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John Might nice progress. Your 109 is coming along fantastically. I'm working on the front office on my 109 and it's going to take a while to work through everything.

Phil Awesome buy - enjoy.

Chris I'm always the culprit for most of everything that has gone wrong or is amiss on a build. All that counts is the struts now look perfect and straight.

Carl Some mighty nice progress. Your scribing is top notch and the clean up on the F-14 being such an old Tamiya kit looks perfect and no one would ever know - that's how good it looks now. Side consoles are coming out perfect as well.

Right with Harv Hope everyone is safe and well. If you're in the bad southern weather zone for this series of storms, please check in and let us know you are A-OK.

Scott Looking good. Aluminum floats do sound like the way to go.

Mark Looking forward to your upcoming build thread.

I my Apache in the stash and am just waiting for a good cockpit AM set.

Thanks Ernie I'm still holding out for maybe a Quinta set which always contains a lot more detail parts plus seatbelts, not to mention Eduard jumping in with a neat PE set or even a Big Ed set. Fingers crossed as I get closer to build time as to what is available. 🤞

Thanks Gaz, very much appreciated. In the end, I was very impressed on how the Revell Spitfire came out and looked. Now in the displace case, sitting with all her Tamiya cousins, she looks and fits in perfectly.

Pete Fantastic work on the details. Finding detailed photos on Israeli aircraft is a job in itself. Looking so good

Thanks Kev, a plumber's dream. I normally remove all the parts from the sprue for the assembly I'm working on, spend hours trying to see all the tiny mold lines (never, ever seem to find them all) and then it's air brush time. Of course, that was the easy part - trying to figure out which pipe was which was a chore unto itself. Someday, I'll remember to label those types of parts as I remove them from the sprues

Thanks Carl, very much appreciated. The DB 605 was for the most part enjoyable to do but the piping surely tested my resolve more then a few times. In the end, it does make for one good looking engine. I saw I missed a few rubber connections that Il paint tomorrow and then dive into the front office. John and I have been trying for quite a long time to hook up for a Buddy Build. We came close with the Revell Spitfires and we're getting closer with the ZM 109's.

Martin OMG - perfecto and what an education I'm getting. I've started on the ZM front office and the photos and video are going to work wonders. Thanks so much.

WOW - love the way the Malcolm hood fits ... the Kotare Spit sure looks like a winner🏆

Martin You're a prince! I triple clicked and saw the phot under it - awesome for sure.

Thanks Gaz, very much appreciated. At some point in the build, I'm going to have to decide how much of the engine cowl to add.

Rob Sure, seems like the best approach as for me. it's the overall look and feel of the model when done that's important. I get a lot of satisfaction and enjoyment looking at my completed builds in the display case.

Gaz Best way to go and when your Spit is done, she will look awesome.

Gaz I'm looking at a brand new, unbuilt Tamiya Spitfire Mk IXc still in the part bags and the fuselage has both panel lines and very delicate rivets. The sides have panel lines and the very delicate rivets run through the panels, along the fuselage, not next to any of the panel lines and none vertically. The upper fuselage seam that you have been working on is just a well scribed panel line on the Tamiya kit, with rivets only along the inside edge of the rear, long panel line and where it steps up; no rivets along that portion of the panel line. I'm not a Spitfire expert, so I have no idea who is right. When I build my Kotare Spitfire, I'm not going to worry about the rivets and the panel lines and build it as Kotare intended.

Thanks John I still have a small headache and I can hear echos of all the 'cuss words' needed to get the engine built. After carefully looking at the photos Martin posted, ZM surely left out a lot of easy details and there are also a lot of differences in the parts colors.

Martin Much appreciated and I wish I had these photos beforehand as I can see a lot of differences in ZM paintings instructions and the kits instructions plus a lot of details I could have added. A few good cockpit detail photos would be very appreciated.

John The ZM 109 is surely turning into an adventure. Just glad you were able to fix the broken brackets and get the engine glued into place.

Chris The Big Cat is looking so good and so glad you were able to work out a solution the overly long struts. Yup, love that head on take view photo - it's so classic of a Cat leaving the water. I often wonder how the QC department could let such an obvious fit problem slide by unless there was little, or no QC, with time and cost not allowing for corrections.

Thanks Hubert - what a pain for sure but worth all the work. Now onto the front office.