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Beautiful model of a beautiful piston engined airliner. Well done! Regards Dave

Outstandingly good and very different - I also really like this and impressed with how you achieved the differing tones between metal and fabric. Simply superb. Regards Dave

Great work on this old Airfix kit result in top notch model. Regards Dave

I really love this one! Having built this old Hobbycraft kit in the past I truly appreciate the work you have put into this model Spad. Beautiful job as others have already said. Regards Dave

Wow! Brilliant work and nice rigged too. Regards Dave

Thank you all kindly, gentleman. Unfortunately, the model broke beyond being salvageable. In any case, I'm not got with diorama work anyway .......... Hello Smithy, It can be a bit tricky (I have built the roden dvii in this scale) but is certainly not impossible. The major problem is that the lower wing does not fit with the fuselage. I overcame this by cutting lower wing in half the using a section of plastic to fill the gap then filler to tidy it all up. This little kit looks good when complete. Regards Dave

Afternoon all - Just posting some pictures of a couple of models I completed earlier this year. I've only now decided to post these up as I originally did not consider them my best work and I had lost a bit of my mojo which only now starting to return. These are the Eduard Sopwith Camel (weekend Edition) with some decals used from a previous build: Roden Fokker DVII Both together I really am going through a clumsy phase at present - as soon as I finished taking these pictures, I manage to drop the DVII smashing it to bits ............ Annoyed I am! Appreciate any constructive comments Regards Dave

Can't really comment on the kit accuracy issues, but this been put together beautifully. Excellent result on the wood effect to fuselage. Regards Dave

Great job and admire your wooden prop. Regards Dave

Looks great. How did you find the kit to build? Regards Dave

Dear all, Not shown much on the forum recently as I had a modelling disaster building a WNW Bristol Fighter resulting in the kit being trashed. This was my 3rd disaster this year, so I lost confidence and faith in modelling for a while. I was determined to get things back in order, so after my holiday I got my wife Jacquie to choose a kit to build from my very small stash. Jacquie opted for Roden's kit of SE5a and choose the colour/marking option of Duncan Grinnell-Milne's red fuselage version. This turned out to be a perfect choice being a pretty straightforward kit to put together - even the decals were good and went down well. This is exactly what I needed and has worked wonders to improve my confidence again. In fact, I can highly recommend this kit as everything (save a tricky fit of cowlings over the engine) fits extremely well . I've also taken things 'back to basics' in terms of modelling skills to improve on the overall finish on the kit. As always, kit brush painted and built mostly out of box. I did however, add some obvious missing details either by simple scratch building and also raided my spares box for some PE parts for seat harness and parts to enhance look of the Vickers MG. Rigged with combination of Pryme knitting elastic, Ushci thread and a small amount of fishing line between the cabane struts to add a bit of structural strength to the wings. I currently in the last stages of building Eduard's 1/48 'Weekend Edition' (another straightforward kit) Hanriot HD1 so hope to have some pictures of that to display to the forum soon. Anyway, I hope it all looks OK. Regards Dave

As others have already said - outstanding. Must have tested your patience ......... Regards Dave

Wow - another great looking DR1 from the ancient Revell kit - excellent! Regards Dave

This does not as bad as you imply in your description. I've really struggled to the spinner issue for example. In any case, I bet even the best model makers make plenty of mistakes and are probably good at disguising cock ups. I've trashed three models this year through clumsy handling ........ Regards Dave

Hello, Gregory Good to see you on this forum, mate. That is an excellent example of what can be achieved with even a dated kit such as this. I've built this one myself and tried to improve on it but did not get anywhere close to this standard. I can therefore really appreciate the quality of the workmanship that has gone into this. Regards Dave

Beautiful work - subtle realistic weathering and I especially like your wood effect painting on the floats. Regards Dave

Nice one, Tony Glad you have found a medium for rigging that works for you. Regards Dave

Excellent result on your model Brisfit with good rigging. Regards Dave

Sorry, Davey - I feel a bit guilty letting you know now ................ Everybody (including the best) makes mistakes including myself so beat yourself up too much. Regards Dave

Brilliant! Great wood effect too. I hope you won't mind me pointing out that you have missed out some rigging between the wings ....... Regards Dave

Thank you kindly, Pheonix Thanks, John Started brush painting originally out of necessity but have just continued out of preference now. May be a while before I tackle Special Hobby's MS type N due to other projects. However, contents in the box look good so hoping this will go together reasonably well. Regards Dave

Thank you kindly, JR - I've not built the 1/48 versions, so I don't know how well they go together unfortunately. If you are tempted then I think you should give it a go as you would not be disappointed - provided you test fit and you plan carefully you should not hit any major problems. Despite my issues during the build, at the end of the day I am generally pleased how it turned out and it is such a pretty little plane too. I've now bought the 32nd scale Fokker DII and Morane Saulnier type N and will tackle these at some point in the future. Let me know what decide to do. Regards Dave

Dear all, Completed Special Hobby's 'French aces' edition of this kit. This is the first multi-media kit (kit features short run injected plastic; resin and photoetch parts) I have built. This was at times, a very challenging kit to get together. The kit instructions are a bit vague in terms of exact part placement especially in the cockpit and precise location of lower wings to fuselage. There are no obvious location points for fuselage, lower wings and undercarriage. I got all the internal cockpit structure in place but struggled to get a good joint of the fuselage halves - I either had a 'step' between the two halves on top or bottom - I elected for the bottom being the part not seen the most when complete. To get rid of this 'step' I glued some sections of plastic sheet which met the top of the step really well. Once set, I sanded down filled with putty, then sanded all out again once dry. There is now no discernable joint showing. I could not easyily work out where the lower wings should go so decided to install upper wing first with the interplane struts hanging down - I could then individually fit each wing to the corresponding strut and fuselage. This work really well but on the starboard wing, no matter how hard I tried, I could not get a good line up resulting in this wing not lined perfectly up in relation to port side - when viewed from front, the impression is of being lopped sided which it is not. I have had to live with this unfortunately. Undercarriage seemed a weak fit so strengthened using wire pins in the legs to add extra strength here. Another issue is the engine - you are supposed to mount the rotary engine on a 'spigot' but when I came to install on here found the spigot far to long as cowling would not fit over it. In the end, the only way to get cowling over the engine was to completed cut away this feature - I was (sadly) forced to glue engine against bulkhead with a thin shin cut from plastic sheet - this all worked, but the prop and engine do not turn as result which was a shame. I also admit to a few mistakes on my part here and there!! This all makes it seem like such a terrible model which it is not. This is actually a very buildable model provided you undertake a bit of thought beforehand undertake continuous dry fit testing before glueing. I actually really enjoyed the build - I've even ordered a couple more of thier WW1 range, so that proves I liked the kit on the whole! Built OOB with the only minor exception of drilling out holes on the pilots seat and wheel covers for the tyre valves. Finished entirely by brush and weathered with combination of washes, dry brushing and artist oils to stain aircraft fabric (and to simulate wood on prop, tail skid and interplane struts) a bit. I hope I have not uploaded too many pictures - constructive comments always welcome. Regards Dave

Just noticed this morning on WNW's website that the Roland DVIb fighter is now listed as sold out - another one bites the dust .................. Watch the ebay prices for this particular kit soar in price now! Regards Dave

Very clever conversion work on your Ansaldo that really looks the part - excellent! Regards Dave