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continue M4 A6: The A6 was the best engined M4. Using a radial Diesel in a M4-A4 composite hull. Only 75 tanks were built which never saw service being used for training at Fort Knox. M4 A4-Mk Vc: Firefly

Modelbuilding during Corona Pandemic Sherman out of litterbox During Lockdown there is time to clean your cellar. In a box were parts for Sherman tanks. Six armoured hulls from different producers: Tamiya, Fujimi, Italeri and MD lay there. Luckily enough bogie wheel suspensions were there too...

35 years have passed by since I buyed this model. It layed in an old Litterbox covered with a big coat of dust. I found it during the Lockldowns when cleaning up my hobby room. My first intention was to throgh it away because of its age but this ment plastic polution and I decided to recycle it...

Hi M I would say more 1:32 than 1:35

During corona lock down I inspected my cellar and found a Monogram kit of the M8 which lay there for over thirty years. First intention was to throw it into the litter box. But today you should not produce m,ore and more plastic scrap. So I decided to build it out of box together with some...

A few parts had still to be cemented on to the kit than it was finished. The wing tanks are scratchbuilt because I ran out of Esc-itanks. Maybe they are 1-2 mm on the short side but this don't bother me. A marine Fury has to be presented at the coast. Therefore rollout was at Lübeck at...

Next disapointment were the ESCI-decals. Sure they were very old. They won't come off the decal sheet. When 24 hours weren't enough I dried the sheet and scanned it. Printing the sheet on clear decalpaper I I won the fight. Some tiny pieces are missing yet. thought it would be better...

I added some black to the aluminium color and tried to do some panels. the only ESCI-part left is the front shield. The canopy is an altered MONMOGRAM part.

As usual the Marines received the planes which were rejected by the Navy. This means a bare metal finish is the paint of the day. I used Revell Aluminium for the ground color.

The ECCI- kit was very brittle and after this was all I could get out of it, I threw the fuselage away. Now I took the good ole Monogram Sabre and started again. This is what I got from this. I think I made the right choice. Staying with Revell now I took the slatted wings from...

Hi Cremia River, you are awfuly right with your remarks about drawings. Good pics of the real thing are better. The Esci kit definitely is a joke which only can be built with industrial amounts of acrylic cement and putty. But there is no otrher kit of the Fury in quarter scale.

Late in 2017 I tried my skills on the ESCI-FJ-2. At first I had a good going but desaster struck me around X-Mass. But see how it happened. The ESCI beast: I got my hands on a NA-drawing of the FJ-2: When I compared the drawing with the Esci Kit it became clear that much sweat had to be...

Hi mates, some time elapsed since the last posting. Well I had to scratchbuild the main undercarriage and all flaps, air brake doors and so on. This took its time. But at last the FJ-4 B is ready for rollout. I think for under 10,-$ it was worth doing it. What about a FJ-2 of...

Something bad happened to the numbers on the front fuselage. They detoriated with every touch of my fingers. I tried to make new ones on white decal sheet. The modified Numbers Hope it is a real improvement.

X-mass and New year are gone. Time to scratch-build the main undercarriage and the cover panels because neither the FJ-4 parts nor the F-86 parts could be used.A new Canopy has to be build too. The canopy came first. To shorten the story I show you the finished madel: