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Hello all. After a bit of a run building very old kits (taking into account original tooling dates, not re re re issue dates), I thought it was time to attempt one of the newer options around, the MikroMir 1/144 Handley Page Hastings. I had the C1A boxing, which was released in 2021. I snapped one up as soon as the big H had them at Lowestoft, took one look at it, and hid it away in my stash. The reason? well, my preferred option had dayglo or fluorescent red areas, and I knew I was 'rubbish' at painting those colours after innmerable attempts. In the meantime, I have since done some aircraft and a Beach Buggy with one or other of these colours on, and I think I had found a way of brush painting them. Out came the Hastings again, one look at the two options again confirmed the brighter coloured aircraft was the one I wanted to build, so I set to. Having built MikroMir's Blackburn Beverley I had a good idea as to what I was up against, which in general is a good kit, bad fit type of thing, and so it proved this time. I struggled with fitting the tailplanes and then especially the engine nacelles, but pretty much everything else was trouble free. The only let down in my mind were the transfers, where the colours for the roundels, fin flashes and cheatlines were off - the blue being way too light for a start. I had a set of Xtradecal transfers for the Beverley and Argosy, so I sat down and had a look through them. I found that roundels and fin flashes were the correct size, and they also had a batch of cheat lines. I then looked through the options to see which I could sacrifice in the future by pinching some of these markings. Imagine my surprise when I picked up the transfer sheet, and found a second one behind it! I'd looked at these goodness knows how many times in the past for an Argosy build (never started) and had not noticed the second sheet. Anyway, what a result. After all this preamble, this is what I ended up with. Please just don't look too closely at seam lines! I glazed the cabin windows with Humbrol Clearfix, and the fluorescent red was done by brushing on some Humbrol 60 Scarlet acrylic followed by two coats of Revell 332 Fluorescent Red, bot thinned with Winsor and Newton Flow Improver and a spot of distilled water. Although (or because) it took quite a bit of effort, I really enjoyed this. I wonder if there are any alternative markings for other Hastings? I would love to have another bash at one. I'm going to have a look. Thanks for looking, kind regards all, Ray

MikroMir is to release a 1/144th Myasishchev M-50 "Bounder" kit - ref. 144-??? Source: https://www.facebook.com/mikro.mir.dnepr/posts/4783924505018581 V.P.

WTF! Source: https://www.facebook.com/mikro.mir.dnepr/posts/1853391408071920 V.P.

MikroMir/AMP is to release a 1/32nd Hughes OH-6 Cayuse kit - ref ? Source: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=945697050913379&id=100064192773267 3D renders V.P.

This is the 1/350-scale MikroMir USS Growler, an early attempt by the US Navy to field a cruise missile submarine in the nuclear deterrence role. This is a styrene kit with a couple PE details. Detail is good, fit is satisfactory. A small but persistent amount of flash makes working with some of the finer pieces difficult. Base coats are Mr Color and Tamiya lacquers, following by an enamel pin wash and some weathering with oils. Fun little kit, but a little more involved than it looks! Thanks for taking a peak.

After a recent run-in with Hobby Boss' RMS Olympic, this little 15-part kit was a delight to build. I had no idea that the Church of England had a side-line in submersibles: this little craft seems to have had a fairly safe, albeit short, career until it was lost whilst under tow off North Wales. The only modification I made was to glaze the four portholes with AK Water gel, and as it wasn't provided with a name plaque I made one up with Slater's 5mm letters.

In a voice more common for someone who has absolutely no practice of singing properly: "Как фанеера наад Париижем..." (might delete this bit later) In other words I almost missed this GB but I've got just the kit for it too: Plywood. More specifically its second version Plywood-2. Want to know why plywood? Because it was the construction material of choice of course. Meet Lisichkin NIAI-1 "Plywood-2" NIAI-1 "Fanera-2" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIAI_LK-1 Kit by Mikromir and as usual instructions are attached. This time the plan is to make it a little bit easier by detaching parts from sprues and not taking too long on construction phase. Starting tomorrow obviously.

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AMP (MikroMir) is to release a 1/144th Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit kit - ref.14402 Source: https://www.facebook.com/mikro.mir.dnepr/posts/1853390211405373 V.P.

MikroMir AMP is to release 1/72nd E.E. Canberra kits. Among them T.11/ B.2 /Tp.52 Swedish air force etc. Source: https://www.facebook.com/mikro.mir.dnepr/posts/1768192206591841 V.P.

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MikroMir is to release 1/72nd Saab J-35 Draken kits. Source: https://www.facebook.com/mikro.mir.dnepr/posts/pfbid0Rtqzz7F68CrKYxVLaEzKT71YbyThkdiCc1uHxPLRTh1gGR3iRiFxgMmvzpLC5L1Zl 3D renders V.P.

