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    Martin, I didn't know Meng did a J-15. I've got these in the stash.
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    He's the pre-wash cycle before we start the dishwasher.
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    My sister uses a Halti on her dog, a Golden Doodle and had to use one on her last dog too. Jimmy rarely pulls with the harness so it's working for us nicely. When it's walk time, he'll calmly sit at the door and I can slip it on without any issues. Our dog Zoe is a dream to walk. Here's Edward waling when he was around 2 years old.
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    Would you believe I was accidentally under feeding him by 25%. I thought his food scoop was bigger than it was. He's 5 months old next week but is already over 40lbs.
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    Martin, that's extremely generous. I don't know if my bench could support that much weight.
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    Jimmy was checking out a fox the other night. They ended up having a Mexican standoff for a bit before the fox finally went on his way. Carl
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    Rob, I'm in very much the same position as yourself. I've got the Lancaster and B-24 on the bench so definitely don't have room for another build. Plus the only applicable kits I have are by Ukrainian companies. So if I do join in, it would be the MikroMir Fokker E.V Carl
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    I've already used it and it definitely works better than the Chopper. Much more precise.
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    So in the time it takes me to glue a couple wing flaps together, you've almost finished yet another build. As always I'm impressed by your speed and quality of work John. Great idea to prime with the flat yellow. I've always found yellow to be one of these paints that seems to be translucent. Carl
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    Somehow I've managed to misplace my Chopper mitre cutter that one uses for cutting styrene. How, I have no idea. Anyways, I stopped by the LHS as it was next to a Home Depot I had to go to. I picked up some Evergreen strip for the Lancaster on my bench. Wandering around I noticed they carry RP Tools and had their Mitre cutter in. I've wanted one for a while but: 1)- they're not that cheap 2)- I already had The Chopper But not being able to locate said Chopper u guess was enough impetus to buy one. That and it was cheaper than online. This is one nice piece of kit. Got home and the post woman had a package for me. Like Rog, I'm finding Tamiya kits are starting to go up so I finally got a Tamiya Mustang for hopefully using on the Turbo Cavalier conversion. Also had some cement and paints in the same order. Mostly blacks for the Lancaster. Hope it's enough. Carl
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    Peter, this should be fun. Have you watch Ford Vs. Ferrari yet? It's a fun movie about the development of the GT40 and the '66 race. Glad to hear Joel is helping you out answering your questions. Say hi for me. We can't get Gravity or Zero paints here in Canada so I'm stuck with the usual suspects. It's not the same kit as your but I pulled this out of the stash. It's the '68 car that won Lemans that year. Still has the receipt inside the box. Carl
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    Thanks Peter! My guess as to why they missed it is that the tail planes halves fit together perfectly as initially moulded and it's only when you look at the surface detail that you notice they're wrong. Supposedly HK has fixed this on more recent issues of the kit. I also suspect that when they heard WNW was coming out with a Lanc, they may have tried to speed things up a bit to get their kit out first and missed some of these details. HK is still a fairly new company. They really don't have that many releases under their belt: B-25, B-17, Mossie, Lanc, Do335 and Meteor in 1/32 and the B-17 and Lanc in 1/48. Their Do335 is supposedly on the same level as the ZM one and is their more recent release not based on a previous kit. It certainly took Tamiya a while to get to where their 1/32 kits are consider the masterclass. I think between the price and the bar being so high, it's raised our expectations of new kits. Which isn't that bad a thing I guess. Carl
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    Cees, I have spare outer wings so send me a PM and I can send to you know if no one else is closer.
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    Looks like Rog cleaned out another hobby shop!!! Leave some kits for us mortals please! Carl
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    Even though I'm trying to keep this build on the simpler side, I ended up cutting down the pilot's platform after all. I filled in the resulting hole with sheet styrene. I then made new sides for the platform for it to be at the correct height.
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    Next up I assembled the tail planes. I had to fix the mounting pins though as HK moulded them onto the same side along with the location pins. I simply cut them off one side and them glued the trimmed off pins onto the other side. They fit well enough together even without the locator pins.
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    In reading that HK moulded the landing lights into both wings and needing to fill one pair in, I wondered about the correct ones. They're just a pair of circles in the underside. So I carefully drilled them out and found some lenses to drop in place. I blanked them off from the inside. A quick coat of silver, drop the lenses in place and done.
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    Thanks Kai! Glad to hear it worked out on your build.
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    Thanks Peter! Definitely some of the errors should have been caught in QA. And sometimes the odd assembly sequences can be head scratchers. But thanks to some of the other members on here who've built this kit already it makes it easier.
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    Truly an epic build. Carl
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    Nice start on this Cees. You were asking about leading edge slats on BM. Here's the page out of The Modern Phantom Guide. Although it's primarily on US F-4s, I believe the wings were the same on the British versions. This is the Wolfpack dropped flap set instructions. Again this is for the E/EJ hard wing but should be the same. Hope that helps and let me know if you want any more pics of the Wolfpack parts. Carl
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    Thanks guys! I may not be working on the kit as much as I thought but I'm still having fun which is the main thing. While I was working on the MlG gear leg, I noticed the void on one side from the moulding process. I decided to fill this in so I used Apoxie Sculpt for that. I did the other legs at the same time. Here's a quick mock up of the one leg. Nothing's glued yet. And a test fit into the nacelle. The instructions have you install it prior to mounting the nacelles to the wings. I wanted to make sure it can be done the other way round and it can.
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    I'm looking forward to this as well. I asked the shop where I've gotten Fly kits fr in the past and he's hoping to get them in soon. He may hold off a bit to try and get a better price on them which sounds perfectly fine to me. Carl
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    Peter, Jumping around certainly had kept me moving forward on the build. It's also let me put off just how much work I want to do on the cockpit. As for the retraction locks, my understanding is that they're a postwar fit primarily used to keep the gear on static aircraft from collapsing. I checked some pics of the CWHM Lanc and couldn't see them in any of the images I have. Carl
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    I'm not really building this kit in any sort of logical order. Sort of a "what do I feel like working on today" approach. Case in point I decided to work on the MLG legs. Here's one pair of legs stock. I had read that HK included the gear retraction locks and these need to be removed. They're the short bar between the two full length struts. I duly proceeded to remove them. At the same time I decided to redo the small struts on either side of the hinge. The one in front has had the retraction lock cut off and I've refined the hinge a bit. Here it is with replacement rods in place. Overall it's a straightforward fix. Except I have to repeat it three more times. Carl
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