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OH BOB! https://www.scalemates.com/kits/aanda-models-7250-hughes-xf-11-47-0155--1798070 I hope you didn't buy the difficult 1/72 Anigrand resin kit yet!! https://www.scalemates.com/kits/aanda-models-7258-hughes-xf-11-xr-11-47-0156--1798071 Maybe sans the mechanically troublesome contra-rotating...

I found my ancient bottle of Floquil Old Silver lacquer paint and proceeded! The Boeing model 314 Clippers came out pretty good, but I can see where a little more clean-up of the castings could be a benefit. Then, I mixed up a little bit too much Testors flat sea blue, so a couple of 1/700...

Arising at School-Bus O'clock (again! Bugger!) and in need of an activity that might not awaken my slumbering Sweetie, it was airbrush time! The black is on! The 1/350 waterline HWX-SPC has her white coat. U-26 is coming along. I have p/e parts for the net cutter, but they won't be included...

My old friend George was working in a San Pedro hobby shop this day, 40-some years ago.

There are just enough ventilators in the kit, if none are dropped. I wanted to paint and build some more on Bantu Wind, but my primer from yesterday is still tacky. It's like that with LPP. One mustn't rush the chemicals. I did winders and ports in Tamiya LP-48 super sparkling silver...

The Pan Am dock at Wake Island, on to Guam, Manila and then Singapore? https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/pan-american-airways-on-the-wwii-home-front-in-the-pacific.htm Airfix provide paint schemes and the BOAC Clipper is included.

The finish on the Nautilus is extraordinary! :good:

This looks idyllic! Hopefully Ottawa won't happen by to declare your respite a danger to the Ozone layer and levy carbon taxes.

Both Boeing 314's in primer. These are looking promising! One will be in the 1930's Pan Am scheme and one in the multi-blue Pacific scheme. Propeller shafts will finish the builds. Actual cool p/e propellers can be had from White Ensign Models 1/700 Aircraft details. Now, where did I leave...

Color on the coal hatches and primer on Bantu Wind and "U-26". The details are becoming apparent! Vertical surfaces on the ship will be light gray. It's time to let the "chemicals" have some time to cure!

Waterline versions.

I see what you've got going! This shows promise!

Connect the dots, See?! Using your handy-dandy .4mm carbide bit as a sort of tiny saw, this can be easily done. What do you mean "I doesn't has a .4mm carbide bit?" There's one in your "Find Jones" kit! Open the blue foam-lookin' thing carefully!! The Type IXc U-Boat is just building to...

Marking, gentle wet-sanding and repeated fitting will yield the best results. The gap in the underside of the big coaling hatch fits over the winch pedestal for the Tramp steamer as I had planned it. Notice the repaired flaw in the hull and aft coaling hatch? I don't sell flawed parts to my...

It sure was! The number of junior modelers was impressive.

I had my doubts. I could not be more pleased with this series of mold's castings! Thanks 'Pup!

Patience m'Lad! Patience!

I've always had a fondness for the Airacomet. You guys know the "Bowler Hat" story, yes? The blue Porsche Cabriolet 359 was very pretty! This was kinda neat, at a glance. Then you consider the the setting. CCS Virginia is already sinking before the blue shrimp-monster attacks...

IPMS West Central Missouri puts on their 27th annual Modelfest show. We decided to join our Southern brethren this year. We departed 0730 hrs. A stop at the Bevington Maverik gas station for fuel and a generous (expensive) breakfast burrito. More than one sort of gas may surely originate...

There are some extraordinary models in your overview! "Escort Detail" and "Rally Point" with the photo backdrops are particularly impressive. How did Ian's Panther wreck get to Edmonton? Thanks for posting all the cool pictures. I know how much time it takes to tell a story on M/A!