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    1/32 Revell Bf 109 G-6

    Decision time on he spinner! The light green seems odd to me so I started looking for the evidence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proofs, as the old saying goes. I found a picture of my man Dorr, flanked by Walter Schuck (to his left), Heinrich Ehrler and Jacob Norz all standing in...
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    1/32 Revell Bf 109 G-6

    I've just finished the primer on the model which leads me to the question of camouflage. There are two options offered, an early and a late version. The first thing to note is that the instructions have the two colours, RLM 74 and RLM 75 reversed in both options. It is the RLM 74, usually...
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    1/32 Revell Bf 109 G-6

    The model is largely built, just a question of getting the primer on and then the camouflage and markings. It looks a bit like one of those test builds, maybe it's something to do with the very light, almost white, coloured plastic :)
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    1/32 Revell Bf 109 G-6

    I haven't given up on this one! I just have not had much time due to various things, including for the first time in nearly eighteen months, work. Anyway, I've stuck on most of the wings. The engineering of the kit is unusual and quite interesting. I've never seen wings done like this...
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    1/32 Revell Bf 109 G-6

    I managed to get Franz zipped up in the fuselage. The fit of the cockpit and fuselage halves is excellent, as good as anything I've seen at seven-times this price. I just noticed the piece of clear plastic, bottom right. The panzer glass, which forms part of the rear armour for the pilot...
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    1/32 Revell Bf 109 G-6

    It's just really annoying. The intention was clearly to number the parts alpha-numerically, like just about every other kit I've ever built, otherwise why identify the sprues with a letter? It's someone simply not being arsed to make proper instructions. I know this is a twenty-five quid kit...
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    1/32 Revell Bf 109 G-6

    I've made a start on this. I'll preface these comments with saying this kit only costs about twenty-five quid. So far most of the parts have been quite nicely moulded and the fit has been pretty good. There has not been much flash or clean up required. The one exception seems to be some parts...
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    1/32 Revell Bf 109 G-6

    This is next up. It's cheap, which is quite appealing given Covid related budgetary constraints! I will almost certainly build it as the version shown in the box art, though I don't buy that green spinner (which originates in one of the Luftwaffe im Focus issues). The Luftwaffe was always...
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    ICM 1/32 Fiat C.R.42 'FALCO' - COMPLETE.

    I've completed this as an aircraft from 83 Squadriglia of 18 Gruppo, based in Belgium for the Italian contribution to the aftermath of the Battle of Britain. Many people will have seen pictures of a C.R.42 standing on its nose on the beach at Orfordness. It is a rare image showing the upper...
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    ICM 1/32 Fiat CR.42 Falco

    I'll just add a final 'under construction' picture showing all the struts in place.
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    ICM 1/32 Fiat CR.42 Falco

    More progress. I've got the varnish done with the desired flat result. I've also attached the wing. There are a few more struts to go and a few bits of rigging and then it will just be a matter of adding the final touches (a bit of weathering, though apparently most of the aircraft delivered...
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    ICM 1/32 Fiat CR.42 Falco

    Decals have been applied this morning and are currently under their first treatment of Microsol. There is no manufacturer mentioned on the decal sheet(s) so they maybe ICM's own. They are very much like Cartograph decals to deal with. The carrier film is very light, so not too much poking and...
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    ICM 1/32 Fiat CR.42 Falco

    This was fun! I've ignored the instructions and gone with a composite of various schemes I've seen, particularly those on aircraft that came down in the UK and those operating against Malta in 1940.
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    ICM 1/32 Fiat CR.42 Falco

    I have been making some slow progress with this! The major construction is done and I have masked the tactical and some national markings before completing the underside painting, which didn't look that different to the primer. I have just applied the first layer of the first camouflage colour...
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    ICM 1/32 Fiat CR.42 Falco

    A bit more progress. I've got the fuselage/engine/lower wing assemble primed. The upper wing and all the struts and other bits and pieces are separate. Having never built a biplane I'm going with the method I think will work best. I intend to paint this part separately from the upper wing...
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    ICM 1/32 Fiat CR.42 Falco

    I've fixed the engine to the fuselage and built most of the nose around it, just a few cooling 'gills' to add. This was a good fit but slightly dodgy engineering. Attaching various parts to little protrusions on the rocker covers is fraught with danger! Terrible photo, but you get the idea...
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    ICM 1/32 Fiat CR.42 Falco

    The engine is largely built. There's a LOT of pipework for air intakes and exhausts and also push rod guides at the back, most of which will be invisible unless you pose the model with maintenance panels removed. The tops of the rocker covers are only fitted if you intend to do this, hence the...
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    ICM 1/32 Fiat CR.42 Falco

    Little time today due to children and grandchildren. We could have been even more overrun, but one daughter and her fella are in quarantine after returning from Spain, where, very sadly, his dad passed away. I did manage to get a half hour to finish the fuselage. You can see the fit is...
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    ICM 1/32 Fiat CR.42 Falco

    I fitted the cockpit c/w the Kits World decal seat belts which are okay at best. They have a habit of rolling up in a way that is really not helpful at all. I resorted to gluing them in place using a few spots of the G-S Hypo Cement I usually use for clear parts. It had no adverse effect on the...
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    ICM 1/32 Fiat CR.42 Falco

    It can work. The Italian harness is a complicated affair involving chains and all sorts of other weird assemblies. I've never been able to make a harness at this scale that looked as good as some of the after market ones. I used to be a fan of Radu's products (RB Productions), his Luftwaffe...

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