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Thank you I was always aiming for a glossy finish but never thought I would get it so shiny by having to polish everything several times. In this case it works

Thank you Stuart

Hi, Thank you for your comment! Of course any kit can be build but you cannot change the fact that it is 1/50 scale instead of 1/48 scale. The kit has some difficult bits. The nose for example. The radiators are separate and the engine covers too. So it is hard to line them up knowing that the plastic is very thin. I did not fit the engine because I could not find any photographs of it. So you should reinforce that part from the inside. I had it split several times due to the very thin plastic. There are errors too, the boxlike structure on top stops in the kit at the attachment of the wings withe the fuselage. It shows that on the box-top too. In the instruction notice it extends till past the first row of exhausts. However photographic evidence shows that it stops at the third row of exhausts. The interior then, there are only a couple of photographs and bad ones at that. But they show that the instruments were four in a row so the PE part with the instruments is completely wrong. Oh and the instruction notice in step 9 shows a part Dec2 that you should use behind the PE part. I suppose it should have been a little film or decal but it is not provided in the kit... it does not show in the parts list either. There are two different water rudders on the sprue but only one is correct for the real aircraft, the other one was depicted on a drawing but not used on the real model. Curiously enough it is not mentioned in the instructions. There are also two sets of hydrofoil legs but what you should do with the second set is not mentioned either. The body has no slots tho attach the hydrofoils to, just 2 shallow recessed lines. Check the photographs for were and you teach them since the kit offers no information. The flaps are longer than the holes in the wings and about half as thick. So al these things ad up in the end... Should you stil want to build the kit you can find valuable photographs here: https://giadel.webnode.it/foto/#! http://alain.vassel.pagesperso-orange.fr/piaggio.htm Here you can find the plan in 1/50 scale: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/303852306110971858/ Oh and the concept of the aeroplane was later proved in the RC world, in the RC Schneider Trophy of 1988 the model of the Piaggio-Pegna Pc.7 won the race

Thank you, and I did the photo's like this because I like big contrasts. Photography is also a hobby of mine although it has taken a bit of a backseat lately

They do now sorry about that!

Hi, I finally was able to finish this kit. Do not buy it... it has many issues and the biggest one is that is not 1/48 scale as advertised but 1/50 scale! I am surprised no review picked this up or any of the other things that gave away the scale problems... I did the math and I came out on 1/50scale. Later I found a 1/50 scale plan on the web and the parts fit on it. It is clear they used that plan but it says clearly 1/50 scale and not 1/48 scale. The reason I started to measure was that the pilot seat seemed very small. So I took out a couple of 1/72 scale seats and compared them. The left seat is the 1/72 Heller Dewoitine D510. Second is my scratch build seat using the thinnest materials I could find to make it as big as I could. Third one is the kit seat and last is the Tamiya 1/72 Seiran seat. As you can see the 1/48 scale Pc.7 seat is smaller than the 1/72 scale seats. Oh and the Pe seatbelts can be thrown away to. The buckles are not centered on the belt. I some made some from scratch. The radiator on the wings and nose are bad to, sometimes the lines stop in the middle and go on a bit further. I repaired some but some were impossible to repair. If you insist on building the kit you should probably make your own lines. They might have repaired tis flaw in later boxings but the first ones all suffered from this. The wing to fuselage join is bad and I had to thin it to paper thickness to get it to line up and then had to use a lot of miliput to smooth it out. I will leave it at that but I can say each day I wanted to throw it away. That is not to say I did not make errors.. I botched up the maint job. For one reason or another the Tamiya paint with levelling thinner would not dry. It took 2 months before it was dry enough to carry on. I had to polish everything out with Tamiya compound. Several times.. and that left it with a very shiny surface. Oh and the canopy is a blob of unclear plastic but I had no more energy to scratch one… But this is what I got, not my best work and not exactly the quality I was looking for but I wanted to let people know what kind of a kit it was. Then again it is only the second kit I did after coming back to the hobby so I need to get back into it... The stands were scratch build as wel since the kit does not provide them.

This one must be the best Tamiya P-38 I have seen so far! Great stuff

Very nicely done! Great paintwork too! I would just choose a larger stand to put it on. This one looks a little small..

A rare sight and a very nice one at that!

Superb

This kit is the one I always wanted to buy but I was warned that it was difficult to build so I never bought it. But it is a pleasure to see that you did such a good job on it! congrats, I really like it!

Very nice! I am always a bit afraid of doing that kind of camouflage mottling ut you did a good job with it!

Yes I never saw such packaging either.. Really impressive! Looking forward to it too!

Interesting subject and wel done!

Outstanding!

Al cad renders show the rear hinged canopy but you can ask them yourself via FB.

Very well done! I know the aircraft but did not know there was a kit for it! nice

One of my favourites beautifully done! If I had not bought too many other kits lately this one would be already in my stash...

One of my favourite subjects. looks really great!

Latest info from Jetmads just received: Van: JETMADS <contact@jetmads.com> Datum: zondag 15 december 2019 om 13:16 Aan: 'JETMADS' <contact@jetmads.com> Onderwerp: Skystreak Pre-orders Starting Hello, We are glad to announce that the pre-orders of the Skystreak kit will start on January 1,2020. During the pre-order period which will last 30 days we are going to offer a 20% discount off the regular listing price. The discount will be removed once the pre-order period ends and shipments of the pre-orders are going to start on a first-come first served basis. We currently accept credit card payments and reservation holders are kindly invited to complete their purchases after January 1. We are going to publish some fresh images of the kit parts and the boxing this week. The photos of the assembled kit will be shared soon as well. We would like to thank you for your patience during our time-consuming, exhausting but equally joyful effort in mass producing a resin kit. We are pleased to inform you that our team is simultaneously working on numerous exciting follow-up projects in various scales. We really appreciate the support, inspiration and courage you have given. Kind Regards, JETMADS Team

Now that is one fantastic looking model

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Really wonderfull work, very impressive! I bought the dualist kit of the Felixstowe and the Hansa Brandenburg W.29 at Telford together with another member of our club. The Wingnut Wings Guys had a great offer on the kit. I am going to build the W.29 and my friend the Felixstowe. Glad to see one completed!

Amazing work! You did a very fine job on that kit!