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Thanks. The color coded cutters are for the angles of the cutter blades apparently, the blue for the thinnest materials, the red the thickest. That center finder is on my next purchase list!

Got this today; A circle cutter from DSPIAE and I must say I'm impressed with its quality! Unlike what I had seen in the reviews, I'm happy to say that mine came mostly assembled; requiring only placing the rubber pads on the bottom and screwing in the cutter holder. The instructions, however, are lacking; they don't explain what thicknesses the three color-coded cutters should be used for. I'm sure that can easily be figured out. The tool is a bit pricey, but once you get this thing in your hands, you'll understand why. It's built like a tank and the cutter turns on a precision bearing. Most Impressive!. I haven't used it yet, but look forward to cutting masks for the many wheels on those tank projects. This tool is said to have a range from 1 mm to 50 mm circles.

Looks great! Well done, John.

Thanks, I enjoyed building it. I might build the Tamiya 1937 version as well.

I finished this little... And I mean little ..BT-7 1935 from Tamiya a little while back. Like I said, the kit builds up to a diminutive model but its a great kit. I kind of rushed through it but I think it turned out OK. I like these early Soviet tanks. I see Hobby Boss has a great selection of early Soviet Tanks.

At one time I owned a type 14 Nambu. I liked it and hand loaded the 8mm cartridge using Midway brass. It performed beautifully.

Looking great! I'm a big fan of the '86. There is a f86 that flies often out the Waukegan airport and participates in Waukegan's annual air show. I'm fortunate to see this aircraft flying low over Beach Park where my mother lives close to this airport. It's an awesome sight!

Seriously? I think your your model looks great! That Wessex is way beyond in comparison That the average modeler, or Super skilled modeler can achieve! ...I mean, that build is spooky in its excellence! How can you possibly be ashamed! Your work Is great!. I'd love to build a big Huey by the way. I know Hobby Boss has that big 1/18 Huey, but I'm still hoping for that big 1/18 Brewster Buffalo. One can hope....I mean won't they release that soon?

Looking forward to your build. I remember myself considering wether or not to purchase this kit back a time ago, fearing I didn't have the skill. This was a beautiful aircraft. A promising technology but apparently a dead end as it was never put into production. Too bad as beauty and elegance have their own merits.

I've been working on this; A Takom Skoda 30.5 M1916 Howitzer.An interesting kit, the most frustrating part is the little knobby things on the barrel assembly. They were very difficult to glue on, not to mention separating from the sprue. I used a grease pencil or China marker to pick them up and place them on the model. A couple of them broke off after assembly but, miraculously, I was able to find them and glue them back on! Anyway, here are some pictures of parts of the model in primer coat.

Ancient kit or not , your Albatross turned out great!

Also looking forward to the build. I've always liked this chubby looking aircraft.

A rare Sunday delivery brought me these two items; A Copper State Models Canadian armoured MG carrier in 1/35, and a Trumpeter Russian BTR-80A also in 1/35. Both look like great kits. The BTR-80A kit has interior detail.

I wanted to build that kit. Your efforts resulted in a beautiful model. Well done.

Another one from Copper State Models. This one is a Russian armored car in 1/35. This will build up to be a very small model......some of the parts are tiny! I think the end result will be worth it , however. I like the look of these kits. They are well-molded and very detailed kits. The instructions are incredible. I've already ordered another one of these kits,....the Canadian gun carrier. That'll make 3 kits I have from this outfit.

Thanks. I see that Sprue Brothers also has both these. I just ordered a Trumpeter BTR 80a Russian Apc from Hobbylinc. I noticed that modern Russian equipment on some online stores is being sold out, especially the btr 80 by Trumpeter. So I grabbed one. I'll probably grab another CSM kit this week.

Well they finally came after a few months. The replacement decals for Takom's kit #2009, ...the MK IV female kit. I contacted Takom's by email almost three months ago. I didn't hear back from them for awhile, about a month, then I got an email from A person named Nikki stating that she'll ship some out if they are in stock. More waiting. Then an email stating that they were in stock and she would ship them. Six weeks later They're here. As you can see, the address from Nikki, the Takom girl, is a bit silly.

Got this today; A Miniart Austin armoured car in 1/35 scale. Looks like a great kit. One exception however; the builder is required to cut tiny rivet heads off a Sprue and glue them on the model in some places. I've done this in 1/16 scale without any problems but in 1/35 scale those rivet heads look awfully small. Still, I think this will build up to be a great looking model and will be well worth the effort.

Looks great so far!

Great work on that butcher bird Rod!

Cool. I went shopping online today looking for the Copper State Romfell.Couldn't find one. Instead, I purchased their Russian RB armoured car. I'm also interested in their Italian armoured car or the Canadian one, or both!

I've purchased a miniart Austin amoured car, but I don't think I'll be able to participate in this build as I have many projects started now and now a build queue that won't allow this. I don't understand how there can be controversy or a " thin line" regarding this group build. This is a group build supporting Ukraine manufacturers. Their products may not be available in the future. This is a historic moment in history between good and evil. And I believe that our support of Ukraine manufacturers is good.we can only hope that these kits will be available in the future. I will be following this group build and I hope I may participate. At the start of the new week I may purchase one of the Miniart autogyro kits, they look very tempting.

This came today: A Copper State Models Belgian Minerva Armoured car in 1/35 scale. Looks like a nice kit. Also have an Austin armoured car from Miniart coming. Just had a look in the box; Very nicely packaged, A thick instruction manual with lots of text and photos, finely molded parts, and great detail.One thing however, this is going to be a small model when built up.

Working on this little Tamiya BT-7. Still have the tracks to do. I haven't worked with link & length tracks before, but this little beast could run without it's tracks.

Cool build. I'm following.