Marc Schimmler Cool project. I also discussed this topic wth several guys in a different forum. The good news is that al faculties can join (Aircraft, Ship, AFV; ...)

Sven Schönyan Oh yes Marc, it won´t get boring because of the diversity of originals you can build! Normally I´m from the naval fraction but often I´m in the mood for building a tank or aircraft. This project covers many of my modelling interrests.

Spanjaard cool idea!

scalemates awesome. But please convert this project to a collection. (with 3 individual projects attached to collection: Red Storm Rising)

Augie I love the idea of this project

Ingo F Nice idea.

Martin Oostrom Just finished the book for the x-teenth time. Great read and even better idea.

Lode Schildermans Looking forward to this one, Sven

Sven Schönyan Thank you folks for your interest! Progress is slow but at least there is some progress.

Peter Hardy No factions on Scalemates Sven! We love everybody's work improving!

Ekki Very good.

Spanjaard nice

Sven Schönyan Thank you guys!

Aaron Liles very nice!

Bart Goesaert Nice and clean build

Sven Schönyan Thank you for the kind words!

John Moran From every angle, that's a bad looking tadpole. Great job!

Cuajete Very nice work. Congrats!

Lode Schildermans Nice work Sven. Paintwork is excellent, as usual

Sven Schönyan Thank you!

Spanjaard nice

Sven Schönyan Thank you Spanjaard!

Cuajete Well done so far.

Ekki Watching.

Dave Flitton Nice build, which kit did you start with?

Lode Schildermans Smooth painting, Sven. It will turn into a beauty

Sven Schönyan Thank you for the nice comments!

@ Dave: I used the Trumpeter kit with some Brassin upgrades. I will manage the inventory later.

Sven Schönyan As you won´t see much of the cockpit I painted it but didn´t apply any washes or weathering. Pre-painted PEs for the cockpit are provided with the kit.

Aris aka Amen Following, interested to learn more about this 100$ kit. Nice job so far with pay attention on details.

Sven Schönyan Thank you for your interest Aris!

Ingmar Stöhr I'm in!

Sven Schönyan On this rainy sunday I came back to my workbench. After even more filling and sanding it is now time for gluing the major parts together. First I placed the window into the fuselage but later decided to remove it again. On the lower edge of the window you look at a prominent glued surface which didn´t turn out as I thought before. So I will paint both the edge on the fuselage and the lower edge of the window first and then place the clear part in place later. This will look much better.
The correct adjustment of the cockpit is a bit tricky. Modelcollect forgot to create a good guidance or parts to hold the cockpit proper in place. I attached it with very little glue and put the upper half of the fuselage on the lower one and then corrected the position of the cockpit bay. After carefully removing the upper fuselage again I applied a normal amount of glue. The fitting check shows a good result.

Łukasz Gliński Watching

Ingmar Stöhr Definitely not the best fitting kit in town. Nice progress!

Cuajete Well done so far.

Sven Schönyan Thank you guys! The most interesting fitting issues will occur in the next step when gluing the wings to the body. As I decided not to fill the engravings (as it is done on the original) and some of them run along the wing/fuselage joints I´m curious how it will looks at the end.