Recent content by mjhenks

Very nice looking. Good job. Have fun painting.

Do you ever stop Bret? :) Watching because i need inspiration for another kit i want to build but have no time and 5 in front of it...

Fantastic build. Can i ask a few dumb questions? 1. The items you are vac-forming. Is that how they were done or are those parts unavailable/too expensive/unidentified? 2. The armature/wing hinge. Are you making that up or following something? Makes me want to build one too. I built the...

Very nice. How did you get the clean lines at the end of the wing roots?

Thank you Stu for the images. As i gather my inspiration your work will be one of the guides as i now for certain that i want a cockpit to fill the void.

:eek: I see it now... Good thing that is not glued on. The things that sometimes are right there but you miss... Thank you. I also woke up this AM realizing i forgot that there are the plastic strips on the body which i have yet to install. Always something else.

Most of the gerbils on the body and in primer. Bomb rack next. Then jets. Wings for some reason really intimidate me so trying to wrap my head around the game plan.

Some more progress. Had a heck of a time with the mandibles. Call it fat finger or whatever but in holding it down in place i had two of three split down the middle. (The truth is i have no feeling on two finger tips on one had so i fumble alot...) Frustrating but that means i get to fix...

It is... Place for the image. I will not attach it until the mandibles are on.

As always you guys inspire me to do it right. Pulled out another one of my front nose pieces that I made with closed ends. Into the lathe to turn the back side out to enlarge the openings to set the Junyo parts Carefully extract the old nose cone from the body and dremel out the Junyo...

One of those “go for it” days. I have been afraid to commit and mess up my preciously collected parts the last few weeks. Got past that today. The results followed by the interesting details. Obviously I fixed the main cockpit upper Leopold parts and remounted them. Thank you to the...

Desperation is a strong motivator. :)

Successful extraction and repair. Stoked. Was able to salvage the Leopold ladder in the extraction. That was surprising. Cut my new Leopold plate. The filled in grooves on the body will be covered so I will not dig that out. I knew the Leopold side detail was not going to extract...

Need some friendly advice. I was drying my primer and in a hurry and got a little too hot. My upper Leopold plate warped. Not bad but obvious. (Blue area) It is glued on real good. I have a spare plate but do not have spare Leopold side details as they would not survive an...

Ya. That is why resin will be just fine for me. :) PM sent. Thank you! Yes it is. Have to remember all the things i forgot now. Started scribing and recalling the trouble i saw on the other builds. I will get thru this...