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My Aeroclub P2V-5 Neptune is finally finished.
This multi media kit has been a challenge, consisting of thickly moulded injection parts, vacform clear parts and white metal propellers and undercarriage. The fuselage halves were moulded with no openings so I had to cut out all window openings, nose ...

Is this kit based on the LS one ?

My reworked Corgi diecast Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR1 in my favourite Nimrod colour scheme, the one in which it entered RAF service in 1969. I had to correct the vertical tail and added all the aerials, vents and pipes. Scratchbuilt power trolley and stairs and depicted parked on a V Bomber ...

I am not familiar with Micro Ace but your Aurora looks great so far Dave

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 ...

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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 ...