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Thanks Mike, seems like when I'm not really trying everyone thinks it's the bees knees.... It's much appreciated my friend....

I just picked up an Anycubic Mono X at a decent sale price, delivery Thursday... (I hope) From what I'm seeing here looks like the right machine....

Here are some historical schemes..... Second one down is a good historical scheme in which some photographic evidence from the era is available to establish it as a real scheme....

Hi Dan, the basic lowdown on Mig 15 Camo is kind like this... Russian: Overall aluminum, they didn't paint them usually (there are exceptions I know, mostly grey) Chinese: Mostly aluminum in the early years, Green over Grey mid years, (Korean War) and Green/Grey and brown in later years..... Vietnamese: Green & Brown camo... All had Grey undersides except for the BMF birds.... There were many other that flew them and the colorations are all over the spectrum for them... you would have to research, Example: Egyptian would be sand yellow overall Pakistani would be Green & Brown.... (with grey undersides) Generally satellite countries used them as received.... Generally bare metal or grey overall is how they are usually perceived best representing their era which was the '50's.... Your bird specifically looks like a mid life bird to me, (second generation) So in general, putting a BMF on it now would remove all the spectacular work you've already done... Light greyish tones are the ticket in my humble opinion.... That would give you a late 50's early 60's Russian or Chinese bird.... Beautiful job, the almost polish smooth finish you've done to the base coats, the finish should be spectacular....

Hey OC, you gonna cut the grooves between the cobbles? {chuckle} (they were there)

Spent a good bit of my youth working a Vermont dairy milking barn.... No hip waders or gas mask either..... Not a job for the faint of heart.... AND you learn the difference between a shovel and a spade real quick....

It's easy to do on a windows machine, open it in viewer, (Windows native) hit the rotate button, and close it... Nice job on the ship.... looks like it belongs in a museum...

There you go Harley.... Beautiful Model!!! Love the water setting.... She's at Home....

Lessons learned and sometimes re-learned.... I've had a lot of these "boot oneself in the butt" moments in my model building career, they make one a better modeler in the end.... Fantastic recovery my friend....

Ohh Yves, I've already have been second guessing myself..... Lord Mr. Ford, what have I done.... {chuckle}

Amen Craig, When it gets perfected and accepted take a moment to think of how many construction workers it is going to put out of work.... And how does one evaluate the values of houses built this way... A much more efficient and cheaper method of building residential and light commercial buildings..... It's going to change the world......

And just in case anyone is having doubts if 3D printing isn't the latest and greatest thing... Check this out.... 3D printing is going life sized.... Coming to a neighborhood near you... (eventually)

The work you guys have been doing the last few weeks caused me to drop off the edge.... I pulled the trigger on a printer and just received the notice that it's on the way care of Fed Ex..... I've been on the edge for several months now from pulling the trigger.... I hope I'm not racing down another rabbit hole..... {chuckle} Nice work Alan, definitive proof that perseverance pays off....

With a multi dispenser on the centerline loaded with Mk-82's.... Best CAS aircraft ever built....

Yep, they created huge bow waves, even at lower speeds, your description of "plowing" the water is correct... Essentially lifting it and throwing it to the side.... Exactly like a farm plow turns the soil... The waves they created at any serious speed could easily swamp a cutter that was too close....

My pleasure, here's a more detailed link for anyone's interest in such rabbit holes.... Hogan's Hero's Jewish Roots It appears that several of them suffered greatly at the hand of the Nazi's...

Just in case anyone is interested... Sgt Schultz, John Banner, was an Austrian Jew as well, an actor, he was performing in Switzerland when Germany annexed Austria, (the Anschluss) he emigrated to the US at that point eventually joining the USAAF in WWII... Corporal Le Beau, Robert Clary, was a French Jew who was taken to Ottmuth (a German workers concentration camp) in '42... Eventually he wound up in Buchenwald, a death camp... 12 other members of his family were sent to Auschwitz, he was the only survivor..... He was liberated from Buchenwald in April '45 he survived by entertaining the camps SS officers as an actor and singer... When he got back to France after his liberation, he found that only 3 of his 13 siblings survived the Nazi occupation of France..... It took a lot of courage for that cast and crew to make that show....

