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Here are some pics of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's Lancaster Mk X FM213. This is one of only 2 airworthy Lancasters in the world.

More anime/sci-fi kits. The first is the Asuka from Star Blazers It's a support ship and is a variant of the Dreadnought class ship I built earlier. Next up is from one of the Macross sequels. Looking at the parts, this thing is tiny! 1/100 scale.

That chassis/tub looks like the one. A big piece of metal.

Certainly doesn't look like a Frankenstein to me. Great job there John.

Rob, I have the same kit but the original release. Besides the regular plastic body shell, I think mine has a diecast chassis rather than white metal. I'll have to double check that. Carl

A great build. Thanks for sharing.

Peter, it's great to see you back. Hopefully everything went well for you and Diane. Looking forward to your Spitfire. Carl

I think you're going to like both kits there Dave. The Tomcat is hands down the best F-14 kit on the market in any scale. Skunk Models does a nice Nimitz deck in 1/48. I picked one up for my copy of the same kit. https://www.luckymodel.com/scale.aspx?item_no=SW-48020 As for the Zeta Gundam, it's a Master Grade kit which means it's going to be one of the more detailed kits that Bandai makes. Lots of parts and articulation. It'll be a press fit kit so cement will be optional. Be careful when you test fit parts together as they may not always come apart easily. A couple complaints make a special tool to separate parts on kits like these. Since everything is moulded in colour, you can actually get away with not painting anything. The last Master Grade kit I built I did paint but with the parts breakdown I didn't need to mask anything. If you do want to paint it, here's a colour conversion chart to help out. It give Me Color equivalents. https://www.mech9.com/2010/03/mg-msz-006-zeta-gundam-ver-20.html

Paul, nice variety of kits. I still remember going into the big comic book shop here in Toronto called Silver Snail. Their entire second floor was models, board games and figures. They had a huge section devoted to the original MaK kits in the brown boxes. I would always look at them and then put them back, being not quite sure what they would be like inside. As for the Hasegawa Egg Girls, they're fun and certainly a lot tamer than some stuff you can find out there. Plus if they help Hasegawa have money for other more mainstream kits, so much the better.

Definitely a mean looking drone there Rob. The red plastic is an interesting choice too.

The Trumpeter kit is completely different from the Das Week one. The Das Werk kit is made in cooperation with Takom, just like Andy's kits.

The house is looking nice Rog. It's unfortunate about the water pipe but better it happened now before you moved in.

Great looking 190. Thanks for sharing.

Here in North America, the Chevy Vega was known to rust away while in the showroom. No driving required.

I picked up a couple Wingleader books. The newest one is one the Dambusters Lancaster.

That's a nice looking Alfa Rob. They're such a classic design.

Hope you feel better soon Ralph. Not COVID, but I've been fighting a nasty chest cold the last week. Can't wait till it clears.

Nice pair of Lightnings and a Toom to go with them. I still have an F6 in the stash from way back when along with the 1/32 Trumpeter kit. I've been trying to get my hands on an Echelon vac but no luck yet.

Happy birthday Peter! Hope you get all your plastic wishes fullfilled.

That's going to be a big model Scott!

Like I said earlier Rob, that's a great price on the Abarth. Hope to see you work your magic on it soon.

Rob, try flat clear paint on the clear parts. If you use acrylic, if you don't like it you can strip it off. Otherwise, the suit is looking amazing.

Looks great John. Another lovely build from you.

That could be interesting. It has been so far. If it doesn't fit together, you've missed or done something wrong.

Scott, is the Squadron book correct? Seeing that it's a drawing, it could be off too. Unless there's a pic in the book of the plane showing it match the profile. As for the stripe facing the wrong way, just switch the decals around from one side to the other. Also, looks like the 49 is smaller on the desal sheet.