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Hi Eric, I was wondering when will I receive next notification from this thread. Great stuff with those landing gears. Have you been thinking about installing kind of running sushi conveyer belt for the sake of mass production?😁 I am glad that you were at least able to source aftermarket wheels after the incident with solvent bottle. Modeling composite wing is really nice addition to the Intruder fleet. I wish you speedy recovery. Cheers!!! Rade

Great progress so far! What is the purpose of the peg in above photo? Cheers!!! Rade

Hi I will try to build HMT Olympic in 1919 dazzle scheme out of Revells 1/1200 Titanic kit. Since model has full hull, start has been made by water-lining. Here are some photos during the process. Next steps involve lot of sanding and creating new waterline plate... Cheers!!! Rade

Hi Eric Great update as expected. Keep them coming... Cheers!!! Rade

Thanks! I am glad you like the finished result. Few more things I would like to address to people having or willing to build this kit. 1. Nose section with two spherical turrets is wrong in the shape and antenna placement is wrong (if you are into scratch-building or modifying kit parts skip to point 2 ). These parts were moulded in separate frame for this kit. The good thing is that nose section from original kit no 7216 was part of the main sprue, and I went with these parts (hassle free). 2. Zvezdas decals performed great, unfortunately they are not correct. Ka-50 never made it to the full mass production, however helicopters in different configurations (mock-ups) were shown in airshows - plenty of photos available in the net... On that note Begemot is producing 1/72 decal sheet for Ka-50s which includes majority (if not all) of them. Hope this helps. Cheers!!! Rade

Hi This was my entry in KUTA X GB. Model is by Zvezda (kit no 7272), built out of the box, painted with Gunze acrylics. More about the built can be found here... Cheers!!! Rade

Zvezda Ka-50 SH 1/72 Cheers!!! Rade

Hi I was lucky enough to find missing part and glue it back here is photo with rotors installed (will not be glued) and overall blurry one which concludes this GB for me Proper (it is subjective) photos for gallery I will have to make in daylight, hopefully tomorrow. Cheers!!! Rade

Quick update Antenna is finally there, unfortunately it is not horizontal - if I accidentally knock it over I know how to fix it... Engine exhausts have been drybrushed with aluminium and glued One overall view I have managed to lost one of the handles which I installed on the intakes during handling of the model. SAR mission is ongoing Cheers!!! Rade

Wings, canon & handles attached. Gluing setup for front antenna is shown on photo - gunze bottle opener + plastic card shimmed with toothpick in order to hopefully get it right (sorry for the LED blue effect). Remaining parts are engine exhausts and rotors... Cheers!!! Rade

Hi Here is another quick update, to summarize whats have been done since last update. - All decals applied and after unsuccessful attempt in panel washing flat coated, - Handles have been added along the way, some of them several times (three remaining - one on the canopy and two on engine intakes) - Red antennae in front of canopy and two on the rear fuselage added, - Canopy unmasked, - Front antenna painted in cream tone and with help of spare decals two black stripes applied. Here is photo showing remaining parts (minus rotors). Not much left to do really - glue everything together and call it done... Cheers!!! Rade

Well done Anil!!! Cheers Rade

Hi, Progress has been made. Since last update, I have gloss coated model and applied most of the decals, they performed very well, however they are not representing real air frame. If you want to build real thing - buy aftermarket decals. Landing gear has been installed as well; wings with weapons finished (but not glued) Few things left to do, with mayor one being reattaching nose antenna. If anyone has any advise how to do it, please let me know... Cheers!!! Rade

Hi Eric, You are very welcome, great update as expected... Cheers!!! Rade

Thanks Cliff, there is still lot of small jobs to do... Hopefully I will be able to finish before end of GB. Cheers!!! Rade

Hi Over the last couple of days I was working on rotors, here is one photo Cheers!!! Rade

