Cuajete One more from Łukasz's factory. Following!

Łukasz Gliński Welcome

Maciej Bellos Built this kit as a Swiss Airforce. Nice to see it in a three tone camo.

Łukasz Gliński Swiss only? Not an Aegean Ghost?

Maciej Bellos Yeah, not an Aegean Ghost, it was after all an E variant, we never had Es or Fs, just As and Bs, some even exotic like ex-Jordanians. Some day I will build one Aegean Ghost or Aegean Blue.

Roland Revolvermann Nice watching...

Łukasz Gliński Welcome Roland Maciej that's a piece of important knowledge, I thought till now these were F-5E/Fs

Sergej I In!

Andy Ball I have to believe that this is a model, and not the real thing!! Wonderful execution!

Łukasz Gliński Thank you Guys. I still think though that my photos are better than my models

Cuajete No, Łukasz... I have seen your model and now I want one

Łukasz Gliński Gracias. You should definitely get one, it's very nicely engineered.

Andy Ball I have their Hurricane in 72nd, I believe this is well-engineered too, best example in its class in scale.

John Sparti That's about as perfect as anything.

Łukasz Gliński Thanks, their Hurricane is on my wishlist too.

Mark Love it, great build.

Łukasz Gliński You are welcome Martin, were you surprised by the weather like me? It was so clear and sunny, that I sunburned my face, didn't expect that in the end of September at this latitude

Martin o haha yes noone thought to bring any sunblock so in the evening i felt slightly like the chernobyl cast

Spanjaard Great albums, thanks for sharing

Alec K Indeed, seems like it was a great event

Nathan Dempsey Wow that Hind looks awesome in that dark color scheme. Thanks for sharing all of these great pics!

Łukasz Gliński Glad to see you like the pics
@Nathan: The Hind took me by surprise and I like it a lot too

Thomas Kolb But it is a rather sad story behind the Hungarian P Hinds...

The P version was originally only used in East Germany (DDR), but even though these helicopters were only a few years old, they had a seriously lacking airworthiness documentation and needed a total overhaul. The unified Germany didn't want to do this, so in 1995, six P's were offered to Hungary for free. They were transported to Hungary on trains in dismantled form.

Hungary started an enthusiastic project for getting them in flying shape, but just as Germany had realized earlier, this turned out to be a monumental and nearly impossible task. So the project was abandoned and the six helicopters were left to rot under the bare sky for nearly 10 years, until they were literally falling apart.

Then in 2004, two Hind P's were fixed by cannibalizing parts from the other four and then in 2018, in a sudden spur of decision, all six P's were rebuilt, nearly from scratch and put back into operation, in their brand new dark-gray NATO livery.

Alec K Very interesting story Thomas, thank you for sharing. The amount of work and treasure putting those Hinds back into service boggles the mind.

Łukasz Gliński Finished! (for the price of this huge CA blob on the main antenna) Now it's time for Avia CS-199

Simon Zhang Cool

Thomas Kolb That Flora turned out really sweet! I really like these first generation jets, they all looked so different from each other. Nice build! BTW what is the hangar backdrop in the pictures? It looks really convincing.

Łukasz Gliński Thanks Simon & Thomas
The hangar is made by Polish company GPM, I built it some time ago (Hangar | Project by Woody (1:72) and keep on using it as a background. Some people here are already bored by it, so I have to build the Eurofighter hangar soon

Neuling Beautiful! Hangar`s still okay for me!

Łukasz Gliński Good to know, thanks

Alec K Turned out great Lukasz

Łukasz Gliński Diky Alec

Thomas Kolb Ha ha, I just placed an order on the exactly same kit (plus a bunch of Eduard PE parts)! I will be following your build!

Gordon Sørensen Planning on doing it like the Hungarian one you saw at the airshow?

Łukasz Gliński @Thomas: Should we arrange a sync build? For some reason it appears quite rarely in the local shops, so I decided to pick one just in case
@Gordon: Not really, as this is the V/VP version with the cannon turret under the nose. I intend to buy some details and Polish decals later before I start the build.
The one in Ostrava was a P version equipped with double 30mm cannon on the starboard side. The P version is quite rare, exported only to a couple of countries.

Thomas Kolb Yes, at least I will follow your build... I am sure you are quicker than me, I am kind of a zen-type slow builder.

Łukasz Gliński I'm not that quick as it may seem
Btw. I reassigned correct boxing.
@Gordon: after a little bit of thinking, maybe, one day, who knows...

Gordon Sørensen Good start, Lukasz! Nice work on the pilots - even got their ties painted!

Maciej Bellos Nice start!

Łukasz Gliński Thanks, I just re-checked and yes, the ties will be visible through the windscreen

Erik De Smet Interesting new project , Lukasz, I like to know your opinion on this old kit.

Łukasz Gliński Welcome Erik. So far I can say the fuselage fit is not bad, but far from perfect and I started to wonder how to preserve the original riveting... Windscreen is either too low or too short and will require some putty for sure. Another thing is a really thick trailing edge - I haven't decided yet how to handle this. Please bear in mind that this is OOB build and I'm not planning to do a lot of scratchbuilding.

