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Good luck with this Al. Only suggestion I would make is to really think and plan it through before doing the deed. In with that ponder what problems you could run in to. I have no experience with doing this, but the planning is what will make or break it.

Doing some finish up. I was going to use some nylon thread (really fine stuff) for the radio wire, but could not get the stuff to bond. Then I looked in my "wire" box and have some finer white wire from a defunct USB charging cable shielding. That should do perfectly and I won't have to paint...

You do come up with the detail paperwork Saúl! I was a draftsman for over 20 years before becoming a watchmaker. The last 10 years I did drafting, I also did circuit board prototypes and sheet metal fabrication. Had 3 years of drafting in high school, 3 semesters of A& P aircraft training in...

Looking good Paddy!

So many doctors are barely able to function as armatures. I just simply do not trust them any more and do my diligence to figure out what really is going on. Sounds (?) like they didn't get the fix quite set or aligned just right or the prosthetic device installed has issues. Hope you can get...

Congratulations on the wins Alex!

I have little blue colored and brown colored lizards that scurry around the outside of my house. They are FAST!! I pretty much let them alone as they keep the bugs down. One time one of the blue colored lizards ended up inside the house. It couldn't get any traction on my tile floor and would...

As for the gloves, you don't need them all the time. For most of my building I just handle the kit bare fingers like always. This time with my Me-410 build, I was noticing in handling the plastic plane (before paint) that it had become a little on the gooey/oily side. Not a problem while...

I could probably do South Bend Indiana.

With a little forethought, you could restore it in bits and pieces.

I have both the Das Werk Pzkfw III J and Sturmgeshutz III in 1/16th. They are quite nice. You are going to make me build a 1/16th kit once I finish my 410 aren't you.

Here are the finished parts. They turned out quite well I believe.

It is even with other brands of kits. Building the Zouki Mura Ho 229 Horton, they would have you assemble something like 30 parts to the frame bottom then place the upper part on the assembly. It is then supposed to miraculously all line up. Yeah, Right! Never going to work that way. After...

There is a lot of really great builds there. Wish I lived closer, would be nice to attend.

That is one beast of a kit!

I don't envy you redoing that deck. I have a couple of 1/200 scale ships and I have seen the wood decks on some builds and it just didn't ever look right to me so I chose to do paint on the Arizona (when I ever get back to it). I know you will get this all ship shape in no time Laurence.

I did not realize that the Saratoga was used all through the war though it received a number of hits and had to spend time in dry dock several times. All the war films talk about the Lexington, The Hornet, The Enterprise, and the Yorktown, and I can't remember ever hearing anything mentioned...

Have been busy with yard stuff and other things the last few.... I finally have been able to get back to this so I can do the machine guns on the sides. The barrels on them are like something from a 60's Aurora kit. Yuck! Besides I like the way the brass barrels look after doing blackening on...

Interesting build Chris. This is a huge build compared to your usual stuff. Wondered why it was such a beast to smooth out the deck.

If you have a small ultrasonic cleaner, put the parts in a glass jar filled with acetone and set the jar in the ultrasonic with water around it. The ultrasonic will carry from the water through the glass jar and agitate the acetone which should work quite well. Just make sure the jar doesn't sit...