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Thanks, Mike. I've been doing fine, just busy building! It's funny you mentioned the P-38, that was going to be my first choice! I only had one, though, and wanted to build it as the actual WWII version, so I went kit shopping. After I already had these two, I found out Revell reissued the P-38, too, I just might have pick another one up! Yeah, I was hoping for a 1/48 scale storm, but that didn't work! I was wishing a rainbow would have came out, though, since I stink at photoshopping!

Yeah, I did notice that, but only after you said something! That is very true, Jairus. As most cameras nowadays, mine, which is a 5.0 megapixel HP Photosmart M425, is also capable of shooting video. I also shot a video of the B-17 as they were starting the engines, and even in that, the props look lke they are barely moving, even when they were at full throttle.

Thanks for sharing it, Ray. Even though they aren't glue kits, I was wondering how they built up. It looks like they will make a nice early year car. Now I wonder how many years we'll have to wait for a corrected rear spoiler!

You can count on a couple of the 6.9/7.3 liters from me! My Ford's will thank you!

There's nothing to be sorry about, Jairus. I'm glad to see you extend it, I might even be able to take some more pics with the wonderful WV fall colors in the background.

Thanks, Rodney. By the way, I don't know if it's because of a setting on the camera or what, but around Labor Day, I went to our small local airport to see the B-17 "Sentimental Journey". Here's a couple of pics I took as it was on the taxiway just after landing, and the camera did not show any prop action. Like I said, I don't know if it's something with a setting on the camera or what, but the props on the B-17 were definitely moving when I took those pics!

Thank you, Jairus.

Thanks Michelle, and I was posting the Spitfire as you replied!

Building a model of Godzilla would be really outside my comfort zone!

Yep, you can put me down for the Nova.

This is my WWII British Spitfire I built for the Race Plane CBP. I painted it DupliColor Chrome Yellow and DupliColor Ford Royal Blue. I used the decals from a couple Earnhardt parts cars from Monogram's 2 kit Earnhardt set that included the 1981 Pontiac Wrangler Jeans and the 1986 Chevy Monte Carlo Wrangler Jeans cars. Here are the two planes sitting together. I really had fun with this community build, and look forward to finishing all the other builds I have going on for CBPs soon.

I've been participating in a very different Community Build Project here over the last few months, and finished both builds for it today, and one is not your everyday Mustang that you would expect to see here. I guess the idea started between Jairus and Lee (LDO) and a few others in the chat room one night, and it went from there, and the idea was to have a Reno Air Racer style airplane community build. I figured it not only sounded fun, but would get me to build something out of my normal comfort zone of cars and trucks. I decided to build not only a P-51D Mustang (see, here's where the "not your everyday Mustang" part comes in ), but a WWII British Spitfire as well. I decided since these were racing planes and I'm also a big Dale Earnhardt Sr. fan, I would paint and decal the planes like a couple of Dale's cars. The Mustang is painted with DupliColor Gloss Black and is decaled with some decals from a spare 1/32 scale Monogram Earnhardt Lumina. I used a $13.00 fishing pole set that included the reel and line from Walmart for the in flight pictures and held the plane with the fishing line. By the way. if it looks like there's water on the plane in the first pic, it's because it started raining during my photo shoot! Next up, the Spitfire.

My GM Goodwrech P-51D Mustang.

My Wrangler Jeans Spitfire.

Well, between the weatherman being right and a storm moving through the area right in the middle of my wheels up photo shoot and the wind twisting and turning the planes so badly I was getting airsick standing on the ground, I managed to get my 3 final build shots for both entries. I will post each plane in separate posts, that way if there will be a new thread for the completed builds, it will be easy for me to just copy and paste them. This has been a fun build and out of my normal comfort zone, not to mention it's also my first community build I have finished. I still have many more I've signed up for needing to be finished now! Anyway, enough chatter, here's a teaser pic of both sitting on the runway, actually my front sidewalk.

There are not any that I have found, Chuck. I've seen a few scratchbuilt, but as for any resin offerings, there are none. I myself would like to see some offered, as one of my projects, my build of my 1:1 1990 Ford F350 is on hold because of the lack of a 7.3 Liter non turbo engine, but even a Powerstroke would be better than nothing. ARE YOU RESIN GUYS READING THIS??? WILL SOMEONE PLEASE COVER THIS GAP IN OUR HOBBY !?!? I'm sure that just like in "Field of Dreams", if you make it, they will come!

No problem Codie, the later release itself is the same as the one Mike teased you with on ebay, just without the Cat or D8 markings to go on it, so the only corrections you'd have to make to it is finding the earlier decals to make it a true Cat D8.

My first model was an MPC 1/16 scale "General Lee". My dad helped me build it, and after my parents finally bought paint for me, I tore it apart and painted parts of it. I can't wait for the kit's reissue later this year, I plan to buy it and relive some of the memories of those day long ago.

Those were last released in 2002, if I remember correctly. The Cat Dozer would be better bought in an earlier release that actually has "Cat D8 bulldozer" on the box, because that last issue of it that just has "bulldozer" on the box art has no Cat or D8 markings. Also, in the way of tanks, I believe Tamiya makes a couple WWII vintage tanks in 1/25 scale, but I'm unsure of prices or latest releases.

You got me on that one, Eric!!

Same here!

Thanks Jeff!

Yeah, Jairus, if you want to extend it some, no objections here. I don't have the long days like you guys, I wish I did because I'm on the oppisite side of the fence, I'm unemployed. My 10-14 hour days are here on the forum or at the model desk, but I miss my 50-60 hour weeks I had when I was working.

Yeah, I know, Brett, but when I asked the one about the getting Tamiya paints in, they complained it would be too much money to get the new paint rack in. Go figure! As for the one that has Tamiya paints but is slow restocking, he had nearly his entire inventory wiped out in a flood in 2004. He also took over the video store next door, and has been doing more with that then the hobby shop since then, but he has been getting better at not only keeping up with the Tamiya paints, but has started slowly getting new issue kits in as well. The hobby shop is more of a sideline now to the video store, but he has his loyal customers (like me ) and is also the only one of the three that also will carry the wonderful Model Cars Magazine!

I'm sorry to hear that, Jairus. I was wondering, too, after I get my outdoor finished pics taken tomorrow, do I post them here or will there be a new thread for the finished models?