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I finally got some bench time and decided to try and make some progress on the FW190 sitting on my bench. I painted the coaming and added the gun sight as well as the canopy. I'm hoping to mount the canopy and start on the camo shortly.

It looks like you're doing well with the PE zimmerit there Phil. Nostalgia builds can be a fun trip down memory lane.

Here's what it says on the bottle: Compared to Mr Color Levelling Thinner, I think this won't affect the shelf life of the paint as much if at all. You could use Levelling Thinner to do the same but it may reduce the shelf life of the paint.

Rob, that's a great price for the Abarth. I've thought of getting one of those but they haven't been that inexpensive. I have their big Delta in the stash but the Stratos is my favourite rally car. I really should finish the Doyusha one in the stash before this comes out.

Italeri is getting closer with their 1/12 Lancia Stratos. Pic of the test build. Needless to say I can't wait for this.

Starting to look evil there Martin.

Hubert, if you want to speed up the drying time for oil paints, add a drop or two of Japan dryer. It makes oil paints dry as fast as acrylics. I used it few times that I had to airbrush Model Master. It dried in minutes without any issues.

Like the others have said, it's a very good quality paint. It's generally a bit thicker than Tamiya lacquers so might need a bit more thinning. The great thing is they offer FS colours without having to mix as well as other standardized paint colours. Gundam ones too! Most Japanese kit manufacturers list them as their recommended paint colours. Tamiya is the outlier of course since they're going to recommend their own line of paints. If you end up with a bottle that's overly thick,.you can add Mr Color Replenishing Agent to get it back to a normal consistency. Or just use one of their lacquer thinners. I have bottles that are 20 years old and still usable.

That really is a sharp paint job Martin.

Your Tempest is looking great. I like the NMF as it is. It has a suitably used and tarnished look.

I've used it. I couldn't find a difference in the results. It also can harden with age. After discussing it with my LHS, they said they had heard similar issues from other customers. The solution was use a different brand of paint as a primer. I used Tamiya acrylic as a primer and that solved the paint lifting. Here's my first try with the paint, a Type XXIIi U-boat. The paint lifting occurred when masking the hull demarcation line. On my subsequent usage on the B-24, with a coat of Tamiya flat white as a primer, the paint only lifted in a couple spots and the masking there was much more extensive.

I have a love/hate relationship with Mission Model paints. It sprays nice enough and has decent coverage but it's sometime a fragile finish and lifts just by looking at it wrong. If it was more durable, I'd use it more often.

Great camo there Rob. A nice disruptive scheme. I've never tried hair spray for chipping yet. I've used chipping fluids with mixed results.

I was getting some items for my son off Amazon and saw this Godzilla figure so I had to get one. This is the most recent Godzilla as seen in Minus One.

I just finished Starter Villian by John Scalzi. It's a fun book in the spy/sci-fi/comedy genre.

Peter, glad to hear you and Diane are doing well and staying healthy. Sorry to hear about Joel's eyesight issues though. Hopefully they can stabilize things for him. He's such a great car modeler I can't imagine what he must be feeling. We were at my in-laws 65th anniversary party on the weekend. Sue's dad is 89, and will be 90 in March. This time last year we weren't sure he was going to make it to Christmas. He'd taken a serious fall, thankfully not breaking anything but was in a rehab hospital for 3 weeks. Since that stay, he's rebounded and is in much better health and spirits. Carl

Here I was thinking I don't recall seeing wings on the Millennium Falcon. Nice work on the Attacker's wings.

Lovely 109 there Chris. Great paint job of a unique scheme too.

Oh, that's a nice looking kit Rob. I've been on the fence about getting it as the Pegasus one is still on my bench.

She's a beaut Scott. Hard to believe that's a 59 year old car.

And here's the finished brisket. Jimmy was hoping I'd drop it but no such luck.

Air Canada 144 leaves at 12:15 from Calgary. Arrives here at 6:05 so just about perfect timing.

Looks good there Martin. The USAF paint scheme worked out nicely. Paul, I think it's the Revell Arado Amerika bomber.

At the halfway mark: Gift wrapped for the final stint.

It should be done around 6 Pm EST so I think you've got enough time to grab a flight and arrive by then. I do them on our Big Green Egg. The thing holds a temp really well. I just got back from walking our dog for 1 1/2 hours and the needle hasn't budged from where I'd left it.