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Let us know how your correspondence with Hasegawa goes. I hope it works out quickly.
 
Like Craig's Avenger, I have always liked the Dauntless. A very effective platform in spite it's more advanced age and certainly a more petite and graceful looking plane.

I need to quit stopping in here Craig
Every time I do it seems to thin my wallet a little more. My wife is beginning to think I have a mistress! All of these high tek models and after market stuff seem to require a lot of high tek stuff to make the best use of them!

Let us know how your correspondence with Hasegawa goes. I hope it works out quickly.
 
Like Craig's Avenger, I have always liked the Dauntless. A very effective platform in spite it's more advanced age and certainly a more petite and graceful looking plane.

I need to quit stopping in here Craig
Every time I do it seems to thin my wallet a little more. My wife is beginning to think I have a mistress! All of these high tek models and after market stuff seem to require a lot of high tek stuff to make the best use of them!

We ALL are!!😈

Congratulations Yves
 
This is one of the more impressive modeling renditions I have seen in a long time. The painting is the perfect display choice.

Evening,
Thanks for the warm welcome folks, appreciate it!
 
Ron, 
I have seen that video many times. It really has helped me.
A must watch in my book!
 
Ken, 
That website is awesome! Already signed up for the news letter. I'll be exploring that one fully.
 
Denis, Lou, OC, welcome! Glad to have you all on board . 
 
In my yearning to do something with this model while waiting for new supplies, I did some painting.  
I used a bottle of Testors flat black and hand painted the storage locker and radio. 
These might be some of my first pieces to try some airbrushing.  

Besides today being Friday, It was an easy day to go to work because I knew I had a package coming from UPS. 
I have heard of a website mentioned called scalehobbyist.com. Wonderful website with great products!
Bonus, they are in Nashua NH, me being in Lebanon NH, means basic shipping is essentially next day for me. 

My first ever set of PE, with new paints and other fun stuff!

The photo etch itself is funky.
Strong yet weak and very light. 
There's some small fiddly bits in these things!

I bought the below gun barrels just for a little fun. 
It'll be cool to incorporate these in.

I decided to start with a few colors from Mr Color. Never used this paint before but have seen wonderful results with it in other builds.
So any paints I'll buy will most likely be Mr Color and Tamiya.  I started basic with flat white, black, olive drab, and an earth green.
More colors will be brought in with a future order. 
I bought some Panel Line Accent color as well, never used this before. But it looks like it adds a great dimension to any model.
I'll experiment with this on some scrap pieces first. 

There was some progress done on the fuselage.
First things first....both halves got a warm soapy bath and will dry overnight.

Stay warm
 
Tom E 
 
 

We ALL are!!😈

We ALL are!!😈

Congratulations Yves
 
This is one of the more impressive modeling renditions I have seen in a long time. The painting is the perfect display choice.

Well, the deep space "submarine" Discovery XD-1 is now completed: 


It will be a little while before I go back to the U-Boot but who knows..... the urge may come back, quickly.
 
Yves

You need good vision to get into training and get your wings. Once that's accomplished, as long as you can be corrected to 20/20, they keep you. Only if something really bad, like you go blind in one eye (both eyes and you're out of there permanently, no questions asked, sportsfans) and then they can look at waivers to the rules. When times are peaceable, most likely you get grounded and turned into a ground-pounder. Which, for an aviator, is a slow death.
 
I was 20/20 until about age 44, then a slow decline started. I still correct to 20/20,😁

Me too ! 

I need to quit stopping in here Craig
Every time I do it seems to thin my wallet a little more. My wife is beginning to think I have a mistress! All of these high tek models and after market stuff seem to require a lot of high tek stuff to make the best use of them!

And we finally come to an end of this project. Discovery is now orbiting the giant Planet Jupiter








I hope you have enjoyed that project.
 
Yves
 

Let us know how your correspondence with Hasegawa goes. I hope it works out quickly.
 
Like Craig's Avenger, I have always liked the Dauntless. A very effective platform in spite it's more advanced age and certainly a more petite and graceful looking plane.

Congratulations Yves
 
This is one of the more impressive modeling renditions I have seen in a long time. The painting is the perfect display choice.

Congratulations Yves
 
This is one of the more impressive modeling renditions I have seen in a long time. The painting is the perfect display choice.

You're evil Jack!

Let us know how your correspondence with Hasegawa goes. I hope it works out quickly.
 
Like Craig's Avenger, I have always liked the Dauntless. A very effective platform in spite it's more advanced age and certainly a more petite and graceful looking plane.

I need to quit stopping in here Craig
Every time I do it seems to thin my wallet a little more. My wife is beginning to think I have a mistress! All of these high tek models and after market stuff seem to require a lot of high tek stuff to make the best use of them!

The floor and sides  had to have quite a lot sanded away  to get the sides to meet, even still  its a fairly tight  join  - not much wriggle room,   I will have to  join the bottom fist  then wait till its fully set before pulling and glue-ing the top in, that way I will  make the joins  as tight as possible.
 
OC.

OC, looking good. It pays to fine tune that floor to get your build fitting like it should. 👍
 
I sometimes wonder if the kit makers actually build up their kits, with the cockeyed fit at times.

The Mossie is shaping up very nicely OC. The photo etch inside the cockpit is paying dividends.

Another good day  - kicked off by  dry fitting the inner cockpit  against both frontal parts  to test  fit, at first  they would not meet  so I did some investigating  then  light sanding  - investigating  -  light sanding  etc etc etc.........I eventually  found the point where both side met  with the inside cockpit inside.
 
Next job  was  to start fitting all the pe side wall parts   some were quite fiddly  not just fitting but  picking up with  fine nose tweezers,  it took a few hours to  file off some plastic moldings not needed  - and re fit with pe,  I did this on both walls  then starting on the one side  a  ran some black and green paint  in thing layers  to preserve the detail.
I also made up the  range finding device for the nose  that is made up by transparency parts  and some pe.
 
So this is the stage so far - including a dry fit of the one side minus some more paint and dry brushing.
 
OC.