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Next up is Dpgsbody55 with his very nicely detailed P-40B from the famous Flying Tigers. Great job as always mate. Link to build thread:

Well done mate, I will add you to the gallery.

Oh yeh cram it with resin until it bends mate lol

It looks fine mate, even though it's a bit old, it still builds into a decent model.

Yeh they look quite good. I despise the rubber tracks that come in kits, although I don't mind the magic track that comes in dragon models.

It really is a pleasure to build this kit.

This kit is one of the very nice Fujimi Mig 21s, of which I have built several of. My particular boxing was the SMT, or the Hump Back as they are know. One problem was, the plastic that appeared in the box was that of the Bis, as indicated by the word being molded into the inside of the fuselage spine. The main external difference between the Bis and MF is the fuselage avionics hump proceeds further down the base of the tail in the bis. I think this may have been a packaging error as I've seen other boxings online with similar parts and those with the correct parts for the SMT. Anyways never mind, I can make an MF from the parts I have, so that's what I did. Aztec Decals Latin Eagles II was used. I was rather attracted to the top surface camouflage of this particular mig. The kit itself builds very well with adequate detail for the scale, it does not require any nose weight but it is recommended to put a couple of grams in the forward nose just to make sure. Decals are also very nice and lay down well under Mr Mark decal solution. Another aircraft is added to my Cuban collection.

Nice choices there. I did the night attack Stuka in 1/48, doing the paint was fun stuff. I've been on the lookout for it in 1/32 to take another crack at it.

Yes what if is fine, as long as it's a Hasegawa LSP.

Thanks Kev.

Yeh go on, Kev always tells me to err on the side of inclusion, so as long as it was a Hasegawa kit. Also sorry for the late kick off, my motherboard decided to die and a new laptop had to be obtained.

Great work. I will wait for your glamour pics to add to the gallery.

Just curious who from LSP is attending. Dad and I will be there for the whole weekend manning the Moorabbin Air Museum stand, selling a range of second hand books at excellent prices. If you're coming by and I don't know you, make yourself known.

Good start. I have heard the 1/32 kits don't fit well. I have the 1/48 in the stash, I fear it may suffer similar issues.

Kicking off the gallery, is Stokey Pete with a big scale Airfix Spitfire Mk 9. Great work mate. Link to build thread;

Very nice mate, I will add to the gallery.

hworth18 brings us another very nice Zero, from the newer Hasegawa offering. Great work mate. Link to build thread;

Looks great mate, I will add you to the gallery.

Even those success' aren't much really. I mean Tesla has never made a profit off just selling cars. SpaceX went from saying they would have a totally reusable rocket, just refuel and go, to only having a reusable booster, after a minimum of 50 days turn around. He never did anything much with regards to e-payments, X.com was an online bank he started with several others people that merged with another company that had the basis of paypal already down. That merged company eventually became paypal, Musk had little if anything to do with their success, he was just lucky enough to retain his shares in what would become paypal and cashed out big time. His setellites aren't very good either, and certainly not cheap.

Elon Musk is literally a 5 year old child with money. He has (or just rips off) any crazy idea then tries to make it work without really doing much in the way of research beforehand ie; tesla truck/bot, full autonomous driving, hyperloop, solar roof tiles to name a few, It was painfully obvious to anyone who know's anything about rockets that not having any kind of blast deflecting was going to have trouble. Hell even the Germans had rudimentary blast deflection on V2 launchers! Then he puts the fuel storage tanks within shot of the launch pad....but it doesn't surprise me, he was after all, fired from Paypal for incompetence.

Nicely done. Time spent prepping for putting major parts together always saves double the time filling and sanding.

Looking good.

Tasty work.

A nice pic of red 4 from the front.

Zola25 is up next with his very impressed F-4EJ. Stunning work mate. Link to build thread;