Landlubber Mike

That engine looks fantastic! Really nicely done!

Hey Chris, good to hear from you, though sorry to hear about the rough ride you've been experiencing. Glad at least you were able to hit the bench for some pens - turning wood is a very relaxing experience, at least for me until something goes wrong Sorry to hear about your mom, but it sounds like at least she is set up somewhere close. My father in law moved in with us and is losing his memory and faculties. While it's just the beginning stages, it's still a handful for us with three kids still in the house and all their activities. Just have to do the best you can do. If you don't mind, show some of your pens! If you're looking for more blanks - wood, acrylic, etc. - I have plenty and can send some your way. Mike

Looks really good Hubert, some really impressive work there!

Martin, quick question(s) for you. I see you scratched the position lights. Is there a benefit of doing them now before you paint the wings? And for the UV resin, do you need a special UV light to cure the resin? I've never used UV resin before so I'm curious on how you did them. For example, did you dye the resin red and separately green, then put the resin in place and cure it with UV light? Etc. Thanks in advance - I'm already learning a lot for this build!

I had the HpH 1/32 kit and that seemed really big! Though, I've mostly built 1/48 and 1/72 planes. Almost too big so I ended up selling it, especially since I had the two Pro Modeller kits.

Wow, great start Martin! You're really moving along! A little bummed to hear that the shape may be off on this kit, but it looks pretty darn close to bother trying to "fix" it. I pulled my two kits off the shelf last night to look at what I'm going to be getting myself into. For one I have the various CMK sets, and the other, the various Aires sets. Then for the two, I have a few things like the Master barrels and a bunch of decal sets. I'll try and get started this weekend.

That Aston Martin is really nice looking! Always good to show yourself some love and treat yourself I never quite understood why people spend all this time working on engines for regular street cars when 99% of the time the hood won't be open. I agree that most look better closed, though some of the race cars where the engine cover is removed is a nice look. I'm not a big race car person, but I do like the exposed engines on some of the cars. The one I just ordered arrived today - it's the Ferrari 312 F1 - 69 French GP. It's 1/24 scale. Got it for a pretty good price (under retail) and it seems like a fairly straightforward build. Probably a good one to start with before I eventually try the Corvette C.1.

Did you order that stainless wire from that Amazon link? I used cut down stainless steel insect pins for the rigging on my JRS-1, but they aren't very long so I need a source for longer steel rods/wire. For Lone Star, I think it's best if you keep an eye on his Facebook page. I'll send you a PM shortly.

Another beauty in the works - looking forward to following along on this one!

Great start Rob. After seeing your work on these MFH kits, I'm looking at some of the plastic car models I have on the shelf and might sell them to make room for more MFH kits (I just picked up a 1/24 Ferrari F1 kit on eBay yesterday for under retail). What bugs me about the older plastic kits is that the engines are usually molded in halves, and it's very hard to make them look good (in my opinion). So, I likely will just build them curbside and not bother trying to fix the engines or buy expensive printed engines. The MFH kits seem to be a lot better about how their parts are designed so that you can show things off better.

I think I mentioned this before on one of the other Hasegawa inter-war 1/32 sets, but Lone Star makes a good cockpit set (the kit's set is bare, to say the least) and you can get a Vector engine for it. Starfighter also makes a colorful set of different markings, but is a little tricky to find. I have two of these in the stash that I hope to get to at some point with the YW Kicking Mules set (#32-035) and the Starfighter set (#3201). If you end up building this, maybe I'll pull mine out and build them alongside yours since you'll inspire me

Looks great to me! Very nice job as always!

Looking forward to this one Rob. Thanks for showing how you approach the beginning of the build. I have a few MFH kits in the stash and need to get one of those magnetic tumblers apparently.

Awesome job Kevin!! Love your camo work - looks amazing!

I've sucked at completing builds on time for group builds. I believe I'm 1 for 3 at this point Since we all had the Pro Modeler kit, I was thinking along the lines of you guys that we just share a build thread and post our pics and progress, without a set deadline or any pressure to finish. Similar to this Buffalo thread that Ernie started, Martin joined, and then I crashed (and for a change, I might have been the only one to finish his kit): Again, no time pressure, just a thread where we can all share our progress, research, etc. I'd open it to all scales and kits so that maybe we can convince Rob and Count to join And, people can just join when they are ready. Nothing too complicated. A non-group-build group build if you will.