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  1. Bonehammer
    Unfortunately I can't help with a new canopy but considering its shape have you checked your spares box? It looks to me like a bubbletop P-47 or -51 could provide a base to work with if nothing else happens. The Bilek Flora got no love from the aftermarket, I was hoping for a metal undercarriage to adapt for my Ardpol kit, but... Nothing! EDIT: To be sure to be sure.
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    Does the 25% rule apply? I have a few vacs with the parts cleaned up. Some from MPM with the detail bits injected, a few from Karo As with the details cast in resin. If the former are a no-no b/c of the plastic, I may enter the latter.
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    Your best bet for an A-1 is the 1:32 Revell kit. In 1/72, better start from Zvezda A-5 (which was an earòier version than the -4 in spite of the numbers): the right engine and canopy and maybe something else is there. It's not the best or more accurate Ju.88 on the market, but it's nicely detailed for the price. For the record, in 1/48 there's a conversion for the Dragon kit by MDC. When I test-fitted it, the parts seemed generally undersized. Didn't progress further.
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    Grey, IMHO.
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    Eh, when you're obsess dedicated, you see opportunities everywhere. The secret is to know when to stop (hint: before you start bringing home syringes from the park, just because OMG GUN TUBES!)
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    Excellent! I had stopped following your work for a while. Great to see it finished! The 'not quite solid' effect on the katana is wonderful, and the painting gives the proper age to a face that looked too young as casted... I especially like the last snapshot.
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    NOOOOOOOO! Just when I was thinking of getting one!
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    Masterful use of the brush stick there. The Dorniers that sank the Roma were from KG 100, am I correct?
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    LOL! A cheap source of the wire you need are the courtesy hangers you get from the cleaners. The twist thingies that hold dolls and toys in their boxes are good for the smaller branches. Wire trees are fast and easy to do. This was the result after twenty minutes' work, freehand, a Milliput bark will be the next stage: The key to a realistic tree is always the leaves, but if you're doing a Vietnam diorama you shouldn't have any problems. Two words: "Agent Orange"...
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    I just saw this one. Big project don't scare ya, do they? The fuselage swap is Would have never thought of doing it this way, otlishtniy. I too sanded the outer wings on my first Su-22, then on the second one I took a different approach: grooves on the inside of the parts and cuts on the inboard sides allowed to 'flatten' the parts to a more realistic appearance.
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    It would be foolish on behalf of ICM not to capitalize on their excellent .215. You know that the less popular version is the first to be released... Patience, grasshopper.
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    Estonia, confirmed.
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    Nice project. Be careful: I don't know what happened, but I couldn't for the life of me line up the wings and the tail correctly with this plane.
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    Still trudging along with the undercarriage. I hoped to do some painting today but my bottle of superglue has congealed, meaning I can't attach the piping. I discarded and remade the wheel bay ceiling, as my earlier efforts had left it too shallow, and removed the kit supplied blanks passing themselves for radiator faces. New ones were made from styrene sheet and surgical tape. I'm wondering whether to add the tank above the undercarriage legs or not... the compartment is busy as it is, but I only added a bulkhead in front that would fall right in the middle of the engine on the real thing... Here's hoping that there will be some silver and green stuff sploshed on the plastic next time. Over, Bone
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    "Sexism" and "Eire" in the same thread. Mustn't take the bait, mustn't take the bait...
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    And the Vargas girls will become four-piece puzzles to cirmcumvent regulations...
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    As a (former) woman in science, I am ashamed and offended by the rag writers who chose to focus on the shirt, probably because the rest of the announcement and its significance flew right over their pint-sized heads. "I don't care that you landed a spacecraft on a comet"? Well, I don't care that you can pick a handbag to match your shoes, let's see you do something that will be remembered next week. But in the meanwhile, please feel free to ruin the excitement and joy over the successful conclusion to several years of planning, over a matter of fashion. Some people are but a fart in the universe.
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    Once I tinted white glue with black gouache to reproduce the tar sealing around concrete slabs. You could get dark windows this way.
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    I realized that I recognise all the characters on the Fairly Oddparents cast. Somebody please sneak from behind and kill me quickly.

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    Hiya, update. Not everything was done today, but today I took some pictures. Landing gear and mudguards: Instrument panel, throttle, compass, gizmos: Actually the kit is not kicking and screaming much... it's only that the dragging distance is longer than, say, the Airfix Mosquito of the same vintage. Still, it's a well-behaved bunch of plastic and I'm enjoying myself.
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    Case no.1: state-of-the art kit with crisp recessed panel lines, exquisite exterior detail, alas the ejection seat is simplified, the cockpit walls are bare, and the IP is wrong for that version anyway. In this case I'd go for the photoetch/resin which gives the most realistic representation available. Case no.2 vintage kit with simplified, 'soft' or missing detail. In this case I may improve what's in the box or scratchbuild. Of course the end result does not hold a candle to an actual aftermarket part, but I can 'tune' the look of the details I'm adding to that of the kit itself. I wouldn't buy, say, a set of fabric-and-etched metal poseable seat belts to put them on a Matchbox Tempest with its trenchlike panel lines and solid exhausts. I'd rather make some seat belts that look like the Matchbox Tempest came with them, if you catch my meaning...
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    In short: if you already have one, build the SMER kit as the Hobbyboss kit comes with its own fit problems. If you are starting from an 'inbound logistics' stage, get the Hobbyboss one as the SMER is not without its share of inaccuracies. The Hobbycraft kit, in this day and age, can still be useful for the absolute beginners (it goes together pretty well) and double as a paint mule once finished.
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    Something about the sprue layout reminds me of the best Amodel efforts, eg Yak-25 series. But the surface finish seems nicer at this magnification.
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    I'm using this thread for reference when I'll make the crib this Christmas, and that's all said...
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