Caerbannog

Looks impressive and even the price is high I start to understand the cost of the kit (I still have to pass for 100 Euro...). I would have hoped the decal sheet would include some older CCCP livery as well.

Supermarine S4 next please Then some Macchi: M39 M67 and MC72 (SBS announced a 1:48 resin kit early last year - nothing yet: From there more Schneider racers in no special order. Regarding Helicopters I can second the ones listed above: - Aérospatiale SA.340, SA.341 & SA.342 Gazelle - Sud-Aviation SA.316 Alouette III And I would add a proper Mil Mi Hind family (before I lay hands on my old Monogram kit) and Puma to the list. A Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne would be nice as well. And early Cobras. A line of Lockheed Orion/Sirius/Air Express and Vega would be nice as well. Cleverly enginieered they can share molds and make a wide range of colourful liveries. Two landbased racers which are neglected in this scale arethe Laird Super Solution and the Wedell Williams. Especially the last had several different liveries. Everything above in 1:48 please. Btw.: How is the DH88 Comet doing?

I seem to remember that Hannats had the Gannet on pre-order about two or three years ago as a Special Hobby release. I did not follow because I have the CA one and a started and incomplete Dynavector (maybe I use the wings and the Airwaves set to graft folded wings on the CA kit someday), so it did not appear on the market?

I seem to recall this is about the same price as the previous release. Good thing.

Seems so - and will most likely affect the supplied cockpit parts as well. I hope it is not as bad as in the picture because the kit side view is from slightly above and the real side views from slightly below. Maybe one can swap a Testors font on the AFV kit - but it will be lots of filling, sanding and rescribing (Testors has raised detail). Best would be if AFV are hinted and they correct the tools.

You can say what you want about Mach2 - but they have one of the nicest line of subjects out there. Now another one

There is one shot on HS of the canopy/nose which seems to justify the fear of a spape problem on. Sure it is not released yet but it is already quite obvious: Sure the perspective is a bit different - but not as much that explains the shape of the kit parts IMHO. I copied the outline of the top picture and placed them over the test build picture: The nose is a bit blunt but the canopy is way too high. This will be tricky to correct I suppose.

No pics today. Just a small update. I bought some acrylic white primer ready for airbrush, but just do not get the stuff to work. It is quite thick and thinning it down did not help: It cloggs the airbrush very quickly. After a 10 to 1 ratio of airbrushing and cleaning the airbrush up I decided to paint it the old way with a hairy stick - and found the primer to be quite good for the task. Pics will follow in the next update.

Sounds familar to me... At leastI was lucky and bought mine second hand some years ago. Hope they will do a boxing of Betty Jo - with correct drop tanks.

Very nice work. I wish there would be a nice 1:48 version of these. Thanks for the description how you replicated the wood. Will follow with interest.

Amazing work.

Very nice choice. Will follow with interest.

I have the same kit in stash too and planned to build it as a racer. Will follow your build with interest.

Cool - will follow with interest.

So... after a self-imposed longer absence to GBs because of my infamous amount of entered but incompleted kits, I now have a full shelf of doom to pick entries for this GB from. Everything bad has something good somewhere So my pick is the Aeroclub Tiger Moth which I started in the Tiger Moth STGB in... eh.. 2016? Being highly motivated I did this incredible amount of work yesterday - till the airbrush completely clogged and now is in the ultrasonic cleaner. René