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John Completely agree. and the same goes with all the internal details that will never be seen if all the panels are not left off .. just not cup of tea.

John Nice work on the Big radial and completely agree, spending a lot of time wiring her up when almost nothing will be seen depending on how you have the cooling louvers, was the right way to go.

Bill Looking good and maybe using Mr Surfacer for that hard to reach seam/gap might have been a bit easier in cleaning it up.

Gaz Weathering is adding a lot of character and feel to your Jagdpanzer and I always appreciate you taking the extra time to both photograph and explain how you go about creating your weathering. Looking mighty good

Dennis, Eureka❗ I can't thank you enough. That's the perfect detail photograph and exactly what I needed to know. Now I know how to mask and finish the armor plate as I'm not too far priming now.

Much appreciated Rob Thoroughly enjoying the build and with a bit of extra care, no fit issues at all. I've always been a "neat and clean" guy and except for some light weathering, like the "museum finish" look as I look at my display case as my personal museum. When I owned my owe plane, I would wash and wax her every week, as I just enjoyed looking at her sparkle and glisten in the sun - guess it carried through to my model building. I have been lately thinking about doing a diorama or a vignette and that's the point, I'll need to play with some form of more aggressive weathering - just not to much.

Thanks Gaz An iconic and classic design that seems to grow over time and she does look so good.

Thanks Kev Kust a gem of a kit and so far, no vices at all. In all these years, I thought I would never use any glue other then Extra Thin but I've found so many uses for Revell Pro Contacta, it's become an everyday glue along with my Tamiya glues.

Carl Know the feeling all too well but stick with the B-24 and get her across the line. HB's mistake isn close to unforgiveable as to what the kit costs.

Wings and Fuselage Work Continues Progress continues around doctor appointments and tests this past week– just comes with the territory once you’re in your seventies, I guess. THE WINGS First order of business was to add most of the components to the wings, of course the super small ones that would absolutely be broken off and fed to the carpet monster. The radiator and oil cooler assemblies were built up and there are a few injector pins that needed to be filled with Mr Surfacer. The radiators were primed and paint as per instructions and the coolant grills treated with a healthy application of Tamiya Black Panel Line Wash. The framing carefully brushed painted with Model Air Aluminum and the interior walls were Mig Medium Sea Gray. Fit was perfect and no filler needed at all. The clipped wingtips are clear parts, very brittle and no matter how hard I tried, I snapped one off and needed to make a replacement from some clear sprue. Only way to protect them from being snapped off again was to add the ailerons and complete the elliptical wing preventing the clear tips from hanging out in the breeze. The biggest pain so far has been the wing leading edge inserts for the canons and I’ve filled and sanded with both Tamiya White Filler and Mr Surfacer at least four times and I’m sure when I reach the priming stage, I will find the need for more TLC on them. Just has to be a better way of making the parts with a vastly improved fit. Every manufacturer seems to struggle with this but it i is still better then splitting the parts, gluing them together and spending way too much time sanding away. Maybe it’s time for these parts to be 3D printed. Note to Me: paint the lower wing center interior RAF Interior Green – read note and done! Hubert, just couldn’t think of a better way of not forgetting to paint it, which I am more then capable of doing. I had another note posted on the paint rack right in front of me as a backup and second reminder. I went with the flow, looked at a lot of photographs and decided to install the flaps in the up position and no issues getting them to fit nicely. One of the keys in building any Tamiya kit and taking advantage of their exquisite engineering for part fit, is the remove any paint, no matter how small from the gluing surfaces. I do spend a lot of extra time making sure I’ve removed all the paint where needed and also cleaned up any fret gate tips as carefully as I could. The Fuselage The rudder was also added and no issues; some parts still need to be added. I’m still not sure if the armor plate behind the pilot and above the fuselage is painted RAF Interior green or the cammo color – any hep would be appreciated. The panel lines and rivets that were lost when cleaning up the fuselage halves were added as needed (has to be the task in modeling I dislike the most by far). Before the wing is glued into place, I’ll do a bit of test priming on the leading edge inserts and add a panel line wash to see how much of the rivets need to be restored – oh what fun! Thanks for checking in The wing assembly is only being test fitted and the fit is awesome.

Carl When the juices flow, it will be time for the props. And yes: 'oh look shiny yellow thing' - looks so cool and tempting.

Gaz Coming together fantastically .. love the way the figures are interacting with each other and yes post it notes, the secret modeling tool available everywhere. 😉

John That she is. I just stare and dream - time surely has passed me bye.

Gaz Got ya - sounds like you are on the right track

Thanks Carl. Just after I read your post, I went to ZM's site, found the correction and downloaded the PDF. Saved for future use.

Thanks Carl, I never knew and checking it out for sure

John Always is something. I had no idea ZM had revised instructions on how to do the wing fold. Will be checking it out

John Looking forward to seeing how you handle the wing fold when extended.

Phil It more then worked -perfecto!

Gaz Nice start on the snow cover dio base and looking mighty good. I think it's more of looking at the entire scene and determining what's where in relation to objects, shadows and trampled, beat up snow. The base should be your clean pallet of a very grayish white snow. Tracks and road, more slushy and muddy browns mixed in and under the tank and in shadow areas, mix in darker blue, as there is a lot of blue in the shadows. I think by varying the snow color pallet, the overall effect will blend and look very natural. How much blue, gray and browns to added - just play with it. Just my thoughts and hopefully they might help.

Hi John I'm pretty sure I remember your first ZM build many moons ago. Being an Air Force Sandy, I'm assume (chancy word of course), you're planning on the wings extended. The wing fold from what I remember has always been a bit tricky and some closeup pics of how you go about it sure would be very appreciated.

Kev As Gaz pointed out, there are a load of methods to photograph your work and of course I know, I go way off the deep end. Shooting outside, while the colors will be correct at mid-day, the shadows are killers and don't stand in the shade, it's even worse color wise.

Hubert. Sure hope so.

Hubert Did you save the drawings and ig so, can you take a few pics and post them?

Mark Looking so good.