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WOW!!! That is awesome! Great job on a cool and rarely seen aircraft!

Good to know, thanks!

If I remember right....and that's big IF, VC-13 had FM-2s.

Nice job Ron!! Cool camo scheme!!

Thanks Mark!

Thanks Gil. It was free-hand and although not perfect, I'm still happy with the outcome. Always wanted to try this and I figured 48th would be easier than 72nd.

From a friends estate that was missing instructions and decals so I painted the markings (Chose an easy squadron to do!). The kit still builds up well and has very few fit issues. Biggest one for me was the canopy that did not fit without a bit of elbow grease. May not be accurate but I'm happy with it.

That's first-rate Chris! Well done sir.

THAT is really nice!!! The interview of Lt Col. Childers about the briefing before Midway was eye opening. They told them that if just 3 of you (out of 15) get through to and deliver your torpedoes we will consider that you have accomplished your mission. "I immediately became alarmed because the odds were not good."

Nice work!! That Seafox was not a fun kit if my memory serves me right so very nice job on that!

Hasegawa Ki-84 Frank. FineMolds KI-61 Tony. Fujimi Ki-43-1 Oscar and Fujimi B6N2 Jill.

I picked up one of the FineMolds 72nd A6M5 kits......VERY NICE!

All great builds Gil but that O2U is just stunning! Well done.

Great job!! Love those Knights!!

Great work! That Russian P-18 radar thingamabob is just plain CRAZY! (That's the type of kit I would open the box, say "wow, that's cool" then say to anyone around "You want this kit, it's free!"

Nice work! That 22 Ford is beautiful!

Finally decided to build another one of these. Built two back in 1981 or so. Didn't have a cool resin interior to use back then!! Used Starfighters interior along with their USMC decal set. Transparent sewing thread painted with Vallejo Chrome (GOOD stuff) for the rigging. Tamiya lacquers for the grey and yellow and Model Master insignia blue for the cowl (it's all I had). The only problem I had was with the decals as Starfighter had the tail stripes in the wrong order. so the rudder had to be painted. Of course I noticed that AFTER the kit was together....UGH. Still a fun kit after all these years.

Great work as usual!!

NICE!!! That is a blast from the past!!

THAT is nice!! Great job!!! The Tamiya kit, after all these years, is still a pretty nice kit.

Thanks guys.

I haven't built a B-17 kit in some 30 years and want to do the RoG kit but needed some practice so I tried this one. I forgot how big this thing is!! Tried to fix the wing dihedral with some success and used the engines from my Hasegawa kit to replace the Academy ones.....much better. Setting the bomb bay doors in the closed position was a challenge which I failed somewhat. Also, the tail pieces were not kind to me, but it's done. The decals in this 'Nose Art' boxing were outstanding. Got me looking forward to building the Hasegawa and RoG kits now.

Great job on an old classic!!!!

Beautiful job Gil!! BTW....is it an A or a B?

GREAT job Ron, well done!! I never thought I'd ever say "That's s good looking Tempest" but that really is a nice looking bird.