That’s a trully great entry, Neil @neil-foster!
A challenging kit, your great skills will bring the most out of it!

Cheers Spiros ,I think it will be a challenge as there is some resin and some PE included and quite a bit of glazing so lots of masking to do ,not my favourite job!!
I took a look at your contribution and it looks great ,I’ve never seen a Hellenic AF Dakota so it should be interesting to see.
N.

Hello Neil, @neil-foster
Welcome aboard to our ever growing Korean War group. This one is getting bigger by the day. Thank you for picking a great one to build. I have a similar kit, but I purchased mine many years ago.. I’m thinking it was just before or just after the “turn of the Century”. Man that sounds like I’m really getting old. It was sometime around 2000 or 2001 when I got mine.

I just pulled mine down from the stash and took a few pictures of it to share with you.

Mine is a Grand Phoenix kit.

Somewhere along the line I picked up an Airwaves PE set that will allow me to build it with the wings folded.

I’ll definitely be watching for updates on this one…………… and who knows, since we have a lot of time before the end of the GB, I might just join you and build up mine too…… Time will tell.

Welcome aboard my friend.

Hi guys, it’s been a while ,I’ve been doing other stuff as well but in-between that I have made a start on the Firefly. I want to make this as good as I can get it (obviously) and am going to highlight the panel lines at the end of the painting process but the panel lines are moulded way to faint to be usable after priming ,painting and varnishing is done so I have re scribed them deeper and then primed up in white to show them, this is where I’m up to…..

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Thanks for the words of encouragement John.

Cheers Spiros buddy, nice to hear from you .Hope you and yours are keeping well.

I did a bit of casual dry fitting of fuselage and wing sections and I think you could be right….. we’ll see, but I think I can make a reasonable job of this I am hoping it will be one of my better efforts as I feel really inspired by this build.
Cheers Neil.