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I like the smell of burning aluminium in the morning

Does the ICM version look like this?

Wow, what a beauty. Thank you for sharing Tom Cheers M.

Harvey , you have my number. If you feel like you are in the need of a cultural expansion give me a shout

Guys I need your help. I decided to use hub from Tamiya Mosquito. It is a spare part J29? that looks similar to hub from Beaufighter. Well I was filling the gaps with superglue and one wheel was over filled If there is anybody who is willing to help me and pass me your spare Tamiya hub, please let me know.

Like seriously , thanks for stopping by buddy Thank You Cees. I did that as well, changed the shape etc. but they're in off-set configuration, no way it can be done without a complete redesign . That;s funny, because last night I grabbed a bunch of aluminium tubing and went to garage to cut and shape them . The problem was the thermal distortions of the aluminium itself . So I opted for plastic tubes glued to place and supported by resin putty that is strong enough to retain the strength of the fuselage and soft enough to sand and scribe into. Preliminary sanding , material is not cured yet. I would say another 24 hours until the plastic sets in.now I have a great starting point

looking good Ernie

Is it going to be even visible ? Nice work Bill. Cheers M.

There was only one way how to place guns in proper position. Well, close to the proper position. I am not going to worry about the wrong fuselage depth and profile as long as it looks like ..hm.. reasonably digestible ?

OK, I am cooling down now...a little.. I will deal with that book tomorrow.

This is kinda silly , but I like it

Damn! this should go into the Car Thread Tony

Challenger ?

unreal , this is what happened when reference books are written by semi-competent people . in this case SAM publication. Do not buy it ! unless you like hardcore sci-fi

damn I didn't noticed that, Thank you so much for the input Chek. Much appreciate that.

:), thank you Carl, just wait for the swearing part,,,,, undercarriage , wing roots etc. things can still get pretty dark Tonight I spend 2 .5 hours studying drawings ( mostly garbage), photographs and 20 minutes over the plastic. Brutal ratio . For some reason every one of my builds is like this and I don't get guys who are able to say, hey this kit took exactly 25 hours from start to end. Am I weird or what?............ ( rhetorical question / no need to answer ) some preliminary scratches

Here is NG-R also missing the main antenna mast nice detail of the nose cone

No need to be sorry at all, thank you for stopping by . Honestly I spend fair amount of time browsing over schematics, electrical system, radar etc. and wasn't able to figure this one out. It is definitely hollow piece and hides something inside, antenna would be my first guess, but that doesn't go together with the schematic of electrical installation. Thank you Peter, you are way too kind. I finished the backplates on the propellers, then thinned the tips some more. Adjusted the tips of the spinners that were too pointy and coated the whole thing in NATO black, which is actually very dark grey. Because as we all know there is no pure black in the real world. Rivets and placards might follow, not sure yet.