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Simon Nagorsnik
Oh, this looks interesting👀

Rui S
I agree 😎

Robert Podkoński
Watching for sure!

Ben M
The center hull is about a big an object as my printer can print. It took almost 18 hours to print that one part. Some of the pieces have defects but sandpaper and putty should give an ok result. I'm learning to better print things by asking dumb questions on Reddit so the parts are getting better as I go.

Björn Leichsenring
Sweet. My daughter had tried it at this age too.

Phil M
Oh you need to keep that one! My first ever model, when I was 10-11, disappeared somewhere in the trash and I kind of regret it.

John Thomas
Very nice

Isaac Kite
Magic moments.

Robert Blokker
Brilliant choice of aircraft. And a fantastic end result. She should be very proud

JD
Youtube Video

Torsten
Very interesting mixture, I am curious what comes

JD
Oh my!🤭 I definitely feel a disturbance in the Force over here.. 😍

Ketoujin
I love the Indies connection. Back several years there was a KNIL-themed web-site in English but long gone I guess having tried to find it again with no luck. I think it may have been affiliated with the KNIL museum and rest home at Bronbeek (Dutch government ran, in an old country manor, an assisted living home for KNIL veterans on the museum site) but am not sure. The site talked all about the Royal Dutch Indies Air Force including some great anecdotes from bomber, seaplane, bomber, and flying boat pilots - both those interred for the war after 1942 and some who made it south to Australia. I really appreciate when people do specific aircraft for their builds and do the requisite research to make it really true-to-history. I tried to do the same with a 452nd Kokutai livery from Kiska for my last build - a 1/48th E13a sea-plane by Nichimo but numbering wasn't right without a IJN-specific paint stencil so I ended up using the stock decals which I think was from a reconnaissance Kokutai out of Yokosuka later in the war after the Aleutians were for all intents and purposes over. In any case a great job you did!

Remco van Haren
I have the same kit and looking forward to build it. I am curious about your experiences in building this kit. 🙂

Jan Peters
The mpm kit is very nice to build. Just start and work slowly, pe and resin need just a bit more care while assembling.
Looking forward to this.

Cuajete
Following.

Erik Leijdens
Great work so far Ben!

Ben M
@WhiteGlint it is one less reason to leave the house. Plus I was in danger of building kits faster than I bought them, so this enables me to overcome that problem.

Simon Nagorsnik
A good looking result!
Fits perfectly into this naturally background!
Also some nice weathering techniqus👍
Still astonished what is possible to create in 3d print!

Robert Podkoński
Fascinating process, indeed, and fantastic effect. Looks really good!

Neuling
I agree with Robert!

Rui S
Nice build and Very Nice paintjob 👍

Robert Podkoński
Watching!

Daniel Klink
Me too very rareseen and interesting subject👍

Simon Nagorsnik
This is a very courios looking vehicle, that could be exciting 🙂

Mike Roelofs
What's with the stains?? Water-splash from your airbrush??

Ben M
I flooded the surface with too much paint while trying to get paint into the panel lines. I let it dry overnight, sanded the paint off with 2000 grit, and resprayed it and it came out good!

Ben M
Now I have to think about what to do with the tracks

Ben M
All complete! I enjoyed this kit, it was my first 3d printed kit (I didn't print it, just how it was manufactured). There were some minor defects but well worth it if you enjoy the obscure prototype.

Robert Podkoński
Really cool! You've done fantastic work, Ben!

Rui S
Nice and clean diferent tank

Villiers de Vos
An interesting subject, well done.

Simon Nagorsnik
Good job!
Like this tank, looks so unique!!

Mark K
Very nicely done!

Robert Podkoński
Waiting for photos, of course 😉

Roy Seine
Great job! i like the addition of the machine gun

Roland Gunslinger
Really nice 👍

Ben M
ball complete.

WhiteGlint
Nice ball, mate 👍 😄

Simon Nagorsnik
like the high grass- what did you use? is it natural? looks good

Ben M
Thanks... it was something I found at the craft store. It's natural, and I should likely have just searched my backyard and saved some $ 🙂

Ben M
Pictures added ... thus concludes my Supermarine build

Peter G
Some good laughs looking through your photos. Well done! Looks great!

Mona
Looks spectacular ,nice work ..Hey there's Po the pilot

Robert Podkoński
Looking really good. Congrats! (I am impressed with your perseverance, too, Ben 😉 )

David Taylor
Nice one Ben.

