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Hello. Having some holidays, finally, and getting really exited with all the F-104 builds going on, I decided to take mine from the shelf. Just curious where I left it, as always with some issues or lack of courage to get things done. In this case the old Hasegawa F-104G/S kit needs a full scribing and some riveting, to meet my standards. But I'm chicken with that part of modeling to be honest. More on that later. First some photos I made over the weekend that show were I am with the build. Left back side of the cockpit. Cut out the "floor", because the early ones had the bang seat go down. That looks real different. My ambition was to replicate some details of that. Will see what is left of that. Right hand side Sliding rail is made of brass profile. Bang seat can easily move up and down. Have to look up what AM I used on this part. Don't know anymore. Todays work. After fitting the Aires wheel bay (for Italeri kit not the Hasegawa) I like a little challenge yesterday, I started to rework the main landing gear. White styrene is Evergreen tubing in various dia / sizes. Aires were to fragile and rough on detail. Still need to work on some actuators for the big doors. And here I am right now. With some minor extra weight inside the nose cone it is not even a tail sitter. Happy me. You can see the fuselage was already painted in a black primer. I made a start some years back to polish that off to get the lines and rivets on the surface. Idea is to scribe and rivet from white lines and dots. It went to the famous shelf. Well I'm almost finished scribing now, rivets still to do. A two days work in total. Hope it looks good with some new coat of paint. More and better photos to come soon. Hope you all like it Robert Jan

Hi. This will be my first topic and it is more like an advise I need on a future build. I had a real good deal on a Hasegawa Blue Impulse Sabre kit. An oldie and maybe wanted, I don't know.. But.. I was looking for a CL-13 Sabre Mk.6. What makes the difference? I have no idea to be honest. Does it need a lot of work? I want to build Erich Hartmann's Jg.71 JA-111 bird. Please let me know. Kind regards, Robert Jan

Hi all Here is my RAN A4G Skyhawk finally finished 4 months after my last post -it is a shelf of doom rebuild. WIP link here - https://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?/topic/76932-ran-a4g/page/3/&tab=comments#comment-1167121 The main list of parts used and some of the detailing as follows - Avionix A4E resin cockpit Aires resin Wheel bays and white metal landing gear set AMS resin wheels Eduard slat and vortex generators etch SAC Buddy Pod Master refuelling probe and cannon barrels Flight Path USN Carrier Deck set provided the ladder and wheels chocks Maketar paint mask for RAN roundels - fin checks masked by hand - very fiddly! AOA A4 airframe stencil decal sheet Scratch intake and exhaust blanks push moulded wing navigation lights & hazard beacons scratch built forward engine bay door port scratch built detailing added to landing gear & wing pylons various Quickboost bits and pieces like scoops a generous donation of spare Hasegawa A4 sprues from a fellow modeller SE Finally in her allocated spot in the display case. cheers CJP

Hello! Here is my build of Hasegawa's Bf 109 G-10. This kit was a gift from a very good friend and I have savoured every minute of building, painting and finishing it! I had a blast with this one and its one of my all time favourites. I have wanted to build Red 2 for quite some time so I was pleased as punch to be given a chance to build this model. I hope you enjoy my pics, more photo's and details can be found on my blog. I'm no Luftwaffe expert so forgive me if its not quite up to scratch! For now I'll shut up and post some pics!