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My build will be a clipped wing Spitfire Mk.IXe of 318 Sqn. The Exito decals look lovely and the full size thick glossy paper with beautiful color schemes is an excellent touch. It's worth displaying with the model except mine had a bit of water damage from the ridiculous weather here in Texas. Thankfully the decals themselves seemed to have made it ok.

An opportunity has presented itself that I just can't turn down. I was able to get a Tamiya Spitfire at a great price from HobbyNut models. I wasn't going to build it right away as I had the Thud ongoing, but Mark at HobbyNut asked me to give the new Quinta Studios 3D decals a try. So l, I have paused the Thud and have pulled out the Spit to get it built up. Along with the Quinta goodies I am trying out the new decals from Exito decals. A huge thank you to Hobbynut models for their help in making this build possible!

If it makes any difference, I had a number of flights into and out of Memphis last week and it was a proverbial s#!+ show with the weather. I cant imagine how screwed up the logistics chain must have become for them.

I'm very excited to get to building with mine.

The best way for people not from here to understand what we are dealing with is this.... The temperature is literally 100° less than what we're used to dealing with. Let that sink in!

Yea, I'm headed back over right now to check on things. I'll probably try and clean up stuff the best I can. I've left two facets running so hopefully that helps.

27 hours without power. Add to that the kiddo and dogs are freaked out about being in a new place so they didn't sleep at all last night. And the cherry on top..... The fire alarm at my sister in laws apartment where we are staying went off at 2am. It was 0°F outside and we had to try and figure out how to get all the dogs baby and adults into her car. I thought 2020 was over!

Man I hate to hear that. Harv is one of the good ones and I certainly wish him well in his recovery. Get back here soon Harv!

Yea they're saying this is basically unprecedented here. Every single county in Texas (254) was under a winter storm warning yesterday. We had to come over to my sister in laws apartment because we have been out of power for 12 hours and it was just getting too cold for our little one (6 months old). Now its 4 dogs, 3 adults, and a baby in a small single bedroom apartment. If I had power at the house I probably would have fired up the grill.

I'm so very happy to see you back Peter. Your infectious attitude combined with great building skills was definitely missed.

Thankfully Jeff it's the light and fluffy stuff. Which is even weirder that it's cold enough to have that kind of snow here. What makes it especially hard are the huge swings Like I said, it was 70 last week and I was out building a new retaining wall and sweating. Also, apparently I have Texas dogs. I had to go out in the yard and clear pee and poop areas for them.

Yea this is nuts. Its 5° here in Dallas this morning and we've only had 1 hour of working power since 4 am. Not an easy day with a 6 month old at home. Thankfully all my aircraft are snowed in and my wifes shift yesterday was canceled. We're both able to be home to handle this.

There aren't winters in the state. I had to cancel a flight because our planes are snowed in and were due for another bought of snow on Wednesday. It's an absolute cluster down here. We just aren't equipped for this type of stuff.

Who the hell moved my house to Canada!? It was 70° here last week and its 10° here now. 10F!!!!!!

Wow, that is an entirely different level of model building.

The P-40 will always have a special place on the shelf. Right now I'd say it's my F-16. It means a lot because it was given to me by a good friend, and it got me through the stress and isolation of the March and April lockdown. Also, I'm very pleased with how it looks.

Of all the ones I've seen of yours that was my favorite one Mark. I really enjoyed seeing it in person and I believe photos dont do it justice.

If you had someone over to your house and you could only show them one of your completed builds, which one would it be? Why?

Cleaned up the bench to head back to work. Of course had to do a little taping to see what she'll look like.

Got a bit of a Thud crash sight on the bench right now. Decided to give the Black Box gear wells a try.

I'm working on my Thud cockpit and can't quite figure out the best way to get the mirror look on my mirrors. Polished foil, a paint, anything else? Any ideas from the masters would be great.

For someone not building a kit you sure are building a lot! I'm gonna start telling my wife I'm not drinking whiskey, I'm just playing around.

Yup, last few days the filed bankruptcy

Yup, dunzo. They were horribly run in the end. Terrible business practices and failed to listen to what their customers were saying. It should have been a very easy fix and there's no reason they couldn't have given Sprue Brothers a run for their money.

Did some digging and they are enamel based. I may try them on my F-104 build since theres a lot of masking metal sections on that.