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Bob... Thank you! Niko... Thank you my friend. I sure hope this could pass as a 1:1 when done...lol Robin... Thank you for for taking the time to read all the way thru and catch up on this build. I know its a lot of reading to do. Joe... thank you Danno... Thanks Dave.... Thank you. John... Thanks Brother. Well I don't know if I will say Outstanding... you will see in my next post..... Mike... Thank you for the encouraging words. Art... Thank you my friend. Great to hear from you Mike.... Thank you.

Pat this is off to a great start I like the stance and chop ou have gone with. Looks killer.

Pat... This turned out fantastic. I love what you did and love the weathering on this. I really need to try my hand at weathering a kit some time.

This is gonna be another cool and killer build. I like the direction you are going so far with this.

Joe... Looking good!! I have made some small progress on the V-1 the past couple of days. I decided to scribe pretty much most of the panel lines that I will put a wash in. Here I have scribbed the first half of the body: Here is the Cart that came with the model. sanded and glued it together. Now all it needs is a little bondo and it will be ready for primer: Here is both halves after the couple of hours of scribbing...lol: Got the body glued together, Now time to sand and do some body work at the seams: I stuck the wings on to mock it up and set it on the cart for fun:

John... my big brother this is some fantastic work my friend. Looking killer as always. Keep up the great work. I am looking forward to more.

Wayne... thank you Joe... thank you. your stuka is looking really nice. I got one side of the main body scribbed last night and hope to be able to finish up the other side and then I can get the main body glued together. I am almost dine with cleaning the cart up as well and gluing it together. Hoping to have some pics up of it later.

John... simply awesome Brother.. the frame looks great in paint. Man it is looking sharp. Keep up the great work.

Rom.... As promised here are a couple of pics of the weld bead 3D decals I purchased

Well Fellas... I know I have been away from this build for a few days. I am happy to say that I got some primer on it tonight. I was wanting to see where there more mistakes that I need to work on. I figured that I would have to go back and sand as well as do some more body work to fill some areas. I know I am at the point of being sick of working on this tin work because I feel that I have been working on for the past month or so but then again I want to knock it out and get it done....lol Here are some progress pics.... Thanks for looking and following along on this long journey. Finally in some primer: Here is the Dash, as you can see here there are some areas that need some fixing: Another Angle: Here is the firewall size..... Now this definitely needs more work, a few of those spots I could not see with it in bare plastic: The bottom turned out ok but there were area's here that needs a little fixing as well:

Jim.... Thank you John... Thank you very much. I appreciate the kind comments. As far as money that I have tied up in this build. I know I am well over $500.00 at this point. I haven't really checked in a long while but I probably should update the one file I created to see how much I had into it...lol I probably won't want to know when its all said and done but regardless It has been worth every penny so far. Rom... Thanks Buddy!! James... Thank you so much for the kind words. I am hoping that the build would be encouraging and inspire people. I have told myself that if even just one person can take away one idea on how I have done things with how I have been documenting and posting every step of the way with pics, It has been worth the time spend just on the pictures and editing the pics (crop and adjust the image). Plus the fact that I wanted to document it for my own purpose. I am planning on basically talking all of the pics here and creating a power point presentation so that I can have it printed build book of it. and I am sure I will be more than happy to email it to others if anyone would like it as reference, but I won't get to this until the build is almost done....lol Larry.... Thank you Very much.

Thank you guys. I am super excited to build this V1, I have been wanting to for some time now.

Rom... thisngs are looking good. I will have to check the sizes for you that I have on the weld decals.

Dang Johnny Boy... that is looking nice. Great to see you back on this one.

Rom.... I got mine directly from archer transfers. They are $17.95 a package. Here is a link to them http://www.archertransfers.com/SurfaceDetailsMain.html Scroll down to the bottom and you will see the weld decals.

Dave.... I some how missed this build. You are sure doing a fantastic job on this and it looking great. This is going to be a killer build when done. I am digging all you have done so far. Keep up the great work

Bob.... Thank you very much. I can almost call the tins good. Dave.... Thanks my friend. I have earned those masters in a lot of elbow grease and reworking parts.... hahaha. It is so true what you said that when I look back once its done I will be happy I spent the time to fix those little things I noticed. John.... Thanks brother. Yea I sat there looking at things and figuring ways out to get the shape I needed and I just put the window in and built up to it. I am super happy with it. Now I just need to sand the bondo and then I may be really close to getting the first coat of primer on it. I was thinking about shooting primer on it after I sand it all down so then It would help see any other spots that may need some Bondo.

Hello Fellas.... Well I have officially started the V-1 Flying Bomb..... Here is where I am at with it.... Got all of the parts cut off the trees and now I am sanding the mold lines off the cart and have starting scribing the panel lines on the main body. The wings are all sanded and ready to be glued to the body. Hoping to do some more work on it today.

Then it was time to start to fix the gap on the front windshield, I had to think out a little the best way to be able to the curve in to the tins and this is what I came up with: After getting the curvature into the pieces, I needed to add pieces to fill the gap: Now that I had finished the addition of those pieces it was time to start putting Mud (aka... Bondo) on the Tin Work, one more step closer to being able to lay some primer on it: Here is some Mud added to the bottom: I also added a little to the sides and back tin work, once I sand it I will take a look and see where I need to add some more to the mix:

Good Morning Fellas.... I was able to make some more progress yesterday on this. What I thought that I was going to be done with fabrication of the tin work and that I was going to be able to shoot some primer on it. Well after taking a look at a few things I had to take a couple steps back and add a few extra things to make it look right and fit better. As I mocked some things up I realized that I had a gap from the Tins to the Back window as well as the Dog House to the front window. At the time I made these pieces I didn't take into account of the curvature of the windows. So I decided to make things right and fix them. Well we are back on track now. What I thought that it shouldn't take too long ended up taking hours....lol Seems like the story of my life on this but all in all it was worth the time to fix it. I started out by adding a couple of filler pieces between the firewall and the side pieces: Next I started making the fill piece that would meet up with the back window: Here I was test fitting and checking things, I couldn't tell you how many times I put the tins in and pulled it out while getting this portion made: I was getting closer to having it done and added some more pieces to it: After I got the shape done and fit, I added some flat stock to it to make it look better:

Thank you for sharing that link. That is some great information and tutorial. I really want to learn the art of weathering and I need to pick up that AK Interactive Extreme Weathering Vehicles book.

John.... I always love your builds. This turned out fantastic. Nice job on this one.

Ray... Thank you.... I think I have already gone past the point of being crossed eyed....lol some one may put me in the looney bin haha

Bill.... it is so great to see youback at the bench. This is nothing short of fantastic. You are one talented builder for sure and I look up and admire yoir work. those have to be some of the nicesr rotors. Very nice work. I sure hope you have another 1/16th scale build after this build.... hint hint . Already looking forward to your next update

Jason.... I apologize that I missed your comment. Thank you for the kind words and for following along on this build Scott.... Ok so I just counted all of the rivets for the tin work at the moment..... Drum role Please... So far there is 205 rivets just in the tin work.....lol..... It its official... I am nuts....hahaha Danno.... Thank you buddy...but it will look nicer in primer John....thanks brother.... You know I am trying my best to make it look like the real thing althought it won't be exact but close enough for the girls you go with....hehe Mike... Thank you so much my friend.i am sure I missed some detail on it....lol