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Thanks for sharing the photos. Congrats on the award. Carl

Nice to see you back Ralph. Sounds like you're settling in nicely.

No door on the right but tonight we went for Chinese food out and yup, we had Peking Duck. Along with lobster, fish, noodles, and fried chicken. So my Chinese food cravings have been sated for now. Back to your regularly scheduled Duck. Carl

Paul, I'm happy that you post about the tools you're getting, especially the Dspiae ones as they're usually high quality and useful. Carl

I'm pretty sure Atak zimmerit is resin.but it's really thin so maybe that's why it works with the Tamiya Extra Thin?

You guys are making me hungry. Good thing Toronto has so many Chinatowns to pick from with their variety of regional cuisines.

It should hopefully be a bit more nose up than in the pic once things are glued in.

My first thought was to use the natural wing break in the kit and depict the wings folded but then that would ruin the look. I'll probably just scribe something into the wings instead.

I just did a very quick mock up to see how things look. Nothing's glued so it's all a bit skewed.

That's exactly what inspired this bit of frivolity. Further work on the navalization involved swapping the landing gear out. The original gear leg on the left is a bit, spindly. I cut down a spare set of F-14 legs instead. The nose gear is also swapped out, again for F-14 bits.

Gear bays were white. Easier to spot leaks. Cockpits were grey. I think sometimes black on late '40s, early '50s

Ernie, glad to hear from you. You've been missed here. Carl

I'm skipping right over the RLM 02/66 debate and going straight to Dark Gull Grey!

Here's a recently released video by Bandai on the Perfect Grade Unleashed RX-93 I mentioned previously. 2,500 parts...and like almost all recent Bandai kits, it'll be snap/press fit.

Okay, here's a few pics. The Amusing kit has the Maus turret rather than the one in the Trumpeter kit. The camo is a combo of different schemes to reflect a vehicle built from sub-assemblies. That and I I wanted to have fun with it. I did a simple mod to the side skirts to make them removable.

I'll grab a couple when I get home.

A quick radome fairing for my Horton. I made it from a P-51 drop tank and Apoxie Sculpt.i did a test fit on the canopy too. With the wings dry fitted:

Thanks Rob. I don't think there was actually any 2 seaters built so it's all mostly conjecture. As Hubert said, ZM is doing their 2 seater with a tub. That's what gave me the idea to do mine in the same way.

Looks imposing. I built the Amusing Model version a couple years back. Simple but enjoyable.

So far, the fit has been good. There's some light flash in places that needs clean up. Definitely doesn't have as much (internal) detail as the ZM kit for good or bad. The wings have only three main parts- upper and lower halves plus a wing rib at the root. The big miss is the lack of painting instructions. I would suggest maybe downloading the ZM instructions for detail colours.

After finally getting the Takom Ho229 combo kits, I couldn't wait to start hacking one up. @Martinnfb and I have been talking about the 2 seater B version which doesn't have the right nose and cockpit for the proposed night fighter variant. Right being subjective since it was only proposed. Anyways, that led to the idea of doing it as a What-if. I thought of a USN carrier based version say early '50s. So here I am. Fuselage inner frame. Cockpit with styrene side panels to make a tub. Mocked up.

Paul, it's a very nice kit that's for sure. The option to swap the exposed engine for a closed cowl is a nice touch.

I think I ordered it last June. I had almost forgotten about it as for some reason, Lucky sent the rest of the order earlier but not the P-40 even though it was in stock at the time.

I finally got my GWH P-40 kit that I ordered from Lucky Model I don't know how long ago. I'll be doing this in RAF desert colours when I get to it.

Some very nice tools there Paul. I agree that Dspiae tools are generally very high quality.