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Sharp result on your Yak, Kevin. Paintwork looks really nice.

Harv, Take care of yourself, Buddy.

Rob, nice start to what looks like a delicate assembly. I'll be looking forward to seeing how your paint scheme goes. Especially metal waxes... want to know all about them.

Link no workee, Tovarische.

Thank you, Fellas!

You all will be happy to know that things (the bids) looked pretty good at Dale's auction. His family should be pleased with the result.

Very nice!

Thank you, Hubert!

Thank you very much, Kai! I'm afraid the production line staff would go into rebellion... it's really no fun to build! And so fragile. I feel like I am trying to handle a spiderweb every time I touch it. I really should have done a fourth one as this one is far from ideal. But if you really need one, and aren't just joking, I'll see what I can do. I don't think it would survive the trip fully assembled... So I might be able to ship some assemblies as flat pack. The cloth seat isn't the way it should seem like in the pictures Martin posted. This is for three reasons: 1: I didn't want to try to attach a wet, floppy construct of toilet tissue and PVA glue. 2: Attaching a large decal to a curvy thing like the cloth seat would be a nightmare. 3: I have still to place the U.S. Air Corps flotation cushion on the seat. I need a hard angle to set it in. Hopefully I can show this tomorrow.

Meine Herren... Mein Stuhl. Sorry for the crappy photos... seems there was too much glare. Anyway... I figured taking enough shots from enough angles would illustrate the cheerful cloth seat for the deck chair. Happy modelling!

What molds Does the Eduard kit use? I have the ICM kit.

Very nice! I know everyone wants bigger models... but 1/48 is plenty big for these big birds, for me.

Nice! I've never built a sailing ship before.

Thank you for the kind words, Rob. Still a long way to go on this one.

I'm sad to hear the kit is such a dog, Peter. Move on and enjoy yourself.

Smashing, john!

Happy birthday!

ModelsUA And alternative to Eduard... a buck or so cheaper. And they have brass barrels, too. Which is a very cheap alternative... just attach them to your plastic receiver group. But missing are the sights and sight cover... so, basically you can scratch the sight and sight cover... Sorry to suggest extra work...

Thank you, Kai. I wish I felt close.

There are still some very large pieces of photo etch to deal with, Peter. The close off the back end of the fighting compartment. I'm not really looking forward to them.

I'll probably go for the box camo I showed on page 1. Even though the pic shows a hard edge camo, the photo with all of the guys in the same positions, shows a very soft camo with much less color density. I've heard about Bronco kits for some time. And knew they had a propensity to be parts-heavy and over-engineered. But I'd never heard any other complaint against them. They are the only ones to make this AFV and the PZ III with 5 road wheels. So it was really deciding which ones I wanted when the daughter gave me a gift card for one of the larger model kit sellers in Australia. I've never seen any for resale. ... not that I have looked too hard. They do make a lot of the British cruiser tanks from the early war years like the A9. I may get to those eventually as I've already done Matilda and Valentine by other kit makers.

I know that Master made MG 15's... I bought like 20 of them. ... they look pretty snazzy: The next question is... are you supposed to be using MG 81?

It's hard to believe that it's been more than a month since my last update. Anyway... here we go! Today I started by putting metal back supports on the chairs. A friend told me that he broke the plastic supports repeatedly as he was assembling the model. The two seats will sit on the small rails over the red arrows. Also note the 3-shell ammo storage boxes on each side of the fighting compartment. There are PE latches at the end and PE triangles one each case, Not sure what they are for... but there they are. I started adding tools. Some have PE latches. And then there were more wingnuts holding on the jack. And finally the group pic with everything done so far. So far, nobody has produced any interior photos of this machine. So I wonder how close this kit is to the real article. Anyway...getting closer to paint. Happy modelling!

Just couldn't help myself.... from Farcebook.

I've never lived anywhere geologically unstable. My heart goes out to those who suffer from nature's fury. Glad that it wasn't your island, Rob.