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t-t-t-teaser Bf 109 G-2. Enjoy! - dutik

Re-release of Revells Ju-88. Add the 111 to this too. Regards - dutik

Back from holidays. Bad news: Due to traffic issues we had to visit Sinsheim to keep our shedule. so no UTI photos. Good news: Got some more Bf-109 G-6 photos from Sinsheim and a few He-111 images. Much better news: Managed to visit Dornier museum at Friedrichshafen. Got more Do-27 walkaround photos, some Dornier Wal stuff and, -AND! - some cockpit photos of a Bf-109 G-2. License built after the war in Spain, restored non-airworthy by Airbus. Have to take a nap after 12 hours on the road. Will upload the photos the next days over there at my Hangar 10 thread, where are the other 109 photos. Regards - dutik

If it was used by the Russians, or at least stored to be used if needed, they would have been painted in the common russian colours of these days. Green. 4BO mostly or the successing colour, if repainted over the years. BTW, interesting finding. A very different setting for a 8,8 gun. Regards - dutik

First class Regards - dutik

Had a look at LEMkits Ebay-store. Yes, there are two sets of canopies as usual. And a real screw. Might be used to secure the prop. parts looking nice Regards - dutik

Very promising And in the correct scale Looks like another buy from Lemkit at the end of this or the beginning of the next year. I guess there will be two sets of canopies in the box as usual by Lemkits? Choices of seat belts are Fine Molds or Eduard (AK's are the Fine mold kits). Does someone know, which kind of IJA seat belt is the correct one for which position? 2 belts or 3? Regards - dutik

Last call! Something else requested? Regards - dutik

Damn, that was MY first thought... Excellent build! Great paintjob on both aircraft and miniatures! Regards - dutik

Finally it has arrived! It took just a year or another.... To quote Gandalph: A wizard is never too late. He arrives when he wants to arrive! Regards - dutik

Oh, sorry, I did not bid in that auction. I was just curious to know at which amount the biddding would finally stop. I am a happy boy owning an AIMS Ju-388 nightfighter conversion by myself, copy no. 7, and a C-6 conversion. But I am glad it sold well. Congratulation! Regards - dutik

Order placed. Great stuff as usual! Regards - dutik

A 12 out of 10 Really impressive! As for a 1/35 diorama: Takoms MK.38 5/38 twin mount in 1/35 is just the variant used on carriers. Regards - dutik

Great looking model! Regards - dutik

Border models is making nice resin figures. Guess they will release a set or two of naval figures. The AM guys will also come to the rescue. Remember the set of Germans for the Bf-109 kit. Regards - dutik

I have sold my Jerry Rutman P-51B kit some years ago to a LSP member in the USA. I hope he will build and show it here one day. So we have a P-51B that had crossed the Atlantic in both directions This Saturday ended an Ebay auction of an AIMS Ju-188 conversion from a seller in the UK It was sold for 301 GBP, 350 Euro, plus s&h. Nice Regards - dutik

Ju-52/3m Served in the bomber role in Bolivian-Peru war, Spanish Civil War, Invasion of Poland, Slovak National Uprising, and First Indochina War. Quite a record. Not to forget the use as transporter, paratroop drops and even mine hunting with a large electromagnetic coil by the Mausi unit. IIRC the French even destroyed telegraph lines during Indochine War by dropping grappling hooks from the Ju onto the wires. A Ju-52 was also the last air-to-air prey of a biplane fighter - shot down during Slovak National Uprising at September 2nd 1944 by an Avia B-534 of the uprising forces So technically HKMs next German bomber could be a Ju-52 too Regards - dutik

I don't know if you got the news - Silver wings has a summer sale. The announcement from Silver Wings: ... In order to better focus our efforts on new products, we have decided to make some of our older kits better available for those of you, who haven’t had a change to add them to their collection. We are hereby announcing that we will be offering 20% discount applying to the following 1/32 scale kits: · Focke-Wulf Fw44D Stieglitz wheeled · Focke-Wulf Fw44D Stieglitz ski · Fiat CR.32 · Gloster Sea Gladiator · Fiat CR.42 Falco · Hawker Demon · Boeing Stearman PT-13D/N2S-2 · Curtiss P6-E Hawk · Fokker D.XXI · PZL P.11c · Reggiane Re.2000 Falco · Reggiane Re.2000 Intercettore/Heja/J20 · Yakovlev Yak-9 M/T (Silver Limited Edition) · De Havilland D.H.82A Tiger Moth · Gloster Gauntlet In simple terms – the price will be reduced from 124 EUR to 99 EUR (550 PLN to 440 PLN). Note that you may include any other kits you wish to order to save on shipping costs, however the 20% discount will only apply to the kits listed above. In order to take advantage of this offer, please submit your orders to silverwings@silverwings.pl no later than July 16th, 2023. ... Nice kits alltogether. See the builds and reviews here at LSP and elsewhere. I've grabbed a CR.32 and a Re.2000 in hungarian and swedish markings. Regards - dutik

