JWM Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 Hi, My next French machine, this time of extremely short life time in my stash: when I bought the kit about two weeks ago I immediately started build... This is Kovozavody Prostejov new mold kit of D 501 (1/72). I used the paint scheme not from the box. It is machine No 198 (R-228) belonging to GCII/10 in January 1940 ( so still in Phoney War time) based in Rouen-Boos. When this squadron got more modern machines the Dewoitines were phased out to flying schools, it is likely that this particular machine went to Polish training center in Lyon-Bron. I reshaped the wheel spats to unique one seen on some D 501 (including that one). Here she is: Comments welcome Regards J-W 25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invidia Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 That looks great, I've built this kit, found it hard work, you've done a great job on it . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr T Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 Very nice J-W, I built the KP kit for the Interceptor GB. Not a bad kit, what surprised me was that the undercarriage. I thought it was going to be really tricky, but the whole thing lined up fairly easily. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertie McBoatface Posted October 20, 2021 Share Posted October 20, 2021 That's a cute little thing. I've never seen one before well done! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulfman Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 A great build, I had problems with mine, now residing on the shelf of shame ! Wulfman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 Really nice J-W, that looks super in that early war scheme. 👍 Steve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allan31 Posted October 21, 2021 Share Posted October 21, 2021 You have done a splendid job on making a typically ugly french airplane look beautiful, nice work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted October 22, 2021 Author Share Posted October 22, 2021 On 10/19/2021 at 8:41 PM, Mr T said: Not a bad kit, what surprised me was that the undercarriage. I thought it was going to be really tricky, but the whole thing lined up fairly easily. Many thanks! Indeed, the u/c seems to be a bit under engineered regarding the assurance of a proper alignment, but it works in the end. One more problem ocured with mine one - the decals (roundels) were printed with small error - white was shifted with red by some very small (maybe 1/30 of mm) resulting in appearance of white contour on one side. It could be removed by precise cutting out roundels but I have not noticed it before application, so I had to remove them and replace by the other from drawer... 23 hours ago, Wulfman said: A great build, I had problems with mine, now residing on the shelf of shame ! Wulfman Thank you. I do hope - one day you'll finish yours! I appreciate your comments, regards J-W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbadge Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Great work Jerzy , this does look very nice indeed. Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted October 25, 2021 Author Share Posted October 25, 2021 On 10/23/2021 at 9:07 AM, bigbadbadge said: Great work Jerzy , this does look very nice indeed. Chris Chris, many thanks! Regards J-W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesa Jussila Posted November 1, 2021 Share Posted November 1, 2021 Nice work again Jerzy, Always nice to see your builds and history of planes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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