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A couple of photos before closing up the cockpit area. And with the cockpit area closed up. Then mounting the IP, drilling several small holes, and then closing up the fuselage.

I think it actually has Meng on it. I picked it up a while back when SB had a weekend discount on Meng stuff. The two button like things are loose and can be removed to clean. You can put a drop(s)of CA on them and use whatever tool you prefer for applying the CA. It’s hard to see, but there is a “forked” tool that comes with it and an Ammo brass toothpick laying there. The front part makes it easy to lay down the tool if it still has CA on it without gluing it the desk top. It’s handy. I used to use bottle caps. This has some weight to it so it doesn’t move around so easily.

Working on cockpit modifations/updates.

I haven't made much additional progress, but I did add this AM to the pile.

Progress. I've put all the stuff in the rear fuselage because I'm going to have the access hatch open.

Progress. I received my bottle of MRP-402 which, in the bottle, looks pretty good for use as RLM 77.

Perhaps I should be glad there aren't any really good LHS in the Nashville area. No, I really do wish there was a great LHS.

And a few more. There were a couple F1 cars there, but it appears that I was distracted and I didn't take photos of them. One of them can be seen in the background of one of these photos. I've seen this modeler's other entries at past shows and they are beautiful.

Some other models that I liked.

Here are some photos from the Chattanooga Show. They had a record number of modelers enter and a record number of models entered. Chattanooga is a Gold-Silver-Bronze format. There were 10 large scale planes entered. And I had my Hs123A-1 model there.

I picked these up at the Chattanooga show this past weekend.

It is this weekend, January 9 & 10. Anyone going?

I’ve used their lacquer on a car model. Straight from the bottle, no additional thinner. It sprayed very good. Clean up with hardware store lacquer thinner. edit: well, I guess I didn’t read very well, enamel. I think they sell thinner too. I would use their thinner just because I assume they have tested with their thinner and it probably works well.

Since I'm waiting for something to dry at the 109 build, I thought I'd get started in the cockpit of this one. The HGW belts are assembled for this and the 109. They went together pretty well.

Yeah, I had a look through MRP's grays and picked MRP402. I'll see how it looks when I get it.