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Welcome aboard! It'll be great to see how you do the exploded view. Everyone so far has been buttoning them up. Carl

You're one of us!!!

There's also the 8 window nose but that's the movie version. Or was that the TV one?

Progress is progress Phil. Sometimes I have time to glue a couple parts on, sometimes I can finish a whole page of instructions.

Nice work on the cockpit Hubert. The punch set looks impressive too. I've got the Waldron set and have thought of getting the RB Toolz ones. Carl

I was reading about the Armoured Lorry on The Modelling News this morning. Definitely looks unique.

I think he's bought them all already and the shops are waiting on a restock.

As the Dark Lord himself would say: Impressive, most impressive!

That's for sure. There's also a XIV conversion coming for the Tamiya XVI kit. I'll need at least one of those if not 2. The XIV is my favourite Spitfire.

There was a documentary about ILM and they talked about when they and other effects houses started using CGI how the model makers either learned to do digital effects or were let go. One by one all the shops that did physical models were gone and so was the industry. What is interesting though is some of the managers have started doing things with miniatures again. They like having a physical model to reference and use and so some of them are getting back to their roots. Peter Jackson liked to use a combination of physical and CGI effects in his films.

Good call on the correction set. It'll make big difference.

Peter, if you can find pictures of the ILM workshops from when they were working on the films, they look like hobby shop warehouses. They'd have tens of copies of the same models so they could take parts from them and use them to detail the filming miniatures. Lots of Tamiya kits of tanks, ships, F1 cars you name it. There are guys who made it a mission to identify the various kit parts and find them in real life. Very different from these days where it's all done in a computer. A completely different set of skills.

Ernie, it's really looking great. I see what you mean about the turtle deck compared to the pics. Never knew how that retracted so thanks for that lesson. Like you and Peter, I'm starting to make the switch to 1/48 for jets. I'll (hopefully) build the 1/32 ones I already have in the stash but I'll move down to 1/48 from here on.

Looks very nice indeed.

Wow Maru, I never thought I'd hear you of all people get banned. We're definitely more relaxed here so I think you'll have a great time with the rest of us characters. Carl

@DocRob, here's the Jagdpanther hull. This is the engine deck for an M48/M60. An F1 transmission half With the main hull finally done, I started on adding the small details onto the model. These are called greeblies in the SF model world. Looking at the instructions, I realized I was page 30 at this point with another 20 to go. Yeeesh.

Mark, the pre-shading to me looks fine. Like Peter said, it may be a bit on the light side but it's there. Carl

That'll be a solid base for the Seaview.

Peter, the P-40 looks great. Really captures the lines of the plane with the cowls on. Something that would be lost if they were open. I've had the similar mixed results with Molotow markers as well. I use Hasegawa mirror finish film. Think of Bare Metal Foil but much shinier and much more durable. It even has a bit of stretch to it. Carl

My boys are the same way. They really enjoy the big Lego sets. Our oldest wanted the Hogwarts castle set so much he saved up hm to buy it. It helped that the grandparents knew what he was doing and gave him a bunch of Lego gift cards.

Nice job on the wiring. When I read the "Bright Lights" bit, all I could think of was the movie Gremlins.

Rob, that's been one of the fun parts of the build: trying to identify the various kit parts they used in building the original filming model. Lots of tank parts and F1 car bits too.

Nice to see this Bill. My Kingfisher is not only also on the SoD but has it's own drawer in my tool rack for some of the completed parts. Just lost interest more than anything else.

Thanks Peter. The dynamic pose on the stand is what made me decide to use the figures. The kit stand is fairly static and just holds the model level. I only saw the movie a couple times in the theatres. The first was on a school trip. The second was when they re-released it with the two sequels and did a marathon showing of all three back to back.

I mocked up the main cabin real quick with some tape and placed the flying bridge section onto it as a comparison of the kit part to the one I just made as well as check the fit. Stock: AM: The brass one definitely makes a huge improvement. I've also found a couple crew figures so have orders those.