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At last, a day with no wind and a bit of cloud, so took the opportunity to take some photo`s of my latest effort My second go at Great Wall Hobby`s P-61 Black Widow, this time an `A` from the `Glass Nose` boxing....... ........my first being a `B` version a while back Built pretty much from the box contents Only additions being: aerial wires, replaced the kits etched engine wiring with copper wire as I remember wasting an evening trying to to fit it last time and ....... ....lastly a wheelbarrow full of bits of lead to try and keep the nose down........ ......which I succeeded in the end ( as long as a moth doesn`t fly into the room ) Decals were from an old Print and Scale set I had hanging about and caused much gnashing of teeth to apply and a few of the kits Hope you enjoy, thanks for looking Cheers Russ

Superb F-4 there, really nice work

Great looking U-2, really nice work

Really nice `cobra there, great job

Really nice Blackbird, great paint job too

Great job on the old kit

Cheers, The cowlings: instead of following the instructions I wrapped a strip of `styrene sheet, cut a bit wider than the distance from the step in the cowl that the engine front butts up to and the front of the cowl, around a wooden spoon handle to make it curved and cemented it to the cowl halves. I then joined the cowling halves together. then trimmed and filled flush with the front of the cowls. After the engines had been assembled and fitted as per the instructions I slid the assembled cowlings over the assembled engines, I did have to sand the cowlings inside faces a bit to get them to fit. Hope this makes sense and helps. Good luck with yours, Russ

Thanks At Sea, it`s the 1/48th SMER kit ( says under the first photo ). Cheers Russ

Thanks, I`ve just edited the pictures as I messed up on the last two 🙄 Terrible thing.....age......

Hi all, thought it was about time to bother you with some pic`s of my latest CBI effort 🙂 My attempt at Smer`s 1/48 Walrus kit Finished as a Far East based aircraft in the `Shadow Compensating` paint scheme Built virtually as Mr Smer intended with just a few improvements here and there to disguise its shortcomings ( hopefully! ) Left out the dodgy guns and crew and closed the positions ( most of the photo`s I found whilst searching had covers fitted ) which saved having to detail the interior too much, yeah I know I`m lazy🙄 and sanded quite a bit off the wing and tailplane leading edges to make them less `Lego` like in appearance. Did some detailing externally, such as: wired the engine and made some exhaust stubs and piping, fashioned a landing light, some control surface actuators.... ......and made some, what I think are hydraulic pipes for the wing locking mechanism I noticed, from wire and a bit of side wall detail and seat belts in the cockpit Decals came from part of a `Classic Airframes` sheet I had hanging about Hope you enjoy, thanks for looking Cheers Russ

Looks like the hard work paid off, great looking `121

Great looking Cat` and cool scheme too

Really nice F-4 there, looks superb

Superb Sea Vixen there Marcello, really nice work

Great looking Loach and dio` there Patrick, thought it was 48th scale at first