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Nice clean built. The 15 is my favorite.

Incredible nice lil` modell. Superb paint finish and a perfect clean built for such a small model. Chapeau... I‘ ve built two WWI vintage models in quarterscale and found them small and not easy to assamble. But they are giants compared with your dwarf. Great job. Dirk

Very nice collection of amazingly built quarterscale biplanes. I like them all. Beau boulot! Dirk

Absolutely inspiring work. Seemless assembling and a very nice finish. I like the coloursheme. Looks great with the Razorback. Thx for sharing. Dirk

Wow. Stunning. Looks absolute realistic. My favorite is the Virgin Airliner. Thx for sharing. I do my my pictures mostly outside, but almost in front of an artificial background.. But your pictures are so perfect. I am speechless. Dirk

Nice P-38 model. Nice finish and top weathering. There`s nothing wrong about it! Btw, the Lightning is one of the nicest airplanes of the WWII era. Great job.

Like your personell way of weathering! Your Sluff has my taste. Very nice!

Wow! It seems it is a huge model? What scale it is? Sry, but I`m not close with airliners, but this one is unbelieveable nice. Smooth finish and custom made decals, great work!

A stabilizer colourful like a hummingbird!! Cool Sundowner.. Coral Sea... reminds me in "The Sundowners - Hummingbird" Very nice finish. Your model inspired me to search for an AcademyF-4.

It is pure pleasure to see the old Lady within new dress. You achieved a superb finish and your attention on details is stunning. From the very first picture till the end, she is a breathtaking beauty. What kind of reference have you used? Dirk

Sorry, no I have no WIP for that! The hangar was built out of plastic and metal. It is lightet up with LED lamps. His measures are 23.62 x 15.75 inches and the height is about 7.87 inches. The groundplate has 23.75 x 29.53 inches. Yes Sir, it is an actual build. I believe I`m too stupid to do something like photoshopped Pictures! I`m using an old Adope Software to prepare my pictures! Reducing and Cutting, that`s all I can do! My camera is also an old Lady....Nikon Coolpix 990, that`s all Enough space for three 109 models in scale 48 or one P-38 in scale 48 Cheers Dirk

Thanks to everybody for the very nice comments.

Meanwhile the Gripen is finished. Sadly I didn`t take further picture of my WIP, so I´ll close this thread. The following picture is the last one. You will find more pictures of the finished Gripen here: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235002075-saab-jas-39c-gripen/ Cheers Dirk

The safety pin is shown inserted in place beneath the rear wingroot, to enable the airbrakes to be opened on the ground. (Source: Saab JAS-39 Gripen, Photo Hobby Manual, page 23.)

The Gripen I`ve built is finished as s/n 39210 "500 Fh", tail number 210 in the typical swedish airforce colours. I used JPS Colors CN003 N.10 for lower surface and CN010 N.9 for upper surfaces. All inner areas like the undercarriage or the airbrakes are painted with Aero Master 1085 Overall Grey. No. 210 is a so called PRI airframe for the C/D series, it is intended to be flown more frequently than average airframes in order to gain expierience from long term effects on airframe, systems and components prior to the rest of the fleet reaching the same number of flight hours. 39210 was flown well above 20 hours per month, this is (of course) unusually high. During this time the aircraft had also undergone frequent service and repairs, and two 200 Fh overhaul. Nine month after it had entered with F17 wing 1000 flight hours was exceeded on June 20, 2005. (Source: Two Bobs, Colorful Gripens, 48-145) The WIP thread you will find here: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235001039-saab-jas-39-c-gripen-148-kittyhawk/page-2 Please feel free and criticise my model if you find evident construction mistakes or omissions. One never finishes learning, thx in advance. Dirk

A great Frogfoot Threat!!! A lot of inspiration, and of interesting background knowledge! Many thx for this valuable WIP Thread and to have a look over your shoulders. . Wich is your recommendation for a good reference literature of Su-25 Frogfoots?? Greetz Dirk

Gripen, 2. part Thx for all your nice compliments. The Kittyhawk APU Unit inserted into the left fuselage halve. This are very nice detailed kitparts, and only small additional refinements were made. I`ve fixed the upper wings meanwhile, to prevent unnecessary gaps on the wing fuselage connection. Left fuselage side with built-in avionic bay from Aires. Kit part E7 fits nearly perfect, only a gap had to be closed around the Aires wheel well. The airinlet FOD`s are made out of "Aves Apoxie Sculpt". The missing rivets in the rear were complemented with Rivet Detail Decals of "Micro Mark", available in three different scales. The finished main wheel well`s from Aires. I`ve used for most interior surfaces Aeromasters Overall Grey. Funny enough the Strut scissors at the Main landing gear are absent in the kit. Thus, then that one must build himself. The small Stencil Decals on ready painted landing gears come from airscale. There is on the left and on the right below the Canards, in each case a small air nozzle, don`t know which purpose they have. Here still unpainted. And finally a few other ready painted things. Bye for now Dirk

Many Thanks, Dave.

