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Nice to see another one of these kits being built. I've got the Strike Valkyrie as previously mentioned and will be adding lights to mine. Will you be lighting your build? For those interested, this pic might give you a better idea of the size of this kit. Here's a bottle of Tamiya paint inside the engine bell.

Be glad it wasn't the one from Cocaine Bear!

Tim, are these the T antennae you're talking about? They're made by Owl I'm not sure if the flatness of PE is prototypical or if they need to be more rounded in profile.

That looks great. I'll have to remember that for next time. Any thoughts for doing some of the other mascots? Carl

I've got the Strike Valkyrie version out on the bench at the moment. Definitely a big kit and not one you see too often.

Montex does paint masks for an F4U-2 as well.

That's great news. Thunder Models do some very detailed kits. I have their Scammell tank transporter and if you're careful building the suspension, you can make it full functional.

Peter, that set looks amazing. Just need to decide if I want to make another try at a medium US bomber. Carl

Thanks Paul! I missed it the first time it was on sale so just grabbed one. Carl

The closet I've come is the Master Details RAF pilot that I used in my Tamiya Spitfire. The figure went together well and had some options for it that I appreciated. I normally don't use pilot figures so this was a new one for me so I'm sure others could do better with the painting. I did have to look his feet off so he would fit properly. In situ in the cockpit. Hope that helps a bit.

I usually have a cat keeping my company while I'm at my workbench. Our oldest cat, Fur prefers to sit in my lap when I'm working on a model. Although recently our other cat Sunny decided he wanted in on the action. As for dogs, we're down to one after Zoe passed last year. This is Jimmy, the youngest in our menagerie but the biggest.

Not yet thankfully. The plan is is to build a new display case that can handle the 4 engine heavies. Originally my wife suggested a coffee table style display case until she realised how many I have. It would have been a very large coffee table. So far, I've finished one B-24 and have one HK Lanc started. The rest won't follow until I've got the case built which I'm hoping is later this summer. The good news is that the wings can be attached and detached as needed so for the moment, they don't take up too much space.

Nice find! I remember trying a resin conversion on the 1/537 Refit. Talk about a mess. I still have the hanger bay from it somewhere.

I don't think so. Although I have only 1 B-17 kit (the original E/F), I do have 4 Lancs (2 of the HK and 2 Border) so I know where you're coming from.

Iconicair has their conversion set which I have and there's one specifically for the Border Models kit coming as well from Fischkopp Model company.

Great Wall has a 1/48 F-14B Tomcat coming. Lots of internal detail on it. Kinetic is doing the CT-114 Tudor which may be out this summer. Just in time for Snowbird season. Carl

Cold War Studio does resin one piece turrets. You can see the difference compared to the kit ones. Partially assembled here. Vector does the engines and I think Resin2Detail may as well. I didn't use them on my build as I found them to be a bit expensive at the time. The build itself didn't have any issues. I found the fit to be really good and the only filler I used was due to operator error. I clipped the tabs off that lock the wings into place so that I can remove them for storage. They're not glued on in the pic below.

Martin, I'm happy to get one for you at same time I do.

I think it's fairly comparable. It's not as thick but that may be because my bottle of Gator's Grip is fairly old too. Pretty much all of this was glued together using Ultra Glue.

I use it a fair bit for my PE stuff. I used to use Gator Grip but can't find it anymore so this is what I've subbed in. It gives me more working time than if I use CA. I also like the tackiness of it if I'm trying to place a fiddly part. That being said, until it's dry, it's easy to knock the piece out of place I'd you're not careful.

I'm doing the same version in 1/48 and one thing I noticed is that the RF-4EJ doesn't have the wingtips and radome that the Kai does. They look to be the standard wing tips and nose. So that's a couple fewer items that would be needed. Carl

This one? I got it at my LHS as well. It's a very nice kit. I think you'll enjoy the build. I just finished this one a couple weeks ago. No masking involved even though I painted everything.

I have their ED-209 as well but haven't built that either. Cain is similar in quality. They've included the option for the head to be open so you can display Cain's monitor and there are decals/stickers to match. Some of the joints are preassembled and are indexed so they should hold their position. One letdown is the Minigun. It's moulded in two halves and the barrel ends are solid. Being fairly prominent, it's too bad it wasn't done in more parts for better detail. I'm happy to have it and hopefully will get to it soon. My big sci-fi project this year will be the Max Factory Strike Valkyrie.

One from my teen years. Well, the movie anyways. Another one, from I'm not sure but hard to say no to a dragon.

Sorry to hear this Harold. It was always a pleasure using your products and I appreciated it when you made the Mosquito tanks for me. Thanks for doing stuff that the others didn't. Carl