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You have a nice looking ol Alabama there. The ratlines look like the ones supplied in the kit.

I lived in the country and was given a second hand one. The banana seat lasted about two days and after a week, the front handle bars were stripped and the bearings were knocked out of the front wheel. The bike got transformed into a BMX style.

I have put rivets on 1/8th RC models and even at that scale, it was tedious and hard. 1/32 looks even more challenging. It will look dashing in the end though and be worth the time and effort.

Probably make a base like I did before.

I had some valuable time at the workbench over the holiday working on the Texas. These 1/700 Trumpeter kits really force one to make sure you test fit many times before gluing. A couple of holes needed to be opened up and a little slicing here and there along with a little bit of filing got...

I thought that might have been the MPC kit. I remember building one a long time ago.

Yes, the plates are way over scale and in my opinion, makes the hull look like a tank instead of a ship. Many of the build logs on line I watched show the modelers sanding them down, which take a lot of time ,and then replacing them with accurate plates made from very thin styrene, card stock...

I like it. Which kit is this?

The hull doesn't have the huge hull plates molded into it like on the 1/350 scale kits. That is a huge plus.

It is good to see you back Matt. My preferred scale is 1/700, so I will be following along with your build. Scott

Anybody know of a on-line store or an easier way to search for paint colors?

I have been using Americana for years. AB wells using saline or distilled water.

I'd be flying it around and making engine noises. And that would have been just yesterday.

Looking sweet Dan.

I built that kit as a kid on my bedroom floor in about an hour. Everything fit good. Worn out molds and using cheap and inferior plastic material looks to have made this kit almost un-buildable.

Nice work Dan, the extra details in the hanger are really adding realism to the model.

My cat playing with my phone.

With so many pillars for support, they can make the diameter of the contact segment between the pillar and the part much smaller and it wont' leave such a large goose pimple or make it so hard to remove. You shouldn't have to apply so much heat to remove the supports. You could risk removing...

I think I have more than what I will ever build in my lifetime.