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Yep, that’s exactly what I’m wanting it to do. Primer sticks good to sanded epoxy and then the putty melts into the primer creating a great bond between the two. I apply quickly and not fiddle around so the putty doesn’t wipe away the primer.

LOL! This happened with my son and his dog.

Jim, Welcome to the forum! Looks like from my searching that Peddinghaus decals are your only choice. I’ve never used their sets because the one set that did interest me was over $100. I did do some forum searches on them and decided it just wasn’t worth the risk. I’ll let you decide after reading some reviews. Looking at the airplane, 95% looks like generic markings. The colors on the tail tip can be painted on, and you might be able to find a custom decal printer to make the nose art? Of course that would run about the same price as well.

Sanded the tail joint and laid down some primer to provide better adhesion of the Tamiya putty. I remember working on my Cutlass and the putty was lifting off the bare resin where I applied it. Trying to avoid that mistake again.

First cut and sand. Reapplied cement to stick down the fuzzy edges. I’ll let this dry overnight and do a final sanding and shaping tomorrow morning. I used the Dremel bit by finger tip power to radius the opening. Applied tape for my sausage size fingers to grip it.

A little progress this morning. Got the tail epoxied in place and a few more small parts glued on. But doing my research after the fact, I discovered the K model has a different exhaust opening panel. The rear most opening on the E has a scallop cut out. K does not. So it’s sprue and sprue goo to the rescue. I took a piece of sprue and filed the end with a round file at an angle. Glued it in place. Once it cures I’ll carve and sand it to shape.

Yea, Williams Brothers. Funny you mentioned RC. I was looking at those tiny foam RC versions of these last night. Apparently with the stabilization tech in RC’s these days it’s an easy flyer. BTW, I’m throwing around the idea of getting back into flying RC on a small scale attempt. Not just smaller airplanes, but only one at a time. I have a tendency to go down deep rabbit holes with my hobbies and can’t do anything “small”. If I do, I won’t have $2000+ models again. I picked up a tiny Saito 30 last month. Thinking about a Robinhood 25 and once I master it, slap on a set of floats and fly it behind my house. It’s a hell of a big flying field as long as I keep the dry side up.

Thanks Hubert! But I reached out to the seller and he’s 99.9% sure he has them. He forgot he took all the decals out of his older kits and put them in ziplocks and filed them away. If he is wrong, I’ll let you know. UPDATE: Seller found the decals and he’s sending them to me.

Todays progress. Started playing with the tail fit. I heavily re-scribed the upper panel lines and punched the rivet holes deeper with a T pin and then started shaving the fuse top down to line up better with the top of the tail. Im close but got hangry for dinner and walked away. A little more fitting and I’ll break out the epoxy.

This just arrived in the mail. I’ve always wanted to attempt painting one and this one popped up on Hyperscale with a set of Cutting Edge masks to paint the scallops and the major markings. What the seller failed to mention in the ad was that there were no decals. I’ll probably have to buy another kit just to get a set of decals now. I guess I can always build one out as a high speed Nazi gun ship loaded out with bombs hanging under it. I’ve always had a soft spot for these golden age air racers. Had always hoped someone would have either kitted them in 1/24 or the 1/18 prebuilt airplanes sold in toy departments because even in 1/32, they are tiny.

Well after a day of babysitting the grandkids from 1-6:30, I went down to my bench to unwind. Got the cockpit wrapped up.

Stopping point for the day. Got the cockpit prepped for the Quinta decals and painted. Since I had my airbrush loaded with the green zinc primer color, went ahead and assembled the landing gear bay assembly and painted it too.

Yep, another thread on the same project! I’m following in John’s footsteps here. Starting out with a new Hasegawa kit I smuggled across the border (the front door of my home) along with the really nice P-40K tail produced by Tim at B&B Resin Design. Of course first thing I had to do was play with the fit of the tail to the fuselage. I was pleasantly surprised that it fit much better than the E tail on my last build. One slight area of concern is the fuselage is a touch “tall” at the top. Some careful filing and sanding the fuse halves before attaching the tail will be all that’s needed. Panel lines line up perfectly. With this modified K tail you can really notice the stabilizer offset to counter engine torque. After just completing the E, I had flashbacks of my cockpits rear bulkhead not being glued in at the perfect angle. This time I taped up the necessary parts and dropped the bulkhead in place then gluing it to the floor. I’m posting this as the glue sets up. This is one area that gave me fits and bad feedback on the E build.

