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The Falcon vac canopies and nose, made for the Revell kit, look « less awkward » than the kit’s parts, and are not that expensive… But that means making the bomber nose aperture smaller, IIRC. The kit’s main canopy frame fits in the Falcon vac canopy, btw. Hubert

As for « retarded teenager » musical tastes, I was a teenager in the 70s : just after Cream, and not so much in the disco wave, nor moved into heavy metal (but AC/DC or Scorpions …😏). I suppose this gives you a good timeframe for my tastes, until the late eighties … And a high dynamics Hi-Fi set is just as good to listen to « Highway to Hell » as Bernstein’s 1989 Ninth Symphony in Berlin, or « The Wall », or Tannhaüser’s overture 😁 Hubert

Tamiya offers only the version bastardising the look of the Mossie with a guns-nose and a flat windscreen canopy … I have the HK kit, but the shape errors have pushed it to the bottom of the stash. The more I think of it, the more I wonder if the solution is not to graft the Revell nose to the Tamiya kit … Hubert

Good work on correcting the botched shape of the wing LE. I know there is a limit to what can be done, but I am sure you have noticed the leading edge shape is wrong outside of the nacelle as well …. Hubert

Scary-looking stuff. Especially as the the guard on the circular blade one seems offset from the blade plane. I can understand why an operator would move the guard aside, but it’s also a call-for-trouble action … Being a French company-owner, and having lived through a serious work-accident in 2014 on the premises - where I found out that being a business manager is not like being a doctor : you have an absolute result obligation, and putting the means in place is just not enough, whatever the intentions, and you are supposed to foresee all possible problems, including operator foul-usage -, I know an offset blade guard leading to a lost finger would have led me to a fine, if not prison … Hubert

Having had a father-in-law (well, ex- since I divorced), who spent more than the price of a (luxury) family sedan on his Hi-Fi set, I can very well understand your passion, Rob. I found out that the turntable (or CD reader, btw) had to be perched on needle-pointed posts to avoid vibrations, as well as the amplifier. I bought a set from the same supplier, only it cost me the price of a Dacia (well, not the base model ;), rather the full options one). My ex-wife kept it in the divorce - she felt my « retarded teenager » musical tastes did not warrant such fine hardware, which is not fair, as I also like classical music 🤣-. Aannnd, back on track (although a vinyl has just one, track I mean) and the Arizona. Nice progress, Rob 👍! Hubert

Well, methink you guys should spend more time procrastinating in front the computer, rather than waste it at your bench, modelling … 😂😂😂 Hubert, the expert in one of the two activities above … guess which 😁

Me 2 ! Hubert

Both are top notch 👍 , but the combination on the display base looks really crammed IMHO. Still, I wish I could do as good a job with my 108 (in civilian guise of course). Hubert

Italeri did a 1/72 one … Hubert

Let’s hope they will not show the same aversion to French subjects than WnW (but then they have demonstrated this already with the G-III and the Nieuports … 🤗) Hubert

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Whilst I appreciate the creativity, technicity and skills that went into this one - all waaaaay above my paygrade -, I just cannot help but to criticise the choice of a Flying Tigers’ P-40 (which never saw the sea from that close, as pointed out), when a Wildcat or Zero would have been far more justified, and the size of the shark, which seems to come out of a cheap me-too of Spielberg’s « Jaws », like « Sharknado» or « Megalodon ». Just my , of course … Hubert

What’s this strange recess between the windscreen and the radome ? Hubert

Totally agree, as usual witn Mike’s work . Hubert

And your toaster as well, which sounds logical 😂, if it contains any electronic board … Hubert

An EMP device will basically fry any electronic device within its range. The only devices likely to survive are those « hardened » (don’t ask me how its done - I have no idea) against an EMP, and are the military-grade ones … Hubert PS Edit : had an internet search. It seems the best way to shield a device against an EMP is to build a Faraday cage around it … Now, I’ll go to bed less stupid tonight.

Great result, Tim ! Worth the time spent building it 👍 ! Hubert

Well, atmospheric currents still hold a lot of unsolved mysteries. I remember well when the French government explained that the Tchernobyl radioactive cloud had not overflown the French territory. Somehow it stopped dead at the French-German border 🤣😂🤣 … Hubert

Frankly, that everything lines up is nothing short of a miracle, or a testimony of your building skills (I choose this latter explanation, personally). I could almost think could do it myself: what a delusional fool I am 😏. Hubert

It’s official. With age, my brain has slowed down, and I find myself unable to follow John’s rhythm of production without my head spinning wildly … Still, great job on the Spit, John 👍! Hubert

Sorry for yoir loss, Ernie. And blue skies to Flash. Hubert

Yes. You need to stop the crack spreading further, especially after repairs. I’d drill a hole big enough at its end, plug it with a piece of rod, soak the whole with extra thin. If the sides of the crack are in contact, re-welding with extra thin will work. If they are disjointed, then it’s better to plug the crack with CA gel. CA is good for any assembly exerting tensile forces, and bad for anyone where you have shearing forces. Hubert PS edit: sorry to contradict John, who replied while I was typing mine. I still think that, if the crack started at the wing root, you need to make sure it will not spread further by drilling a stress-relieving hole at its other end.

I don’t think you have any reason to regret the PE fret, Oliver Hubert