Daniel.H.

Thank you a lot! For the presentation, this wonderful blood chit replica was actually given inside the kit, that's a very nice touch from the manufacturer!

Great job, your wood looks very convincing, and it's a rare aircraft, I can't wait to see it painted

Wonderful, I love the way your metallic parts look like, very realistic! Congrats !

Thanks for the inbox review, the kit looks good, I was looking for a Tomcat in 72nd scale seems like I found which brand to chose! And your detailing is amazing, especially for such a small scale, congratulations!

Nice start, the cockpit looks good! Tell us more about the diorama, what is it gonna look like?

Good evening gentlemen, And thank you a lot for your comments I had quite some time to work this weekend so I've been able to give my Phantom its shape I painted these parts, (I don't know how you call these in English, air intakes? ) in white, by the way, as you may see, this kit is in multiple colors plastic, which is intact quite useful, for the missiles for example. Then I glued them to the aircraft: Added the last PE parts on the canopy: Which I then fixed, but without gluing every part since I'll let it open in the end so we can see the nice PE details and resin seats in the cockpit. And that's it for this week, I'm happy with the work I've done, I've been quite productive, I'll be able to finish it on time hopefully! Have a nice day Daniel

Hello Alberto, I'm not an expert about brush painting since I usually use an airbrush, but one thing you could to to improve your skills would be to try to do all of your brush strokes in the same direction, here I can see you made some random strokes patterns. But it still looks good with the last coat you added, nice job, keep going !

Good afternoon gentlemen, And thank you all for your comments Hello Alberto, There are multiple reasons to why I chose this indeed quite specific subject. First of all, I am Iranian, born in Iran but living in Switzerland for the moment, and I am very interested in my country's history. And also, I didn't know much about this conflict until I bought a decal set which included it, and amongst the different Iranian F-4s I had to pick one to build, this one had an interesting background to it since we don't hear every day about this war so it took my attention. I advanced a bit theses days. First, the color of the PE parts didn't match the color of the cockpit, so I carefully painted some of my gray on them to correct this: I also started the engines, Eduard's resin pieces are very sharply detailed, it'll look great once painted: I also added Master's brass pieces, different antennas and the pitot tube: Yesterday, I glued the cockpit inside of the fuselage and today, I added the wings, I'll add some pictures tomorrow probably Have a nice day! Daniel

Thank you all !

Hello gentlemen, I am starting a new project which I had planned a long time ago. I am going to build an IIAF F-4D which took part in the Iranian military intervention during the Dhofar Rebellion. And, as this is a quite unusual subject, I'll give you a brief summary about this conflict. Historical summary of the situation in Oman in the 1970s The year is 1952, the country is the Sultanate of Oman. An armed rebellion, which will last until the late 1970s begins. On the rebel side, radical left armed groups, mainly supported by South Yemen, the USSR, China and other Eastern bloc countries. They fight against the Omani government, which receives help from the United Kingdom, and later, Persia, who was at this time, an important ally of the United-States. The Shah's intervention will take place in the late 70s, with sources claiming the exact date to be around January 1978, and will include more than 4000s troops, including an important air support, consisting of Helicopters (Hueys, Cobras, Kiowas, Chinooks) and aircrafts (F-4s, C-130s). The province of Dhofar (read "Zofar") in the Sultanate of Oman British troops searching for mines in Oman About the Airway in Oman ​At the beginning of the conflict, Oman's military isn't really advanced, and lacks of airpower. Britain will help them by providing them with Hunters and Strikemasters, which will show useful in anti-guerilla fight, but will later be no match compared to the weapon capacity and range of the F-4s. On the Iranian side, the Shah being a strongly "anti-communist leader" and his nation being in a period of trouble, with leftists groups taking importance in Iran in the late 70s, he sees as crucial to extermine any communist threat in the Middle-East which could propage to his country and thus when he will send his troops in Oman, will he make a very intensive fight to eliminate the menace as quickly as possible. When the Iranian Revolution starts in 1979, the "Red Threat" in Oman will indeed have been wiped out. Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi in his military uniform ​Iran didn't publish a lot of informations about their part in this conflict, the Islamic Government didn't appreciate to telle the "exploits" of the government they overthrew, but here are some things we know: C-130E, F-4D, RF-4C and F-4E models aircrafts took part in the task force, with alternating squadrons, keeping always at least a dozen aircrafts on Omani soil. By the way, a dozen aircrafts might seem like a low number, but it already had a bigger fighting power than the whole omani Strikemaster air fleet combined. My aircraft will be a F-4D with the markings 3-616 For the weapon load they carried it would usually consist of: ​23mm SUU-16 canon, extremely useful against low armored targets and cheaper than missiles or bombs 2x AIM-7E-2 missiles as a security measure Mk. 82 Bombs, 12 on high value targets, 6 against lower value targets. About my model kit. I chose Academy's new tool F-4D, which seems quite nice for the moment, crisp details and easy adjustments, I don't think I'll need a lot of putty. It is the ROKAF model because I couldn't find any other versions at my local model store, but since I won't be using its decals, if anyone is looking for a Korean F-4, I'll gladly give them to him! I'll also add some detailing and, of course, the IIAF decals, which are from Hi-Decal, a brand that I highly recommend for anyone interested in exotics paint schemes. I started with the cockpit, using Eduard's PE parts: The main challenge about this kit will be time: I want to finish it before November so I can give it as a present to my aircraft enthusiast and modeler uncle, who lives on the other side of the Atlantic and I thus can't often see. And finally, please excuse me for my English, I guess I did some mistakes, but I am still learning this language, so I can't guarantee a perfect level for the moment. Have a nice day, Daniel

