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Thanks for the suggestion, Guy. I've been thinking about a paint shaker for a while.

Thank you, Guys! Dunno what will be done about my wrists. I seem to have bits of bone that have lifted from the bones. So, now I have to wait for an opening for an MRI. Anyway... about the kit... I glued on the windscreen a few days ago with canopy glue. Discovered a sill. It was only a half a millimeter wide, but would be almost an inch wide in 1/1 scale. No way Jose! Would you jump on the expressway, USA if your hood or doors were sticking out an inch when the should be smoothly blended with the body of your car? As I prepared for primer, I gave the entire model a gentle sanding with 2K grit. Small sink marks abound... even in the canopy! I will camouflage them with effects if the show up later. The whole kit... only the clear wingtip lights to add.... oh $&@... totally forgot the tail light. One thing I learned about my first foray with HGW rivets... you need to make sure that your primer is dark enough to see the rivets against. My preferred primer: Tamiya paint... which ever color you want to use. Holds as well or better than anything else around. Here, I discovered that I had done a terrible job removing an ejector pin mark from each propeller blade. And while still masked I gave the canopy a spray of RLM 74. But you can see, my masking job was imperfect. I'll fix it tomorrow. Thanks for looking!

Looking awesome, Bill!

I was thinking of how nice it was... didn't even notice the missing engine fan.

Wow! I feel for you, brother.

I had SNAFU like that once, too. Complained to the proprietor from whom I ordered said kit, and he didn;t believe other shops in Australia were already selling said kit. So, I showed him evidence and he then said that it was my fault for ordering something 'not-in-stock', and that it wasn't his fault that the supplier "ICM" didn't send it to him. So, I cancelled my order, got my refund and bought one from a nicer place. Low and behold, over a year later, my kit arrived from the original shipper. Anyway... enjoy your TBD.

Pretty sure that's 1/72. That's seen on the internet quite often.

Beautiful job, John!

I've seen the 1/35 S-boat completed recently in person. Just too big. And a lot of stuff to detail. I think 1/72 is a great scale for patrol type craft. Back when I was a young Marine, I was trying to scratch build a 1/72 scale destroyer. This was back in the 80's and pre internet. I just couldn't get enough detail from the few photos I could find in books. It was 2m long. But, the bigger it is, the more difficult it is to both fill with details and put up for display.

That looks great, Phil! Hope you give us lots of close ups for the RFI.

Thank you, Paul!

Thanks Rob. Unfortunately, the more they look, the more they find. Now waiting for a date with an MRI.

I haven't accomplished much on the model this week. Had to go to the hospital today to find out what's wrong with my wrists. Anyway... all I've managed lately is to paint this dudes face. He looks a fair bit better from a distance. I'll give him a couple weeks to dry, then paint the rest.

Congratulations on your new venture! Good luck!

Are you a modeller who paints figures? Or a figure painter who builds models. I am definitely the former. I doubt that I will ever devote enough time to figures to make any that will grab anyone's attention. My 190 guy: My Panzer guy: And my chubby Zero Pilot... C'mon Tamiya! WTF? Give that man a pizza! BTW... Before I added paint, I thought that the FW guy might be a dead ringer for HRH King Charles. Too ruddy though, eh?

Looks great, Kevin.

Interesting and well done. Always wanted to see the one of these done.

Nice looking paint Marco.

Well done camo scheme, John.

Stellar work, Peter. Depite all of the bad fit of this kit, your efforts will pay off in the end.

Looks great, Ron.

I've wanted to do a 1/32 car door myself. Your work looks great!

The one man army masks are surely a great bit of kit. But alignment is not always easy. You seem to have done well, Rob.

Wow... Giants indeed.

That's a great idea, Martin.