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From the Tintin book 'The Red Sea Sharks'. It's the Hasegawa 1/72 Mossie kit with (heavily modified) Blue Rider decals. Depicting it in flying mode meant closing the undercarriage doors, which required a lot of filling/sanding. The only other deviation from the kit instructions was the re-configured nose gun arrangement, and I added Skut the pilot. My figure painting ability is – appropriately – comical, but he looks OK under glass.
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Finished this a while ago but only made the effort to setup the camera after finishing another model to make the effort worth it. This is the atypical "Me 109" hijacked by Tintin in "King Ottokar's Sceptre". The plane is a hybrid of various versions of the 109 - Most of it appears to be a Me 109F but the nose is more like a 109D and there are no underwing radiators like the early 109's. This kit is also a composite - the resin Fuselage, Spinner, Props and tailplanes are from Retrokit and the remaining parts are from the AZ Me 109F as recommended by Retrokit. Decals are supplied in the Retrokit conversion however I found these to be the wrong size as compared to the actual pictures in the album. I used the decals from a Blue Rider set I've had for a while. The underwing roundels look a bit large in this set but they're close enough. I've used the colours in the book as a guide and to me they look close to Olive Drab and Neutral Grey so that's what I've gone with. In general the build was pretty straight forward though the resin fuselage showed a bit of asymmetry around the chin radiator and the fin looks a bit off centre. One thing to note is that the Blue Rider instructions and sheet supply roundels for the upper wing but there is no sign of these in the actual book and in this case Retrokits instructions/decals are correct. There is another nice build of this subject from a few months ago and this used bits of a Heller 109D and 109F which would be the best solution if you can't source the Retrokit or you think its a bit cheaper to go the cross kit option. This build also includes something which I'd like to have done but would have taken a bit more effort - modelling Tintin and Snowy in the cockpit. Cheers Michael
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I built another plane from the Tintin comics. I started with a 1/72 scale 109B and 109F from Heller I wasn't happy with the result so it ended up half built for a long time. Partly because my Alps printer died so I couldn't make the decals for it. But when I bought a Cameo cutting machine I thought that this would make a suitable experiment of making masks for painting so I brought it out of sleep and finished the build.
