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Thanks for the comments guys! Appreciate it! The detail choices we now have for building kits is fantastic. Remember what we had before all this came about I totally agree! I think the hobby is way better than it was when I first started in the 70's and 80's. So many new kits and products coming out...

Thanks so much for the comment Lyle! I will say this... this is fun for me. At times, my OCD takes over and I can't let well enough alone. Sometimes it pushes me to painting an engine, fully knowing that it will be buried it inside the fuselage, never to be seen again. Or multiple iterations of an a...

Thank you Carlos! I've populated the instrument panel dials. All of them were punched from Airscale's RAF Cockpit Decal set. The way this instrument panel is going to be assembled, I think I can just shoot the instruments with a gloss coat and forgo punching individual glass dials for all of the ins...

Well done aftermarket parts made of brass and resin look so impressive under a coat of primer that I feel hesitant about moving on to the actual painting. But I've forced myself to get on with it and have started to paint the cockpit parts. I'm taking this very slow and deliberately, trying to give ...

Not a helicopter builder but this kit by ICM caught my eye. Looks like it would make an impressive and intimidating presence when finished. I also hate then they attach the most fragile section of a part to the sprue.

Thanks guys! But not 100% complete... forgot the little tail lights!




Now, she's done! No, I'm not going to re-do the finished shots!

Great looking Veltro, John! I think the Italian fighters look really nice too. I've got the 1/32 Italeri Folgore in the queue and I hope Italeri follows up with a Veltro.

A coat of primer (Mr Primer Surfacer 1000) helps to tie all of the different materials (plastic, resin and metal)together and gives a better perspective of the work so far. Not everything is glued into place yet. I've kept the more complex items (throttle & landing gear quadrant, electric contro...

Thanks Kari! Yes, the details from the Laminar Flow Design sets are impressive and some parts are pushing the edge of what is practical, I think. It's almost necessary to have two full copies of the Cockpit Set because of the unavoidable loss and breakage of small parts. Luckily for me, Mathieu DID ...

Back to the Spitfire XIVe! One of the reasons I put a pause on this build is that Mathieu at LFD informed me that he had updated the cowling for the XIVe conversion and was sending it to me. It was worth the short wait. https://i.postimg.cc/dVthN1wg/IMG-6008.jpg I love how Mathieu incorporates a rec...