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Thanks Ken and Tom for your encouragement and support. It's much appreciated fellas. This, I found out today as somewhere along the line I forgot about that! Sometimes we miss the very basics as I've been working with this stuff for years! Jeez! I come up with "bright idea" and then at work I get "reminded"........................but............I have another idea !!!

Thanks Dan! Hopefully, once I come up with the correct wire size , I can pull it off to at least resemble a wire harness in order to route it all at the drivers side of the firewall area. We'll see....

Man Rich that paint job really got set off by that BMF! Looks great!

Folks I'm going to try something totally new to me today as it's been weighing on my mind about how to replicate a mummified (a.k.a. tapped/wrapped) wiring harness. It's all in the experimental stages now and I may have to switch to a slightly smaller gauge wire to accommodate the scale thickness to my build here but here goes. First I start with two strands of wire clamped at one end by my table vise and two strands of much thinner wire. Then I gather my tools and materials. I didn't get pics of the initial process but I think you'll get the jist here. I used the lockwire pliers to put neat wraps in the wire and took the two much smaller pieces of wire and inserted into the wraps at about the midpoint and continued the wraps until it was fairly tightly wound. I then applied a bead of super glue along the length of the wrapped wire set. At that point I cut a strip of the teflon tape and started wrapping the twisted wire set like I would with electrical tape. To get this: I continued on until I ran out of tape and, unfortunately, time this morning but this is where I'm at right now. Will continue onwards tomorrow morning and have the four wires as breakout circuits for the ballast resistor and the wiper motor. Again I'm probably going to have to go with smaller gauge wire but I've got the thought process from inside my head to application now anyways. a little closer......... I do see myself adding more super glue to the wraps to keep it from looking so much like wrapped twisted wire but we're getting there. When done it'll be getting a treatment of semi gloss black to simulate that black tape color.

You're a better man than me buddy. More than one at a time and I get sensory overload!! lol Nice line up!

Lookin' good from here!

You've got yourself one helluva kit there Kevin! Those kits are among the best in the modeling market right now!

Wicked color!

Now THAT would be small!! lol

I could display a build with the cap off and use brown color with epoxy to simulate brake fluid in the reservoir! LOL Thanks guys!! I needed a chuckle or two tonight after the day I had.

Yes siree! All kinds of frame work and bracing rods! Where in tha hell to display it would be of my greatest concern right along with having to be at a home that would be my final resting place for a long friggin time. I don't think a build like this would survive a move across the room let alone a home move!! lol

This has been a while back but is just bizarre enough to build......................one of these days when I feel my skills have become worthy enough to build one of these. And this kit aint one for the light hearted either. The Fa-223 Drache Helicopter

LOL! Lemme get my special "roto rooter" drill bit for that!

Love 'em all (the warbirds that is) and yes they did come up with some of the most far-fetched and outlandish aircraft as well has having some of the coolest camo schemes at that time.

It wasn't today but it's been in the recent past. I've had the 1/48 HiPM version of this kit for about 17 years but when the new 1/48 Hobbyboss version came out a couple of months ago I just had to get it. It is 200% better quality over the HiPM version(and about 3 lbs lighter due to all the absence of flash! lol ). The new 1/48 Hobby Boss BV 141B

I've always wondered who the manufacturer of that kit was because I had one of these a long time ago and always wanted another shot at one of these. My first build was pretty bad as I recall. You're doing wonders with this kit and like the upgrades you're doing. Where's the fun in leaving builds all stock anyways?

I understand this......................completely!!!! Man that detail is beyond words Jim!

Wheels and tires look great!!

Sounds like some pics worth seeing there Jason! Looking forward to it. Riley: Been there and done that before so don't feel bad. I thank you for posting the news though. I ran a Fw190 Group Build on another site and had between 45-50 participants and half of those just vanished with no warning or another post. It's one of those things one has to factor in when doing a Group Build as far as the number of builds and participants at the close of the GB. At least there's good folks who are kind enough to let the host know though and there's something to be said for that pal. Thanks for posting that.

A month?????? Even with the time off that's fast. Sheesh I'd be lucky to finish that in six months! lol

That's a feeling I know all too well! lol . I keep telling myself that about the paint too! LOL

Well this morning I spent tinkering around with the voltage regulator a little more and working on the brake line fit with the master cylinder mounted up. Anytime I do alot of mods / additions to my builds I always make sure to have a spare kit close by for stuff like this (in this case I have two spare kits! lol). With the master cylinder mounted up in the body, the lines needed a whole lot more tweaking to wind up in the right place on , or in this case, in the frame. I found out that I had to bend the lines more towards the center of the car at the point where they exit the master cylinder. I had to make some other pretty big adjustments to them and still have a little ways to go but here's the mock up:

This is a very well represented Nova here Randy! Great build! How long did this one take you to finish? Just curious is all.

Man I like that dash!!!

Thanks Jonathan!