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I'm glad I didn't get your goat too much... I knew you would approve.

Very nice work, John!

Sorry Hubert... I missed your comment. I've been pretty lucky with the extra thin so far... don't jinx me. And... my dearly beloved would never let me solder in the house.

Even though not my favorite plane... it is my favorite version of that plane. Thankfully they used their heads and didn't whip out some interwar &(**%$!^, some unarmed @(&%, or some civilian %()(@. I'm sure they'll be famous.... unless their next plane is a Fairey Battle, or Blackburn Skua. Personally, I wouldn't turn my nose up at an early Tiffie.... or have those been "done to death"?

Great pics, Martin! Thank you! After trying to thin down the strip evenly, I decided to buy thinner strip. The new strip will be .5mm X 1mm. Should be interesting to work with. There is a lot of work to do on the camo. Step 1 of the weathering process will be to stress the paint by wet sanding. This will eliminate some 1/1 scale overspray as well as show wear given to the fuselage in particular as the upper layers of paint on the fuselage were often buffed away in places showing the RLM 76 underneath. ... then there will be touch up and more weathering.

I think mine is the 1/570 scale version. I would like to do Enterprise one day, too.... and then a couple ships from Babylon 5.

For a half second I thought you had two of those egg plane kits on your bench.

Nice cutting, Harv. I've taken to use the method where you drill a line of holes and then the saw follows the holes. I had too many instances of saw-drift in my life.

Looks good, Rob. Sunlight is your best friend to show the shine. And I find white backgrounds suck the life from a model photo.

It was hard to find the same-ish design of chair. I may have already ordered the stock when I found the DIY article. It's not quite the same. But it has a lot in common with Weiroster's chair.

Thank you, Mark. I've yet to see a good representation in a photo from a perpendicular angle. All the pics I've seen are from a low angle... So I have no idea how close I am.

Everyone is a comedian!

That is the question. My most regular fault is blobs of superglue all over the place.

Today... along with a cutting mat... my plastic strip arrived... so of course I put together a deck chair. As you can see... my plastic strip stock is way out of scale. I may disassemble the chair, make each piece more narrow... and reassemble it. Most importantly, now I have some experience putting together this rickety thing.

I finally joined the rest of the modelling world. I bought a cutting mat.

Thank you!

No worries, Ern. I was just taking this opportunity to sob.

Thank you. The external paints except for the green #3 are all MRP. RLM 76 is actually 50/50 RLM 65 and 76. RLM 75 is RLM 75 made more gray by adding Black and USN White. RLM 74 is RLM 74 with a little International Blue mixed in.

Thanks for the quick response, guys. I'm really looking more towards a cheaper DIY solution from parts I can get locally. I have a soldering iron yet need soldering practice. I'd like to build my skill set without spending too much.

Thank you, Peter. Yep... big lay day it was. Watching football now... so another lazy day happnin.

Thank you, Rob. The walk lines aren't exactly perfect. But they'll do from a couple feet away. It might be one of those techniques that has to be done last. The shape still bugs me. Bugs me enough to keep thinking on how I might fix the problems on the Revell G10. If scribing wasn't required, the simple answer would be putty. I have filled 109 panel lines before. And the major problem with that is what happens to the details you don't want to fill. Invariably they suffer, and rescribing fuel hatches and handholds... is tough. They never look right for me. If the ZM 109 comes out before I get to it... I might have to give the Revell away.

Excellent stuff, Craig!

Fantastic work, Mark! Love that engine.

That's a very nice looking first effort, Peter. The 'old school' effort yielded first class results in your hands.

Excellent!