P.24A

Patryk S.
Following!

Michael Schubert
Pulling up a chair to watch, looks great so far 👌

Alec K
Agreed 👍

Łukasz Gliński
Welcome everyone! 👍
In the meantime I closed the fuselage and currently I'm dealing with the struts which require trimming for the A version

Nicolas
I'm joining in.

Marcin Dudek
👀 Watching

Cuajete
Very nice cockpit, Łukasz. Yahu panels are very good 👌

How is the kit fit so far? I have Azur's Greek, but I was thinking of changing it to IBG's, so I don't know if it will be worth it.

Łukasz Gliński
Hi there mates, glad to see you here 👍
The kit itself is a bit disappointing, even though not a very old one:
- the fuselage fit was poor (on top in particular),
- the wings seem to a bit warped,
- the engine and exhaust required lot of trimming to fit into the cowling
- the wing struts for version A require lot of trimming - that's how it's designed, they provided only one set of struts for all versions
- some PE parts are just waste of time - like the little flaps for the wings & fin - it was easier to cut thin plastic and squeeze it between the plastic parts during assembly
Long story short - go for the IBG if you can - knowing their other kits 👍

Neil Patrick
Following along Lukasz. Am sure you will overcome the kit's shortcomings. 🙂

Cuajete
Many thanks, Łukasz! I will follow your advice with pleasure 😄 👍

Łukasz Gliński
Hi Neil, doing my best - after some thinking and trying to use PE for the radiators, I gave up and used Aizu tape instead. Seems like half of the PE fret will remain unused 😄

Thomas Kolb
Very interesting kit and model! I am looking forward to see the final result! And yes, that is often my experience too with PE with 1:72., the makers tend to add a bunch of stuff that makes no sense.

Robert Podkoński
Somehow I missed this. Joining the party! (Why not an IBG kit?...)

Łukasz Gliński
Asking myself the same question since I tried to assemble the engine 😄
Calling it a stash spring cleanup 😉 Next ones will be IBG for sure
The PE policy is really strange in this kit tbh - there are lots of tiny details but the huge frame in front of the engine is missing 😮
Luckily I have a leftover fret from IBG's P.11, which is universal for the whole family of PZL fighters.

Moreno Baruffini
I also missed this! Joining ! ... The Azur usually have strange PEs 😉

Thomas Kolb
The brass barrels look really great! Some time ago I bought a set of aluminium tubes from Albion Alloys, they are a bit more expensive but you can cut them with just a modeling knife.

Cuajete
I believe more and more strongly that I have to change my Azur for IBG, 😄

I agree with Thomas. Those brass tubes look amazing. Much better than those fragile resins. The rest of the plane is also looking great with all the improvements made

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks a lot, that of course was supposed to be another OOB build 😄
Thomas, these come from the very same vendor and they're grand indeed 👍
Cuajete, don't hesitate any more 😉

Cuajete
Łukasz, I still have to see more suffering to convince myself of the change, although this is not one of your Amodels 😋

Flop_Se
nice progress! Looks superb so far!

Michael Kohl
Joining too

Łukasz Gliński
Welcome, did some spraying yesterday, so you can start having a clue what it's going to look like
Cuajete, you don't want to go that way, trust me 😄

Thomas Kolb
It's starting to look really pretty! I like the way you got the engine together.

Villiers de Vos
A beautiful subject. I will be following.

Naram
following

Cuajete
Łukasz, I believe you so I already put my Azur up for sale to buy the IBG, but so far no one wants it. Believe me 😄
Good spraying 👍

Łukasz Gliński
More than happy to see y'all joining 👍
Today I saw this and now I have food for thought as it can't be unseen:
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Casey Beckett
Such a beautiful plane - lovely work!

Thomas Kolb
What a lovely model! It looks like a very clean and neat build indeed.

Moreno Baruffini
Super!

J35J
Great work Łukasz!👍🏻

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks, doing my best to screw it now 😄
Once I varnished the bugger to start washing, the black marker used for after-sanding checks started to show up somehow. So I thought a quick duraluminium spraying session will fix the issue.
Well, it made it all even worse - masking tape took the digits away. While there were additional 2, 0 and 1s on the decal sheet, I had to hand paint the 8 myself using small leftovers.
I was about to order the IBG kit 😄 but well I made it, don't me ask how, I dunno myself tbh.

