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Moin, Joachim, and welcome aboard!

I have seen such things done with Halinski kits, but I feel sufficiently challenged by just building the basic kit (plus the few 3D-printed details).

Welcome aboard!

I agree! But I got it for free back in the day when my kit stash was much, much smaller than at present, and I didn't have the cash to splash on new additions, so it got built!

Very nice work!

Split rings and eyebolts are very easy to make on one's own. All you need is some blackened, annealed wire, a pair of side cutters, and a pair of round-nosed pliers. The learning curve is not steep at all, and once you get the hang of it, you can turn out rings and eyebolts lickety-split.

Butt joins, eh? Those are a real booger -- I dislike them almost as much as petal structures. 😒

Nice work, Andy!

Congratulations on finishing!

My excitement about moving on to the cockpit walls was premature. I forgot there was equipment to be added to the space behind the cockpit. This stuff will really be hard to see once everything is closed up.

Welcome aboard!

I quit now. But seriously, that is amazing work!

Okay, we reached a milestone today. But first, here's a picture for all of you who might still be firmly in the grasp of Old Man Winter. It was sunny and 72 here in Greenville this morning -- perfect weather for taking the dog out for a stroll through Falls Park. I have to enjoy this while I can, because in July it won't be perfect weather anymore. 😬 Back to airplanes! First, we finished off the aft bulkhead bits. A few bits remained to be added to the cockpit floor, and then we were able to glue the aft bulkhead to the cockpit structure. Now we can move on to the cockpit walls, which means we only have this many cockpit parts left! 😵‍💫😢😒 That's it for today!

Never done it myself. You would probably need to create a stencil and then paint it.

Sorry to hear about your decision, Rob, but I can completely understand why you made it. I have a couple of similarly unfinished models sitting on a shelf in my man cave. Hopefully you will not completely give up on the hobby and maybe try something that is more commensurate with your skills? P.S. I have marked your log as 'terminated' rather than 'finished' -- the latter label is reserved for projects that reach completion. There is no shame in the former label, since I suspect that most of us have terminated a build for one reason or another, and even a partially-completed log can be helpful for other modelers. Cheers!

You might try your hand at making sails. It is really not so difficult, and the results usually look much better than kit-supplied sails.

Welcome aboard! I can't answer your question, because the last plastic ship I worked on was over forty years ago. But we have a couple of of plastic gurus among our members -- look for the word "plastic" in the build log titles and you'll find them. Cheers!

Seat done.

Whoa, how'd that happen? Fixed now!

It would probably take as much time to and effort to repair that model as to start over with a fresh kit. P.S. Since you put up a question for discussion, I have moved your post to the kit discussions area.

This is quite possibly one of the most unusual inquiries we've ever fielded here.

I subscribe to multiple FB groups operated by card model publishers, and that is often how I find out about the latest sales. WAK recently ran a 20% off promotion, so I picked up the following goodies: Pfalz's version of an Eindecker. This kit is the work of a designer I've not run into before, but the kit bears many striking similarities to the work of Kartonowa Kolekcja's Pawel Mistewicz. I wonder if he collaborated? The first floatplane fighter in my collection. A beautiful kit by Lukasz Fuczek. The ugliest front-line fighter fielded in large numbers by any of WW2's major combatants. The M.S. 406 is so ugly that I long resisted purchasing one, but I figured I should go ahead and complete the set since I already have an MB.152, a D.520, and a Hawk 75 in the stash. This kit is part of a series of intermediate-level kits designed by Lech Kolodziejski of CardPlane, who designed the PWS-10 kits I built a few years back. Features fabulous artwork by Marcin Dworzecki. A Lavochkin La-11 in North Korean livery -- for the sheer novelty of having something in KPAAF colors. This is another of Lech's and Marcin's offerings. And finally (drum roll) -- the first two jets in my collection. If I'm going to do a jet, it should at least be visually striking, and I think these two pass muster. The Hunter is by Lukasz, and the SBLim (Polish license-built MiG-15 reconnaissance variant) is from Lech & Marcin. So many models, so little time!

Just catching up on your log, Dan. I have to say that you do exceptional finish work!

Working on the aft cockpit bulkhead. I got roped into binge-watching a new series on Apple+, so my modeling time has been curtailed. I have carefully removed the 3D-printed seat from its supports, which took about a half-hour to do -- managed not to damage anything in the process this time. The seat fits the locator marks on the bulkhead perfectly.

Very nice work, Bryan!