Gerhard

That is fantastic. How did you bend the perspex tubing?

You are lucky, mine just walk without a word.

You are lucky, mine just walk without a word.

Just DM me with your email, I'll share the folders on Google Drive.
 
Same for anybody who is interested.

Nice builds.  I like the spotted A6M2 model 21.  I’ve got an early A6M5 model 52 with collector exhausts going in the “Turning Japanese” group build.  That will also be a Rabaul based aircraft but the camouflage scheme will be the standard Mitsubishi built D1 green over J3 SP olive grey.  

Your A6M5 has a decent scheme as well but unfortunately, that zero is not an A6M5c, if it’s the Tamiya kit, it’s a straight A6M5, model 52.  The M5c has 13mm machine guns outboard of each wing cannon and little bomb racks under each wing.  The cowl is also quite different than the earlier A6M5.
 
Not a huge issue but thought you should know the differences (some of them anyway, there are several others).  Overall, we’ll done!

Anytime, Tolga!
John

Very very nice. 

We spent a week there, was fantastic. 

We spent a week there, was fantastic. 

Brilliant, just brilliant work. 

Finally I can say "Done". Not everything worked out as I imagined (wanted) - maybe next time .
This S-92.2 was used as "flying laboratory" to verify flight parameters and performances in Czechoslovakian Aerospace research institute during 1947 (mostly flown by J. Maňák).
 
CS-92.3 is on the table...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
And here's my insipration:
 
 
 
 

And here’s where we are now- gloss coat applied.. but lots of fiddly bits to go…more paint..etc..

The Model Monkey parts are outstanding. The fit is perfect! Steve at Model Monkey made me a template of the wood floor area from his CAD file, and I used that to cut the decals. Thanks Steve! You the man!
 
Look at how cool this is-

 
more to follow-
 
cheers
Pete

Right, back to it after the Christmas and New Year, and having a wonderful visit by my folks out of the UK.

Spent some time doing the engine, most of the work on the front cylinder banks, the test won't be seen. Hasegawa didn't intend for the engine to be displayed with cowls off or anything like that - the rear of the cylinder banks are cast open - so only the front faces have detail on them. So I've added a bit here and there like ignition leads, etc, but quite restrained


I haven't given the engine a detail wash or anything like that yet, except I popped a bit of True-Earth warm and black effects on the cylinders themselves just to alter the tones.
The exhausts were sprayed with AK burnt metal followed by various Lifecolor rust effects


Dry-fitted to the fuselage



Gear covers have been modified - the main covers are the CMK offerings that had some of the kit support braces added to it as there were only two, not three resin parts supplied per side. Easy job though doing the transplant.



I kept the kit inner doors though - the CMK items didn't have enough going for them as far as detail and eases of fit to surpass the kit ones - the CMK ones have no attachment point cast between them and the fuselage, so except for a few ejector pin marks, the kit doors were the winners.



The main event of this kit is the oblique cannon - unfortunately Hasegawa cast this as a clear part that has some accuracy and attachment to fuselage issues. They want you to attach it to the fuselage before the rear canopy is attached....and with me that's really asking me to break it!

So what I've done is pop a piece of brass tubing into a hole I drilled out in the rear deck. The angle of the tube matches the angle required between the deck and canopy opening for the cannon. This was then sanded flush and filled where neccessary. Couple of rivets around the opening makes it look better!





Above you can see the tubing just below the deck. The hole was continued through the kit spacer bulkhead, and the end of the barrel sits against a piece of styrene I added to ensure that the barrel does not fall through, and extends the muzzle the correct height through the canopy opening.
Then it's just a simple case of inserting it into the tube through the canopy opening at the end of the build.



Some work on the cockpit - as mentioned before, the hood is going to be closed on this one, so I'm not going to do too much detailing on the inside ( I did go to town on my Tamiya Zero I built a few years ago though) - just detail painting and kit decals will be used for the instruments - below are pics before washes, decals, etc- just painted and chipped in places.



Hasegawa supplies the "rubber band" used for the seat raising/lowering mechanism - nice touch! Didn't have that on the Tamiya Zero.


Will most likely add just a bit of the hydraulic piping on the cockpit floor - that which will be visible just on the right side of the seat.


Pilot seat chipped and ready for belts. Still in two minds whether to attempt to build the pilot figure - never painted a figure in my like before!


