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Howdy, and here is where I figgerd I'd put this....my Fave hobby since the mid '60s is Model building. Started out with stuff my Dad made with me....A 1/72 scale B-24 D bomber from WW II, a FORD Tri-motor airliner from the '30s, and the Latest HOT car from then, the FORD GT-40 race car. Completed this last one with a neighbor from across the street. Dad bought me a few PYRO brand cars in 1/32 scale, and I had him buy me an AIRFIX Hawker Hurricane Mk.I that had SUCH HORRIBLE PRINTING on the cover, I thought that the 'camoflage' was Apple Green and Copper! I decided to recreate this in a model this year, and here it is.... http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/OldRUSHfan/Model%20Stuff/Aircraft-HawkerHurricaneMkIIcrob.jpg http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/OldRUSHfan/Model%20Stuff/Aircraft-HawkerHurricaneMkIIclob.jpg Notice I haven't painted the yellow tips on the propeller, or used masking tape to refine the cockpit canopy lines. I now do this on every model. The other models mentioned before are long gone, although they are still available to purchase... A lot of them are now replaced by larger models, in my once fave 1/48 scale, like the plane above. P-51 B, "THE HUN HUNTER from TEXAS" http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/OldRUSHfan/Model%20Stuff/MyStuff-LatestfinishedmodelP-51BHunHunterfromTexasleftfrontoblique.jpg P-39 Q Airacobra from the Mediteranian theater... http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/OldRUSHfan/Model%20Stuff/Aircraft-BellP-39Nflobmed.jpg http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/OldRUSHfan/Model%20Stuff/Aircraft-BellP-39Nlrobmed.jpg 'In Process' is what I call 'em until all is done, and some have 'slipped by' even then! This is an 'In Process' Bitish Lancaster Mk. I bomber just to show some cockpit detail http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/OldRUSHfan/Model%20Stuff/AvroLancasterMk1cockpit-noseinprocessmed.jpg http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/OldRUSHfan/Model%20Stuff/AvroLancasterMk1med.jpg A little bit earlier in construction...and a larger view... http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/OldRUSHfan/Model%20Stuff/AvroLancasterMk1inprocessmed.jpg Now to a 1/72 North American B-25 J in process.. http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/OldRUSHfan/Model%20Stuff/MyStuff-CockpitdetailleftsideB-25J.jpg Cockpit detail... http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/OldRUSHfan/Model%20Stuff/MyStuff-CockpitdetailleftrearobliqueangleB-25J.jpg and interior detail, rear and central.... http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/OldRUSHfan/Model%20Stuff/MyStuff-InteriorrearleftsidedetailB-25J.jpg http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/OldRUSHfan/Model%20Stuff/MyStuff-InteriormidleftsidedetailB-25J.jpg on now to an He-219 A-7 'Owl' in 1/48...'in process also http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/OldRUSHfan/Model%20Stuff/Projects-He219A-7Owlforwardcockpitarea.jpg Forward part of cockpit detail... http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/OldRUSHfan/Model%20Stuff/Projects-He219A-7OwlRadaroperatorsarea.jpg and the Radar operator's part... better detail of front of cockpit http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/OldRUSHfan/Model%20Stuff/Projects-He219A-7Owlcockpitdetail1.jpg This was called 'Schrage Muzik' (slanted music/Jazz) by the Germans...obliquely firing Mk 108 30mm cannons for getting under the bomber and damaging it. http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/OldRUSHfan/Model%20Stuff/Projects-He219A-7Schragemusikdetail.jpg http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/OldRUSHfan/Model%20Stuff/Projects-He219A-7Owlinprogress.jpg I'm at this point in my second model of this plane...too many small parts that got broke, so had to re-do it.