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I saw something pretty similar to those at .....of all places......a Christian book store!

Hey neighbor! I'm just down the road from you! Glad to have you here!

Thanks Harry!! I had a blast building this engine. I built / painted it as though it were a real one. I even got a block of wood to make a makeshift engine stand! Next I installed the accessory drive gearbox/ supercharger onto the engine assy and installed the exhausts. The exhausts started out with a coat of metallic silver followed by a thinned coat of rust to allow some of the metallic features to show through and finally coated with a dry brushing of ground up black pastel. and the other side!

WOW! And I mean WOW!!!

That is definitely out of the ordinary!!! I've never seen that until now. Cool stuff!!!!

Here's the inverted Jumo 213 V-12 after a coat of paint and a light wash. Being an Aires engine its packed with detail without a single part installed on it. after that I began assembling the accessory drive box and supercharger. Again a coat of RLM 02 with a deep wash. This part of the engine was a blast to build: The other side: This Aires update set was on target with lubrication lines for the supercharger, fuel filters, etc. This update set has just about ALL the details.

I may do that one just simply because its a little different. I'll see if I can dig through my stash today!

Every now and then we modelers meet someone who can think "outside the box". This here fits that mold. Well assembled, painted and weathered Harry!

Now THAT is cool!!!

Keep it coming bud! I'm on the edge of my seat here!

Harry: Ain't it though! I've gotta say that the stuff coming out of this thread is entertaining to say the least! Danny:Thats another cool one posted!

You are tha man!!! Oh my .....holy...............you gotta be................that looks great!!!!

I got the itch to build another Pacific Theater warplane in the future off of this build. I have an Aichi D3A1 "Val" dive bomber in 48th scale in the stash but have also considered Eduards Hellcat Profipak in 1/48 scale. Hek I think they have that in Royal Class too. I dunno what it's gonna be but it will be one of these two for sure!

I don't think I ever saw this one either!!! Cool!

And stuff like that is awesome dealing with the first sentence. And ashamed on the next sentence. I feel your pain Jordan!

Heya Joker! Don't worry about that. Just throw something in there no matter how good or bad you think it is and have fun. Thats what it's all about right there.

I'm looking forward to seeing you build this Mark! I don't know why we like to build, "The Bad Guys" stuff sometimes. I mean there aint nothin' like a good ol' P-51 Mustang, Huey or Blackhawk helicopter or Sherman tank , but the "other guys" stuff just draws some of us like a moth to a flame. It's got to be curiousity that draws us to something different. Models like the one you are building here just looks cool! Keep it coming, Joe P.S. Just a thought but we could start a small group build here in All the Rest with the Fw190 D-9 I'm going to build and the Hind that you are building for starters. I dunno what we could call it yet , maybe the "All the Rest" Group Build? I'm starting up on the D-9 coming up on the 1st of January. Interested? I suppose we could run it by Harry and then start a GB feeler to see if anybody is interested.

I have NEVER seen that! Wow! Cool post!

David:Thanks Dave! There are certainly flaws but overall I'm happy with it. Expense was low on this one consisting of $5 for the Monogram kit, $10 for the Hasegawa kit, about $7 for the PE stuff, $12 for the squadron letter/ number decals and the ammo belts were free. I think I did manage to spend about 12 bucks on Vallejo acrylic paints for it too. Everything but the paint was bought about 15 years ago. The ammo belts came from a fellow modeler from another forum as a gift. Even the EZ line that I rigged the aerial antenna with was a free sample from Bobe's Hobbies in Pensacola, Florida. All things said I got off light at around $46 or so total. I usually spend anywhere's from 70- 300 bucks building a kit so this was a break from the usual. I had to lean on the paint job pretty hard due to the fact that I didn't open any body panels. Mark:Thanks Mark! I built one of these when I was 12 and I'm with you. On that kit I didn't paint the upper surfaces as they were molded in blue. I didn't paint the prop, wheels or rear gun again due to the fact that they were molded in black. The bottom I painted some makeshift enamel grey with a worn out Testors hand brush. I literally swabbed the paint on and used gasoline as thinner!! I was as happy as a lark though. It was the first of many Monogram builds that I built as a kid. Thanks for the kind words buddy.

Well folks you can stick a fork in this thing because this thing is now done! Just had to install the PE gun belts and that wrapped her up! The following pics were taken this morning and I shot the first pic or two with the pilots sliding canopy installed and then opted to shoot the remaining pics without it. In about a month I will procure a vacuform canopy and replace the kit supplied part with a more accurate scale thickness piece. Here goes: a small comment about the next picture. I took this one with the purpose of showing the model/ replication of 22-C-14 after it was first loaded onto the carrier Independence. I tried to get the paint scheme as close to this bird as possible so I'll have this pic and then following that the actual pic of the plane(which you all have seen here already but not right next to one another). The now so obvious thing that sticks out to me like a sore thumb is the fact that there is actually only one roundel on the upper wing surface on the port wing. I aint going to worry about it now. If this would have been a build for extreme accuracy I wouln't have been very happy. Pictures offer great help in modeling I continue to find out. and then finally the cockpit with most of the upgrades from Hasegawa's SBD-4 kit, Toms Modelworks and PE ammo belts for the rear flex gun: All in all this was a fun build for me. Accuracy was really only there in the paint and there are flaws throughout the build that I would normally take care of. With fun in mind I mixed accuracy with original Monogram intent,however, none of the features that I wanted to work in the beginning of the build work in the name of getting things to fit right and proper so I left alot of Monogram signatures on the aircraft such as the copyright year on the elevators, part numbers in the middle inside portion of the dive flaps and the incorrect centerline bomb and bomb strut. I would like to thank all of you have encouraged me and looked in on this WIP throughout. I'm going to be taking the month of December off from building for the most part and in the meantime will catch you all up to speed on my Fw190 D-9 and then take off full speed ahead in January on that. That build will be for accuracy! Thanks again guys, Joe

I usually get all of my stuff from Squadron, Sprue Brothers and Hannants. Every now and then if I need something really quick like tools or airbrush supplies and limited paints I'll go ahead and hit Hobby Lobby up. It's a true shame that the LHS we had here in Corpus folded up right after I first moved here around 15 years ago. Bummer!

Got the ammo belts painted and weathered some. Will be posting finishing pics by the end of the weekend.

That thing must be huge being in 35th scale!!! I saw a Mig-31 being built on another forum with that same green in the cockpit. I figured that must be the norm for those guys on interior color.

Today I'll get you all caught up on the cockpit. I had no in between photos to show progress up to this point but made up for it on the engine. I used alot of the PE I had left over from the Fw190 A-8/R2 that I had built earlier in the year so that made this whole operation a lot smoother. Here's the pics of the pit as it is now:

Dang Mark! That looks really good! Is that icky green what those guys really use on the IP? Who needs instrumentation lighting with that? lol Good work and good attention to detail!