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Old 02-20-2008, 09:52 PM
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Decisions, decisions...

I beg your help, experience and opinion. I'm debating (for reasons I cannot fathom) which MM kit to tackle next. Of the choices I have available to me, there are five that I feel comfortable attacking;

The Thunderbolt and the Hawker Tempest. While these might be more popular choices, they look to be rather straight forward kits. More detailed than most MM, but not especially challenging.

The Stosser is an overwing which adds a bit of work and the RWD 4 and 5 is actually a two model kit, which doubles the fun.
However, I am leaning toward this one;

A biplane...with wheelpants...and in desperate need of a radial engine modification. This seems more of a real challenge to me, but I haven't built any of these kits yet. So, if there's anyone out there that's done ANY of these, I'd be interested (and thankful) to hear their estimation of the kit(s) to help guide me in making my next MM mistake!
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Old 02-20-2008, 10:02 PM
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Go with the Hs-123. That would look pretty I think and you won't have to make any bubble canopies as with the first two aircraft shown.
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Old 02-20-2008, 10:21 PM
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I'd second the Henschel, altho' I have the Stößer and I'd like to see someone else find the pitfalls
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Old 02-20-2008, 11:16 PM
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I built 3 of the 5 there. The Tempest turned into a corkscrew, the Stosser is unimpressive I think, and the Thunderbolt turned out lovely.

Here's photos of the two I didn't toss out
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...dels/p47-1.jpg
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...dels/p47-2.jpg

http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/b...odels/fw56.jpg

I can take more, but it'd show off my lack of dexterity
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Old 02-21-2008, 05:29 AM
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My vote would have to be for the most unimpressive and obscure of them - the RWD-5. Reasons: It is civilian, it reflects the efforts of a little known, but advaced, design team at the Warsaw technical university at an interesting period of time, it has a very nice landing gear which would model beautifully, and there exists a colourful replica (see photos).

This effort may have to include a recolouring job, which is very good for your karma, and generally edifying both for you and the rest of us watchers.

I would stay away from the RWD-4, which seems a bit quaint, what with the pilot not having any direct forward view and all.

Sources (some of them with plenty of photos for the recolouring job):

RWD general:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/RWD (photos of all RWD aircraft for reference)
RWD-4:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RWD-4
RWD-5:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:RWD-5_reconstructed_(reg._SP-LOT),_taxiing,_Radom_AirShow_2005,_Poland.jpg
http://acn.waw.pl/sturm/goraszka2004.html
http://stara.gorpol.pl/lotnictwo/rwd5/rwd5.html (MANY photos at the bottom of the page)

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Old 02-21-2008, 07:56 AM
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My vote goes for the "Jug", maybe with a glossy finish. Good model to try a Sculpy form/PET bottle canopy. Good MM kit to start.
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Old 02-21-2008, 08:00 AM
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Well you'd get big age points for the Henschel and biplane bonus points on top of that. Don't let the fact that I tried to build it a couple years ago and ended up recycling it stop you!
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Old 02-21-2008, 08:04 AM
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Of the planes, the P47 would be my favorite - but my vote is for the HS-123. An obscure, little modelled airplane - and it just looks neat.
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Old 02-21-2008, 09:06 AM
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- but my vote is for the HS-123. An obscure, little modelled airplane - and it just looks neat.
My vote is for the Hs123 - started life as a stopgap between the He50 and Ju87 in the mid 1930s - it was so effective as a close support aircraft that the Luftwaffe requested that production should be restarted in 1943. Also operated in small numbers by Spain and Nationalist China. The other nice thing - it's a biplane with no rigging wires.

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Old 02-21-2008, 09:16 AM
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Leif makes a persuasive case for the RWD-5, with the added advantage of potential kharma enhancement.

Is it only me, or do other think that the RWD-4 has a passing resemblance to the Comper Swift (http://www.airliners.net/search/phot...nct_entry=true)? Which I once built a peanut-scale stick-and-tissue model of. And which I guess you can now build one in 1:1 scale (http://www.aviationmetalcraft.co.uk/comperswift.htm)

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