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Canute

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  1. It pays to shop around. And you're lucky to have a "brick and mortar" local hobby shop. Many have closed or are generic craft stores. My last local shop now only does internet sales.
  2. Most of the castings look fairly crisp, with no marks/flash from the molds. These are pewter cast?
  3. Make sure you have a file card. The softish metal can clog the teeth of these tiny files pretty quickly.
  4. Riveting parts? WOW, I haven't had to do that since I built an old Bowser/English locomotive kit. They did include a riveting tool in the kit for peening over the rivets. You two are heroes, in my book.
  5. N scale rivets? I can't imagine laying those decals.You must be working extreme lighting and maximum magnification. 😄 Excellent work! 👍
  6. Yes, "Pips" Priller. He was one of the few Luftwaffe aces to attack the Normandy beaches. He was immortalized in the "Longest Day"" movie. This was his mount from the Battle of Britain. I did get to meet Adolf Galland at a dining-in we had a Bitburg. Galland was our after dinner speaker. He was some muckety muck in the West German Luftwaffe in the 1970s.
  7. The "Emil" looks good, Craig. One of the Abbeville Boys?
  8. I built a model of Gentile's Shangri La back in my "yoot". I am in, Phil! 😄
  9. Mike, what's the name of this Czech PE source? That fret is chock full of parts. Thanks.
  10. Nicely done, Andy. 👍 Beautiful paint job. What's not to like about a shark-mouth! 😁
  11. I'm in for this one. Had a housemate back in Germany, mid 70s, with one. His Porsche was a darker blue metal flake. Factory paint. We all had those rubber baby buggy bumpers on our European cars, if built to US spec back then.
  12. They're a common sight, but a well-detailed model would be a show stopper. 😉
  13. Look forward to whatever you post on those a/c, Craig. That tow truck looks so cool, but it's way too neat for the typical trucks around here. And that Porsche Carrera will be a jewel.
  14. I though you had found a Musketeer. 😁 Sounds like quite the pirate. Jacques Lafitte's great grandfather?
  15. Could even use a brown paper bag as a polishing agent. I've polished watch crystals (the clear part over the face) with toothpaste. I scuffed up several getting bounced around the cockpit. The jet had a timepiece, but it's accuracy and availability were suspect. I'm in, OC.
  16. RGL did a German battlecruiser a while back, in 1/350 scale. Another of his masterful jobs.
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