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Build review: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-48-gloster-meteor-nf-14-sword-budowa/

Inbox review of SWS N°13 - attention, picture heavy! (ca. 150 pics): https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-32-kawasaki-ki-45-zoukei-mura/

Reviews of Eduard's accessories for S.2C boxing: - PE: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-72-buccaneer-s-2c-blachy-do-modelu-airfix-eduard/ - wheels: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-72-buccaneer-s-2c-wheels-airfix-eduard/

Build review: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-72-fm-2-wildcat-arma-hobby-budowa/

More comprehensive inbox review: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-48-mi-24v-vp-zvezda/

Second part of a build review of PZL W-3A Sokół "TOPR Rescue Helicopter": https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-48-pzl-w-3a-sokol-answer-budowa-cz-2/ First part: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-48-pzl-w-3a-sokol-answer-budowa-cz-1/

Two Scammells will be available in late April: Along with an A9....

Inbox review: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-48-gloster-meteor-nf-14-sword/

Detailed reviews of: - Quinta Studio vacuformed canopy & 3D interior panels: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-72-pe-2-waloryzacje-quinta-studio/ - Eduard resin wheels: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-72-pe-2-wheels-eduard/

Review of BitsKrieg's replacement engine added to the article: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-32-pzl-p-11c-dodatki-bitskrieg/

Lots of decals in Italy are still being printed with no intermission, Cartograf is working on full throttle. Chinese manufacturers are mostly working normally as well since more than a month, and the cargo ships pretty normally transport containers The problem is on the other end of the stick: freezing trade and internal transport within the destination countries cuts the potential sales, which otherwise would be much better than normal in this period - in Poland the gov't at least didn't put any major restrictions on online shopping: in result, staff of known to me modelling shops work hard all day to cope with the increased number of orders.

I always wondered how they could remain alive doing such niche (and not cheap) stuff, and keep having a rather unpleasant conditions for distrubutors. These links explain a bit: https://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=305872 https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/business/how-nz-taxpayers-forked-out-575-million-for-hollywood-to-film-here/ https://foreignaffairs.co.nz/2020/02/09/mil-osi-new-zealand-media-release-on-41m-annual-subsidy-for-weta-group/

More Bitskrieg upgrades reviewed (prop spinner, oil cooler, control stick, cocking levers & tailskid): https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-32-pzl-p-11c-dodatki-bitskrieg/

1. The use of current RAL 840 HR color register isn't the best idea, as during the WW2 period a different register was in use, and quite a number of colours from it were either deleted or changed after the war. 2. There is no direct correlation between RLM and RAL colour standards. For example, RAL 6003 was added to the RAL 840 R register in the regulation H. M. 1943, Nr. 181, from February 18, 1943, it was designated Olivgrün (Olive green) from the RLM colour register of camouflage paints for buildings and ground installations [Farbtonkarte des R.L.M. für Tarnfarben (Gebäude und Bodentarnung)], and got the RAL 6003 designation in regulation H.M.1943, Nr. 322, from April 3, 1943. However, the wartime samples of RAL 6003 and the aforementioned RLM for building and ground installations colour are not exact matches, and the case is the same with RAL 6003 / RLM 62 comparison (also note that at the time of RAL 6003 introduction to the RAL register, RLM 62, as well as 61 and 63, were outdated and not even included in the 1941 RLM colour card). The only source suggesting equivalence between a number of RLM and RAL colours is the so-called 'Taschenbuch fuer Lackierbetriebe', 1944 edition, which lists RAL equivalents for some of the RLM colours - this includes RLM 61 (RAL 8019), RLM 62 (RAL 6002 - Ullmann in his book "corrects" this to 6003, saying it's a typo...) and RLM 63 (RAL 7004 - not 7005 as suggested above). However: - there are more such typos in the colour listing and the publication as a whole, which in general is weird and the copies available here and there seem incomplete and mixed. Interestingly, the original publisher of 'Taschenbuch...' has copies of everything published in the past, with one exception - guess which? - as mentioned above, the original samples of RLM 62 and RAL 6003 are not exact matches, and same applies to RLM 61 - RAL 8019 and RLM 63 - RAL 7004. Better! The original cards for RAL 7003 include information that the origins of this colour are RLM 02 and RAL 1 r (before the introduction of RAL 840 R register in 1939/1940, the colour designation in the previously used RAL 840 B and RAL 840 B 2 registers were different - colours were designated with one or two digit numbers, or combinations of these and letters), but the said RAL 7003 matches neither RLM 02 sample from 1938 edition of RLM colour card, nor the RLM 02 sample from the 1941 edition of RLM colour card. As some may know, and some not, there are two popular views on the RHAF colours: one represented by Karoly Mago and the other by Denes Bernad and Gyorgy Punka (some may know their two volume publication on the Hungarian Fighter Colours released by MMP). Essentially, Mr. Mago says that the Krayer paints used in Hungary directly matched the RLM standards (although, as you can see in the post of Borisz, he uses the invalid RAL equivalents), whilst Mr. Bernad and Punka say the Krayer paints were very similar but not exactly the same. In my opinion, from the scale modelling POV, this discussion is pretty academical, and anyone simply using the RLM colours of his/her favorite brand (of course, there are some who offer more and less accurate representations) will end with a pretty accurate scale model. P.S. If someone rstill wants to paint his model with the 'modern' RAL 6003, as far as I remember, GunzeC/H303 is a better match than C70. In fact, neither of shown Gunze samples matches the RAL samples placed next to them on the photos...

More detailed inbox review: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-72-vought-sikorsky-vs-300-brengun/

Here you have a review: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-48-yak-3-waloryzacje-quinta-studio/

First look at some dedicated upgrades: - Master Models detail set (MG barrels, gunsight and Venturi tube): https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-32-pzl-p-11c-detail-set-master/ - Yahu Models instrument panel: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-32-pzl-p-11c-instrument-panel-yahu-models/

Build review of the Mk III SD boxing: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-72-westland-lysander-mk-iii-sd-dora-wings-budowa/ Includes quite a number of useful build tips.

No less than 50 for me. Of course, of each basic type (E, F, G). 5-7 K-4s will also be useful

Cover art of the next boxing A2N2 - ref. 4004

Inbox review of ref. 72041 - Yakovlev Yak-1 "Aces": https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-72-yak-1-aces-brengun/

Interesting accessories from Quinta Studio - first look and application test: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-48-yak-3-waloryzacje-quinta-studio/

Inbox review of the C-3A boxing: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-48-aero-c-3a-special-hobby/ and some dedicated goodies from CMK and Eduard: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-48-siebel-si-204-dodatki/

New boxing 'TOPR Rescue Helicopter': Inbox review of this new boxing: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-48-pzl-w-3a-sokol-topr-rescue-helicopter-answer/ First part of a build review: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-48-pzl-w-3a-sokol-answer-budowa-cz-1/

Inbox review: https://www.kfs-miniatures.com/1-72-usn-f-14a-vf-143-pukin-dogs-academy/