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  1. sohoppy
    Can't quite believe the scale... amazing work!
  2. sohoppy
    Really excellent. The weathering - about which I'm a bit sceptical usually - handled with great skill. Perhpas you could do St Ex's plane with your P-38?
  3. sohoppy
    Wonderful job bringing to life an interesting subject.
  4. sohoppy
    that's brilliant...
  5. sohoppy
    that is just wonderful., so envious....
  6. sohoppy
    Outstanding job.
  7. sohoppy
    That is a thing of beauty.
  8. sohoppy
    Thank you, the altimeter does indeed work but I have not found anybody small enough to tell me what it says... Meanwhile, and honestly, I also have a 1/24 hurricane 2 with a working variable pitch prop. I must get around to showing that.
  9. sohoppy
    What everyone else said about scale... Really remarkable work.
  10. sohoppy
    Glad you liked the 'flying' pictures - might make these a regular feature. As for kits though, may stick to 1/48 from now on...
  11. sohoppy
    Extraordinary work - it looks like 1/32...
  12. sohoppy
    Despite being, overall, fairly happy with this difficult kit I could not escape the feeling that something was not quite right about the cockpit area. I had stared at heaven knows how many photos of the orginal in order to make the kit - and had not noticed anything out of the ordinary - but something was not quite right all the same. A bit more staring and it gradually became clear: the kit canopy is not quite the right shape. The real thing bulges upward slightly toward the windshield and the kit one seems instead to have a uniform curve. Luckily I had a vac form alternative from the Heritage/Simian set and this seemed much closer, so I set about making the change over. Shape of the original canopy And the vac form alternative... It seems like such a small difference - but for some reason the model now looks much closer to the prototype - at least to my eye. And with that we are finished. Thanks for looking. One final thing, if anyone has the Royal Navy tail decals for this scheme left over from this kit I'd be most grateful to lay my hands on them I applied one of these at a slight angle.
  13. sohoppy
    Great work - and research.
  14. sohoppy
    Excellent result. Incidentally, as I recall, these craft did not fare well with their Jabo-ing over the UK. By this point in the war there were mosquitos looking for them so it did not matter much what colour they were or how fast they tried to go... Superb job on the building by the way.
  15. sohoppy
    Hi there, glad you like it. I did the pre-conflict scheme because, living then near the south coast of the UK, that's how I remember them from my childhood and early teens. Also it's the classic FAA look which I also like. I most assuredly will not be doing this particular kit again... There is always the hope, though, that one day Airfix will do the job properly, with a new set of molds...
  16. sohoppy
    It's about 18 inches stem to stern. And surprisingly heavy: which is why the 'flight' pics - which involved it dangling around on fine fishing line - were somewhat nerve wracking!
  17. sohoppy
    It's one of those things that depends, I guess, on which photo of the original you are looking at and the lighting conditions at the time. I think, allowing for some scale effect, I would lighten it slightly if doing it again.
  18. sohoppy
    Excellent model of very interesting subject. But how the damn thing ever flew with wings that small... must have needed mach 1 just to stay airborne
  19. sohoppy
    Outstanding job. Especially the foil.
  20. sohoppy
    This is the kind of thing I always hope to see here. Seriously impressive.
  21. sohoppy
    Many thanks for your comments. I'm not sure about the figure painting though. For some reason I could not mix a completely realistic flesh tone this time. It's something I seem to have to relearn every time I try it.
  22. sohoppy
    Thank you. I've done this on a number of models now and always use the same technique as havee not found a better way - yet anyhow. That is to build what I call a 'light box' behind the control panel. The interior of this is painted white - not silver! - and this helps diffuse the light equally behind the instruments and stops 'light bleed' into the rest of thre aircraft. If you use silver foil, as I did once, the light behind each instrument varies as you move it - which kind of breaks the illusion. Reflector gunsights or HUDs or whatever need their own LED - usualy a small surface mount with a strong resisitor in the circuit - and a light mask. Sometimes I made these with a small piece of trransparent plastic, painted balck with a small circle scribed into the paint. This is done very carefull on a lathe with a needle. In this case I used some transparency and etched a HUD pattern out of the black print on one side.
  23. sohoppy
    Many thanks. It was fun the other day because one of my children has joined air cadets and will shortly have her first go in light trainer. I was able to use this model to help explain the function and use of basic flight controls to her. I was a PPL myself for 10 years or so. So there was a point to the many, many hours in the shed after all! That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
  24. sohoppy
    What a stunning job... perfecty judged weathering.
  25. sohoppy
    Apologies this has taken so long but here, finally, is the promised short youtube video of my Sea Harrier's working features - flight controls lights etc. The editing was done in a bit of a hurry - which shows. The filming, on the other hand, was done by my eldest daughter with her customary humour and patience... For anyone interested, my channel has quite a lot of other kit conversions of one kind or another, armour, ships, rc submarines etc, many of them doing quite unexpected things.
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