Amazing, I love it under these colors Congrats! How is GWH's kit? I hadn't heard anything about it until now.

Hello comrade, Nice project you got here! For the colors, I hope this can help :http://www.cybermodeler.com/aircraft/mig-29/mig-29_profile01.shtml Daniel

Thank you all for your comments I didn't expect to see you there I must say they were hard to spot!

Very nice model, I like it, congrats! Were the engines in the kit, or did you add them? They look great by the way.

Magnificent build, it looks wonderful, congratulations! Did you do its display stand yourself, or is there a place where we can find these? It looks very nice too.

Hello Ronan, very interesting aircraft, we don't see it often, and good job it looks very nice for the moment! About pre or post shading, I think it depends on what kind of weathering you want to apply to it; a post shading will make it often more weathered and a pre shading will tend to be lighter.

Good evening gentlemen, It's been quite a while I haven't posted anything on this beautiful forum, the reasons being, well, first, as a french speaker, it is easier for me to communicate in french speaking forums, and also because of a lack of time as I am studying right now, but here I found some free time so I decided to show some updates of my works. I built Bronco's new 1/48th scale P-40C, in the Flying Tigers paint scheme. The kit is well detailed, it contains the full engine, very crisp panel lines and rivets, 6 painting options, detailed flaps and so on. It was quite easy to assemble, except for the engine, if you decide not to show it open, you will maybe have to cut of some parts (which would not have been seen). Here are the pictures: I know there are some mistakes on my model; the red band should be further back, and apparently, the colors are not 100% exact (I followed the instruction sheet and some websites but in fact, it looked more reddish brown on the pictures I realized later) but well, that was more a "weekend" kit as Eduard would say Thanks for reading, and sorry for my english, I try to do my best Daniel

Wow, it will sure be awesome, but even 1/700 scale is big with a ship like this (~40cm length) , so as I'd love to make a trio (Olympic/Mauretania/ Leviathan) of troopships, I'll rather stay in small scales.

Of course I will do a step by step, but first I'll have to finish my MiG-21: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234965477-eduards-mig-21smt-in-48th-scale/ Not much more left, just some weathering and some pieces and the decals to add and it will be done Swiss companies are really strange! We make marine engines but we have no seas, we build weapons but we are neutral,... Daniel

That's very very tiny, I don't think I'm good enough to work with this, I'll probably just add scratch made guns and maybe some other details. And, no, I'm not from England but from Switzerland (if I made mistakes it's because I'm still learning english) so that's another reason why I don't think I'll buy these PE, it usually takes more than one month to receive parcells from GB, so if I really want to start this model one day, I should rather just do it with what's in the box! Daniel

Thank you very much, your links are awesome, I couldn't hope better! I just have a last question. Today I ordered the kit at my local store, but I thought it would be even better if I added some PE parts, but I don't know any online store where I can find PE for ships (I know good websites for airplanes and armor, but not for maritime models), so do you know some good ones where I could find that? Daniel

Thank you a lot for the link, it's really interesting (and usefull!) So, as this articles says the colors used were mostly blue or green and the strange colorfull model I saw is just a cheap diecast, I think I'll paint it in blue like in my drawings. Daniel

Hi all, It's been a long time I wanted to build a ship with razzle dazzle camouflage and I think I'll start one soon. The Olympic, in 1/700th scale. I found a lot of excellent pictures, but as they are all in black and white, it's hard to be sure of what the colors really were. I saw some models were the port side is very colourfull (yellow, violett and red for example) but it looks a bit strange. I found too some drawings were the dazzle is in differents kinds of blue, black and white wich seems pretty more plausible. I'm speaking of these drawings in particular: I wanted to know if those paintings are realistics, was the dazzle really in blue? Daniel

Hi all, I finished the painting, using Alclad lacquers. I didn't do a step-by-step of the painting because, as I was painting it panel by panel while using salt weathering methods (it's really hard on alcald as it doesn't allow water to stay upon it). So here are the pics: I also added Master's 48th scale pitot tube, to be honest, it was more because I lost the PE parts than for detailing it Daniel

Hi, My MiG is ready for paint now, but here are the pics from the progress: The radars have been painted in green with a bit of weathering : And here's the aircraft with his gray undercoat: Daniel