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Get well soon. You're both in our thoughts and prayers, mate.

Yikes! And it'll be well-done here. 👍

Kevin, I like it. It fits in with some stories told by a friend, who sailed diesel subs early on in his career. After every cruise, his wife made him burn all his clothes, due to the odor. So, the look you achieved works, at least for me.😉

I disagree, in a fun way, Javlin. The older fighters (early jet age and earlier) were almost all gun fighters, so yeah, nothing hanging off the wings except maybe fuel tanks.For Viet Nam and later, gotta have some missiles on the fuselage and wing pylons. An F-4 or F-15 with 4 heaters and 4 radar missiles, gotta love it. Even a Tomcat, with 4 buffaloes, looks fierce, at least to this old fighter guy. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours, gentlemen.

Leopold is progressing nicely, Denis.You have that chocolate problem, too? It's a real burden. 🙄 merry Christmas to you and yours and have a Happy New Year.

Great idea with the ground up ceramic for desert sand. The car looks very good.👍

No rush. The holiday season is when many builds go in vacation. And congrats on the chair; I just got an an early present of one for the workshop, too.

As OC said. Looking forward to seeing more of your build.

Gary, this quite the performance. Bravissimo! 👍👍👍👍👍

No doubt in my mind, Denis. High sugar content does that to some of us. 😁 I just figured you had been captured by the Christmas elves and were incommunicado until after the Day. Nice work on Leopold, sir.👍

I, too, like to see the historical tie-ins. While considered "obscure" by the model making community, there were many of these little gems manufactured for various purposes. I like these one off- models. Vive la differnce.

It will be a deep and convoluted rabbit hole. Been at it a long while and still feel like a noob in many areas. And it is fun. 👍

Roger, the Rivarossi brand is an old one; their motive power is all pre-DCC, meaning it's a DC engine. Like Egilman said, a simple loop of track will work. You could get some Bachmann HO track, which just snaps together, keeping the rail joiners attached to the rails between the segments of track.There should be one straight segment with attachment points for your power pack. Be aware of the radius of the rails. Get the biggest you can handle in you space. These bigger, articulated engines can balk at 18" radius curves. 18" is the usual size included with a basic track setup. If all you can fit is a shelf in your space, you're limited to a long piece of track, pushing and pulling your consist of ore jennies and a caboose. Adding sound can be costly and you'd need to use a DCC system for using sound in HO. The board and speaker setup will be over $100. Have a local hobby shop (LHS) do the install, if they are capable. Or else have them point you to a good installer. DCC is a very deep and convoluted rabbit hole. A minimal set up for running your train can cost several hundred dollars. A bare bones setup in DCC would be a power controller (included in a throttle), a wall wart power source and a connector to tie your controller to the track. This could run to about $200. A DC power pack may be about 1/4 of that. The tender could be stripped with isopropyl alcohol. But that's no guarantee it will come completely off. You'll have to experiment. Ask your LHS if they can help there. And if I remember correctly, Pennsy locos were finished in a very dark green/black paint, sometimes called Brunswick green. I think you have a greenish tinge to your loco, so Rivarossi may have painted it with that color. Just be careful with stripping the name off the tender. You may have to do a complete repaint. Yeah, it's a fire hose treatment, but as OC said, it is a rabbit hole.

Nice work, OC. It does capture the intensity of the battle.

Kevin, nice work fixing and shoe-horning those details. Our building materials are way too thick for the scales we work, so you get your situation. The trolley was used in a similar setup in the B-29 to get from the cockpit area to the aft crew compartment, behind the bomb bay. Those were pressurized, but the bay wasn't.

Wonderful work, Chris. Hard to tell it's a card model. 👍

Mark me in, too.

Um, I think your supposition is correct...😉

Nicely done. 👍

I agree "best in show". Outstanding work. 👍

Turned out well, OC. Nice and easy does it. 😁

Oh yeah. Cut, bend,fit, rebend, refit. Reset the tweezers to get some glue and.... ? Happens too often for me, but luckily, I can still get down and back up off the floor. Just a few snap, crackle. pop moments.

Nice looking parts; very crisp. Flyhawk has really figured out how to get the most accurate scale parts yet.

Good save on the tubes, Kevin. Very nice details on the loading ends of those tubes, too. All coming along nicely.👍

Wow, your post person seems to have it in for you. "The Mangler." Good repairs. 😃