Clunkmeister

looks green to me, but not as much as 76

Either that or use RLM76 But it's easy to doctor up some IJN green to make a really decent looking bronze green

Patience, Grasshopper. This needs to be finished, as we have a mystery project up and coming after this one is complete. But the big Mud Mover is coming to life. Picked up some IJN green and IJA green to use as bronze greens for the interior

Some Hobbytowns carry Gunze, and I'm blessed to have two close by. One about a mile from my office, and another about 20 miles distant. Gunze (Mr Color) is really hit and miss around here, but if the Gundam store has it, then it's a decent backup I suppose. I can't function without Leveling Thinner. That stuff, to me, is a magic elixir

Good old Bob Uecker. Long time Brewers radio announcer. AKA Harry Doyle in the movie.

THAT has to be the Group Build understatement of the 21st Century so far. Caught me absolutely flat footed, Carl. So much so that I laughed like a drooling fool for an hour. And for that reason, LSM is sending you a ZM 190A-4 to go with your 109G. Nothing like unexpected comedy at the end of a dreary day. Inbound from Sprue Brothers.

Welcome to the OLD Revell of Germany! I’m so glad they fixed that little issue. It was frustrating beyond belief.

And out of jail as well, I assume. Who ever said this hobby didn’t have positive benefits on our personal lives?

Three friends and I went to my Absent Friend Rick’s place today with our wives, and toasted his memory with his Widow. We took a bottle of my Balvenie and finished it. We had cracked it a year ago last New Year, and raised a glass from it every Saturday until the week before he passed. He left us a year ago tomorrow. It was a fitting memorial to absent friends. Then, his Widow started in on his love of fine Scottish whiskeys and how he appreciated how I would bring something new over that he had to try, and how he’d either hate it so much he’d throw a boot at me (true story), at that particular moment in time I had snuck a particularly hideous low budget blended Irish swill that I had into a fancy bottle and set him up for the big shock. He coughed it up through his nose, not sure it ever made it down, got up, cursing the day I was made, grabbed the bottle and physically dumped the entire contents down the kitchen sink drain. I was doubled over laughing when he threw one of his jungle boots at me, he missed, and then he started laughing too. He then informed me I was headed straight to hell. For the next several visits,, he made me take a sip of everything first. 😀😀😀. A big let down for a guy who was expecting a fine Scotch. And, then there were all the other times where he’d run out to the better liquor stores looking for, and purchasing what he had just tried.

Brilliant build, Dennis! I have the same kit and I’ve been giving it the side eye for years. I know the fun of a PCM build. They can certainly be frustrating at times, but oh wow did you do this proud!

I’m all over the map, and agree on the Balvenie. I’m a sipper, and unlike almost everyone else, I take mine neat and simply sip it, savoring it. They say a bit of ice releases the undertones, but I know what I like. Everytime someone insists on On the Rocks, I wince and take one for Queen and Country. Still not used to the new one yet. Dronach is a bit chewy to me, so much so that it chews back. Waaay too much going on at once. But oddly, when I can find it, a quiet evening in front of a fire with a good Lagavulin does my constitution well. Puts me in a nice, reflective mood. Obviously, our choices are minuscule compared to yours, unless you have a man on the inside….

The Marine birds had their waist gun frames and glass completely removed from the aircraft, and a simple sheet metal wind deflector added to each side ahead of both openings to keep wind down.

Yeah I thought about that as well, but I couldn’t bring myself to bin the thing. The cost of AM alone was mind numbing, and half the stuff that I had for it is off on patrol somewhere, so I placed an RTB order to it all. I’ll give it a few days and see what shows up. It’s been packed up for a few years now, and I have a new interest in it now. So, out it comes and back at it we are. A good portion of the BS work is done, so we will just continue.

The biggest things I’d like to see are pics of the paint after continuous ops off coral and crushed shell surfaced strips. I had read that the 345th BG (Air Apaches) stopped touching up paint on their gunships and straferx dire to constant erosion.

Martin, it’s nice to be able to sit this one out and simply help. A big, big thank you!

That looks great, Carl. I always wondered what came of this build. It was headed for a beautiful finish. The issue with this kit is that you can truly burn yourself out on AM and scratchbuilding the interior. My next one will be pretty much OOB, but for decals, wheels, props, gearboxes, and a bit of cockpit stuff.

My cabinet is rather embarrasingly bare these days after burning through some of my better stuff over the Holiday season, so I’m left with bilge water. Note to self: anke a trip to your favorite Scottish Whiskey store tomorrow. I also don’t keep any of that hideous swill the Irish mistakenly refer to as whiskey (must be Gaelic for piss) within 100 yards of my home. Not a Bourbon drinker either, which is surprising given my love of fermented corn products, but I do keep bottle of delightful Knob Creek in my cabinet at all times. Plus a couple bottles of real Canadian rye whiskey. I’m slipping, I know. Ever since Martin and I destroyed ourselves on Johnnie Walker black label, my standards have generally gone up. I have a batch of corn fermenting right now, so I’ll be good again soon, as soon as it’s ready and I can get to cooking. 😀 Then I’ll probably go six months and not take even a taste Odd….

A man with good taste is always a very, very good thing.

Javelin marks look really cool on T-90s

I've built multiples of these kits, and they always went together well for me. I'm sad to hear yours had "it's moments", but the end result sure is with it!

I'd have loved to have seen these fly more. They were downright brutal machines, and twin Avons with the reheat lit? Good Bloody Night!

The H and J used a suspended gun system for the waist guns, so I'm trying to figure out how to replicate that.

More of a Glenmorangie guy myself.