OK, I'm more than 4 feet away, but she looks nice from here! Thanks for sharing & welcome back,

Very nicely completed! the additions in the wheel wells really are a boost along the 'less is more' line of thought. The upper wing weathering/paint fading catches a good balance of wear but still cared for.

Despite your problems I think she looks great. I too like the weathering on the upper wings and the invasion stripes look really good (something I tend to mess up on).

Thanks for the kind comments gents!  I did try to be subtle with the weathering, mostly limiting it to paint fade on the upper surfaces.  I used a lighter shade of the sea gray and some pastel chalks for that.  She looks good posed next to my Hawker Typhoon, also wearing invasion stripes.  I've never had the modeling skills to turn out incredible models, and with increasing age the hands and eyes aren't the same.  I decided a while back that I'd rather have a few display cabinets full of nice builds than spend the time required to "go further".  I only build in 1/48 scale and it's nice to have the comparative views of 'planes in the same scale. Thanks again for your encouraging words! 

Gary

Excellent....great work.

Very nicely done Tex......  

Mostly, thanks for sharing!

Nicely done Sir!

Nice job, Gary!  I'm with you on keeping it simple and getting them in the display case.  Well, I try to be.  Seems like I fail a fair bit of the time but I'm with you in spirit.

Thanks again!  John, I really enjoyed your website!   There are lot's of cool things to check out there.   I took all my models out of the display, cleaned all the shelves, dusted all the 'planes (only had to replace three small parts and one antenna wire knocked off in the process-arrgghhh) and somehow managed to get all 40 aircraft and my two tank models fitting snugly).  I'm having a new display  cabinet built and that is going to be sweet, giving me lot's of extra space and hopefully plenty motivation to get more kits done!  It might be hard for some to believe, but my first Tamiya kit is up next-the venerable old Wildcat.  I spent a lil' time prepping the parts yesterday and hope to get started on it today!  I have two almost full CO2 tanks and a clean worktable, so here we go!

btw-the Sea Fury looks great in it's place in the "Korean War gallery".  She's parked right next to my MiG-15.

VERY nice build! Very realistic.