It took me probably an hour to figure out what those three parts were that the open engine panel shows. And then mounting them as well. You'll actually not see most of the black cuz there are some photo etched hoses that go over them. But the Verlinden call-out was for gloss black. Once the cowling gets glued down, you'll see hardly anything of the engine (sadly). My flagship Hellcat will be the Trump 32nd scale one and that comes with a see-through cowling.

Harris kind of leaves us alone. I.T. in general seems to have a hard time finding "24X7" workers. So they're just happy we're happy to work weekends. So most of us sit there and do online gaming, watch DVD's etc. Two of the old dears knit and crochet as well. So they're pretty much 'ok' with me building. Our pods are over our heads, so when we're sitting down, you can't see that we're actually in the room until you get close to us. And I'm using Polyscale/Tamiya paints so no one smells 'em.

The bird will be Gene Valencia's mount. He was the USN's third top scorer. This will be his last plane (Okinawa) so it'll be pretty clean as he didn't fly it long.

Cheers,


Don