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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.

And we're off! First thing was to sand/remove the surface detail in preparation for the Red Fox 3D panels. Then I started gluing the cockpit panels together. The fit is not perfect. Lots of dry fitting was needed to get it together. It's definitely a different way to build a cockpit.

I took a quick look through the couple books I have. Most show the wing leading edges with badly chipped and weathered paint. Very weathered paint paint overall. You can see it when they remove the cheek guns and the fresh paint underneath is so much darker. Here are pics of the waist gun position. The tail gunner position. I found it interesting how the ammo belts twisted so much before feeding into the guns. That was a pain to model.

Sadly, that's exactly what happened to me. I ended up binning it as I couldn't see myself slogging through and getting it across the finish line. I did send the engines to Harv for his gunship build so part of it is still around.

Ok, I'm in with something unexpected but from the stash. Box contents: Just kidding, The AM in the mix.

I've the F6 kit in the stash. Just had it out today in fact as I'm trying to reorganize the stash. I also have the somewhat maligned Trumpeter 1/32 one too. I'm still waiting for my LHS to sell the Echelon ones they bought in a collection a few years ago and maybe have a go at my first vac build.

If you need any reference pics, I have the big Schiffer book on the B-25.

On that note, happy Robbie Burns Day!

Do these help? This are from my aborted build. Some of it is scratch built and some came from a Profimodel set.

Peter, it's the same here. For whatever reason reason 1/32 Spitfires dominate in my display case and my stash. I think I've only built a couple in other scales oddly.

I've been working away at the camo. More random panels added of different colours.

This is my second Amusing Hobby build. I did their E100 earlier. They've both been very similar. A bit simplified but everything goes together nicely. The Badger is based on the Conqueror so I imagine that would go together as well as this has.

Peter, I hear ya. The Su-33 counts and I'm barely into that build it's so involved so I'll probably have that moved here. As for the Tomcats, it almost seems perfect timing in having some Reskit goodies just arrive for it.

Still my favourite jet. I have a pair of the D version in the stash. Gotta finish what I have going. At some of it.