The unpainted panels are what the kit provides. The full floor has been removed; seat brackets added as well as the forward bulkhead; the instrument panel was flat, featureless, and the joy stick wasn't up to the job.
Putting these three bars in led to many an interesting word (if I've had a swear-box, I would have been able to afford the Gaspatch kit). Also note the three 'straps' around the cowling.
When I haven't got photo etch belts I print some off, on good quality paper, so these cost about 20p. They look much better when they aren't 10 times larger than life.
The flaps are moulded closed, but I thought I might as well make my life more complicated than it already is.
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25 April 2025, 09:48 -
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Thinking that the Gaspatch kit was a little pricey, I decided to do the Italeri 1/48 Hs 123A. How hard can it be?
Due to a major mojo malfunction, I decided to do a quick, out of the box build. That is until I found that the ESCI/Revell/Italeri cockpit is almost entirely a work of fiction. On discovering that, I should have shoved it back in the box and never meet it's gaze ever again, but foolishly I decided to carry on regardless.
I'm my own worst enemy (although there are others who may believe they deserve that honour, please form a queue). I always think to myself 'how can I improve that', which translates as 'how can I make that as complicated and as time consuming as I possibly can'. I knew that I would have to re-scribe it, but after years of running scared of re-scribing, I now find it quite therapeutic, and god knows, I need therapy.
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All the flight surfaces were razor sawed off; the cockpit was almost completely scratch built; the engine and exhaust was 'improved'; anything remotely drillab
