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  1. Well done! Looks like you've been doing this for years, not just your second military aircraft.
  2. Wow! I get tired of raking and bagging when I am on about bag number 5! At least I have fewer leaves after last year's ice storm took a huge chunk out of my nicest live oak The mustang is looking good. Looks like you are overcoming the challenges presented by the kit.
  3. Wow, looks like an ambitious project for your first scratch build. But based on your past projects I am sure you'll be up to the challenge and produce a beautiful model. I'll follow along with interest.
  4. Interesting craft. Am I reading the scale right, your model will be just under one foot long? That might make those railings and other details more challenging.
  5. I happened to be in Galveston over the weekend and saw the USS Texas. Below is a shot of her from the Texas Seaport Museum, with the Elissa in the foreground. Apparently the Texas will be refloated very soon but it will be another year or two before they complete the deck and superstructure restoration. Eventually she will be moved to a pier just next to the seaport museum and re-opened. I also went to the Galveston railroad museum while there and they had a temporary exhibit about the USS Texas with a few artifacts, and about 25 signs with highlights of the ship's history and photos as well. For more info and more photos and videos, https://battleshiptexas.org/
  6. Amazing details being brought forward on this jet. Looking forward to seeing it completed. Those extra decals look good but I've never seen a sheet of decals so packed together. Better not let the scissors slip at all when cutting them out. And as everyone has said, congrats on the retirement. I am about 10 months in on my retirement and still adjusting. Though I don't have an admiral around to "help" with the adjustment.
  7. Nice, I'll follow along. I checked out the kit, parts list, and instructions on the Artesania Latina web site. Looks like it will be an interesting challenge, and I say that being about 75% through their Sopwith Camel. (Though it is currently on the shelf again). The Fokker definitely has more metal parts and fewer wood parts than the Camel. And it looks like it has a few more places to attempt the fake wood grain paint look, and those parts are more conspicuous.
  8. Excellent! Beautiful, well built model and very sleek, professional looking case. Thanks for letting us all follow along on your journey.
  9. And I'd recommend using a new, freshly opened bottle. Over time, once opened, CA seems to take longer and longer to grab and to cure.
  10. Thank You. I kind of wanted to use the alclad polished aluminum, but they recommend to not use decal solution on their "high shine" paints and I knew I would need decal solution on at least some of the many decals. And in my experience you need to be very careful about what clear coat you use over the alclad paints.
  11. Thanks as always for the likes. And here we have it, both models completed! Overall I enjoyed this project and felt the kits were pretty decent though not quite up to Tamiya standards. I have mixed feelings about the photo etch parts. I don't enjoy working with them and many of them would have been (near) invisible on the finished model. I probably used half or less. Maybe if you were detailing a model and showing it with doors open and wheels off it would make more sense to use all the photo etch parts. The decals with the Martini kit went ok, though I did tear a few of them. The third party decals for the Gulf car seemed a bit stronger though there were no large decals to apply. Unfortunately a couple of them bubbled up a bit when I applied the clear coat (Tamiya X-22 plus Mr Color Leveling Thinner). One huge win was getting the black "paint marker" and using that around the edges of the windows and clear parts for the head lights. That worked very well I think, and was fairly easy to do. I feel like each kit I do, I improve a bit, so that is something. Anyway, here are a bunch of pictures of the Gulf car then both cars together. Enjoy!
  12. Nice work on the chrome foil. Do you just depend on the adhesive on the foil or do you do something more to ensure it stays where you put it?
  13. Thanks, as always, for the likes. Getting close to the end now. In fact, I have completed the Martini Racing car but still have work to do on the Gulf car. Below are a few pictures of the former.
  14. Thanks all for taking a look and clicking the ol' like button. I've now completed the chassis for the Martini car. This time I took a few more intermediate pictures to try to show some of the steps of constructing the rear structure. Also note that this is the one that I received painted blue and partially started. You can see some remnants of the blue paint in these pictures. Also, the plastic pin for the left front wheel had apparently been broken or lost and replaced but the front wheel did not quite fit right, so it is now attached with CA and does not rotate. Oh well. Here I've added the X shaped piece in the back, and one piece on each side with vertical pipes to support the upper structure: And now I've added the upper structure with the spare tire, air intakes, and tail lights: Added a couple more supports for the upper structure: Added the rear fender liners and the top half of the engine: And finally added the wheels: This was easier the second time around, though still a bit fiddly. The parts fit together fairly well, though in some cases the locator pins were a bit lacking, such as on those angled support between the lower and upper structure. The end of the support with the point of the V shape did not have much of a pin to fit into the hole provided in the lower structure. I just sort of lined it up, put on a drop of Tamiya extra thin cement, and held it there for a bit. I hope that is enough to keep it in place....it is definitely something I don't want to touch or put any pressure on during the rest of the build. I still need to do the seatbelts on the Gulf car, then it is on to detailing the bodies.
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