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I have it up on its legs but need some hatches for the rear wheel and they are not in the kit. Here is something funny. I am building 2x Spitfire Mk.14 and a Mk.19. Adding those numbers get the sum of 47 as in my Seafire.

I don't learn of my mistakes. I was stupid enough to build the He111C and later stood in the hobby store holding a He111B but then remembered what the kit was like and decided on not to build one. Now some years later I am sitting here with a kit anyway. Let get in to the misery. It's no big secret that the box for the landing gear is too high to fit inside the wing halves. The sides of the box were this time built together without the "ceiling" and glued in place. Then the sides could be cut down to the appropriate height to fit. I used the Dremel to deepen and extend the recess for "the roof". Of course I sanded through the plastic as it became too thin. I think it would have been easier to skip" the roof" and glue some plastic strips directly into the wing instead .The upper half of the wings need to be thinned out at the rear to get it right. My earlier build:

While at it I started on a AZ-model as well. An irritating kit. The cockpit look nice but the parts don't fit. I had big problems getting the fuselage together as the interior was to large. The rudder had to be cut off to be replaced with a smaller one. Concentrating hard on the fuselage/cockpit fit made me miss the fact that the new rudder was thinner than the old one. Adapting the rear of the already assembled fuselage to make the rudder fit was another annoying thing.

I would have liked to see it but the pictures are to large to open on a slow connection.

I have a faint memory of reading that the fuselage was to narrow. I thought it was compared to drawings but now that I try to find some confirmation of this it seems that the cockpit or more probably the canopy that is to wide. Something to check before gluing the fuselage together. The cockpit picture I posted was a single pic, not from a walkaround.

Looking at this pic of a Do24K make me think lap belts only: https://www.flickr.com/photos/skylarkair/7885471828/in/photostream/

The instructions are a mess having problems with what parts goes with the c-wing and what goes with the e-wing. The kit goes together OK if one take care with dry fitting and some modification of parts. I had to add a piece of plastic card to the front of the fuselage as the top engine cower was to long. The radiators was to large to fit in the "radiator boxes" The wing fit good to the fuselage. I had no big problems building it. Next will be a Spitfire from AZ model

I have never been fond of the Spitfire with "bubble top" canopy so I am building one. Not a "shake and bake" kit. It need lot of dry fitting but building a Ventura kit at the same time make it easier to cope with. i robbed the kit of the guns so I replaced them with some from Airfix. So I think that I have it ready for paint.

Finally it start looking lie an aeroplane. The grey stabilizers are parts of the kit but I robbed a Sword Spitfire of the guns. Time for radiators and I had hoped to add rockets to it but I didn't have enough in the spare part box so I'll probably add the fuel tanks.

https://www.super-hobby.se/products/British-WWII-Army-Mobile-Chapel.html You seem tp be missing the sprue with the cargo bay canvas shown here.

The Stug was a Matchbox kit and the Pz.IV was a Revell kit. later Revell took over the Matchbox moulds but the two kits has nothing in common.

A Seafire landed n my home. I've heard that Ventura's kits are not the easiest to build but are accurate, so I set out looking for building tips. Unfortunately I found this: "After checking the kits against reliable measurements I found that the Seafire XV and XVII are indeed very accurate. The Spitfire IX and the Seafire 47 however are not." With a feeling of slight horror, I open the box to find this. A lot to grind away. The plastic was rock hard which was good in a way. OK it was a bit difficult to grind, but had no problems with the plastic getting too hot and wanting to melt. An afternoon's work and one wing is done. The instructions tells me to ad a cockpit bulkhead from plastic card using the templates below. The problem is that they didn't add these to the instructions. But sometimes my weird ideas work. The cockpit sides are completely lacking in detail (unless you count the casting runners I sanded away. Have a Spitfire laying around so I tried to make a silicone mould of the cockpit sides. I then smeared the moulds full of Tamiya putty and clamped the mould to the body side. The result was better than expected. Add a little paint and with the hood in place nothing is visible anyway.

It look great. I do like the paint on it. I haven't seen it built as a South African plane before. How are the AK paints to work with? Do the cover well? Those colour might be what I need for my next Ju86. It is a bit funny. My first thought when I saw th model was that you forgot the side window. The I remembered that it was something that I had to add to build my Swedish planes.

It was one of the last Matchbox kits and honestly not one of their best. I have built it twice (https://baecklund.eu/scalemodels/72/pz4.html) and replaced the complete chassis with one from Revell's Panzer IV The tracks are better detailed and look thinner on the Pz.IV and the gun in the Stug kit look more like a caricature. I used the Pz.IV instead. But despise these changes I think that Srđan has made a better job with his kit than me. It does look really good.

Both wings are in place. I got a little irritated when I was going to blend in the the left wing with the fuselage. I started with the underside and noticed that the wing had came too far down. I thought I was sloppy with the gluing, but then I could feel with my fingers that the left wing was thicker than the right. It felt good not to have to tear the wing off and re-glue it. Sanding down the thickness wasn't much of a problem, but I got a bit of fright when the plane made a jump from the table onto the tile floor. It's a good thing that I used epoxy glue. With superglue, the wings were guaranteed to come off from the impact.