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Like Peter said, I think you've got the right approach. I did the same thing on my recent CF-104 and painted as much as I could prior to the black base and NMF. I used the Xtreme Metal black base. I found it took a little longer to dry relative to my usual paints. I also had issues with Xtreme Metal's Polished Aluminium in that it didn't dry and I could wipe it off. My understanding is that it was a defective bottle of paint. I switched to Alclad Polished Aluminium and didn't have that problem. Carl

It sure can!

The Italeri 104 kit prices are all over the map for some reason. The best deals I've seen on them have been from Lucky Model but you have to be willing to wait a while for it to arrive via surface mail. Any other shipping option out of Hong Kong is atrocious. John, sorry to see the paint issues. They're definitely worse than what I experienced. I used Xtreme Metal black primer under the Alclad and that worked out ok. Polished Aluminium will lift a bit no matter what though but not like what happened in your case. Carl

Rog, that looks great. A house like that in my part of Canada would be well over $1Million, closer to $1.4 I suspect. Can't wait to see the in progress shots. Carl

Sorry about your loss Peter. Getting old sometimes sucks. Nice progress on the P-40. From what I understand, you can build the engine completely separate from the plane so you could display beside the completed model and still have the cowls buttoned up. Carl

That happened to me too but only on the tail. I was able to feather it out and not have to do a full re-paint thankfully.

The Enterprise is around 40" long from the front of the saucer to the end of the warp nacelles. Sue saw the saucer and said she felt it was too big. I think she likes th Falcon more since she didn't thank that was too big. Good thing as I have two more in the stash. I have a set of Aztec decals for the Refit and I think masks so if you're interested let me know.

Thanks! It's going to be fun. Thanks Rob. I missed out when Fine Molds originally released their 1/72 Falcon kit so when they did a re-issue, I bought while I could. Then of course Bandai put theirs out. The way I rationalized that one is the Bandai one is the Falcon from Star Wars and the Fine Molds one is the later version from Empire Strikes Back onwards.

I saw the original on school field trip. They bussed the whole school downtown to a theatre to see it. I had the 1/350 Refit Enterprise but Sue felt it was too big so I sold it. I do have the Bandai one somewhere.

Looks good there John. I took a similar approach when I painted my CF-104 so as to minimize masking over the NMF. Carl

With the amount of parts in here, I'm planning on a OOB build. First up is one of the mandibles. I'm using the Aqueous Mr Surfacer for pre-shading and primer. For the paint, I'm using Gunze Gundam white as it I like the shade it has. One half done. Now the other. The maintenance wells were primed and then painted. There's over 20 parts in this section alone.

Probably not the usual build on here but I figured it's big enough. If not, mods feel free to move it to the appropriate section. Anyways, this is the Bandai Perfect Grade Millennium Falcon. Being the original release, it has a lighting kit, PE and decals instead of stickers. The box of sprues is big enough I'm going to have to leave it under the bench. Here's the ZM 109 on top of the upper main hull bit to give an of the size.

Looks great Gary. Really nice job on the paint, weathering, rivets, well everything. Carl

Can you hide it and say the dog ate it?

Our cat liked to use it as a scratching post and shred it all. So we have to leave it in the closet.

Truly tragic for all involved.

I'd probably start with Eagle Editions and see what they have and go from there. Jerry Cranwell has put a lot of 109 decals out. Carl

I'd say it counts as large scale. Here's the ZM 209 for reference:

Okay, a long time coming. Biting the bullet and no more excuses...

Have you ever seen the video of the guy that made a submersible NCC-1701? Can't imagine the work that went into that. A diorama seems much more reasonable. Carl

That's been one of my biggest struggles with the stash. So easy to grab something new, glue a few bits together and repeat. I'm getting better about it but still not an easy reflex to fight.

RC sub conversion!!! I sae those when I was building my Bronco 1/35 Type XXIII kit. Like you said, next level and expensive.

Actually, I think it also depends on the gear design. I have a couple of the Tamiya Spitfires on SAC legs and they're still standing just fine. Close to 10 years for one of them. But the Spitfire leg is straight, not that long and doesn't have any weird bends or angles in it.

Nice, glad to see the all important beer fridge is there. Jeff, we wanted to build a 2 story garage but at the time it wouldn't have been approved. The city then changed zoning laws and started to allow them 18 months after.

Playing with the airbrush and trying some completely freehand camo work.