Bigglesof266

Put in a lot of effort. Worth it. Paid off. Congrats. 🔟

Lubbly jubbly! Nice to see the less frequently featured early Sherman. I have this kit. Regardless the valid if nit picking criticism of the final drive covers, 6062 is a nice kit regardless its 16 year old tooling. Allied, particularly American armour generally holds scant interest for me, but this early Pacific Theatre "Tarawa" Sherman did as do Japanese Pacific theatre light tanks.

Very, very nice Zigomar 🔟👍 VVS subjects particularly appeal to me. Love the La-5FN. Not the aesthetic of the inline engined Yaks, yet with a pugilistic beauty of its own, and such a significant subject in Soviet fighter development evolution during that war. Zvezda's kit of it is an absolute beauty -I have it in the stash. Hope I can turn out mine as well as yours.

G'day Bob, Yes, the price on the Do 17Z-7 isn't too savage all things considered given what it is gauged on current kit pricing generally, but the ICM Do 217 series price point is frightful. The lovely Do 17Z-2 which you just built is comparatively reasonable.

Top result. 🔟 Appreciate the build report too. Been wanting on of the night fighter variants of this ICM kit for some time -offput today by its hefty price, Your build has cemented the decision to buy when I see a favourable opportunity. 👍🍻

Fantastic finishing. Trophy worthy.

I suspect development of an availability problem outside the Russian Federation for a while once current stocks are depleted, although AliExpress vendors and Lucky Model estore may pick up the slack on that. Regardless, with just that prescient in mind, I picked up Zvezda's reportedly rather nice and outstanding value new tool 1/35 T-90MS kit yesterday.

Very nice Michael. 👍 🔟 Very much enjoyed your presentation appreciating the effort put into it and sharing your love of the subject.

Your Su-85 looks good. even if I agree with you about your experimentation. Keep at it. Practice makes perfect!

Nice I like the often overlooked in favour of more glamorous later stuff too. Pz.Kpfw. 38(t) is a historically important subject.

Built per the boxtop art on Tamiya's box with the early muzzle brake and turret side vision ports, classifying it in accord with using Chamberlain & Doyle as a reference would confirm it an Ausf. F2.

For those enjoying Allan31's Matchbox build in this thread, a heads up. You may very well equally enjoy this. Cheers 🍻

Very nice Bill. 🔟 I like Otaki too (NLA other than the Arii reboxings frequently issued with different simplified decals). Built a few back in their heyday. Affordable to all back when 1/48 wasn't generally, and still are today in their Arii reissue reboxings. Alternatives or additions to to Tamiya's 1970s cheaper priced subject mouldings.

Top project fatfingers.👍 Concise summary of Ausführung confusion surrounding the F2 & G. The initial Ausf. F also referred to interchangeably as the F1 retained the short barreled L/24 75mm. The L/43 75mm was subsequently introduced on the F in the search for an ersatz solution to the T-34 and KV-II and that model designated the F2 to differentiate it from the F(1). Subsequent production standardising on the L/43 75mm armed Pz. Kpfw. IV was designated the Ausf. G. The two Ausfs. an be distinguished from one another generally by their distinctive muzzle brake shapes, which was altered for G production (visible in Tamiya's box art illustration). Cheers. 🍻

Deserves a trophy! 🔟 Curiosity begs. In what respect/s does the new tool vary from Eduard's previous 2003 iteration?

Ehles' early sans radar Bf 110 from II./NJG1 = extra points. I'd give you two trophies if I could. =] 👍🔟🍻 I have the same Print Scale decal sheet. Although I ordinarily build in 1/48, I did the new tool 1/72 Airfix Bf 110 as Hptm. Werner Streib's März 1941 Venlo based C-1 G9+AB of I./NJG 1 a few years back as part of a NJG theme series. Yours is glorious! ❤️ it. Most inspirational. And oh that nostalgic Matchbox art work! Although their 110 release came after interest of my childhood/youth modelling days had been displaced by newfound pursuits, its box top art is so characteristically evocative as Matchbox's art work was in a similar vein to Airfix's Roy Cross era.

It's a 110. Rates a trophy from me. 5./ZG1 "Wespen".

