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Maybe I'm just a little too tired at this point in the evening, but how did we not see this coming? Kotare begins with the letter K. Of course they're going to do a K-4 first for the 109! Good thing there's no O's or R's to do, so only three batches away from the E everyone is desperate for. I'll shut up now. Off to bed. Bronzemeister

Man that Tamiya kit builds up well! Excellent work all around on this one! Painting, weathering, rigging, etc., it's all there!

Outstanding!

Very nice build you've done! Such an oddly proportioned airplane, but that's what it was. Excellent work.

Excellent, and exciting to see! I've probably sold 50+ copies of this kit in it's various boxes over the years, and this is like the third I've seen finished! Well done indeed!

Looking very good so far! I'm excited to see what comes off the printer next!

They are indeed great! I have all there newer 1/48 kits, and hope they can get around to doing their beautiful Caudron GIII in 1/48 too (would go well with the GIV yaknow!)

Blue Skies. RIP Rowan

Yup! Just the cleansing of the spleen....

Some years back, never mind exactly how many, Wingnut Wings came into the world, and I loved them. They were everything I wanted in a WWI Aeroplane kit, save one thing, the scale. Oh, their initial offerings were grand! Such fabulous choices and with a dearth of markings for them. Fantastic kits that built up so well, but just too big for my humble collection of built kits. See, I'm a 1/48th man, and while many who are blame Aurora (as I sometimes do myself), the real culprit for me was Mr. Bill Koster, and that Siemens-Schuckert kit. Yes, sure, there are the occasional dalliances into 1/72 for a challenge, and a Revell 1/28 kit here and there in some sort of attempt to recapture the dayz of my yoof, but the commitment to 1/48 is strong in this one. Wingnut Wings sorely tempted that many times over the years. Many, many times! I dreamed that at some point Mr. Jackson would see the profitability available to him and allow some WNW employee to take all that 1/32 goodness and distill it down into a smaller 1/48 brother, but alas, twas not to be. Monies left on the table, lost to the dust of history it would seem. And so, the 1/32 range, kept growing, and growing over the years, and the aftermarket decal enablers only added more fuel to the pyre burning in my soul. "It's right in front of you, all you have to do it reach out and take it!" was what these flames of desire were calling me to to, and WNW did this themselves with all those beautiful Albatros (and others) sheets. On occasion I would see some wonderful builds by Greg Crawford in the display cases at Brookhurst, and they really seemed to call to me and say "I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair in my onethirtysecondness" O the pain! How much longer could I hold out? But sadly now, the maelstrom is passed. It appears that they have decided to diminish and go into the west, and thus not hold mere mortals like myself in thrall any longer. I have no Wingnut Wings kits in my stash.

Sweet build! Nice simple paint job that suits the scale well.

Excellent choice!

Very Nice!

Excellent choice! Wonderfully bizarre French plane. Break away from the pack and paint it red however. Red ones go faster you know. Bronzemeister

Thanks Dave, much appreciated. They're not Falcon or War Eagle. I'm quite familiar with those companies works, and these are not them. I'm thinking older Lone Star, but I'm not sure. Bronzemeister