Applying antenna wires with a smashed finger sounds challenging, George @gblair
Well thought to have your marriage on December 31st, congratulations.
Wishing you all the best for 2024.

Louis: @lgardner
Spiros: @fiveten
John: @johnb
Bernard: @lis

Thanks everyone. I am happy to report that the trio is complete. There are a few minor touchups, but the trio is done. It seems like I have been working on them forever. Luckily they have been fun and served as a great pallet to try different building techniques, painting methods, and weathering techniques on what were supposedly the same model. As we have seen, having 3 kits from 3 different manufacturers from the same molds doesn't mean the kits will all build the same. Thanks for following along on this marathon build. In the future, I think I will stick to one at a time. Looking forward to seeing all of your builds in 2024. Cheers.

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Very cool George (@gblair). Nice finish to this marathon! They look great. Multiple kits at a time is okay once in awhile when you have a good reason to do it. And as for taking a long time,, well, the results make it worth it. But I do understand that feeling. I am also wanting to move on from my Hudson build. I have three other kits in various stages of work, but they have all been setting idle for months while I focused on all the extra work on the Hudson. One way of looking at this is that you have a three kit head start on kits completed in 2024. 🙂

Well done, my friend @gblair!
Fantastic build thread and awesome result times three!

@gblair - you have really done quite an amazing job with this trio, and they all came out looking good - nice work on the paint schemes and aging/weathering the paint.