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If you drive down and back the same day you're looking at about 4 hours on the road. As a former Tucsonan I'd recommend staying down there for the night. If you want to do things other than Pima, Saguaro National Park and the Sonoran Desert Museum are both awesome.

The Hasegawa 15,000th P-40

Lots of little parts that needs to be prepped and glued into place before the fuselage halves can go together Seatbelts and other interior PE stuff is pretty much done. Dry-fitting the halves makes me dread trying to get a clean mating. It's gonna take some work.

Cockpit assembly Prepped for preshading Just about ready to start closing up the fuselage

In case anybody is wondering: Year Title 2005 Legacy Hornet/Super Hornet 2005 2005 F-5 2005 Leaving On A Jet Plane 2005 Hi-Decal MiG 2005 Flanker 2005 2005 ARC/ScaleAIR Tomcat 2005 2005 PACAIR 2005 F-4 Phantom 2006 A-7 Corasir / F-8 Crusader 2006 Intruder/Prowler 2006 Vietnam War 2006 Battle of B

Just arrived from Sprue Brothers. Hadn't realized that there was PE - nice bonus. Planning on painting it as Red 8 of the BAP, Northern Fleet

I'm in with the Historic Plastic Models 1:48 Pe-2

Hasegawa 1/48 F-104G

Finito ! More in the Finished Builds thread (including obligatory sunset shots)

All of the plane assembly is done and I figured that there was no reason to weather so I put together the base. I had some spare aluminum plate and a plexiglas strip. I put the plex in the oven on 300° for about 10 minutes and gently bent it around a wine bottle to get the curve. I attached the plex to the plate with some Loctite Fast grab and clamped it overnight

Wow. Masking walkways. That's impressive. Well done.

Decals are all done and all the little fiddly bits have been hit with Alclad Time for final assembly and then work on the base and mount.

Thanks for the kind words, ya'll. Back in the day I was a cartographer and before computers had enough horsepower, I had to label maps by hand. Lots of exacto blades, adhesive labels, and patience. Masking models now just feels like a continuation of that sort of work. Now I put on some music or a podcast and it's a relaxing way to actually do something in the physical world instead of my (now) primarily digital work. Decal work is kind of in the same category. This model may have the fewest decals of any kit that I've done: 2 IDs on either side of the cockpit and two t

Ok got some work done and will go with the tried and true Photobucket hosting rather than Google (grrr). Yellow underside: Taped off the underside and started in on the red: Didn't really have to worry about overspray since top will be straight black: Ready for the final color: (Major) painting complete: Unmasked and a layer or three of Future (hence the shine) to prep for decals: There are a couple places where the painting instructions are hard to interpret and

Ahhh. The old Google Photos public / private issue. I thought that was solved with the new forum. I'll go back and fix. Thanks for the heads-up.

Fuselage is together and major parts are assembled Ready to start in on painting

Thanks for your hard work on this. I like the new look and functionality. Being able to copy and paste image URLs is much appreciated.

I am predictable...

The Hasegawa 1/48 F-104s are really the only game in town if you want to build a Starfighter. Got this kit as a birthday present and didn't realize it was an anniversary paint scheme until I saw the GB starting up and wondered...that's a pretty fancy paint job, must be a story behind it. Sure enough it's to mark the 25th anniversary of the Jagdbombergeschwader 34. I've done a few Starfighters but never an in-flight so the cockpit, wheels and speed brakes will all be closed up. Bit of presahding Ejector seat finished IP is good enough since cock

One more for completeness' sake: 1/32 Tamiya Mk. IXc with aftermarket decals

Back from the Forum closure. Finished my Spit in early September More images in the Completed thread

Sludge wash time Not going to go too crazy on the weathering Just a quick dirtying up

It's an all-Canadian winner's circle for the GB prizes! Congrats to ALF18 who is the second prize winner of a $25 gift certificate to the online modeling store of his choice. Congrats as well to Neo who won the big prize, a $75 gift certificate to an online modeling store. PM's have been sent. Thanks everybody for your participation and look forward to more GB's.

Thanks everybody for your participation. We've made the world a little bit more beautiful with the addition of some fine looking Spitfires. I will be pulling for raffle prizes tomorrow morning (when my son wakes up - he wants to help) and will contact the winners via PM. November makes 10 years that I've been registered on the site and I've learned nearly everything I now know about modern model building from the users and contributors to ARC. I've come pretty far since my first submission to the site a long time ago (shudder). Sharing raffle prizes is just a small way to thank this commu

Thanks everybody for your participation. We've made the world a little bit more beautiful with the addition of some fine looking Spitfires. I will be pulling for raffle prizes tomorrow morning (when my son wakes up - he wants to help) and will contact the winners via PM. November makes 10 years that I've been registered on the site and I've learned nearly everything I now know about modern model building from the users and contributors to ARC. I've come pretty far since my first submission to the site a long time ago (shudder). Sharing raffle prizes is just a small way to thank this commu