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Carl, you can gladly peel a few off those bottom two stacks up front and send them my way if you need to make some room for more kits. 😁

Yea. Just went there. I’m in the middle of my Hasegawa P-40 build and enjoying the Hasegawa kit. Got me thinking of putting the P-47 kit I have into the rotation for next year. So I pull out my not so trusty inventory sheet to find which box it’s still packed away in. Wait…It’s not on the list. How can this be?!!? I know I wouldn’t have sold it, but just to be sure I dig through all of my messages on all my forums I’m on. Nothing. I get a wild idea to pull up a pic of my stash from the old house I took about 5 years ago. Sure enough, there it is on the shelf right between the Wildcat, Hellcat and a P-40B kit. Pull out my list, Box 13 has those other kits listed but no P-47. Out to the garage and after shuffling around a few kits and another big box of kits (of course box 13 would be in the back) I retrieve it down off the shelf. Yep, there it is. Apparently someone was drinking when things were packed away and getting inventoried. Whew. Disaster avoided. Yea, disaster because I’d have to go buy another and take a gamble of getting busted bringing another kit into the fold. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Yea, if it wasn’t in that moving box, there is no way I was going to pull down every box to search for it. I would have just bought another. Oh, and the Mandela effect kicked in too. I thought I had the Gabreski boxing. Nope. European Theatre with the Big Ass Bird which is one I wanted to build anyway. I really hate my inventory system because of crap like this. I’d love to be able to “display” my kit selection again.

Very nice!

Yea, the 1/350 Enterprise lighting kit is normally $165 with a remote. I’ve got to at least pull the trigger on that one.

If you’ve ever dabbled in lighting kits for syfi, you know how expensive they can get! I got this email from Tena Controls and thought I’d share. I used their lighting kit on my Seaview kit I built for the Wet group build. It’s some high quality stuff! “Hi, TenaControls is offering a one-week sale on all our lighting kits, starting December 9th through December 15. We are offering a 15% discount on all orders placed within this time frame. How to take advantage of this discount. Go to our website and make a list of the lighting kits models numbers and then email the list of items you wish to purchase and we'll send you a PayPal invoice with the discounted price. You then pay the invoice and we will ship out the lighting kit or kits to you. Have a happy Holiday season! Regards, Ralph Tenaglia TenaControls,LLC” I’m gonna be in deep poopoo with this sale. I need sets for 3 or 4 kits and half of them are pricy!

I tried using it a few months back. Granted, it was old and still in the package from probably 10 years ago, but it wouldn’t stick and when it came up it left an oily residue. I use “ticky-tac” instead. At Hobby Lobby

Ha! House flippers here in the states paint everything gray. The joke now is calling it “flipper gray”. New homes 99% of the time get basic white everything.

Yea, I know. It’s an American holiday. But I’m giving thanks to all of our wonderful friends of styrene around the world today! This would be a lonely place without all of you.

Interesting how the electrical outlets are horizontal compared to how the US does them vertically. I bet your toilets flush in the wrong direction too! It’s looking great and coming along nicely.

I’ve always heard one cannot make chicken salad from chicken s*!t. But damnit, that looks very tasty! Color me impressed John. A true scrap yard restoration!

Next step on the Trumpeter HIMTT is weathering the tires and getting them on the model. I’ve been watching you tube and almost everyone is using acrylics. Although some did use Tamiya rattle can primers first. Any tips for using Mr. Color lacquers on rubber kit tires?

Slowly getting there.

😱 They so tiny!

Yea, Quinta interiors are like the Cliff’s Notes of the modeling world.

Got the P-40 cockpit almost ready to install. And made some progress on the HIMTT chassis. Started the wash. interesting how the desert sand color didn’t come out in the pic.

Well, at least you didn’t start building it, filed down the instrument panel and then find out you accidentally ordered the Quinta set for a Trumpeter kit and not the Hasegawa kit on your bench. 🤪 To make matters worse, Hobby Nut hasn’t shipped yet even though they said it was in stock. I ordered a second off eBay and it arrived last night. That’s fine because I’m planning on building a P-40K and I’ll need it anyway. But now I need to buy a Trumpeter P-40E kit to go with my new interior set. 😇 …..Off to shoot an email to Hobby Nut.

Good to see you back on line Peter. Some normalcy is good medicine! I finally got back to the bench a couple weeks back. It does feel great. But now I’ve gone overboard and I’ve broken my cardinal rule of one kit at a time. Oh the horror! I’m working on two.

I noticed that too.

I finally understand the true meaning of “fiddly bits”

What’s the old saying? What comes around, goes around? FF was big before the introduction of the escapement RC systems. Kind of odd someone would go through that much trouble and not drop in a low cost modern RC system. But I guess that’s half the fun is setting it up to flay a pattern and land in a certain area. I was just browsing through eBay at some of the old RC engines I had back in the day. I’d love to have them just to display, but not dropping that kind of money for a display piece.

Well this just showed up and the wife got to watch me open it up. But no joy on my part watching her face turn red or blow a gasket. She knew it was on the way from our oldest son. Now that he’s a Captain his new command is going to be in charge over a Patriot missile group. Here’s the catch 22. It’s a bench clearing project so I can get it built for him before he retires in 10-12 years. 🤪 Im going to learn a lot about packing a built model for shipment.

I’ve been sitting on the fence over the Gannet. There was a small production 1/32 announced a few years back, but never saw an update. Probably vaporware. But as soon as I buy the 1/48 kit….

Awesome find!!

And yes, the Squadron book does have the stripe angled wrong in their artwork. Interesting. I’ll probably go ahead and just use the decals as they are. I’m not out to win any accuracy awards. Just build a model!

Martin, interesting pic. Taken a second before that the one in my book. Pilot on the right just tossed the football in this pic. But this…