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Thanks Martin! Very interesting story.

I help out a real estate company with staging homes for sale. There was one home where we took over 100 of those paint cans out of it. We had to take them to one of the city's dumps where they'd dispose of them accordingly. The home owner made picture frames as a hobby. Along with the paint cans, there was over 1,300kg (2,800 lbs or so) of glass, frames and other stuff in their basement. The agent couldn't believe it. Good luck with the move Scott, hope everything arrives safely. Don't let the wife bully you into decluttering just your stuff.

There's a company making a electric "crate motor" that will basically fit wherever an LS small block does. It even has the same mounting points.

The wings look great. Really nice job on the weathering. Carl

Congrats on the new job Mark!

Rest in peace Dale. Carl

Good Poppy!

Really nice Stug Gaz! I like the figure you added too. Carl

Fox body?

Looks good John. I'll have to try painting markings on first one day. I almost always do them after the fact.

To be honest, I was afraid to take the wall down not knowing what was behind it. Years ago, our architect wanted me to take a panel out and see what was behind it and I said no.

That Flanker looks like the one I sold off a few years ago. It had every single bit of AM in it including the mythical Zacto canopy. Carl

Getting closer to the finish line. Fitting all the AA guns was a bit of a pain.

I was going to try and 3D print the patch but I couldn't find a scanner big enough.

I usually put a movie on when I'm at my bench. It's generally something I've seen before so it's more of a white noise sort of thing. The house we lived in when I was around 8 years old was a couple hundreds metres from the highway as well as a fairly busy railroad corridor into the city so I got used to background noise. As a result I find silence a bit off putting. For music, I'm mostly rock, with some industrial and electronic thrown into the mix. Thanks to the opening of the trailer to the Battlefield video game, I've ended up with a soft spot for the Bonnie Tyler song "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

Started getting the new bench space ready. I finished removing the false walls and cleaned up the corner. Instead of dirt I found concrete. It looks like at some point, one of the previous owners poured a second slab of concrete 4" thick on top of the original floor. I stopped by one of our local hardware stores and was able to grab 6 bags of concrete mix. Man, that stuff is heavy. Mixes them up and poured the floor in to make it all level. Used up 5 bags so if anyone needs a 30kg bag of cement, let me know. Now to let it dry and hope I did it right.

That's a nice finish there Mark.

John, Peter, nice Mossies there from both of you. I did my bit too to support them. One thing is they can be real mojo killers. There's so much to do on them, even if you skip over the internal details and just do what can be seen externally. I had a one year break in my build. Oddly enough, that's what it sells for in Canada but in Loonies so it's about 30% less than SB. Most of the ZM kits in Canada are in that price range and seem to doing okay here. The Do335 is over $300 CAD. I suspect (hope actually) that we're in the low output part of Tamiya's 1/32 product cycle. They went quite a while between the F-16 and the Spitfire so maybe that's where we are now. Thankfully other manufacturers have taken an interest in 1/32 so at least we're not going begging. Have you seen the pics of the new GWH P-40B that's coming? Carl

Working away on the Yamato.

It's a beautiful kit. I have the same one in the stash.

Looks good John and I agree about leaving out the unnecessary bits. I've done that a few times on my Spitfires. Carl

I saw the kit built up in person at my LHS yesterday. It is a huge improvement over their 1/32 Phantoms. Hopefully Tamiya consider putting it in their enlargement Ray gun and do a 1/32 version. Carl

I've just ordered the Minibase Su-33 from xfree so I'm waiting to see how that works out. I've heard good things about dawngrocerystore but haven't tried them yet. Carl

Good luck with the new job Mark. Carl

Steve, it's everywhere here too. You can even pick your colour: black, white, orange or brown. Then add your selection of length: short, medium or long. And of course lastly gauge: fine or coarse. To be honest, I pretty much have to wipe down as I go and I also keep a small desktop vacuum on the bench. I'm looking forward to the new bench and finally having a dedicated paint bench. Carl