FranckH

Thank you very much! Will you be able to review the new additions? Eduard wheels (resin) seats (resin) interior (PE) dashboards (PE vs resin) 3DF wheels (resin) seats (resin) nozzles (resin) I'm especially interested in the Eduard vs 3DF comparison Many thanks, F.

Thank you very much for your time and answers! As I really fell in love with the yellow Walrus I will be rebuilding the civilian conversion (no need for a what-if as this one has indeed existed) but it will have to wait a little bit. For my Pacific war event I will be building Enola Gay. I had initially discarded it due to it's monstrous size in 1/48 (90cm) but have compromised on the 1/72 which is still going to be pretty large. Thanks again! F.

Thank you so much Ed, for this and for the detailed review. I have the SMER 1/48 kit (1958 tooling, damaged decals) to which I've added the Eduard Big-Ed PE and their Brassin wheels. The decal set and position lights are in the mail. I fell in love with the idea of a bright yellow maritime rescue but became increasingly suspicious when everything I've been reading was suggesting all the Walruses were operated from ships. No one in their sane mind would paint such a bright target on a warship or cargo. And A2-18's life is quite well documented. <sigh> Now I either need to switch to a correct war camo or aluminium dope (not fun, I've done the Spirit of St Louis already) with correct decals if I want to stick with it or abandon ship altogether and select another one for this theme. Thanks again! F.

Good afternoon I would like to build a Pacific War Walrus and have found the following decal set which would suggest a military "yellow" version existed in 1940 (the one in the middle). I have found a number of publications on the Walruses, including an operational history of A2-18, but so far everything suggests that the yellow colour was added in 1947 when 4 of these birds were converted for Arctic usage / whaling e.g. Hamiltonian's beautiful Revell 1/72 Walrus: Whale-spotting in the Southern Ocean Was there ever a yellow RAAF Walrus/Seagull V during the Pacific war and if yes where can I find evidence / pictures of it? One can suppose H-Models didn't invent it out of the blue ... Many thanks! F.

Hey all, new member here

Hi from Horley (literally the end of the Gatwick runway). I started modelling with Faller railway stations at the HO scale in my early teens (the 80s) with father and brother, culminating in the 70cm-long Bonn station When a shop opened which carried plane models we started avidly gluing more plastic - no paints at the time, but the parts were coloured. Phantom II, Alpha Jet and a slur of WWII warbirds. This activity was put on hold when moving to college, but two boxes (gifts from my beloved late Grandma) followed me from country to country for 30 years until they got destroyed in the Croydon Suregard fire. The lockdown offered a perfect excuse to find them on eBay and dive back in. Since May 2020 the following were built (happy to post pictures or step by steps) 2020: Concorde 001 Prototype 1/100 Heller Spitfire Mk Ia 1/32 Revell Fokker DR-I Manfred von Richtofen 1/24 Revell Bell X-1 First Supersonic Flight 1/32 Revell Spirit of St Louis 1/48 Revell 2021: F117/A 1/144 Revell Rafale M prototype 1/144 Revell Bell H-1 1/72 Revell Rafale-A 1/48 Heller Hi-tech (one of the two boxes in question) Fokker Eindecker 1/23 Dancing wings In progress: Spanish Galion Heller 1/200 (the second of those two special boxes) Looking forward to learning from the masters and sharing any little insight I could have ! Franck