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Thanks for all the replies, fellas. There's a lot of food for thought here, and I've bookmarked this thread for future reference. (Perhaps this is one reason I like the 30's cars that I do, very little chrome to fiddle with.)

I'll certainly keep in mind, Glenn, so thanks.

The Schützenpanzer book is the next one I'd really prefer to have, but I may have to skip it for now, as I can't find it for under $75. I'll probably grab the Stürmgeschutz book next instead, and I already have the Tiger/Sturmtiger book. Yep, still there, They finally have it indoors now though, built a building around it in fact.

That's what I was thinking too, Steve. Even a minor departure from a straight segment seems to cause kinks, so I'd imagine a wheel well would be a real nightmare. Even adding an extra wide piece to the rear of my '69 GTX got a wrinkle or two (driver side), because I started the piece crooked. I'll leave it this way, as my nerves are already frayed, but will try to do better next time.

I'm pleased silly to finally have this book arrive, great reference for German armor. I have precious few Ryton publications, but those that I do have are all outstanding, and this book should be no exception. This particular volume covers three of the German WWII heavies, Ferdinand/Elephant, King Tiger and,... the Jagdtiger, my favorite beast of the lot. I'm a happy pup!

I read through several threads on foiling, but never did see a definitive answer to this question. When foiling trim over wheel wells for instance, is it best to try bending a long strip around the well, or using a large piece that covers the entire well, then trimming off (wasting) all the excess? It seems like even minor curves makes the foil want to kink, so I shudder to think what'll happen when I try the well trim on my current car ('69 GTX). Thanks a bunch,

It seems that this is not an altogether uncommon problem. Years ago, my foundation (which had always leaked a bit), sprung a major leak, and I had silty water sprayed all over about two dozen kits. Boxes were generally salvageable, as were instructions, but many decal sheets were toast. These were all unbuilt kits, and not the same thing as happened to you, but still very frustrating.

I think he actually meant gilded.

As far as I remember, yes, though it's actually not paper.

Well I'll certainly try, Joe. This may be one of the first kits that I've built in a very long while, where the fuselage will be painted without the wings attached. It should make painting and weathering so much simpler, and the wings fit like a glove, so I anticipate very little blending being required.

Looks real good to me

OK, thanks. My kit had a terribly misaligned lower front piece, requiring several applications of filler and CA. I guess I'll just stick with the grabber hood on mine then.

I've come to realize that the Eduard interior set (#32628), will be virtually useless to me; lots of work for very little appreciable gain. There are a few elements that I may end up using, but certainly not much.

I'll be adding some scratch built wheel chocks to this display. These are actually pretty crude, and will probably be replaced.

Much to my surprise (and happiness), I've discovered that the C-7 boxing, has the extra armored glass typically seen on the E versions. These were apparently sometimes retrofitted to the C versions, so I now have the correct armored glass for the aircraft that I'm trying to depict. I'm a happy pup!

Bombs are being prepped for use, but I may not use them all. One nifty thing, there are four extra wing racks left over, as these are on an intentionally duplicated sprue.

Here the wing assemblies are coming along, though I hadn't added the gussets to the wheel wells yet.

I'm in the process of going through all of the dedicated 110 references I have, making notations in a spread sheet for future reference. I cannot confirm (yet) that the C carried the under wing bomb racks for sure, though I've already added them to the wings. I'm giving myself a certain amount of latitude, concentrating more on trying to capture the "essence" of the unit, rather than any particulars.

Another of life's little mysteries; while scrolling through this Kagero book, I discovered this interpretation of the same airframe, referring to it as an E-1. Several features are called out the same as I had interpreted, but not quite all. No extra armor on the windscreen, and open spinners. Everything else seems to check though. I'm not quite sure I agree with the plan view interpretation, the jury is still out on that one, though it may well be pretty close. I'll keep digging. Scan below offered up observing "Fair use" concept, and should be observed accordingly.

Yep, 1:32 scale Dragon kit, Joe, the C-7 boxing, as that's as close as I can get to the C-4. A pretty darn nice kit, all things considered,but with absolutely lousy instructions. Dragon has sort of established their own niche for crummy instruction sheets, and this kit is certainly no exception.

I'm guessing that the spinner colors are black green/yellow/white, back to front. I assume the fuselage band is yellow, and it appears the same to me as the central spinner band. I've seen at least two artsy representations of this plane, and both are different from each other, as well as different from this photo, so perhaps there's room for some "artistic license", though yellow identifications were certainly used on almost all Luftwaffe units operating in Russia.

I got so carried away with the discovery that I can now post images that are not dragged off of my computer, I inserted the wrong book image, though it will certainly come into play as well. This was the intended second book image.

Thanks, Gino. I have much more to post up, just been busy with some other "stuff".

This is the particular machine I'll be depicting. Photo caption says this is a C-4, and the only real difference I see between this and a standard C-7, is the closed spinner and extra armor on windscreen, yet I have a profile drawing (I know), that shows the open type spinner, but,... photos don't lie.

I don't believe it, I finally am able to post images from Photobucket; I'm a happy, happy guy!