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Same here. I took my boys to the recent Godzilla King of the Monsters film when it was in theaters and they loved it.

I might be able to help out there. I have the movie and more importantly, slept in a Holiday Inn recently.

Certainly as the moon seen in the silent film A Trip to the Moon by Georges Meliès. Carl

CBC did one a few years ago with Dan Aykroyd in it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arrow_(miniseries) The plane is in a hanger somewhere in the GTA but I'm not sure where.

More great photos. Thanks Smitty! Carl

I picked up a book called Canoe Craft on how to build a cedarstrip canoe basically the same way. Even got as far as clearing out my parents' garage so I'd have the space. But then my dad saw all the free space and promptly filled it up again. One day...

I was going to suggest the recent Lego Saturn V set as it's quite nice and would be a great reference. Then I saw you you wanted to start with the gantry tower. Maybe if you started with the crawler that would be easiest. That way you could move it around as needed.

She makes a very nice addition to your collection of Corsairs John. I need to do another one at some point. I'm only at two so far. Carl

For Canada, anything 15 years or older from the date of manufacture is ok to import as long as you pay the requisite duties. It must however pass any provincial safety or emissions requirements before it can be registered and put on the road. So for example, BC requires DOT certified headlights, whereas Ontario doesn't. In the case of my '91 Beat, as it was initially registered in BC the headlights got swapped to ones from a Toyota Paseo. The Paseo lights didn't quite fit so when I bought car, the dealer agreed to reinstall the original lights since I was registering it in Ontario. There's also no law here about not being able to pass. Not that in my case I'd be really doing much of that with 63 hp. Carl

I believe the Italeri kit is the Kinetic kit reboxed. I haven't built either so can't attest to the quality and any short comings. 1to1, thanks for your take on the Trumpeter MiG. I tried to build one years ago and failed miserably. I might have to take another go at it. Carl

Great photos! Thanks for sharing. Would love to see a U-2 one day. And a B-29. And.... Carl

Something a bit different.

Glad to hear you're back at it Harv. If those are the stencils I'm thinking of, they definitely aren't the easiest to use. Carl

Rog, sounds like you're getting quite the collection of Hornet stuff. For the B canopy, unfortunately it's a separate part not attached to a common sprue so most likely won't be in the box. AFV Club used to sell them separately with a sort of prismatic finish but I can't find one at the moment. As for the landing gear, I've heard the stock gear holds up as long as the metal inner support rod is glued in securely enough. That's the route I'll be taking with mine so hopefully that's accurate. Carl

Does that mean the Hataka paint worked out?

The light blue surround on the insignia does look odd. I presume that was specific to the plane you're modelling?

The Achilles was an upgunned M10 tank destroyer. The Brits yanked the 76mm gun and dropped in their 17pdr the same way they did to the Sherman to create the Firefly.

Happy birthday Doc!

I found the B-25 book helpful on my builds of the HK model. Carl

This arrived today: I've been wanting to get an Achilles for a while so I'm glad Tamiya finally came out with one.

Glad to help out. The clear parts you need are on their way today. Couldn't find any envelopes to put them in so bought a pack.

I can't recall if the tanks gave me any issues. I think the firewalls might have been reversed as far as which one goes on what side but other than that, it went together nicely. I had just finished building it and left it on the dining table while I tried to figure out where to put it. He was around two at the time so kind of hard to blame him.

Ryan, is that the IV or the later version? I enjoyed building my IV. My son enjoyed taking it on its maiden flight almost as much. Carl

Talk about things just piling on. Hope things go well for your uncle. I was in the car with my dad last week and I'm really starting to think he needs to look at giving up his license. Which he won't without a fight. Carl Edit: just saw your post. My condolences to you and your family.

Thanks for the update Ernie. Carl