Thom

Dude, Perfect Plastic Putty! I squeeze a bit out and apply with a toothpick along the seam or gap, and then wipe with a wet q-tip. Not meant for big gaps obviously, but for wing roots and such it is pretty perfect. And it's water-based, so just add more water to reactivate it.

And I finally closed up the cockpit on the F-4! Finished painting and PE'ing the seats and set them in place and then closed the canopy down after its bath in Future. I may be able to start painting in a day or so! Thom

@electric indigo Nice and impressive work on that little kit.

Alright, that's looking really good! As to who's punching Lizard in the new trailer, it's probably just a miss-timed effect mean to coincide with the explosion beside him.

Rock-on!

Get loads of that. Blank styrene always comes in handy. There was a plastic supply business right in town where I am, pre Covid, and I could just walk into there and buy a cast off sheet for just a few bucks. They gone now though... Still, whenever I'm at the 'local' hobby store I'm always looking for more Evergreen stuff.

Coming into a series, they have to grow the character past where he started, as in the games. If he all he is every time is just like a machine with no feelings than that will get tiring pretty fast. I say that after never playing the games or reading the books or watching the previous shows. Most people want to identify with the depth of the character and they want to see him/her grow and expand. Take the Mandalorian. When the first episode aired, he was just a suit of armor following rigidly to a code, but by the end of the last one, he mask was off and you could see that he had grown to be so much more than he had been. A little bit of that is seen in the Kurt Russel movie 'Soldier.' The growth doesn't have to be explosive, and I would prefer it not to be, but a progression of the character evolving.

I see basic survival as minimal success. But I'll take it!😁

Everything has the potential to be done right. And equally wrong... Here's hoping for the fore!

Not a gawed-dammed thing!!

Man, I would love to get a hold of just one! Fantastic job on them both, esp the one that's about to fire its main cannon. Great stuff!

Same! Always like to see a nice conversion in progress!

@electric indigo That's pretty cool!

Great news! Now if they'd release season 2 on disc already... I have season 1 but so far s2 is a no show.

Than hack at it!😄

I think, if you are confident in fully rebuilding the nose, maybe just cutting it from below the canopy sill and forward would be enough. Certainly less to rebuild and more to build up upon. Best of all fortunes!

@joscasle Man, the colors on those burner cans are just fan-flipping-tastic! Wow!

I got the top of the wings glued on, and hit the gaps with a smear of PPP. There were some big ones where the intake parts met the fuselage, and I think if I was to build this model again it would be to add the intakes and trunking before the bottom of the fuselage was offered up. I think I could have gotten a perfect fit doing it that way. The wing/fuselage join also wasn't the best. There was a slight gap on both sides, but I ran some TET alng the join a few times and managed to anchor them together so I'm not afraid of any flexing cracking the PPP. Thom

I want them to name it the Fury.

OMG it took me like ten seconds to place all those people! Get them back into make-up!!😄

@joscasleThat's quite the impressive line-up of models! And though I'm not normally 'into' Slave 1 that one is fantastic!

No idea! I just know that until a month ago I had no interest in building Phantoms, and now I have at least three! It must be a phever!

I may have to test the AK before I use it on the plane then. Thanks. As for the model, it's Academy's 1/72 kit with the Showtime 100 markings. https://imgur.com/a/TLOqoMI A real nice kit for exterior details, though lacking in the 'pit and the gear wells, at least where the IPs and panels are concerned. Odd that, as their F-14A puking Dogs has a great looking cockpit OOB with beautiful decals. Their F-14A is also a far newer tooled kit though, and the 'our we or our we not a snap fit kit' makes it suffer a bit. I ended up scratching detail in both and using the PE set meant for Hasegawa's F-4 in the cockpit. Had to nip and tuck it a bit to fit and hand paint the gray to color match. I was going to buy Academy's Jolly Roger boxing next, but then I saw what Fine Mold had to offer and now that should be on its way soon, with aftermarket decals for the Skull and Bones.😉 Still liking the Academy kit though, it just takes a little extra work. Thom

@arbit Some really cool work on that dio and all the figures. @wm cheng Damn! I hope my F-4J looks half as good as that! And here's hoping I have better luck with the AK paints I'm going to try... @derex3592 Those are some tiny ass PE windows! I could probably loose one of those under a finger nail! Too bad they don't just print the window frames onto some clear plastic sheet that could be glued in from behind. As for me, I'm finally getting the fuselage together on Showtime 100.

Hoping for all good things! Or otherwise, at least a few less things. Sanity is important, so do what you can to keep that last thread in the fight!