Dutch East Indies...1/48 Fairey Firefly FR.I, Koninklijke Marine Luchtvaartdienst

Started by Reinhard Spreitzhofer · 74 · 2 months ago
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    John vd Biggelaar said 4 months, 2 weeks ago:

    The wings seem perfectly in position right now, Reinhard @grimreaper

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 4 months, 2 weeks ago:

    Great progress, my friend @grimreaper! Looking forward to your landing light solution!

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    Reinhard Spreitzhofer said 4 months, 1 week ago:

    added tailplane and rudder, slowly gaining shape

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    Carl Smoot said 4 months, 1 week ago:

    Interesting about the radiator intake. I wonder why Quickboost bothered with this? To sell more stuff? The seat and exhausts are a definite improvement. What other shape issues are their with this kit? The Firefly is one of those aircraft that I may still add to my stash. even though it's a two-seater, it's an attractive aircraft.

    The work on this kit looks great so far. Looking forward to seeing more work completed on this build.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 4 months, 1 week ago:

    Nice progress, Reinhard @grimreaper

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 4 months, 1 week ago:

    Nicely taking shape, my friend @grimreaper!

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    Reinhard Spreitzhofer said 4 months ago:

    getting ready for primer

    my dad decided to do a Dutch scheme instead of the Thai one and do the latter one maybe with aSpecial Hobby or AZ Model kit
    gonna use decals from this kit

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 4 months ago:

    Looks excellent as it is ready to receive primer, my friend @grimreaper! The chosen Dutch scheme looks awesome!

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    John vd Biggelaar said 4 months ago:

    A good choice to go for the Dutch variant, Reinhard @grimreaper
    Looking forward to this Firefly in its new scheme.

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    Reinhard Spreitzhofer said 4 months ago:

    the Dutch Fireflys, or is it Fireflies? 😀 carried four single rockets, mounted on two plates, under each wing

    the Special Hobby kits include these plates in PE form

    used them as template and did cut out some plastic sheet

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 4 months ago:

    The plastic plates look excellent and are way easier to work with, my friend @grimreaper!

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    John vd Biggelaar said 4 months ago:

    Nice work on the plates, Reinhard @grimreaper

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    George R Blair Jr said 4 months ago:

    Smart way to get the parts you need, Reinhard (@grimreaper). I would have simply stolen the PE from the other kit and used it on the current one, then still would have needed them for the other kit.

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    Reinhard Spreitzhofer said 3 months, 4 weeks ago:

    @gblair the SH kits only include two of these plates but needed four

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    Reinhard Spreitzhofer said 3 months, 4 weeks ago:

    time for some paint..
    Tamiya XF-21 Sky for the bottom, AK RC Dark Slate Grey for the first upper colour

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