Marek's even bigger black hole

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Cool looking Dora, Marek. But the submarine is just killer! I didn't know Germany operated subs after WW II. You did a great job on the finish. It looks like a heavy steel beast! What is the kit?
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Softscience wrote:Cool looking Dora, Marek. But the submarine is just killer! I didn't know Germany operated subs after WW II. You did a great job on the finish. It looks like a heavy steel beast! What is the kit?
Ralph, it is a 1/144 Revell AG kit from late 90ies. Not a bad kit but newer ones have more detail, I am going to build 1/144 Kilo from trumpeter soon as ... ORP Orzel. It looks like a splendid kit and it is huge.
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Mystere IVA is finished!! I started to be on a tired side with this kit. It is wonderful kit, wonderful jet but ...

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Very nice. Two thumbs up.
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Top result with the Mystere, Marek, what a great looking classic jet it is.
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I really like the finished result on the Mystere. Nice work!
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Nice Mystere, Marek. Well don!
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Superb work on that old MB kit!
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Thank You Guys again.

Little update on the Spad front from DNF fifites thread: I moved along a bit. Canopy closed. For the first time ever I have used the Tamiya's ultra thin on a canopy (instead of gator grip white glue or formula 560. It actually worked pretty well. It is basically fused. which is good for me.

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And new decals arrived! Printscale, little bit on a basic side but definitely better than kit's

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Lovely looking A-1! which kit is it?
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That is this kit : http://modelingmadness.com/scott/viet/p ... 51406p.htm
Quite a nice one, with little care goes together pretty painlessly.
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Marek,
Very good looking Mystere. I think it turned out very nicely.

Superb work on the submarine U-24. It is so clean with wonderful subtle colour tones!

Really enjoying your work on the Provost too. I have this kit as well and was wondering how are you finding the fit of the kit? The parts look very nice on the tree but I know how poor fit can obliterate these details. You have kept the details very nicely.

Love watching the progress. :-D
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The provost so far proved to be actually fitting together without major problems. Obvious choice of any jet to throw a fit about are intakes, this one is no different. There will be some filing into shape around intake-lower fuselage seams but overall it was not much of a filler hog. I had gaps in the wing/fuselage joints but there are always there for me in shortruns of today. The one thing I dreaded most; forward looking glass housing for the lights actually fit like a glove. How very strange :). Summarizing up to this point of build (and I have not proceeded any further since last update here) I have introduced more problems than the kit's engineering and fit and would actually recommend this kit to anyone.
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Your Skyraider is looking good Marek; I have a Heller version but it doesn't look very good so it's about to go into the next stash clear-out!
The Hasegawa one is not cheap though, so I can't see me replacing it soon!
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Update on few project coming along. I have been working on few of flyables and one bathtub shark when time allowed. No regular updates but now more of a combined one.

Sword Jet Provost - masking of anti-glare panel to be done, then white and red

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Skyraider - major paintjob done, now needs to be touched up and glossed

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SHAR FA2 from Xtrakit for the ISM group build is ready to be decaled.

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And finally, Wolfpack 1/350 kit of German Type 214 basically assembled itself in an hour. After some compulsory cleaning, I undercoated it with black vallejo primer.

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Looks like there is a light in a tunnel for some of them :)
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