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

Started by Reinhard Spreitzhofer · 74 · 4 weeks ago
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    Reinhard Spreitzhofer said 1 month, 1 week ago:

    did some post-shading
    added the arresting hook and a new tail wheel from the sparesbox, the old one broke off when the plane had its maiden flight to the ground a short time ago, luckily nothing else was damaged

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    John vd Biggelaar said 1 month, 1 week ago:

    Nice work on the post-shading, Reinhard @grimreaper
    Glad nothing else got damaged during that maiden flight.

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    Reinhard Spreitzhofer said 1 month, 1 week ago:

    canopies demasked
    the rear canopy had a dorsal frame strut, Trumpeter missed that, painted it

    started to add some rockets

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    John vd Biggelaar said 1 month, 1 week ago:

    The canopy looks great, also the hand painted one, Reinhard @grimreaper
    Nice work on the rockets as well.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 1 month, 1 week ago:

    Looks excellent, my friend @grimreaper!

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    Reinhard Spreitzhofer said 1 month ago:

    all rockets mounted

    further adding some detail, the Firefly had t-shaped antennas? under each horizontal stabilisers,

    at least the Dutch ones had an antenna? under each wing

    and added a "stirrup" and a pitot tube, the kit has none

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    John vd Biggelaar said 1 month ago:

    Nice details added, Reinhard @grimreaper
    The Dutch Fireflies did indeed have those T-shape antennas from what I found online.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 1 month ago:

    Excellent job, including extras, my friend @grimreaper!

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    Reinhard Spreitzhofer said 1 month ago:

    mast set, using EZ Line for the antenna wire

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    John vd Biggelaar said 1 month ago:

    Great work on the antenna, Reinhard @grimreaper

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 1 month ago:

    Great job on the antenna, my friend @grimreaper!

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    Reinhard Spreitzhofer said 4 weeks, 1 day ago:

    finished and moved to headlines

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    John vd Biggelaar said 4 weeks ago:

    Really nice to see a Dutch Firefly, especially in this quality, Reinhard @grimreaper

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 4 weeks ago:

    Congratulations, my friend @grimreaper!