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Caerbannog

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  1. OK. Against better knowledge and against my oath to reduce the amount of shelf queens I through this one in. Pics will follow soon. For several years my Hobby Boss kit, with Two Bobs decals and a fair bit of aftermarket parts is waiting to be build as the battle damaged Irak raider. Never started this though as I was hoping to find some more photos but did not succeeded. So I suppose I need to add a bit of artistic licence regarding the battle damage. Meanwhile I did some resin printed intake improvement parts: So this build will also be a test for these as well 🙂 Rene
  2. Have two 1-48 kits in stash. One should become the racing P-80, though I am not sure if I would squeeze it into a GB knowing my pace... But there is still the standard version to build, so sign me up please.
  3. Hope they do some decent riveting job on this. Even they are very restained on the Sabre I think they are a must for NMF.
  4. Better start soon - we will all profit from your sacrifice 🙂
  5. Funnily I find it quite hard to name a fighter. Bomber is easy: XB-70 If you name it here one might add the A-12 as non-fighter (a bit more beautiful than SR-71 IMHO and while I like the YF-12 the orperational version would have been more nicely looking). Many beautiful racers like MC-72 or Supermarines and Queen of all the DH 88 Comet. Which leads me to: DH Sea Hornet 🥰 But agree with Hawker Hunter, Spitfire (high back MkXIV or PR.19), Mustang, Tigercat, ... To add one to the list: Lockheed XF-90
  6. So if V3540 was delivered on 2nd of November 1940 and the request to extend the camouflage came on 30th October 1940 ("are to be made effective as soon as possible") then I am pretty sure V3540 would have been delivered with the high demarcation line. I may be wrong but I guess it is quite unlikely that V3540 would have seen a repaint to the later standard in her first year at Kinloss before Amy Johnsons last flight on January 5th 1941?
  7. I use an UV lamp for post curing and usually keep the printed parts for several additional days in daylight. Maybe this could cause other problems (like makeing the parts to brittle?) but its been a while now that was blessed with a cracking model 🙂
  8. Well as I understand you can choose only from the two - Junkers or Macchi. Hmm.... I am for Macchi then but would rather like them to add Griffon Spits in 1:48 as Phoenix suggested (and yes - Bearcat and X-15 please). Others may think Eduard would ride the horse to seath but I just feel they do not complete the job 😉 So we reached the point where I can whining about Tamiya and the P-47N...
  9. Regarding "cracking" prints: As said they happen to hollow parts which stil contain uncured resin. Hollow parts still make sense to safe resin and weight as well. But keep the hollowing function of your slicer software to parts which are large enough. You will also need to add holes to the part so that unured resin can escape. I use a syringe to "blow" water (or IPA) trough these holes to get the parts washed internally as well. It can be quite surprising how much resin would have stayed inside if I did not do this. After these precautions my prints have not cracked since. Take care with STL files from others - sometimes there are hollow areas hidden. I look closely in my slicer software at the single layers for such spots. If there is one, I use a drill bit and open the print afterwards. There is surely a more elegant method but hey... it works. That said I have an Elegoo Saturn and use water based resins and I am happy with the results. Speed is not so improtant for me. Looking at my stash I have plenty of time...
  10. I have just dug out an older (some years but no more than 10 years old I daresay) Revell 68 tin as I was out of other RAF Dark Green colours. I sprayed it on a Gloster Pioneer and my usual prepared gloss heavy paper chips I keep close to my paint booth for makeing colour chips. It is not fully dried but gives a very good match to the colour chip in my copy of RAF Museum's "British Aviation colors of WW2". Not sure about Revell Aqua but I suppose the colour should be pretty much the same.
  11. It would be disturbing if it is not the Ju 52... Such an important subject with lots of different configurations and liveries. I am still puzzled that Revell has never scaled the 1:48 kit down in all these years
  12. they say "various armament" - so I suppose the weapons bay should be granted
  13. Will be interesting to see how good it gets compared to others and at what price.
  14. Any news on this? Testshots are half a year old already and I thought / hoped they meet the Christmas season for release.
  15. indeed 😞 at least some more ICM reboxes would have been nice
  16. How long for a P-47N... Guess this list can go on quite a while...
  17. I really hoped for some cracking new tool kit from Revell on top of what they already announced for 2024. 😞
  18. They really know how to build up tention, encircling the one true scale for a CH-54 😉
  19. Bet they only release this to drive the aftermarked folks mad. well...decal makers could have a field day
  20. Looks nice although I thought the undisguised engine is included. I was quite curious how they would tool it.
  21. I suppose the F-35 order for the German air force was a push to Revell to do their own kit. Fully agree. But this is also true for many hobby shops. None for RC models left and even hobby shops for knitting, sewing, painting, pottery, ... have mostly gone. But hey - there are 1264 mobile phone shops in our town! It became a rare occasion that I buy a plastic kit in a true brick and mortar store. Last time in April 2023 in Berlin. Before that... I do not remember... I think Revells price policy will not be a real push for sales in brick and mortar shops as well. As others have said Revell kits are frequently reduced a lot on Amazon and sorry to say - that is where I bought most of my Revell kits the past two years (Razor Crest for 27 Euro or ICM Invader for about the same price IIRC - including shipping). There is maybe still hope fro some more announcements on the Nürnberg Toy Fair? I hope for some reboxes of ICM kits...
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