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I'll be all over this build like a "rat on a cheeto"! Looking very much forward to seeing this build in action Warren.

Thank you for taggin' along Bruce. Careful now with the 50 years stuff......you're dating yourself. lol

She'll be going on here if you want to check it out Keith. Tamiya Panther Type G It'd be good to have you in there.

Thank you for the "good word" Tim. Gonna give this thing my best shot. Managed to stiple on the texture on all sides of the tank body and turret over the last couple of days. Just gotta hit it with some 1000 grit sandpaper to blend it all in a tad bit.

Thank you all Keith, Alan, Larry, Carl, Tim, Bruce and Lee. Really appreciate the encouraging feedback. Now......we're off to the Panther Type G. My first ever armor build. Wish me luck. lol

Good LORD man!! I missed this one for SURE! I mean........everywhere you look there's just more and more details to see in this whole layout. This is some very exceptional modeling in this scale Jon. My hat goes off to you for pulling off such a masterful creation bud. WOW!!

Those are both great builds and in such small scale at that. One of the things that stops me from building a Phantom is the fact that there is LOTS of decal work to do on these aircraft and you've done an exceptional job at that on both of these and they look GREAT Jim.

This is indeed a good looking build Bruce. I'd be interesting in seeing how you pulled the heated effects off on those pipes. Looks great man.

After I posted that I took another look and there are a couple of things that are on this bird that aren't' on the 1/48 offering. Good lookin' Corsair Johnny.

Not bad......not bad at all @OldTrucker. Is this 1/32 or 1/48?

Thanks for taggin' along Carl! 👍I've really been looking forward to building this one for the last few months. Not that I got bored with autos or aircraft.......I just wanted to try something new and of great interest to me.

Well fellas......the Ta-152 is behind me now I've had to rethink my next build in que which was going to be the Testors 1/24 scale Pantera. I'm going to push that build back by one slot in the que just because our son is going to leave for the military in the next few months so I thought I would build something military while he's still around to check out the progress on my work. This is my first ever armor build and I've been pretty stoked to get started with this new to me genre of modeling anyways so......here it is. I've been watching plenty of videos and seeing all of you fine armor builders here turn out some pretty fancy work so I'm going to give this a go. It aint gonna be all totally accurate per se but I'll try and get it close. I'm also not going all out with PE and AM stuff so I can just concentrate on getting this build done somewhat half decently. I've got another Panther later on that I'll be going all out on. Without further ado...I'll be going with the Tamiya kit for this and already have all of the materials to make this all happen.

Thank you Dave. I really appreciate you and the others for following along on this build man. I've finally finished this one up after 14 months. Jeez.....did it really take that long. lol Here's the completed build thread: All The Rest: Motorcycles, Aviation, Military, Sci-Fi, Figures - Model Cars Magazine Forum

When I started this build 14 months ago, I had no idea 1.) that it would take me this long to build this bird and 2.) just how difficult some parts of it would be. I contemplated building the Zoukei-Mura offering of this aircraft but after looking at all the parts involved, I chose the simpler route (or so I thought) and went with the Dragon kit. The engine that came in the Dragon boxing was NOT the way to go for me just for the mere fact that it didn't have ANY detail. I even had an Aires engine kit for this aircraft and that didn't have enough detail on it either. The ZM kit engine was just perfect as it had a LOT of detail and so......I went with that. You know how kit bashing can be though: When we make one big change here......there's another big change there....and if you make that change.............you get the point. I did end up making it through the engine fit issues and some of the other fit problems that Dragon had in store for me and finally finished it all up today. Mods include: Zoukei-Mura Jumo 213 engine and associated ammo boxes/ cannon assembly that goes through the crankcase of the engine, HGW fabric seat belts, Aries tail wheel retracting mechanism and tail fin access panel to see all of that. Quinta Studios 3D decals for the instrument panel and side consoles and leftover photo etch for rudder pedals and various details in the cockpit. I also used a control stick from an Fw190 A-8 as it is the same in the 1:1 world but much better detailed in the scale world. With that ....here she is. Thank you all who followed along with my build. It was great having you along for the ride.

Interesting........and VERY cool. You pulled this whole thing off in very good fashion and LOVE the out of the ordinary subject matter.