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Beautiful work Rob. This is going to sound silly, however it just hit me, while looking at your model. This engine was naturally aspirated , no boost. For some reason I would expect turbocharger.

My accent is "fresh off the boat" which makes name a perfect candidate

Thank you for the suggestion Maru, I will definitely check it out. History of India and not only the colonial era is utterly fascinating. I just finish last book from the Dungeon Crawler Carl series and now I can't wait for the next release. Needless to say that this book has close to 900 pages, I mean Matt, really ?, it is heavy a.f. and those first 500 pages were more-less of a filler.

I am having fun with this kit. Good times ahead, so ? ...music time

Prop received some preparatory coat , I just had to stick it on for tonight’s glamour shot.

Another strange hiccup along the way the flame dampened was sticking too much out and over the exhaust pipes, I’ve noticed it only when I started applying some heat damage, instead I found myself in a world of emotional damage

Little progress today. As I said before “ baby steps” applied majority of the stencils. in order to mimic sand down look of this airframe I combined orange and dark brown Tamiya wash and in a irregular pin wash pattern I covered majority of the top surfaces. That was completed by again highly irregular line wash. Which was consequently wiped down by Q-tip slightly moistened with thinner. then I noticed some kind of repair paint job on the right side of the rudder, not sure if it was done by red oxide primer( possibly) or fresh yellow or one of the camouflage colours. I mixed up my own shade of colour named Kaka. Don’t ask. wheels and flaps got more stencils too, again it’s a slow process. Airfix provided magnificent amount of stencils which partially offsets that booting marking selection. enough said, adding pictures

Kinda sad to brag about this, but with the current prohibition directed on the import of certain chemicals to Canadistan. This can is simply made of unobtanium.

Sighting lines aiding the dive-bombing and ground attacks

This one slipped my attention, very cool pacific mustang ! Cheers Martin

Beautiful ! Cheers Martin

Only two words. Most impressive! Cheers Martin

Really nice work John, there's something special about overall dark blue corsairs. Well done! Cheers Martin

Fantastic result, Bravo!. Cheers Martin

How could I missed out on this beauty, really nice work Ralph. Cheers Martin

Nice build

Father Ted was right. moving on, canopy is back on. the big upper cross decals came out ok. I removed the inner part and hopefully they will blend under a coat of clear.

Printed the serial numbers and opted for windmills from the Trumpeter decal sheet just to realize that they’re too big. Well that’s Trumpeter for ya.

MIND THE GAP! I should probably check the instructions once in a while. How and why would Airfix choose such a solution for the canopy install is beyond me. I didn’t trim the fuselage and then noticed the gap while spraying clear coat . Bummer... So just be careful when you get to this step , it's easy to miss.

Yes I ripped the first cut as well, then I changed the speed settings to 1 and the cut was clean. blade 2, speed 1, force 8

Thank you guys. There will be adjustments to the mottling and repairs once the paint is cured. Regarding the marking. As a first step I sprayed the black layer into the centres, then cover the centre again, then removed the outline and sprayed the yellow. Oramask 810 is very flexible, thick , but flexing enough to give you some room for adjustments.

Masked the code numbers, I rarely using pure black but this time it was needed because of the swastika decals that will be easier to blend.

Definitely worth the money. In case you wonder the font is Alte DIN 1451 Mittelschrift

Now we're talking.

That looks really good.