De Havilland DH 82 Tiger Moth

Gordon Sørensen Watching! I have always thought the Jackaroo was an cool aircraft. Surprised nobody makes a rwsin fuselage. Info is hard to comeby, though. Most of the stuff I have collected is from old issues of Flight.

rap451 Just the box itself not the accessories.

Nigel Home New Tool Kit

Dieter Bihlmaier Lovely Moth Petr. Like it!

Hanno Kleinecke Beautiful Moth, lovely colourful scheme, well done !

Choppa Nutta sweet
and the correct colour scheme too

Ekki Like it. Well done.

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos Well done. Lovely painted

Stephan Ryll wow what a beauty

Petr Štěpaník Belatedly thanks for nice comments.

Christian Bruer Excellent work and finish

MRMLA Nice and elegant, Petr!

gorbygould That's beautiful Petr! The rigging looks excellent.

Clifford Keesler AH, another "big one" looking very nice.

Stephan Ryll It's Talking more and more shape

Christian Bruer Yep, but the smaller of the big ones Thank you both Clifford and Stephan

Christian Bruer All, subassemblies are build and ready for further detailing. I will add some Eduard PE and some gaps have to be filled.
The fit is quite good. The wings assembly look odd first, but if everything is fixed correctly it will work out nice at the end. I will close the supports on the lower wing and drill four new holes to fix the stringers.

Cheers, Christian

Stefan Schacht Hi Chris, nice progress. Cheers Stefan

Taarna Eckart Very cool indeed!

Clifford Keesler Looking good.

Christian Bruer Thank you Stefan, Taarna and Clifford

There are some quite nice parts in the small Eduard PE to extra detail the exterior. Oil pipe, supports, covers and hatches, pitot tube and control levers. I forgot to cut of casted details replaced by PE, but it wasn't any problem to remove them from the already assembled model.

Carefulness was necessary drilling 0,3mm holes next to each strut as a location hole for the later rigging. I plan to try a technique used by my mate Axel – high stretched elastic rigging material threaded on a stretched sprue made of a small tube of a Q-Tipp. The stretched sprue will be fixed at the end of each stay and glued into the holes.

Cheers, Christian

Angus MacVicar From the Airfix advent calendar deal..

Julian Herrero aka Yuri Very nice

Greg Baker OMG That is awesome. Do you have a build log? I'm planning on doing the exact same thing and I want to steal all your good ideas.

Uwe Kaeding Not for this one as it is basically straight out of the box - the only additions are the Blue Rider decals and the Modelkasten wire rigging. The colour is Humbrol Trainer Yellow and it is pretty simply weathered with a Florey weathering wash. The kit is really beautifully engineered and its easy to make a nice replica.

Greg Baker It looks great! Have you seen the Blue Rider books? They're chalk full of ideas... I've already (barely) started on the Chipmunk... But the Tiger Moth is high on my list.

Uwe Kaeding Yes, I've got them both in electronic version and the combined hard copy - great references. I've started on the Chipmunk as well. Done the interior and spats for the wheels, Slowly working on rescribing - should really add a WIP gallery.

Greg Baker After I posted I saw the rest of your projects and realized you must've studied those references already. This is super easy, now I'll just follow all the kits and adjustments! I also grabbed an Arado Ar 196 A-3 and am working on the Curtiss Seahawk. I MUST see your WIP gallery... I've barely got the Chipmunk off the sprues and started shaving "rivets". Haven't got near the interior and was wondering how best to handle the wheel spats.

Uwe Kaeding FYI I also just found out today that Unicraft have made a kit of the Hiller UH-4 (the helicopter in Destination Moon). Just ordered it this morning from Fantastic Plastic in the US (fantastic-plastic.com/hiller..icopter-by-unicraft.html)and hope to see it soon.

Harry Houdini bought for a Group Build I did not manage to start due to unexpectedly moving house.

Harry Houdini Gifted to a good mate in Canada

Ekki Beautiful! Love it.

Mike Grant Really nice subject and build

Martyn Fox Nice clean build

Gordon Sørensen Overall a nice little kit, just the issue with the struts.
Want to do the rigging, but my Clearfix has dried up, and the LHS is out of stock.

Vegard Øksenholt I hope you manage to fix it soon. It's gonna look good after you finish it

Kerry COX Oh, how sweet to hear one of these overhead these days, and it's even nicer to see on here on SM.

It looks so delicate and frail mate, and I too hope you can effect some repairs, as it will be a stunning little bird in the end.

Gordon Sørensen Patience (and glue!) have the struts repaired. Rigging started, but I think I will skip the wires on the fuselage between the wing mounts. Too fiddly and not a lot of room...

Gordon Sørensen Having issues getting a nice paint finish on the engine cowling. One more round of sand and paint.
Finally finished the flying wire rigging. Now just have to see about the control surface wires at the back....

Martien Lourens It all looks good.

Ben STONE What are you using for the rigging Gordon? It's looking good, if anyone has any tips regarding set up of struts on old planes I'd like to hear them. Can't help but think I've fudged them so far.

Ekki I second hat!

Luc B well done Rafael! really like what you have done with the Revell kit.

Steve Wilson Oh!!!...
Very well done
Revell

Mike Grant Coming along nicely Bruce

Maarten Kruizenga holy crap, i remember having one in the 1963 style plastic bag style packaging, when i was about 8................where has the time gone?

Dave Flitton Watching this one!!

Bruce Grayson Thanks for your comments. Time just does march on, Maarten. The wings have been criticized in the past, but for the record, they have the same scale span, sweep and chord as the Matchbox 1:32 scale kit, which I'm using for comparison. The dihedral of the lower wing should be 9 degrees. This should be checked. The upper wing has 4.5 degrees dihedral. The nose is a bit short, and the cowling is short. The width of most of the fuselage should be about 1mm greater. The kit's interplane struts are the right length. That's as far as I've gotten with checking the parts to date. The empennage shapes are a bit off.