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Always nice to save one from the SOD John and have it come out Nicely!Do recall any of the story behind the "43" reminds me of a jersey number like in baseball?

Looking sharp Rob!I went to an IPMS meet in Covington last W/E and let me tell you they had some outstanding racers in the F1 category you would of admired but I forgot my camera and I have never owned a cellphone.

Ralph I built up the Meng 410 awhile back I swear you think they almost came from the same molds with added features.

Thanks Guys it was a day of fun Greg bought lunch on the way back since I drove provided gas and did a small wood project for him.I wish I had a camera for some of the racers a real Nice Ferrari I mean real Nice!!!Rob would of like some of the racers for sure.

Thanks Martin I was really surprised on the F-84 and disappointed the Tempest MkVI did not place is what it is.We had a really good time.

I am sorry guys I forgot my camera but I received 1st,2nd in 1/32 prop missed in the 1/48 prop with my Academy B-25 PBJ and struck 3rd in the 1/48 jet with the F-84 from Tamyia the F-84 was last minute.The contest had a decent showing of 246 entries this year my buddy and I had fun he garnered 2/3 place with his 1/48 Fw-190 Eduard with all the goodies and a 1/72 Me-262 bomber version.The buddy bought $20 worth of raffle tickets and won about six kit and bought four more.

Nice one John!

Some Nice Silver John.

Yep Scott definitely looks like one of those build then paint it.

She is up on her stand just a little more work on the exhaust staining and the headers.

That looks pretty coll Kriss those ole Polish A/C had some style.

Wow!missed this one Kriss Nice work and weathering!

I need to get back to the Scharnhorst looking for the ending Dave.

Not on my radar Tim

Looking good Ralph seems the typical Tamyia kit .

I am down to now antenna,canopy mirror,pitot tube and the exhaust.The next part will be wiring up the power supply hopefully completed to my liking by Wednesday.The overall look upstairs I am content with the undersides is so-so.

Not done with the bottom Rob still quite a bit left to wipe off just time to call it quits for the night.I was doing this and a small wood project for a friend having to divide my time left the night short.

I have started applying the wash first the whole topsides got a dark sand wash then wiped but the brown did nor look fades enough?So I took mostly light sand in a container added 1/4 dark and went over just the brown areas looks better to my eyes.I then applied that same color to the bottom to which I have only started to wipe off the excess.The plan is once I am comfortable with the wash and it still a bit heavy I am going to spray with future since it's more water base than anything else that hopefully will dilute it some.That's the plan.

We all got the same Me-410 in the stash once I get done with the current build of the Spitfire I will get back to our buddy build.

I was looking in on you Ralph just a couple days ago but remember you had gotten newly married and was traveling.It's good everything is going well for ya'll new adventures abound for ya seeing the stash may need rebuilding?

That seems to be the case often with German machining hell I see it in the WWII guns I have every piece just about has a serial number.

I kinda stuck on my Badgers Gus been using them only since about 12 yrs old with Propel Everybody raves about the Steiner though.....

Looks good John can not even tell surgery was done.

Yeah that will be easy could almost take some .010 stryene and melt in there with glue?

That's all looking very good John!When the kit gets there it will be shake/bake.