Landlubber Mike

This weekend I was away in SC for my daughter's softball tournament, and I took my two ME 410 kits down with me and gave them a start. I have to say, the cockpit is really crazy as the instructions tell you to connect the front and rear cockpit tubs using the top of the fuselage, and there really aren't any connecting points. This makes it even trickier as I have the CMK and Aires cockpit sets. I think I'm going to follow Ralph's approach and insert the tubs separately into one half of the fuselage and then glue the halves together using the fuselage top piece as a guide.

Looks fantastic!! Nice job! Love the MFH kits - such incredible details.

The paintwork looks incredible Chris! Really great job! Stay warm!

Doing pretty well here Chris, thanks for asking. Hope you're doing well!

Wow, congrats on the finish Rob!! Would never have known it had cracked in two. Looks really, really good. I also like the figure you added. I need a couple of more car kits under my belt before I tackle mine, but your build log is very inspirational! Thank you for posting it.

I saw that - beautiful F1 car!! The details of the kit from the pictures look amazing. I think I'm going to hold out for a repop of the earlier Ferraris - still kicking myself for not jumping on the 500F2.

Wow Rob, sorry to read that. I don't think I've ever seen a model broken in half like that, but if anyone can fix it, it's you. A little time away and hopefully a solution will come to you. I was working this weekend on finishing a Revell VW Samba bus. I was expecting maybe an hour tops of work as I had to glue on some of the more delicate parts like the side mirrors, etc. and make what should have been an easy repair to the engine door where one of the pins broke off so it wasn't supported on both sides. Well, I fix a new pin to the door, and go to ever-so-slightly pull the rear panels apart to slide the door in and I start hearing pops. Well, the side panels, roof and front all popped loose. Then I started popping off things in the interior like the sun visors. I finally got that all resolved, went to put on the passenger front door, and the top half of one of the very obvious door hinges chipped off and went flying. Somehow, I found this probably 2mm piece on the ground six feet from behind where I was working and managed to get it glued back together and finish the model. What should have been about an hour ended up taking over three hours. 🤬 I had to pour myself a stiff drink after that. Good news is my daughter loved it, so I guess it was worth it in the end. All this to say, I'm sure we all have similar stories like this, but don't give up on the model just yet. You're so close, I'm sure this will just be a short detour for you.

Happy New Year everyone!

Looks like Santa put gifts under...errr..inside the Revell box! Maybe a sign that you need to build another one

My condolences to you and your family Hubert.

Merry Christmas guys!

Nice pickup Rob! Those decals look pretty sweet. By the way I have you to blame for my growing MFH stash. There was a 1/12 Eagle Gurney-Weslake on eBay that went for under retail yesterday. I think the seller mislabeled the ad so it probably didn't attract much attention. I was looking at a different auction, and just happened to take a look at the seller's other auctions and couldn't believe my luck.

Very sorry to hear this Hubert. Thoughts and prayers to you and your family. Best wishes.

Geez Ernie, I was wondering what happened to you. Sorry to hear about everything life threw at you, but glad you are on the other side of things now.

Oh good, glad you found it. Sorry, I wasn't online yesterday and didn't see your post until this evening. Hopefully that helps!