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Catching up on your Corsair Rob and there's been lots of great progress. The engine looks fantastic and the wheel bays are spotless. I'm still fighting my cold so can't wait to have the fog lift. Carl

Time for a very belated update. I ran into quite the issue on the build. Totally my fault and not a design error on the part of the kit. Unless complicating things is a design flaw. I was focused on making sure I got the engine bearers lined up correctly that I didn't notice that when I glued the fuselage halves on, the left side shifted. As a result, the firewall instead of lining up and being flush with the fuselage side is slightly forward. Ignore the lower wing root fairing as it's not actually glued in place. This is only on the left side, the right side lines up correctly. As a result, there's now a gap in the engine cowl fit. I've spent a couple days trying to figure out if there was a simple solution or fix but can't come up with anything. There's no way to separate the fuselage. It's on solid. I think I can either live with the gap or do it with the cowls open. Hopefully once I'm over my cold I can get back to this and be a bit more productive. But that really knocked the wind out of my sails.

Beautiful model there Scott. The red white and blue F-16 scheme was definitely a sharp looking plane. I did the Hasegawa CCV kit in that scheme but it was brush painted. Brush strokes everywhere. Carl

I've always wanted to see a build of the Seaview so I'll be looking forward to it.

Do they make something similar for a 2007 Element? Our headlights are well, ok for reading in daylight.

Poor girl is all tangled in her seatbelt. Somebody help her out.

Been under the weather for the last week with an absolutely brutal sinus cold. So haven't really spent any time at the bench so I figured I'd best pick up a couple Tomcats. Definitely not the same plastic in the box.

I haven't had a chance to but hopefully one day...

It's the water Ernie uses to make his firewater.

I figured we're old enough to remember the movie so it was a decent guess. Of course it could have been their giant scale Flying Sub kit. Paragrafix does several PE sets for the Seaview. Check out Culttvmanshop.com for lighting kits. Carl

Seaview? My second guess would be Nautilus but you already built one.

Thankfully the bike.

Mine was yellow with a white seat made by CCM. If you're Canadian, you'll know the brand. Carl

Looks fun.

I wish my 97 Caravan had airbags like those.

Whoah....

I do it all the time and haven't had any issues. In fact, it's my go to thinner for Tamiya acrylics, lacquers, Mr Color, and AK Real Colors. Carl

Sums it perfectly I think.

The same way it happens to all of us.

Thanks for the info. I think it'll work nicely for my needs. My original compressor was a Silentaire and that was truly silent. You barely heard it. The airbrush was louder than it. But it's got a leak somewhere and a new one is almost $2K!!!. My current one is a Badger but as I said, is underpowered so runs a fair bit.

Scott, how quiet is it? I'm looking to replace my current compressor which isn't too bad but underpowered. I can get the California Air Tools one which says it's the same 60dB as the one you bought. Just want to get an idea how quiet it is. Carl

Thanks Rob and Peter. I'll try to get some more pics shortly. Meantime, after using it as a paint mule, I couldn't stop and ended up building the Keaton Batmobile.

I gave it a spray tonight. The oder is very negligible. It smells a bit like Tamiya X20A which I used to thin it. I used a 50/50 mix. It sprays very nice. Here's the black on what else, the Batmobile. It dries quickly too. I tried the grey as well. This is on Front Mission mech. It's not completely solid as I was just mucking about but again, it goes on nice and smooth. I'll definitely be picking up the thicker Mr Surfacer 500 to see how that works.

The braided ignition cable looks great. How is it attached to the harness/housing? Carl

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!!!" Or something like that.