Antoine

Shifting Mojo...

As always, that's kind of you, Dave.

After all<of this, I felt the need to paint something.... I'll go for the fuselage first, as it will be quickly done. Base coat of black, followed by a coat of aluminium, ending with the interior grey-green. There's a small patch of black where the cockpit is on the upper part. It's easily masked, then a coat of black, and it's done, Dry brush with grey and light green, localized black and grey washes (each on his own, not mixed), and a few scratches here and there, together with a very light alu drybrush. I'll use pigments only on the cockpit. Done

So at the moment, the test fit shows that everything should be ok. But then there is the icing on the cake. Eduard adopted a special feature for the trailing edges of the model. Let's have a look first at the fin. The trailing edge, here shown in red. See the trick? And on the wings. The underside is less wide that the upper, so that the entire leading edge is part of only one side, the upper in this cas. This gives us the TE as thin as it can be.

Radiator's air intake upfront. Fit good, there's be no problem here.

The weather is not really ideal for modelling at the moment, and it looks like it will not improve during next week. Simply too hot. Yet I'm a bit late on the pix posting schedule, so I'll take the opportunity. Let's have a closer look at the airframe. Upfront, the fit is perfect. Good news, as there's no panel line here. I'll have to keep sanding to a minimum, to avoid damage on the surface details. The belly is also ok. Usually, it's a danger zone around here... but not for this kit, obviously. Well done Eduard.

I'm well behind schedule too, even though I've no schedule at all...

10? I am!!!

I would say, not at the moment, but you never know...

No need to, be sorry, really! Indeed! My reasoning being that the more GB I sign up for, the best chance I have to finish one, someday... So, please count me in!! I've nearly made my kit choice, but yet I need to review my possibilities! Cheers!

Well, I've reviewed the stash, and it appears that I've indeed some choice, mostly from two companies, Classic Airframes, and Trimaster. But despite the four months schedule for the GB, I'm not keen to choose one of them... Then I've also a few from Encore, but I do not see this outfit on the listing. I don't know much about the company, only that it was connected to Squadron at some time, and that they were mostly involved in releasing Monogam, Academy and Hobbyboss stuff into new package. I do not know if they're still around. Here's what I have from them: They've also released a Monogram A-37 in 1/48 Oh, and this one also. Sold it a few years ago.

In France, there's some sort of go-between company, SEMMB for Société d'Exploitation des Matériels Martin Baker. More than a go-between in fact, as I believe they're in charge of production and adaptation of Martin Baker bang seats to Dassault . I think MB has the same kind of company in every customer's country, so small differences between countries of production does certainly exist for a given mark. But does Oz had a specific contatc with MB to get her seats, or was in this case connected to SEMMB? I just don't know...

Re-reading "Tempest Pilot", by Jimmy Sheddan. Makes me remember that I need to find myself a copy of Bob Spurdle "The Blue Arena".

Note for myself too!!!!

Ok. Not deliberate in my case, but yet I'm trying to keep a certain balance between posting regularity and the number of pictures to post, which is quite high. Only trying...