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What a wonderful build of a tricky kit. I love it!

Lovely build. Such a wonderful finish you have on the model. Very clean and sharp build.

Beautiful Sabre! Such an elegant aircraft. How was the build?

Great build Smitty. I love me some Scooter.

Lovely build. I love the off center build subject that will be very unique on a table. The whitewash is amazing as well. Is it just airbrushed?

I can promise one thing you don't need is filler for that one Mark!

I want to thank all you guys here on LSM. Many actually most I've never met in person. With all we are going through right now, I've had more support from the friends I've met here than most in real life. I know this is just a hobby "playing" with plastic toys, but its become so much more during this time. To my friends here who've reached out so many times to see how I am doing, I can't thank you enough for that support. You truly dont know what it means to me. Long live LSM and the Squirrel brigade!!!!

Progress in the paint department. Still needs gear work, belly paint in areas, and some touch ups. Then decals, weathering and she is all done. Thinking another week or so.

Got me some blades. I'd love to buy some new things but no kit money these days.

Thanks Smitty

Same here Mark. Placed a number of orders for paint, tape, etc to be ready for a few builds. 5he one thing I can't really find is a decent amount of #11 blades. I use so many of those that I'm starting to get low and can't find a good resupply. Gonna have to ration those.

Absolutely beautiful Danny. I hope mine comes out half as good!!

So close to paint. Still have a few things to add and clean then we can get the fuselage painted.

Mark I love this build so much. What you've accomplished so far with a kit I wouldn't even want in my neighborhood is nothing short of inspiring.

The F-15 is gonna be in flight you goobers! This one will be parked. Carl, I had thought I heard something about working with the tail planes differently than instructed. That makes sense and its something I will look into doing for sure. Mark, thanks for the link. I will go through it tomorrow.

Well, here we are boys and girls. Stuck inside, no work to go to, and much stress to release. I've been grinding away at my F-16 and realized I probably only have about 2 more weeks of work left before it gets wrapped up. So began the plastic fondling to figure out what next? It came down to an F-15I or F-4J. The deciding factor was I have everything I need for the big Phantom but need a few things for the Ra'am to pose it in flight and armed up. So out comes Shamrock 201 with some goodies to boot. My dad had a very good friend from flight school that ended up with VMFA-333 in the Phantom do theres a neat connection there. I may even pass the bird along to him in the future. Here's where we start: Tamiya F-4J, Fox One decals, AOA stencils, Quickboost seats and intake plugs, and Eduard missiles. Any and all suggestions for building the Tamiya kit will be much appreciated! She'll be in a "parked" configuration. Folded wings, plugs in, rbf tags on, and ladders on.

Dont forget it's ok to run the line just a little loose, then tighten it up with a warm piece of metal. I used a putty blade heated with a lighter. Hold it under the line and watch as it tightens right up.

I fully agree Mark. I 100% feel more at peace sitting and working at a clean uncluttered bench. My bench had gotten kind of bad with how much time I had to work at it. I had some many parts going it got a little unruly.

Absolutely lovely. What are the colors used for the green and the mauve?

You'll notice I got the forward nose section wrong. I followed the Tamiya directions before the decals arrived and realized I used the wrong part. Oh well! And the tail gets pulled off easily and set aside so no harm will come to it.

Another positive, lots of time to clean the bench/work desk. Spent a few hours this morning completely going through and organizing all my drawers and cleaning everything. Much more "zen" now with a clean work area.

Fuselage halves were joined today. Seam cleanup and continuing to decal under wing stores tomorrow.

I'd be up for a live modeling "happy hour"

Seems as though they never trained Polish pilots to avoid using brakes in a taildragger.......

Looking good Harvey. If I was to build a target, this would be top of my list.