Louis (@lgardner) - don't give up your dayjob my friend 🙂

Spiros (@fiveten), great upgrades!

Looks like you got the liquid styrene filler working well. I'm still the old song and dance school with Tamiya and GM putty. it sets quickly and don't have to wait long to start sanding on it. Now Mr Surfacer as well to smooth out the rough parts after the sanding as it fills pin holes and areas that the putty just didn't quite fill. Neat stuff. That Vamp is one nifty little fighter. One thing about Hobbycraft not much in parts, but not really bad kits on some of their stuff. I like their A-4 series, not as nice as the Hase kits, but they look just fine when completed.

Coming along nicely Spiros, I put a piece of sprue in a MM jar of thinners, let it soak for a few minutes and brush it off onto the model as needed, works well for some uses, put the sprue aside to dry till next time !

Nice trick indeed, Allan @kalamazoo!

Hi Tom @tcinla!

As per quite a few Hobbycraft/Academy kits of those brave years, one is greeted with engraved panel lines [ok, good, but raised are not an issue for me, let alone that raised look much more realistic at quite a few instances (some might oppose to my view, but I can hear a 1/48 Monogram Liberator telling me I'm right...)] and simple looking promising construction (which, surprisingly, might reveal some fit issues and mismatches later on...).

Shape (ok, -ish) issues, slight discrepancies at dihedrals, not always perfect quality control (wrong fitting wingtips pop up) and some toyish oversimplifications (blant wheel wells and cockpits par exemple!) are coming to mind as well. Their decals were hit (black box Hobbycraft, "Cartograf" Academy) or, in many cases, miss.

I'm stating all the above, as there was no reason for the above issues to exist: they could be easily resolved at the kit design or the first mockup phase and decal supplier choice. Adding to that their top molding technology (rarely to never have I found mold imperfecions or flash), and one might state that Academycraft could be issue-free tiptop level company from then on.

Thanks for liking my job so far!

Thanks my friend @airbum!
Hope your comments prove themselves at my Ju 290 vac!

Thanks George @gblair!
Actually, with all those great GBs running and my other existing projects (and family and work as well) I kind of lost track of myself too!

Lots of small green dots to have fun with my friend!