Thanks! Thanks! It was trial and error approach. White tack worms have to be thin enough that you can shape them as you go (you have o be careful not to touch already installed one), and on the other side they shall have some thickness in order that you can roll across them with toothpick to get right thickness of the line and "correct" curvature - something I have figured out after tail section was done... Anyhow I have managed front section today, here are the photos. Right wing and front section (including cave art animals) Left front side and top view Few touch-ups are required in the areas where I was not close enough with airbrush, but with main air-frame painted I think it will go much faster. Cheers!!! Rade

Hi More done ... Cheers!!! Rade

Hi I am back and I have stared by spraying mid tone. This was followed by application of white tack worms over the painted areas. Black brown sprayed And just for test lightest colour was applied to see if it works, and it does That is all for 2017, more tomorrow if I will be able to... Cheers!!! Rade

Thanks & fingers crossed that everything goes as planned (otherwise I still have some IPA left...) At the moment I am enjoying ski holiday's in Ischgl 🎿☀ , so no updates until I am back. Cheers 🍻 Rade

Hi After almost two weeks here is an update. Well my plan haven't worked quite well. In first try I have sprayed red brown for the darkest color and figured out straight away that it is wrong choice. This was covered with black brown which is in my opinion correct match for the darkest color. Than came tricky part of painting mid shade, tried several out of the pot shades, and all were wrong. But most important thing is that my approach was wrong – it is at least for me – impossible to mask and spray tiny line between two other colors. After several failed attempts, with not a single being any close to the result I was after, IPA bottle was taken out... I have ended with this (sorry for the crappy photo – LED strip which I have installed is driving me crazy – I am ending with either blue or yellow ones); only two parts broken during the process, few were easily removed I started over by applying grey color for the base and stopped here until I figure out the colors. After several failed attempts I have settled down with 313 for the lightest, black brown for the darkest and mixture of 5x321: 1x456 for the mid tone In regards to masking revised plan of action is to go first with mid tone, which will be masked with roll of white tack, and then spray light and dark shade with mask still on. Cheers!!! Rade

Thanks Graham! I have decided to skip filling sinkage and started with painting. Since model was primed in black I was able to test spray few colors until I was happy with H321 for the lightest tone, still have to figure out stone shade and dark brown... Anyhow plan is to work in small sections at the time, most likely nose&cockpit, central&wings and tail area. Masking will be fun... Cheers!!! Rade

Hi I have started with Ka50 Canopy glued down, sanding is ongoing... I am trying to reduce step between fuselage and canopy. side view opposite side with doors in place, I will try to fill in gap between doors with white glue Top view showing damage so far and sinkage behind engine intakes . I have already managed to destroy canopy on top with failed attempt to mask with tape and cut with knife blade, by successful carving of outline with which I was not happy, after several sanding attempts I finished with blurry top canopy - carving marks are still there. Cheers!!! Rade

Hi Here is the status of the remaining candidates 1. Zvezdas Ka-50 Main problem I am facing is attaching the canopy, because it is two part, with second part(doors) being flat part with no grooves for attaching. There is an option for posing them open, however I am against dust effects in the cockpit so I would like to close it. Needles to say gaps are all around... If you have any suggestions how to tackle this problem, they are very welcome. 2. Airfix Walrus One picture is worth more than thousand words... Advise to ones that already don't know – don't mark part numbers with permanent marker, or at least remove before painting... Real problem I have is how to solve problem with supporting of the wings? 3. Italeris Jaguar Putty queen – kit from hell, at least that what this kit is in my opinion. Some areas require additional work; I have to find the box with remaining parts?! 4. Airfix Hawk Kit has been left as seen in picture more than seven years ago, when I restarted modeling. I have glued parts underneath the wings (vortex generators?) and realized that it is impossible to apply decals. I am afraid to remove masking tape from cockpit, maybe it will pull some plastic... Never bought another decal sheet, and when I was taking pictures I managed to remove one of the parts (maybe I can remove them all - who knows) Any suggestions welcome... Cheers!!! Rade

Hi This one made it to the Gallery... Cheers!!! Rade