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I was told the trolley was wooden and painted a darkish grey. I painted mine RLM 66. Special Hobby thought that it might have been painted Panzergrau Grey

Beautiful weathering

I've got Ginter's book, "Douglas F4D Skyray" and there is a drawing that says "External Stores F4D-1 Skyray". In that stores location it says there was something called a Mk.1 Mod. 2 Target Container. Google shows nothing

If I see a photo I want to post from the web, I do a reverse image search to look for the owner of the photo. Chances are the photo may be from Wiki such as the above which I cropped. Wiki states, "This file is a work of a sailor or employee of the U.S. Navy, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, it is in the public domain in the United States." Safe to post as it is "Public Domain"

Close up shot....

Thank you very much

I believe the pilot was used for taxiing the aircraft into take-off position and then he got out. He would probably have to monitor the aircraft until then

WOW!!!!

Very nice looking kite

Resin parts look great. I wish I had them when I was doing mine. I had to reshape the area in front of the exhausts to represent my early MiG-3. Here's how it looks in the kit How it's supposed to look ....and before I fine tuned and faired it in, Not perfect but better

Looking forward to this to see how you tackle it. I had the late and early versions and both had the same issues, mostly the inserts and cockpit floor. The radio shelf behind the seat is a bit vague with location so I hope this helps. If you want to see how I put mine together I can send you links

Thank you for all the likes and comments

This aircraft has been modelled and painted many times before based on a story that someone knows someone who's friend saw a photo it. It's the one that has a (take your pick), yellow, white or NMF cowling, same colour panels under the exhausts and yellow or white fuselage band and fin top. Decal makers and profilers have all gone with this Based on how the photo was described, I believe I found not one but two photos of the aircraft. I'll post only one as I found it on the web without a photo credit. The other is in a Japanese book and I don't have permission. This is my take on the legend, right or wrong. The front of the is NMF but only on a panel the starts at the 9 o'clock position and ends at the 2:30 position. The panels under the exhausts are discoloured from the exhausts based on studying other aircraft and not paint. I can make out no fuselage stripe or fin top colours on either photo. What other builders have missed, is what looks like a NMF replacement right wing tip. I have seen three different tail codes and I chose one, "∃D-151" of the 302nd Kaigun Kokutai based on the sole choice of that's what I could cobble together. I used the appropriate Tamiya paints and the kits bullet proof decals. Right or wrong, I hope you like it.

If your kit is an A6M5, you could always do a surrender aircraft, white with green crosses. I painted the crosses My collection of "captured" Zeros

Beautiful

Awesome. I'm doing a "naked" P-40 at the moment

I use Uschi van der Rosten. Very stretchy and sticks almost immediately to a small dab of CA

Very nice

Back in the last century, '84 it was, I was fighting a forest fire on the B.C. coast. The Mars came in and dropped its load. The sight was awesome to say the least

This also has something to do with imaging software....http://vector-conversions.com/vectorizing/raster_vs_vector.html

Красивый

Beautiful

Very cool

Kinzey did say "....approximately F.S. 34258." which is lighter than interior green

Very nice. I have the old (shudder) Hobbycraft kit at the very bottom of the todo pile. For small dots I use a push tack, dot...reload....another dot....reload