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Thank you, Peter.

That bag looks so much better than the plastic tubs found on 1/35 kits.

The Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians operate two casinoes near Traverse City, Michigan. I gave them too much money one day. Since then, I never went back to casino style gambling, though I punted on the horses for a while here in Australia.

I've heard that the Japanese kept their Hinomarus well painted even if the surrounding finish was flaking off. Perhaps they weren't the only ones? Thank you, Phil. After my best builds got nothing last year, I'm a bit leery. Someone said last year that the fix was in for 1/32 enhanced. It went from OOB to enhanced by the addition of seat belts. Martin, I appreciate your efforts anyway. Yeah, that's the consensus I got from FB as well. They use wooden blades on the ones that fly today so that the prop shatters instead of the engine and reduction gear parts getting damaged in the event of a wheels-up landing.

Really looking beautiful, Chris! The underside weathering looks good, and the upper side paintwork looks very nice.

Thanks Martin. Already a standard part of my weathering program. I've been wondering if the 109 ever used wooden propeller blades. I know the 190D9 did. What's in your message bank?

Those lights look very nice, Rob! Re: the Tamiya drawing on variants... Thanks... I feel informed though underwhelmed. Most of the stuff they did could have been handled by a few Rüstzatse sets. No new engines...

Great looking model, John! Seems like just the other day it was on the SOD. Great job!

Thank you, Rob. Truly speckled with an old brush and a coffee stirrer. Most of the paint ends up in a paper towel before I bring the tools close to the model. If I notice conspicuously large blobs I just reabsorb them with the paint brush. Still, it lacks density for scale. So, I’ll use some thin, fine mist to make it look convincing.

Thank you, Carl. All of the German cars have a lot of angular fun. Putty to follow…

Dragon SdKfz 250 with crew in stages. Amazingly, I had 4 extra track links, but no matter how careful I was, I was one track pad short. Luckily I started on top and not the bottom.

Thank you, Chris!

Thank you!

Hi everyone, Thanks for your support so far.... time for another update. All of the work here was done over the last few days in spits and spurts with oils. I waste a ton of oil paint. I put it on a cardboard palette and sometimes... I just fall out of the mood to paint, and they just dry up there. Here are my two gargoyles. It appears one has been brawling. I'm one of those guys whose always guilty of under-weathering the underside of my airplane models. Not that it's overly critical... most of that never gets seen anyway except during WIP threads. Although I have seen some proud guys at model shows who put their planes over mirrored bases. I haven't attached the lower cooling flaps, tail wheel, Tail wheel fillet, and landing gear wheel well covers. Mostly on these so far, I have done a pin wash and speckling method. This is all cast off from the wheels... sorry for the glare. Heh.... That mask has been stuck to my cutting mat for a while. I peeled it off before editing these photos. I also used the speckling method to reflect cast-off from the tail wheel. I think I made a sequence error by doing the oil streaking before doing the speckling of cast-off dirt and grime. Finally the propeller. In many picture you can see lubrication oil has dripped down the propeller blade and impregnated the paint. Anyway... that's the excitement for now. Now it gets to set for a large part of the week waiting for the oils to dry.

Looking good, John. Looks naked without sidewinders, tho.

Nice looking blueprints, Rog. A/C in the Garage, i hope?

Coming from a family that is 50-80% Bible thumpers... I love this one! My father after years of womanizing, skipping out on child support, heavy drinking and driving while drunk suddenly got religious when he had to contemplate his mortality. All of a sudden he became "long term back-slidden". Anyway... I saw this Christmas card.... On it, Mary and Joseph were trying to think up a name for their baby. While walking into the manger, one of the three Kings bumped his head on the lentil over the door and said "ooh Jesus", whereupon Joseph said: "hey, that's a good one!" It was all I could do not to buy it and send to to the old man and wife #5.

OK, mate. I got it. Meanwhile....

She looks beautiful, Sasha. Poor Oesau. I did this plane a few years ago using a Fujimi kit.

No point in looking back, Paul. Regret... is a waste of energy.

I like the pre-shading on the mandibles. I also like it when modeling companies make extra skinny tubing structures. This is one thing that ICM does... they are very bold when it comes to modelling fine cylindrical parts for LG and stuff. However, the plastic they use is both softer than you want for large parts, and more brittle than you want for frail parts. Keep up the inspiring work! I was gonna make a different joke about the cat's paw... but since you already have one, I'll leave it at that.

How would a -4 be different than the rest? I have always thought there was just birdcage and non birdcage. Rob, the office and armored glass look sweet. I have always wondered how much the approach of the curved windshield saved on drag. I guess when you have the luxury of building big fighters, you can do stuff like that.

Brilliant!

Nice save, John!