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  1. Yes, we (JWM and me too) know that, but having seen both the PZL P.11c and PWS-26 preserved in the Polish Aviation Museum both BEFORE and during the several restorations between 1985 and today I have to agree with JWM that your PZL.46 is (a little bit) too reddish and too light. This is the reason why JWM asked you about the lighting, because the uppersurface colour looks similar to the milky chocolate or a fresh chestnut, which would be more adequate for the PWS aircraft and not the PZL.

    Basing on the preserved paint chips from the interior (thus not sun-dyed) of PWS-26 and P.11c I can say that there were two different shades of so-called Polish khaki of late 30s. The paint used by PZL was a dark field drab (close to the FS34088) and on the real a/c it was used with light bluish grey (~FS36628) undersurfaces. On the other side the PWS-built a/c were painted khaki overall and their colour was lighter and less greener than khaki used by PZL. IIRC the closest match here was FS30145.

    Cheers

    Michael

    Yes it will be bit darker but it's 1/72 scale. The P.11 and PWS-26 was many times repainted with the wrong paints, now it`s not others then in the past. The undersurface in my kit is light bluish grey. In the fact the Polish khaki was only one color not two, not three... it's only a legend with more then one khaki from 1930 to 1939 and the some is with the blue grey.

    HATAKA and PACTRA made two different khaki because the market will it so...because some of the people belief the legend.

    Best regards.

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  2. Miniplast do a 1/48th vacform that is a good vacform, I got one cheap, and then when hunting for info found a very detailed build by a Polish modeller,

    http://www.modelwork.pl/viewtopic.php?t=5762

    unfortunately the build thread has gone.

    very neat work on the Ardpol kit.

    Here the link to the build: http://modelwork.pl/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=4878&start=45'>http://modelwork.pl/viewtopic.php?f=86&t=4878&start=45

    Two mistakes are on this kit, the front part of canopy slides under the central part, the part over the second crow member was opened like in the PZL 23 Karas.

    I started this vacuum kit ca. 1988 and it is still unfinished in one of my boxes :-(

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  3. Nice! How was the work? I have Broplan vacu kit of this machine in stash. Not sure which is better to work on...I have some Ardpol kits in stash as well (Douglas O2 and O38E) - but I have not made any of them so far.

    If I can ask - Is it that much brown or this is a some colour changes only on photo?

    Cheers

    J-W

    The ARDPOL kits are easy to build, so I haven't any problems with and I built they RWD-10/16, LWD-3 Zak, PZL 38 Wilk, PZL 48 Lampard, TS-8 Bies, RWD-23, PWS-33 Wyzel...

    The Polish khaki was a brown color like RAF Dark Earth.

  4. very nice indeed!

    never seen or heard that there only was one camouflaged....

    and I really do not understand it at all.... didn't they learn their lessons form the 1967 war??

    It was an experiment tied with the choice of new standard assault aircraft for the Polish Air Force in the 70-s (Lim-5/6 [Polish built MiG-17] , SU-7 or MiG-21F-13) . Won Lim-5/6.

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  5. The next old kit - I begun it ca. 18 years ago, painted it with Model Masters Autentics and applied the very unsatisfactory qualitatively decals from INTECH (PL) - you can see silvering on it :oops: then I lost some parts, so I put it away for many years. Now it is finished :cheers: but I'm not happy with the results.
    Turret is from Squadron designed for Halifax bomber, the gun barrels came from Quickboost, left undercarriage cover I made today from scratch, the frames of the glass parts are from painted decals stripes.

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