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GrzeM

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  1. Great work! Congratulations! For some reason I don't like Hurricanes in Day Fighter Scheme. But with black undersides? It's cool!
  2. Beautiful! It would be good model in 1/48 and excellent in 1/72!!! And what a lovely subject! Congratulations!
  3. Remember the bird-head on the Bayraktar in @dimaADA thread? Oracal printed self-adhesive and plotter-cut decorations are extremely common in decoration of motorcycles, cars, trucks and also helicopters and aeroplanes (including Polish "Tigermeet" F-16) in Europe. These letters could easily have been self-adhesive stickers.
  4. Superb build! Excellent model of very important aeroplane! Congratulations!
  5. Congratulations from the Arma Hobby crew! It is a great satisfaction and pride for us to see our kit so finely built! Here you have article with photos of the original plane: https://armahobbynews.pl/en/blog/2019/06/25/hawker-hurricane-mk-i-navalised-versions/ Best! G.
  6. Great model! Very well done! But... Isn't it one of those "egg models"? Like this: "Egg Warspite"? [ducking for cover]
  7. Amazingly, there are a lot of photos of the operational aircraft, most of them made by Germans after French capitulation. It is pretty easy to research particular camouflage. The book is great - it also shows all those crazy and classy Caudron racers which were kinda prototypes of this fighter. Like this:
  8. It is super cool build and very interesting plane. Only Poles were desperate enough to fly it in combat - and win with it over Messerschmitts. I have huge, "ultimate" book about the Caudron fighters, by amazing Bartek Belcarz and his team. If you need some info, just ask, I will find it. BTW, Bartek Belcarz, excellent aviation historian, author and publisher of many books (STRATUS, MMP Books) is struggling with cancer and Polish aviation lovers/modelling community actively helps him to collect money for expensive therapy. If anyone here wants to contribute, here is the link (in English): https://www.gofundme.com/f/author-bartek-belcarz-in-his-fight-against-cancer Best! Grzegorz
  9. That's impressive build and great inspiration for my own build! I was able to find some openly-available photos of this drone, may be useful as reference for us here. Photos come from this article: https://en.defence-ua.com/news/ukrainian_navy_has_received_first_unit_of_turkish_produced_bayraktar_tb2_ucav_system-1942.html There is also one article here: https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2021/08/black-sea-hunters-bayraktar-tb2s-in.html Both articles come from 2021 so the Bayraktars are in the configuration as delivered from Turkey. Maybe these were later modified or upgraded? Best!
  10. What an interesting discussion! Thank you for that! We are still preparing the #Armastory about the Sea Hurricanes in Operation Pedestal to be published on our Armahobbynews.pl/en/ Blog, and the information shared here, especially by @iang and @Lee Howard, are priceless for us. Thank you again. As the Arma Hobby employee I have to apologise for the mistakes we've made preparing this complex and fascinating project called "1/72 Sea Hurricane Ib". You can imagine it was not an easy task as some informations were not easy to obtain, and other were contradictory. I may reveal the secret that we've discarded really many potential aeroplanes-candidates for this box due to lack of confirmation of their look, or due to confirmation of some of their features making them unfit. As you see, it is not an easy task. First mistake is obvious - that we painted in yellow not only the fins but also the rudder balancing horns. It is a mistake, our own, and we are sorry we've made it. Second, also obvious - that we sent to printing the wrong file with instructions - the one which shows "7G" with yellow fin and wing leading edges. The colour profile of this plane on the box is correct - without yellow. I'm attaching it here: As you see from the above discussion (for me kinda 'clash of titans') of Ian and Lee, it is not easy to finally determine the truth here, especially about the participation of the Z4849 "7G" in the Operation Pedestal - I think for us, model kit producers and modellers, the safest solution will be to state that the above profile is correct, but we can not be sure if this plane survived to became Popham's mount during Operation Pedestal. Please correct me if I'm wrong here. So, again, apologies for mistakes, and thank you for correcting us. Grzegorz
  11. Excellent build! Thank you for the model and for remembering about Polish pilots! Grzegorz and the whole Arma Hobby team
  12. Too much red (probably from light) in the photo. Now better? Excellent build, congratulations from Arma Hobby!
  13. True! It is really rich set with many options - making possible building and converting a lot of different destroyers!
  14. Thank you! Found it! It looks great!
  15. Lovely little Hurry! Congratulations from Arma team!
  16. That's interesting! Could you share some more info?
  17. Oh I see what are you preparing! I'll be watching!
  18. If you like the black Hurricane, you can do the No. 85 Squadron one. Not only cool looking, but also connected with fascinating pilot Pete Townsend, who was a Fighter Ace and a lover of the Royal Princess Margaret. Townsend wrote several books, one describing his period of being a night fighter.
  19. Very well done! We had some discussion about the decaling of this instrument panel and also did some tests, it looks that the best way is to cut the decal into three parts (center and two sides) - it makes aplication easier.
  20. Extremely interesting project! Do you have a photo of original Austro-Hungarian plane? If not, let me know. Good luck!
  21. And now let's come back to the DT-A V6864 - and its spinner. There is a popular understanding that the spinner of this Tuck's aeroplane was red in the front area. We made it this way in the 1/72 Arma Hobby model kit: It is supported by the model, dated for 1950, in the Imperial War Museum collections: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30018327 There are black and white photos and a film, already shown in this thread, but, as @Bigos pointed, these can be interpreted in various ways. Do we have any other source material supporting the "red spinner version"? Tuck's memoires? Squadron documents? Ground crew report? Maybe it is only a myth? Thank you in advance!
  22. It is soooooo coooool!!!! Congratulations!
  23. It is very possible, the other reason is that the pilots were really smaller than today. All those pilot's seats in WWI fighters are amazingly small too. Polish PZL P.11c seat in the MMP monography has 9 mm in 1/48 scale, which gives 6 mm in 1/72. I don't have original size at home, but I think it is pretty accurate.
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