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Very nice and neat Carl, looks great. Chris  On the bench 1/350 Revell Tirpitz Platinum Edition (Pontos PE and Wooden deck) plus extra Eduard PE set and extra MK1 door sets.
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Beautiful work with the cockpits Carl I bet you'd be glad not to see another cockpit for a while 
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Great looking cockpits Carl Al
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F105-BThanks everyone.The final cockpit build is the F105-B.There are no 1/47 F105-B kits so I bought a Monogram F105-D and a conversion set. Since this is a very old kit the level of detail is not that great so I replaced the cockpit with an AIRES resin cockpit.The Aires cockpit is OK.The detail is a bit soft and it was a challenger to paint because of that.The headrest was also missing so I used a razor saw to chop the headrest off the kit seat and mounted it on the resin seat. Now all of the cockpits are done it is time to start assembling the fuselages and then painting the white and silver colors. darbyvet attached the following image(s):
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 Looking good Carl Current builds:-C57,Zero, Lamborghini Countach, Caldercraft HMS Agamemnon,Robi,R2-D2, MFH Cobra .
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Nice work Carl looking forward to seeing the next update. Al
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All looking good Carl, lovely work....  Regards Alan
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Carl Very nicely done. Some very nice detail you have with these models and you final display will look fantastic i am sure. Happy Modelling
BUILDING: Hachette Spitfire Mk 1A, Constructo Mayflower
SUBSCRIPTION COMPLETE (Awaiting building): USS Constitution, Sovereign of the Seas, 1:200 Bismarck (Hachette)
COMPLETED: Porsche 911, E-Type Jaguar, Lam Countach
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Carl great updates on both of the cockpits excellent work regards Phil COMING SOON =1/72 Italeri diorama`s Battle for the Reichstag and Stalingrad battle at the tractor factory 1/16 Trumpeter King Tiger with loads of extras ON THE GO= refurbishment of 1/25 Tamiya tiger 1 , amt Star trek kits and space 1999 models
So Much to Build,But What a Hobby!
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This years Northern Virginia "Model Classic" event features the 70th Anniversary of the USAF
http://www.novaipms.org/MC17/MC_17_Flyer_v3a.pdf
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F4Time to start closing up the fuselage.I glued the cockpit in place and joined the fuselage havles.Next step is to sand the seams and attach the wings. darbyvet attached the following image(s):
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F84gI also sealed up the f84g fuselage.Since this kit is prepainted sanding the seams presented a problem because the paint was sanded off.I am going to try using Bare Metal foil to cover up the areas that have been sanded and extend the foil to natural panel lines.I also sanded the paint off the tail and horizontal stabilizers since that needs to be sprayed white before applying the thunderbird decals. It is very important with this prepainted kit to make sure you sand off the paint from any surfaces you need to glue together or the parts just wont stick together. Carl darbyvet attached the following image(s):
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Great update as this one has great appeal to me but that pre-painted finish looks difficult to work with. Looking forward to your further updates on this one. Happy Modelling
BUILDING: Hachette Spitfire Mk 1A, Constructo Mayflower
SUBSCRIPTION COMPLETE (Awaiting building): USS Constitution, Sovereign of the Seas, 1:200 Bismarck (Hachette)
COMPLETED: Porsche 911, E-Type Jaguar, Lam Countach
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birdaj2 wrote:Great update as this one has great appeal to me but that pre-painted finish looks difficult to work with.
Looking forward to your further updates on this one. Yes.I thought it would be an easy build, but the prepainting is making things harder. Carl
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OK all 9 planes now have their cockpits fitted and fuselage closed.The next step is to sand all of the seams and clean up for priming.The Tamiya F-16s are pretty good with smart engineering to avoid any seam issues.The monogram F105 kit is predictably awful since it is an old kit and will need quite a bit of work.The kits is an F105D and I had a conversion kit to turn it into a F105B, but the resin nosepiece in the conversion is not well molded at all so I am going to stick with it as a 105D.The difference is very small anyway. darbyvet attached the following image(s):
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Good to see them all together Carl nice work. Al
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That's going to be an impressive collection of Thunderbirds through the years
The USAF Thunderbirds confirmed for the 2017 Air Tattoo
http://www.airtattoo.com...irds-demonstration-team 
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Carl Great looking display which will lokk even more amazing when all painted up. Happy Modelling
BUILDING: Hachette Spitfire Mk 1A, Constructo Mayflower
SUBSCRIPTION COMPLETE (Awaiting building): USS Constitution, Sovereign of the Seas, 1:200 Bismarck (Hachette)
COMPLETED: Porsche 911, E-Type Jaguar, Lam Countach
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They look great all together and will look even better finished Current builds:-C57,Zero, Lamborghini Countach, Caldercraft HMS Agamemnon,Robi,R2-D2, MFH Cobra .
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Quite a collection Carl and all looking good.... Look forward to seeing them progress.... Regards Alan
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