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That looks fantastic well done, I have always been unsure how a pink kit would look but should not have worried you have nailed it - Foxy Killer is armed and ready to go Scud hunting.

Those are great looking seats , nice job !

That is a fine looking Tonka - in probably the best Camo pattern about. Well Done. I always say to myself this is model making not kit assembly , the challenges are the fun part (I think)

2 great looking builds going on there ! I am hungry again after catching up with this WiP , though its a bit early for cheese and port ! and at 52 my wife always gets me a lego model for xmas , though we missed out on the Star Wars UCS B-Wing ! and now I do not need another Millennium Falcon (the original UCS one and the De-Agostini 3ft model fill my home office )

LOL had in my mind GB finished today !!! anyway ALMOST finished - I am making decals for the intake covers and a better set of pictures required

So to make things interesting - today's lunchtime challenge - Intake FOD covers !! The base will be tinfoil , it can be easily shaped (and ripped lol) , the real decision is Glue or not glue to the model - here is where I have got to soo far I will have to attach to the model to get the stretched fabric look LOL I knocked the sensor it has gone droopy on the fix list grrrrrrr

Not much of an update , I have been fighting a Revell Tornado kit ! , I have had some time on the computer designing and make the deep wading parts OpenSCAD is my tool of choice (I find it easier to programatically design objects ) Ending up with these That when fitted make the following Yellow tape was obviously the US Army's tape of choice in 1944 !! I need to check the relative heights ( if needed change the height of the middle part for the rear funnel)

Yes fitting the flaps in the down position is not very much fun , mine are OK , not perfect , from normal viewing distance all is good

she looks great !! Well Done .

From the last update there has been a lot (and I mean a lot) of swearing at Revell , but finally slats , flaps , undercarriage , undercarriage doors have all been fitted. To finish there are several aerials that need painting and attaching , final matte coat and the anti collision & port and starboard lights ... and underwing tanks and pods

That is looking great ! I really like the Saudi desert camo scheme

Last 2 weeks , Stencils ,homemade stencils gloss coats, and weathering . Today I applied a Matt coat to seal everything in - I got afraid to touch the fuselage !!! This week i hope to finish ... 🤨

That is a great looking scheme !

Nice recovery on the fin, my biggest fear now is dropping it when applying decals or the last little bits to finish off the model ! Those exhausts do look really good

This week update - Decals , decals , decals - I think I love decals 🤣 , no I do not love decals !!! and this coming week there are still what seems 100's of stencils to apply and the postman delivered this today the finishing touch!

Thanks , I have no real idea what I am doing when it comes to painting !! but I tried this method : ) Primed with Mr Surfacer 1500 Black , then random mottled with Tamiya X80 Royal Light Gray (though MSG with a touch of white will work just as well) , then 3 to 4 coats of very diluted 20/80 Tamiya XF83 to Mr Hobby Self Levelling Thinner . Using a 0.4mm needle (never have been able to spray with 0.2mm needle) , the light conditions when painting makes the aircraft look different everytime I looked at it!! On the tanks I think I will end up using the kit 1500L tanks and keep the Hindenbergs for another Tonka, I have been searching the net for a pic of the aircraft with them fitted but cannot find one.

Ready for Gloss coat and decals, different lighting - nosecone look totally different colour!!

This will be a sprint, looking forward to another Tornado being built ... will take me this month to finish the 1st one and get all the stencils applied 😬

This weekend it was paint on the large lump of plastic I am not sure if I have ended up with a Tomcat or a Tornado !!! I am resisting the urge to put another couple of 'light coats' of MSG all over just incase all the shading disappears - decisions , decisions , there are definitely a couple of areas I want to cover a little more . Daylight sunny photo's make it look totally different to working under bright led's the fun of light

Whilst waiting for paint (on a Tornado) to dry and an already running 3D print job I started glueing bits onto the main body Onto the design and 3d Printing fun ! This is what I have come up with for the deep wading gear Version 1 , this was too short, but I can use it for the exhaust wading 'snorkel' ended up with version 2 for the Air intake 'snorkel' , obviously these are just off the printer and not had much of a clean up! :

I had some time today to splash some paint on the attachments , finishing cleaning up the fuselage is this weekends task

Last time I built an AFV I was 14 years old - I remember making a full blown diorama - 2 Shermans (1 knocked out) and US infantry approaching a building ,the base contained 2 tonnes of plaster of paris with not very convincing foliage 🤣 Back to the present .. I bought the rebox of the same kit a couple of years ago - for the D-Day 75 GB, but never got the time! The plan - build 'Hurricane' one of the decal options in the kit , she came ashore on Omaha beach on D-Day+3 , even though the LST delivered her directly onto the beach she was fitted with Deep Wading Gear ... therefore I am going to try replicate her arrival in Normandy by scratch building the deep wading gear 😬 (plasti-card and 3D printer at the ready) ,all advice will be gratefully received. From the other picture of her having an engine change it can be seen that she has the cast front and spoked wheels - making building choices easier all the time. The kit and a start on the bogies

Looking great , I like the idea with the pylon mounting , I will use that in my next Tonka build ( a GR1 - anniversary schemes are great but wrap around camo is the best )

Not too much of an update so far this week I have closed up the canopy and attached the nose cone (with a little weight added) the two flightpath node pods are metal and probably add enough weight! , and the first coat of primer has been appplied - I can see some areas that need a little more work! Final Cockpit shot Hiding at the top is a Hindenberg tank - test painted to check MSG colours

Paint job is looking good !