This site doesn't really offer a place for offers to buy/sell/trade. So I will start this blog off with a all hands on deck call for the decals I want to build this bird. The sheet I am looking for was in the Revell release of the B-24D Kit. The Kit # is 04529 and the bird featured on the box is Flak Alley. I want to build the War Bond Touring version of "The Squaw/Sleepy" that is on the sheet. I am willing to buy or trade to get the sheet, or at least the parts of the sheet I need for my bird. I will build the "in theater" version if I must, but really want to do the Bond Tour version. I want to thank all in advance that can help me out.

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I'm wondering if our friend @fiveten isn't a "national type." He reminds me so much of Zorba from "Zorba the Greek" and my friend the late Steve Pisanos, "the Flying Greek." - Good. Guys.

Thanks for kind words, my friend @tcinla! Mean a lot to me.

Your October 2003 B-24J build article at Modelingmadness was a modeling milestone for me back then, a couple of years after I had restarted modeling in a more "serious" manner (ie buying an airbrush, more specialized tools, stash a number of kits and the like...).

I was amazed back then to read a review of a big model, old mold, but cheap and not difficult to put together. No "de rigeur" engraved lines, but raised ones that might actually look more correct. Your "CONCLUSIONS" text really had a big impact to me, and started tackling like projects ever since. Not the B-24, as the Revell reissue hit the Greek shelves a tad later (of course I grabbed one!).

I adamantly believe that new tool models are necessary, nothing better than having the latest and greatest, it's a modeler's heaven nowadays! Still, there is a degree of satisfaction in tackling older beauties of kits.

@luftwaffe-birdman, Walt, what a great news that you can start your "The Squaw" with the help of our friend Spiros @fiveten.

How wonderful to see another combo build being started here. Being invloved in two others, I can say that it is really great to build together on the same kit.

Looking forward to this combo build as well, those Liberartors will end up beautifully.

Welcome aboard Spiros, @fiveten, I am happy to have you join my build and have changed the title of the blog. The kit is really pretty good and out of the box makes for a fun enjoyable build.

The tractor was a nice bonus even if it is very basic and toy like. For those that can afford it you can get the OtVinta! kit the was announced on this sight (https://imodeler.com/2020/10/otvinta-1-48-m2-cletrac-high-speed-tractor-new-model/). I would love the kit, and have seen it built on other sites with good reviews and results, but at $55 euro plus postage to the US, it was well over $100 US. So I will enjoy building the toylike tractor inluded in the kit.

Thanks my friend @luftwaffe-birdman! Indeed, the OtVinta! tractor looks wonderful, still the price tag is quite high, so I will also resort to the kit provided one!

Looking forward to this joint build, Walt (@luftwaffe-birdman) and Spiros (@fiveten). The early model B-24 is one of my most favorite airplanes. I have a couple of these 1/48 Monogram B-24s in my stash, but they are in storage awaiting the move to my new house. If I ever get moved, I will have to build one to join the group.

Well in between paint coats on the Bf-109 and the He-111 I have started the scribing process. I really intended on building this close to out of the box, but then I saw the Vector Engine Nacelles and Exhaust...Damn eBay! Okay so start scribing, looking at pictures, wow, those main gear wells don't really look anything like the real aircraft...wait Vector has an update...oh Damn eBay...will be here by Friday! I must Resist! I MUST RESIST!

That said I am really digging the engine nacelle kit, I started on the first engine, and while there is not cutline on the model to follow, from preliminary test fitting after cutting a sanding the fit is very very nice.

I think I need a better ponce wheel for my rivets, but will finish this model with what I have to be consistent.

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