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Welcome, Zach. Just so happens, there is a model show in the Houston area next weekend (May 4). IPMS/Houston Modelmania will be held at the Stafford Centre in Stafford, TX. More info can be found at IPMS-HoustonTX.org. The club meets for regular meetings at 7:00 PM on the second Tuesday of every month at the Tracy Gee Center in Houston (near the West Belt & Richmond). There will also be a model car show in Seabrook, TX, on July 27. The Space City Shootout is put on by the Houston Automotive Modelers Society (HAMS). The HAMS facebook group page has more info. HAMS also has meetings at Tracy Gee, but at 7:00 PM on the second Friday of each month.

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Excellent!

Testors Easy Lift-Off (ELO).

Absolutely love the weathering. Wonderful build.

The point of Box Stock or Out Of Box is to build the kit only as the instructions state. But, yes, you found a loophole in poorly written rules. 🙂

They are the same.

I believe, Modelbau-Koenig has it wrong. I checked 4 other dealers and all refer to it as acrylic lacquer. GSI-Creos themselves merely call it a "solvent-based acrylic". But, if Mr Color is what you want, then buy it, no matter what the chemistry is. (I would advise using Mr Color thinner, though.)

MR Hobby are aqueous paints and Mr Color are lacquer. I am not aware of any enamel paints made by Gunze-Sangyo.

If you are refering to Mr. Color paints from Gunze-Sangyo, you can get them from Scalehobbyist, Sprue Brothers, and Andy's Hobby HQ. (I did not look to see if the specifically had "white pearl".)

I only use BSI Super Gold+. It does not fog.

You can try Safari or Firefox. I use Firfox on an iMac and have no problems. (Of course, I'm also using a very old OS.)

The link works for me.

Actually, when preordering from the Salvinos web site, the price is $67.49 and shipping is $12.50, bringing the total to $79.95.

It is kind of an homage to the Disco Volantes of the 1950s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfa_Romeo_Disco_Volante