This Venom was delivered to the RAF in May 1955 and served its whole career with the RAF’s 2nd Tactical Air Force in Germany with number 11 squadron. Following the short-sighted Sandys defence cuts this and most German-based Venoms were withdrawn from service with unseemly haste by the end of 1957. The type soldiered on with the RAF in the Far East until the early 1960s, however. After a fiddly start to the cockpit and nose wheel bay, the kit actually became a joy to build once I realised the instructions are more for guidance rather than accuracy! A couple of the parts are misnumbered in the instructions too, including the tail boom halves. It’s worth dry-fitting all parts first as many of the tabs are too wide for their slots. However, apart from the tail boom joins under the wings, it didn’t really need much filler, fitting together quite well. The paint was all from rattle cans; gloss dark green, dark sea grey with PRU blue undersides and satin black tip tanks. Decals are all oob except I added a few extra stencils from a spare Vampire decal sheet. This is the photo I used for inspiration, from Roger Lindsay’s superb ‘Cold War Shield’ volume II. All comments and suggestions always welcome! 50s flypast.

#1/2025 So, let´s start the new year. First one finished by my dad is this cute T-70M from Mikro Mir. Well, it isn´t Tamigawa but with some attention it turns out ok. Painted with a selfmixed 4BO, used some tools from the sparesbox because he kit ones were slightly too large for the fenders. Replaced the PE fender to hull struts with plastic stripes, easier to work with. Did some weatheirng with Tamiya and AK stuff. Build thread here https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235148408-little-tin-can148-t-70m-soviet-army/ Model shows a vehicle of the 2nd Belarus Front 1944/45 DSC_0001 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0002 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0003 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0004 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0005 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0006 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0007 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0008 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0009 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0010 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr DSC_0011 by grimreaper110, auf Flickr

Hi, This is my MikroMir Valiant with the Transport Wings conversion set. From the first time I saw a picture of that prototype (about 40 years ago), I loved that menacing look of it. I hope I can produce a good-looking model. Cheers, Stefan.

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Sources: https://amp-ukraine.com/ https://www.facebook.com/mikro.mir.dnepr/posts/pfbid02LitLBbRbukeFycWLzwKuigT8qCrjXvf5Ht7HntwwwoX5Pw4pzeh9cVnu9rk5dFiBl V.P.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/story.php/?id=100064192773267&story_fbid=721858313297255 "MikroMir Yokosuka MXY7 Ohka 1.32 box art & first sprues" V.P.

MikroMir is to release a 1/48th Junkers F.13 kit - ref. 48-021 Source: https://www.facebook.com/mikro.mir.dnepr/posts/3245837238827323 First 3D renders V.P.

MikroMir is to release a 1/16th Ukrspecsystems Shark drone kit - ref. 16-001 "Another box art from Andrzej. MikroMir this time. This will be our first 1/16 scale model. It was developed with the permission and with the assistance of the company UKRSPECSYSTEMS . So hold on! Ukrainian reconnaissance drone Shark." Source: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?id=100064192773267&story_fbid=821619816654437 Box art V.P.

A new MikroMir kit project: a 1/32nd Pensuti-Caproni B.1 - ref. 32005 Source: https://www.facebook.com/mikro.mir.dnepr/posts/pfbid02NfCB9qCzkJemmKZDLdmYhLA3aamBe6WTc2jWwwQZ3ZuUih9ZcUQU74NoSig9MJ3Xl V.P.

Another V-Bomber in 1/144th, the Vickers Valiant Mk.1 by MikroMir (http://www.mikro-mir.com/en/)- ref.144-003. Source: http://www.mikro-mir.com/en/97-valiant.html V.P.

This is the MikroMir 1/48 Junkers W.34hi built pretty much OOB but with the addition of the Metallic Details engine and details sets 3D printed. The kit is well detailed, corrugations are really well done. I didn't bother detailing the interior due to lack of references and the fact you wouldn't see anything anyway! Cockpit detail is minimal, although a 3D decal instrument panel is supplied. Canopy I wasn't too impressed with being a four piece assembly, I ended up slightly fogging part of it MikroMir do actually supply two sets of transparencies which unfortunately didn't help me!! Also supplied is a small sheet of photoetch details and sheet of masks (not all of which fit very well especially the fuselage windows). My biggest problem with this build were the decals, I should really have tried to paint the markings usual problem corrugations and decals!! Despite the use of plenty of decal softener the results were not satisfactory . I finished the option in the kit of a W34hi of FFS(C)16 in 1938, finish was overall RLM63 ( Real Colours).:- Cheers Andy

AMP is to release a 1/72nd North American Lenticular Reentry Vehicle (L.R.V.) kit - ref. 72020 Source: https://www.facebook.com/mikro.mir.dnepr/posts/4516192195125148 3D renders While there's so many interesting and historical aircrafts in need of kits... Sigh. V.P.

AMP has 1/48th and 1/72nd Supermarine S.6B kits in project. Source: https://www.facebook.com/mikro.mir.dnepr/photos/a.1416729748404757.1073741828.1416295571781508/1868468463230881/?type=3&theater V.P.