Posts by Barbarossa

Hi, there very nice job, may I ask you how did you find covering the middle part of fuselage the one that is covering the cockpit was it not tight? and also where did you buy those laser cuts for thsi model, thank you

Best regards Maritn

Ok I see your point and also agree that polish models are the best on the market, I only say that the earlier published ones hiding considerable amount of small errors and by current price tags all editors should take great care by eliminating them before hitting the market that's all......

Right lads, i took dramatic action: the very back wall of the cockpit was too large to fit the outer skin so I decided to sand it to the shape allowing outer skin slides onto it, however problems don't stop there (I was really surprised building the cockpit that everything was fine but don't fool yourself this is a polish model =). Now I glued both parts of outer skin before definitely fixing it, now solving problem one problem leads into another and it is no matter that I checked correctness of all parts prior to gluing ( and they fitted well the outer skin is not corresponding with the vertical axis (i build the rudder part of fuselage and the vertical axe is not 90 degrees as it should be, never mind this can be fixed however now thinking what to do with the outer skin and how to fit it to the main body and at the same time be sure that all work that will follow will correspond with the action taken.....will see later on this week

Ok so the both sides are on so far everything fits as it should, however I was trying (dry) to fit outer skin to cover the middle part and it seems that it wont fit as at the bottom there is a gap approximately 2-3 mm wide, no matter how I am looking everything is in its place ( up to now progress) so I am getting slightly worried where is the problem or what i did wrong. I also noticed that same problem with Halinski's model of Focke Wulf which Jorge Schulze experienced similar problem (I am guessing by his saying that it took a lot of patient to fit those parts)

So guys any advice? Thank you in advance

Hi to you all

Today I was on standby but fortunately the crew control didn't call me to do any flights, so therefore of course since early hours of today's morning I manage to finish the left side of inner side fuselage, now only waiting for some metal parts (color drying) and hopefully in the afternoon I start with assembly this segment uniting the left center and right side......

I am still trying to shoot better pictures so this will hopefully improve

I have to admit that the actual model looks far better the bloody camera lens can spot everything!

and some more

and here is the start of middle part the aircraft and inner side

Hello guys,

After a long time finally I managed to get myself to start this model by Halinski, I know this is not the one form the easiest models but so far the progress goes well, (considering this is the first plane model after long time) As I said so far everything fits well the middle of fuselage inner side fits beautiful. Here are some pictures following the progressHalinski3-4/2004 D3A1 (VAL)

Thanks guys for your sugestions, although I decided (as this is my first model after long time) to make tracks from the paper the advanced version. So far I am still stuck =) on the left side of the tank and in process of wheel manufacturing, I did have bit more time this week to work on them. Martin

Hi and good evening all!
I would like to ask anyone who has experience in building this model published by Modelik. As I dont have any pervious experience with Modelik models apart the Hummer ambulance which turned into disaster? Thank you in advance for all your answers.

.....and there are few more pictures of the wheels. I still dont know for which tracks to go does anyone know if its too much pain to build them out of paper? I have seen them in Bernie's Brummbar thread made out of laser cuts and they really looks great. But for now on back to wheels
Regards Martin

Hello alle zusamen! After a long time I am coming with new post. I decided to skip all the small details which are listed in the construction description to prevent any damage to them as there is still some rough work to do. Instead I started with a wheels. I though this will be a straitforward process but it is not that truth. the parts 68c wont fit into both of the holes in parts 68 and 68a, otherwise building the wheels parts 71 up to 71h is nice everything fits into place as it should. so 22 wheels to go:D

the building progress is very slow, regarding the small details I added just 4 parts to the left mud fender

...hi today I managed to build trailing arms dumpers......

Hello Jorg, i know that the pictures are not great but I need to find out how to make them smaller ( I did take some with sony alfa) and they are exceeding the size so need to have look how to make them smaller ( using final cut for mac) when I will have some time later on this week.
These pics I posted are taken with Canon comact cam there is not too much glory

Regards Martin

Hi Xander I am following the instruction attached with model and as you can see I am at the trailing arms dampers ( parts nr42-42e) so far I can only say that the main problem was the clutch at the end it looks all right but I am bit dissapointed as I try to build everything clean.

Apart from the clutch the problem is part 13c it is too big for the radius of part 13d but this can be fixed by cutting the 13c into correct length and then the remaining part to be glued so then there wont be a gap btw the part 14 and 13c and the joining line of that part will be covered with 13f .

Next problem is with the parts 9 and 10 these parts are to be glued into position marked on the inside covering part 6 but then there is just a little space to fit the both seats,the clutch and the gearbox (nr 14) together with the seats should be fixed inside very carefully as there is little space for the fingers and also for each of the parts. Because ot the above mentioned problems there position of steering handels (nr 25) will slighty change.

The engine (parts 28-32e) is easy to build and there are not any errors the only thing is to be carefull with fixing the parts 30 and 31before the fuel tanks 29 L and 29R as it says in the instruction otherwise there wont be any space to fix them in the place also on the part 29R there is white circle indicating to fix part 29b this needs to be painted as this doesn't correspond with the 29L and this is visible on the pictures at back of the sheets cover.

On the photograph below there is this this gap visible as I decribed it above ( involving parts 13c and 13d)

Hello and good morning,

as I wrote before the model is okay to build, but there are few errors which can spoil the model, the process is without any problems unitl the the clutch (parts up to 18) the whole segment is too wide to fit into the main body therefore there I had to cut off from part 14G, unfortunately I realised this problem too late the result is horrible as i have had to cut already parts being glued together.

Here are some more pictures I will write the comments about the errors ( editor errors and so my) later on

Good evening all!

I am new here, this is my first model after few years, now I found some time to get back to modeling and cant wait to start as I manage to get some colection of many models by GPM and Halinski

My first choice is Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf.G by GPM, I am very pleased that they improved so much since I first bought a model from this company.
As I already started to build the model, therefore I am unable to say on how many pages it is on or how many parts is consists of, but I will provide all those info in my next models.

Here are few pictures so far, also from now on I will post step by step construction of the parts.