Why would electrical components have so much crap on them? They never would. This particular aircraft operated out of a concrete airstrip. No mud. It is fine detailing models, but be real about it. No pilot or nav would want to fly in such a crapy interior, and the maintenance crew would never let the interior be like this. It is detrimental to the operation of the aircraft.

Great coverage guys! I actually love the shows that you cover, with the S.I.G. & Club tables, as they provide a view of some great models, and a lot of variation of subjects. Keep them coming, and greetings from Australia 🇦🇺!

Wow that's it wow !!!!! 🙏🍺💪💞👍

Another amazing vid and build love it !! 👍💞💪🍺🙏

Love the mossie, my late uncle made parts for them during WWII

You sir are certifiable !!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂 can't believe the amount of reseach, planning and scratch building your doing!!!! Amazing job in all areas 👍👍👍👍👍💞💞💞💞💞💞💪💪💪🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

Your passion (an over-used term , normally) for this hobby is very evident, and quite contagious. You do realise there is no antidote for this affliction?

David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Wednesday, 17 July, 2024) I have been binge-watching your entire KZfaq series on Airfix's 1:24th-scale de Havilland DH-98 Mosquito RAF Mk.VI Light Bomber kit. At 14:44, on the fuel bladders (as I had understood them to be) in Tamiya's 1:48th-scale counterpart, I used Humbrol Wine. It was a close analogue of the colour photograph of Mosquito Walk Around, January 1, 1998, Author, Ron MacKay, Richard Hudson (Illustrator (Carrollton TX, USA: Squadron Signal Publications, 1998). At 29:50, Raven's surprise photo-bombing you--when you explained to us of her sudden passing, it truly put tear in my heart--I remember my own sweet, dear kitties over the decades, all of them painfully tragic for each of them and me :( so I deeply empathise with you and your family.

great detail work .but it's a TWIN--there are TWO of these!!! Thanks for showing this.

It all looks very good indeed I do like the Hobby2000 kits as they are reboxing of some really good kits with the additional bits & Bob's. Looking forward to the build. Great channel.

Looks like a nice kit Rob, I'm sure you will do it justice !

Good morning, looking forward to this build, so my advice is ' get building'😃 looking forward to the next update, nbedtvregards from a Kiwi living in Australia, Les

A great start Rob. Been looking forward to this.

Loved all the Phantoms. It was a phabulous video.

yea i've just got the DC10 it's great, nice and large but not too many parts........... but i've got Laker decals

What's that beauty at 22:00?

Nice video! Can I ask: did the show have a 'competition' element to it? If so, was there a category for the "what ifs"?

Really cool model show. 👍

It’s a pity those aircraft cannot be indoors. Mother Nature and Father Time are not kind to museum pieces.😔

From start to finish outstanding works!👍👍👏👏

The condition of these aircraft is sheer vandalism.

This is entirely just to get Rob in the algorithm. I was shocked to see the Meteor actually had a bigger nose than Rob 🤪

It's a damn shame the buy American or else killed the British and Canadian aircraft industry. You guys sure knew how to make planes look good first an foremost.

A lot of great builds, getting my mojo running can't wait till my Trumpeter 1:32 Spitfire gets here.

In before the unmarked black choppers come to wrangle in these 2 unsupervised "adults"😂😂😂 I can't believe Cobra Council allows you guys out without Sabre Squadron on babysitting duty 😂😂😂

