Holger Kranich I´m looking forward the rotorhead!

Hanno Kleinecke Interior padding looks very convincing ! Looks like you've changed your mind, away from the initial Maskol - Idea ? Bare Metal or lead foil I presume ?

Ian Oostelbos First look in my feed thought it was a sub. Looking great so far!!!! Gunna be huge!!!

Bernhard Schrock Thx for the nice comments. Tesa as cover for lights is surprisingly a very taff and durable material. It hase never come loose yet. Interior padding: I changed my plans und used thick self adhesive aluminium foil. Very quickly to produce and very easy to apply.

Melchior Your way to describe the work is just awsome! It will help other people who will build this chopper. Very nice work so far

Kerry Cox This has me thinking of doing the Marine1 of the President of the USA. :-0

Tim Vereecke tuned in! (of course)

Slavo Hazucha Tour d´excellence continues - a pleasure to watch this!

Bart Goesaert splendid result... maybe an old kit, but a very beautiful one, and very nicely enhanced...

Es-haq Khosravi Awesome!

Neuling Beautiful colour!

Murad ÖZER it's a gem, gorgeous model executed beautifully.

Michael Hickey Absolutely beautiful.

Ben Schumacher Definitely not a project for the faint-hearted... the result is absolutely perfect!

Slavo Hazucha Just reviewed this again... Still puts a big smile on my face - such a thing of beauty this is

Matt Smurfmm Lots of hard work for a great result!

James C That's awesome Bernhard!

Alexander G. Another crown jewel in Your collection, Bernhard! Always a pleasure following Your projects

Bernhard Schrock Alec K: sorry, I've forgotten to replay your question. I used a standard decal paper probably Xpert choice Decals an printed them with a Minolta office Printer / copying machine.

Kerry Cox Exceptional in every way.

Alec K Than you Bernhard for the info

Michael Hickey Amazing.

Tim Heimer Nice one Bernard! Looks good!

Ben Schumacher There is nothing not to love about this. Stunning, Bernhard!

Michael Hickey You would do an amazing job off this Bernhard.

David Funke Yeah! Watching!

Augie Save me a seat, i've often looked at this one

bughunter Alec, you are completely right, every Schrock build is a Trade Mark and this one is no exception!

Hanno Kleinecke Saw this beauty ( almost finished ) live on monday, this superior craftsmanship never ceases to stun me !

Nathan Dempsey Elegant finish Bernhard. Another fine build.

M M Amazing build. I love this and the fact it's not something you see everyday.

Neuling Very beautiful! I like the metal effect.

Bernhard Schrock Thx mates for you extraordinary feedback.
Gordon: I found a hint on an website that the H-1 provided a special seat (adjustable in heigh) because the very streamlined canopy. The pilot could raise the seat upwards for better sight during start and landing. But I could not find out how exactly the (divided in left and right half) canopy was stowed in the fuselage. Because of that I left it outside the fuselage.

Thomas Hopfensperger Hallo Berhard, darf ich sagen, ich finde deinen Racer einfach klasse!

Bernhard Pethe Maßstabsmodellbau vom Feinsten

Bernhard Schrock This kit was first edited by Hawk (several decades out of business) in the year 1964 (!!!), this is one year before I was born. I'm curious to see, what you can do with it...

Wim van der Luijt what a fantastic plane...I'm sure you can the most of it

gorbygould I've been to Stranraer and it isn't a tenth as beautiful as you model Bernhard. Looking through your photos is like a masterclass in modelling, so thanks I've learned a lot.

Arash Zakeri Nice job

Arash Zakeri Really great job

Hubert Kendziorek S u p e r b! Best regards, Hubert

Henry WOW!

Clifford Keesler Amazing job Sir.

Aghis Barberopoulos Awesome

Tom Beautiful! Reminds me of Porco Rosso or maybe I'm thinking of The Wind Rises

Holger Kranich Moin! Da steht Dir aber etwas Umbauarbeit ins Haus, oder? XPBM-5A zu PBM-1? Aber Du machst das schon, Bernhard. Ganz Scalemates steht hinter Dir!

Bernhard Schrock Hej Holger. Prime Time & first row seat! Hab bereits einen Verbündeten gewonnen, der mir mit einem RedRoo Umbau & Certectionset aushilft! Damit ich der Sowasvonkrücke von Minicraft richtig einheizen kann. Hab heute eine Website mit über 60 teilweise phänomenalen Mariner Fotos entdeckt. Etwa 1/3 davon von der PBM-1. Ist viel mehr Material als ich damals für den NH-3 zusammengekratzt habe!!!

Holger Kranich Na welch ein positiver Zufall, dass Du den Umbausatz hast. Ich hatte den Kit mal in den Händen und habe ihn unter Gänsehaut wieder zurück gelegt. Obwohl die Spritzlinge auf den ersten Blick gar nicht so schlecht aussehen. Aber das wäre mir dann auch zuviel Arbeit geworden. Die Maschine ansich hat ja echt was.

Na dann lehne ich mich zurück und genieße...

Łukasz Gliński That's going to be another stunner I presume

Bernd Korte Die Vorbildauswahl gefällt mir!

Cuajete Following!

Choppa Nutta very nice

Gary Very nice of an unusual plane. Gary

antonio coral great job, very nice plane! greetings from Colombia

Bernhard Schrock Thank you mates. I'm glad that you like them.

Daniel Klink Mindblowing built fantastic
1997...Lecko Funny Tante Anni

Neuling Perfect.

antonio coral Amazing work! congrats!

Richmond Top drawer

Richmond Indeed

Treehugger Looks really nice I think. Tip: ship and airplane propellers can easily be sanded "sharper" if one is a little careful.

