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Since the Flanker is just sitting on my bench it was easy to take a look at where I'd left off. I'm still amazed at the quality of the fit. This is Mnibase's first ever kit and they have exited something truly magical. Dropping the rear intake trunk into the nacelle, the sidewalls are almost flush. There's a seam for sure but there no step at the join. Then the upper section drops into place. From the underside, you can see how clean the fit is, even before glue. Finally, the MLG bay roof goes in next. Again, no glue yet, just dropped in place.

The floatation screen covers are now in place. I had to trim one tiny section a bit due to operator error but otherwise they fit nicely. I then started folding and fitting the PE screens and hatch covers. The screens have an edge to them that needs to be folded down. That was a bit of a pain. Once done though, they are a perfect fit onto the relative panels and grilles.

Scott, that's a spooky looking bench. Unnatural almost. But for a good reason. Get through the cruises and the doctor stuff. Just make sure none of them have a phone# that's 1-800-DOCTORB (the B is for Bargain!).

Any one know of decals or paint masks available for the AH-64Es that the ROCAF fly? They have a tiger stripe camo with a very loud tiger mouth nose art. Would be cool to do one up.

Wow, So having built so many of these Corsair kits, I bet you could do this in your sleep. Or at least with your eyes closed.

Flankers are so pretty.

I wonder if they're flow lines from the injection moulding process? The odd angle on the one between the two hatches would suggest that to me.

You should just buy them by the case. That has to worth some sort of discount. The checkerboard Corsair looks cool to me.

An interesting feature on the model is working contra props. They're geared so that they spin in opposite directions. Assembled into the power egg. The cockpit, camera and tail wheel (not in the pic) were installed into the fuselage. I added the power egg and closed things up. Fit so far has been very good.

Okay, finally a post with some build progress. The upper hull is in place and il working through adding the various panels to it. Everything looks like it can posed open if desired. This includes engine hatches, storage compartments and it looks like the inflatable wading curtain too. At least with the way it's been designed and moulded. One big thing though. All the hatches fit in the closed position. In the upper photo, it turns out I had the three rear hatches in the wrong spot. They weren't properly aligned with the hull. You can see the gap under the centre panel. It had me scratching my head for a bit l until I realized the panels on either side were angled wrong. Once I fixed those, everything fit like it was supposed to. Here it is with everything corrected and the rear floatation skirt cover in place.

Chris, so far the engineering on the kit has been amazing. Everything fits perfectly. We'll see what happens when I get to the wing fold assemblies. Peter, I really should get back to this build. Hopefully soon.

Wow, looks fast standing still.

Thanks for sharing Maru. They visited the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum the previous Wed and had a ground display. They supposedly then did a flypast with the CWHM Lancaster. Wish I could have gone.

Thanks! I'll have to give it a try.

Great work there. One question, how do you paint the road wheels after everything is assembled? Any easier than painting them before assembly?

Looking forward to this Peter. I have the Takom kit in the stash that I got from you. It'll be nice to see the comparison between the two. Watch the fit of the canopy. Some have said it's a bit short but that may be operator error.

There's a Sheridan here? To be honest, I've been too tired after work to spend any time at the bench. Hopefully this weekend I'll get a chance to make some headway.

Sorry to hear about the ongoing health woes Scott. At least you're getting them looked after.

The orange guy is Sunny D and the Calico is Fursnake. My wife named them both. If Garfield is anything like Sunny, I bet he's a real sweetheart.

Nope, just two cats. The ginger is Sunny D, he's a rescue that was abandoned as a kitten at a dairy farm we were visiting. We were visiting with some friends and Sue saw him and immediately decided that we were taking him home. Which made the kids of the other parents there all want a kitten too. That didn't go over so well.

As most of you know, I have a carpet monster in my lap most of the time. She does a decent enough job catching wayward parts. Then I just have to retrieve them from her fur coat before she takes off. In case anyone is wondering what I'm taking about. Her standby isn't working out as well though. He wants to do some modelling as opposed to just being an observer.

Nice varied set of hobbies there Paul. I love woodworking as well but don't have room for a workshop. When we built out garage, Sue made it clear that it was strictly for our cars and bikes and not to be turned into a workshop. A fiat tradeoff in my opinion. As for our security squad, he might get off the couch for you if you came in but is more likely to just ignore you and keep sleeping.

Wow, that's a whole different level in aircraft building. The variation in appearance from a few simple (relatively) changes is cool too.

Sorry to hear about this Peter. However, I'm glad to hear you're responding well to the meds.

Heathen!! Next thing you're going to say is you follow them!! If you said destructions i would have let it slide. On a more serious note, I haven't had a chance to make it to the post office with the K tail. Hopefully tomorrow.