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Very nice survivors! It had been a pity to let them in the bin... 😉 Cheers, François

Thank you Mark! I'll try to have it completed on time but I fear that this might be over-ambitious as it will let me just one week home to achieve the job (once back from sea)... 😉 Cheers, François

I'll join as well, with a Tamiya or Academy kit in 1/72. Cheers, François

Great result, congratulations! Cheers, François

Wonderful result achieved on that old kit, congratulations Adrian! Cheers, François

Hi Adrian, Congratulations for this nice build! The way you managed to touch-up the original decals is amazing, I never had considered using them. But what is even more awesome to my eyes is how you managed to fit the canopy so nicely, knowing how bad this part is in the kit! Nice job allround! Cheers, François

Nice subject, I'll follow your progresses on that one. Regarding the french camo colours, I use the Lifecolor acrylics for the gris-bleu foncé and gris-bleu clair (top and undersides main coat), with patches of Humbrol 150 kaki and revell 84 dark brown. These will give you a pretty good match with the real colours (see below a MS 406 tail preserved in Reims - but you can also refer to the Caudron 714 preserved in Finland and still bearing his original camouflage). In the past I was mixing enamels to get the blue grey shades but the ones in the Lifecolor French range are perfect and very easy to apply by brush or airbrush. Cheers, François

After years of asking my brothers to build my small air force, I dared to assemble my first kit in 1973 when I was 8 years old. It was the Revell Polikarpov I-16... ;))

Great results with that old kit so far, congratulations! Cheers, François

Thanks Jinxman! 😉

Good morning gents, After a few weeks at home I'm back at sea. During my last leave I've been able to achieve a few progresses on this project, although I lacked time to update the post on BM. So here is what has been done during the last 8 weeks: > the fuselage front part has been smoothed/reshaped with Milliput. Panel lines and features are still to be scribed and added. > the cockpit opening shape has been corrected (plastic card inserts) to get a "rounded" opening instead of the original square-shaped on the back. > the aft fuselage part has been worked-out with Milliput to recreate the fabric facets and eliminate the exaggerated sagging of the original part. > the engine cowl has been assembled, new exhausts made of extruded square profile, gun troughs corrected with plastic strip and putty, sanded to shape. Front ring and cowl panels lines to be scribed, closing strips to be added. > the wing has been assembled, trailing edges carefully sanded and the ailerons actuators holes filled-in with putty (the original pieces are to big anyway, they'll need to be made from scratch). Next I'll tackle the tail surfaces (restore the ribbing, correct the elevators etc.) and wing masts. This will be done as soon as I'm back home, end of May. I fear I'll be late to complete the project on time, the deadline being 8th June, but I'll try anyway... Sorry for the lack of progress pictures for the above-mentioned points. I hope the below pics will give you an idea of what has been done so far: Cheers, François

Hi elger, Nice picture of your two Wimpy's. At least the two kits are, shapewise, consistent as you can hardly notice any difference between them (except the ones linked to the type of course). Congrats, I'll keep following your progresses on these!

Hi TeeELL, The Matchbox kit remains a very good base that many of us might consider building. Any serious modeller will be delighted to enhance his model with the 3D parts you made so far, saving a lot of time to get a top result. The u/c bays and cockpit decking would be a nice addition to the set. However I have to confess that I'm totally ignorant of the time and work needed to achieve these parts... In my opinion the u/c bays are maybe more important or useful. The fuselage around the cockpit also but to a lesser extent as it can be tackled relatively easily in a classic way (cutting/filling/sanding to shape). Cheers

Great, thanks a lot for the tip! 😉 👍 The resulting effect is really nice.

Magnificent result, congratulations! Cheers, François