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Thanks If you like it you should! Pretty unlikely that this would come out in plastic...

Thank you I have never seen them fly unfortunately but over the years I always took walk around photographs when I had the opportunity, and al those together were used for the development of the kit by Lukasz of Lukgraph.

Thank you Duncan

Thank you Phil

Thanks I Made a WIP on Britmodeller but the last part was not detailed but you can find many details here: The walkaround photographs in the instruction sheet were taken by me, I shared my walkaround photographs for the development of this kit. Take care Glijn

Thank you! The FF33L is already out and you can buy it!

Thank you for your kind words Chris Glad people liked the little details I shared. If you have questions do not hesitate. Glijn

Thank you ! Yes I always try to get a kit as close to reality as I can

Thanks, it took time but I am happy I persevered

Thank you and you are right, it was something I thought about too. Must have been a secret trick

Thank you glad you like it! And yes photography is my other passion

Thank you

Thanks for your kind words. So please go ahead and build it! I have not seen a lot of 1/48 versions build so yours will be one of the first.

Glad you do

Thank you and you have a very good eye for spotting that black colour

Thank you for your nice words! I actually provided the walkaround photographs for the development of the Nimrod and also for the Dragon Rapide. I have the Dragon in my stash too but have not yet decided what kit to start next. The leather trim is moulded in the kit, you only need to paint it leather

Haha now that is funny thank you for your kind words! A plastic kit would be easier to build that is true!

Yes I can see how that could happen, many people do not even know the Nimrod biplane thanks for your nice words!

Hi there, so I finally was able to finish the Lukgraph Hawker Nimrod MK I. And what a job it was… I dropped it halfway through, I learned the hard way that 3D printed parts do not flex, they are hard but brittle so either they break or become unstuck. Oh, and good as they are 3D printed parts have ridges, so even if it does not show directly, under paint and especially metal paint it will show! So take your time in cleaning them up. I like to dabble in scratch building the small parts, especially replacing PE parts and 3D printed parts and stepping up to 1/32 scale made that even more possible. So, I did my best but remember this was my first 1/32 scale kit in decades and a resin biplane at that what was I thinking. The Valeyo metal paint gave a nice finish but even by looking at it, it scratched… I could not get MRP when I needed it so tried the Valeyo metal paint but I like MRP a lot more. And it is a wonder I even was able to make the photographs, yesterday evening I dropped a bottle of Tamiya black lacquer paint. It covered everything, tweezers, brushes my worktable and splashed under and around the model but no drop on the model itself. Sometimes you need a bit of luck. Euh cleaning everything up was not fun… It is a great model but complex so it takes time to build but I thoroughly enjoyed it. So here it is, hope you like it.

Changed posting to ready for inspection.

Beautiful

Fantastic build

Thank you, I hope it will all come together!

Thank you Chris that is nice from you to say that!

Hi Guys here is part 4 of my Lukgraph Hawker Nimrod MK I build. I had lots of self inflicted problems with the struts being a bit heavy handed, while cleaning the ridges away I broke several of the legs of the N struts away. The material is hard but brittle and gluing them back together is not so easy because the contact area is so small. I also glued the struts to the lower wing but I struggled with finding the right glue. Almost all came loose several times and at least one of the N struts came loose 3 times by just touching it. I finally used a gel type CA glue and that seems to have done the trick. But I made a mess of it by having to reglue each time so I am not happy with that… it shows in my eyes on the wing contact points but I will see what it gives when I put primer on it. I had to leave the work on the kit itself for a while because I got disappointed with the build. So I concentrated more on the details for now. I replaced the tailplane struts with brass struts for strength. The fork pitot is provided in PE but as with the rest I choose to replace it by a scratch build part made out of 8 parts since it looked too flat. My scratch build part The tail antenna is provided as a 3D part but I wanted it more detailed so I scratched it. The little ring on top for the antenna wire is made out of a brass ring of 0,6mm and a height of 0,3mm since I soldered it to a nickel silver wire of 0,33mm. The little pointed part on the rear is in fact aluminium tube but i filled it with solder at the back so I could file it in the correct form without gaps appearing. The antenna is small but also made from 9 parts. The kit part: My scratch build part The fin is slightly offset to port to counteract the engine torque and the gap between the fin and the tailplane was created too. Ofset fin I replaced the single PE triangle on the underside of the ailerons with some scratch build parts too. Still a bit crazy creating all those details and no one will see what effort was made to do those things once finished. So that is the small update, see you later. Keep safe!