Hanno Kleinecke What a beautiful little red „fatso bird" ! Lovely work, Bernhard !

Bernhard Schrock Hi guys. Thank you for the feedback. I'm glad that you like this little hot rod. 1000 PS for such small plane is a lot of power!
The brownish red is the result of very fast&quick WIP pictures and my lamp with 2700 K. Obviously my smartphone don't like this "color of light"...
For the pictures of the finished model I use usually 2 other lamps with 4000K and auto white balance setup for my stone age Nikon 995. The result is much better.

Patrick Hagelstein Being Dutch, I actually liked the orange.

Patrick Hagelstein Seriously, looking at the cover picture, it looks more orange to me. But that can be because of the age and discoloration of that picture off course.

Bernhard Schrock Patrick: note please that I deleted 3 defect pictures. The cover picture has formerly the number 52.

Patrick Hagelstein Hi Bernard, what I mean with cover picture is the picture of the original 1:1 plane used as a header over the whole project. The one with the real plane bathing in the sun.

Burkhard D Yes, we had Bernhard as the guest star at our bi-monthly club event. That was fantastic. It turned out that all the detail on his Seaking Mk.41 are MUCH smaller than what the macro photos here on Scalemates suggest. Seeing a rotor head in 1/72 complete with hydraulic lines and and even the tiniest nuts and bolts was stunning. The NH-3 nicely portraits stressed skin effect from differential polishing along the spars and stringers of the wings, something not visible in the photos here.
Thanks again for visiting, Bernhard!

Gabor Szabo It's really beautiful!

FlyingCircus Ich habe das Modell gestern in echt gesehen. Wauu

Rafael Mozeto A masterpiece! No other words can discribe it.

Richmond Love these metallic finish models

Alberto Michieletto Wow Fantastic work, Congrats!

Clifford Keesler Excellent, very well done.

Ben Schumacher Absolutely stunning, Bernhard. I would really love to see your models in the flesh again - last time we've met was some 15 years ago in Cologne, if I remember correctly...

Erik Leijdens Beautiful work

Hanno Kleinecke Seehr schön ! Dein Archiv ist scheinbar unerschöpflich ?

Michael Hickey Perfect as usual Bernhard.

gorbygould Isn't that a beauty!

Neuling Looks very fragile. A work of art!

Richmond Wonderful

Alec K Lovely

Bernhard Schrock Hi mates. Yesterday I enjoyed my finished bird and today enjoy your comments .
Vitor: yes, the rigging is half my work (artwork, the other half / etching was done by Thomas Gatermann).
Bernhard: would you like to sit in the front or in the back?

Ben M This build is inspirational! Thank you for sharing your work and advice.

Martin o stunning work

Bernhard Pethe Bernhard: I sat in front one time. But no matter, it is a nice experience to fly with such a biplane over the land.

Erik Leijdens Amazing work as always! Lovely aircraft too

Spanjaard Another masterpiece in your collection!

bughunter Pure piece of art, or result of a modeler with AMS Very close to the original aircraft

Ronan beautiful model

Neuling Super build! Very well built, painted and photographed. Eine Augenweide.

Łukasz Gliński Awesome (as usual ) and demotivating at the same time, as Holger wrote

Bryn Crandell Great looking Seaking!

Burkhard D Just revisited this awesome 135-image tutorial and scrolled through twice. Great work meticulously planned and skillfully executed.

potez452 What an amazing job of detailing, painting and scratching !! We learn a lot when looking at your album. Thank you very much.

Thomas Hopfensperger So ein schöner Heli, Bernhard!!

Marcel Klemmer What a great result. Awesome!!!

Clifford Keesler Awesome job.

Bernhard Schrock Hi Spanjaard, here is the address. I'm very happy with the quality especially that this company accept PDF -files.
CAD/DTP-Service Thomas Engel und
Ätztechnik Herbert Caspers GmbH&Co.KG
www.AeHC.de
CDS@AeHC.de

Alexander G. Bernhard, you are into space lately aren't you

Spanjaard Thanks Bernhard!

Es-haq Khosravi Awesome!

Bernhard Schrock I'm very surprised how fast it's possible to complete a "Space series" kit of Aoshima. Begun "two days ago" and almost finished tomorrow... that probably why there are 14 kits of the Space series...

David Funke Very nice, Bernhard!

Bernhard Schrock I have to thank you specially, David!!

Hanno Kleinecke Super geworden, die Antenne sieht klasse aus !

Spanjaard it used the be the best (or was it the only one? )

Bernhard Schrock Indeed for a long time the was the only one and state of the art. I remember more than 40 years ago I saw in Gdansk in Składnica harcerska (shop with modelkits, paints and a lot of other usefull things for kids) first time the humbrols. 10 PLN for each tin was a lot of money. For comparison: an average polish made kit in 1:72 cost at this time between 10-15 PLN....

Bernhard Schrock Today I began the assembly and had a little bit to improvise because the base is standard Hino truck.

Daniel Klink Running Love it already

Daniel Klink Just love it Looks great. The Decal work and built is awesome with this kit
Make me want to start my Bonnet Bus..
But .. first i have to finish 4-5 other projects

Spanjaard i remember it was the only one i had for quite some time back on similar ages... that and testors that was (for me at least) totally horrible... i still have some cans that are not used for more than 20 years. last time i checked them, they seemed still in good condition (incredibly )

Bernhard Schrock Yesterday I finished my first Decotora truck, my first truck ever and noticed that the most time consuming task was the painting. This was the first project/model where I had to use chrome plated parts. I had despite the "small" scale (1:32) the truck is really big... Maybe I will build in the future one more of these unique and typically Japanese trucks.

Spanjaard it looks fantastic