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This one...... BTW......kit is now.......acquired!! Thank you for that Kyle.

WOW!! I may have to entertain something like that. That would have to be a 5 ton to haul that sucker around with all of the uparmor.

I believe that 100% on the getting in our own way bit Dave. I seem to constantly over complicate my builds with the details and in the end, I always say to myself, "Why can't you just build something OOB??" The satisfaction one gets when things finally do "click into place" is more than can be put into words. lol

Now THAT ......I would love to see. Didn't know that.

That's frickin' crazy right there but it's pretty ingenious!! LOL! WOW!!

I can tell that you're a fella that likes to do a fair amount of research on any given build to get the best out of it. It's fun as well as entertaining to read about the different camo schemes and the fact that they were repainted with each deployment.

Man this is just NUTS Nolan. That bike looks almost as if you could get on it, start it and ride away.............. Very convincing work bud.

Great improvement man and well worth the extra effort.

To me, the research portion of model building is as much fun as building the model itself. Good catch bud.

The amount of detail that can be put into these ships is simply amazing and you're already off to a great start with this Anton. This is really going to be a good one to watch.

Never in a milliion years would I have ever guessed that car was from a Revell kit. Master class work on that Anton.

Now THAT'S.........a cool build. Beautiful car and it's equally as cool that you were around this car. What scale is your build Anton?

First off, we all started from somewhere Anton. If I showed you some of my builds from 22 years ago it would be the same..... "a bit rough". But hey, we're back in this thing and learnin' along the way right? Secondly, that sign is REALLY neat. I've got a Luftwaffe Pilots Badge in my hobby room in a shadow box along with my father in laws awards and medals.

I am SO dialed in to this build Anton. I've never built a naval vessel before but builds like this sure inspire me to try one out. Following..........

Still workin' on the engine panels Dave. I managed to get the other side looking like the one pictured above, have them both primed in the same marble fashion as the rest of the aircraft and have been working on the supercharger air intake for the last couple of bench sessions. I should have some photo worthy updates soon. Thanks a lot Sean. They are my favorite as well and this will make my third Fw190 variant to build AND I've got two other variants in the stash. My ultimate holy grail Fw190 to build though is going to be the V-18. Such an awesome looking bird.

These trucks are just bad "A" IMO and you've done a great job with this one Scott! Good lookin' ride with some good weathering buddy.

Man I hear you there Dave. I had an Fw190D-9 that I was building about 10 years ago and I cut the nose off and replaced it with an entire engine/ nose assembly from an Aires detail set. I can't tell you HOW many times I test fit that whole nose assembly into place.....it must've been fifty times. Then, when the day of reckoning came, and it was time to adhere the whole nose module onto the completed airframe......nothing wanted to fit! What tha hay??!! I wrestled with that for around 2 hours and then all of a sudden.....everything just clicked right into place.

Given all of the hard work that you've put into this build, it was a good move to make the wings fit a bit better. That looks A LOT better brutha Dave.

The last couple of days at the bench have been spent on re-working the engine cowlings. These are two piece panels that are hinged in the middle to give two folding leafs to gain more access to the engine area on both sides of the engine. Dragon has put both leafs together to make a single opening panel. What I did was cleaned up the injector pin marks on the inside of the panels and cut about 80% of the way through the join of the two panels to give the proper open look of these panels. Untouched panel on the left and the modified panel on the right. I started by making passes through the join line with an X-Acto knife and when I got most of the way through the panel I used the troweling tool to make a V into the plastic to where the bottom panel could be opened and glued to the top panel with a clean joint.

Lookin' good on this one and love the whitewash on this Pat.

No problem at all Rob and I totally get it. Looking forward to seeing more of your work on this one.

Thank you Carl. Let's just hope I can keep up the good pace. lol

That is ALWAYS a problem for me......except with Tamiya kits. lol

You're at a point now to where it's not too late to consider using Quinta Studios 3D decals for the instrument panel. Quinta doesn't offer a set for the Revell kit but they do for the Eduard, Tamiya and Zvezda kits and they might be able to fit that instrument panel area that you've got there. Check it out:

Hey man.....we're birds of a feather (no pun intended) .....it's what we do bro. Most of these aircraft builds do have quite the adventure behind them in the building process. lol