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Wow! At least they could have sept the venue up before the performance. It looked like dust was getting in everyone’s eyes. She does have a gift. One thing I never got in life was a drop of musical talent. From reading sheet music, singing, trying to play an instrument, nada, none, zilch. Hell, I couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket, wheelbarrow or my truck. On a related subject of the paralyzed stomach, I’m starting to hear a lot of cases popping up now due to the abuse of the Type 2 diabetes medication Ozympic being used for weight loss. When I first heard about this diet fad I knew it wouldn’t end well. Sure enough, people have brought this same issue on themselves instead of just eating properly.

Yea, this one is the Messyschmitt one. I did the Spitfire years ago.

OMG! What have I done!?!?!?! Phantom isn’t quite ready for paint and this “fell” out of a stash box.

As promised, my other goodies that showed up. 1st is something I’ve seen online, but never could find it in stock here in the USA. Tamiya Decal Adhesives. Bought both, one with softener added, from Super Hobby in Poland. The last is the Laminar Flow Design Griffon conversion. I’m going to use this with my Tamiya Mk. VIII kit I got back during the Tamiya USA sale they had. And I almost forgot! These came the other day to go with it. Merry Christmas to me!

Gonna glue that radial on the nose? 🤣 I love off the wall paint schemes on aircraft. (Should be obvious from some of my builds I’ve been posting) Yours is no exception! I was wondering where you were going with this. Outstanding!

Another successful roll of the dice! Of course this one took some logistical luck, timing and help from a friend. I think it was Martin that had one posted a couple weeks back? By the time I decided I wanted it, poof! Ad was gone so I assumed sold. I turned to eBay. Seller from Japan, $85 shipped! Timing was perfect. Was supposed to arrive on a Friday when the wife was working. Oops! Sat in customs in Japan 5 days. Fortunately we had an out of town trip when it showed up so I had my buddy drive over and porch pirated it and hid it in my truck! LOL! But wait! There’s more! Another post to follow up shortly.

They have kind of the same system as Mark Worman does for the Mopar’s. Except they have the dirty room for all the tear downs on site.

Must be all that Canadian Whiskey doing it to you!

That’s awesome Ernie! A true work of art.

Here we go.

I’ve been reading this subject online for years now. It’s almost like walking into a discussion on religion or politics. There are some very passionate folks that take this seriously. Way back in the early days the BA’s mixed paint they had on hand. I think it was Insignia blue and white. Cannot remember the ratios though. But I think it was with the Phantoms they went with a commercial paint color. Seems that no one will share the actual paint code. It has been discussed that the BA’s ground crew uses an off the shelf Krylon spray bomb for touch ups in the field. A few years back I went rummaging through the Krylon rack at the local Ace hardware and found it. Gloss true blue. Yep, perfect. Went home, started my A-4 Skyhawk project and even got the Krylon applied after decanting and airbrushing. One slight problem with Krylon. It’s very brittle when it cures all the way. It wants to chip off in flakes if you slightly bend the plastic. Crap. Skyhawk is still on the SOD. Back to the internet for more reading. It seems that there were some mixing formulas using the now defunct Testors Model Masters lineup. Besides, speaking of religions, mine is now lacquers only! It seems that all of the BAB paint offered by our favorite manufacturers is based off FS15050. This is incorrect. Even my Yellowhammer Models decal sheet says, and I quote “ One thing is for sure, FS15050, the accepted “Blue Angels” blue is completely wrong……” They suggested FS15052. Of course no one makes that. Of course they suggest mixing Testors enamels. Yuk! So back to the Internet. Someone suggested Tamiya spray bomb lacquer TS15. So for giggles, I ordered Mr. Color FS15050, SMS Blue Angels Blue, Tamiya bottled lacquer LP-6 “pure blue” and a can of Tamiya TS-15 spray. I also bought a paint mule kit. An old crusty 1/48 Phantom. I’ll just say, I never had to open the LP-6. I divided the model into three parts. Back end I sprayed with the Mr. Color FS15050, wing and center of fuselage with SMS FS15050 and the front end with decanted Tamiya TS-15. all were laid on with 4 coats and then a good wet coat of about 98% Leveling Thinner to smooth it out. Not sure how good you can see in the pic, but the SMS looks pretty good. Still a little too gray as Yellowhammer said. Almost a green shade to it. The Mr. Color on the tail, just not right looking at pics online. But the front end with the decanted TS-15, I think we have a winner! It’s more of a true blue color that looks like online pics. Here’s the pic in my paint booth. I’ll take it outside and get more pics in the sunlight. Wish me luck. We’re having 25 MPH winds today.

And ready for the paint shop!

Not bad!

Wow! Look at the shadows from the rivets. Those things must have been huge.

Looks great. Somewhere I’m hiding one of those kits. I should dig it out.

I remember a few years back someone was working on a 1/32 Fairey Gannet kit. I was excited to hear about that one, but it seems to have fizzled out. Ah yea, Flying S Models. Still on a back burner it looks like.

Man, that’s looking great.

Tamiya USA is great. I’ve read online that folks in other parts of the world are not so lucky. When I was building my 5 F-16 Thunderbirds display using the old Revell kits I was ordering decal sheets from them. They were dirt cheap, like $12 per set. Guys on eBay were asking upwards of $50 per set. I still cannot figure out why Tamiya (Japan) pulled that kit off the market. Even rekitted as something other than the T bird it would be a big seller.

Winner winner! Chicken dinner!

I’ll give everyone one guess. The Tamiya tape will be the other color going on it. No AM intakes for this one. Hoping for a quick build and I think FOD covers will look sharp in yellow too. BTW, pulled the kit out of the stash last night and got busy at 7:30 this morning with coffee in hand!

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Link to completed builds.

It’s the wrong scale! I know the Trumpeter kit has the turned down exhaust as well. Not sure about oleos though. (Stupid auto correct wants Oreo. Damnit. Now I want Oreos too)

And tucked away in the display.