1. #11
    Cheers, Mr River - I'd missed the second one.
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  2. #12
    Yeah, that Dauntless is beautiful. I looked at that for a long time. I noticed the three colored dots on the underside; red green and yellow. My Corsiar in the game has those also, under a wing. I don't know what those dots are for, but I have my geusses. A way to communicate a status to the carrier deck crew or ground crew perhaps?
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  3. #13
    Originally posted by RPMcMurphy:
    Yeah, that Dauntless is beautiful. I looked at that for a long time. I noticed the three colored dots on the underside; red green and yellow. My Corsiar in the game has those also, under a wing. I don't know what those dots are for, but I have my geusses. A way to communicate a status to the carrier deck crew or ground crew perhaps?
    They weren't just on carrier birds. These were signal lights also used on the Mustang, Lightning, and others.

    http://www.ww2aircraft.net/for...they-used-19577.html
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  4. #14
    Here's some more progress on the 110.

    The fit of the tail planes is quite loose so it's not easy getting them straight and exactly horizontal. So I had to improvise this set up which worked OK.




    There's the fit issue at the engine nacell to wing joint that shows up on most reviews of this kit. Mine was no better so some plastic surgery will be needed.


    Finally, one of the nacelles with the nice sidewall details glued in place. I drilled out the little holes in the ribs based on references.


    More later.
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  5. #15
    Finished the gun bay details today. 26 and 30 ga. copper motor winding wire was used for the gun wiring.





    Now working the horrid nacelle/wing joint puttying and sanding, my least favourite part of modelling. Then it's on to finalizing the Wespe scheme that I'll use and final assembly.
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  6. #16
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    LF, I've got that Stirling in my build pile, too. Trying to clear off a space on the bench for it. Someday...
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  7. #17
    Here some shots of my finische Hotchkiss H-39 with crew. I used a picture frame as base for that scenery, it's named "vitesse et désordre" and should point to the unpainted tankette witch was rushed into combat but its crew seems not has it that hasty.















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  8. #18
    For the SM 79 fans: (NOT by me, found it on the web)







    Published by a Polish card-model printing company called Orlik.

    The build thread:
    http://www.papermodels.pl/topi...ero-orlik-vt1952.htm
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  9. #19
    D3A1 (Also not mine):









    By Polish publisher Halinski
    Thread:
    http://www.kartonbau.de/wbb2/t...hilightuser=0&page=1
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    Very detailed work crimea

    LF get that stirling built m8

    Kimura really like your diorama, that tank is great

    Romanator that SM79 looks excellent , especially since its made of card
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