Love a good T-34 me. Great job by you and Mini Art. 👍 🔟 Beautifully presented too, 🍻

Have to be pleased with that result! 👍🔟

The FD-186 series with a 3 litre tank have a release valve at the side of the tank. (I have had the Fengda AS-186 for about a decade) Follow the metal line from the head down to the valve mounted at the side on the tank. Look for a sprung slider pin with a hole through it to which a keyring will be attached. This should be covered partially with a red plastic shroud. Place your finger in the keyring and pull (slide) the pin horizontally, with the unit powered off of course. It will void the tank. This vid clearly shows the release valve described. Your FD-186 is identical. QR connector does just what the name implies. Any decent one will incorporate a shutoff valve. Check before you buy. When you disconnect, a valve will close shutting off air discharge until you reconnect. This is a temporary shutoff of course. For storage, you should turn off the compressor, empty the line and then the tank.

So good. Love this. 🔟

I have their 1/48 Rafale M. Released in 2007. I was very happy with the model, and admittedly whilst I did buy it on a (genuine)annual sale promo, also the price I paid. It truly looks the part completed and all dressed up in its warpaint. Compared with for instance Revell's 280 part 1/48 Tornado GR.4 (2015), it was a fun build and nowhere near as expensive at the time, around half the price paid of the latter as I recall. General comment. Although I'm aware that in this scale particularly they are marketed to an adult demographic increasingly pedantic about detail and accuracy, I'm kinda' stunned at where model kits are going with their prices today. Hence happy with many HobbyBoss and Trumpeter models versus later iterations from other manufacturers. e.g. HobbyBoss' Me 262 (vs Tamiya's) and Trumpeter's KV-1 series (vs Tamiya's). That's not knocking Tamiya BTW, as their models unquestionably more frequently than not set a standard by which others are judged. By way of price phobia example, recently I was looking to buy Zvezda's new tool release 1/48 Su-57, I'd be fibbing if I didn't say I was scared off by its whopping AUD$79 +shipping local regional pricing, and that was discounted AUD$8 less than SRP at the online store which always features the best local pricing and service available. That's even dearer than Revell's latest iteration (03853) of their GR.4 Tornado at AUD$70. Ouch! Just plastic and alternate either or two scheme decals inside that symbolic yellow framed box, with none of the inclusions we have come to expect courtesy of Eduard Profikits such as superb glossy colour instruction booklet in A4, five colour scheme with decal options for same, paint masks, cockpit etch -panels often in colour, or in Limited Editions -resin -or even a stand which has to be purchased as an accessory albeit noting they are not included in the majority of model kits today, At least Zvezda include a pilot figurine for the money!

Nicely done. I too like price : performance ratio of many HobbyBoss aircraft kits like the 1/48 Ta 152 and Me 262 series.

Definitely a trophy for this one! Beautiful work. 🔟

Definitely deserves a trophy from me. 👍 🔟 And it invoked nostalgia. Short anecdote re the KH400. Circa 1976, my riding buddy/mate owned that same bike for a short while, in that exact same colour scheme. Unfortunately, or fortunately depending upon owner pride or dimmed memory perspective, I had the opportunity to ride his on several occasions in our and its heyday. Zippy enough in a straight line for its era, not one of the better handlers even of its day. I much preferred its Yamaha RD350B or earlier A contemporary as was. KH400 memory caveat. Avoid riding it in the wet if at all possible. Although far from alone in this regard, fine in the dry its early solid stainless steel SINGLE rotor without machined water sipe/cooling cutouts became pathetically ineffective in the rain tending to either perform very poorly (worse than an overheated drum brake) or grab and lock up with overenthusiastic application in trying to overcome the former. Typical of the initial era of front disc brake fitment, my considerably heavier 1973 Honda 350 Four suffered from that same wet (non-) braking foible. However the KH400's wet braking impact on its handling was compromised by its steering head angle and frame geometry tending to characteristic negative stability. Any overapplication of the front brake lever reactive to its lack of braking response when riding it in the rain made staying upright unduly hazardous in the wet outside ordinary considerations of smooth riding and braking in the wet or performance as was of bias ply tyre profiles with their harder rubber compounds and less advanced often almost directionally linear siping of the era. He didn't own/have it for long. I saw him fall off it several times as a consequence of its braking and handling idiosyncrasies prior to him eventually writing it off t-boning a car entering into his right of way.