First! Now back to my HB 48th B24😊

KZfaq “Airfix 1/24 De Havilland Mosquito-Part 1 Cockpit Scratch build” (Frontline Model Hobbies, Saturday, 23 September, 2023) . David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Thursday, 27 June, 2024). (Note: I am so sleepy that I cannot recall if I already had sent my following comment. If I have, mea culpa.) An ambitious build! Thanks also for the look at an actual Wooden Wonder in operation. I appreciate you for (round 8:17) giving us precise measurements of the scratch-built replacement (I am a word nerd; I am NOT a maths whiz!), so I require exact explanations. At round 18:30, you commence to rework the cockpit instrument panel. Rather than applying some clear liquid to each instrument bezel (if that is the correct term), I wonder if one could apply to a small piece of transparent polystyrene sheet a decal on backwards; that is, the face of the decal upon the clear plastic, that one would set behind the kit’s instrument panel? One might have to affix it with a decal adhesive (whatever that might be) so seal it into place. Behind all this might be a third layer, possibly a kit part with the instrument dials’ housings. (I saw much as this in the Airfix 1:24th-scale kit of the Supermarine Spitfire RAF Mk.IXc Fighter that another British chap had recently assembled here on KZfaq.) I would want to illuminate the dials, however, to highlight that cockpit. I therefore propose that one insert in between a small piece of electro-luminescent plastic (well, I infer it to be plastic) exactly matching in length and width the preceding kit part (the instrument panel); this electro-luminescent plastic piece upon receiving a low-wattage (usually 9 volts, from those I recall having seen) electrical current glows brightly (I do not think this is “incandescence”, “phosphorescence”, “fluorescence, or “luminescence”, as I understand them; much as I find science of keen fascination for me, I am no scientist!) in a modest assortment of hues; I would choose white, of course, though I understand that these can emit process blue, red, yellow, and possibly green. In your estimation, would this work? The next issue would be sorting all the electrical and electronic details. Here is where your vastly greater technical acumen, expertise, and experience in such technological signs and wonders come to the fore. Such enigmatic, esoteric sorcery is quite beyond my capacity! Watching in gobsmacked awe for all the myriad details (this continues through Parts one and two) about what I never had even the slightest conceptualisation-and you seem to be winging it on experience of longstanding. (Now beginning Part 5.) I must admit I simply stared in silent (well, mostly) amazement at all your many labours, physical and mental. Your two-stage explication of your detailing the huge Rolls Royce Merlin V-12, 27-litre (1,650 in³) capacity, 1,300 kW (1,800 hp) piston æro engine, the engine compartment itself, the landing gear bays, the cockpit interior, and all the rest must entail several hundred distinct corrections or accurisations, many of which directly or indirectly connect or interact with other modifications-and it would not surprise me one bit if the actual count would be well beyond that rough guess. I must admit to doubting my capacity to remember them all, let alone to implement them in my turn! Your skills make me wish that I had the means to hire you (if you felt so inclined) at £20 hourly to build, accurise, detail, etc., model kits, record them in these KZfaq videos; I would ask, however, for more explicitly delineated measurements, please; not only am I abysmal at maths, my vision is poor, and my capacity for visual assessment is compromised (one eye is higher than the other, and my face is visibly misshapen). I try to have a sense of humour about my circumstances, so if you are hanging a painting, do not as me if it is straight! Also, my shoulders and the upper half or so of my spine, including my neck, are noticeably mal-aligned, all as a consequence of complications during a breech birth, which in the aggregate have rendered me recognisably asymmetrical and very thin; I note all this because I wish to give you a sense of myself. I am the oldest yet the smallest by far in a family of veritable giants, an irony I long have found rather amusing. As a youth, if the boys sought to pick on me for being small and misshapen, they quickly realised that they had not anticipated my quick-witted rebuttals! At 13:40 of Part 5, you express concern that you might have “got carried away”. If it is on the actual aircraft, please put it onto the miniature! Years past, FineScale Modeler (magazine) featured a fellow who in building--super-detailing!--Tamiya’s 1:350th-scale model of a U.S. Navy Fletcher-class destroyer added an estimated TEN THOUSAND parts, much of them metal, e.g., fine wire for the railings! Watching you work in your videos, I realise that I would like to find an aftermarket resin detail set of this engine (or something similar) in this scale, to install it into the engine compartment of a Rolls Royce sedan or touring car. Of course, I would display it with the hood raised, a figurine of a mechanic looking after it, as a miniature of a chauffeur looked on whilst he/she awaits his/her employer (maybe me, though had I the means, I would have an extensively customised, lengthened, upgraded 1977 Lincoln Towncar four-door sedan, with a black exterior and an ultramarine velvet interior for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and another, white with a bright red velvet interior, for the rest of the week).

