dutik

Got 'em! A whole selection of miniatur brass hexnuts made in Germany. www.minischrauben.com Nut widths of 1,5, 1,3, 1,0 millimeters. There are also large hexnuts, but I was looking for the very small sizes for the detailling of lines, fuel lines, brake lines, oxigen lines, you name it. Glamour shot: The mini hex nut (1,3mm here) is located at the cylinderhead an the 3 o'clock position. Time to go ahead with the remaining ignition wires and then the fuel lines for each cylinder head Regards - dutik

Merry Christmas! Keep modelling! Xmas flashmob at the main station (Enable sound!!!) Regards! - dutik

Can you say Moooh! ? Just in case you are not familiar with the Milka cow. Regards - dutik

Vigilantes anybody? Well, this is NOT a jet: ...but I guess you know what it is. (a Mk2, FYI) All homegrown by @Starfighter No, Ben will not print a limited series of Tiger kits. I've asked him about this. He said that the for the CAD available basic datas were way to crude to print a model in good quality. Everything had to be filled and sanded a lot after printing to achieve an at least acceptable surface quality. The printed results are too far away from acceptable standards to be sold to somebody. So no Tiger kit, no Vigilante kit, no Osprey kit, no you-name-it kit Enjoy! - dutik (Eh, if you want to see these live, 3D and with your own eyes - just visit thew Euro Model Expo Lingen/Germany next March. Teaser HERE)

Wish granted: Regards - dutik (Guess who made it - hint: He is a well known LSP member... )

Impressive And it looks at the moment like some kind of scifi starship or anime aircraft: These shapes, the surface textures, the weird mix of grey and black and red colors Regards - dutik

An Etendard might be welcome too. someone mentioned it before. I'd also ask for a Puccara, a better one than the §D print available, but this is a turboprop, so only a "half-jet". Looks like this boils down to the Mig-25 Foxbat. As an encouragement: The canopy is small and simply shaped. If clear 3D printing is not an option (technically to complicated to achieve, or to expensive in good quality) there is the option of providing a vacform canopy (better two) or/and a plug to form your own one. This would also fit the old soviet design approach: Keep it simple and working Regards - dutik

Very nice one! Regards - dutik

Great, great, great! Second to none! Splendid! Wonderful! Leider geil! Running out of superlatives Do you want ot build my copy too? And give it back after painting? Well, I'll keep my fingers crossed to see you and this sweetie at EME 2023! Guess this will be dropped into competition. It's a worth one, indeed! Kudos - dutik

Mig-25 model in large scale teaser... BTW, the Mig-25 was made as simple and sturdy as possible to bring together the Air Force requirements and the production abilities of the soviet industry. Mostly stainless steel, semi-automatic welding for high quality control, only minimal use of titanium, skipping any lifting devices except landing flaps for higher operational speed, and so on. Large use of insulation mats. And 5 kgs of silver. They've coated the inside of the engine compartments with a thin silver layer to reflect the heat away. And it was sturdy. There is a reported landing incident when a Mig-25 banked on the runway and hit the ground with a wing tip at full landing speed. They just had to polish and repaint the wing tip, nothing else. I higly recommend Yefim Gordons book about the Foxbat. Very interesting read and full of stories from the service life of this aircraft. Regards - dutik

This is the nicest chair I've seen for long time! Very nice detailling and a well executed paintjob! I love both the wood finish as well as the subtle textures of the canvas. Great! Also an excellent idea to choose the pilots and the Bf 109 as background and for size comparision. Great choice! You put a lot of efforts of both of them, plane und figures. Very well! This really adds to your fantastic chair diorama Regards - dutik

Stunnig build and paintjob Looks like visibility from the cockpit must have been somewhat limited with the wings right to your left and right. Also the access into and out. Could have been a benefit to have been working as a circus artist before... Interesting construction, indeed. Thank you for sharing! - dutik

