Hi all, and Happy Holidays!

Brief update, a couple kits were released since the last post, according to ScaleMates database; this is the 1/72 one.

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/el-baron-rojo-calq3d72-iae-24-calquin--1456815

Wow! Great job on such a difficult kit. I'd love to see a 1/48 mainstream plastic kit of the Calquin. I've always thought it was a nice looking aircraft.

Great job on such a difficult resin kit!

Toshi

Great looking build from a less than desirable quality kit. Well done!

Very nice job on a difficult kit.

The shorter brother of the Mosquito.

Chris

Hey Hey my friend,
                                  Well now, this is something special, if anyone else has built a Calquin hands up now !!  LOL thought so, you have the bravest of modelling hearts Jere, one look at those resin parts and I would have slid it all quietly back into the box and moved onto something else !! Knowing how determined you can be, and not wanting to waste all that CASH LOL I'm not surprised you persisted and beat this pile of resin into a very very nice looking model. I think you are right about similar needs bringing similar designs, how much Mossie is in the Calquin only the designers really know. Shame there were no Merlin engines available to use, it would have added to the sleek look.
I had a look on the Mirage Resin site Jere, and ouch that is an expensive model, was amused to see they were saying the Calquin was being warmly received by modellers !!
Some pretty horrible join problems there by the look of it Jere. Not going to be too picky about all that as it's resin and limited run, and for all it's problems at least Mirage Resin had a go at something different and interesting. Bet we get half a hundred new Spitfires and Me.109's again this year !!
Anyways my friend, you have pulled this one together with your usual skill, nice cockpit bits and IP, obviously your work as I'm sure Eduard managed to miss this one. LOL
I was very taken by the Tabano, wow what a flashy bomb !!
Just had a good look at the pictures, nice job Jere, from seeing the state of the resin parts, and how you have ended up with a really fine looking model is a credit to you Jere. This one ought to be at the front of the shelf, pride of place !! Send the pictures to FSM too, it deserves to be in the mag.
Did you use up all your sandpaper ? ha ha.
It was sad to hear the story about the real aircraft being destroyed by numbskulls for political reasons, an insult to the Argentinians who built them I think. A rare bird indeed Jere, nicely done my friend.
Can't wait to see what you're cooking up next, lol
All the best,
Mick.

Thanks a lot for your comments, means a lot to me

Limited runs kits can be pain in the but I´m used to build that kind of kits since I lke to model unusal subjets, but this kit is by far the most dificult I built

Utereg: The model is from Mirage Resin Models, a Brazilian brand, and it´s the only kit of this plane. here it´s their web site

http://www.mirageresinmodels.com/

it´s a dificut and expensive model, butif you want a Calquin this is the only game in town... the conversion looks way to dificult, and the most probably  is that we ruin both the Mosquito and the Calquin

regards!

Jere

I really like the looks of your Calquin. I did not know that there was a kit of this plane, I have found some plans on the web how to convert a Mosquito to a Calquin but that was to much work for my. I have been wanting to build one ever since the Calquin was featured exstensivly in the french Airmagazine.

Hey Jeremias,

This is pretty cool. It looks like the love child of a Mossie and a Beaufighter...

First time I think I've seen a Calquin but what a sharp, sleek, and fast looking aircraft. Too bad she was so underpowered.

I recently finished a limited run Pe-2 so I understand what a bear these kits can be. Still your Calquin turned out great! Beautiful model and the bomb you build looks great too!