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Thank you Mike

I decided it was time to install the vertical tail, it is a butt fit so it is important to get the meeting surfaces square and level.
I have also tackled the searchlight and search scanner on the rhs wing tank, a job I was not looking forward to, a bit of micro engineering that must allow the small ...

I don't appear to have a Views column on the right on my Android phone

Your Albatross is looking good so far Dave.
Is it not strange that we have to rely on Russian and Ukrainian kit companies to give us the American and British subjects that we want to model in 1/144 scale?
I really like the A Model box artwork.

Undercarriage is now completed, the kit's white metal main legs with additional plastic struts, plastic mainwheels from my spares, front plastic leg from my spares with the kit's metal wheel with spokes drilled out.
Kit's metal main wheel doors and spare plastic nosewheel doors.
Metal engine cowling ...

My Mikro Mir Blackburn Beverley tactical heavy lift transport with scratchbuilt ground equipment. I decided to model it in the short range heavy parachute drop configuration with no cargo doors fitted so as to show off the detailed cargo interior, but this meant that I had to drill out every ...

Wow, thank you Mike, how do I check to see how many views a topic has received ?

My IXO He177.

A number of years ago I purchased two IXO 1/144 diecast He177s from Hattons model shop.
When they arrived I was very impressed with their accuracy and detail. However, I wanted to improve and repaint one of them but the real problem was deciding on which of the many different colour schemes that ...

Thanks Mike, yes I did discover that the engines have been moulded with the same number of exhausts on both sides, but only after I had already drilled them out, hey ho.