Hmmm looks good enough to eat Sean. You sure have put loads of work int it.  I Got the prop in the mail today! Thank you! Now I can finally finalize the Gladiator!.

Hmmm interesting result! I have been beat out by that dern dog again!

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CPT Aaron McNeal

Congradulations Bruno!!!  Only man on these forums that still looks good in his birthday suit!

Sorry I didn't contribute, but the only outfit I have that looks remotely appropriate would be my cycling jersey and you don't want to see me in the matching spandes bottoms.   We'll wee what the next contest has in store for us.

Sean, nice looking cockpit.  I'm stowing away the images for when I get around to my Airfix Glad as it has no pit details so keep the pics coming!

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Dave

Luftwoller wrote:

My wingus and dingus just wind them up by sniffing under the fence, without barking a note.   ...Guy

Thats funny Guy

We use to live at this one house where the neighbors to the right of us had a Cat that would walk the fence daily to the neighbors to the left of us.  The neighbors on the left had these yapper type dogs that would go nuts barking. The cat would sit there and look at the dogs with a very smug look like he/she had accomplised someting for the day..

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Sean
"I've reached nearly fifty years of age with my system."

Richie -  Those pics are Fabulous. Been more the just a little while back... 03 & 05 I cant even remember where I was without asking the Wife.

Speaking of which today is out 19'th Anniversary.. oops getting off track..

Richie did you take art classes during school or are you one of thos naturally multi talented persons ? Those pictures sure would look good framed near your work bench if you do not already have them there.

Thanks for "finially" Sharing them.

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Sean
"I've reached nearly fifty years of age with my system."

Started the paint on the FAA Corsair today.  This one is gonna be dirty so I decided to go with a pre-shade on this one.  Mixture is Tamiya brown and black.

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Frank

Congratulations Sean and Dave, and the other halves!!!!! Well done!!!!!

Sean, Bill, and Dave thank you for your comments fellas!!!! They are framed and hanging in my hallway right now. More to come eventually. Sean, no I have not ever really had a formal art class at all, other than art in 8th grade. But it was too general as most are!!! I wanted to draw airplanes!!!!!!! Nothing else!!!!! Mechanical things that have beauty and aesthetics all their own that only fans and mechanics can appreciate!!!! I put as much reserch into them as I do the plastic. The Zero I made a bit too dark a gray and the tail codes are supposed to be red not black, didn't know that until long after I had finished because I was going from a b&w pic. lol oops! I have alot of books with th 3-views in them and scale them up to what I'm drawing by measuring with a 100ths incremented ruler and calculator to convert the scale. No skimping or shortcuts!!!  I have a collection of drawings I started in '85 and has grown over the years that i have done in the railroad scale of Z, which is 1/220!!!! A Sopwith Camel and GeeBee R-1 is about 1" long!!! I do 1/72 now LOL!!! I'm not getting younger!!! Thinking of doing drawings of my models I complete, someting to think about anyways lol.

Frank, that is going to look stunning I can already tell!!!!! REALLY looking forward to seeing more pics!!!!!!!

Bring on that little tube steak Dee; we are ready!

Uh huh? Bartender I'll have what he is having!

Holy cow I think we have a replacement for the king of pop!  I can just hear him singing oooooo

Whooo wooooo! and moonwalking cross the decks!

Sure hope that is paint on them paints!

Anyways been working too much to keep up lately. Caught areak tonight happily. I have been working on some figures for the swordfish and have the tubular pits assembled.

 I added the Wonderful Prop to the Gladiator andit really was what it needed to shine in my view! Thanks Sean!  Strange way you packed it though? What a demented sense of humor you all have?

I am all flustered that I have been married 21 years you all are a bunch of rookies but concrats to all! Drinks all round!

Think that is bad Dee just informed me tonight that her birthday this year will mark the point to where she has been married to me for half her life!  ACK! More drinks!

 Ritchie those are great drawings! Nice curves and color!

 The best part is ITS ONLY MONDAY!!! IT"S ONLY MONDAY!!!!! WOO ! HOO! 

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CPT Aaron McNeal

Superglue? That explains the hair then!

Here are a few pics of the Gladiator!  Just cuz!

 I like it! Mucho fun!

 I need to mow the yard. Poor dog!

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CPT Aaron McNeal

 Actually Just got to pick up a bit of blue paint as the prop packaging is also almost done!

 The Dingy pack was removed on the Malta Gladiators and wasn't really too common on the ones in combat action.  Weight saving I reckon. I think the Arrester hook was removed as well but wanted one on to show it was a Sea Gladiator! I even went to the trouble of converting an old Nate droptank to make the Dingy compartment just to find it wasn't there! Whatcha gonna do? Give and take I reckon. Did you download and watch that little 1 hour show on the Malta birds. Pretty cool both my boys sat through it and enjoyed it very much as well.

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CPT Aaron McNeal