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    Looks like this one is putting up quite the fight. I emailed Special Hobby once about spare parts and they were happy to sell it to as they had them in stock. So hopefully they have them for you. You could get the missing intake parts too.
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    Here's the LUV. And here's the paint supervisor making sure there's at least a hair or two in the paint.
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    So it looks like I'll be able to make it. I'm sneaking away for the day and I'm bringing our youngest. Hopefully he won't get bored too quickly. Anyone know how much admission is? For some reason I can't find it on the website. Carl
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    The Sea Fury is behind the Tiger and the LUV is to the left of the Tiger. I know, there's so much clear space on my bench I need to find stuff to fill it up.
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    That's a different solution to the intake problem. When I did mine, I split the trunking in two and didn't bother about trying to make it connect at the fan face. That's deep enough inside that you can't see it anyways. As for the nose weight, hopefully it doesn't cause too much fuss sealing it back up.
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    Paul, that's a lot more wheels than I'm dealing with. The Tiger only has 48 which I glued on last night.
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    Chris, Jeroen is on another level compared to us mortals. No idea how he does or how he doesn't get CA on everything but I'm sure they're interlinked. As for Moskit, they're definitely long gone. I suspect they're old stock or something hats been kept ont he stash for a while. There's a newer company called Rexx that does similar exhausts though.
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    Wow John. This should be good. Like Hubert said, those intakes can be tricky but if you've built a couple already you know what you're everything into. I actually enjoyed the pair of T-33s I did. Carl
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    1/24 scale!
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    It's completely over the top. The bikes that are made for kids these days absolutely blow away what existed in our time. Odds are they're more advanced than what we rode as adults. There's brands now that just do children's bikes and they easily run into the thousands of dollars. And not the Canadian Loonie kind either. Years ago, when I think our oldest was maybe 2-3 years old, I almost bought a titanium tricycle. The company that made it did it for fun but had enough people ask for one they did a limited run. It was I think $500 at that time. I nearly bought one of the last ones they made but came to my senses. I think it was more like my wife bludgeoned me into my senses.
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    Fantastic work there Dave. Very clean work with gluing all that PE in place.
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    I remember those! CADEX I think Giant called them. At least the mountain bike version anyways. Carbon tubes with aluminum lugs. I had a Trek road bike built the same way from the mid 2000s.
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    Seen at Eurobike, the new Giant full carbon fibre balance bike.
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    A blast from the past. Okay ,not really a blast but a kit I built as a kid when I was maybe 7-8 years old. Simple enough. I want to practice getting a gloss finish so it'll be an OOB build.
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    Riich sell the running gear and tracks as a separate upgrade kit for the Tamiya kit. I have it and it's definitely lots of small parts. In 1/16, it'll be closer to a typical 1/35 armour kit.
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    You're doing a great job on the stencils Chris. I'm going to have to do them on the 1/48 F-4 kits that I have so that will be a challenge. The Japanese absolutely loved them on their Phantoms.
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    Great work on the carbon decals there. Rob, mine is the old Tamiya 1/12 kit. With the new 3D printed tires I got for it, I don't have any more excuses to not start it back up.
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    A bit more work done on the Border Tiger. So many road wheels. Once dry, I'll paint the other side.
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    Nice! I wonder how that compares to the even older Gunze High-Tech kit?
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    I did more of the detail work on the MLG. There's a set of springs that are used to retract the gear legs. They attach to the linkage arms onto the brass rod I inserted earlier. I drilled a second mount into the gear bay beside the MLG leg The kit includes a resin piece for this spring but I replaced it with some steel spring wire I have cut to length. This was slipped over the brass rod in the gear bay and then onto the pin on the linkage.
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    Thanks Peter! Definitely coming together and hopefully I'll have her done soon.
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    You're going to get your wife to glue the blast deflectors on? Nice progress and hope the family visits and DOCTORB visits go well.
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    Nice work there Peter. Glad to see you're enjoying the time at the bench.
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    Nice! Here's the tribute one at Vintage Wings. The restoration crew signed the wing under the slat
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    You certainly can't. Keeps your lap warm in winter, catches the odd errant part that you drop, even samples the work occasionally. Although the latter might not be the best. Thankfully our dog hasn't tried. At 115 lbs, I suspect things would end badly if he did.
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