Casey Beckett
I think we've all tried to mask over decals once - NEVER works. Sorry for the damage - I have had some luck using liquid mask over decals, try a small spot first and try it.

Łukasz Gliński
True Casey, but sometimes I try it all over again with the same results 😉
Meanwhile I took couple of shortcuts and I can announce it completed.
Not entirely happy with the end result, but the kit is really poor - next Polish Wing plane will be either IBG or Arma for sure.
Added 3 teaser pics, more to come tomorrow.

Robert Podkoński
Good job, Łukasz! Chapeau!

Greg Baker
I agree. Great job.

Roland Sachsenhofer
What a wonderful piece of modelling - I really like it!

Jocaj
Good job Łukasz, and very nice result! It gets me into the mood for building this kit!

Łukasz Gliński
@Jocaj: Avoid it at all cost and go for the IBG kit instead. It's a very frustrtaing set and has a lot of errors.
PS. No, IBG hasn't sponsored any part of this project 😄

Neuling
All´s well that ends well, Lukasz! This one ended very well indeed.

Michael Kohl
Nice result and professional recovery.

Moreno Baruffini
Great finish, don't' worry Łukasz!

Tony Tonov
Congrats Łukasz! You've managed to overcome the issue and build a beautiful model!
BTW I've experienced the same frustration when trying to mask over a decal. Occasionally this trick works with very weak tamiya tape (did work for me on my NMF Tempest). Curiously (or rather not) peeling of a wrong decal on purpose never works even with strongest tape 🙂

Greg Baker
LOL... ain't that the truth!

Łukasz Gliński
Can't agree more, Tony 😄 So true!
In the meantime I uploaded the promised end-of-the-build photos - enjoy and behold the kit's shortcomings and the shortcuts I added on top 😉

Alec K
I think this turned out very nicely 👍

Nicolas
Congrats Łukasz, you got a very nice result from this kit. 👍

Cuajete
Great job and nice result, Łukasz!
I'm glad you were able to solve the problem with the decal.
Congrats!

I know that in some way IBG has sponsored many parts of this project and that it has caused you to leave aside the Amodel builds... for the moment 😄

Villiers de Vos
Fantastic work. A beautiful little gem.

Łukasz Gliński
Many thanks everyone, your comments make me want to launch something new after my holidays 🙂
@Cuajete: This year is the year of quick projects, so you have to wait a bit. Maybe 2025 will be AModel year? Who knows? 😄

Cuajete
Łukasz, I hope to be there to see it (again) 😄

Pietro De Angelis
Beautiful job, congrats!

Flop_Se
Great result and nice pics!

Patryk S.
Great result. Cangatulations!

Bernd Grün
Lovely build, Lukasz! 👌 Love the look of your gull wings!

Marcin Dudek
Very nice effect 👍👏

Łukasz Gliński
Thank you mates, very glad to see you like it 👍

Michael Schubert
Looks amazing!!

Tony May
Fantastic job on this beauty! I wouldn't personally have opted for a Turkish bird but it's still by no means a bad choice! The P.7a & P.11a are fabulous looking as well. Are you planning to add a P.11b, P.11c & P.11f? Perhaps even the hypothetical P.11g?

Thomas Kolb
Lovely build! I particularly like the subtle weathering.

Łukasz Gliński
Many many thanks.
@Tony: Yes, there are other Polish Wings to come, definitely IBG/Arma ones. Not sure I'll make all of the mentioned ones, but most for sure.

Mirko Römer
Turkish delight!

Tony May
Does anyone know if the Turkish P.24s or any of their fighters for that matter forced down any allied or axis aircraft over their country, enforcing their neutrality? I've heard plenty of stories about the Swiss doing this but I haven't heard anything about the Turkish doing the same?

@Łukasz I'm looking forward to the next Polish wings to come! I'm so incredibly grateful that IBG & Arma are around now. What a leap in molding technology it has been since PZW & ZTS Plastyk! (Although! I will say that JMK Hobby & Broplan made/make amazing vacuform kits; It's just a shame that Martola broke off their relationship with the manufacturer of the latter. Now Broplan is only available through the Aviation Mega Store out of the Netherlands & they adamantly refuse to ship anything internationally unless it's via UPS.