Landlubber Mike

Welcome back Peter! Glad to hear the prognosis is good!

Happy belated birthday Peter!!

Another great one PW!

I feel like I've been steadily working on the models but have little to show for it. I did manage to add additional panel lines and rivet the two models. I need to touch things up in a few places with primer, but the rivets look pretty cool. We will see how much of them shows up after painting and weathering. Thanks again @Martinnfb for posting the panel line/rivet diagrams! I also managed to build up the two Vector engines, though still need to add control rods. I'll post pics when they are done, but they are looking very nice as per usual from Vector. I have a couple of Opel Blitz trucks that are resin - took me hours to separate and clean up the parts, and now I can finally start building them. I'm hoping they look ok when done, as I'd rather not have to go out and buy a Tamiya Opel Blitz kit. Other than that, I'm working on landing gear bays at the moment. There's really not too much more I need to do build wise on these, with the exception of the open engines and needing to figure out how to make the Vector engines work with the Verlinden set and the Hasegawa kit. Thanks for looking in!

I agree with FullArmor - really nicely done with a great use of negative space to avoid overcrowding. Your dioramas are a big inspiration to me as I start trying to model more diorama scenes!

Wow Kevin, that came out great! I like the finish on it!

This is looking spectacular Hubert - well done!

Peter, glad to hear you and your wife are doing well. Best wishes to you both and to your brother!

Looking really nice!

Losing pieces is the worst! Hope you end up finding it/them. I've spent many long hours looking for pieces I've pinged off the tweezers myself. I've considered building a four-sided box to surround my work area when using PE. That would help with limiting the trajectory of pieces flying around the house. I've found pieces in the weirdest places - often times, a lot further than one would think they would have bounced.

Wow Hubert, really nicely done! The interior looks incredible, fantastic work! Also love the camel - I bought a set from CMK and might use one in my Sandbox dioramas.

Great job PW! Love this plane and your NMF. Did you use Mr. Color Super Metallic on this one? I used them for the first time on my JRS-1 and really liked the paint.

Ugh, sorry Kevin. Thank you for warning the rest of us. Along with them, add Kitlinx to the list. They stiffed me on an order of Taurus engines and despite multiple emails to them, including to the owner Loic himself, everything went unanswered.

Thanks Peter! I put a coat of Mr. Surfacer on this evening. Have a few spots to clean up, but hopefully can start the riveting later this week. The Aires MG fit really well. The CMK stuff mostly fit perfectly, though the cockpit tub needed to be thinned down quite a bit. The other CMK sets individually fit really nicely, it was just trying to fit them all together with the CMK undercarriage set that gave me some issues. Definitely a pain when you realize you need to put in time to make their sets fit, but as you say, when you do, their sets look good.

Thanks Martin, really appreciate it! Thanks Peter! I didn't catch whether people riveted into just the primer or into the primed plastic. I have some of the Rosie Riveter tools, so I think I'll just take a stab at it and see what happens. Since I usually use Mr. Surfacer, which has some filling properties, I figure I should prime before adding the rivets. If I make them too deep, at least I know I'll have a few layers of paint (the typical German greys followed by the mopped on sand color), and of course a few laters of clear in between. I'm almost wondering how much of the rivets will be visible at all, particularly if I make the models look dusty/sandy at the end. So, given all that, I think these are probably good subjects to experiment on versus starting with a model with a clean paint job. And yes, the Vector engine looks great! And yes, it would have been nice if they included the engine backs but it is what it is - the Verlinden set gives me what I will need I think. I was sold on Vector engines after putting one together for my Walrus build (which reminds me, I need to get that one completed - maybe a good post-Sandbox project).