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First batch of hull parts cut out and base plate + internal frames assembled.

Hello, and welcome to another new adventure in card! This time around I will be building the Adler IV published by HMV. A little back story: When I was an exchange student living in Aurich, West Germany, in 1980, I had the opportunity to experience a Wattwanderung -- a hike across the mudflats between the mainland and the East Frisian Islands. We hiked over to Baltrum, had lunch, and then took a ferry back to the mainland. I don't remember the name of the ferry, and sadly I no longer have the photos I took that day, but I feel fairly certain it was a small ferry much like this one, perhaps this very ship or one of her sisters -- they remain in service down to the present and do operate in the area. Adler IV, launched in 1977 (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) I have many HMV kits in my stash, but I have only completed a few of them. My early HMV efforts were more or less doomed from the start for one reason or another. One incorporated PE brass, which I decided I did not like working with. The other was simply "too much model" for a builder of my experience. About half of my current HMV inventory consists of civilian vessels, and a number of them are ferries and coastal excursion ships. Adler IV is the smallest of them. It seemed advisable to start small and then work through the incrementally more difficult builds. Adler IV is a small ship, only 104 ft long overall, so at 1/250 she'll be a small model, about 5" in length, with a small parts count -- there are only two pages of parts. Curiously, the 'diagrams' for this kit consist of a single one-page series of in-progress photos. I have the laser-cut detail set as well. Look for first cuts soon!

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Welcome aboard!

The Big Reveal! The last few bits went well enough. The only annoying part of the experience was when my AC kicked on and blew my tiny, fragile, and extremely light scratch-built gun sights onto the Carpet Monster. Happily, I was able to find them after several minutes of exasperated searching. I even found some tiny parts from previous models! In summation, this early Paweł Mistewicz is, as usual, a very nice kit, albeit not quite as nice as Pawel's later, more evolved designs. Enjoy the pictures!

Welcome aboard! Your Niagara looks very nice.

And now, just for fun . . . Several days ago I noticed that the photo editing software on my Google Pixel phone had changed, and today I received the email from Google notifying me of the update. Gee, Google, thanks for the heads-up, I guess? 🙄 Anyways, the updated software includes a new AI assistant. Well, of course this latest update demanded that we test the limits of what the fancy-shmancy AI can do, so I loaded the photo seen in my previous post and asked the AI to redo the photo in a cubist style. And this is the result: I dunno, but I'm thinking the new AI assistant is confusing cubism with a Rubik's cube. 😂 Color me unimpressed!

Nice work, and congratulations!

Very handsome! Clippers always make striking models.

Getting close to the end now! Just the landing gear, propeller, and a little bit of rigging left to do.

Welcome aboard!

Empennage is complete, except for rigging.

Odd. All of my parcels from WAK have just shown up in the mail box. 🤔

Things are moving right along now. The vertical and horizontal stabilizers have been added, along with the struts for the latter. All of the parts for the rudder and elevators have been cut out and prepped.

What, not even with spam spam spam spam spam spam spam baked beans spam spam spam and spam? 🤔

The top wing took several days. You won't believe what happened! I was cutting out the skins one evening when suddenly . . . . . . I got bored. 😮 Yeah, weird, right? So that was it for that particular night, but the task is finished now. First a shot of the framing: This is pretty substandard framing by Kartonowa Kolekcja standards, so I added a strip of scrap card atop the two spars to stiffen everything properly. The main skins were not difficult, and lozenge camouflage does a fantastic job of um, well -- camouflaging any tiny mistakes. The biggest issue was with the wingtip pieces -- these ended up being too small to pinch together neatly. I tried filling the gaps with pieces cut from the kit's spare color swatch, but I didn't like the look of the repair, so instead, I filled the gaps with layers of glue and later painted them with AK colors. You can't really see anything in this shot, but I think the repairs turned out okay. That's it for now!

Off to a great start! Except for the boo-boo, of course. 😬

A very pleasing end result!

Super result, Alan!

Better than ok! It really captures the moment.

The Fokker is armed! I left off the gun sights for now -- they are delicate, so they'll be added toward the end. I also added the exhaust pipe. The stock part is a flat piece, but with some careful shaping I managed to add some flare to the end of it. That's it for now!

You're doing a great job! Seeing all those issues brings back memories -- hope my log helped a bit.

The Germans may have lost, but at least they lost with amazing fashion sense!

The lower wing had to be mated to the fuselage before the lower fuselage skins could be added. That's done now, too.

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