I see some award winnig dioramas ahead! Regards - dutik

BTW, Prague is worth a weeklong visit of it's own. Even if it's just to take a seat in a pub in the morning for a cold beer. High quality czech beer, and it is dirt cheap compared to Germany (but avoid Staropramen). If you like LEGO - two museums there, at the basement of that reknown large toy store (Europas largest, size of a mall) and a private owned with an impressing collection of long gone LEGO kits. Not to forget the grave of Rabbi Lew at the old jewish cemetary, if you like mystic and fairy tales. Rabbi Lew was the creator of the Golem of Prague. And Karel Capeks grave at Vysehrad cemetery - the father of the robots. Also father of Czech grammar, the Krakatit and The war with the Newts Prague is worth to stay there a week just because it's Prague. Regards - dutik

Just my 2 cents modelling and aircraft related: Germany: Hamburg - Maritimes Museum. It's in a scyscraper close to Speicherstadt (old harbour area). 8 floors of anything seafaring related from the beginning of mankind. Both civilian and military. Alternative Miniatur Wonderland - a really large model railroad. Even with an airfield with starting and landing airplanes. They are really starting and landing! When moving from Hamburg to Berlin visit Rechlin Aircraft Museum. In Berlin the German Technikmuseum. Recommended shop: Berliner Zinnfiguren near station Savignyplatz. Vast selection of books from all over the world, anything related to painting, lot of kits and of course figurs of any kind. I was once seen there, standing on a ladder, giving a spontaneous speech about megalomania Czech: Praha-Kbely. Aviation museum since kommunist age. Now much larger and much better. Much, much larger and better. Don't miss the old hangar (former Avia factory, iirc) outside a kilometer away. If you have another day in Prague then go to Lesany tank museum. Hidden somewhere in the nowhere of Czech countryside. Using a navigation sytem is highly recommended. Roadsigns to Lesany are scarce. If you got one, just follow the main road, regardless of turns. The last part of the trip is just a gravel road. When you think you got lost in the nowhere you are danger close to the parking place and entrance. For Hungary I suggest to ask @Pastor John Regards - dutik

I'd like to see a built one at an exhibition. This would be a large and impressive model! Building one by myself? Not so much. Regards - dutik

Are we talking about crew stations or wing pylons? Regards - dutik

I'll do it again! Another trip to another aircraft museum will happen in July. Speyer Technik Museum this time. It's a matter of time. It is huge and holds a vast number of aircrafts and helos. not to mention the ships, cars, engines and so on. Gallery of Speyer aircraft here. Short list of Speyer: Aero Commander RC680F Aero L-29 Delfin Aero L-39ZO Albatros Antonov An-2TP Antonov An-22 Antonov An-26S Beech E50 Twin Bonanza Bell UH-1D Iroquois Boeing 747-230BM Canadair CL-13B Sabre 6 Canadair CL-215-1A10 Dassault Mirage 3E Dassault Mirage 3RD de Havilland Vampire FB.6 Dassault Mercure 100 Dornier Alpha Jet Dornier Alpha Jet Dornier Do24T-3 (fuselage) Douglas C-53D-DO (DC-3C) EKW C-3605 Schlepp Fairey Gannet AS.4 Fiat G91R3 Gina Fieseler Fi.156C-3 Storch Focke-Wulf Piaggio FWP.149D Fokker Dr.1 (replica) Fokker Dr.1 (replica) Fouga CM170 Magister Hawker Hunter F.6 Hindustan (HAL) MiG-21SPS Junkers Ju52/3m (Ca352L) Junkers Ju52/3mg4e Jurca MJ5G1 Sirocco Lockheed T-33A Lockheed F-104G Starfighter Lockheed F-104G Starfighter Lockheed TF-104G Starfighter McDonnell F-4C Phantom II McDonnell F-4C Phantom II McDonnell F-101B Voodoo MCD Douglas F-15A Eagle Messerschmitt Bf109G-4 Messerschmitt Bf110D (wings part fs) Messerschmitt Me-262 (mock-up) Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-15UTI Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-23BN Mikoyan Gurevich MiG-23BN Mil Mi-2 Mil Mi-8T Mil Mi-14PL Mil Mi-24P Mitsubishi A6M5 Reisen (Zero) Nord N2501 Noratlas Piaggio P-149D Pilatus P3-03 Pfalz D.III (replica) Potez-Heinkel CM.191B PZL L-29 Delphin PZL-106 Kruk Republic F-84F Thunderstreak Saab J35Oe Draken Schleicher Ka-4 Rhonlerche Schleicher Ka-6CR Stampe Vertongen SV-4C (replica) Sud Aviation SE3130 Alouette 2 Sukhoi Su-22M-4 Technoavia SP-91 Transall C-160D VFW Fokker VFW614 Vickers Viscount 814 Viking DragonFly Wright Type A (replica) Yakovlev Yak-27R Zlin Z-37A Cmelak OK-GLI (“Buran 1M aerodynamic analogue”) Buran space shuttle remember: There are also the Duke Hawkins book about recent aircrafts. Much more detail shots than available from a plain museum visit. So if you are in need of some photos of one aircraft or another - drop a note. OK, we arte visiting Speyer. Kids requested to walk through the Burn space shuttle. So it shall be Speyer Museum. Regards - dutik

@D.B. Andrus It's a pleasure! You might get these and more printed in a book within this year... More to come. Just have to lay my hands on some better photoshop software before. @MikeMaben did a nice job, much better what my Windows viewer can do. I have to catch up Regards - dutik