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Never heard of Hechizosuix Productions but the fuel tank is also made by Maestro Models https://www.rebell.com/saab-32-lansen-belly-tank.html
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IBG get lots of critics for their truck at the Missing Links Braille Scale Group. Lot of faults and wrong shapes apparently. I don't know if the German trucks differed as it seems that the 917t has the single transverse on these pictures of overturned vehicles: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/missinglynx/fordson-armoured-car-t330295.html
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Well the minor length difference doesn't bother me but the 917t kit has the wrong front axle for the build. It had a single transverse leaf spring like an old Ford Model T, while the Fordson had longitudinal leaf spring front suspension like the chassis in the V3000S kit.
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It all started with me building three of the Roden Rolls Royce armoured cars: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235079254-rolls-royce-armoured-car-1914/ When the Rolls Royce chassis of the armoured cars finally was worn out, the armoured bodies were moved to Fordson truck chassis. As I already had built three different variants of the Rolls Royce I also wanted a Fordson. I ordered a Roden Rolls Royce for my project. Then I needed a Ford chassis. In my local hobby store there was a 917t Maultier and a look at the instructions showed that it had the parts to build the wheel version so I bought it. But as I later found out, it was the wrong chassis. I had to order a V3000s to get the right one. Luckily it also has all parts included for the 917t so I can still build that this if I find an engine of some sort. I started to put the chassis and the armoured body together. As the Roden kit didn't have a complete engine I had to open up the floor to get the Ford engine in. Time has come to start planning for the "cargo bed". The wheels was something that I thought would be a problem. But I think that I found a solution. Airfix messed up with their CCKW 353 truck and made the wheels with five holes instead of six. I had a bunch of those faulty front wheels that I would use now. I cut the tires off from them and sanded down the rims to make them thinner. Then I removed the rims of the Roden wheels and will fit the Airfix rims in those tires. It will probably not be 100 % right but it will be close enough for me.
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https://cerealoffers.com/Kelloggs/Frosties/1970s/De_Havilland_88_Comet_Model_Ki/de_havilland_88_comet_model_kit.html No clear parts for the canopy, only framing. Also no interior details. Mine came in the same type of cardboard box as in that page
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One thing about the Lansen. The Heller kit can be built as a Attack or recce plane while Tarangus is the fighter version. I have built six of the Heller Lansen but I converted four of them into the fighter variant. https://baecklund.eu/scalemodels/72/saab32.html I have two more Heller kits to build as I want the attack and recce planes before I turn to my Tarangus kit.
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I also thought that it was the age that had made the moulds worn out but I got a very early issue and it is just as bad. To be honest the Airfix kit is horrible. That is why I have at least five of them. It was the only alternative back then,
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I read this as it was planned but never built. The text say: "was to have been" and "It was to be" The final line: "A total of 565 aircraft were to have been delivered by March 1946, of which none were completed."
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Looking for bombs for the He111B and Ju52. I guess they are the same but I have no idea what to search for. Are there anything that will fit the Roden He111?
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There are only two to chose from. Gripen A or B = Italeri Gripen C or D = Revell A summary of the different boxings of the kits: https://www.baecklund.eu/scalemodels/72/39kits.html Some tips for the Italeri kit: https://www.baecklund.eu/scalemodels/72/39Atips.html
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Green. Some pictures: https://www.avrosys.nu/aircraft/Jakt/112j21/112J21-3.htm https://digitaltmuseum.se/011023009227/flygplan https://www.hyperscale.com/2010/reviews/books/mushroomsaabj21bookreviewmd_1.htm If you want to print a paper instrumentpanel for it, I have it here: https://baecklund.eu/scalemodels/72/papercockpit.html
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From their site: "MESSAGE FROM THE ADMIN SMC is temporarily closed until I can find a solution for the constant DDOS attacks. The site needs to move to a different host but its not something I can afford right now. Sorry for the inconvenience" For some reason I have been added to the mail list of https://www.modelmotorcars.com even though I don't build in that large scale. They have much after market parts for the Pocher kits. Don't know if it of any use for you. I wonder of that Fiat F2 is the origin of the Italian red on race cars. The winning Itala of the 1907 Peking-Paris race is often quoted to be the inspiration for the red but it wasn't red, it was grey. But I have once read something of another Italian car that won a race was the start for Italian red.
