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Not to mention improve your attitude and preserve your sanity! I do make my own masks and enjoy doing that using Autocad and my vinyl cutter but that for me is an enjoyable task, way different than waiting for the knife to slip and ruin a canopy or other aggravations that ensue with doing it...

Cool!

There will be no TF-102. Too ugly and OMG those vortex generators all over the canopy! Yikes! I have the Trumpeter F-106B on order. Now there's an idea, a 106 in TBird livery...an A, I think.

So after a 30 year rest this one is ready for the display case. I did indeed start it 30 years ago, but as I was taking it over to a friend's house to show it to him I dropped it and chpped the top rear corner off of the fin and got depressed. I guess sometimes it just takes awhile to get the...

Those wheels are very much the real thing! But do they run true? Are they properly tuned?

Usually out about the interplane struts and at the tail wheel, Bob. But it sure seems like photographers of the day were not interested in photographing tied down airplanes,

In the day they used ropes....

Paddy, it is a model for the fellow who owns the Spitfire I am modeling and I am following the photos they sent. Many warbirds are licensed in the experimental category in the US and must have a placard to that effect in view of the pilot, and passengers, if there are any.

Finally got the HGW seat belts. I think I like them in 1/32 but I am not sure my fat fingers will be happy in smaller scales. I did leave the PE parts on the fret while I threaded the textile parts through. I like to check the fit of the major components before adding the internal parts, helps...

That poor tired little airplane....:salute:

I have the Uschi fine and super fine. The super fine is so fine it is invisible in photos of 1/72 scale models. The fine is also hard to see but is workable for 1/72 and 1/48. What I like about it is that it will stay straight with almost no tension, much better than the railroad line stuff.

You got me all confused, Chris. for 1/48 scale I would think .0015 would be about right. What Denier is that? 300?

What are you using to make a decal that small?

Indeed!

It looks like HobbyBoss did a pretty good job with keeping alignment, Paul, but I will know more when I actually get to that point. I don't mind that there is no engine in the Kotare kit because the Tamiya kits will satisfy that urge for me. The high point for me in the Kotare kits is in the...

More work on the Spitfire, still waiting for the HGW belts which now are supposed to arrive tomorrow. Yes, it would be fun to display the engine but there's a Tamiya kit for that. I did paint it semigloss black and will add as much extra kit parts as will fit with the cowls on. Just for fun...

Looks very nice from here, Bob. The important thing is what you think of the weathering!

Yes it do but I have the resin fix for that. What were they thinking? Or not? They also missed the armor plate over the fuel tank, but they did put a lot of nice rivets there that shouldn't be. Working on ideas for a fix for that.

Next up is a 1/32 Spitfire. Kotare is going to release one in the second quarter of next year and it is on order but this one will do for now. It will be in the markings of the second picture. The landing light doors and openings next to the wheel well were filled using Aves...

Thanks, Martin. Quite the project, and for the same unit my model is marked for.