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Excellent choice of subject and impressive execution! Congratulations. This is one of my favorite airplanes ever (along with Oeffag-Mickl H)!!!

The pilot's name is simply misspelled - should be Abel Guidez. This scheme is very interesting!

Simply stunning! Pushers aren't easy to do in normal way, and you've done it as a strip-down!!!

Looks very good!

Wow! That's impresive! Especially knowing how simple Broplan vacu kits are!

Very good job. The kit is old and not very gratefull, but your effort gave really good result! Extra point for choosing Dudwał's plane instead of generic Kosciuszko Squadron one. If only this guy survived the French Campaign, he'd probably be as famous as Skalski, Urbanowicz, Zumbach and the others form 303 sq.

Not bad at all my Friend. Some parts are really stunning!

Thank you! Thisi is what I wanted to know. Your build is even more impressive now!

It's very moving topic for me. In the '80s on the Eastern side of the Iron Curtain ex-FROG kits produced in Soviet Union were the only quite easily available models of the non-Eastern planes. It still doesn't mean that these were sold in the normal shops - no! We were buing them from people who have been traveling to Soviet Union and bringing the kits half-legally, which then were sold on the big Saturday flea-market on one of the Warsaw sport stadiums. The first I've got was a Hellcat. Then there were many. We loved them. Nowadays it is hard to belive, but Soviet censorship forbad to sell them under the real rotten western names, so the boxes had generic names like "torpedo plane" for Swordfish or "night fighter" for the Black Widow or there were no boxes at all... Sometimes people who were able to recognise the real types were respected and even had some discounts from sellers. I had and built really many, and still have some unbuilt. The most remembered are - that first Hellcat, Swordfish, Tempest, Beaufighter, Blenheim, Lysander, Boston, Venegance, Vampire, Widow, Lockheed Lightning, big and beautiful Lancaster with Tallboy bomb, Spirit of St.Louis, Westland Wallace, that experimental Bristol with single engine and looooong wings... I have built some of them lately, with my son. These are made of solid thick plastic and are good for children. Some I still have.

It looks really very good, except the wing leading edge - I suppose these should be more sharp in supersonic aircraft. BTW, this plane is quite well known in Poland, as the prototype has been test-flown by famous Polish pilot Janusz Żurakowski,guy who had fought as a fighter in Poland in 1939, then during the BoB shot down 3 Messerschmitts in 234 squadron, then commanded Polish 316 squadron and been deputy commander of Polish 1st Wing. Shortly before the war's end he became test-pilot in Boscombe Down, testing over 30 various planes including Meteor, Vampire and Hornet. He was not allowed to return to the commie-occupied Poland, so decided to emigrate to Canada. More about Żurakowski you can read on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Żurakowski

They make the 1/72 set too! http://www.modelmaker.com.pl/D72057-Stanislaw-Skalski-planes/587/

Very impressive build. If you still can make correction: PuW bombs should be bluish-grey:

Nowadays it's smart to check the dishwashing liquid before use. Many of them have now adddition of some oils or other agents helpful for skin care, but leaving some grease on the kit parts. Same with the soaps.

Very interesting thread and great build. Would the RAF Rescue Boat hull be accurate also for Polish S2? I always wanted to do one of those (S2 or S3). These were named "Wilczur" and "Wyżeł" ("German Shepherd" and "Pointer").

I'm watching this thread with great interest! Good idea with that Blenheim engine for the Kobuz (hobby falcon - it was the official name of the P.11g). Speaking about the engine of the P.11c variant, adding the pushrods in front of the cylinders is easy and greatly improves look of the model. You can make them from stretched sprue or wire. Kit propeller boss should be about 1 mm sanded on the rear (after removal of the prop blades). The area below the windshield, in front of the cockpit was not solid or "shelf" but open, containing the control panel and the compass. Like this: Interior should be silver, colour on this photo is innacurate museum protective paint of some kind. If you want go deeper into accuracy, wheel bosses should be bigger. Good luck with these old models of this beautiful and brave airplane!

Dimmy, thank you, this is very interesting. Those people who save pictures from German E-Bay really do a great job!!! Thank you also for all your competent and informative answers. Best reards! G.

I still have some doubts. While on 19th August 1941 that Ukrainian Vasilkiv has been already in German hands (EDIT: i've checked historical maps), the 137 Infantry Division was part of the Army Group Center and in 1941 went exactly through Białystok (that Polish Wasilków is suburb of Białystok) to the outskirts of Moscow (Viazhma), definitely not the Ukraine! http://www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de/Gliederungen/Infanteriedivisionen/137ID-R.htm

Dimmy, is that possible that this is not Ukraine but Wasilków near Białystok in Poland (then, after 17th Sept. 1939 was in Soviet territory)?

Fuad, your model is extremely good. Congratulations!!!

But the Spanish-built CASA Breguet were not alluminium. These were mostly fabric covered and painted in silver (of course the nose was metal, but painted too I think).

Very good point. I think you are right - nose and the tail look uniformly painted. You are right I think. Thank you for correction!

I think that this square glass panel sealed the hole in the nose when the gun was moved upwards. See this film: https://youtu.be/ZSp-JtcPtqM?t=53s

As you wrote, Breguet is most probably painted in uniform silver/aluminium. I firmly belive that this Heinkel is in natural aluminium, quite crude and unevenly shiny or dull, as it was prototype made from scratch material. Look at these photos: While these are apparently in RLM 02: You can also compare Heinkels with Polish prototypes, known to be in natural finish typical for prototypes:

Very impressive model. I'm almost sure it was natural metal - different colours of various panels seem to prove that option.

The Legend.