Hope you and your family has a great, fun-filled vacation!!(at least you have an excuse for not posting your work.........now where the heck is everyone else?)

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"There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight."- Lon Chaney

I'm back to building now I have'nt had any time for modeling in the last month because of school but I finished my last exam for grade 9 yesterday!!!! YAAAAY!!! so now I can get back to building.

Most of the limited building time I've had recently has been spent on my build for this GB but I haven't made much progress.

The hulls haven't been atached together yet I just did that for the photo.

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I'm 15 and I model I sk8board and I drum what could be better.

I probably won't make the 1st either.  Will try to get it done ASAP.

It should be a fun ride. Looks like it's going to be a solo attempt most likely, so if I have to bail around 130-150 I doubt I would be too disappointed.

Will definitely get this guy finished up in a "reasonable" amount of time. Still hoping I can get it on the shelf by the end of the month! 

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Mg-nice work on all the accessories-you have more accessories than I think are in my entire kit!  Your attention to detail is going to pay off.

Got back from vacation yesterday evening-spent today doing things around the house.  However, I did manage to transfer some pics of work done before we left town.  Here's the Before:

Actually, the floor section had some spruce strips & a couple of little "spruce circles" added that appeard on the resin floor section that I used as a model.

After adding the resin side panels and some painting:

I've still got some detail painting, a wash and some dry brushing to do tomorrow.  Also, the fit of the seat is going to be challenging.  The kit seat is a major disappointment, so I'll attempt to get the resin seat in at the right height.  Tomorrow is a busy day-church, lunch, send out some resumes and then some modeling.  I hope to have the interior complete and the fuselage buttoned up & primed by mid week, depending on how things go.  At this pace, the 7/1 date is a "maybe" but it should be done shortly afterwards....

Sorry to hear about the fit problems with this kit, bobbaily. Nevertheless, I'm sure you'll overcome those gaps and problems and make this kit a stunner.

Auto Racing Group Build.....nah, last time I built a car(one year ago) I felt sick to my stomach. Maybe it was the flu I had or maybe it was wrong of me to build a car since it was going against the darkside. Either way, I'm not gonna be building a car anytime soon.

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"There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight."- Lon Chaney

Looking forward to progress pics tomorrow mg.

No progress on my end.  Tonight is committed.  Hopefully tomorrow and/or Sunday I can get some time to do some seam filling & sanding, between sending out resumes and watching the big soccer match on Sunday.

Okay here's my update, yeah I know it's a day late but yesterday was busy. Went to Cabela's (it's a one hour drive or so to the nearest one) thus that took a bit of time. I did however pick up a new Gerber pocketknife so I'm happy about that. Then when I did try to get some pics up, I had nightmarish time trying to upload the pics(errors and just plain sluggish). My computer was so damn slow, I finally figured out it was the new anti-virus software that made my computer a snail. Thus that sorta wasted a big chunk of time.......but enough with my rant of sorts here's the much delayed update.

The .50 cal is permanently in place along with the box and scratch ammo tray. The ammo belt itself will go in at a later time(already painted). The antenna is in place, along with all four wheels. Also put down some future on the hull sides so I can get the decals on soon.

The antenna base is the kit supplied one, just a little bit of sanding is necessary. As for the top antenna wire, I used some copper wire. The kits instructions say to use stretch sprue(no kit supplied part), but its entirely your choice of what material you want to use.

The .50 cal is in place, painted a base color of Testor's Steel mixed w/Black. Then some drybrushing of a lighter shade of Testor's steel also darkened w/black. I drilled out the cooling holes a bit just to give some depth, along with the barrel.

The wheels are all on......finally. Put down a burnt umber wash then sealed them with some Krylon Matte acrylic finish from a rattle can. I also sealed the wheel wells, so I could move onto the pastels with worrying about them dissapering. I then rolled the wheels in a mixture of pastel colors like sepia, burnt umber, and vandyke brown. Yes the hull sides are super shiny but that's the Future.

Yeah, I know this pic is sorta bad so I'm sorry about that. All the tools and guns have got their wooden parts finished off. Used Testor's wood for the base coat, then applied some Tamiya acrylic clear orange, and finally some washes of burnt umber(to darken the color and to get the wood grain.)

Thanks for looking. I'm getting the .30 cal in place and decals on later today. Hopefully the decals will go on nicely, but I'm preparing for the worst(thankully have some substitute decals.)

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"There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight."- Lon Chaney

Thanks for the comments, bobbaily. Hope to get some more work done today........hopefully.

I caught that game today too. It looked like USA had a good chance with a score of 2-0. But then suddenly Brazil stepped it up and won 3-2. Sorta suprised.....but then again it's Brazil. 

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"There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight."- Lon Chaney