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Fantastic choices; can't wait for this one!

Praying DOES work.

Same here... Life's cruel joke - we put off building for ourselves for so long, only to find out that we physically can't. I have arthritis, made worse by having to carry an elderly dog, who's back legs had given out, around for two months. Been trying to build a couple 1/48 Skyhawks, but my left hand continually cramps and has zero grip strength. Hoping you get better.

Light Gull Gray, FS 36440, a warmish light gray. There's several mixes around for Tamiya, but here's one that's a simple 2:1. You can google others. XF-19 – SKY GREY: 2 XF-2 – FLAT WHITE: 1

Here's the other two schemes in the new AMP kit.

I ordered the new AMP H-19 yesterday from Ukraine. Comes with USMC (overall GSB), Dutch Navy (EDSG over sky) and Japanese Ground Self Defense Force (overall OD with orange trim) decals. AMP has told several people that the cranked tail boom will feature in a future kit.

The A-4B is now sold out at both Exito and Arma webstores. Hope wider distribution is coming, especially to Sprue Brothers.

No, the Hasegawa A-4B kit (have one here in front of me, converting it to an A-4A with the Cat4 set) only has the B-nose sprue. Likewise, the Hasegawa A-4C only has C-nose. So it's cool having a bonus nose in the Hobby2000 kit.

There's 60+ sheets on eBay/US for B-25Js. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p4432023.m570.l1313&_nkw=1%2F48+b-25j+decals&_sacat=0

I just Googled "Lucky Strike Green" and came up with hundreds of photos of vintage packages. Just a bright dark green. I'm sure Vallejo makes something close.

Tamiya F-4B. (Runner up: Tamiya F-14).

Fury, those are EXCELLENT choices! Beautiful and never done before. Just got another HB kit, so I'm ready.

I've been out of the loop, so which are the best 1/144 early B-52 kits? Dutch? Drifter?

Excellent! There are GE logos on the Cutting Edge F4H-1 Phantom sheet, if you have that unicorn in your decal stash.

License to print money. I have the Victory Models sheet, which is probably worth one million dollars by now.