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I started on a Mikromir submarine a long time ago. The build halted when it came to the etch parts. A bit of short run with fuzzy placements of parts. The instructions for the photo etc was a bit vague to put it nice. Some time there was a pic of the etch part and the plastic part it should be mounted to. Nothing to say where. I skipped lot of the small part as they were to small to be handled and I doubt that some of them would not stay as the attachment points was to small for glue to hold. Anyway, it is ready for paint.
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I have this very small model of the UB I. It is little confusing of the producer of the kit. U-boat Laboratorium or Kombrig? Even more confusing is it when it get to the instructions. This is what you get but it is not up to date with the kit. Parts 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 are not included in the kit and as you can see that the etch fret included (At the right top of the pic) is different to the picture in the instructions and has no part numbers on the fret. But I'll do my best to get it together.
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I have built two Studio 27 kits and have another going. The weak part of them has been the wheels. The front tires on both the Tyrrell 008 and the March 761 has been to large so I had to replace them but this mean that the rims are to wide and have to be fixed. I can't remember how the wheels on the Tyrrell 009 were but the nose was bent so I had to fix that. But as I converted both Tyrrell cars into a different race configuration it was not a big issue. But even with the issues I have had I feel that it has been rather simple builds.
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Yes. It look very good. To bad that the Dragon track isn't up to the same high standard as the rest of the build. I wish that I could make my models look that good.
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I think that it is an post war bus like the 1/776 scale Atlas model: http://www.modelbuszone.co.uk/ooc/atlaseditions/ccc15.htm One big problem with the Roden Opel bus is that the roof slopes down at the front. I didn't like that when I build my civilian version of it but I let it pass and tried to make some other alterationd to get a mor civilian look of the bus: https://baecklund.eu/scalemodels/72/bus.html (My model is the Roden 1/72 scale kit but I think that it is the same as the 1/35 version)
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There are some pictures of SE-ACK from Greenland in 1931: https://www.stamps.dk/en-GB/lot/139934/greenland-british-arctic-air-route-expedition-det-svenske-redningsfly-junkers https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SE-ACK_(aircraft) https://jenikirbyhistory.getarchive.net/media/ahrensbergs-greenland-expedition-1931-391767841539-e687b4 It was involved in the search of Augustine Courtauld. I remember when Revell issued the F-13. It got lot of critic saying it was wrong. The corrugation continued in the same angle after the passenger door instead of bending downward like the rear window. Revell changed this but sadly my kit was one of the early ones. It didn't get built, but later I learned that the SE-ACK was of this type so it has remained on the "to do list"
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Looking for info on the Garfield Abrams tank
Orso replied to Foghorn Leghorn's topic in AFV Cold War
I would't take to much information from the kits. Model companies tend to update the decal options to a other more temporary options without change parts in the kits. It is strange that there are so hard to find pictures from the CAT 85. I have read that Bill the cat was painted on all tanks at CAT 83 and this page: http://www.mihalko-family.com/CAT 87.htm say that all tanks at the CAT 87 had identical artwork on all tanks. Following that it would make sense if all tanks had identical artwork at CAT 85 as well. Perhaps Garfield? -
I agree, more pics please. That is one on my "to do list" but it will be in Swedish registration. before the change to radial engine the plane was involved in a rescue mission on Greenland. It do really look like a different aircraft with that engine compared to the standard F13. I'm glad that you showed your build, it will serve as inspiration for me.
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Thanks. I was afraid of that. Well I just put the kit in the back of the stash until I get an solution.
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I got a bagged Revell 1/72 kit of the DH-2 that I was thinking of building but I wan't to add a four blade prop to it. What are my options? I know that I should have some Airfix DH.4 kits stashed away somewhere, Could the propeller from it work?
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Pictures of the plastic are half way down on this page: https://baecklund.eu/scalemodels/72/39kits.html
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As ACE Hobby Kit sold both the 1/72 and 1/32 kits I was lead to think that moulds were made in Korea