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  1. ScottsGT
    Wow! You did it justice!! You should build more of these.
  2. ScottsGT
    Nice MP5. I’ve got a knock off PTR 9c I’ve also got their K model as well. Both are SBR stamped.
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    Looking great Carl! I took my open Revell exhaust and sanded them down to about 2/3 the and glued on the Tamiya closed exhausts. After sprue goo and sanding smooth and rescribing the lines, they look pretty good. Length may be off now, but I just liked the closed look for once since I got a set with my Revell kit.
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    That was my thoughts as well. I’d love to hear how many of these kits hit the market since they put it out. Now way they could re-release this kit today without a complete rework of the cockpit and landing gear at a minimum to get them up to todays standards. And by that time, price point would be inline with Tamiya or Trumpeter with the old reputation of a kit from the ‘80’s.
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    Back home last night and got back on it. I’m now fully convinced Revell did some mold swapping or made a new one or something funky. The panel lines at the front of the fuselage halves were so far off I’ve had to fill them in with sprue goo and re-scribe them. Actually, the more I look at it, the alignment pins are off. I’ve had to fill in the front with sprue goo so the nose cone fits without gaps on one side Top and bottom rear fuselage halves seem to be closer. I’d really love to be able to inspect a virgin early release of one of these kits.
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    For the F-16 fans, Jmel has put out another set of large scale viper decals. Not sure if I’ll use them, but just ordered a set to help support those that support 1/32 builders. https://www.reidairpublishing.com/speed-hunter-graphics-132-decals/big-scale-vipers-part-ii
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    You can do it! Close friend and old coworker is at 2.5 to go. Place is falling apart. I hope he can make it.
  8. ScottsGT
    And I don’t remember working this hard in the past 10 years. 🤪 I think my model count is at 8 built in this time period.
  9. ScottsGT
    Great line up of resin intakes. Seems their only presence was eBay. But they have gone radio silence in the past few years.
  10. ScottsGT
    Yea, I use think reasonable like that. Then when I started seeing vendors go away to retirement, health issues or fires, I grab it when I can!
  11. ScottsGT
    Paint it to look like an old black and white photograph?
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    Discount on manufacturers ending in X, Y or Z. Who would ever think I could rack up $50 of stuff from X, Y and Z? But they got me again! Zotz stuff and Yellow Wings was the majority of my weakness.
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    7 gears and paddle shifter is not a CVT. Sounds like a regular automatic trans. Ahh, the old gas pedal lag…. My wife’s Honda has it really bad and it’s almost gotten me in trouble a few time in heavy traffic. I really hate her 2021 Honda Pilot. Pedal lag, lane warning alarms constantly going off, cruise control slamming on the brakes at 80 mph if a car changes lanes in front of me. If all new cars are mandated to have these “safety features “ I’ll be spending lots of money on old cars. Can’t wait to see the public’s reactions when the mandated breathalyzer you have to blow to start the car hit the market in a few years.
  14. ScottsGT
    Wow! Beautiful build!!
  15. ScottsGT
    I needed this for encouragement! Thanks. That is really turning out great.
  16. ScottsGT
    I wish we could still get small diesels like that here in the states. I use to have a Samurai. Diesel conversion was pretty popular.
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    Rog, if the Juke has the infamous Nissan CVT, make sure you go above and beyond fluid changes. Here in the states, Nissan has a terrible reputation for their CVT. My daughter had an Altima during college. At 104,000 miles the trans started acting up and throwing the car in service mode and her speed would drop to 25-40 MPH on the interstate. Took it to a dealership and service manager told us it needed a new transmission at a cost of $5000. Nope! He said if you had done the the trans fluid change every 20,000 miles it would still be working. OK, every 20,000 miles is a bit excessive and tells me they have a bad design. These days you almost cannot sell a used Nissan with the CVT to an informed buyer. And sadly it’s making people shy away from Honda and others that seem to have gotten it right.
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    Wow! A Nissan Joke, er, Juke. Already dead here in the states too. I guess it was just too small for some and too big for others. Replaced with a smaller SUV, the Kick.
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    Well slowly getting there. I’m only able to glue a short section of the fuselage halves at a time due to warpage. Glue, clamp or hold and walk away a few hours. This will probably be all until next week. Wife signed up for a continuing Ed conference in Hilton Head and we leave tomorrow. What I didn’t know was this will be the big week of the PGA Heritage. I’m not a golfer, just dumb luck we’re going to be fighting crowds for restaurants and traffic.
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    Oh, and the two front halves look completely different from the back side. Almost like they were from two different production runs of molds. Inside details cut differently. I am keeping in mind this is a 34 year old kit I bought second hand. No telling if somewhere along the line bagged sprues May have gotten mixed up with another kit. But it’s really odd considering my last two built really easy.
  21. ScottsGT
    Holy cow. This is my third big Revell F-14 I’ve built. None of the others gave me fit issues like this one is doing. Lots of age warped plastic like I’ve seen with older large kits. Cockpit floor/main section was so bad I almost cut it in two so it would fit. Others mentioned the front fuselage to rear half fit. This one is so bad I’ve started out by gluing front half to unassembled rear half and holding things in place until the glue sets up. then I’ll tackle attaching the bottom with wings in place. The front view of the top half is like a “V” shape and the V has grown to more of an angle over time. First start was fighting that.
  22. ScottsGT
    Yea, all my life I’ve heard my wife complain about her plumbing working as it should and how men don’t have to put up with our friend coming to visit every month. And how she’s so happy now that she’s older. What I didn’t expect was us men having to chase doctors and procedures to KEEP our plumbing working in old age.
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    I actually felt my body getting weaker and fatter when I took a desk job 12-14 years ago. Was I smart enough to counter that with some sort of exercise routine? Of course not. I worked hard for this position. I earned it! It was time to “relax”. I will add that now since I have retired I’m more active than I have been in those 12-14 years. But now one or two days of highly active work brings on 3 days of recovery. Even longer if I do something stupid like picking up heavy 5 gallon buckets full of lumber scraps up and over the side of my truck bed instead of lowering the tailgate to get them out. Yea, shoulder is all out of whack now after that one last Thursday.
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    My MIL suffered from COPD and she begged God to take her every day. It was horrible watching her suffer.
  25. ScottsGT
    Oh, I’ll change after my Sunday shower and put on some clean ones.
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