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Looks great and nice recovery. Carl

Nice! Carl

"It's Robert Smith of the Cure!!!" I had a classmate who would scream that everytime a Cure video came on.

Looks excellent there Peter. For a simple paint on the rear section, it looks well done to me. All these recent kits with too many unseen/unnecessary parts can be a bit of a drain. Carl

I had to look up what a Brantly B2 is. Interesting looking helicopter.

Sprue Brothers has an option where they'll email you once it's in stock. But then you have to watch your email too.

More like I couldn't get Sunny to move out of frame. But it does work well for showing how small things are.

Fingers crossed here too!

The Comet is out in Canada. My LHS had a bunch in. $70 CAD and Great Hobbies has it for $60 CAD. It's a nice kit and I'll grab it soon myself. Carl

Time to add the detail bits to the sub-assembly. Lots of piping to add. Thankfully they're moulded in ABS so they're a bit stronger than the usual styrene. Then time for paint and blending in. So one done, one to go.

Onto some progress with the mandibles. Following the instructions (heresy I know ) I assembled the sidewalls. One thing that's been fun with this build has been identifying the various model parts that were used on the original and that have been reproduced on this kit. Here's a car chassis. There's a ton of tank parts and F1 model bits on here too. See the transmission on the left side. With the maintenance pits in place. I then glued the two halves together even though the model is press fit. Just wanted to be sure.

Canuck decals did some of those panels as decals so not a bad idea. For the tail ones, maybe paint the grey panel first, mask over it and then do the NMF? I did that on mine and it worked out. Carl

Great progress on the Corsair. Still my favourite prop plane. Nice to hear that the masks fit properly. I've had a few mask sets where the fit isn't quite there and you end up having to fix them. Carl

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.