Below is one of the only fit issues I've come across so far - the forward deck's (part M11) fit to the fuselage is not great. There is a spacer below that in the fuselage (D48) that I've had to trim the length of the locating lugs already to get the fuselage halves to sit closer, but it's still not 100% yet. Problem is the whilst the upper fuselage needs to be a close fit at the top (and I cant modify part M11, as it is the key piece for the windscreen), the fuselage will needs to be spread a tad at the the bottom of the firewall in order to accept the lower wing moulding. Fun and games, but nothing that more dry-fitting and light sanding won't cure. Will probably need a bit of filler as well...which is a pity, because in the rest of my dry-fitting regime with the rest of the kit parts, it's really really good! It wouldn't surprise me if this area is the only area that needs filler, the kit's moulding is that good.






And lastly (apologies for the soft focus), kit guns assembled (final paint to come), but with the barrels cut off, and the Master brass barrels for the MG's and cannons all ready to go.



Cheers Iain

I've tried to recreate a vignette, based this photo of one of the planes of Matsuo Hagiri together with some of his 'colleagues' on board the carrier Soryo.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
The Special Hobby kit is 'High tech' in the sense that it's including resin details of the engine and cockpit, as well as fret of photoetched details.
 
https://www.specialhobby.eu/en/1/1/a5m4-claude-hi-tech-1-32.html?&listtype=search&searchparam=A5M4
 
Build thread is here:  https://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?/topic/94082-mitsubishi-a5m4-the-father-of-the-zero/
 
Thanks for looking....
 
Cheers: Kent

hello all and thank you for your feedback.. I don't currently have a hosting site but here are some photos posted on a French forum
dedicated to radio controlled helicopters. these photos are from 2020 and show the finished assembly work.
the construction was done phase by phase each part being put aside once finished and in 2020
I made this assembly. Since then I disassemble everything part after part for the paint job dimensions of the machine rotor diameter 140 cm. cell length 140 cm.
Cheers
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Superb!! 

The first Dragon release was the C-7.
 
The instructions were as dodgy as a $3 bill ... but the kit itself was A+ ... dimensionally accurate, great (while restrained) in detail, with a nice finish due to excellent fit ... 
So if you followed the modellers dictum of - measure/dry fit thrice, cut/glue once - you'd spot the errors in the instructions well before you ended up looking like a noob!
... and all without the hassle of trying to make erroneous parts fit!
 
Several people developed an "errata" sheet of notes while building it ... probably the best example being Brett Greens' on the Hyperscale site.
Honestly, though?? ... of all the things to possibly be wrong with the kit - the instructions (as hard to work through in places as they were) are a storm in a tea cup!
 
Dragon ... being very receptive of feedback, correctly amended the instructions for future boxings ... AND for reissues of the C-7 boxing.
 
Since Revell (using the Dragon plastic for their release) made their own instruction sheet, their boxing was a non-issue ... and I'd have every confidence that Hobby 2000 will present something similar.
 
Buy with confidence ... the Dragon / Cyber Hobby Bf.110's and Bf.109E's are about as good as it gets in all departments.
 
Rog

Ouch. That's over twice what I paid for my HKM mk4.  I'll pass.

So, here goes, i finally got this one done.. it is covered in a 15 part, yes 15 part video build on my YT channel.
 
I feel this is the best kit I have ever built, the plastic is a dream to work with, the fit is simply incredible, decals are gorgeous and the clear parts are some of the best I've ever seen. The only downside is a couple of small errors in the instructions and not too good colour guides, but I think these have been done by Ammo?? I made a separate video covering these errors.
 
 
 




 
Thanks for looking..
 
Nige

The F-4J Phantom II Tamiya 1:32 is a modeling classic. Made straight out of the box.
 

What, no engine? Uhm, no thanks then.

Too rich for my blood, for now. We still planning our Canada trip, just waiting for visas. Airfares are a killer though. 

Goodness. That is superb!!!

WOW, what a brilliant effort. Looking real good. 

This time the model Su-27 Flanker UAF Trumpeter 1:32
The model in Didgital camouflage of the Ukrainian Air Force about the model itself I think it makes no sense to write too much is not the best model but there is also no alternative in 1:32 scale
 
I will try to add more photos in the near future, unfortunately I have technical problems with the memory card.