David R Lentz, Columbus, Ohio, USA (Wednesday, 26 June, 2024). An ambitious build! Thanks also for the look at an actual Wooden Wonder in operation. I appreciate you for (round 8:17) giving us precise measurements of the scratch-built replacement (I am a word nerd; I am NOT a maths whiz!), so I require exact explanations. At round 18:30, you commence to rework the cockpit instrument panel. Rather than applying some clear liquid to each instrument bezel (if that is the correct term), I wonder if one could apply to a small piece of transparent polystyrene sheet a decal on backwards; that is, the face of the decal upon the clear plastic, that one would set behind the kit’s instrument panel? One might have to affix it with a decal adhesive (whatever that might be) so seal it into place. Behind all this might be a third layer, possibly a kit part with the instrument dials’ housings. (I saw much as this in the Airfix 1:24th-scale kit of the Supermarine Spitfire RAF Mk. IXc Fighter that another British chap had recently assembled here on KZfaq.) I would want to illuminate the dials, however, to highlight that cockpit. I therefore propose that one insert in between a small piece of electro-luminescent plastic (well, I infer it to be plastic) exactly matching in length and width the preceding kit part (the instrument panel); this electro-luminescent plastic piece upon receiving a low-wattage (usually 9 volts, from those I recall having seen) electrical current glows brightly (I do not think this is “incandescence”, “phosphorescence”, “fluorescence, or “luminescence”, as I understand them; much as I find science of keen fascination for me, I am no scientist!) in a modest assortment of hues; I would choose white, of course, though I understand that these can emit process blue, red, yellow, and possibly green. In your estimation, would this work? The next issue would be sorting all the electrical and electronic details. Here is where your vastly greater technical acumen, expertise, and experience in such technological signs and wonders come to the fore. Such enigmatic, esoteric sorcery is quite beyond my capacity! Watching in gob smacked awe for all the myriad details (this continues through Parts one and two) about what I never had even the slightest conceptualisation-and you seem to be winging it on experience of longstanding. (Now beginning Part 5.) I must admit I simply stared in silent (well, mostly) amazement at all your many labours, physical and mental. Your two-stage explication of your detailing the huge Rolls Royce Merlin V-12, 27-litre (1,650 in³) capacity, 1,300 kW (1,800 hp) piston æro engine, the engine compartment itself, the landing gear bays, the cockpit interior, and all the rest must entail several hundred distinct corrections or accurisations, many of which directly or indirectly connect or interact with other modifications-and it would not surprise me one bit if the actual count would be well beyond that rough guess. I must admit to doubting my capacity to remember them all, let alone to implement them in my turn! Your skills make me wish that I had the means to hire you (if you felt so inclined) at £20 hourly to build, accurise, detail, etc., model kits, record them in these KZfaq videos; I would ask, however, for more explicitly delineated measurements, please; not only am I abysmal at maths, my vision is poor, and my capacity for visual assessment is compromised (one eye is higher than the other, and my face is visibly misshapen). I try to have a sense of humour about my circumstances, so if you are hanging a painting, do not as me if it is straight! Also, my shoulders and the upper half or so of my spine, including my neck, are noticeably mal-aligned, all as a consequence of complications during a breech birth, which in the aggregate have rendered me recognisably asymmetrical and very thin; I note all this because I wish to give you a sense of myself. I am the oldest yet the smallest by far in a family of veritable giants, an irony I long have found rather amusing. As a youth, if the boys sought to pick on me for being small and misshapen, they quickly realised that they had not anticipated my quick-witted rebuttals! At 13:40 of Part 5, you express concern that you might have “got carried away”. If it is on the actual aircraft, please put it onto the miniature! Years past, FineScale Modeler (magazine) featured a fellow who in building--super-detailing!--Tamiya’s 1:350th-scale model of a U.S. Navy Fletcher-class destroyer added an estimated TEN THOUSAND parts, much of them metal, e.g., fine wire for the railings! Watching you work in your videos, I realise that I would like to find an aftermarket resin detail set of this engine (or something similar) in this scale, to install it into the engine compartment of a Rolls Royce sedan or touring car. Of course, I would display it with the hood raised, a figurine of a mechanic looking after it, as a miniature of a chauffeur looked on whilst he/she awaits his/her employer (maybe me, though had I the means, I would have an extensively customised, lengthened, upgraded 1977 Lincoln Towncar four-door sedan, with a black exterior and an ultramarine velvet interior for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and another, white with a bright red velvet interior, for the rest of the week).

