I did manage some time at the bench over the long four day weekend…it was great!

Some of the progress I made was filling the gaps on the Aurora C-141 Starlifter kit. Thought this kit has few pieces, they require a lot of attention to get them to mate and blend well. Even the seams around the canopy needed a great deal of filler! This project will require some more filling in sanding before it is ready to received its first coat of primer. I’ll be priming it to inspect the seam and filler work.

My 1:48 Rafale is nearing completion. I have the center line fuel tank in the paint booth being given its final coat of gloss white. This gives adds the final color to the French national colors, each fuel tank is painted a different color to represent the flag…or so its intended to do so.

This aircraft is in a product demonstrator scheme.

Another NMF subject in the works which has been getting little attention and has occupied my “In Progress” shelf is a 1:48 Monogram F-84F. This too is getting a sort of flashy scheme.

The Aurora Boeing 727 has been given a coat of Talon Aluminum but I am not satisfied with some of the seams, especially the upper forward center line seam. I am going to strip this down to the bare plastic which is easily done using some Windex and paper towels. Once stripped down, I will once again address that pesky seam!

More progress on my snow and wing plow for my 1:48 2 1/2 ton truck has been made. Here I show some of the scratchbuilding I am doing using some FREE styrene card stock courtesy of a discount card I received from Officemax in the mail. It was just the right thickness for this application and the price was even better! So before you toss some of those store and credit card offers into the trash, make sure none is suitable for scale modeling applications. Finding these treasures has sure cut down my card stock purchases!

The basic truck frame mount is made, now to work on the plow to frame attachment mounts and hydraulics. You can bet I’ll be using some Albion Alloy metal for that!