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Agreed.

I’m a big fan of the Hellcat, and yours turned out excellent! Brett

Thank you, unfortunately it looks like they are out of stock, but it appears to be a pretty comprehensive set. I’ll have to inquire if they will be restocking. Much appreciated! Brett

Hey fellow model builders, as the title says, I'm trying to find if there is an after market conversion to do folded wings for the Tamiya F4U-1 1:72 kit? My google searches have not yielded any results. Thanks for looking.

Falcon, These look great, I really like the blue one, very colorful and well executed. Brett

Amazing work and flawless finish! Brett

Thanks Dutch! Sorry to hear that you aren't currently able to build, thats how it was for me a for a few months until recently, so it was nice to jump back into this build. I have a few 1:72 kits I will be working on next, in particular, an in-flight super hornet build I have planned. Thanks for the kind words, Brett

Plane is complete, I've posted it over in the display case: Cheers, Brett

Finished up my current build over the weekend. Thanks for looking. This is the amazing Tamyia kit. I also added the Eduard Big Ed photo etch set. Decals are from EagleCals. Lt Knight was killed in action over Italy a few weeks before the Germans surrendered. He was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. Lt Knight was known to be very aggressive in the air and protective of his wingmen, often times ordering them to stay out of AA range while he would scout a target. He’s credited with multip

These are excellent! If you hadn't put it in the title, I would have guessed they were the 48th scale kit. I am a fan of the Eduard Hellcats. -Brett

Almost there. I’ve started adding all of the smaller pieces and I’m excited to be able to wrap this up. I couldn’t resist a black and white photo, see how close I was getting to the original photo. Cheers, Brett

This is amazing, especially since it's 1:72 scale! Fantastic work. I'm curious about the purpose of that divider in the front windscreen, do you know? Thanks, keep up the amazing work, Brett

Getting really close to the end on this one. After a second coat of gloss to seal in the decals, I ran Tamyia Panel line accent around the air frame. Dark brown for the underside and tail and black for the upper surfaces. This was followed by a coat of Testors Dull Coat. With the dull coat on, I could now start getting all of the major components together. Up on her wheels for the first time. It's all coming together. Speaking of wheels, I think I'm going to source some resin wheels, I'm not happy with the kit wheels, the thread

Following with interest, your plumbing and scratch work is exceptional. Need to study this when I eventually build my Tomcat. -Brett

Short Update. Gloss coat and decals have been applied. Cheers, Brett

Cruising right along with this build now. Today was a nice dry warm day and I took advantage to get a lot of painting done. First I got the engine painted up. Base of Alclad, details were painted by hand with vallejo acrylics and it was given a wash of Tamiya Panel Liner. Over, I'm happy with how it turned out. Also, I couldn't resit dropping the prop in for a quick photo, just seems right. Next up was the air frame. I started by spraying the bottom neutral gray color. Once that was dry, I used rolled up blue-tac to define the demarcation. F

Quick update with pictures, I was able to get most of the major assembly done on the p-47. Fuselage is all closed up now and seems have been taken care of. I did have a little trouble with the seem on top where the two inserts meet. It was a little stubborn, but in the end I was able to get it taken care of. Other than that, everything else fell together as it should have. I also detailed up the R-2800 engine, adding a few small details to the reduction gear housing as well as a new ignition ring from plastic and ignition wires from floral wire. The plastic parts that Tamiya p

Thanks! I was able to get a lot done this weekend and I will update with pictures soon. Cheers, Brett

Was able to get a good amount of Bench time in today. Cockpit is about 95 percent done. I'd seen all kinds of reference photos showing different colors in the cockpit. However, I was not able to find any reference to the color used in Brazilian P-47s. My initial thought was to use the standard "Interior Green" as that is what I'm used to, but decided to go with the darker green instead, just to try something new. All of the cockpit components were primed with Mr Surfacer 1500 black then given a coat of green by vallejo. Details were then picked out in black, aluminu

Moving right along on this build now, I've got the wings done enough that I feel I can move on the the rest of the build. I added some light weathering on the wings using some artist oils, nothing too fancy. Basically, all that is left for the wings are to attach the panels to the ammunition bays and the wingtip lights. But, I think I will hold off on adding those until the end of the build. I've also got the prop matte coated and finished. I had panting it was a base of Alclad, so I was able to scratch away the black paint on the leading edges of the blades to expose the

Just wanted to provide a quick update. I've got the landing mostly painted up and semi-permanently attached to the wings now. Prop is painted up, just waiting a final matte coat. Bombs and bomb racks are in progress. Need to add the stencils to the bombs, weather them up then they'll be ready to be attached. I've added all of the stencils to the wings and will start on weathering them. I won't do too much, mainly just some oil streaking on the bottom around the flap actuators, some dirt and grime around the gun/ammunition access from the ground crew and a little soot staining around the

Ok, so after a long hiatus I have returned to continue work on Oh Johnny. I have decided to scrap the kitchen foil idea and fall back onto Alclad. So I stripped off the foil that I had already done, and in case anyone was wondering, WD-40 makes quick work of the Micro Metal adhesive and didn't touch the plastic at all. It was amazing. I primed the wings, checked for seams or scratches and sprayed various shades of gray and tan onto different panels to give the Alclad aluminum some variation. I decided to go with both wings in natural metal as the reports I have read indicated that at leas

Spot on build and finish!

So, due to various life circumstances I had to take a few months off the hobby, but I have recently been able to get back into it, and so, to help ease back into my model making 'mojo" I decided to do a quick double build of a pair of Airfix Mustangs. I've built this kit before, and in spite of it's simplicity, I rather enjoy the kit, and in the end, it looks like a mustang to my eyes. I also wanted to use these models to test out some Alclad paint that I plan on using for another build. And I must say, I'm really disappointing with myself for not using this product earlier. It worked just

Thanks Dutch. So, I may have gotten myself in too deep here on the next step of the wings. I decided to go the route of applying metal foil... I'm using thin kitchen foil and Microscale's metal foil adhesive. It is a slow and time consuming process. And I'm not 100% happy with the results. I've gotten the entirety of the bottom half of one wing done. Between all of the times i messed up and had to redo a panel, I feel like I've used a solid square foot just doing this part of the wing. Good thing kitchen foil is cheap. Also, I'm afraid it's a tad too shiny. Please let me k