Hi Carl (@clipper): I am glad I am not the only one who is overwhelmed by all the stuff going on this week. And it seems like everything is crowded and traffic is horrible. When did Christmas shopping start 2 weeks before Thanksgiving? I have been having trouble getting my oil washes to dry this week. It has been really humid, so I think that must be it. Looking forward to the next installment.

Let me join the "having an overwhelming week" club, my friends @clipper and @gblair. I am retired and, typically, I have less free time now 😄

Calling It Done. Here is a preview with two other Republic products. The razorback P-47 is a Monogram kit I built in 1982 and the P-43 Lancer is the Classic Airframes Kit I built in the early 2000s after rescuing it from oblivion. I'll have a headline article up soon.

Excellent finish, Carl @clipper
All three looking great.

Headline article posted

Fantastic. Also Boomerang is cool.

Thanks for following along Spiros (@fiveten), John (@johnb), George (@gblair), Bernard (@lis), Michael (@michaelt).

Yes, that Lancer has an interesting story behind it. The real one crashed. My model was stolen, returned, crunched, built (requiring a lot of work), and basically returned from the dead.

Well, it's a rather long winded story Bernard (@lis). Suffice to say, the unbuilt model was with a load of other household goods in a trailer that was stolen and recovered. The model box was crushed by some of the other household items and the model damaged. I had put in a lot of research on the kit and wanted to build it so I worked around the damaged model parts and eventually completed the kit.