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Maciej Bellos
Just great!

Patryk S.
Thank you Maciej!

Cuajete
Fantastic!

Łukasz Gliński
Love that black lettering, good to know ZTS decals are so reliable

Patryk S.
Thank you Cuajete and Łukasz!

Patryk S.
Update: put decal on both sides of the fuselage today. Note: photographic evidence showst that the rudder markings were actually rwd-5, not rwd-5bis as shown per instructions.

Łukasz Gliński
Lovely, so smooth comparing to mine

Patryk S.
Thank you Łukasz, decided to sand the planes fabric imitation smooth as the references show that the fabric was strained very stiff. I like your representation of the plane, the etched engine cowling makes yours look more true to the original

Patryk S.
Thanks for joining! AZ seems to have lovered their standards for some of their kits - this is unfortunately one of them and the P-36A-8 is even worse in regards that the engine there is unusable. They made a decent attempt with their Mig-19 recently however. I like them very much for one thing though - many of thir kits like the BF-109 and also the P-36 have very decent cockpit details which many mainstream kits seem to ommit. I have build the airfix P-40 recently and it was a dog of a kit in my opinion with lacking detail and most of the mistakes were not self inflicted as i noticed them in other builds of the same kit although i am also not without guilt so not all is gold that shines in mainstream You got to hand to short run manufaturers one thing though - they produce kits of esoteric kits which we never see done by mainstream manufacturers. Even the P-36 - did not have a mainstream kit made for years after the monogram and heller kits even with the fact that it's an important plane in US aviation history. SH made an attempt but I can not locate that kit anymore, so as always you take the only game in town and are happy that it exists when you need to have one in your collection. I heard that eduard and AZ are not friends after both did the spitfire in 1:72 and had different opinions on the accuracy of both of them

Łukasz Gliński
They had indeed, check out whether you're gonna have to split the cowling or not. Today I'd cut it in 3 parts and rebuild to get the symmetry back. Hopefully your example is better, fingers crossed

Patryk S.
Update: Filled gaps in firewall and rear wheel bay with Mr Diddolved putty - I can reallr reccomed this product as it realy saves much time with ckean up using normal puttty, then primed most of the parts grey. Other which will be painted metallic colours will be primed in black.

Patryk S.
Thanks for the advice Łukasz! You are doing another one or correcting the french one? Just asking as I have still 5 in my stash

Łukasz Gliński
Been watching an online auction of the very rare 75H version lately, but gave up for budgetary reasons
As I messed up the fuselage markings on my Hawk I still consider bulding another one, also a Finnish and West Indian examples. Will see if the plan ever comes true

Patryk S.
My plans are of building another Pearl Harbor defender, this time in silver livery, an US A-8 version, a chineese one and an USAAC P-36C. If this build doesn't destroy my enthusiasm then i will most prpably proceed with those plans as the P-36 is one of my favourite planes.

Patryk S.
Update: backdated the wing to P-36A configuration - deleted the wing guns covers and ammo case chutes, installed the canvas "boots". Some holes and scratches still visible as I use clear super glue for gap filling. It took consderable amout of test fitting to get a good fit.

Cuajete
Well done so far