Small Scale Military Headquarters

Looking real good, once again! If you decide to go for the full builds, I'd definitively like to get one. I understand it's one loads of time consuming effort to do full builds besides the kits, but as an incentive I can offer your full cost as a downpayment, should it help the whole project. And, i...

Count me in too!

BR, Juha

Hi!

Here are a couple of photos of the Pizzaguy's finished Ta183 custom in JG7 colours:




Regards,
Ye Olde Finn

Well Nathan, you have totally exceeded my expectations! The first photo looks EXACTLY like the computer generated image I sent you for the camojob template, incredible. All the detailing is also really well done - including the cockpit. All said - Absolutely Awesome Job - and thank you again for cre...

Absolutely awesome!

I suspect Christmas might be coming this year a little early...

Hi again, Thanks for the nice comments folks, I really appreciate them! Some answers to the questions... The second Ho229 is indeed a HpH model. The original HpH sales price for this model was years ago in the 2500-3000 usd range!!! I spotted this one (coincidentally) in the german eBay - it was the...

Hello all, Here we go - my humble collection laid side-by-side on the living room floor: http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B7i3tkjCX_Rnczl4T3FyQ0NPNVU http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B7i3tkjCX_RnUUlpNUVMR2xnbWc http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B7i3tkjCX_RnSVdaNjV6Q1FFUF...

Hi!

I'm definitively in for one full build. And if full builds are not possible then I "downgrade" this into one full kit...

Awesome job - it would be great to be part of this!

Juha,
Finland

Hi, I'll have one painted full build too, and pay up front.
BR, Juha.

I'm also definitively in! One fully painted #1 for me. Absolutely fantastic job you are doing there with the Ta183!

Ye Olde Finn

And here comes the historical details appendix for the research-oriented audience... All the Ta152H-0's and H-1's that were operationally used by the Stab-flight of the JG 301 were allocated to the unit between December 1944 and April 1945 as follows: 12.1944 -> 1 AC (24.12.44: WNr 150009) 01.1945 -...

Hello again! Finally I've progressed with the last details... Some additional paintwork/finishing/stenciling has now been completed: 1) For the landing gears: - Main landing gear leg door pin holes closing with plugs + filling + painting over - Main landing gear inner door insides to gray-green - Ta...

Hi! Thanks for all for the nice feedback and reference contributions! I will definitively check the tailwheel adjustability. I also agree the (main wheel shaft pin) holes in the main landing gear leg doors need to be filled and painted over...I'll add that to my to-do-list too. Also thanks for point...

Hello again... I've been "silent" for some weeks now. This has been due to work/travelling, so no progress to report with the Ta152. But, last weekend I managed to get back to the project... so next step was the painting. First some shots of the maskings before painting the bottom surfaces (with RLM...

I started the actual work Sept.01.2013... so after roughly a month we have a new custom aircraft template. I'm quite satisfied with the results, even though there are some shortcomings for the purists... 1) The canopy sliding part and the propeller blades of a Fw190D are not exactly the same as with...

Hi again! Some last items before painting... 1) The engine air intake scoop modifications: I pulled the Dora's scoop off the fuselage and added new material with putty until desired shape was attained (adding, sanding, checking, more adding, more sanding, more checking... you know the stuff). Furthe...

Rolling forward with full steam... now towards the vertical tailplane. This is the easiest part of the mod. Just cut the antenna stud away and apply more material to the leading edge upper corner of the tailplane. I did this completely with putty, I think it needed three layers (I use a specific put...

And the story continues... Here's the wing assembly after bonding the "long" outer ailerons to the new wingtips plus bonding the complete wingtips to the main wing... http://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=0B7i3tkjCX_RnM3Y1eklnVERUR0E ...now we put the wing assy away for a while and start modifyi...

I started modifying the wings first. One pair of wings is needed for the wing root/main area, and another set for making the new wingtips. The required modifications are: 1) Cutting the tips off of the root/main wings and ailerons. These "short" ailerons will become the inner ailerons. These aileron...

So, let's start off with the planning... First of all, when comparing the various evolutions of the same bird, namely the... - Fw190D-9/11/13 - Ta152C-0/1 - Ta152H-0/1 ...we notice, that the fuselage of all these three variations builds up from exactly the very same parts on the area between: the en...

Hello all, I finally started a couple of weeks ago a project, that has been in the planning stage for a very long time... a Ta152H-0/H-1 in 1/18 scale! This is my first custom project in 1/18, so there will be a lot for me to learn during the construction. I wanted to share this thing with the forum...