I have seen different photos of Gnat cockpits. Restored and did not restore. Every cockpit had another colour. I saw: Light Grey Medium Grey Dark Grey In which colour the cockpits usually were varnished ? Dirk

Hi Johan, many thanks for your complementary comment. I agree to you. Above all your remark about the problems of cockpit and NFG assembly. I have forgotten this to mention, and it is really the biggest problem. I have removed a lot of plastic of both fuselage halves, what is maybe owed because I`ve also inserted the Aires avionik bays.

I like your cat totally. She is really wonderful! And your photos are also of very good quality

Hi Solo, the installation of that Aires Cockpit is as usual to pay with some additional work and the right quantity of patience . One must thin out the fuselage sidewalls approx. 1mm, and you are on the sure side if you also sand down the Aires cockpit on the left and on the right, as far as as possible. In addition, it is important to sanding the rear bulkhead of the Aires part so thinly as possible. More than I did!! Please compare with picture 3-5. I have left more material, because I needed it for the construction of the air-conditioning unit behind the cockpit. As for all detail sets also is valid here, dry fit......so often as possible. Greetings Dirk

Kittyhawks amazing scale 48 Gripen It has been written a lot about Kittyhawks Gripen kit. Unfortunately, also of a lot of negative by which a wrong picture originates from this, actually, nice kit. One finds a really good one and one of the best Reviews I could explore, here: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234941002-jas-39ac-gripen-148-kitty-hawk/?hl=%2Bsaab+%2Bgripen+%2Bkittyhawk It is a kit of the new generation, with the quite normal positive and negative points like all other new kits also. In the construction report I will mention the really relevant small mistakes I discovered. I have used the following books as references: Saab Gripen, Author: Gerard Keijsper JAS-39 Gripen Swedish Multirole Fighter, Author: Slavomir Goldemund Saab JAS 39 Gripen colours & markings, Author: Michal Ovčáčík, Karel Susa How with most kits for different versions are intended, should one not work strictly after constructriction manual. As by the construction of Ju 88 of Dragon, or by the construction of the Mosquito wings with separate wingtips of Tamiya, one must deviate from the construction manual to avoid unnecessary repairs. Also with the Gripen one should stick together the fuselage halves separately. As one can see, I have already cut out behind the cockpit the cover of the pressuration/air-conditioning unit. I can recommend the cockpit of Aires very much. The details are not only fine but also perfectly faithful. The seat belts are added as photoetched parts. On heating up the photoetched parts, the seatbelts can be brought very well in form. The avionic bays of Aires which should be accommodated later behind the fuselage nose. I like the bright colours with those the modern airplanes nowadays are painted. Please, do not surprise. . . .but I never work really strictly after construction manuals. Mostly I build complete sub-groups sometime occasionally. According to mood. . . as well as with the weapons. The Maverick missiles are from Eduard. Actually, already a model in the model. Two elegant and slender Iris-T missiles from the kit, got a 1mm light lens (AK-Interactive) in the nose built-in. And here is the first however small mistake which I found in the kit. There is only one anti-ship missile RB15S in the kit (but rather one, than none). Before fuselage halves are clued together, must be still built the inflight refueling pipe,the undercarriage and airbrake bays. In the meantime, fuselage halves have been glued, and the pressuration/air-conditioning unit have been built up from plastic sheet. One finds high-class photos in the second book of my abovementioned book list.

Nice clean built and a smooth paint finish. I like the angle of your pictures, looks like the real thing! She is a pretty huge Vixen. Would you explain your problems with the wing fold mechanism please? Are the fixing points undersized, do you think it is a engineering problem of the kit? Thx in advance.

Thx Russ for your reply. Think before I engrave the entire Monogram kit, I tend to Trumpi!