Bozzaroo

Will there ever be a 32 kit ??? Love the build!!! Question - didn't Swedish volunteers fly the Whirlwind in the WW2??

Hmm isn't summer upthere? If not we are in trouble

Just blame it on the cold - I can't even pickup a box as it's too cold

That's the one I used for my base - still working on start working on the P-40, but it is on the bench

Pretty much every picture I have seen of the J9 has the windows in the baggage hatch

Someone here (building a stuka) a long time ago posted a song that I can't get out of my head!!!! Credits to whoever that was!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ULy8zxj_Y Not sure how to post youtube things ..

Thanks guys - if I can't find the rudder I'll make a new one, but not until I have gone through the whole floor Once I cleaned up the mess it's on to the P-40 to complete my marsden mat dio

BTW anyone building this with MDC (or what ever it's called) conversion - don't pick it up by the body, as the float is really heavy and can (as it did) come lose - that's why the rudder is missing and I'm still looking for that - has to be in the room somewhere, if the cat didn't eat it?!?! Some build pics And to anyone building a rufe with the MDC thingy - build the body first before even start on the lower wing, I didn't and the float support part is out by a degree which means that the engine and all the mounts are the same - so I had to break off the little flap (infront of the float mount) and then readjust it over the engine low air intake - so make sure you have everything lined up!

Hi guys, Finally manage to finish this one - took me a couple of years off and on but it's done! If nothing else - Elvis the Peacock seems interested Cheers Bengt

Building a rufe myself - with the Tamyia and the resin Rufe conversion from MDC. But the weather down here is a bit on the cold side so I have lots of problems getting glue and plastic to stick together properly! One thing you might want to consider is to use the landing gear screws to attach the external float supports as I manage to break both support plugs off as the resin is a bit soft - seems to work as at least they haven't fallen off yet Will be following this one ... Bengt

Thanks guys - I did dip/brush them in future but something must have reacted with them as they are looking really blasted from the time I took the masks of! BTW Kev, prepare yourself for some bad weather, it's artic uphere today and guess you'll get it in a day or two!

Hi all, Here is my latest - OOB and only problem I had was the clear parts that for some reason turned out to sand blasted (guess that could have happen in the desert?!?) Cheers Bengt

Thanks for all the nice comments .. Nic I can't really remember where I got the psp base, either I bought it from Sprue Brothers or from Ebay but it's a long time ago. It comes unpainted in a yellow tinted resin. Cheers Bengt

Of course .. I would be honoured! Bengt

hi guys, finished my SBD sort of, lost a lot of my the clear parts and the pilot bar to the carpet monster and I been looking for hours and hours but they just don't pop back up! this is what I was inspired from! Here is the build! Cheers Bengt

Well the figures are still on the workbench (funny how heads, arms and legs suddenly deside to fall off when I do try to sit down and do some painting!?!) but I been distracted by real life things and also a rufe that is half done, and a sbd-3 which is done (except for some lost clear bits, and a weathering that just wont come out the way I want it). Thinking I might start the P-40 to get me away from the figures for awhile, but then I either have to finish up the rufe and the sbd-3 or pack them away and I don't like the idea with all the soft parts sticking out everywhere. BTW Mike it's will be an aussie P-40 and thinking that at Milne Bay it was a bit ruff specially with the Japanese coming up the road so that's why I wanted them to look like a sad old bunch with not much consideration for how they looked or old equipment laying around .. still I might take away a few think as it does look very busy if I add all of it.

Thanks Kev, I'm thinking the same way, the problem I have is that I want to glas it in, and if I turn it too much I'll have to cut wingtips off etc, but that might not be all that bad in the end anyway. Bengt

Thanks DB, I'll try and flat the colour down and also give them some different shades of grey (eh green I mean) Ok so I'm trying to work out the dio and where everything should be going, still working on the figure painting but I'm getting there I hope! someone (thing) flying above?? The P-40b (Tiger build from last year) would be close to the size of the 40e so just to give you an idea of what I thinking - please give me some feedback if I'm on the wrong track, maybe I should have the plane turning the other way?!?! Cheers Bengt

I'm thinking of putting a canvas over my top of the P-40 at my dio, if you are doing a diorama then that's a way of getting away with a bad canopy (you still have the pics of what your are doing in the cockpit!) Just a thought that I'm playing with as I realised that i like painting more than building (or is it the otherway around)

Not an artist sorry (still thanks Kent) and now I will prove it .. figure paintig, just can't get it - but here is an update never the less I will patch up some of the really bad stuff but I can't paint these things .. give me rust or durt or anything So any idea's where I go wrong, please let me know! Cheers Bengt

Hi Kev, I think I got both from either SprueBrothers or Squadron but it's years ago before they stopped sending by US post - as I don't have an address where I live, and they can't do PO Box so I can't order from them anymore (Have a few other dio things like balsa wooden carrier deck for both a US and Japanse display that I will tackle down the track) Best bet would probably be to keep an eye on Ebay they seem to pop-up there from time to time! Cheers Bengt

Hi Marcelo, The psp plate is a resin already pressed with the psp part and a corner of vegetation - it comes in a light yellowing resin which I didn't know at time when I bought it, as the pic showed it already painted, so it's been laying around for years before I desided to give it a go and paint and add greens! (so I have no idea who makes it but I have one more base for a luftwaffe wood plank hardstand, which is the same so it could be the same company Just Plane Stuff who made this - not sure) The beat-up drums I bought on Ebay, and others is some Tamiya supply kits same with the anvil and few other little things. The starter trolley is from a french guy, who does a few things like that and also sells them on Ebay. My problem is that I have too many things going on at the same time, so the working table is a mess with bits and pieces everywhere ... got no idea why I do that to myself! Let me know if there is anything else you want to know Cheers Bengt

Thanks Kev, actually the table looks better in the pics than in real life - that's a first for me

Hade some more details done - not sure about the table but here is the anvil, fuel pump and working table! and this is the idea of how to put it all together .. do wish I had Rutman's way with figures Now there is some artistic freedom with the pump - it's a tank jack from a Panzer IV bent and shaped so if it looks stupid please let me know and I will try something else! Cheers Bengt

Thanks Derek and Tim - love the photos it seems I'm on the right track! Have been fiddling with the starter trolley so here is a little update! Cheers Bengt