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Completely missed this so just caught up with your progress. The weathering and paint looks spectacular there Mark. An unusual subject and you're making it look easy.

So after being away for the week, I finally spent some time at the bench last night. I did a bit of work on the LRDG Ford. If you don't like lots of small parts, this kit won't be to your liking. So far though, the fit has been great. I finished up the rear axle with the second leaf spring, shackles and torque rods(I think that's what they are).

That digger kit is definitely different. A nice way to shake things up.

Just got back home from a week in Northern Ontario camping. In the UK, they have a Spitfire beer and I believe a Lancaster one too. So it's only appropriate that we have one for the Arrow. It come from a local brewery located in Parry Sound. The city has historical ties to the development of the Arrow during the '50s.

Great to hear you found it John, especially a clear part and not after having run over it with a chair.

Could also be missions completed. As for kill markings, one of my favourite is this one: It's on a Harvard at Vintage Wings of Canada. Story goes someone was flying an RC CF-105 that ended up crashing into the Harvard. The Harvard came out on top, so it got the "kill". There a Victor (I think) at the RAF museum with a shed kill marking on it. The wingtip apparently smacked into a shed, completely wrecking it.

Tally-ho?

Peter, just catching up on your progress. We've been up north camping for the week, we're back tomorrow so reception is spotty at times. Glad to see the spill wasn't the end of the build and you're continuing on with it. I've found the Red Fox 3D decals to be more brittle than the Quinta ones. The Quinta ones aseem to bend okay as long as the bend isn't too sharp. Here they are in my FW190. I glue one end down, let it dry and then glue the other end. I find that helps get the contours I want.

Dave, that's quite the pile of AM for the kit. The pilots look like they'll be a nice touch to the cockpit.

Very do-able in 1/350.

Phil, can't help it. We live near the largest park in the city and they're just every where.

Well, okay. In that case you're right.

No blame, just inspiration.

All those lovely Ford pics Martin posted made me want to build one. So here's a flat head V-8 This is for the Thunder Models LRDG patrol truck. The axles has separate shackles. Craziness.

I didn't know but do recall seeing his name on a couple forums. Condolences to his family.

I think that's due to the modularity of Hasegawa kits. They can easily throw in /take out the required sprues and get a different variant. Also, many folks speculate that Hasegawa has decided to focus on their domestic market. Just look at their recent releases: JDM cars, mecha, and Egg Girl figures. So if the N version didn't sell well there, I can see their reluctance to re-issue it. We need to get Hobby 2000 or Revell to do a re-box and then we'll have some for the rest of the world.

Thanks Martin! This was one of those "can I pull it off?" builds for me. I'm very happy with how it turned out. I don't think I've done such a complex scratch/conversion before and for sure not in 1/32. Now to build the display case. Carl

I've built some kits that I have foolishly checked the price on after I started them and almost made me want to cry. I was partway through building a Yamato 1/3000 SDF-1 kit from the Macross anime. I'd bought it for maybe $150. So when I looked online and found they were now $1,000-1,200 I had to shrug my shoulders and keep going. Lego is even worse. I had their Technics Porsche RSR and just sort of lost interest in building it. Our youngest was going through a bit of a rough patch so I let him build it. Building it really helped to give hims something positive to look forward to every day. When he was done, he wanted to do another so we looked it up. Turned out it was discontinued and was now a collector's item selling for over $1,000. The happiness and sense of pride he got out of it was worth way more than that.

Yup, it's the Hasegawa plastic with some extra bits including a stamped metal plate. I have one in the stash here somewhere. The funny thing is, the original P-40N box with the 15,000 markings was a slow seller. About a year after it came out, HLJ had them on clearance . They still weren't selling so they then offered heavily discounted shipping on your entire order if you bought one. So I did, and then had no idea what to do with it. Finally Zotz did a decal sheet for them and I built it. I think it's at my parents' place. Then someone traded me one and again I had no idea what to do with it. Ended up trading it to another member. As for the K I just picked one of those up from the flood sale. It has both an E and K tail so if do a regular E, I'll let you know if you want the K tail.

Forgot to say, you don't see many FoST or FiSTs around any more. Seems like they've all disappeared.

Nice gathering of cars there Martin. I like the first gen Cougars. That Ranchero looks nice too.

Gus, the Eagle is a big bird that's for sure. For now it's sitting on top of one of my shelves in the overflow area. I need to get the new display case built. Sue's on my case about getting it done.

It's finally finished. I got around to mounting the missiles. They're on a short piece of wire to help keep them in place. I then found the canopy after a bit of searching. I'd misplaced it for safekeeping. With that done, she's all finished. Sorry for the very cluttered background but she's so big I don't have much space to take pics of the model.

Hubert, I finally found my stash of springs. As you can see, they come in lots of diameters and black or silver. They're very flexible and I use a set of nippers to cut them to the desired length.