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After a long year with the kids online school, and physio for my hands, I finally got back to my workbench. I'm adding a new motorized peek-a-boo airlock with a front view of my hangar. There will be a super secret diorama inside, if it all works out. I might need a kick in the pants from you guys to stop procrastinating!

electric indigo, Your photography skills have really powered up recently! Looks great.

Mechtech, Nice micro detail work. Looks like you're building the Roman Coliseum!

Looking good Jc. Keep us updated.

I always try, but not sure I get such nice results

Mechtech, Great detail work as always. I look forward to seeing that internal cross section view. So cool! Derex, Always painful to see that Catseye! Hope it works out. As for Vallejo Air, I do a lot of practice sprays before hitting the model, not all paints are the same consistency out of the bottle; many colors will need extreme shaking, thinner and flow improver. They do smell wonderful, but the drawback is their thinning solution is not very strong, and bottles get clumpy fast, that's why I got a nail lacquer shaker.

Thom, Nice photography there. Urashiman, Interested to see what you do with that clunker. I'm sure with your experience it will look great. Keep the panel lines thin and any weathering to scale, and it will be better than Matchbox thought possible.

My motto is, just get it done. And I like your background.

Cool. Thanks for that. I actually like to see airbrushing in real time to understand how people lay down their paint. I would be afraid to spray with your technique. I always get splatter (or afraid I will), so I keep the air going, and pull back when I want paint.

Nice photoshop work for us old guys! Still waiting for mine, and glad I was able to sell my game version first.

I like it. I like it.

Mechtech, Nice detail work. People are going to wonder where you bought that!

Exquisite work! Very delicate shades of paint, and the panel lines and cockpit are squeaky clean.

So has the electronics bug gotcha? (But I wouldn't solder on that cutting matt, or solder drops will melt holes in it.) Yeah stickers suck! Is that Bandai or Hasegawa? Maybe there are waterslides on Ebay.

Beautiful work Mechtech. It is lovelyto my eyes. Why shouldnt it win awards? It has such a nice concept and unique gimmicks that it made me smile.

I'm not sure that the model hobby will die completely. Look at Bandai and Gundam kits. They have gotten pretty mainstream among all kinds of fans. They are catering to the older crowd with revolutionary 3D engineering and materials. The kids market needs models of shows they like on tv now to get any share of their time away from online games. I can't get my kids to build any models, but it might be different if I had minecraft and fortnite kits or an Avengers ship to offer them. But military and WWII stuff is probably the hardest hit.

Too bad. I guess they didn't evolve with the times. Speaking for myself since I am not at all skilled with paints and chemicals, the only reason I was able to get back into modelling is these Japanese hobby supplies. They have a really long shelf life, and dont go bad as soon as you open them. Amazing stuff compared to what I grew up with, and got me turned off the hobby because I just couldn't get anywhere.

Holy smokes! That's some detailed work for 8th grader. What year was this? You even got the Itano circus going.

So cool. I'd like to see a video of you airbrushing with it!

I only recast small parts for lighting, such as engine parts. I've given up on buying expensive containers of silicon molds, so I use the Blue Stuff now which is fine for small parts. So I'm thinking of vacuuming AFTER the resin is in the molds. Any vacuum improvement over my own mixing will be great. Your link looks exactly like what I'm planning to do, except I'm using a specially made vacuum food container. And he got excellent results too.

Mechtech, Talking about using household appliances, I've got this vaccum food sealer with an external pump and container. Do you see any reason why this wouldn't be good for vacuum a small dose of resin? Any advice/precautions appreciated.

It's used for inhaling asthma medicine with a mask. I never felt it was that strong. But Google tells me that these things are doing 1.5-2 Bars, which should be perfect for airbrushing.

MT, I've got my kid's nebulizer in the kitchen hamper. They've outgrown it, but I knew it could come into good use one day.

Nice. It needed to be done.

That's going to be hilarious with the plane flying around. Can't wait to see it. Very envious of your gears...