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Lovely review, but of course as ever, the proof is in the pudding or eating thereof, whatever the expression is. For me, as I would presume the majority of us, is how is the fit? I make models as a relaxation after work and whilst I respect those who can take a sloppy kit and make a silk purse from it, I don't have the patience, or the skills, to do that so, minor modelling things like filler etc, I just want a good no-fuss, easy fit kit. I've only just found your channel, so might I say, thank you so much for not having any of that wholly unnecessary and obtrusive background music that so many seem to think is so important. I will be watching more of yours.

"It's me wife's, stop laughing." Instant sub just for the personality on show in this video! 😘

Great review, Rob! I've had my eye on this kit since it was announced. Pre-ordered mine a few days ago here in the states. Hope it's not a long wait.

I dont understand why the new kit is marketed as a,"2 in 1", yet you dont get a decal option for any early planes.

Love the funny comments great build and extra stuff 💞🙏💪👍🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺

Nice review, thanks - looks like a great kit. Not sure about bulged tyres, USN aircraft typically used much higher tyre pressures than USAF ones? 🇬🇧

Here in northern Germany we have some Canadian A-4M providing services for aggressor interception trainings. I’ll get that kit for sure

In 1978 i went to friends house to play some football and on a shelf in his house was the most beautiful aircraft model i had ever seen. I asked my friend what is that? He said a mongram A-4 skyhawk. Ive been in love with this plane ever since that time. Now, at nearly 60 years old it looks like the ultimate model of the skyhawk is going to be released. Although i like to close my model aircraft up the nose section looks problematic. I know! Ill buy two kits. One open, one closed, price be damned!

Thanks Rob for a great review! Wish some manufacturers would start producing kits of similar quality and research in 32nd scale. We always end up having to cad and print or scratch our parts to get quality that is available in the box in 48th 🤷🏻‍♂️

Good review 👏 I am definitely going to buy magic factory Skyhawk very impressed 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Hi Rob, A great and honest review, really enjoyed it. I’ve built the Hasegawa kit but as the Eduard limited edition Scooter, and yes like you say it’s a lovely kit. However, having seen the Magic Factory one, I personally will buy that, as you’ve mentioned, just for the weapons alone, never mind the TER’s and MER’s you also get. Thanks again for the review, and taking the time to do it. Jason.

That was a great review, on a kit you don't see around that often, not even on the competition tables, now if the bring out a A4-K I would be vety happy, best regards from a Kiwi living in Australia, Les

Great kit just finished it, but I also found some small mistakes I think the instructions could be a little better.

No inflight aircraft models?

Great works, no denying the talent put into their models.👏👏👍👍

All I saw was Jags and Tornadoes was there anything else at this airshow 😂😂 I can't wait till the 29th it's the CFB Trenton airshow. And the Lancaster is going to be there.

Sheffield isn’t the North !......it’s the Midlands !......and where are the thousands of model cars and trucks that get built ? 🥴

Nice seeing this ,happy modeling.

So much talent in one building should be illegal, then they let Rob run lose unsupervised 😂😂😂

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