Ditto with our friend's @tcinla words, my friend @luftwaffe-birdman! In fact, lost of words!

Getting closer. Attached the main gear struts and removed the glazing masks. Still have the nose gear to set, the bomb bay doors that I revised and printed new, top turret and antennas to add. Still getting close to being done!

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Looking awesome, my friend @luftwaffe-birdman!

Definitely getting close to the end, Walt (@luftwaffe-birdman). Staining on the top of the nacelle looks great. It looks like you might have used oils on the nacelle and then sprayed the exhaust staining farther down. Am I close?

Thanks, Walt (@luftwaffe-birdman). I have used oils for weathering for a while now, and I also use my airbrush for exhaust and gun stains, but I haven't had a lot of luck combining them in the same area. Time to go back and give it another try on an upcoming model. Cheers.

Walt B (@luftwaffe-birdman)

Wow ! You have made some serious progress with the weathering and it looks wonderful. I think your choice of color for the tire tread looks very nice too. I have not been very active on Imodeler recently. We had another hurricane pass through, and once again we were very lucky. I have had other life stuff get in the way of the bench time I would like to have. Things happen like this once in a while. Doctor appointments and so on...

I have to place a temporary hold with working on my B-24 "Tubarao". I have a pair of 1/32 scale Revell Mustangs underway, (also posted in this group) and these were temporarily placed in a holding pattern until I figured out how to tackle a problem I was having with them in two different locations.

One Mustang was a tribute build for Major Preddy, who was killed on Christmas Day 1944. My original plans were to get it done so I could post it in the headlines section on Christmas Day. Now I have figured out what steps were needed, so I want to get it done in time to meet the deadline I set.

Once the Mustang is completed, I will resume work on Tubarao, and a few others I have started mainly the various 109's. Thankfully I can use this new found technique on the B-24, and any other natural metal aircraft where I am not able to easily use bare metal foil.

It shouldn't take too long to complete the Mustang now. I made some considerable progress on "Cripes A Mighty" a few days ago, so please look for an update coming up on it next.

By the looks of things, "Squaw" will be in the headlines soon.