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Sue's dad one time had a bottle of Lagavulin where the cork broke. So he found an empty sherry bottle and poured it in there instead. Except he didn't tell Sue's mom. So when she made a trifle and went to add some sherry to it, she ended up pouring in the Lagavulin. It was quite the surprise for everyone that had it. It certainly wasn't the flavour we were expecting.

Someone wanted a skylight. When I first saw the holes being drilled in the rear fuselage I thought you might be doing a backdate and deleting the turret.

No one's doing an F-4 yest so that's a good choice.

For years in Canada the only way to find Mr Color was at the local anime shops which also sold Gundam kits. Then a couple hobby shops started getting it in and it's been much easier to find since. Same goes for Tamiya, looks like we get their entire line of paints, including their enamels but I think that's partly due to the long relationship between Tamiya and the Canadian distributor. MRP on the other hand, is forbidden fruit. Same as Zero paints.

Nice job on the paint. The invasion stripes are nice and tidy too. Not always the easiest thing to do. I'm looking forward to the decal job, especially how the nose checkers come out.

Definitely a different paint scheme. Nicely done too which is to be expected.

That's coming along nicely. The Dino looks neat too.

Wow, Ernie. Thanks! I'm glad I was able to make you laugh. I've never built a 190 before so thanks for giving me a shot at one.

Well I'm 52 so not far behind you.

Well I just checked my kits and found they don't need the seamless intakes as the Fisher conversions have them already. So guess I dodged that bullet.

Does the kit need the seamless intake? I've got a couple in the stash but no intakes for them. Just wondering if I should try to find some.

Paul, great to hear your mom is doing well. You're not the only one going through this so it's completely understandable. I take my Dad grocery shopping weekly since he can't drive any more. Sue does the same for her folks when they ask. It's the least we can do to make things easier for them. We're just happy that we can help them out and I'm sure it's same for you.

Speaking of wings, I got the main gear bay assembled and glued in. I forgot to take pics until it was fitted to the wing. Slight tweaking was needed. The engines are together as well. I've left off most of the detail bits since I'm going to have the nacelles closed up.

That's the old kit. This one is from 2016 or that's what the copyright says on the inside of the wing.

Mine looks worse than your before pic. I'm still sorting it out. For those with OCD, avert your eyes. Almost done with the reorganization You can actually see the row between the shelves. Found my box of F-14 paint mules. About a dozen left.

We got a cold climate heat pump installed so it's supposed to be good to -20°C. Just in case it goes colder, we still have our old heating system which is radiators. Best of both worlds I guess. The nice thing is the basement is now finally heated so it won't be as cold down there in the winter.

We had a heat pump installed 1 1/2 weeks ago. I had to move the stash and then due to the wall unit getting installed lost some shelf space. I've spent the last few days sorting and trying to make it all fit in a smaller space so I know how you feel.

That was. .. bad

Or you could go with the one I suggested previously:

Last thing I did last night was start on the paint. A quick test fit of some of the cockpit parts show they go together. I may have to do some remedial paint work on the onion. The Xtreme Metal jet exhaust didn't come out the way I expected.

Nice choice Bill. I considered this kit as well but chickened out and went with the 262 instead.

Some of these sprue connection points are a bit huge. I ended up using a razor saw to cut these off. I've started work on the engines to and have been building up some subassemblies.

I've been trying to slowly (very slowly) get through some of the bottles in my collection. I haven't actually bought anything in the last couple of years but it keeps growing through gifts from friends and family. Some of the single malts I currently have. There's some more plus some eyes, gin, and bourbon. Note the empty space on the shelf due to my attempts at finishing open bottles. I think enjoying a nice Scotch is almost required if you're married to a Scot. Which I am.

That's me too. Sue is very much a coffee drinker and sometimes wonder how she married me since I don't even like the smell of it. I always dreaded when clients would ask to meet at a Starbucks.

I've never finished a 262. Came close with the Tamiya 1/48 kit when it was first released. So I'm hoping I can finally crops this off the list.