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It's been silly busy for me lately so I haven't had much bench time. I was working the advance poll for the Canadian federal election on the weekend. 55.5 hours in 4 days. The good news is people came out to vote even though it was the Easter weekend. Election day is this Monday and I'll be working that day too. Anyways, back to the Ford. I gave the rear clamshell a primer coat and that evened out the few remaining flaws. Just needs a light sanding and it'll be good for paint. For curiousity, I dry fit the body parts together to see what it looked like. I'm very happy with it. The rear chassis is also starting to come together. One thing I like is the way that Trumpifier bagged the various hardware. Each individual type of part is bagged and labeled separately. No mixing them up.

No worries there. Martin is definitely a pro.

I'm with Rob. The IP looks great.

Looks great there John. The Counter scheme is always a striking paint paint job.

Printing the masks on a grid must make it much easier to align things.

Cool, I was thinking there's also Archive X paint but that's paint for Star Wars models.

If I were to guess, I'd say that it's a Superformance Brock Coupe, also called the Daytona coupe. The interior is too nicely finished to be a Factory Five 65 coupe.

Wow, that looks stunning. Can't believe how quickly it went together.

I'm surprised the lacquer thinner didn't melt the Styrofoam label. I didn't know what lacquer thinner tasted like but I do know white glue (school glue) tastes the way it smells. Foam labels on glass bottles, that's really taking me back. Did you ever have the tall, sorta thin glass pop bottles from around the early to mid '70s? They were I think 1 litre bottles and were discontinued when it was discovered the glass walls were too thin and they could explode if shaken.

Ohe nasty overbite there Scott. Definitely paint then scotch. Don't want you mixing up which bottle the brush goes into.

I made it to the LHS today and picked up the Lightning kit. When I got home, I opened it up and decided to compare it to the Trumpeter one. The Trumpeter fuselage is quite a bit shorter. The belly tank is a different shape too. The instructions include a set of 1/32 plans. I'm going to get the Aerocraft resin canopy as the kit one is a bit yellow. The LHS owner thinks he still has a couple more of them. He went to check but they were Hunter kits instead but he said there's more boxes to unpack.

Nope, it's a Tomcat. My favourite kerosene burner. 1/32 is just too big to have a bunch of them so the downsizing made sense when Tamiya came out with their kits. Just took me some time to get around to actually getting them. Probably the biggest intervention would be for Spitfires. There has be to be well over a dozen in the stash plus the 11 built already.

Seeing the great service that @belugawhaleman gets from Plaza Japan, I decided to give them a try. More importantly they actually had the Tamiya 1/48 F-14A in stock and at a very reasonable price. So one more kitty to add to the stash.

I see lots of progress compared to the pics you showed me earlier. But yeah, sometimes it feels like you're not getting anywhere.

I'm 0 for 3 on building an M60 family of tank kits. This try #4 so hopefully I make it to the end.