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Another Lego jig. Airacobra advancing at a glacial pace... And murderers row of small models in various stages.

Nice chromatic richness, as the Spanish modelers would say. Oil's or acrylics?

This is a fine analogy. Volkswagen, Porsche, the two that I am most familiar with but possibly other German manufacturers after the war (And during, looking at Pz III/IV) Changed more or less in an evolutionary way. Almost grudgingly, it seems, especially in the case of the Type 1 and the 911. And very much so with the 956/962. Yes they had a lot of paint schemes, which is always a good thing, again, Ala, the 109, but its shape is just kinda meh. Particularly around the cockpit, which never seemed to change, long tail, short tail, what have you. It's not swoopy looking like the 917's once they figured those out, shape wise. The early ones are just kinda ugly, with typically, for the period, boring Porsche team paint jobs. I did see they are planing one of the Lang (long) cars. I believe that's the "psychedelic" purple/green car they previewed. Not really one I care for, but it means everything under the skin is tooled, waiting for one of the later bodies. which I would buy. The Jag's are much more flashy, shape wise. IMO. And I love the Silk Cut colors. I'll get my 962 fix when Tamiya repop's their kit with the Jagermeister orange paint scheme. With, I do believe Cartograph decals, so it's a one box purchase.

The Jags for sure. 956/962 are kinda boring, despite how successful they were.

Could use a step drill bit, very slowly and carefully. But ultimately you would have to use the ream for final fit, I doubt the steps on the bit would end up being exactly the right size. Look very nice though, so your method worked fine.👍

1/35 Dauntless. n

Nope. The Zeta is a better design. They have never topped it, IMO. And I still wouldn't pay 700 bucks for it.

I'm leaning more towards buying one of these now. I wish it was a Do-17. Then it would be just take my money.

I want this. I don't want those molded on stripe divider or whatever they are. I seriously doubt those are intended for the production version, but why are they there now? To stress years off of our lives!?! lol 3D printing is a miracle and curse all rolled into one IMO. I saw this car at the LA auto show, I assume fresh from Le Mans, covered in dirt and bugs and grime from its win. It's why I fell in love with "dirty" race cars.

Primer is possible. I guess it depends on how the slats work, powered or gravity. I always wonder about this. After listening to the Tank Museum chats about the qualitative shortcoming of (some) British tanks seems like they would have done whatever was easiest.

I wouldn't trust that game as a reference for a moment.

You can do the same thing with the cast off ends of stretched sprue. For free. 👍👍

Yeah I get it. I can't disagree.

I remember getting and building a Monogram funny car, Snake or Mongoose, I don't remember, and it had a rubber band for the blower belt. The height of super detailing! I was so thrilled by that I put it on before the glue was dry and it pulled the blower off the manifold... I was so impatient. Lmao.

Did something like this years ago with an Airfix 1/24 Spitfore for a Glad sandwich bag commercial. No pretty like your's, the Tamiya reduction box took up almost the entire nose of the spit. But it worked nice once it was all set up. And it was a big hit on stage. Everyone wanted to play with the power supply to rev the "engine". I have that spitfire around here somewhere still.

Tamiya has a dedicated shop. Also check youtube video's. Quite a few showing the different shops.

Missed these first go around on the P-39 even though they were staring me in the face from the ref pics... There is an inner panel that covers the inside of the wing and the inner gear door hinges. Should be hollow behind there but it's too late for that now. And I added receivers so gluing those doors on will be nice and clean. And I souped up the door map pocket, gave it a bit more dimension since that door will be open.

This looks like an F1 sterile build bay compared to that other guys desk! Lamo.

I love B 17's. My favorite of the "Heavies". Missed this first go around, but Eduard saw the sales and added more. So I picked it up on sale from Sprue Bros last weekend. And some more 1/72 109's cause I am having so much fun with them. Really nice little kits.

Hopefully it had pro tooling makers...

I don't understand how the tumbler "cleans " the parts without destroying the detail? Or, how that parts themselves tumbling doesn't wreck them.

It's not ugly. It's very Russian though, and very much built for purpose. I love it.

Watching this one. I don't like their kits too much myself, as the two I have both have some worrying flaws. So I won't spend $600+ (US)on one of these big ones. That won't stop me from cheering you on though. Not my Favorite Brabham, but it's an F1 car, so how bad can it be?

I'm too flaky for build groups. I stop / start projects all the time when I feel like it. Which is nit great for getting stuff done on a schedule. That may be a side effect of having to get shit done everyday whether I felt like it or not in the movie / toy industry. Idk. But I would certainly watch one. Hint, hint. I love the whole Zerstorer idea. 210/410 particularly. And I have a little 1/72 Finemolds 410 that may be Yellow 7 from your decal sheet. I could pretend to build along! LMAO.

These are aimed at studio scale models. So you would need to tweak them for say 1/72 scale Bandai / Fine mold kits. Otherwise they will be too dark.