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Paint looks great!

Great work so far Pat. I really like using Lego's in my projects as well. Shop looks killer too!!!!

This is just crazy good Rich!! Good grief!!!!!!!!!!! Just off the map man.

Cool plan out Rob.

Nice!!! I've always liked these wagons. Come on with it Ray! Lookin' good!

That sounds like a good idea. Next time youre up against that dilemma try some EZ Line Bill. That stuff works wonders.

Well..............I had success with the gloss coat on the hood today and I discovered something by accident. I decanted my aerosol MM "Wet Look" Lacquer into a paint bottle and shot it through an airbrush and it turned out REALLY good. The problem is that I have two airbrushes and only thought I'd run enough thinner through the airbrush to rid all of the Alclad from it. I will say that it's a bittersweet mistake in the fact that if I ever want a slight glitter in my gloss that I know what to do now. What I'll do from here is shoot another coat of black followed up with another coat of decanted "Wet Look" without the glitter in it as opposed to dunking the whole thing in brake fluid again. The glitter seems to show up well in photos as does the gloss:

Lookin' good so far Jeremy! Details look great.

Thanks Nick, Jeremy and Carl. Hopefully I can start moving along a little quicker with this thing now.

Thank you gents. The results of relocating the hinge, sanding the left hand edge of the door to allow for proper opening and closing and installing a door stop Closed: (wouldn't you know there'd be a stupid dog hair in the middle of the door-no worries-it'll get dusted off) I still have to shave some off of the floor at the door hinge area to allow for the body to sit low on the frame and for the door to open fully but here it is anyway with the body a slight bit off of the frame. Don't worry, the outer door edge at the R/H side of the door will be painted the proper body color. I'll get to it shortly Open: Oh and before I forget. I've been working on the headlight bezels. I had to strip the chrome on from them and try my luck with the Alclad II Chrome. I'm getting a lot more comfortable with my results. Here the both of them are after polishing: and the Alclad door handles are ready for installation as well:

Ok I'll be catching up in here. It's been a long while since I've done anything aviation related so it was really difficult to decide on what I'm going to do for an ice breaker for the last few months. I bounced back and forth from Ta-152 to an Fw190 D series to a 190 A series to finally .........this: A Hase offering of the 234: I bought two of these because every time I start hackin' on a build for detail add ons like cockpits or engine displays or anything like that I have inherent problem of messing something up along the way to the point of being unrepairable so I just head it off at the pass with a spare parts kit. I don't know when exactly I'll get started on this bad boy as I still have to finish up my '54 Chevy Panel Wagon that I'm building in the Auto section. Here are the upgrades: with a masking set: and reference material:

Thanks Randy. I'm slowly making my way back towards getting the door re-installed. I'm fairly close to having this one done I think but I just don't want to get "finishitis" and hurry through the last of it. Updates coming soon.

Will be watchin' for it........................

Waiting for the show to resume............................

Thanks Dan, Jeremy, Greg and Carl. Greg: I've got the fix under way already but that's not a bad idea. Carl: On HELL no!! If that were to happen I think I'd lose it. Naw really....that part is still ok.

Been missin' the progress on this build. Any updates JC?

Anything on this one?

How tha hell did I miss this one?????? I'm definitely in on this Wayne. Wow! I still can't believe I didn't see this. How 'bout a Hasegawa Arado 234 B-2?

That's a real beauty Wayne! Always like seeing what you can do with those Sherman's.

Sure Jason.

Thanks Jeremy. I'm moving past the last obstacle. I've stripped the paint job, replaced and relocated the hinge on the door and have primed and repainted the door trim panel. I've also added a filler/ seal strip at the rear of the flooring so that you can't see through the floor at the body/ floor joint at the end of the flooring. Additions to the interior include an issue of Hot Rod magazine on the coffee/ TV table and a pair of John Lennon sunglasses that I applied chrome BMF to the lenses on. Sorry....you just can't be too cool when you're builin' a street rod.

I've got a Malibu wagon body that Perry's is casting right now. It's going to take you somewhere in the neighborhood of about 6 or so months for him to get to it (and that's just the way it is I'm finding) so patience is your friend. He is hard to get a hold of but from what I understand he takes a lot of pride in his work and turns out a good product. Right now from what he says, it looks like he's unsure of what he wants to do with his business as he seems to have a lot on his plate.

Thanks Kevin. I've been throwing a lot of time and energy at the '54Chevy as of late just trying to get it finished. You know how it is when you want something finished and it just won't cooperate? That's what's happening with the Chevy Sedan Delivery I'm building. It's one thing after another but I'm getting through it. I had an opportunity while paint was drying on that to switch back over to the Arado this morning. Pilots seat is done to include arm rests (which were a PIA to install BTW) and installed. I'll be working on the back wall where the battery and other details are and working my way forward after I take care of the nose gear bay on the bottom side of this whole assembly. Here's the progress as of this morning though: ( The seat belts are actually dirtier than they look in the picture-here they look practically brand new....wow) There's ALOT to this pit so I'm probably going to be on this part alone for about 1-2 months.

Now that...............is the kind of aircraft builds that I like! Wow!

These days I'll take any encouragement / eggin' on with this thing that I can get. I had the door / hinge all set into the body yesterday. First off , my initial attempt on opening the door was frustrating because I forgot to allow proper spacing from the edge of the door to the door opening on the hinge side so there was interference there. I was able to remove the door and hinge assy and sand the edge of the door to allow for proper opening and closing with no interference. Secondly, once I fixed that and installed the door/ hinge for a second time I ran into the body not sitting down on the frame all the way in the back because.......................... I forgot about how low the hinge was positioned on the door. The hinge made contact with the floor before the body could be set all the way down on the frame. So off comes the hinge again......only this time I created a noticeable vertical crease line on the exterior finish on the rear door. So I ended up separating the interior trim panel from the door skin, removing the door hinge rod from the interior panel and dunking it in brake fluid again. I was able to save the exterior finish on the door skin with wet sanding and polishing...............thankfully. I cut another door hinge rod to a shorter length and shortened the hinge mount to the frame and will position the door hinge further up on the door panel. Here's an illustration that I modified to show what I did and what needs to be done here: The short black line is where the floor is making contact with the hinge. I need to position it up well out of the way to allow some room so the lower part of the hinge needs to be where the red line is. A bit of overkill on the higher up position but it'll definitely be out of the way. I'd like to refer to this as..............backwards progress to remain positive about all this.