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I have an Eduard née Special Hobby kit I had expected to get to build in a 2025 Group Build. Being a Rolls Royce Merlin powered Curtiss P-40F from Forces Aériennes Françaises in Meknes, Morocco, this is likely to become a triple loser . But can you top that? V-P
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Time to say goodbye to "From Morocco to Messina"
vppelt68 replied to vppelt68's topic in Group Build Chat 2024
When this will be re-launched, the proposal will also be edited to include what's mentioned in the quote above. And re-titled accordingly. V-P -
Time to say goodbye to "From Morocco to Messina"
vppelt68 replied to vppelt68's topic in Group Build Chat 2024
I think I will let this rest until next year and then try to re-start. November-December re-starts tend to get forgotten when the Bunfight era is over and a new Group Build Calendar rules the world. Thank you all for your support! V-P -
A few weeks ago I browsed through one of my spares boxes - I have awfully many, awfully too small and awfully unorganised spares boxes - and started counting the required components for the mini diorama I had an idea of. Yes, why not, it looks like I could start with an Airfix fuselage and wings, add Revell rudder, fin, dorsal panel, cockpit parts and glazing, season it with Zvezda cowlings and radiators and top it off with Eduard drop tanks. All this in a mini diorama, of course
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Revell 1/12 Chevrolet Camaro
vppelt68 replied to triumphfan's topic in Ready For Inspection - Vehicles
Lovely! If Chevrolet would have marketed a "Penske/Donohue Special" in 1969, it could have looked a lot like your model. The colour combination is perfect, and the Minilites are the icing on the cake! V-P -
Hobby 2000 Junkers Ju 88. Not yet, but on its way
vppelt68 replied to vppelt68's topic in The Rumourmonger
Meanwhile, there's also a hope that this would materialize one day... They'd even have a stunning boxart ready to be re-used (not its contents, though!) -
My bad! I didn't check nor think about it, and deep in the GB Universe I'm too accustomed to everything starting on Saturdays V-P
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I'm very disappointed it's not released on a Friday
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Hobby 2000 Junkers Ju 88. Not yet, but on its way
vppelt68 replied to vppelt68's topic in The Rumourmonger
Ju 88 decals... I don't need to shop for more of those for a while, though there's never too much of them either! -
Hobby 2000 Junkers Ju 88. Not yet, but on its way
vppelt68 replied to vppelt68's topic in The Rumourmonger
After e-mailing Hobby 2k I found a very reasonably priced Hasegawa "Geismann" boxing https://www.scalemates.com/kits/hasegawa-01932-junkers-ju88a-14-geismann--131166 , bought it and have admired it ever since but haven't started to build it yet - waiting for a suitable group build, of course - but I like the look and feel of the kit. I have bought the Eduard mask and interior PE sets for it, and I have an AIMS FuG 200 set too. The kit is easy to build as one without the ventral gondola, BoLa. V-P -
Back in June this year I was annoyed by the lack of good Ju 88 A-4 kits on the market. The Revell kit has become unobtainable, Italeri isn't worth its price, Zvezda is morally impossible to buy and Hasegawa is scarce too. Don't even start on the ancient kits! So I wrote a polite message to Hobby 2000 producers and I got an equally polite answer to my enquiry: It's a matter of when, rather than if, they told me. That's great news! Now, let's just wait for that to happen V-P
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I'm currently re-reading the Finnish book "Lapin lentokonehylyt", Airplane wrecks in Lapland, by mr./Dr. Hannu Valtonen, from 2009. On page 227 they mention in a caption of a photo taken of the remains of a wreck in 2006, that the Ju 88 had an RLM 72/73 camouflage. Unfortunately the pic doesn't prove it one way or the other, but let's accept the view of the wreck hunters... The Junkers in case was one of a Schwarm of three A-4:s from KG 26 (1H+JF, +KF and +IM) that all crashed in low visibility at Hjerttindgryta, Tromssa, in Norway 9.2.1945. A fourth plane, an A-4/Torp from the same mission (+AF) crashed also but to another mountain in Rabbåsen, 4 kilometers away. From the aircrew of 16 only one survived... without any enemy influence. Tough luck. V-P
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Time to say goodbye to "From Morocco to Messina"
vppelt68 replied to vppelt68's topic in Group Build Chat 2024
Yes, what would a November feel like without an "own" GB in the Bunfight Just two to go, if you're interested in a limited scope "MTO GB IV", sign in and then let's multiply x2 the support to get enough votes too . V-P -
Progress, but slow. The canopy framings now need interior green first, and then I get to paint the fuselage and the canopies in camouflage colours. Nice little kits - I have one SH P-40D and three P-40F:s waiting for GB year 2025