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    Any suggestions???

    Or the new King George V from Halinski...
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    HMS "Prince of Wales"/GPM Nr 198

    Wow, that's a brilliant idea! The stern looks really marvellous! Though, as for these great boats and their liferings and paddles (158, 159.jpg) - isn't there something wrong with their size? I think either the ring is too small, or the paddles are too big or too thick... The paddles can't...
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    Need some technical advise

    I use a chlorine-caoutchouc glue ("Butapren", but as a "local" glue it is probably being sold in Poland only). I don't know where you live, but I think UHU is quite an international brand... As far as I remember, they produce some butapren-like glue. UHU Universal or something like that? Well...
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    Need some technical advise

    Use non-water based glue. Unfortunately I can't advise you any specific brand since I'm not familiar to any non-Polish glue market. ;-)
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    Spitfire kits

    There was a discussion about this model here. There are some scans, too. No-one there has been building this model, but "in-box" opinions weren't very enthusiastic, for example: - there's no cockpit - the model is too simple as for 1:25 - the edges of the cut parts are ragged and not always...
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    Spitfire kits

    That's right, Mk II has just been released by Answer. It is an improved Tanie Hobby's Spit (released a few - or more than a few? ;-) years ago). This model is much less complex, much easier and much cheaper than the Haliński's one. Recently here in Poland the publishers tend to release the...
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    JSC Lance& Cossack

    If I were you, I'd scan part 12 and print it (or copy it by hand) in order to use it as part 10. Maybe it would need to be sanded slightly, then.
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    JSC Lance& Cossack

    Yeah, looks like the part 10 is too small in my Cossack, too. BTW, I had some problems with deciphering your post. :( Next time use some dots etc., please.
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    Spitfire kits

    There's no reason to be sorry, I think I would also have problems in distinguishing for example Swedish from Norwegian. ;-) By the way, on a site of "A Question of Honor" book (which, as I hope, will find its place on my bookshelf today :D ; ehem, the site is www.questionofhonor.com ) there's...
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    Spitfire kits

    Re: Spitfire colour schemes I think the last of the three Spitfires you've shown has a bad painting scheme - it is the same aircraft as the one on the colour photo you've attached earlier, and there we can see that the spinner, stripe and letters aren't white (compared with the definitely...
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    Spitfire kits

    OK, I've checked - not four, but three. ;-) Zumbach was one of the most successful Polish fighter pilots, and that's why he could have his personal aircrafts ("RF-D", D for Donald - he was called "Donald Duck"; later he had a Mustang "JZ" for Jan Zumbach). His Spitfires were: BM144 (the...
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    Spitfire kits

    Leif, the Spitfire on the photo is not the one in this kit. Zumbach had more than a one Spit (I think there were four of them), and it is easy to recognize them, because each of them had a different Donald Duck picture. On the Polish forum the colour of RF-D letters was being discussed - some...
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    Any advoce on jsc assembly?

    This is my old Bismarck. As you can see, the waterline fits to the surface and the deck is flat - there are no warps etc. The solution is easy - no water, no cry. ;-) Try non-water based glues, because the water based ones cause a lot of problems when applied on larger surfaces.
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    P-51B Maly Modelarz

    The first MM's issues were published in the beginning of the 50ties. The publisher (LOK) wasn't of course a private firm, but a national organisation, and THAT HASN'T CHANGED YET. This means that: - the publisher gets some subsidies from the government, and that's why MMs are cheaper than the...
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    Newbie and Schleswig-Holstein pictures needed

    Check if these models present the ship in the same version (I mean, at the same date). Schleswig had been rebuilt a few (?) times.
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