Tom ...
I thought as much. It looked like it actually runs. Some part of me would love to get into model railways but definitely don't have the time or space (and probably money) to do it. Maybe when I retire and move to place with a large basement, or attic, then I might be tempted. Too many interesting hobbies and not enough time...

JD
Hey Ben, I'm ready to follow your Space 1999 Eagle 1 build, whenever you're ready.😉

Ben M
Hi JD here you go: space 1999 eagle | Album by uhrwerk (1:72)

JD
Oh man! Thanks, I never would have found it. Cool, you went for the V.I.P orange scheme. Nice. I have never posted mine, maybe I should..

Ben M
Yes, I thought it added interest. It was my first photoetch experience. The kit is terrible of course but fun to build nonetheless. Now the eagle box holds my decal stash.

Lochsa River
a favorite oldie but goodie

http://www.bobs-model-collection.builders/supermarine.htm

Tini Hendriks
He still is!

Tini Hendriks
Very very nice zeppelin, Ben. But I wonder, where you going to keep it? Above the bed as we did in the previous century?

Neil
Love this 👍 really enjoyed the build pics

Łukasz Gliński
Very nice finish 👍

Robert Podkoński
It is great to see that beast finished and get the sense of its immensity.

Ben M
It's currently in my glass case, Tini, but it does take up a lot of space. Not sure where it will end up long term - I might hang it from the ceiling.

Patrick Hagelstein
If it weren't for the beast of a kit, with that Afghan museum paint scheme, it would be a really cool model to build. I hope this heap of KP plastic is not giving you nightmares then. 😉

Pierre Vauthier
you are managing to make out of this old kit a quite good result so far !

Ben M
1:200 model finished as India Air Force 32 sqn "The Thunderbirds" 1982

Ben M
Didn't turn out great but I learned a lot about airbrushing, trying to mix colors, masking and the total futility of trying to shoot thinned model color ????

Patrick Hagelstein
Isn't that what model building is about? Trial and error? 😉
I think it came out lovely! Like the weird psychedellic colors! 👍

Alex K
Absolutely lovely, Ben! The rigging turned out fine, congrats! 👍

Hanno Kleinecke
Beautiful Moth, rigging looks very realistic and the woodeffect on the prop is just as convincing !

Es-haq Khosravi
Great job!

Ben M
Thank you. I painted the prop Polly scale rust and then drew laminations on it with a brown marker pen.

Łukasz Gliński
Nice, the rigging went great 👍

Greg Baker
That's just crazy talk... no such thing exists.😉

Ben M
I know you're joking but the kp su-7bkl kit I am building contains a 1:72 su-7 and a 1:200 su-7

Phil M
Bob: oh what a beautiful box...can you still find it somewhere? dont seems to be on ebay right now...

Bob Hall
This set was released back in 1987, aside from the one I have, I've never seen this kit again.

Phil M
seems like a real collector edition now 🙂

Olivier
Great image. I see no camouflage pattern on this Matilda. Am I right ?

Ben M
Hi Olivier, yes, in that photo the Matilda has no camo pattern. In the photos in this album there are some Matildas with the pattern. I think it depends on the year. I am using modeller's license here a bit, I will likely paint the Vickers Medium to be bronze green overall, but it just seems boring if both tanks are just green. Also I think the external fuel tank I added to the Matilda was not much used in the UK for training tanks, at least I haven't come across any pictures of it, outside of Tamiya's instructions. The unit the Matilda was from was for night training, and also used M3 CDLs so that would be another fun possibility for a diorama.

Olivier
Resicast do make a CDL turret for Matilda or for Grant/Lee.

Neuling
Good work! I like your dirt. 👍

Tini Hendriks
Nice mud work! I also like the color scheme??

Alex K
checking-in...

Ben M
I glued the bomb bay in backwards...

Rando Dude
Looks interesting. Following

Ben M
I used Slavo's technique described on his Starfighter build to add a little weathering & panel differentiation: Austrian Flag over Japan - F104J Eikó | Album by slavatarko (1:48)

Overall I found this kit to be of indifferent quality - things didn't always fit together well, some sinkholes. I mostly just accepted the kit as it was. However, the markings are great - with a choice of five different subjects.

I built it as Republic of Indonesia Air Force, circa 1962, when Indonesia with Soviet help became the first Asian air force to have a strategic bombing capability. These IL-28 front line bombers were deployed against the Netherlands in support of the (ultimately successful) Indonesian plan to annex Netherlands New Guinea into the country of Indonesia.

