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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.

You continue to WOW me with this project Simon. You good sir......are tha MAN!!!

Just to show you all that I am in fact building on this bird I've got a bit of an update. I now feel comfortable enough with the fit of the engine and mounts in the fuselage to go ahead and put some paint and weathering on the ol 213. Along with the references that I did have already, I have a friend that supplied me with some VERY good reference shots of one of these powerplants. Here's with the base engine built up and some light weathering put down. Still got A LOT of assembly to go with this engine as there are a good number of parts but I wanted to get a good start on it:

This is a pretty neat build Steve. Lots of good prep work going on with this.

I'll be watching for progress on this one...

Now THIS......is cool!! Never seen one of these built so I'll be in on this build .........

This is my back up in case the oven cleaner doesn't do the trick. Progress on this build continues to look good Mark.

Well gang......this isn't a stall out. I'm spending a TON of time now so that this will all go together without a hitch later on in the build. After taking off some of the inside edges and thinning the fuselage around the top of the engine area and removing a little bit of detail from the top of the engine I think this is going to fit in there well. I'm going to have to be careful with the added details on the engine so as not to contact the fuselage but I'm feeling good about it all so far.

Thanks Simon. I'm still working on the scheme I want to go with. Thanks Alan and sorry for the late reply gents. That ZM engine really is all that. Thank you for the encouragement bud. My time has been VERY limited at the bench and on posting here as of late because there is a ton of stuff going on behind the curtain but I did manage to shoehorn the ZM engine into place using the Dragon engine mounts and firewall parts.

Some good work going on in here. Will be coming back to see the new progress as they come rolling out.

What scale is this in? Some very good work bro.

You really do some impressive work with these wooden projects of yours bud.

Frickin' WOW!!! That is indeed some good work ......especially for being in wood.

Love the changes you are making to this one Mark. She's coming together in good fashion.

Sorry for the late reply Tony. Thanks man.

This looks just great especially considering the kit that you worked with to make all of this happen. I'd definitely be down to see that Nomad being built.