Landlubber Mike

Rob, this is such a cool, unique, creative diorama! Tells an interesting story for sure. The skeleton is such a great touch. Well done!!

Congrats on the self-present Rob! Too bad about the Tipo 33 - what an amazing looking car, damn! Never knew these existed. Though, I wish I didn't see your post. I went to the MFH website and the website of a US distributor and see they are taking preorders for a 1/12 1960 Corvette - I might have to break my New Years resolution on not adding to the stash!

Wow, fantastic project Hubert! Looking forward to following along!

I was going to say Avenger too. I have a 1/48 Accurate Miniatures kit on the work bench that I want to start in the near future. On converting a F4F-4 to an FM-1, I recently did just that in 1/48 using the really nice Tamiya F4F-4 kit coupled with the Wolfpack FM-1 wing fold set. If you're looking to go with a smaller scale like 1/48, I'd highly recommend the Tamiya kit. It goes together really nicely. I wanted mine with a wing fold, but you can easily modify the wings as Martin noted if you don't want to display the model with the wings folded.

So sorry to hear. What a pretty cat! The death of pets hits really hard, my condolences.

Good to know Chris. Sounds like something to use as an absolute last resort! What decals had you tried it on?

Santa would totally understand my attempted restraint if he saw my stash

I've had my eye on this kit for a while now. The pictures you show are amazing, I'll have to resist the temptation and live vicariously through you...great job so far!

Good to know, thank you!

I've never used Mr. Mark Strong - I've used Micro Set and Micro Sol. Is Mr. Mark Strong "stronger" than Micro Sol?

I love it Hubert! Really well done!! I like the camel - I'll have to add one to mine if I can get mine done in the next three weeks.

That's looking really sharp Rob! Amazing how long the decal work took but they look perfect. Nice job!

Thanks Chris! Yeah, the kit actually has small pins that fit in the hinge joints to allow you to swing it up and down. The pins are really tiny though - I'm wondering if I will be able to fit the pins after priming and painting. I could always glue the opened cannon rack in place and glue the head of the pin at the ends if need be I suppose.

Not sure how I missed this one either, great job!! What did you think of the Mr. Color Super Metallic? I used it on my JRS-1 and really liked it.

Thanks! The gun mount bay actually has a lip as it's meant to sit in the slot from the inside before you close the fuselage halves together. Would have been easier in some respects but I'm glad it worked out.