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  1. IainM
    She is looking great!!!!
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    I'm very happy to see @Pastor John is still plodding forward - and still praying and hoping for a full recovery for his hands! His offerings are top-notch, and I hope to see a lot more from him in the future.
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    That is a HUGE difference of the original vac part! I can see why you went that route!!!! Peter @airscale is an absolute legend!
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    What a magnificent looking build! You've done an excellent job, nice write-up! Well done
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    Great work @Tolga ULGUR I love seeing any Bf110 coming together, and you have produced a very fine result! Well done!!
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    Beautiful beautiful beautiful!!
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    That AM IP set looks great! Certainly easier than painting the individual dials by hand..... Looking very forward to seeing the rest of the build, happy to see the AIMS set being used as well! @Pastor John has really got a great line-up of goodies for the 110's!
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    I believe those were link/casing ejection ports for as far as I'm aware for the Mg131's that were present up to the D-9ish variant. They definitely shouldn't be present on the Ta152 which only had 2x20m and 1x30mm cannon, the ejection ports which are also visible there.
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    Yep, those are the ones I used as well, but I think they're OOP in 1/32 now? I think the post might need to be really slightly more rounded in profile, but I just used them as they are, and sitting on the bottom of the fuselage they look just fine.
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    I converted a Tamiya Birdcage into a -2 variant some years ago using the Lone Star conversion and the Montex marking set. Unfortunately it didn't like the transit in a container from the ME to NZ (although I had boxed it well), so I would be very keen on building a new one. I new -2 conversion set would be most welcome, and I would be very keen on getting one to make a new -2 kit. The LS conversion set was a lot of hard work to make look good, the exhaust dampers were only just passable to say the least. As for the two T-shaped antenna below the fuselage, they would be quite finicky and fragile to print. I used the Owl set (OOP) for mine, but I would quite happily SB those if they weren't included in the set. Also note that the aerial lead configuration in the -2 was quite different to the -1, so scour the web if you're planning to build a -2 - but there are some good images/references out there
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    Beautiful! What a lovely scheme and finish! Those machines were such raw power in the flesh, I used to watch them at Thunder City back in the day. A sight to behold Well done!
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    I must second @LSP_Kevin comment! Firstly, stoked to hear Cameron is in the clear, and on the road to recovery! I know there's still a bit of a path to walk, but such good news for all of you! Secondly, and yes, less importantly......welcome back and she is looking marvelous! Must catch up for a coffee and chin-wag soon!
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    Thirded!!!
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    Wow, that is just beautiful!!!!!! Well well done!!!
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    @DeanKB Thanks for that interesting info!!
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    Hi Wayne I hear you! I wasn't aware that the Japanese had fitted a Zero with an oblique cannon until Hasegawa released this kit....but having then done some very light research, I can only surmise it was a stop-gap feature for homeland defense to counter the B29 bombing raids over Japan towards the very end of the war. I do think that the pilots of these Zero's must have had some hearing issues after flying a mission - even though the muzzle is outside of the canopy, it still sits pretty close to the pilot.....desperate time, desperate measures. I think though that the pilots ears would be ringing......
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    Cheers for that! Yes, if I was going to have the hood open I would have done it with a belt draped elsewhere, but since it's going to be closed in order to display the 20mm cannon, there was not much point as nothing much in the cockpit is going to be seen
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    Here is the link to the video tutorial. From LPJ Models I do think the wings look off-ish because of the lens perspective. I'm only using a cheap kit lens, and because of my lighting setup, I can't get a proper angle to shoot true perspective. I never compared my Tamiya kit to this Hasegawa one, but this Hasegawa kit looks OK to my eye. Cheers!
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    I thought I had done an intermediate update on this build, but obviously not..... In any case, this is how the build stands at the moment - All major components have been fitted, filled where necessary (quite a bit around the forward upper insert), sanded, primed, re-sanded and filled the problem areas (you know how it goes), then enamel wash in the panel lines to see if I'd missed anything and whether the detail I'd sanded and rescribed were OK. Happy with how it has turned out - a few minor things, but not in places that are obvious/visible, so I'm going to leave it at that. Next step will be to mask off the canopy area from the grey primer areas, and spray a coat of the required Japanese Green colour over the black, which is the interior framing colour. Once that's done, the HGW rivet set gets laid down, followed by the various paint layers. As an aside - the box art on the kit shows a Nakajima built machine (giveaway is the up-sweep of the green demarcation paint job towards the horizontal stabs), but the instruction colour call-outs are all for a Mitsubishi built machine. So as I only realized this issue after I'd built/painted the cockpit, etc in Mitsubishi colours, I'm going to be altering the exterior paint job to suit a Mitsubishi built machine, with the constant demarcation line from wing root to tail. So just something to be aware of if you ever build this kit - change your interior/wheel well/cowling colours to suit the painting profiles as given in the kit. Iain
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    Very nice work there @Tolga ULGUR! Love the way you've blended the fairing in. Can't wait to see the final product!!! Glad to have someone like @Pastor John that gives us detail sets like this so that builds like this can happen!
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    Every time you post something Peter I am absolutely gobsmacked! And that does not even begin to describe it!! Outstanding work!
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    Meticulous does not describe it @Anthony in NZ....... Looking gorgeous!!
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    Great! My favourite aircraft, will look forward to see this one being built!
  24. IainM
    What would a marvelous build like this be without another bump!?
  25. IainM
    Cheers Anthony! Appreciate such comments from one of the Masters...!
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