Łukasz Gliński As the fit is not perfect I decided to sand it smooth everywhere including the trailing edges.
So now the biggest question remains - to re-rivet or not?
Have your say, however I'm not so much convinced 'rivets' will be visible after priming and painting to be honest (and I'm quite lazy too ).

Stefan Schneider Nice! I will watch!

Łukasz Gliński Welcome

Maciej Bellos Rerivetting this kit would be a rough task... It would look great but it would be a pain. Your choice.

Łukasz Gliński Still thinking of it But in the meantime I can paraphrase The Cake and Zeev Tene by singing 'I sanded Bristol every night..."

Andy Ball The venerable Airfix one! Hope this goes well for you!!

Łukasz Gliński Thanks, it goes on, but not sure it goes so well The quality of the kit is appaling. I managed to sand it smooth last weeks and did some research in the meantime. It turnes out each Superfreighter had a different window and door layout. Both Airfix and S&M assumed wrong amount of windows on G-APAV. So I have to fill some of them (see pics) and decided not to re-rivet the thing, except for scribing some main panel lines here and there. Moreover S&M decals lack the anti-glare panel and 'AV' letters on the front door.

Maciej Bellos Do you have any pics of the new camo? I saw the new Fitter camo up close and personal 3 years ago. It looked nice and of course fresh!

Maciej Bellos So, I went throught the stash, I have the modelmaker decals, actually half of it, I shared it with a good frind of mine.

Łukasz Gliński Here is the #111 in new camo:
https://flickr.com/photos/pabloaircraft/40871271184
https://airplane-pictures.ne..ce-mikoyan-gurevich-mig-29a/
https://flickr.com/photos/43723646@N06/40128467610/
https://jetphotos.com/photo/9024741
The way to quickly recognise the differnce is to have a look at the number - old one includes red and the new one - grey digits.

Maciej Bellos Thanks!

Sergej I Following

Thomas Kolb Definitely following this one - got one of these in the cupboard, it looks like a sweet kit! You are doing great progress!

Łukasz Gliński Welcome everyone. Micro Sol is drying as I write this, but you can already see the quality of Caracal and Cartograf decals - they are simply awesome

Spanjaard they look good, indeed

Sergej I Too much weathered

Łukasz Gliński Overdone a bit, isn't it?

Thomas Kolb Panel lines should not be visible, eh? Thanks for the pics, they are really useful for me!

Holger Kranich Front gear looks complicated to build. But a beautiful bird!

Gordon Sørensen Another option may be to open the doors...

Łukasz Gliński I thought of it, but the fuselage is warped right from the door. On the other hand nobody knows what was inside the post-war C-47s rebuilt to passenger version in Poland.

Bart Goesaert Can't you cut off part of the roof, so that you can push from the inside? Then heat the outside, press outwards a bit, sand and white paint?

Łukasz Gliński Time for a restart is coming (see the last pic)

Cuajete Good news, Łukasz!

Erik De Smet Enjoy the building of this kit, Lukasz, the only tricky part I found was the cargo door; I will have to speed up my kit to finish it first.

Łukasz Gliński Good to know, thanks for the hint.

Łukasz Gliński And off we go. Interior done, fuselage closed and couple of mods added, namely: astrodome filled, 2 additional windows added and underside antenna mounting holes drilled.

airjuneau Very nice. I have the X-1 in my stash as well. Which colour did you use for the fuselage?

airjuneau Ok, I found the information about the colour on the project page.

Łukasz Gliński Welcome. Well, I took Tamiya's orange, but:
- it's typical acrylic paint, for me nothing worth of airbrushing, lacquer equivalent would've been way more friendly,
- according to instructions it should be mixed with another one, but I spotted it too late

airjuneau Nevertheless, it looks really good

Łukasz Gliński Thanks, I'm in progress of painting the windscreen frame using a marker

Łukasz Gliński Finished. Unfortunately I built a tailsitter and had to fake it using a transparent stand under the belly

Chris Greathouse Well done! I like it!

Neuling Looks good!

Łukasz Gliński Glad to see you like it, thanks

Stefan Schacht very nice

Łukasz Gliński Vielen Dank Stefan

Laurent "HELLER-forever" thanks

Günther Debiscop it's based on: F-4 Phantom II (Revell/Monogram 85-1102, 1:72)

Łukasz Gliński Thnaks, it looks quite old (1979 new tool). I think I need to see it on my own

Laurent "HELLER-forever" great

Łukasz Gliński Merci beaucoup Just masking the orange parts

Michel M.... good job !!!!!!!!!

Łukasz Gliński Thank you, I keep on finding more and more error in this kit Today I found out (bit late, I know) that the engine side vents do not appear on the real thing (one of them is covered by the anchor sign on the boxart)

Laurent "HELLER-forever" good project ; my kit : heller-forever.forumactif.com/t603-f-5-e-tiger-ii-1-72e

Łukasz Gliński Bienvenue. Nice build, but mine is going to differ a bit - I plan to skip the star and probably will rescribe the panel lines. Anyway let's wait till the start of this groupbuild

Daniel yeah, this GB is getting BIG! and its still ~ 2 months

Łukasz Gliński I thought 'why not?', having 2 agressor projects to build