Thanks Brother, I'll check it out....

I don't care how slow you are, it's beautiful work, something I can't do.... Very impressive....

Yes, Leon Askin... He was an Austrian Untermenschen, an actor and political activist who emigrated to the US in '40.... A little more info on this point.... Most of the characters on Hogan's Hero's were Jewish Including Werner Klemperer... In fact, Werner was asked by his Jewish friends why he was representing a nazi officer on TV, his response? "Who else but a Jew could do it" He did have misgivings over the role of Col. Klink though, (initially rejecting it) One of the agreements he made to accept the role was that whatever scheme was being represented in the episode, that Col. Hogan ALWAYS won in the end... Werner Klemper was an Untermenschen, a German Jew, Emigrating with his family to the US in '33, one of the few German Jews that didn't hide his religion during the war, (served in the US Army as a naturalized citizen) and suffered immensely for it... Howard Caine, (Gestapo Major Wolfgang Hochstetter, who always wore an SS uniform) was an American Jew also..... Most people don't realize this and the producers directly took action to quash it....

He always rode in the back, where the eternal authorities always ride.... Yep, the eternal authorities always rate better equipment.... (Of course "rate" in this context is more akin to entitled)

Stunningly beautiful work! Yes the blue background does seem to make the parts stand out better... You get subdued reflections, better color response, (although a bit darker) and a more real life like experience... Might try it my self when ever I get back into it.....

That's an absolute truism in this business..... You know where you start, but never know where your going to come out or the results..... Thanks brother.... This one was pleasant....

Thanks Brother... The real story.... I don't know the manufacturer, there was no box.... I got the model years ago, it was given to me in a bag, all the parts were off the sprue's... No instructions, decals, or any info at all... The friend who gave it to me didn't remember where he got it from and was going to toss it... Told me I could have it if I thought it would be useful..... Always up for parts.... {chuckle} I had to research the parts to determine which model aircraft it was, no mold marks or anything identifying on the parts (that's why no build log) that went on for weeks, I finally determined it was a navy bird, an early "J" model.... I inventoried what parts I had and found I had a complete aircraft sans weapons.... So I looked for loadouts and found that although the F-4j could carry many, many different weapons and equipment, Sparrow's, Sidewinders and a centerline droptank was it's basic loadout in the interceptor role... So I went thru the stash looking for the weapons and tank.... The Sparrows came from a Revell F-4E and the Sidewinders from my old Hasegawa F-104C.... Had to modify the tank cause the one I had was too short, came from an A-4.... The scheme came off another model, not something in decals, (none available I liked) so I stole images off the net of a particularly nice airplane... What caught my eye was the USS Ranger CVA-61..... My real estate broker when I was back selling real estate was a gentleman named Dick Gunderson, He was an ex Skywarrior pilot, and former Commander in the Navy... His last posting was as CAG for the Ranger Airgroup during the early deployment to Vietnam.... So I figured I would do it as a CAG aircraft off the Ranger.... Dick never flew an F-4, and I didn't have an A3D to build, (not available in 1/32 scale) But I didn't think he would mind.... (he's been gone for almost 30 years) No decals available for the period that I could find, and F-4's off the Ranger in that period weren't easy pics to find, (I couldn't come up with a complete scheme for any aircraft) So I searched other models to see what was available that had already been done.... Got the images from that and went to work..... I had sufficient decals in the stash to make up the markings, (just don't get too close to the stenciling, some of it is not too exact) and the paint scheme is a fairly easy one... The weathering is a simple dusting overspray technique, using shades that are slightly off from the main coloring to highlight the panels and joints.... The whole assembly/painting/decaling/finishing took about a week.... Gotta keep my hand in putting glue/paint to plastic and time/life didn't allow for all that goes into a detailed build log.... I'm glad you all liked it.... I really wasn't trying to make a showstopper....

You would win that bet.... the drivers seat flips forward over the steering wheel for access to the battery compartment.....