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You're absolutely right about the wing being painted, Carlos. I believe that's the same airframe Stuart reference earlier. The final version (“F”) has a Swedish designed afterburner. The photos are good. This is the one they kept in operational status.

I was too tired to post any explanation, but this was a test, and I'm afraid I still don't much care for AK markers. When I rubbed the paint the next day it came off quite easily. Now I know there's no primer underneath but I still think there should be some surface adhesion.

I've sanded this area down and will correct with primer. I'm going to do the outside first.

I finally found my pic Bruce. Here is my Tunnan from 1983-1984. More then likely its the Heller kit.

Minor modification or adjustment to profile which I made based on images like these taken by Jan Petr in July 2011.

I started reading Bruce Catton’s This Hallowed Ground three days ago. I’m about 500 pages into this 1,300 page account of the Federal side of the Civil War.

I mention this here out of context simply because I’m not sure if the forum ever started a section devoted to historical accounts of history. I would think that in these histories there would be much for a model builder to use. I believe also that having subsections organized by era would be useful. The Great Wars would each have their own section.

Two takeaways from a book about the Civil War that would impact the issues of shipbuilding round be the naming and renaming of the Merrimack as the CSS Virginia, which I must have known but have forgotten, and the mobile artillery platforms—mortars and shells—forged in my hometown of Pittsburgh that were mounted to ships, steered into position on rivers and fired upon forts.