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The missing 1% was redoing all the rivets I sanded off. Rosie to the rescue! This tool is a lifesaver!

I realized last night I haven’t been keeping up with this thread. Got the surface 99% ready for paint so I sprayed on the flat black for the wing walks and glare shield. taped off those areas.

Awesome! A great break from serious modeling. I also built the Ming Santa Tank. My grand daughter saw it, thought it was a toy (she was 3 at the time) and went into hysterical crying because she couldn’t play with it.

Love it. I’ve got a few of the Revell Deal’s Wheels kits like the 109, spitfire and I’ve built the triplane already. I also bought the Ming Kids B-17. Group build time!

Ughhh… 212’ of driveway and parking pad pressure washed today. Yea, I’m a hurting puppy right now.

FWIW, I was just over on the ARC website and looking at the Sponsors forums. Place is like a ghost town. Zacto hasn’t checked in since Nov. 19, 2021. Although his web page has a banner up saying that both him and his wife have covid and they are temporary closed. Not sure how long this has been up, I hope all is well with them. GT Resin’s Gary hasn’t been around since March 21st. (I did see something online, but not going to discuss it openly out of respect for Gary and his family) Starting to wonder if the covid pandemic has taken the wind out of these cottage industry folks in our hobby.

Yea, just found Kits Worlds offerings a little earlier today. Good news that others are picking this aftermarket process up.

^^^Booo this man! I don’t like that answer. But yea, it was the first thing that came to mind. Might let them stew in the stash a little longer and move on to another project. Hopefully things will pick up in our scale.

Just an update. I got an email from Quinta today that they will be producing the T-28 set next year! After ordering another T-28 kit I went looking for a 3D cockpit since the Quinta worked so well in my Texan. Welp… Nothing from Quinta or Red Fox for this big open bathtub of a cockpit. Anyone else making these yet? I did shoot Quinta an email asking if they had any intentions of producing for the T-28. Probably never hear back from them anyway, and seeing how they are in Russia I’m expecting a visit from the State Department or DOJ anytime now for collaboration.

Yea, a LOT less! During the summer if I’m not floating in the lake, I’m in the house. Sometimes we have to chew our way through the humidity to get to the water. Down on the dock it isn’t as bad due to the lake cooling effect. Mid August that goes away though.

It’s Lake Wateree outside of Camden SC. Well, kind of between Camden and Ridgeway.

Just wanted to bump this old thread up with my first attempt at using these, especially since I ordered them from Hobby Nut. I’m hooked!

This is the view out the back of the same room. Kind of blends with the theme of the house?

Hmmmm…Maybe I can mount one up on top of this wall?

I did build a display case years ago for my airplanes. It started out with a budget of around $1200. By the time I was done that had doubled. And I was using recycled glass for a lot of the side panels and the back mirrors were out of our old bathrooms when we remodeled. This little project got me into woodworking

Hey Mike, I use to be heavy into RC airplanes. Not those ARF things, but the balsa, aircraft ply and sometimes fiberglass. And woodworking is a hobby of mine. You might be on to something. But I really don’t have a good place in the home to put one up for display.

Wow. Always wanted to do a wood ship model. No way I could even come close to this. Question though. How does one go about dusting off this much detail? Around my house it would be covered in dust and cat hair in no time.

Two or three days now fixing the surface of all the boogers and issues that would be ugly with paint. Each time I shoot primer the spots are getting better. This stage reminds me of when I was prepping my ’66 Fastback for paint. Wife kept walking by and asking when the hell was I going to paint it. It looks just like it did three weeks ago. Oh no it doesn’t!

Another from the files of “What the hell were they thinking?” SNJ gets an antenna in front of the cockpit. So yea, let’s punch this big hole here for everyone! Again, a dimple on the backside so builder can drill it out. Besides, my antenna was short shot and was in two pieces with 1/16” missing in the middle.

Such a shame since they at least put out kits no one else would do. But if folks aren’t buying them, can’t fund the business. Ernie did mention that the Chinese IM plant made changes from their original design and made things worse. Maybe I’m too much of a conspiracy theorist, but it’s kind of odd how bad the changes made were and then bought out by another Chinese company. Intentional destruction of a company? Trumpeter still has not released them. Maybe reworking the bugs that were put in intentionally? OK, tin foil hat off.

Yea, that project is long done and gone! It was a build for my GP/MD. He’s a back seat rider to get air time as the flight surgeon. It was a gift I built for him. He loved it. And of course him in the back seat with his latex glove on I was so familiar with.

John go slow at building? LOL. Yea, that’s funny right there. 😆

This was a major pain. Wings go together with obvious gaps. All the pre-fitting in the world, I could not close these up. I tried the old white glue trick. After 10-15 applications of thinned glue I gave up. I wound up taping off and using putty.

Wings on!