Clunkmeister

I love the wooden ships along with small coasters and fishing boats. Same with pre dreadnoughts and up to and including anything pre steam turbine. But teeny parts like this? I’d be mumbling to myself in three hours.

He’ll be singing about lumberjacks before you know it. The GRC. Gravel Road Cop. Only true Canadians who lived on the prairies will get that one.

I finished mine, but struggled in the gear bays with the rear of the engine, etc. Ryan, it’s looking stunning so far.

my bench is littered with stalled builds.

I look at instructions and I think I’d rather build super detaIled RE.8’s in a bottle... everything is pinhead sized

Anyone ever built this sadistic thing?

Anyone have them? I sure do, and usually for no reason other than “because”. I hang my head in shame. And yes, that is the unbuildable Kitty Hawk Su-17 fuselage. My third.

Flawless execution, Jeroen. Far and away the best build I’ve ever seen of this kit.

Yep! Give that man. See-Gar! I knew what it was and started chuckling right away but I never knew it was only for the grey and white ships.

What Phil said!

Interesting on the seat, Ryan. It must have been scaled by the same person who scaled my Helldiver seat. I had to take a big section out of the middle to get it to the correct size. We all have our squirrel moments, and this one oughta be great!

This is looking great so far, Antonio. I’m not much up on what’s right and what’s subtly wrong with the various 109 kits on the market, so I’ll take your word for it. So far, it’s looking stunning, and, oh, before I forget, WELCOME TO THE FORUMS!

Hahahahahhaaaaaaaaaa!! Harharharharhaaaaaaaaaaaaar!!! heheheheheheheheeeeeeeeeeee!

Here’s a cool thing that Paul had cast up. Anyone know what it is? I do.

Hmmmm. So here’s what we have so far. This is a dry fit just to see where emery thing goes. We seem to be short one black box, but I expect it’s around somewhere and we’ll find it soon enough. No attempt was made to clean or align anything up, I haven't added or subtracted anything, just looking to what we have. This inferior is busy, but I want to make it busier. Mwahahaaaaaaaa

For some reason, black crosses sell. And sell well. They have much to offer. Cool camo, gazillions of colorful paint schemes, and generally, very good looking subjects. As far as KH goes, all I can say is that I really wanted the short nose version. Other than PCH, the pickings are quite slim there. They could have cornered the market on A-3s. KH has given us nothing but esoteric subjects. T-6, T-28, OV-10, F-86D, P-39, etc. The closest they came to mainstream so far is the F-5 family. And now the upcoming Mirage. Their helicopters are easily the best helicopter kits in the world, and I can understand where they’re looking to score on a mainstream subject like a 190.

Yeah we are that. Laid back, chillin’ out with an umbrella drink on a beach somewhere. But shake that vacation thought off and back to the truck.

Rog, with no second thought whatsoever, I’d say that Smitty is the big F-18 expert here on the forums. He lives and breathes the Hornet in its various guises.

Gazz, it’s not the best looking of birds, but it sure is cool. Looks like a lab rat after they dropped a couple drops of some suspected carcinogen on its skin.

I LOVE your signature! O M G !

Little details like that are what MAKE the build seem real, Jeroen. Stunning work!

And the instructions, plus the complete, full decal sheet. I don’t want to assume, and I surely hop it isn’t the case, but there is a chance that this may be the only complete Fisher Guppy set ever shipped with decals. Oh God I hope that isn’t true!

And we have some bibs and bobs, along with a nicely done sedan roof complete with sporty flip up doors.

The cockpit is done very, very nicely. The airframe is nicely assembled, and it’s straight.