Airfix Roland

Frank Krause
Speechless! 👍 Top job! Again!

Steve Wilson
Yep! What Frank said👍

Pierre-Christian Baudru
Great job as usual Mike !

Stefan Suessemilch
Wow Mike.... fantastic job!

Burkhard D
I like your exceptionally clean build style. Also like your 'scaled eye-level' photography with perfect field of depth. A lot to be learned from looking at your models, keep 'em coming 👍👍👍 🙂

Eric Duval
Wonderful Roland, congratulations 🙂

Mike Grant
Thanks for the kind comments!

Es-haq Khosravi
I really admire modellers who try to add details by scratch build! Nice Job! Lovely flying Cabin!

Alexander Aristides Cronvall
wow ! 👍

Duncan Cook
Wow!

David Haas
Unbelievable...I just took my Walfisch off of my display shelf and put it back into the man-cave for a serious overhaul!

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos
Just a Perfect Job!

Barry Lloyd
Amazing detail, nice one!

Marc Schimmler
Awesome!!!!!

Mike Grant
Thanks guys 🙂

Torsten
Awesome😎

Eduardo Arguijo
WOW, great job.

Alan Rush
Hi Mike. I am fairly new and wanted to add my compliments. Very nice and especially so since it is 1/72. The interior is a great addition and really shows your skills at scratch building. I recognized your name and looked at your profile to check since I am familiar with your decal site. We are in the same country, just on different ends of it. Thanks for posting the pictures

Roland Sachsenhofer
My vocabulary in English does not fit to how I am impressed.... Therefore simply: most impressive, unbelievable- and wonderful!

Bruce Leyland-Jones
Not bad, Mike. I'm thinking that you might get the hang of this modelling lark, one day. 😄

ole moller
hey Mike just realised that you are on scale models forum as well as here like me lol
this plane is first class,still dont know how you got this to stay clean? its white.certainly a show stopper

Lionel Marco
Said like that it seems so easy to do...

Michel Huijghe
Stunning and I'm glad that I see again a model from you.

Wim van der Luijt
Man.....that is just great, an inspiration to my own boundaries

Christian Bruer
Amazing detail, very well done!

Martien Lourens
I am very impressed. Beautiful in detail. excellent work.

Mike Grant
Hey, thanks a lot guys for the kind comments! 🙂

Christian Meyerhoff
Stunning work! You made the most out of this Oldie!

Jose Miguel Rodriguez
I dont have words for your model Mike. Amazing, fantastic and excellent are not enough!!!!!!!!!!!

Clifford Keesler
Very stunning model, excellent work.

B
Are you sure that you didn't shrink a real one and cut a hole in the side?😉 Great Work!!!!

Gabor Szabo
Wow! In 1:72? Overwhelming! 🙂

Pascal GARAT
Stunning build!

Christian Keller
hi Mike, great... just great 😉

Holger Kranich
Gsus! Outstanding! Amazing work, Mike!

Rob van Dodewaard
that is superb,

Acki
Build this one years ago. Looks different.😉
Phatastic job Mike!

Mike Grant
Hey, thanks a lot for the kind comments guys 🙂

Francisco Colaço
Awesome 👍

Vitor Hugo Sousa
immaculate 👍

John Thomas
Very nice

Ray Seppala
Lovely work as usual Mike.

Peter Tong
amazing detail !

Kari Saarni
Beautiful!

Bill Spargo
Fantastic work, love it

Glenn
WOW! that's neat work Mike!

M.Julian Marles
awesome!

Mike Grant
Thanks a lot guys 🙂

Gustavo Antonelli
Amazing, great work! How did you work the squared surfaces?

scalemates
👍

Clifford Keesler
Amazing work.

Matthias Weiss
Fantastic work Mike!

John Coverley
Can't believe this is an Airfix kit from the mid 60's. Amazing! I remember building one of these when it came with an RE8 as a dog fight double,about '65/'66. Mine looked nothing like this though🙂

Dave Flitton
Excellent

Martin K.
Fantastic this sratch parts.... Great job!

Jan Hazes
What a beautiful little build.

Ulf Petersen
Really excellent!

Debayo
love it!

Mike Daniels
Very nice work Mike. I am about to start the Eduard 1/48version. Had no idea that Airfix ever produced this one. I am inspired by your work. What do you use for your rigging ?

Alec K
I second the praise, and the rigging question. I have seen this approach on Mike's other models, and being "rigging-challenged", would love to know the details.

Mike Grant
Thanks guys! 👍 @Mike & Alec I built this kit a few years ago and used fishing line, drilling all the way through the lower wing, pulling the lines taut and gluing, but it required a lot of touch-up and repair on the undersides. Recently I've been using Uschi Van Der Rosten elastic thread, and it's much less labour-intensive, is more resilient and looks more to scale.

Christian Ristits
Fantastic build Mike!

Alec K
Thanks for the info Mike 👍

Jens
Absolut fantastisch 👍 👍 👍

Mike Daniels
Thanks for the info Mike. I am quite new to rigging and have tried all sorts - streched sprue, cotton, nylon thread with mixed results and am gonna have a go with light gauge wire on the Roland. I will certainly check out Uschi Van Der Rosten elastic thread if I can find a supplier. Cheers.

Mike Daniels
Have found a list of UK suppliers;
uschivdr.com/where-else-to-buy/

David Andrs
👍

Markus Kutsch The Plastic Bench
Eyecatcher....Top 👍

Stephan Ryll
Stunning result Mike 🙂 top work 👍

Clifford Keesler
Excellent job.

Jan Bissinger
Wow, great build and finish ????

Pierre Pierre
Amazing job ! May i ask what size of Uschi Van Der Rosten do you use for 1/72 ?

Mike Grant
@Pierre Thanks for the comment. This is an older build and was rigged using fishing line, but now I use the UVDR elasticated thread. For rigging 1/72 biplanes I use the 'Fine' weight.

Olivier
I can recall building this kit when I was 12 or 13. When I see what you achieved with yours I measure the gap, no, the ocean. Still I enjoyed this first era of kit modelling a lot.

Skyhiker
I have the Heller version of this kit sitting on my shelf. If I could get mine to come out half as good as yours I would be super happy. You have done an amazing job on all of your builds.