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I like it. I did something similar on my E-100 as well.

I totally would have clipped them off and then gone whoops.

Remember when the Plymouth Prowler came out and the talk of heresy when folks found out it had a V-6 instead of a V-8? Imagine the cries of anguish when Boys Coddington showed off the Aluma Coupe powered by a Mitsubishi 4G63 4 banger!!! Anyways, Testors released a kit of it years ago and Wheels and Wings recently got one in from a collection. Definitely an interesting kit, the body is split in half lengthwise. I also picked up an F2G Corsair conversion. An LSP forum member had it for sale and we met up at the LHS for to get it from him. Finally I can build an F2G in 1/32.

Some nice progress there Ralph. Nice to see the actual Tamiya version get built. I have the earlier Tamiya release of the Easy Eight which turned out to be a re-box of the Tasca kit.

Nice start there Scott. I always wondered if there was any crew space inside the float fairing on the Duck and you've answered my question.

Man, putting down sod is not fun at all. Scott, where you are do you have any trouble with wildlife mucking up the sod? Here, the raccoons love to roll it up back up at night and dig for grubs. So you end up having to roll the sod back out again every morning. So it can take forever for it to take root as a result.

Why do I picture you saying that like Jack Nicholson from The Shining?

That looks great. Nice touch with the added details. Carl

No, Moon Palace. It's in the Atrium on Bay right in downtown Toronto. Not the usual spot to find a good Chinese restaurant as most are in the 'burbs. We'll be going to Mandarin in a couple weeks though at the request of our oldest. He wants to go there to celebrate his graduation from grade 8. Sept will be the start high school for him.

Thanks for sharing the photos. Congrats on the award. Carl

Nice to see you back Ralph. Sounds like you're settling in nicely.

No door on the right but tonight we went for Chinese food out and yup, we had Peking Duck. Along with lobster, fish, noodles, and fried chicken. So my Chinese food cravings have been sated for now. Back to your regularly scheduled Duck. Carl

Paul, I'm happy that you post about the tools you're getting, especially the Dspiae ones as they're usually high quality and useful. Carl

I'm pretty sure Atak zimmerit is resin.but it's really thin so maybe that's why it works with the Tamiya Extra Thin?

You guys are making me hungry. Good thing Toronto has so many Chinatowns to pick from with their variety of regional cuisines.

It should hopefully be a bit more nose up than in the pic once things are glued in.

My first thought was to use the natural wing break in the kit and depict the wings folded but then that would ruin the look. I'll probably just scribe something into the wings instead.

I just did a very quick mock up to see how things look. Nothing's glued so it's all a bit skewed.

That's exactly what inspired this bit of frivolity. Further work on the navalization involved swapping the landing gear out. The original gear leg on the left is a bit, spindly. I cut down a spare set of F-14 legs instead. The nose gear is also swapped out, again for F-14 bits.

Gear bays were white. Easier to spot leaks. Cockpits were grey. I think sometimes black on late '40s, early '50s

Ernie, glad to hear from you. You've been missed here. Carl

I'm skipping right over the RLM 02/66 debate and going straight to Dark Gull Grey!

Here's a recently released video by Bandai on the Perfect Grade Unleashed RX-93 I mentioned previously. 2,500 parts...and like almost all recent Bandai kits, it'll be snap/press fit.

Okay, here's a few pics. The Amusing kit has the Maus turret rather than the one in the Trumpeter kit. The camo is a combo of different schemes to reflect a vehicle built from sub-assemblies. That and I I wanted to have fun with it. I did a simple mod to the side skirts to make them removable.

I'll grab a couple when I get home.