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Great job on the figure. I stay away from them as much as possible. The eyes are always a challenge to me.

Incredible work as always.

Westley's Bleech White was never available in Canada so I've been using Castrol Super Clean. Comes in a purple bottle and is a degreaser. So far it's worked well for me. Hopefully the seat is salvageable.

That's a bunch of rain. I'm glad at least you don't have any flooding.

Thanks guys! After getting the ones due done, I noticed that I hadn't dealt with the small gap by the wing root. Combined with the gaps around each aileron, there was also a notch at the wingtip that would need dealing with. So rather than having possibly 7 parts per side to deal with, I decided on a new approach. I cut the wing and made a single straight line. I then trimmed back the wingtip. Using sheet styrene, I made new ailerons. These are a single piece top and bottom so much less seam work and a better fit. You can compare it to the first side I did. To give it shape and the thickness needed, I made an inner structure from various thicknesses of sheet styrene. From the end showing the profile. Dry fit in place. The fit is a lot better. It holds in place without glue and the thickness is a much better match to the wing. Now to make the other side and replace the original ones I did.

Two Border Lancs and two HK ones. Yeah, slight overkill on those.

That's a good price. Sadly I don't think I have room for a 5th Lanc kit. At least not without finding a place for me too.

Time for an update. I finally broke down and started work on the ailerons. I sanded the trailing edges of each part down a bit. I then filled in the existing panel lines that were on the parts. Then I added some tabs to the rear of the wings. These helped to space the wing out and helped me get a bigger bonding surface. Finally I started gluing the ailerons on ,one side at a time.

That looks really great Martin. The mismatched camo is fantastic, really highlights the subassembly approach to the V-1's construction.

I just got a small order in from BNA of items for my F-15DJ Kai build. Eduard PE for the cockpit. I'm using the F-35 set to update the cockpit a bit. It'll take a bit of tweaking to the IPs to make it fit but it should work nicely. The AIM-9X missiles likewise update the armament a bit. Of course Reskit has just announced some AAM-3 missiles which would have been even more appropriate so I may get those instead.

I always loved that paint scheme. I did the old Hasegawa boxing in 1/48 when it first came out and even bought the Revell 1/32 one just for the decals. I'll have to get the ZM one when it hits the LHS.

Hopefully @Jeffor @CrankyCrafstman see this as they seem to be our resident heavy vehicle gurus.

I do the exact same thing. I've tried different approaches to try and not duplicate (or worse!) myself. B-25 stuff still haunts me it seems. I was putting away the Tomcat stuff and noticed I have 1 too many interior sets. I have 2 D kits, 1 with a Quinta set, the other, a Red Fox one. Except one of those D kits is getting converted to a B which uses a late A cockpit. So I'll see how best to sort this out.

It has appropriately shrunk to the standard size of 12" x 12". I think of it as the downtown core with the rest being the suburbs.

Quite the job getting the bench level. I levelled mine when I built it. Hopefully it hasn't shifted. Makes me want to look at the Skyray in the stash. As for astigmatisms, I developed mine when I was 3 1/2 so I've had corrective eyewear since. About 5 years ago I got ICL surgery done and ended up with better than 20/20 vision. Except I then needed readers when I'm at the bench. At least they're the cheapie ones so it's a fair tradeoff.

Welcome to getting old!

Rog, that's some good news there. Unfortunate that the original build gave you such a hard time. But maybe it was a mixed blessing as you're getting a home much closer to what you wanted.

Great to see a start on the Cutlass. Having the same jig, it give me an idea of just how big it is.

Border Model's Tiger I early. Just throwing this together OOB. I need a paint test mule for my Andy's Tiger.

Some F-14 bits and a detail set for the Takom USMC M60 with the ERA armour. Plus decals for a Tamiya F-14B. The plan is to use the Santa Cat markings as I have a Reskit deck figure in a Santa suit.

Paul, you can use the Leveling thinner on them if needed but I find they're fairly thin.

Tamiya Metallic Grey has a flat sheen. It's available in both lacquer and acrylic. Another option is one of the Mr Color Metallizer colours. They have a similiar viscosity as the Model Master paints did and there's a range of colours.

I picked up this jig when it first came out. I found too big for my bench so I didn't use it much. It definitely works well when needed and is much sturdier than the other ones I have.

Cutlass! Cutlass! Cutlass!

Special torture at the bench. Otherwise known as working tank tracks. The dark coloured ones are for an LVT-4 Water Buffalo. Talk about a pain to get together. Which is why I'm doing a bit at a time and then working on the other set of tracks. Those are T80 tracks ostensibly for a Sherman HVSS. In this case, I'm using them on a T95 Heavy tank so I have to make 4 runs of 97 tracks each. I've got two runs done already there.