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That's unfortunate. Hopefully she can find someone that will be interested in taking it over.

Happy birthday young man!

Nice to see this back Rob. It reminds me that I have my own MP4/6 in the stash to finish.

Great that you found one. It'll look good next to a Golden Hawks RCAF Sabre.

I had the same thoughts.

Saw this in the neighbourhood the other day. I thought of @PanzerWomble's new ride.

Scott, there's too many medical professionals in my family to try the same. My sister in law is an ER doc, my father in law is a retired pathologist so they both saw up close what could happen. It worked for a friend of mine though. Maybe too well. He introduced his girlfriend to riding, he was on a Honda CBR at the time. She liked it so much she bought herself a Triumph Daytona. A monster of a bike but she learned how to ride it properly.

You need to get two. One for each of you!

Time to pick this build back up and hopefully finish it. The landing gear legs are in brass, which is great as they'll hold the plane up. There wasn't much cleanup needed thankfully. On the linkage arms, I drilled and mounted a brass rod to use to anchor the retraction spring. I then installed the main legs followed by the linkages Time to let this set up.

Paul, what's the Dax like? I was looking at that kit the other day for some reason.

Fur is back at the bench! Oops, forgot a "Sea" and a "y". The Sea Fury is back... Something happened to the bench as well. There's oddly all this room on it. Feels strange...

With the last minute switch on armament, I've finished the rest of the build. This was basically adding the remaining gear doors, and the underwing pylons. This gave me the chance to go and sort through what was left of the 2 (1/2) donor kits. A big ole pile o' sprues. Lots of bits for future builds. A sneak peak at the next project... ...just kidding . I use the box to store leftover bits. Like that pile above.

Thanks Chris! Identical belts on the seats is always a bit annoying so I do like to make them slightly different wherever possible. Just adds a bit more life to the model. I've had a change of plans with the missiles. They're AIM-9X which is the most current US short range middle and what was available. Of course Reskit has just come out with JASDF AAM-3 missiles which would be more appropriate. So I'm going to set the AIM-9s aside and get a set of the AAM-3s. I've drilled the middle rails in the same spot on all four when once I have the new missiles, I can just add them to the build.

The chassis looks great. I never think to weather a car model.

Getting close to the finish line. I got the canopy painted. I put the canards back on. It will be most likely in the up position so the less than perfect fit won't be noticed. For armament, I assembled the Eduard AIM-9X missiles. This went better than the AIM-54s on my F-14. Ness to do the detail painting.

Nice work on all those stencils and the paint work. If you need a replacement canopy, I have a spare one around.

Peter, I'm not sure what happened but I think the mould may have either gotten damaged or is worn out based on the flash present. Anyways, I sanded off the huge seam lines. Then I polished out the sanding marks. I think I'm going to mix and match the canopy parts. Used the tinted front section and the clear rear one. The rear still needs some trimming to make it fit better but it doesn't have the sink marks that the tinted one does.

Ugh, I feel your pain there Chris. I'm currently working on the Eagle's canopy myself. Looking at the break, it seems to be just the frame is missing and not the clear section. You could try using styrene to patch it but you'd have to be careful around the clear bits. The biggest challenge with the kit pieces is the spot that they attach to the sprue. I would recommend cutting it off the sprue leaving a stub on the part. This way you don't get the splintering effect. Then carefully sand off the stub. There may still be a small scar showing but I hide that under a coat of paint to replicate the sealant that goes around the edge between the glass and the frame.

I need to keep that in mind.

Looks great John. Might have to get one of these as well.

Oh, that's got to be so annoying. Hope they can get you replacement parts and have you back at it.

Fantastic work Rob. It looks like the real thing.

Chris, happy to help out as always. It's easier to fix it now rather than later with possibly all the stencils in the way. Peter, I cheated a bit. It's the ZM F-4EJ that I'm doing as an RF-4EJ. Those are the kit decals over the moulded on details and a coat of flat clear. So quick and (sorta) easy.

It's subtle but there's definitely a difference in the prop blades so nice touch there John. When I was still at the bank, we had Windows XP on our laptops. The "big " leap was going to Windows 98. This was around 2006-7. A friend in the tech support dept called me up and asked if I wanted to guinea pig Windows 2000. She said I always found interesting issues that drove IT nuts solving so she thought I'd be great for it. I said sure and soon after had it installed on my laptop. At that time she told I was one of 3 people running 2000 in the entire bank on a live computer ( one fully connected to the bank's servers). No pressure. Lol. And yes, I hate Windows 10 nevermind 11.

Just checked and they're $50 off Amazon.ca so not much cheaper than a pair of Godhand or Dspiae nippers.