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My wife had a stomach bug for a few days, then I got it. Went to work the next day... felt a bit shitty so I had a COVID test before I walked in. Dammit! Negative. No week off for me!

Great score!

Dunno what happened there...

Thank you, Kai. I may have made one track a bit longer than the other. But one in excess is better than being short. Thank you for the offer. I'm all good, though as there are twelve links for external hanging plus the one left over. I haven't really found a Panther scheme that moves me, so I haven't needed any extra, extra, yet.

Thanks Harv! If I can make your dentures drop out I've done my job.

Nice work on that Hurri, Martin. I thought the IIC had 4 20mm guns?

Hello my friends, Now that my Me-110 build is complete, I can continue with this Panther. I've been adding bits and pieces when I've had opportunities. Today I did the tracks. Sometimes your AM dictates what you have to do with your build. Resources help, and if you're doing a Panther, you won't find a more useful reference than the book: Panther External Appearance & Design Changes by Roddy Macdougal & Martin Block. The Zimmerit I used, by Cavalier has pistol ports on the sides of the turret. These pistol ports were deleted once the nahverteidigungswaffe was introduced. When there were shortages of the nahverteidigungswaffe, the pistol ports on the side of the turret were retained. And when the nahverteidigungswaffe was unavailable, the hole in the roof made for it was plated over with a circular steel plate with four bolts as I illustrate. Todays work was building the track runs. I ended up with only one spare track link. There are still plenty of little parts to add. Happy modelling!

All I can say Kai is that the whole cockpit looks wonderful. Just enough of those details deep around the pilots are visible to make it interesting. And what really stands out is the excellent weathering at the top, in the bang seats and electronics, and pilots.

Thank you Martin. I got lucky with the figures... they were the best of the 13 I have. The remainder are either ground crew or more stereotypical types.

Bummer, Dude! I made some mistakes on my 110 build on the very final step. I could either repaint... or move on to the next model and hope that nobody noticed.

I remember that Airfix kit. It sure had a lot of ejector pin marks in very unhappy places. Otherwise a great little kit to build.

Thank you, Peter!

Thank you! Thank you!

Sharp!

Thank you, John!

Thank you, Phil. I'm glad you like it.

Rob, Thank you very much! Very kind words, and something I never really thought of during the build. So, hopefully it's something that comes naturally, and not a one-off. Perhaps it's even using the same matte clear... I dunno. But I truly appreciate you saying it.

Thank you, Kai! I'm really glad you like it!

Hello my Friends, Here is my first completion for the year. It's also the most effort I've ever put into a 1/48 scale build. But it won't be the last as I have some other great 1/48 scale kits by Dragon and ICM. 1./Ergänzungs-Zerstörergruppe Værløse was a temporary unit, stationed in Denmark formed from members of ZG 76 and new fliers that would eventually become part of NJG 3. Although there are only a few images of the unit that I have seen, I am guessing that there were a lot of training flights and flights escorting coastal convoys in the North and Baltic seas. Anyway... onto the pics! I hope you like it.

Very nicely done, Harald!

Looks very Swish, Rob!

Car... yeah....

Hi Ron. I'ma send you a PM.

That is some awesome work, mate.

When I worked in the oil fields, we had to use Xylene quite often. One guy got it dumped on him, requiring immediate hospitalization. The cure? Alcohol. No... not Iso. Bourbon. Whiskey. Or something along that vein. Not sure about how or why... but that was the cure. Imagine getting effed up in a hospital bed!