The "diner" ("gastronom" in Russian), as nicknamed by the Russians due to it's large alcohol tank. Intended for aircraft de-icing, but there must have been some kind of "angels share" related to the personnel Also known as the "garage" because of the large intakes An A-37B would be nice. If it's possible to make good large clear parts. Regards - dutik

Wonderful! Looks like the real thing! Very impressive! Regards - dutik

Thank you, @LSP_Kevin Sitrep: Still looking for suitable mini hexnuts to go ahead with the engine. Spark plugs are one thing, but fuel lines were also secured by nuts to the cylinderheads and not simply plugged in. Not to mention the connection between different fuel line parts. But I've mostly used up my stores of hollow resin hexnuts, which are also no longer available (CMK back then, I guess). Only solid ones available, with a bolt inside. Not useful here. I also feel not inclined to cut hex strip styrene in slices and to drill holes inside. That's monkey business. So looking for an european supplier of miniature hexagonal nuts. Preferably inside EU (yep, I know about the US located suppliers, but shipping and VAT are prohibitive). Well, M1 nuts are a rare breed. I've got some of them, but they have wrench sizes larger than 2 mm. Money wasted, too large for a tiny kit engine. Waiting now for another batch from another supplier who offeres wrench sizes down to 1 mm. We shall see if they will suit my demands... Regards - dutik

Looking at other premium kits by Revell - they call it "Platinum" range - like the 1/9 Kuebelwagen, 1/144 Z1 destroyer, 1/24 London bus or 1/350 Bismarck Revells premium range includes PE, wooden decks (even for the large car), metall barrels as appropriate. Regards - dutik

Why not. WW2 might sell well. Going hunting for Me-262s and Buzzbombs! Regards - dutik

@thierry laurent Quite right. One crashed underway, the second made it to Guinea Bissau. Still some miles away from Nigeria and Biafra, but a least on African soil. What-if drawing based on the the look of other Biafran AF aircraft (click drawing to expand). Biafra AF operated 2 B-26C (former photo/cartografic and radar calibration aircraft from France, the latter with a unique solid nose), 2 B-25, 5 or 6 ex-swedish MFI-9B "Mini-COINS", originally training aircrafts, DC-3s and a DH Dove. The Invaders and the DC-3 used to drop makeshift bombs by hand. The solid-nosed B-26 dropped them with the help of 2 crewman by hand out the bomb bay. These homemade bombs even had a time-delayed fuse, unsing large nails, that punctured on impact the liquid insulation of a load of white phosphorous. The WP started to burn on contact with air and ignited a small load of explosives, that triggered a large load of explosives mixed with scrap metal... It featured also a "ventral gunner" firing a MG through the open bomb bay hatch and a "nose gunner" releasing a fixed MG when the pilot pulled a line attached to the arm of the nose gunner, because there was no window in the solid nose. Some very "African" solutions, but they worked well The second Invader with the glass nose was armed with unguided rockets. The Texans were used as light bombers / attack planes. There is a link in my signature to a build of a Biafran Texan. Regards - dutik

Must have been a Rebel possum... Nice build, impressive model! Regards - dutik

Yes please, in Biafra markings Regards - dutik

It has arrived in German shops. Regards - dutik

Impressive and clean build of this aircraft. Lots of details. Very nice Regards - dutik

Building up the base: Good old AK "Dark earth terrain" medium. Some drybrushing and we are ready to plant some flowers and some barbed wire too Regards - dutik

Even the real thing is a very small car! Look, the engine doesn't fit into the engine compartment, and I think that the roof was only made removable to allow the driver to sit upright! Regards - dutik p.s. I am not familiar with muscle cars of that era. What is it? p.p.s. My actual ride: The red one. It is a Scion in the US. GT86 here in Europa.

Well, I would have opted for "no swastika decals" ((nobrainer regarding the A-20 ), but Arthur Bentley is good enough to me. Regards - dutik