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This one, at least for now, will go along the Wildcat. I figure since so many of the colors are the same, I may as well try doing them in parallel. So far I'm not very impressed with this one. The designers seem to have never heard of "positive fit" nor had ever built a Tamiya kit. Oh well, I'll...

Yessiree.

Now taking its place on the workbench. I'll be building this in the markings of "Swede" Svetesja, USS Enterprise. The cockpit is nicely detailed and being a ProfiPack, there's some photoetch to add. One thing I need to be careful of is that the runners are pretty thick and sometimes connect...

Oh yeah, that's going to make some torque. I can't wait to see this one come together.

Oh yes. With a few raspberries and a splash of Cointreau mixed in.

I'm very late to the party thanks to either food poisoning or a stomach bug over the holidays, not sure which. But date be d@mned, I will not be denied my pies!

I'm itching to get to it, too. I'm finding the number of crewmen I really want to put on the Saratoga is cost-prohibitive, so I've only got a couple more things to do with her before I set her up on the shelf and maybe keep adding crew over time.

I didn't mean to get the Dauntless yet. Honestly. But I had to order the decals, and it would be kind of silly to only have those shipped all this way, right? Economies of scale... something something? But since it's here, how's this for a potentially foolish idea: Parallel build with the Wildcat?

Would you believe it? I built a model of this thing and never saw this picture. Now I feel like I have to go back and retouch the weathering!

This one. Great kit, I might get another sometime and do the bat livery.

Let's see, I'm thinking Eduard's Wildcat, then the Academy Enterprise, Niko's USS Marblehead and I've got an Academy Dauntless on the way that will probably be after that. That might fill out the year, though I hope the Enterprise doesn't take me as long as the Saratoga has. At some point I...

I like that Booker a lot. It's a shame they didn't field it.

Most of the B-25 was built in '24, but technically completed in '25. I think all of these were the first half of the year. I've been lollygagging on the Saratoga ever since.

Yeah, my experience with HF has always been, um, uneven. As somebody raised on Craftsman when they were still made in the USA, shopping there never sat well with me anyways. Eventually all I got from there was clamps and simple stuff like that.

I've had those for gun cleaning, shop cleaning, cleaning for just about everything except my teeth. Harbor Freight for me, but I'm sure they all come from the same ginormous factory in China.

The Enterprise herself. 1/700 scale.

Just arrived from Model Monkey, for a future project. I'm going to be as gentle as a bomb squad tech, clipping the supports from this thing. (I mean a good one, I hope.)

I agree, I'll be filling out the ranks a bit more. Actually, I think I've managed to keep a hold of them all. When they launch they don't seem to go very far, usually remaining on the working pad.

I'm already thinking I should have ordered more crew. Also me: Oh god please no more of these guys. But in for a penny, in for a pound I guess.