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Thanks Rob!! I just recently finished this section all up with the addition of the engine mounting framework, 30mm cannon and ammo boxes at the rear of the engine. Slooooooooowly coming together.

Masking things like open cowlings and landing gear bays always proves to be a bit of a challenge but you've managed to simplify this quite a bit Dave. You're right too......after a while of sanding and filling it's tough to get any sense of accomplishment but things start to change after the paint is put on. This is turning out well bud...very well indeed.

LOL!! What a jump between 2 and 25 lbs of lead shot!! I've seen this stuff used for counterweights in aircraft builds before and it works great. Watching for the next updates Dave.

I've seen plenty of these aircraft get built up and you're doing a phenomenal job of bringing this one together very cleanly Dave. Good work man.

It's been a minute or two since I've been in on this thread and now that I finally made it back, I'm glad I dropped in to check it out. I aint EVER seen this level of detail on any auto build dude. Impressive doesn't even begin to cover what I'm seein' here. Frickin' leagues ahead of where I'm at Codi.

I've been working on this part now for the last couple of bench sessions in the morning. Got the opening cut out and working on fitting everything in right now.....

I'm a sucker for F-16's so seeing these built is a good thing Allison. This looks to be a 1/72nd scale build?

Whoa HO HO!!!! Looky what we've got here!!! I'll be dialed into this one Dave! First off, you are tha frickin' MAN for taking this old kit on and then making it look as good as it does so far bud. I've seen many a builder throw this kit into the trash can by now so my hat goes off to you for sticking with this one bud. Secondly, (and this is conjunction with my first point) this is some master class foot work you're doing to this thing. You're correcting pretty much ALL of the issues with this troublesome kit and doing a great job of it at that. I'm in on this.

This is looking GREAT so far Mozzi! By the way........the title of your thread for this car is hilarious.

Wow that's pretty cool to have that in the kit. A great idea too Lee!

I've done just as Keith has mentioned with the bits of paper towels with the Tamiya tape. There's a fella that I know that uses Tamiya tape only cut into different shapes and sizes to accomplish this on his detailed out builds. He uses foam in his pits but the paper towel trick works just as well. In example: He'll leave things like the wing root gun bays open and paint the details in later.

So the build process goes onward with test fitting the engine, firewall and ammo boxes into the fuselage and test fitting the lower wing into place to make sure everything is going to go together. Yeah.....I can work with this:

LOL!! Thank you Simon. I'll put a few details on there. I dunno how much but I'll invest a fair amount of time up front. Thanks Rusty! Great to have you along buddy.

Still lookin' good from my angle Mark and the Coke cases in the back are a good touch.

Turned out great bud!

Some good progress goin on here Mark. Good color choice too.

I'm in on this one Ron.

I'm back in on this one Tim. LOTSA work going on with that grille (which is indeed super thick to begin with) and associated body work to get all of this to work. Looking forward to seeing you back at it on this one buddy.

Oh WOW!! Here I am missing these great updates that you've been putting forth Francis. Looking forward to seeing you back at it bro.

Excellent choice for this truck Al.

You got that whole stance right on Al. Good work on getting it all set up like that and then pulling off a good looking Mustang at that.

Good color and she turned out well Al. Were the wheels and tires from the kit boxing or did you source them from somewhere else?

I've been spending a good amount of time with this Jumo 213 and getting everything to work together. I've still got the cannon on the back of the engine and mounting everything to the engine mounting framework but here's the ZM engine so far with the Dragon engine attachment fixtures, exhausts and other tidbits now in place.

I spent a good amount of time on the engine weathering and adding details to this 213 to bring out a bit more realism by adding worn effects as well as dirtying things up in a subtle way to give a good used effect to the engine without going overboard. Where we are now:

Been there and done that MANY times with difficult stages of a build Steve. Looks like you're moving along in good fashion.