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What an amazing project. Talk about a Hens tooth pooped out by a Unicorn! The work so far looks amazing. Is the fuselage painted or decalled? Either way an incredible job. Can't wait to see you out your personal touch on it.

My sister made a last minute trip from Chicago to visit so she brought the Christmas raffle prize I won from @Peterpools that I had Peter send to her to save on postage. Thanks Peter and thanks to my sis for her understanding.

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Well, a bit of good news but some bad too. I do have a spare stab set but it's incomplete. It's missing the upper starboard stab. I'll check my other spares boxes and see if it's migrated. So close...

Time for a small update. The bench redo isn't done but I wanted to see if the YF-22 nozzles were going to work. First thing I did was shorten them so that they had a straight panel line to join up to the Eagle fuselage. Then it was a bit of tweaking to get it closer dimensionally. Finally a quick mockup test with tape. The nozzles will fit the Eagle fuselage. Topside, I'll need to blend the sides in more but it will take away the squareness of the mods I'd made earlier. The underside will need building up to blend the nozzles in. From the side, I was able to get the nozzles to the same height as the fuselage so there won't be a step. Lastly, I need to add some detail to the insides of the nozzles as there isn't any.

My Silentaire compressor has a leak somewhere so I feel your pain. I replaced it with a Badger but that didn't have the power so I've got a California Air Tools similar to the one Scott posted. It works but is nowhere as quiet as the Silentaire was. It's also nowhere as expensive as a new Silentaire would be. You can get an inline moisture trap. I have mine attached to the hose just before the quick disconnect to the airbrush itself. Several companies make them.

I'll take a look and see if I have a spare stab set. For some reason I have spare gear legs and a full canopy set so who knows. And yes, once you're done with the cockpit, most of the build goes quickly.

Thanks Scott. One of the Canadian online shops has all three in stock and they're on sale for $81 CAD each. So around $60 US.

That's eggs-quisite! Always loved the Final Countdown and you've done an egg-cellent diorama.

Thanks Mike!

I know a couple members ( @ScottsGT at least) on here have built the Fisher A-1E conversion and was wondering what's the best base kit to start with. The instructions suggest any of the 3 Trumpeter kits but is one better than the other? Thanks, Carl

Nice review Fran. I just got the same conversion set the other day. On mine, the nose and prop blades had all roken loose but thankfully nothing was damaged.

Actually both outer wings are off, one with a broken spar which I'll need to fix which is why she's stalled.

Probably not long.

Small bit of progress. Almost tossed the model but finally got the canopies in place. Then the fun part, adding the antennae. Somehow this went easier than the canopies. Go figure.

A complete revamp. Moving around the paint racks, tool organizers and fitting a proper spray booth. Not necessarily in that order. Most folks here would say my bench is a bit cluttered, others might call it an unmitigated disaster. One a good day Bench 1: Bench 2: Staged to assuage the pitch fork carrying members of the Tidy Bench Club: Partway through the mods. Paint booth in place. This invoiced taking down drywall, putting in ducts and making sure it all worked properly. Getting there.

That looks neat. For a moment, I thought the utility knife was going to be a wing of some sort.

The cleanup is taking almost as long as the build.

Here's my 1/32 Cylon Raider by Moebius Models. It was built OOB except for the addition of some LEDs. A fun and quick build.

I think you'll find it's a nice kit. The Badger I'm working on uses the Conqueror as its base so there's lots of common parts. I used Fruil tracks on mine as the only bit of AM.

Is there a tutorial for that? If so, do you know if it would work on a kid's room?

Yup, took a bit of practice but I seem to be getting better at it

That's terrible news. Hoping the next update has good news.

There are several IP panels in the Tamiya kit. Some are for the C/D kit so beware. When I did my R, it looks like I used the panel you have. As for the EJ, they were fairly early E builds. None have a slatted wing for example, not even when they got updated to the Kai standard.

I took a good look at the benches and have decided to do a major reorganization of them. I have the tool holders all the way at one end and I build at the opposite side which doesn't make sense and explains why nothing gets put back. Here's all the tools that were on the bench instead of in the tool holder. So this will take a few days but I think it'll work out much better.