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Hi, Not many times ago I have bought the Latecoere 28.5 resin kit bu SBS (Hungarian company). The kit is presenting a floatplane variant of basically mail plane in livery from an era of long range pioneers flights. Exactly it is Latecoere 28.5 "La Fregate". The short description of the type is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latécoère_28 Here is a in-box scheme - just to see how it looks like: I was not cheep, so I bought only one. One day I should like two variants of the Latecoere 28 (and his development - Latecoere 290). One will be a Spanish Civil War transport machine So you can play the game "find 100 details which differs those pictures".... There was very limited series kit of Latecoere 290 it is really difficult to get. I hope the passenger/mail variant will appear one day so my target machine is torpedo-bomber Latecoere 290. Thisiis my starting point: the model and three books (plus Internet) I scaled the drawing from books (two are same) in 1/72, they agree very well in all dimensions (or I overlooked something) Few days ago I started work on wings, fuselage and the main task - much bigger floats. However unexpected construction problem appeared. The resin block in a place where Late 290 had windows. So I have to remove this block I cut it like that: Using driller I removed the block The window in rear part of fuselage is blinded and openings for new windows are drilled out. I glued together wings and ailerons I started to wok on enlarging of floats . If I failed I will go to wheeled Spanish version The other parts in resin, PE and very nice decals. To be continued Regards J-W- 54 replies
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My first completion of the year. Picked up both kits from an on-line shop during their November clearance sale. The base G-6 went together easily, as expected from most Tamiya kits. The resin nose conversion was designed to attach just like the kits nose section and fit just as seamlessly. My conversion was missing a pair of wing roundel decals, but Csaba from SBS Models sent me the missing decals. Hispano Aviacion HA-1109K.1L Escuadron de Experimentation en Vuelo Torrejon de Ardoz A.B., Madrid, 1951 Cheers, Rich
