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KennyX
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Sweetie

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Scale: 1:48
Aircraft: Republic P-47D Thunderbolt “Razorback”
Kit Mfg: Tamiya
Subject: Lt. Col Luther Richmond’s “Sweetie”

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Cockpit is done, and entombed in the fuselage. Fuselage sealed, wings attached. It’ll be time for primer and paint soon. Also included is some gear bay action.I used several different shades of zinc chromate for those. I’ve been trying to keep little spaces like that from being boring.

Progress continues, more updates forthcoming.
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KENNY!!!! Damn.... you’ve been gone too long! Looks fantastic! We wanna see more! :lashed:
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That's a great start! :shoutout: Keep 'em comin'! :grin:
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hey, pal! Glad you brought this over! Great work. You haven't "lost" a thing.....
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Hi guys and thank you so much for the kind words. Thank you for the kind welcome back, too.

Job change, growing children, pandemic weirdness, taking up guitar to help cope with the pandemic weirdness, miscellaneous bullshit… it all kinda threw a monkey wrench into things over the last year or two. Guitar helps a lot. It’s good to be back to building models again (again, Again, AGAIN) though. Really hoping I can model consistently this time around. Gonna try real, real hard. My goal is to do one or two things on the model(s) every day.
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Aaaaand he's BACK!! Awesome! Your skills have not suffered one bit after all this time! You cannot imagine how thrilled I am that you are back, building and posting!
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It’s good to be back, Big Duke! I missed ya, good buddy! Great seeing you!
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Yeah it's been a fun few years hasn't it!

Glad to see you back Kenny!
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Stuart, what a year it’s been indeed my man. What a year indeed!
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God tell me about it!

The Jug is looking awesome btw, I love what you did with the cockit! Which belts did you use?
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