Oh those seat-belts do look really good, almost better than the PE ones I've been using.

Lol, the more I think about it I do remember some issues with the upper wing panels not fitting all that well. You're making good progress though!

Don't sweat it Ajc, though I was wondering where everyone went!

Nice work on the Meteor, I built one years ago and don't remember any serious problems with it.

Good start ajd! I have only built a couple of Tamiya kits, but they were both older ones so I think I know what you mean. I'll be building a modern Tamiya kit pretty soon. Thanks for the kind words about my F-80, it was one of the more difficult Monogram kits I've tackled.

Well, I was hoping to be done by the end of the month... I went back and resprayed the Alclad over the yellow overspray and of course it had trash in it. So I carefully sanded down the areas, washed the thing off and put it in a friggin' box to make sure it didn't get dust and trash in it. Today I pulled the model out of the box and sprayed down more gloss black as primer underneath the Alclad. And I look at the model and the black primer is full of dust and trash- where does it come from!?!?!?! I almost threw the stinking thing across the room. Not sure I'll finish in time or not, I don't want to even see the blasted thing now much less work on it...

Yeah, she came out great, congrats!

Great job! I really like the look of those glossy Navy birds

Done.

Oh, I see that now that I re-read your post. I probably shouldn't post anything until I've finished my morning coffee 

Lol, it's not the overspray Bob- it's that I had no friggin' idea rubbing alcohol will strip Alclad!  

Looking good 68GT, I had some decal silvering issues with my last build, but far, far worse than you. And I can't really consider a build complete if I haven't broken a few pieces off.  It happens to all of us Gamera. When I did my F-4 I had all kinds of overspray issues on the SEA camo

She's coming right along, almost there!

You're doing way better than me anyway... I went and sprayed the yellow stripes over the crappy decals on the wings of my F-86 again and got a little over-spray on the aluminum. So I figured the yellow paint is acrylic and the Alclad is solvent based so I can use a cotton swab with a little rubbing alcohol to take off the yellow. Well the Alclad came right up with the alcohol, so now I need to repaint a bunch of it. No photos- I don't feel like embarrassing myself...  

Got is armed and just have to glue the canopy on and the little thing on the vert stabilizer I broke off.

Yeah, a little silvering but looking good!

Plugging along but I need to get some Solvaset for the decals.

Nice work! As Bob said it's just right amount.

Thanks, I figured I would give it a try on a blue bird.

That looks great! Just the right amount of paint to let the preshading show through

Been busy this weekend.

I've made some quick progress.

A nice simple, straight forward kit for a recharge.

Looks like a neat little kit!

Going to build a F2H Banshee I've had sitting in the closet for some time.  It's a MPC re-box of the Airfix Banshee in 1/72.

I just might have to start up the old MPC (Airfix) F2F Banshee I have.