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Thanks folks! If you have any interest in the subject or the kit, don't hesitate. It's well worth it. Continuing on the kit, I finally did step 1 which was the engine. I painted the engine blank in Interior Green and then masked it and painted the engine in semi-gloss black with a touch of gunmetal. While that dried, I drilled out and painted the ignition harness.

I just got my Black Friday order from a Gundam shop. They offer free shipping on orders over $300 (CAD) and like HLJ, you can have them store it until you hit that amount. Let's start with another Mak kit. @DocRob might like this one. I was missing the AT-AT so finally got one. Another SBY kit. And a large kit of the Psycho Gundam. The overkill on this kit is impressive. There's the three rocket boosters on the backpack, which also has a rack for three bazookas, two machine guns, and three Panzerfaust looking rockets. And a couple axes. Guess he's like a good Boy Scout. Always prepared. There was also a bunch of kits for our oldest son for Christmas. He asked for them specifically and they were a bit hard to find but I think he'll be happy.

The lower hull looks great. At least by using screws it should make it a bit easier to level the suspension. Annoying they don't give them to you.

I've done that too many times to count.

I got some work done on the cockpit. For the belts, I used a set of Eduard pre-printed ones. They were in the stash so that made it easy. Details on the side consoles were either brush painted or dobe with paint markers. Everything together.

Like Hubert said, it was a radar pod. The mount looks like it may be a challenge to remove but at least there's a spare.

The best kind!

Bought this years ago, as in at least a couple decades if not three. Anyways found it at jy parents' place tonight. It was wrapped in a plastic bag as you can see and was in my sister's home office. I think it's complete but as we were all headed out to dinner I didn't get a chance to check. I'll pick it up next I'm over and find out.

Paul, where did you get the tweezers from? They look like they'd be pretty handy.

Hubert, I think half my stash could technically qualify as my SoD. So many of the the kits are started in some random way and then put back. It took a real change in my approach to stop doing that.

Thanks for sharing. I didn't know about that kit.

One of the engine.

First up was removing some of the parts from their casting blocks. This was fairly easy as the cuts were straightforward and well marked. Then a coat of paint. This brought out the only shortcoming in the kit. There are no detail colour callouts for the cockpit. There's a pic of the engine provided in the instructions but that's it. Fortunately I found a couple cockpit photos online.

Not planned but couldn't help myself. For some reason I wanted to work with a resin kit and this was in the stash. It's an impressive kit for the level of detail and precision that it's been made with. Not to mention the current circumstances surrounding the country. Then again I shouldn't have expected anything less after having picked up their Cavalier Mustang conversion. Upon opening the box, the fuselage halves were already taped together so I couldn't resist doing a dry run of the major parts. The fit is exemplary, on par with many injected moulded kits. Here's the only significant flaw that I could find. It's on the one piece main float.

The finish looks great to me Rob. I'm quite envious of it in fact. I would absolutely love to find an RB19 model. Talk about a dominant design.

It's a lovely kit Hubert. In the pic above there's no glue holding it together, just a dry fit.

Martin and I were discussing resin kits as I had sent him an Iconicair Seafang wrapped in a Lancaster for safe shipping. I then remembered I had the Halberd Seahawk and before I knew it... Anyways, I'll probably start a WIP as you don't see too many of these built.

Hope your hints work. I took a look inside and the kit looks good to me.

It came out last week. I ordered it from Hiroboy and was quite surprised how quickly it arrived. I'll definitely have a WIP once I start it.

This kit kicked my butt when it came out. Looks like it going much better for you.

Probably the car that comes to mind for most folks if you ask them to name a rally car.

Great gloss finish there Rob. Not to mention the decal work.

Absolutely fantastic there Hubert. Love the build, the setting and the story behind it.

Lovely build with an amazing attention to detail.

Some great progress there. The hull is huge, that's for sure. Unless l that's a 1/2 side cement bottle.