Bench cleaned off and P-40K project started! I think this is a first for me. Same model back to back. Oh wait. No it’s not. Forgot when I lost my freaking mind and built the 5 Revell F-16’s as the Thunderbirds in flight display. I built those at work during my lunch break. Does that count? I’m going to start a WIP thread this time.

I’m calling this part done for now. Still needs decals, but I’ll do that once I build the launcher and trailer.

Hubert, that sounds like my wife’s thinking. Along with “It was all on sale! I saved $XXX” while she spent $XXXX. I call it going broke saving money.

Quoting myself to share my stupidity. I was sitting at my bench working on my sons HEMTT truck, looked up on my riser and found a couple of Quinta interior sets sitting there. Yep, you guessed it. I had already bought a second set for the P-40K project. 😐 It was sitting with the Trumpeter set I accidentally ordered. Double Oof.

USPS just left me another care package from the Brothers of Sprue. Of course my head was up my keister when I placed the order and I have a set of P-40 canopy masks coming from eBay. The order was for the cockpit interior. Just had to add to it to make shipping worth it. The brass angle is actually to do a repair on the dashboard of my 1990 F-250. The radio and climate control trim panel clips into slots on the main dash panel. Those tiny openings break in the middle and the clips won’t hold. I’m going to cut 1” pieces of angle and epoxy them at the crack. Might even do a work in progress thread. 🤣

Did someone say Seaview? It was one I built in our group build here. Tena lighting kit.

Mike, welcome to the forums. I did a search over on Scalemates and came up with this info on the Avro. https://www.scalemates.com/search.php?fkSECTION[]=All&q=Avro+Arrow* It looks like there is another set of AM parts for this kit as well. But I have not heard of anyone picking up the product line. Also looks like even before he got himself into trouble he was not honoring orders placed, but putting items up on eBay and fetching higher prices. I did see some vendors with MasterCaster inventory, but not what you are looking for. I also did a quick search on the LVM stuff. Looks like a lot of people are still looking for these sets. Good luck! I’ve said it many time before, and since you’re new here, I’ll say it again. If you see any AM you think you might want, buy it now. Not when you decide to build the model. Aftermarket industry comes and goes very quickly within the timeline of the hobby. I’ve seen quite a few come and go over the years due to various reasons. Cutting Edge, Fisher Model and Pattern, DMold, AMS (now continued by B&B resin) Zotz went away for a while due to health but is back now, Chris at Zacto Models had to throw in the towel due to health issues. Almost forgot about G-Factor brass landing gear too. Even Eduard will make a run of products to only be out of production and no longer available once sold out. Stock up now if you think you may want to build it one day. If you change your mind later, you can probably double your money!

Love it John!! Can’t wait to get mine going. I’ve got a Quinta interior arriving Monday, but forgot to order another set of canopy masks. So that low cost order will be another $70-$90 to make shipping worth it. 🤣🤣

Close call! Momma was preoccupied by the grand babies while USPS put this on the front porch. Time for that K!

Interesting…..at 62 yo, I’ve never personally owned a turntable nor have I ever purchased a vinyl album. Younger years I was into cars and cars came with cassette tape decks and AM/FM radios. Hell, my first car only had an AM radio. I started driving too late to get in on the 8 track fun. My brother had a huge collection of those. By the time I had any desire to listen to music in the home, I already had an extensive CD collection. Now my youngest son has commandeered the CD collection since all we use is Spotify. My 2015 Mustang came with a CD player. I have never used it. Funny thing though, I use to own the very first automotive CD player Sony made. Man, that thing skipped at the thought of hitting a tiny pothole in the road. Hell, I think rain hitting the car would make it skip.

Read this yesterday. Can’t get that cheeseburger out of my mind. The gears are spinning in my head now….. see, I’m thinking bacon added would be a bonus. Not sure if it would work with lettuce, tomato and pickles though.

A visit 3 hours away? That’s criminal. Your attorney needs to rip him a new rectum for that stunt. Honestly, sounds like he’s trying to set you up for either failure or a gotch moment. Like if you can travel for three hours there and home you can do your job. Make sure your attorney files suit asap. There is a time limit on WC and they will close the case without telling you. Childhood friend and old neighbor was in your situation. I turned him on to my friend, the WC attorney. They day they met he found out he had by the end of the day to file because it was about to be timed out. He got in just in the neck of time. Now that being said, this was SC laws. Could differ with your state. BTW, WC dragged their feet so long my friend is now living on SSDI because he didn’t get in fast enough to reverse any damage.