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I like it a lot. Nice display with the other vehicles and figures. 🙂 Nigel

G'day, thanks Jamie. It's been a couple of years now and I sometimes forget what I learned during research for a build. Regards, Jeff.

You've eaten at Burgerking ? ( and along those lines I have a story. When I was in highschool, I dated a girl that worked at a well known fast food chain .... I won't say which one, ... She told me that they scrubbed the milkshake machine with the same brush they cleaned the toilet with. ...... we didn't date for very long ...)

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Nice one Tim, I like your take on the splinter camo, it really looks good on this. Steve.

Thanks Steve, I just worked out how to make the pic bigger 👍

A few Nato birds mostly British. Good luck with your builds.

Many years ago, we're talking 60 & maybe a bit, my Grandad, who was an inveterate fossicker in second hand shops, gave me a small book of Airliner profiles. From memory, it was probably published in the States, was about pocket book size, printed on a horizontal format (landscape) & had quite simple colour profiles of airliners in various Airline liveries. It covered from prop liners to early jets ie, 707s & DC-8, I think. I've searched google for this on many occasions & never found anything close but have long thought I'd like a copy for old times sake. I don't recall it having any photos nor much in the way of captions but after that time am a bit hazy on that. The cover was predominantly blue I think, maybe with a profile or two on it? Anyone got any ideas on this. It sounds like a long shot but a similar search some years ago paid off. Steve.

Thought I'd mention, I ended up peeling those red wing panels off. They definitely didn't want to have anything to do with being on my model! 😆 So I very easy peeled them right off, masked & airbrushed them red. This is on my other Shepherd's Grover. I don't want to have to it to this one if I can help it. Whoever designed and thought of those "Eduard" peely film decals needs putting up against a wall!

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I like it. I bought one of these recently & from your small image (hint ) it looks to build quite well. I'll be happy if I can get a similar result to yours. Steve.

Hi All I'm not sure if this belongs here but it is a flying machine I guess. Having seen one of these built by a friend at my local clubs meet I thought I give it another go. The last time I built this I was but a lad and it came with a Hercules. This is the Airfix classic kit built straight from the box using decals from the spares box. It's showing its age as I think I spent more time cleaning it up than actually building it. But boy have I enjoyed it, I already have another on the go. C'mon Airfix how about a newly tooled Mk2. Hope you like it Regards Glenn.

Wow! That was prompt! Nice job. 👍

I want to do more than just click a Like or Thanks icon, but my vocabulary is failing me. The leap forward that our hobby has taken with the combination of CAD and 3D printing is mind-blowing on its own, but when those tools are in the hands, or at the finger tips, of an alchemist whose understanding of the software and the production processes takes the end result into artistry, it is breath taking. Thank you.

Looks to be going well to me - I seem to remember that mine took almost 3 months, but in fairness I built another 5 or 6 kits during the same period, and I was doing a fair bit of extra work on the Shackleton, both inside and out. I had actually sanded all the exterior down fairly hard to reduce but not remove the rivets, so that meant I did not have to worry too much about damage when sanding joints, but I did have to do quite a bit of scribing to add the various missing hatches etc, I think it was worth it in the end. Of course part way through the build Revell released their new MR3 you wait years for a new kit and then 2 manufacturers produce the whole ruddy set almost at the same time!😆 Pete

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Thanks Pete !!! Andrés.

WOW … the weathering on the chassis is excellent.

Im very impressed by the attention to detail, especially when it comes to shaping the contour’s of the aircraft.

Sorry to hear of the decal issue’s, though I think the Swedish AF option is actually a good call. It shows the varied use of a rare aircraft.

Being in Russia I wonder if that is a heat exchanger for the oil ? Possibly a cockpit heater ? Fluid circulates around the engines hot oil and then enters a cabin radiator for heating. Reminds me of my school buses, they had a similar feature on the floor boards. The liquid was heated by the engine/radiator and would flow along the outer edges of the floor boards. Always had to reach down just to warm my hands up.

Sprues are from Amodel.

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Welcome along with two aircraft that definitely qualify and definitely deserve to be built.

I think I've sorted the rear suspension and back axle, and hoping I have a reasonable ride height when the wheels go on. As you can see, the differential is VERY nonscale but it's on. The distance of the brake drums from the bodywork is an estimate. The kit exhaust pipe is designed to fit in the gap between the wheel and body, although many exhausts in photos arch right up and over the mudguard This is the structure underneath... And a start has been made on the front end. I made my springs with the little tube pieces embedded just like the back pair, and then realised they weren't needed up front. They don't hang outside the chassis members, so I flattened the front ends and I'm making wire links for the back attachments. The main axle is brass wire to facilitate bending and adjusting. It fits through an Ali tube before it's cranked, and that tube straddles across between the springs. Luckily my engine structure underneath was just about right to give a central attachment area for the axle. Again, the measurements are done on a wing and a prayer but the brass wire should give me some scope for getting the right look. The other little achievement is the fabrication of a cover sheet for the back of the car, what I'd call a tonneau. Just some decent fine paper treated with pva to hold its shape, and a coat of..... ermm I think it was mig acrylic "tyre and rubber". I think I'll forget about fixing plastic down in the space above the back axle. No point really when this goes on. 😎