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The canvas cover definitely makes sense. The fasteners certainly line up with the holes on the ones without the covering. The blown canopy looks like a P-47 bubbletop.

Martin, I would not have noticed either except for the mention in the instructions and that they were frosted.

Nice selection Mark. The Detail and Wonder gear sets are really impressive. I have a couple of different ones from them all they've all been excellent.

Thanks Rob! I was worried that with the remaining frames being so thin, I'd break them. Thankfully the resin had a bit of flex to it which helped.

Time for the canopy. The casting is generally very clear and fairly thin too. There are a couple small casting flaws but I'm not going to deal with them and possibly make things worse. The rear panes on the canopy are done frosted over. They're to be cut out I wasn't going to bother originally, dreading the idea of hacking into a train canopy. With them frosted however, I felt I didn't have a choice so I used a scriber to carefully cut them out. It went better than I'd hoped.

Amazing detail.

F always looked a bit pudgy to me. Sort of like how the Nissan R33 Skyline looked like it had spent too much time at the buffet line compared to the previous gen R32.

Great choice Rob. There's a 3D printed engine designed for the Hasegawa kit but it requires a bit of cutting. I've always been a big fan of the Stratos myself. I have a few in the stash including both the Doyusha and recent Italeri ones in 1/12. The Italeri isn't as bad as it's being made out to be. Not perfect but not a hot mess either.

And a 1/72 A380!

Nice save Rob. Glad it's not landfill. I think you're right about the static issues with the model. I'll have to remember that for the next one.

The Sea Fury finally has tires. Might even finish it this year.

Trying my bestest.

Speaking of '80s RC cars, I had this little guy arrive today. I had forgotten that I'd ordered it sometime last year. The Clod Buster was the RC monster truck when it came out. The original basically spawned an entire aftermarket industry. I went through at least 4 back then and bought another a couple years ago that Edward and I put together. So when I saw this diecast replica I had to order one. It's not a monster truck but the markings and colours are pretty faithful to the original red.version. Tamiya has released them in blue, black and the current one is grey. Here's what mine looks like under a pile of other RC cars.

Looks great there Dave. I love how Dragon made the cockpit a separate module. So much easier to assemble and then install.

Time for an update. I got the landing gear legs painted for one of the kits. There were some seam lines and a couple ejector pin marks that I had missed so cleaned those up. Then I'll do a touch-up respray. The nose gear door arm has to be glued in prior to attaching the wings. No way to get it in afterwards. On the G, I noticed the forward section of the fuselage just forward of the intakes flexed in a little and was creating a mismatch to the lower wing. If course this was after I glued it in place. I was able to fix it with some careful prodding fortunately. To not have to repeat that on the RF, I used a spreader bar at the location required. This time the fit was perfect. Now to let them dry.