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Had to make up some underwing light lenses since I’m sure Carl needed his for his fixed wing build. LOL! Pulled out the circle cutter and used it on clear sheet plastic I had. Supposed to be almost pear shaped, but I’m going to have to settle for round. I used some .010 Evergreen to make a lip the lens can sit on. And off to fitting and gluing the inner gear doors.

Thanks guys. I shot some primer on a few things this morning. I have a long way to go yet. Longer now that I’m seeing it in primer.

There’s a lot to be said for this building code! My next up is the F-35A. I’ve been watching detailed builds. Lots of extreme details in the weapons bays. I’m building mine closed up so those won’t even get a coat of primer at my bench. Just the other day I was looking at a vendor selling 3D printed rudder pedals for Phantoms. I guess that’s for the builders that like to take all the detailed photos of what’s deep down inside you just cannot see.

Yea, Eli’s work is gonna convince me I need to build an A-20. Same thing happened with his F-4B decals.

My son called me up after visiting and read me the riot act for letting the paint on my 2015 Mustang get so bad. He’s right though. I don’t drive it very much now that I’m retired, so I ordered a car cover the other night. When the miserable heatwave breaks I’ll clay bar and polish it and keep the cover on it. UV is starting to take its toll.

Yea, I went to a private school down in the low country back in the ‘70’s. It was in a huge old home built sometime in the 1800’s. Exactly like that. We hit 100 yesterday and expecting the same today. Just bumped the tstat down to 65 to get it as cool as I can in here before the afternoon. It got a bit warm for my liking inside yesterday.

And the kit canopy is molded to fit the cutout for the fuselage opening. So I had to add stock to that and shape it. I like it!

Of course I had to go ham fist it up and accidentally hit the wrong spot with sanding sticks. A little 2000 grit and some spit took them right out. But the vacuum material is harder to polish. Had to break out the Milwaukee tools!

Wow. Big difference between the kit canopy and the Squadron vacuum Tempest canopy.

Much newer, but I have my doubts about insulation amounts. House has a large great room with a 19’ cathedral ceiling. Has “wings” on either side with on being master bedroom and bath. Other side is two bedrooms with a jack and Jill bathroom. Both have about 12’ ceilings. During the summer you can really feel the heat from overhead. My last home had AC vents in the ceiling. This one is all in the floors. I have to keep ceiling fans running all the time to circulate heat from above. Unfortunately, there is no access to the attic space above. None. Zero. Zilch. So I’m at the mercy of hoping they put enough insulation up there. I have thought about using my small probe camera to look up there through one of the smoke detectors. If I can see if it needs more, I’ll have to get a contractor to cut an opening in the ceiling of my walk in closet and get more insulation blown in. In all honesty, I’d love to find an old power bill from the last home and see my power usage vs. the new place. I know price per kilowatt hour is a lot less with the new company.

Well after the wet group build, it’s obvious I’m into syfi too! I build all kinds of stuff as well, I was just curious about everyone’s preference in planes. I should have asked about that category as well!

We peak in the summer and winter at $350 a month. Normally around $200-$225. We did have a mild spring bill of $125 when we first moved in. I keep the thermostat on 69 during the summer. sq ft is right at 2200, but we also have a hot tub now. Last home was a different company with much higher rates. Our averaged bill was $350 a month. Sq ft there was about 3000

Just preordered the F-35B from Squadron.

Myself, I’m a mixed bag of nuts. I jump between jets and props, leaning heavy on jets but have no idea why. I like them all.

Maybe it could be due to laws in Germany that a swastika cannot be posted, pictured, displayed anywhere and FB is used in Germany? Not defending the absurdity of denying history, I got to meet Anna Rosmus in a video production we did with her at work years ago. She’s a very interesting person and the move The Nasty Girl was about her. Wiki link on her

It was mentioned on LSP today that the Kate will continue but as a multimedia kit under the HpH label, along with a B-26 Marauder and a few others down the road. The B-26 announcement made me happy.

I cannot paint anything now without getting a stray cat hair or two somewhere on the model. 🥴

No pics, but today my Squadron Tempest canopy arrived along with my long sought after F-35A Splinter masks and decals. Looks like I know what’s up next after the Sea Fury project.

Isn’t that Operation Torch a highly sought after kit? Man, you stole that kit. I’d have been all over that one too.

I know, 1/72. But it’s big. It’s the Concorde model. Thought about selling it, had a buyer after posting it up on another forum. As far as I knew it was all still NIB but just opened. That’s how I bought it. Decided to just do an inventory of parts. Discovered the canopy was missing. Like the bag was ripped open, snipped off the sprue and put back in the box. Funny thing is, saw one offered for sale on eBay as a parts box with the same part missing. Who needs all these 1/72 Concorde canopies? Withdrew the sale and contacted Heller since they were the last to produce the kit and asked to buy the part and gladly pay shipping. In full disclosure, my kit is an older Airfix. Same molds though. Never heard a response back. Sent another email back in December. Still ignored. Sent another last night after reading others have gotten parts after being persistent and bugging the crap out of them. So dug up my old email and resent it asking once again for assistance. I just got a reply! Said they will locate the part for me and get it sent to me. Sometime I guess one does have to squeak a lot to get some grease.

Thanks Carl. I was feeling a little cocky after making those Tamiya gear fit the Revell Tomcat.

Another angle.

Almost forgot, at the TE of the wing I had to cut the kits wing and make a filler. As you can see, wing is a little low in the back and I had to transition it into the fuselage.

Now I did forget to get pics of how I mounted the gear. I’ll try to explain. Once the glue set up overnight on the pieces I added from the wheel housing, I cut a slot in the top and glued in a strip of Evergreen stock that would fit into the receiver holes for Paul’s gear. Epoxied that assembly into the wing.