm a bit confused

Hello colleagues. I would like to share my recent completed model MikroMir 1/32 Fokker E.V/D.VIII. I wanted to do a quick build and to spend not more than 2 weeks (my vacation), but it's the MikroMir - so I spent more than one month. The kit itself has a lot of issues and mistakes, however the prototype is very interesting, i decided to build a checkerboard option, pilot - Ltn.Z.See Gotthard Sachseberg, Marine Field Jagdgruppe I, Flandern, Coolkerke Airfield. August 1918. You can find the process here Also, you can visit my YouTube channel and find interesting videos there. Hope you will enjoy it. Thanks for watching

Let me join this Group build with the new model from Roden - PT-17 Kaydet, I will use PE parts from Eduard: seatbelts and interior, they are both for ICM kit, but I think there will be no problems. Hope will be able to finish it by the end of Group build, so fingers crossed)))

Ok, so I can say that the model is COMPLETED. Of course, there are some mistakes and errors, but I enjoyed the process and the result, this is the most important for me. Moreover, this light doesn't show all "50 shades of grey" ))) perhaps will take some other pictures during summertime Hope you will enjoy watching as well.

Thank you guys!!! what about Airco DH.2 and other pushers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSR6BK9KCyA&t=2s

new update: - mask and painted black anti slippery walk sides - attached engine, painted inside parts of cowler - moved windscreen a bit back, thanks again for point on that - covered model with future and waiting for decals