Landlubber Mike

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.

Wow, that's spectacular!! I didn't realize how thin the fuselage tapered back towards the tail. Very dainty looking thing.

Wow, nice work!

I'll be curious what you think about the mini drill press. I use my Sherline mill as a drill press, but sometimes it would be nice to have a quicker change option.

I had picked up two of the kits with a ton of AM. I ending up selling my HpH 1/32 kit since I had two of the PM kits and it's awfully big in 1/32. There are so many interesting variants that you can build. I have the Xtradecal X48185, Aeromaster 48-354 and Aeromaster 48-359 decal sets. I was thinking about doing one as an A-1 and the second as a B2/U4 for the 5cm Bordkanone.

I have two of the Pro Modeler kits in the stash. If you and @Martinnfb are up for it, maybe we can do a 410 buddy build?

Looking good Kevin! Nice progress!

Quick but spectacular build Rob!! Really nicely done!

Man that's sharp looking! Great job!

He's on Facebook - he re-opens his website when he is available to take orders, then closes it when he has a backlog so he can get orders out.

Looks really good Rob. After your recent MFH kit, must be nice to not have to fight a kit into submission

I picked up some of the Hasegawa 1/32 yellow wing kits myself. Not sure if you know, but Lone Star Models makes cockpit sets for them. Vector also makes engine sets.

Glad to hear you're back at the gym Kevin - those rib injuries are no joke!

Wow, looking good Kevin!

Just saw your log Rob, looks like a really nice kit! Looking forward to following along.

Wow, that's really nicely done Chris - congrats on a fantastic Spitfire!

I should have mentioned I have a couple of the Pro Modeler kits in my stash. If I didn't have so many projects going at the moment, I'd try and build one of mine alongside yours. I think I was going to build one B-2 with the BK5 cannon and the other as an A-1.

Great start Kevin!