Canute

As Banyan said, a quirky boat. The colors are close to system colors some railroads used on their company structures. Maybe this fellow "liberated" some paint from the Pennsylvania RR to decorate this workboat. Fun to speculate for a back story.

Merry Christmas to you all and your families. 😁

Merry Christmas to one and all. And best wishes for the new year!

Beautiful Corsair, Danny. Great memories for you. 😄

Looks like a nice transition at the stern, Clare. Hope you and yours have a Merry Christmas.

You have to wonder if the manufacturer actually built the model and then took the time to add some amplification to the assembly instructions.

Well, you keep adapting and overcoming. Very nice job, Andy.

Well done, Phil. I think you've got this card modeling gene now.👍

Nice build, so far. Have a happy holiday vacation. Hope your pooch weathers the surgery.

Well done on the build. Working boats are always interesting builds.👍

Well done. Decals are excellent. 👍

Your Arado looks excellent, Ian.👍

Go for it, Eric. Good logic for doing it. 

Eric, one of my local layouts protects his light signals near the aisle with clear pieces of plexiglass. They're 2-3 inches wide and run a couple of inches on the fascia for attachment and high enough to go above the signal heads. 

I think you've successfully captured the look of that hand-painted letter board. 👍

Nicely done, Eric.

Pretty posh barn, with a chimney. Like you said, must be one of the more affluent citizens. My old horse farm was outfitted with lights and water. Needed heat tape wrapped around the water hydrant in the winter.

Nicely done, Yves.

Nicely done, Rod. This is a display model; not a rubber-band powered flyer?

That's what I was planning to use. I have plenty of that tape.

. Look at this page to get an idea of the various brands of paint available contrasted to RAL paints.. https://www.cybermodeler.com/color/ral840r_table.shtml

Here's a website for DKM info. https://www.kbismarck.org/forum/index.php

I had a few more websites bookmarked, but they seem to have disappeared into the ether. Good luck searching for the painting instructions you seek.

Your yellow looks good on the underside of the wing. Yellow is translucent, so a gray or light blue works as base for it. 

What adhesive do you use?

I built a few kits as early as the 80s, gluing polyurethane resin with Zap a Gap. A lot of issues with them, mostly due to a lack of skills for construction. The glue held up. So, at least 30 years. You're correct about the odor; some of us are allergic. And don't glue clear plastic with CA. It clouds up. Although, some report dipping the canopy into Future/Pledge/whatever its called today, may limit the clouding effect.

That will build into a doozy. 😁

Looks like quite the beast, Craig. See these on the Interstates around here. Do you think this wrecker has enough chrome?

Looks good, George. 👍

A little tidbit for y'all. Doors open out, hatches open in. At least in aircraft terminology.

Wow, I remember going to their store in Bogota, NJ, maybe in the late 70s. I'm in, Bob.