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what, pushing your foot on the road through the hole in the floor?

no frequent-flyer discount here

It’s positively tropical in Manchester, these days: grey, drizzle and hot

Love it! A great build to follow and a super colour too! The 'Hyper-turbo' on the rear screen does make me smile ..... Better keep an eye open for the next project .... Keith ☺️

They were (I think). I've no clue which were built by subsidiary companies or under licence, if any... The answer is much simpler and actually forms part of Dave's last post!

Hi all I got sick of decals long ago, that's why this build took me so long Thank all of you for your kind comments They also helped me to never give up on this project 👍 Exactly three years ago today, I started building the McLaren Senna. At the time, I thought it would be a challenge with a kit, a set of PE parts, and two decal sets to be applied on top of each other. But I never would have dreamed back then that I would still be working on it three years later. A lot of things turned out the way I had hoped, but I had to make quite a few compromises and couldn't stick to the original model completely. Overall, however, I'm still happy with how it's turned out so far. Today, there is only a small update, but one that brings me a step closer to completing this build. Now I just need to finish the seats (and seat belts), and then the wedding can take place soon. After that, all that's left to do is sand, polish, and assemble the spoiler. But now to the pictures. First, the two door panels were completed. There were actually etched parts for the speakers (as a replacement for the decals), but I like them better with decals. Then the dashboard was also completed. Once again, I realized that parts I thought I had already painted were still on the sprue. I also had to deviate from the original again with the steering wheel, as the parts that I have now simply painted black would have been made of green carbon fiber. That's it for the birthday update Now I'm going to continue sweating and maybe finish the seat belts Urs

A clear spring morning in the Czechoslovak Republic, late 1940s. A Czech pilot who flew Spitfires with the RAF is, in a strange quirk of fate, flying a Luftwaffe designed trainer - or will be once his trainee can get the chart the right way around.... The model is from the nice Mark 1 Models kit which, probably due to its Czech origins, as well as the typical Luftwaffe schemes, offers this boxing of Czech options (and a French marking) and includes some extra bits to make the repesented type with gun camera and an extra couple of bumps under the wings. The one flaw is that the iconic lemon juicer prop hub is not well represented in the plastic. Fortunately Retrokit produced a resin replacement. A blast of silver from a Tamiya can. I kept the scheme clean as many trainers are well maintained. Decals applied. From the box, go on well. I followed the profile as I couldn't find any specific reference photos of the airframe. The vignette was just a straightforward one. The GAZ-67 is from Paint and Glue Minatures, lovely detail although the fine windscreen didn't survive delivery and I had to remake with wire. The figures are RAF crew from Modelu 3d, a lovely range with nice detail. I think the pilot in the leather jacket is meant to be drinking from a mug but in this scale it looks more like he is just annoyed at something, which gave me the idea for the diorama theme. I used a nameplate from Name It Plates to complete the scene. It will be touring with SIG144 on the IPMS circuit for the rest of the year. Thanks for reading, comments welcome.

Great looking P-61! I always liked the version in green-gray camo in combination with the .50 cal turret best. 👍 Did you do some extra work on the frosted nose radome? It looks very convincing!

Of course there are ways to do that, and many of you possess the skills, patience and will to do that without any of these pre-cut masks. I don't, times three.

A clear spring morning in the Czechoslovak Republic, late 1940s. A Czech pilot who flew Spitfires with the RAF is, in a strange quirk of fate, flying a Luftwaffe designed trainer - or will be once his trainee can get the chart the right way around.... The model is from the nice Mark 1 Models kit which, probably due to its Czech origins, as well as the typical Luftwaffe schemes, offers this boxing of Czech options (and a French marking) and includes some extra bits to make the repesented type with gun camera and an extra couple of bumps under the wings. The one flaw is that the iconic lemon juicer prop hub is not well represented in the plastic. Fortunately Retrokit produced a resin replacement. A blast of silver from a Tamiya can. I kept the scheme clean as many trainers are well maintained. Decals applied. From the box, go on well. I followed the profile as I couldn't find any specific reference photos of the airframe. The vignette was just a straightforward one. The GAZ-67 is from Paint and Glue Minatures, lovely detail although the fine windscreen didn't survive delivery and I had to remake with wire. The figures are RAF crew from Modelu 3d, a lovely range with nice detail. I think the pilot in the leather jacket is meant to be drinking from a mug but in this scale it looks more like he is just annoyed at something, which gave me the idea for the diorama theme. I used a nameplate from Name It Plates to complete the scene. It will be touring with SIG144 on the IPMS circuit for the rest of the year. Thanks for reading, comments welcome.

Or just yellow? The horizontal part of the mainplane looks similar where It Is expected to be yellow.

Thank's Mark yes should build well be the look of things some nice subtle recessed lines and I do like the wheel detailing too.

Thanks Dennis glad to be taking part,

I need at least one for the trains GB but there are other small scale kits in the stash ........

Nice model of the Stuart tank.

Afternoon folk's well that's it for today another hour just now and once the primer was dry a couple of coats of RLM light blue over the undersides and fuselage.

I think G-AMPO ended up as a static gate guard at MOD Lyneham, painted in RAF wartime colours with invasion stripes

In my opinion, Kovozávody Prostějov's cannon-armed single-stage Merlin Spitfires are probably the best ones currently available. Beware though, Kovozávody Prostějov is not the old KP; they're now owned by AZ (who also made short-run single-stage Merlin Spitfires). The IV you made was, probably, the Sword one. As @Graham Boak has written, the Sword and Kovozávody Prostějov Spitfires are considered to be slightly short in span (and, in the case of Sword, slightly too short in the fuselage(?)). One day, when the loft has cooled down, I'll measure the wingspans of the various early Spitfire kits and compare them to the actual thing.

Very nice indeed Mike. Need to get those commercially available.

Standard B.16 canopy with the bulged side panels. It's GEE equipped, so I don't think the kit radio gear will be any use. There's one of the Aeromaster sheets on eBay. In Italy. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/295563539026?_skw=1%2F48+mosquito+decals&itmmeta=01JZ8KJ2BG4WD6QZJH7NHFK6FN&hash=item44d0f5b252:g:o60AAOSw~n1kDeiD

I believe that the small private purchase exemption from US tariffs remains in effect for Japan (and most other countries), just not China. It was briefly suspended earlier in the year but quickly restored.

After fighting the Mikro Mir kit, I am looking forward to seeing how this goes together

No probs- PM me when you get to the stage you need em!

I am very impressed with the great finish and build of this Condor given some of the fit problems with the Revell kit. The transport version is a bit more aesthetically pleasing than the bomber version. Thanks for sharing.

Really nice