A nice touch of Trumpeter on the life boats is that they brought the plastic injection port into the top of the boat wale so none of the out board step of the wale gets sanded away during clean up
Wow, thats the really fine details!
More progress on my Star Wars Swoop Bikes. Working on the bases now. Then a few details on the bikes and final touches.
More to follow soon 
(Final pictures when I finish the models will be better )
Looks great, Phil! Looking forward to see it come together. I have yet to build one of the ARMA kits.
Looking forward to seeing more
I have gotten a bit painted over the summer. My 1/48 Star Wars Legion swoop bikes are done.
Another great kit in the range - lots of bits can really enable different bikes and riders without any troubles.
Great campaign so far - looking forward to see more on the builds ongoing for this campaign.
Great colours Jesper âŚ
Thanks, Johnny!
Iâve been really behind a bunch of stuff and just getting started now. Because I had a problem with the Arma hobby Hurricane Mk I landing gear (doors doesnât really work for wheels up - doesnât fit in the opening), I thought I might have a problem with the Arma P-39 landing gear doors, trying to do wheels up. And that part also does not fit the opening. So Iâll be making a form and cutting my own landing gear. Will post pictures this week I hope.
Please note, I donât really fault them for this, but I am convinced the landing gear doors are too large compared to their openings, and too short making me wonder if the plane looks squat when you assemble it with the landing gear downâŚ
I have to say, looking at the rest of the plastic and what is in the kit, this looks like a really nice kit.
Thanks for the update, Phil. Kind of surprising that such a basic mistake is made. I have heard good things about the Arma kits, but never build one myself.
Looking forward to see more 
I took some pictures to illustrate the issue. I think if I were building it wheels down I might be concerned about the height. Anyway here are some shots.
First one just showing that the door part doesnât sit inside the wheel bay for wheels up. Not designed for that, so I donât really fault them.
Second one shows that the door might be too short:
I will actually assemble it dry to see how it lines up when the two wing halves are joined and report on that.
This one shows that the other part of the door doesnât fit in the opening either, it is resting on the plastic lip:
And here are a couple of pics I took of their Hurricane kit and how the landing gear door of it doesnât fit. Iâm not sure whether the arm rotated as the landing gear came down and so it might be correct and it just doesnât work for wheels up. Again I donât really fault them for not making a part for wheels up, though I wish they hadâŚ
The project for tonight is to make forms for the landing gear doors for both of these models using some instructions that @18bravo sent me that look very easy to follow.
No pics for my 2nd update of the day. But I assembled the cockpit and wow. Itâs gorgeous and everything fits so well.
Hi All, thought this would be a nice addition to this campaign.
Maybe not so known outside the Netherlands but the Fokker S-11 was much used in the Dutch AF richt after after the 2nd WO and was Fokker first a/c. Not so many were built but a couple are still flying and can occasionally be seen at airshows mainly the Netherlands and Belgium. Anyway the KP kit seems to be a a hit as it sold out in the local Dutch model shops as soon as it hit the selfs,⌠But is it any good?
For your money and itâs not cheap but what is nowadays, you get 1 (ok with clear) 2 sprueâs. the main sprue is soft with recessed panel lines it all looks good enough i must amid for a short run kit.
Build is straight forward with nothing really to mention if your not that picky
The office lacks details, this trainer was build with steal tube frame that can clearly be seen on cockpit photoâs, so a stretched sprue would give it some extra detail.
More to follow
So I bought a PJ productions USAAF pilot pack for someone to sit in the cockpit. It didnât fit which is not a surprise as itâs not made for the kit. Before starting to work on modifying resin, I decided to find out whether I had any airfix kits unbuilt where I could score a plastic pilot as it would be an easier mod. Oh, there are those hurricanes. More on the modified pilot later, but it made me wonder what they did about the landing gear. They have two versions, wheels down and wheels up, and sure enough that âout of positionâ rail is correct for wheels down and Airfix has that distinction. Then I wondered, I wonder whether the airfix part will fit my Arma kit. Et voila!
There is one place that will need a very slight sanding, but it fits perfectly really. I guess they used the same plans and the same scale. That the parts are interchangeable pleases me somewhat :-).
I will use the airfix parts to make a mold and cast some wheels up gear for my Arma HurricaneâŚ
Cool Choice, Jan!
Looking forward to see more
So the cockpit is all together. Itâs nice. Itâs fit is very precise, so if you are building this kit, Iâd recommend dry fitting and dry fitting again. I put it together with the two sides and had to adjust some of the pieces as I hadnât had them tight enough against each other and didnât realize it.
The Airfix hurricane pilot will fit. I cut his legs off and plan to glue him into the seat, reattach the legs, then paint in place, which will probably be tricky.
There are decals for the instrument panels. Three of them worked, one didnât quite fit and then started folding in on itself. They are techmod decals, which are very thin, but on the upside they fold over the raised detail and snuggle into place. It gives a good impression, though is tiny and will be even more invisible inside the closed cockpit.
But the cockpit is very, very nice.
A couple of pics, not sure they show much.
Looks very nice, Phil! 
Hello All,
Itâs been a while since I made some progress on IBGâs FW190, been busy with holidays, work and a surprize out of comfort project painting some LoTR figures. It was fun time, but now letâs get back to serious stuff and real world 
I pushed the build of Dora quite a bit in last few days and Iâm getting really close to call it done.
So recent work consisted of applying decals (super quality from Techmod!) , then sealing with varnish, applying oil wash and sealing again. Whatâs left now are some finishing touches, such as wxhaust sooting, some oil stains/leaks and some field dirt to be applied. Here are the pics slightly retouched to remove forbidden markings on vertical stabiliser.
Looks great, Radek! Looking forward to see the final result.
@SGTJKJ thank you Jesper .
Guys I need some advice.
The antennas - I usually use 0,02mm Ammo/Ushi elastic line but it looks too thin. So I decided to go a little bold and tried 0,12mm fishing line which turned out to be thick and stiff, so it doesnât suit well with open canopy (where antenna shoud be lying on the hull - at least according to IBGâs instructions) and looks kind of out of scale.
So my question is - what is your preferred âthicknessâ of antenna wire in 1/72 scale? And⌠what product you usually do to replicate?
Cheers,
Radek
