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One of these days I'm really gonna have to make that trip. Ok gang. I spent the better half of 3 hours this morning applying paint. I already know I'm going to hear it from somebody because I've been telling myself all morning long that I must like to make things difficult. I have applied these colors in patches rather than go over most of the bird with the predominant color. I made the mistake of applying the predominant color once on my Stuka and I didn't much care for it because when I went back over the base color with the second camo color it looked to thick. So I opted to do things this way. I've also opted not to put the cockpit on just yet. I'll get to that in due time and in my own fashion...……..the hard way. I do like the benefits of the marble pattern and will more than likely continue that trend. There is a couple of touch ups that I need to do between the camo colors but I do like this way even though it is time consuming. I spend more time masking than I've spent on any other area of the model.

Thanks Codi. I've been trying to get back on this one for the last few days but I've either been too busy or haven't felt all that well. Hopefully I'll get my chance this weekend. As far as seeing one in real life , I would love to have the opportunity to see not only this one but other rare WWII birds that reside there as well.

I'm in!!!

Good start on this one. I like the Hudson and that picture of your grandson in front of it is golden. Just make sure he doesn't see it on down the road when he gets a little older. If he's anything like my son he'll want it taken down. lol

Very nice details and paint work. Two thumbs up.

That's definitely green all the way right there. Pulled it off well Kerry.

I got the gray primer ready this morning and shot my attempt at a marble effect on. and then I came back over the whole thing with my Badger 150 with a little tighter pattern for the marble effect. We'll be jumping from here on the rest of the assembly and camo scheme.

I thought that platform looked familiar. It's got B-24 Liberator written all over it. Cool lookin' bird.

I got the elevators/ stabilizers mounted up and the necessary body work at the joints completed. This is with the prep stage completed so I can shoot an automotive style semi gloss black paint job on this one to black base it. After that I'm going to try this whole marble pattern out for the first time to see just how well that system works. Any how here we are all masked off (except for the landing gear struts) and ready for the black base. and here's with the black base applied and in the drying/ cure out stage: I'm pretty happy with this:

I still have a fair amount of display space left but then again I don't build aircraft as much as I used to since I switched to automotive builds 4 years ago. Ray: Thanks for the good comments. Nick: Those are in fact good lookin' birds.

Thanks Steve.

Very nice job on the weathering Chuck.

I finally opened up the Aires engine set because I'm at that point to where I want to work on the engine mounting for the starboard engine as that's the one I'll be displaying opened up. I was just getting over all the goodies in the kit (these engines look fabulous BTW) when I turned my attention to the instructions of how these beauties mount up to the wing. At first I wanted to put everything back in the box and move on. You guys know about where I'm at with the build right now so you can imagine how I felt when I saw this in the instructions: Yeah. That's what I said too. I did, however , think about it over a cup of coffee and came up with this plan: I took this: and cut the locating pins off of the base and sanded the back side down until I was left with the center strip and the offset mounting hole, made all the cuts and holes in the wing like I was supposed to and inserted everything into the openings and holes in the wing from the outside. The results? Something I think I can live with: Ok.....made it past that hump! Movin' right along now.................................

Dude, that engine looks sweet even when there wasn't any paint on it yet. Rock tha house JC!! This one is going to be a good build for sure.

Very cool looking Cessna! Really good looking build.

Before a couple of years ago I wasn't a big Shooting Star fan. Then.....I saw one fly at an air show and fell in love with it. I've since wanted to build one but haven't gotten around to it yet. Yours here is looking good Scott.

Back on this one again after 2+ years. Let's see....where did we leave off. lol Oh yeah..... bodywork. I broke out the pin vise to restore all of the rivet detail that got sanded away at the front part of the fuselage. I've still got the section behind and on the sides of the fuselage at the wing root to go and that's not to mention re-applying the panel lines that are gone as well. Here's 45 minutes worth of sanding and re-riveting.

Good lookin' build. I like the rag stuck in the fuel filler hole. Seen that a million times back home. lololol

Thanks Dave. I appreciate the good comments.

Neat and clean build Jarkko.

Great thread to revive. I remember this kit back when it first hit the shelves. I think it came out after the Street Demons release and it is definitely a challenging kit to work with. Hats off to you for great finish Jacob.

Good lookin' paint job there Larry.

Very cool looking truck Ray.

Thanks you guys. This one has pretty much moved up to my favorite auto build yet. It just seemed to fall together in a way that none other build has.

Thanks Sergey. The instrument panel gauges were touched up with a white pencil. I wanted to go with decals but couldn't find any that would work with it so I went back to skills that I use for aircraft modeling.