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When this topic was offered prior to the Bunfight I excited as I have a number of 1/72 options in the stash. Unfortunately the dates turned out to be the worst option for me. I've family home from Aus, including my 8 month old grandson, for the month for my wife's 60th, heading off to Spain and then a cruise for most of September so to complete something and do it justice will be difficult. I really want to support the GB so I could go with a relatively low part count option. I wanted to build a few initially, Special Hobby Barracuda, MPM Albacore, SH Skua, possibly Airfix Buccaneer!. I've chosen to give the Skua a go and take it from there .... Its a 2009 tooling from Special Hobby. It comes on 3 sprues and a clear sprue. Also included is a resin engine and some PE for the cockpit. Markings options are for two Scharnhorst attack machines. Ill chose which to go with later, thought the only difference is the seriel number. The instructions came with 2 x page 5/6, no page 2/3 but Scalemates is my friend as this is the entire interior assembly. Get started as soon as I can Derek
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Happy New Year everyone! I sat in the cockpit of one of these beauties a few months back which inspired me to pick up Special Hobby's JA-37 1:72 kit shortly afterwards at the Scale Scotland model show. I decided to model Red 12 of F16 Uppsala Wing from 1992 (Upplands flygflottilj). I think it's a great kit to put together (I don't know if it's got innaccuracies though) and I didn't have any fit issues at all. It's an OOB build. The splinter camo... Well, I thought how hard can it be to cut my own masks?? Yeah, it was utterly beyond me! After several nights of torture and still with small pieces of masking tape stuck to my hands (and likely everywhere else) I surrendered and ordered the Maestro models mask set. This masking set was for the Heller kit which has a shorter fuselage but worked reasonably well. I numbered each of the 'splinters' to make the reattachment between coats easier. I'd been beaten by the masking before - not this time Miss Viggen! It's airbrushed with MRP-005, MRP-175, MRP-177, MRP-178, MRP-179 and Tamiya XF-16. Waiting on the highway: Without the background: Cockpit from the real thing (taken in the Aeroseum near Gothenburg): Thanks for looking. Stay safe everyone and happy modelling!
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Here is the next in the brace...Special Hobby's 109G-6 kit with the very colourful markings of Yellow 5, Utti Finland, 1950. Now that Eduard is slowly releasing 1/72nd scale Messerschmitts I assume they will release these markings as well, since they've already done so in 1/48th. But until then, this is what we have. A quick glance at the sprue tells me that they are the same moulds as the AZModel G series. Thats good. No surprises. There is a bit of PE and, of course, very snazzy markings. Here's some box art... And the profile... The booklet has a better decal layout... The decals...Looking very nice. I'll jump in later... --John
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