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Peter, I still can't believe i got away with it. Turns out we have a smaller circular knife here at work. This is what they look like. The blade. The thing is, when you use one you have your other hand directly in front of the blade as you hold the fabric down. It's SOP and so if the fabric gets pulled in and you're not paying attention, so do your fingers. The safer option: At least these ones have a guard and don't pull the fabric.

Nice progress there Rob. At least you've gotten as far as gluing the deck to the hull. I pretty much only use thin CA. Every time I tried medium CA or thicker, I would end up with blobs of it everywhere. Using the Glue Looper and thin CA has worked out for me. Reading about your turntable setup reminded me of my neighbour's brother who had some crazy expensive turntable. It was all counterweighted and looked like random cylinders piled on top of each other. He ended up covering his entire living room in acoustic foam to improve the sound futher. Couldn't believe it.

I've done Modelkasten tracks before but at least they were plastic. I think there was something like 8-10 parts per link on the Sherman tracks I was building.

More PE work done. I added handles to some of the cabinets I made earlier. I then started attaching these to the other cabin side. More details to the starboard side as well. The side panels are actually starting to get heavy. Lastly, a shot of both panels

Thanks Peter. I'm still amazed that it goes together so well. And yes, they'd need to be bigger to hide my stash in.

Rob, I do sometimes get some eye strain from working too long. Mostly I find it happening when I'm painting lots of white the glare gets bad.

The closest I came to losing any appendages was at my parents garment factory. We were short of some pocket panels for pants we were sewing. Our cutter wasn't in so I figured how hard could it be? I laid up the pocket lining and then grabbed a circular cutting knife. Think of a razor sharp pizza wheel with a 7" diameter blade at high RPM. Well, pocket lining is very slippery and it started to get pulled into the knife. Rather than do the smart thing and turn it off, I grabbed the lining and started fighting the blade, pulling it out. Finally turned the knife off and cleared it. Our cutter when he found out was absolutely aghast. He couldn't believe I had still had my fingers as that was the #1 way cutters lose fingers. And it's usually all the fingers on one hand at once as it happens so fast. I wasn't allowed to use the circular knife for a long time after that.

Nice progress there Mark. I didn't know the Danes flew these. Part of the Kitty Hawk experience is figuring out their instructions. Carl

I finally started adding the PE bits to the cabin walls. Painting it is going to be fun too but at least I've figured a colour out now.

Kevin, I used to solder stuff all the time in my late teens and early twenties when I was big into RC cars. Got really good at it but then stopped. Since then, every time I try now it's a blobby mess if stuff even sticks together. I have a couple small irons I could try and see if anything works.

Chris, nice progress. I think a few of us are intimidated by figure painting and could use the practice, me included. I'm not looking forward to when I have to add figures to my Vosper.

Gary, looks great. I think those of us building boats are all in the same boat, uh, situation and will need to paint and then attach stuff. Me, I'm trying to figure out how to paint the cabin interior when there's stuff that gets attached to the windows including their frames.

That about sums it up.

Here's my idea of nightmare tracks. PE individual link one.... Found these while searching for an LVT kit.

Yup, it's great getting our kids into the hobby.

Thanks guys! There's more in the PE stuff than there is with the plastic in this kit. Some of the working stuff is just silliness like those hatch hinges. Here's another example. Working cabinet drawers.

Looks good John. Almost looks like it's saluting Carl

Nice progress there Scott. I know the feeling about bumping into seemingly everything once the model is so big. My Falcon is like that but circular too.

These are long overdue. They should be popular here.

I'm waiting for the XIV conversion to come out and then I'll start one of the XVI kits in my stash.

Here you go. With the Tamiya Mossie. Right before her maiden flight.

Definitely not a kit you see that often. I for sure wouldn't have known it was based on the Russian version.

Hopefully yours lasts longer than mine did. My son took it for a test flight right after I finished it. Maybe with the more accurate wing profile, it'll fly better.

I can't find it but I have a pic of the HK fuselage with the Tamiya wing on it and the difference in leading edge profiles is significant.

That's a great price.