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Rob, +1 ABSOLUTELY. I grew up working with my dad at his service stations (petrol stations) and garage back in the 70's. Following along and seeing your work brings back amazing memories. Your work is top-notch and a joy to follow. Thanks for sharing!! Plus, I love the Cobra! It might be too late, but might I suggest polishing the rotor faces on the disk brakes? Rotors do oxidize quickly (and rust when they sit for a while) but in use are usually very shiny. Not a criticism by any means.

Dave, the parts look terrific! Nice work. I also use MKK as well as Gator Glue and even Formula 560 for applying the Quinta decals so interested to see how yours turns out. BTW, what color gray did you spray your cockpit pieces?

Peter, Thank you but I know you and Diane have suffered much worse and are coming through it with grace. I appreciate the support my friend!! Taking my meds and going back to bed for a while.

Thanks Martin! Last night was better, so hopefully on the upswing!

Thanks Mike, definitely a bit of a scare, but the staff were amazing. Calm, communicative and quick to act. I'll pass on cleaning the bench, but thanks for the offer!..I pulled out the Bf 109 so I need to finish cleaning so I can get the pieces laid out. good luck on the water build! Looking forward to seeing that. Hubert - Old man plumbing!! Thank you. I am pretty good with that on my tools, like you putting things back and forth several times, but that way I know where things are. I'm sloppier when it comes to cleaning up all of the extra sprues and bits that are increasingly left over from my builds. I've looked at the HobbyZone stuff and like it, but it is out of my price range. Thanks - that is the hope. May take a month or two for the results to start filtering in, but after that things should get much better. Just getting over the initial hump is a pain.

Mark, Just found this as well, and WOW - your weathering, as others have said, is spectacular! Outside your comfort zone? I think you are square in the middle of it! Great looking build.

Getting old sucks, but the alternative is not exactly appealing, either. Warning - medical stuff below. About two years ago I was diagnosed with an enlarging prostate. Meaning, it was about 2x larger than it should have been. I thought having to get up and go all the time was just what older guys did (I'm 64). Got on some medication which definitely reduced the frequency, which was nice, but was told the meds are not a terrific long-term solution and I was not consistent taking the medication. Got really good at catheterizing myself to avoid a trip to the ER to empty the bladder. Not a great long-term solution, of course. The recommended procedure is something called a Prostatic Artery Embolization. In short, they go in through an artery, usually in the groin, to snake up into the prostate where they inject modules to block the blood flow to parts of the Prostate. Over the span of a month or two, the procedure shrinks the prostate and you get back to normal (or something like that). At least they knock you out for the procedure. I had the procedure on Tuesday morning, but we ran into complications not with the PAE, but with the artery they cut into. It formed a pseudo-embolism. Not something you really want on your femoral artery. Mine was slowly leaking, but obviously, they needed to close it off completely. Fortunately, that was done fairly quickly (and somewhat painlessly) but under some understandable urgency. So a slightly longer rehabilitation of 2-3 weeks instead of 7-10 days. Had a follow up visit today specifically to check on the arterial incisions and all looks good. Will go back next week for another. In the meantime, I'm taking the next couple of weeks off to make sure things heal properly. Too early to start the GB, but too late to start something else so spending the time cleaning the bench and making sure I have the necessary paints.... Take care of yourselves, everyone!!

Hang in there! At least you can see some possible progress on the horizon.

Thanks Martin!

Peter, thank you!!! Very much appreciated. It is definitely fun to look at. But, man this is one large plane!! Heading out to the procedure shortly...

The Digital Camo really does look the part - nice job and I would not have noticed the color differences. Great look!

SERIOUSLY????

The ResKit stuff is amazing - that detail is incredible.

I think he's ejecting.... Too bad for the WSO...

Maybe the manufacturers will start molding flat pieces for use with the AM 3D stuff?

Me too, I have an order placed as well. Thanks Kevin!

Can we place orders!?!

Thanks Mike! It was really just a quickie to see how the Camo would turn out. Looking forward to the next GB. What are you going to build?

You seriously need to sell some of those pictures.. They, and the model, are freaking amazing. WOW. Just WOW. Especially the black and white pic. BTW, is that a matchstick in the last photo??

Thanks!! Interesting brush.

Nice work on the glass! I searched for 'pedicure brush' but could not find anything resembling what you show above. I'm with you on the toothpick as a valuable tool.

My bench for the next week or so until the next GB starts... I usually do a complete clean-up between builds but have not since the Phantom F-4. So will get things organized for the September start. This is where I put the sprues and extra parts during the builds and stack up any AM I'll be using. The paint racks. Kinda organized. There is a plastic cabinet under the table for other paint supplies. The shelves are from IKEA with a ribbon LED light under the bottom shelf. The little white box on the table has the MRP SEA camo paint colors from the F-4 build. Hard to see but on the left side of the table is a silverware organizer which I use to organize my sanding sticks and pads.

Very cool! Drum brakes!!!! But the kit really looks the part. Nice.

I have taken to modeling with a beach towel across my lap when I'm working with small parts. Also helps to have a Berber carpet and not shag. But I do still lose parts from time to time...

Whew. Moved this over to an RFI thread with a few final pictures. Makes me want to build a 1/72 Hustler... Thanks for following along everyone!!