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Feb 6^th, 2012 at 7:36am

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A taster of what is on the table at the moment. My next project, a 1:32 Arado 196 from Revell. Compared to the Sea Venom, a very well machined kit. Everything fits this time Cheesy

Lots of detail on this, in fact so much I have cut away one fuselage side. Also added in the nose where just an oil tank sat originally are extra piping, control cable and a wiring loom. Unfortunately there is not to much info in the Internet about his aircraft and the only book I have is in...............Polish, though I am sure it is very detailed..... Undecided

So I have used my 25 years of aircraft maintenance to insert some suitable looking bits in the nose Grin

. The float also has a cut away and a scratch built fuel tank and piping has been made. Anyway, see below.

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Reply #1 - Feb 6^th, 2012 at 9:40am

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Gosh, that is a remarkably detailed model Shocked

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Reply #2 - Feb 6^th, 2012 at 2:08pm

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Seems like she is going together good Matt...

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Reply #3 - Feb 6^th, 2012 at 7:00pm

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Looks nice. Revell has been in business for a long time, I seem to remember having some of their models a very long time ago.

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Reply #4 - Feb 7^th, 2012 at 6:51pm

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expat wrote on Feb 6^th, 2012 at 7:36am:

A taster of what is on the table at the moment. My next project, a 1:32 Arado 196 from Revell. Compared to the Sea Venom, a very well machined kit. Everything fits this time Cheesy

I suspect that's because the Arado is an original Revell release, whereas the Sea Venom has its roots (like others such as the Victor and Spit 22/24) firmly in the Matchbox stable of 1/32 kits! Grin

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Reply #5 - Feb 8^th, 2012 at 6:24am

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C wrote on Feb 7^th, 2012 at 6:51pm:

expat wrote on Feb 6^th, 2012 at 7:36am:

A taster of what is on the table at the moment. My next project, a 1:32 Arado 196 from Revell. Compared to the Sea Venom, a very well machined kit. Everything fits this time Cheesy

I suspect that's because the Arado is an original Revell release, whereas the Sea Venom has its roots (like others such as the Victor and Spit 22/24) firmly in the Matchbox stable of 1/32 kits! Grin

If I could have got hold of the match box Venom I would. The detail was great. Revel copied it and dumped just about all of it Angry

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Reply #6 - Feb 8^th, 2012 at 8:02am

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Lol, can't help with the Venom, but I can supply a Matchbox 1/72 Victor! Grin

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Reply #7 - Feb 8^th, 2012 at 10:52am

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C wrote on Feb 8^th, 2012 at 8:02am:

Lol, can't help with the Venom, but I can supply a Matchbox 1/72 Victor! Grin

Done it and the Vulcan. Wing gaps the real aircraft could have flown through Grin

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Reply #8 - Feb 8^th, 2012 at 9:28pm

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Cool. Very nice work, there.
I built a lot of Revell 1/32 aircraft kits in my youth... glad to hear the quality is still good.

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Reply #9 - Feb 9^th, 2012 at 3:25am

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beaky wrote on Feb 8^th, 2012 at 9:28pm:

Cool. Very nice work, there.
I built a lot of Revell 1/32 aircraft kits in my youth... glad to hear the quality is still good.

Their own new designs are on the whole are OK. Quite a few of their models are old Hasagawa molds and they are good. The one exception is the P-47 About the only thing it shares with the original aircraft is the name Grin

. Sadly any kits they have bought up, Matchbox comes to mind, the quality is very poor, although the original Matchbox kits were good Huh

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Reply #10 - Feb 11^th, 2012 at 4:31am

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Nice job

great details. The joy of making things is difficult to express and a dying art (at least in the UK).

As a kid I used to have a self built Revell slot car, my brother also. They looked fantastic and went incredibly fast, great racing.

I have a model square rigged ship that I've been building for the last 20 yrs. It's slowly getting there, it's now at the rigging stage and requires approx 1,500 clove hitches for the ratlins......at 55 are my eyes up to it anymore?

.......why has making stuff fallen out of fashion?

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