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But hurry, we are anxious to see them😀

WOW! Yes, I forgot about the orange buffoon (baboon?) (grand poohbah?) Sorry you folks have to deal with that issue for another month or two? I'll take snow over that any day!

Great work! and beautiful view!! I’d post pics of my view but who wants to see snow drifts 5 feet deep!?🤔

A bit more work in the office, may be able to close the fuselage...sorry, try, to close the fuselage soon. I added some panels and decals to "busy up" the flight deck Some tabs added to hold the office in place during the coming handling, filling sanding etc. Test fit, looks like eveything still fits, the instrument panel cover is fitted as well (absent from the picture) needs flat black paint and that should be the last piece...? Thanks for looking

Id have to agree with that comment...thin doesn’t begin to describe the parts in some places! Two dimensional may come close. The kit is see through thin at the rear of the front fuselage halves as well as at the flat portion on the belly (soon to be covered or hacked away and replaced with something resembling the corrugated metal of the real plane. I should also mention the 5 pieces making up the wing, once cut out are all different sizes and shapes. I aligned the trailing edges of the tops and bottoms and had to build a ledge to fill a gap at the leading edge as the bottom halves overhung the tops by a fair large margin. Then, with the leading edges built up and filled in, I placed the wing on my bench vertically (like a nose diver) and checked the taper of the wings from engine position to tip. Finding a difference of about 5/6mm in the space between the wing tip and the bench surface, I cut one wing chord wise, inserted a wedge to “correct” (improve) the asymmetry from side to side and (I think) the bulk of the major wing construction is done...that, with a large grain of salt because the wing to fuselage fit has proven to be less than perfect (being kind there) but I knew there were issues and accepted them anyway (my wife could say the same thing I’m sure)

I searched the hobby room looking for the sponson until I realized I'd built it and re-shaped it to make a master to cast parts for my first ATR model (Doh!) Finally locating it in my box of molds I began cleaning it up for use on this model. It's not vital to upgrade (side grade?) the sponson but the kit part sticks out unrealistically. I have pictures of the real plane, specifically the sponson and it is a smooth aerodynamic fairing, mine isn't perfect either but better than the kit part. I still have to scratch together the trailing arm type main gear, remove the shallow cast in wheel bays and build them but, here's where I am now; here's the top of the kit part, the issue is it is too abrupt and juts out too far. my attempt (taped in place) as a comparison I'll open up the landing light openings and A/C air inlets yet. As well as build up a (hopefully) little more realistic main gear Thanks for looking

I have worked (my whole working career) as an automotive mechanic, one of my best friends (was) Director Of Maintenance (DOM) at a local regional carrier called WestWind Aviation they had 5 ATR 42's on fleet. (he eventually hired me as the ground equipment mechanic) (GSE technician) but....before all that, I heard about the problems ATR's had keeping A/C working so I sent him an email from the garage I worked at to the tune of "Having A/C problems with your ATR? Here at the Auto Doctor we look after all your A/C needs...even ATR's can be cool in the summer with an A/C checkover by our highly qualified air-con technicians." He wasn't amused...I thought it was funny as heck! He and I were instrumental in purchasing a 30 ton mobile A/C unit for blowing cool air into the aircraft while they were loaded and parked. I haven't worked there in a while now.

Thanks Ray!...don't look to closely though!! I've taken some time to add a bit of an interior, I built a basic floor and risers for the seats...loooots of seats!!; the kit instrument panel is undersized and oddly shaped, I used some algebraic math formulas some geometry, trigonometry, a sliding rule and then gave up and used a piece of fine solder to get a copy bend of the fuselage interior to make my own instrument panel (sure hope it fits) I actually did no math, I'm math handicapped...which is why I made 4 seats too many. there are risers on the flight deck floor but are way too low and much too far aft. I made my own risers for the pilots seats but the kit risers interfered with the fit so I hacked them off The kit control yokes; Seats being painted and installed; A mock up test fit; Thanks for looking

Wowsers! Nicely done!! Push button automatic trans. and electric windows!...she was loaded. The Chrysler push button automatic equipped cars could be "push started" due to having a secondary output shaft driven oil pump...little known fact there for ya. (totally useless information,🙂)

Awesome!!

No, sorry...no dropped flaps. I'll be happy to complete the model and, Moa....no lavatory. 🙂

Thanks for looking in and keeping me company...it's a little lonely in vacland. I sent guys in the local club some pictures and the replies suggested I get help... A few pics of the work done to date, Broplan has very kindly engraved outlines where the cabin windows should be, unfortunately the outlines are nowhere near straight, symmetrical or even the same size. I used another kit in the stash to make a template for new cabin windows, shot flat black through the template and cut out the black painted areas...windows. I will now have to fill and erase the Broplan offerings. an attempt to get a picture of the Broplan window scribings; black painted areas representing the windows; right side (starboard) long halves joined and windows open; left side under way and some other parts built up; Thanks for looking

Nicely done! Is that an Ipad air! 😄

Amazing level of detail!

Thanks I’ll most likely do the same thing with the current build (ATR) and try to remember to take pics as I go, in case you (or anyone) may want to try it

Thanks, I have the added benefit of having tackled one of these previously, not that the build will be any better just that I know there will be problems to work through. I'm filling in the "risers" from the bottom on the wing that the engines would glue to. These will be sanded off for the resin engines to be fitted later; and one of the engines that will be fitted later; beginning to assemble the wing, the steel bar is a spring steel support for an automobile windshield wiper CA'd into the wing Thanks for looking.

Thanks! welcome aboard!

May be (if ever finished) in the markings of Summit Air. (a regional Canadian airline) This is the left over (spare) kit I bought in case I buggered up on the first ATR kit I built and converted to the short bus 42-300 with resin molds made for the landing gear sponson, flap tracks and engines I figured it'd be kind of crazy to just leave this one in the stash and feeling kind of happy with myself for finally finishing a Matchbox DHC-6...I figured I'd give it a go. The box top; using solder to copy the cross section and build formers; don't talk to me about flash on your Revell kit! work...such as it is, continues

Thanks for correcting that error, no idea what got into me...making that mistake! amended now, thanks again!!

That’s sooooo freakin awesome!! I have this kit...in the box where it maintains all its future artistic potential, once I start working on it, the potential work of art is gone and it’s just another model. I’ll live my dreams through your build now!!

Thanks guys! this means a lot to me! Such accomplished modellers here I’m very happy to get positive feedback!! I first built this (Matchbox) model in the mid 1990’s but it was a horrible job. I tried again with a Revell in the early 2000’s and it beat me again. My most recent failure was about 5 years ago again with the Airfix kit. The model shown here is using Matchbox wings with Revell fuselage and floats. Very happy to finally have a DHC-6 on the shelf...I believe the molds may have deteriorated from the earlier releases with the newer ones having a lot of flash, missing panel lines and sink marks. But now if I could sort out that Hobbycraft Canada DHC -8 (I’d really like to build it as a 300) I’d be tickled. Again, thanks for the feedback!

Thanks! like Moa...but not as good, I like a lot civil aviation stuff, possibly because of the great range of color schemes...? I’ll have to try building something with a lav. In it now I guess...😀

Thanks a lot! The tape method was far easier than making "panoramic windows" for my turbo single Otter projects (since you mentioned "Otter") I wondered if you would like to see them (2 of 3) in 1/48 conversions of the old Hobbycraf Canada kits; this is all done with paint by the way, no decals...well, OK. a couple of decals ..the registrations. Thanks for looking

Nicely done!

Thanks Schmaster!