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Also the nose is pretty much wrapped up. Now I can look towards mating the wing and dealing with the drop tanks.

Every time I think I have the areas need filling done, I realize they aren't quite right. So, round 1000 of filling and sanding the ejection chutes and recognition lights. I will say the gun ports were relatively easy to deal with.

Now that sounds like a fun afternoon.

Back home from my first week flying for the new company. I absolutely love my new job and the company I fly for which is always a plus. I decided on a grey for the gear and gear wells and got all those parts painted. Then I closed up the wings and installed the gun ports. Now I need to keep working on cleaning the wings and remove the gun ports, and nav lights. Brady, I will be building mine on the ground. If I build another racer, which I very much want to do, it will be in flight rounding a Reno pylon. For the flaps, I honestly haven't decided yet. Since the pictures I am leaning on have them up, I will probably end up with them built in the up position. I also started work on the hard points. I am just going to scratch build them myself. **I have realised that making resin copies of the prop is out of my skill set right now. If there is someone who can help cast them since a few others have asked for a set I would greatly appreciate it. If not, I have all 4 built up that I need.

As a professionalpilot, I'm not sure if this saddens me, or impresses me...... How in the hell did he get it up there in such good condition?

I need to check out those paints.

Brady, your absolutely correct. This airplane never stayed the same long. I'm working mostly off the two pictures where it is sitting in the dirt wearing the Skyraider tanks. I've started work on the tanks but haven't gotten to how I'll mount them yet. I'm planning on building the hard points out of plastic strip. Yes, these are AMS resin tanks as that was the only place I could source the 150 gallon ones. They look absolutely amazing as well.

Time to shake ya tail feathers! Tails wrapped up, with everything on. I'm currently working on the gear wells getting them ready for paint. I'm also continuing to work on wings and modifying them. I feel like I'm not making progress but I know it'll come together.

It's funny, you guys are echoing exactly what people looking at the diorama in person where saying. It didn't do well exactly because of the boats speed and the unclaimed pair of legs. The Work quality was good, but the story just didn't mesh well.

An awesome kit, and my second entry for 2020 nationals!

Just playing around a bit.

I was able to get the main wheels painted and built up, along with painting the exhaust stack covers NMF. I then assembled a few of the nose parts with glue, then placed all the nose parts on to make sure my alignment is good. I'm a happy camper! Tomorrow I plan on painting the exhaust stacks then I can start closing in on wrapping up the nose.

Back home. No pictures but worked on the cowling and cockpit this afternoon. I've decided completely OOB except for paint mask do I can enter this into OOB category at the local contests. Just a nice fun build with a focus on painting and weathering. I'll try and get some photos later in the week.

Absolutely awesome work Brady. I see you struggled with the hard point dilemma as well. I'm leaning towards scratch building some but haven't fully decided yet. I'm finally back home from training so I'll have a few days this week to work on the Mustang.

Brady, first off welcome aboard LSM. You'll find a great group of guys here with fun personalities and a wealth of information. Are you building Bardahl in 1/32 scale? If so, which kit and what mods have you done to it? My next big portion is working on the wings and removing the armament from them. I also need to figure out what type of pitot probe I'll use out on the wing. I'm leaning towards an F-104 probe so I have plenty of adjustment room. I like the information you provided for the drop tanks. I have a set of 150 gallon Skyraider tanks I was able to source, so I will use those. The checkerboard ones were my backup if I couldn't find the bigger tanks. Please don't hesitate to show us your build!

This thread is pure fun.

Excellent choice Mark.

This is now on a level I can't even comprehend. Hold on while I get my Thesaurus. I'm out of words to describe this build.

Cant wait to really getting hopping on my butcherbird. First I gotta get out of this damned tourist trap known as Orlando.

Looks great!

Holy smokes that is AWESOME! It's a great model because it looks incredible from any distance or angle. Excellent build.

I like to "put my bench to bed" when leaving for awhile. Heres how it looks as I leave it be for a few weeks and all 3 projects I have actively going. I like it this way in case someone visits while I'm gone it looks respectable.

Thanks buddy. I've got to make progress when I can.

Here's the color callout from Montex. I do like the look of the brown, but I think it makes sense they kept the original colors. It'll give me something to ponder at night during training.

Got paint on the cockpit parts and started assembling the wheel wells and wing parts.