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So I was at the airport to see a P51 that flew in, and noticed this. Actually I ‘notice’ it every time it takes off a flies over. What is it? Thanks in advance!

There wal also a fully restored biplane!

I have video of the startup and taxi as they left, but sure how to post it

I live near a small county airport. In fact one corner of my property is just off tha flight path for landing. I was working in the yard and heard an engine I’d never heard before so I pulled up the flight app that the highly esteemed Moonpuppy installed on my phone and what do I see? A P51...

Note that the launcher is not glued in place yet, as I hafta (is too a word, phonetically) get paint under there, but yep it’s a trucking along

So it’s getting a lot closer to being ready for paint! The kit was missing a bit of side armor, t there was a tad of damage so I had to employ styrene as can be seen in a few pics, but overall it’s not looking too bad!

The twin-barrel 23mm guns pointed almost vertically look SOOPER-neat! I’ve been wanting to do something similar as well…..will be watching!

The French tank is neat! So is the T-34/100!

Wow that thing is gorgeous! I mean it looks the actual car, if I didn’t know the scale

Wow that work is incredible Sir!

So I still have bit of fender repair to get thru, but this is where we current sit. I mounted the turret’s missing smoke launcher, and then press fit the launcher box, fake main gun, and turret for some pics. Plan is to build it as shown in the ready to launch configuration. So tomorrow I go...

So the next issue for me were the road wheels. The drive sprocket and return roller had alignment guides but the road wheels were without a center mark of any type. Their axles had flat squares, so an easy mount, just nothing to center it. My remedy was to mark/drill the wheels, then cut up some...

So it’s really just a matter of cutting a bit of plastic sheet/card and gluing underneath to make a small support shelf, then fitting the parts. Heck it’s nearly like invisible!!

OK so when I took a look at this…it’s not nearly as bad as you might think. Here’s what I did to fix: So the kit parts are a bit brittle. But that’s also a blessing because they break along a distinct fracture line

Hey y’all had a great time! BTW….dinner turned out great!