Ben M
The hardest part was masking the nose - the panel lines are barely present, and incorrect! Some of the drawings in the kit are incorrect as well. I ended up working from pictures I had taken of an IL-28 at Berlin Gatow and just kind of winging it. Turned out OK in the end, but it was pretty tough in 1:100 scale, lots of little tiny pieces of tape.

Alex K
👍

Ben M
I finally figured out I had to use mr levelling thinner, and a fair amount to get the paint to cover. I could have done a better job, and next time I will 🙂 The only modification I made to the kit was I added window glass, didn't look right without it. Still having trouble getting like tire rims and tires to have a smooth edge, my hands are too shaky!

Munkyslut
Looks brilliant Ben, great job 👍

Geert Heijl
I like this, an old kit properly done

Tom ...
Great result!!

Dennis
Nice! This Mint Green pops really out. Good Choice!

Ketoujin
Great figure! Do you have a Type 95 "Ha-Go" or anything similar for him to go with?

Ben M
I'm going to use her with a kugelpanzer in Japanese markings, since it was evidently captured by the Soviets in Manchuria

Ketoujin
Neat. On a rifle forum I was often contributing to several years ago a user from the Russian Federation's Maritime Provinces - Vladivostock, Nadokha, Sakhalin Island area - posted a few times with shots of moldering Type 95 tank carcasses that the Soviets had tested in his area after "August Storm." He also showed himself going to work in an IJA officer's parka that he said he had gotten from a local Soviet veteran who captured it and who was a family friend of his as a child and had given it to him then as a gift. I wish I could have had that parka - closest thing I have to that is a repro made-in-China IJA officer's cold-weather cap from Nakata's in Tokyo. Anyway, neat figure again and made me think of yet another one that got away. So many captured items by all sides out there. I've a book on Allied-captured Japanese planes and one on the opposite - Allied planes captured and evaluated by Japan. I have to say the second one is probably even more interesting! I look forward to seeing your interesting vehicle project when it's done. Rambled a bit but your response to my response just put me in mind of those old posts on that old forum I once saw.

Alex K
Great idea, Ben! 👍

Ben M
When I was a kid, this is where we got gas.

Alex K
... and the personal connection and childhood memories makes this even more interesting!

Ketoujin
I used to eat there with some gun-show friends - we had a quarterly breakfast for some local collectors that I attended for a couple years - until just before COVID hit. The bomber was long gone by then but the restaurant on the site still called "The Bomber," had framed and signed-by-WWII-aircrew aviation paintings, bomber jacket, props, (repro's though) and dummy M-2 .50-caliber Browning HMG's on the walls. The WWII theme didn't stop with the menu, i.e. "The Charles De Gaulle" was the French toast option. Next door is "The War Front" which is a great militaria shop and one of the few left in the region. Sad that the restaurant is now closed for good. Another vanished part of the old Pacific Northwest.

Ben M
Thanks for sharing some good memories. Mine are sitting in the back of my dads green vw beetle, looking up at the bomber as we got gas

Ketoujin
Thank you for some great memories yourself! I live out in the Columbia Gorge now but back when I lived in town - and before the influx of transplants as well - I used to hear very similar memories from older PDX'er's who had lots of memories such as the one you described. It was a unique gas station (and later local family restaurant) and I hope someone buys the site and runs with an aviation-themed eating place there again. Not holding my breath given how things are changing - especially in this region - right now but am crossing my fingers. Even a "bomber-themed" place somewhere else in the wider area in vague homage to the old one would be nice.

Roland Gunslinger
Ah, your kit has arrived 👍

Ben M
It's an odd kit. Such a simple subject, but they added parts that aren't present on the real thing, and the big WTF is why is there a joint in the middle of the treads. That's going to be a fun bit of putty and sanding.

Ben M
ball complete.

Roland Gunslinger
Looks very good! You nailed the color and surface 👍

Donald Dickson II
My order got canceled. Gonna have to try again

Ben M
Donald, took me 3 tries. I ended up ordering from a small hobby shop in Japan.

Łukasz Gliński
"Do Not Eat!" yeah, that's important 😄

Łukasz Gliński
That looks familiar, doesn't it?😉
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Norbert Steffens
🙂

Ben M
Ball complete.

Nikolaos Kouzinis
Nice job Ben

Tom ...
Very cool!

Kenneth Hanson
Great looking diorama, Ben! Lots of interesting details to see.

Roland Gunslinger
Very nice 👍