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Damn, I was hoping you would say Beaufighter 😉

Damn that looks nice! I love the subtle weathering /Niels

Hmm - Did not realize that. Ah well, I already pre-ordered 😉

Choose your next words carefully @BiggTim 😁

Agreed - they should consider selling their boxart as frameable prints. They are all quite nice.

Me too - I have not fully jumped at the Kotare hype yet ( I have the first kit only ) but this really got my attention. Gotta love the PRU Blue Spits

2000 copies will be produced /Niels

Fair enough, however all Trumpeter kits are like this in my experience. Test fitting everything over and over again is the key to avoiding problems. Especially all the open hatches etc. They never fit when built closed. They are certainly not the best in the world but I often feel they get too much of a bad Rep. They produce some decent kits of subjects no one else would ever touch, but they do require much more work than a Tamiya kit (not that they are perfect at all ). PS. I HATE metal landing gears! They are awful in every way imaginable in my opinion...

I built my A-6E gear down and it went together quite well. I found it to be one of the very best Trumpeter kits I have built in fact. My biggest issue was that the nose, if assembled separately as per instructions, will not fit the fuselage without a bad step. This will result in a lot of sanding and lost detail. I decided to glue each half of the nose to the corresponding fuselage halfs before closing them. This leaves a gap down the middle of the nose which is much easier to deal with. The large panels shown above are a bit tricky to fit but with a lot of dry fitting and sanding they will go together fine..

You could also consider this set of 3D printed landing gear. Its quite nice and plenty strong to carry the finished model (The plastic landing gear in the kit is also strong enough)

That is not too bad to be honest..

I have the Hobby Boss kit but never got around to building it. Don't think I will now knowing that there is a possibility of a 1/32 kit.. Niels

There are already 2 Su-34 kits available in 1/48 (Hobby Boss and Kitty Hawk). Admitted they are not exactly known for accuracy..

Myyy precious... 🙂 I was planning to gift this to myself for my 50th last year but now it is finally mine!! It is a daunting sight opening the box and it seems like an insurmountable task.. but it's good to get out of your comfort zone I have heard. It is not going to be my next build but with HpH seemingly closing up shop, I wanted to get my hands on it before it was too late.. or 3x the price on eBay.. Niels

Hi You might know that Russian based company Temp Models are releasing a 3D printed limited run Su-34 in 1/48, but on their latest facebook update, they also teased that it will be made available in 1/32. The price tag for their 1/48 kit is a whopping $318 so I don´t even dare speculate what a 1/32 kit of this su-27 on steroids would be.. No info on timeline, price or anything really.. /Niels

Any news about that Rafale kit? It has been nothing but silence since the "announcement" Niels

Really nice work! Niels

Now someone also snagged the last PBY Catalina - one of my "most wanted" kits - I know this because it was ME!! 😁🙄 /Niels

You should change your name in here from Bonkin to Bonkers! - This build is just crazy in all the right ways 😀 /Niels

"biblical" - I knew it! finally time for a Beaufighter 😃

Meng

Thanks for the reply. It was indeed because I noticed they posted a big restock of your items I thought of perhaps seeing the kit in retail as well.. Niels

@airscale any chance you will sell a few kits via the Aviation Megastore? That way some of us can avoid the very high handling fees from our local postal services? Niels

I took the plunge and ordered one of these last month. I will soon be using mine on a Polish F-16 conversion (Tamiya) so stay tuned for my WIP thread if you want to see how it will fit. Spoiler.. the dry fit looks to be very good Niels

Beautiful work! Love the display as well Niels