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Ladies and Gents, After a failed attempt at a NMF with a brush and an almost total collapse in my enthusiasm for the hobby, a post by rs2man selling some of his stash caught my eye. A quick PM and exchanging of funds found this little lady on my doorstep: I figured after the success I had with my Hasegawa HE-111 that maybe another one of their kits in Olive Drab was what I needed to create a bit of interest and self-belief again. With the box opened and the sprues examined, I was pretty happy that this was a kit that I could do business with. The moulding is superb, the kit decals involve not a scrap of NMF and I figured that my challenge for this build would be my first nose sitter (I need to find some weight somewhere) and my first go at external photo etch. PE and I don't get along, but I have some etch primer and a desire to make this bird fly so you never know. The obligatory sprue shots are here: So I'm pretty much ready to get things underway. I'm off to Flying Legends on Sunday with a camera in hand to see if I can photograph anything useful and then I'm probably good to go. I am still looking for two things. Firstly a good set of technical drawings for a solid nose mitchell seem a lot harder to find than I thought they might be so if anyone has any or can point me in the direction of a good set it would be appreciated. And then secondly, I'm wondering if anyone out there has built the Hasegawa version of this kit (or the glass nose version) or has it in their stash and would mind scanning the instructions for me? I have the Revell instructions, but Revell kits and I have a history of falling out because of their frankly appalling diagrams and I quite fancied taking a look at what the Hase guys did with the same kit. As always, all support and encouragement is greatly appreciated. If I fail at this one, I'm giving up and buying die cast in the future. :-) Cheers, Richard
