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Thanks you, Texas.

Thanks Michael, Yes, careless/lazy mistakes all. I may go back and do some corrective work in time. Thanks for the compliments too. I shall concentrate on those for the moment and use my heightened morale to produce a somewhat tighter F-4...

Hi Mark. Thanks for the feedback, especially for alerting me to where the lint is coming from. As I'm using a decal set solution, the lint is actually glued onto my models! Bizarrely, I solved this same problem a decade ago when I noticed exactly this effect and made a little mopping tool from a piece of old cloth kitchen towel wrapped around a little stick. How could I have forgotten? I must be getting senile!

Thanks. I'm glad you like it. I couldn't resist using those tiny decals.

Like it. Like it a lot.

I don't like in-flight models as a rule, but this one is very fine indeed. Most excellent painting. You could have sprayed the whole scheme, as you said, I think it's quite obvious from the wings that you would have aced it. Brilliant!

Looks like it built very well. It's a cross between a food processor and an espresso machine. Almost steam punk. Lovely painting. Thank you.

Beautiful. I love the blue in the radome. Subtle. Looking at at the pictures, is there anything you would have done differently?

Here we go guys, first posting here on ARC. I've joined this forum for its friendliness and helpfulness and for the very high standard of models posted. I'm here to learn, change and improve my techniques so please don't hold back on the constructive criticism, just call it as you see it. I'm a big boy now and won't be offended. (When I'm posting something that I think is really awful, I'll put it in the Display Case section.) Here's something eye-catching to begin with. The Navy in the seventies and eighties was a visual delight. Great thumping aircraft

That's lovely. Very tidy finish and well constructed too. It's very difficult to find anything to criticise here, but if pushed I'd suggest revisiting the tyres. They are rather monochromatic and contrast with the superb modulated colours and tones on the rest of the bird.

What a finish! What a scheme! It looks like a flying migraine.

That's a strange one. Nicely done!

Oh my goodness! That's beautiful work.

Outstanding teamwork! The chipping/fading whitewash is lovely. Also good to hear the father/son angle, we need the youngsters in the hobby.

Now that you've told me what to look for, I see what you mean. The corner of that (avionics?) panel on the port side nose? It would indeed be a tricky rescribe on that hinge line.In truth it's a minor imperfection on a splendid model, but sometimes those imperfections are all we see when we self-criticise. I'm impressed that you display such high definition photographs - no attempt to hide there! I will attempt to to emulate you and post my latest build in the next few days (I need to find a hosting site first and take some photos). I think that, given the high standard of work her