Thank you for your kind words! I'm quite happy with it, I am glad you enjoyed it as well!

Thanks! I am glad to hear that, I had a lot of fun with this one!

Thanks! It was a fun build, so I am happy you enjoyed it!

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I had a lot of fun building it haha

Thanks, I am glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, I thought it would be a fun little challenge to attempt, and I'm pretty happy with the end result!

Huh, interesting, I was informed that vinyl kits don't react to hot water the way plastic and resin kits do. It seems I was misinformed, then! I must try this if I ever run into another similar issue!

@@fenrismodels Yes. The limbs would NOT fit. I tried shaving them a bit, but it was just too much. So I boiled some water and dipped the pegs, up to the actual leg, in the water and it went in great. It just took a bit of pressure. I put the glue on the body before I inserted the legs. Your paint job looks great. The bases are so much fun too .

@@fenrismodels I've actually done it with ALL my vinyl kits! King Kong, Frankenstein's Monster, The Creature, The Mummy and Wolfman. The excess vinyl shaves off so easily when it's hot from the water. Dip one piece at a time, submerging the area that needs attention. I was always afraid I would warp the pieces, but that only happened when I tried it with a plastic piece from a kit. that plastic piece shrunk and warped.

@@heysparkle That's great to know! I'll try it out next time then... wish I was aware with this one. That one leg seam bothers me to this day haha 😅

I wouldn't go by other's PSI as gospel when spraying. There's a bunch of factors there, including what airbrush is being used, how long the air hose might be, humidity and moisture in the air, how clean the airbrush is, how close do they hold the airbrush to the model, what the needle size is, paint brand, paint thinning, etc. etc. For Vallejo Model Air, I find that thinning it down 7 drops of paint to 1 drop of their Airbrush Thinner (71.161) works perfectly. Model Color, it's 5 drops paint to 1 drop Airbrush Thinner due to Model Color being more viscous out of the bottle.

Haha it's missing a few colors, and they're out of order, but I can see it! Hrmm... that half gives me an idea for some schemes. Might be fun to do up a Bi-plane at some point!

Haha I am quite happy to hear you enjoyed it! I know it's a bit silly, but I love it all the same.

Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

Haha had I been smarter, I would have added more damage around the cockpit as well, but... I'm pretty dang happy with it all the same. I'm glad you liked it!

Thanks! I had a lot of fun with this one haha

Thanks! This is having me want to do more modern jets, I think

Haha well, Tamiya *does* have a Pteranodon diorama set...

Haha yeah, I actually started this about the same time Sully started in on his. But he was able to finish much faster than I was, had some stuff come up that took me away from the bench for a while.

They're a little tricky, but overall they aren't bad. Just take you time and pay attention and you should have no trouble with them!

Yeah, I had gotten this one off Amazon haha!

You could always just build it without weapons if you prefer! Tamiya jets tend to be pretty good about being able to have weapons and such off the plane.

That's good to know, thanks! Are there gap issues, or do they just not want to go together nicely without some force/fighting it?

@@fenrismodels you need to watch @primedmodelworks - he's actually building the kit.

I do like Aggressor schemes. They are always fun to do, something different.

It's just regular ol' blue tack, also called poster tack. I roll it up and put it on an old pill bottle, but you can use it to fashion a handle out of a number of items.

@@fenrismodels Awesome, thanks a lot!

Thank you for the kind words and the sub! Yeah, I deff enjoyed this kit. It *is* an older kit and it does show, but it's nothing that isn't easily fixed as I highlighted in the video. Very fun build overall!

Haha deff, I'd love to see what you do with it! That's really cool though, I wish I had a more personal connection to some of the builds I've done. The basic Tamiya kit I don't think has any LN schemes, but the 3rd party set I got had 15 schemes in it, and 4 of them were LN 😅

Haha I'm glad you enjoyed it! Believe it or not, there's actually an F-15 with the Decepticon logo named Starscream in use by the military! I *am* considering painting up another F-15 as the G1 Starscream at some point though... I mean, how could I not, right???

Thank you! It was a fun build, has me contemplating getting an F-16 up as well

Oh, that'd be interesting! I wouldn't mind picking one up if they did that!

I'll also admit to having needed to stretch the red, wound up running out as I was filming so I didn't get as much coverage as I might have otherwise. It works out from where it hangs in my office, gives that touch more of an anime feel, but it wasn't ideal by any means 😅 Eventually I plan to get the Curtiss R3C-0 as well, but I haven't yet. There's also some Nausicaa models I want. Porco Rosso is one of my favorite Ghibli films up there with Nausicaa and Princess Mononoke (though I guess it makes sense that there isn't any Princess Mononoke model kits haha!)

@@fenrismodels ah yeah I've been there. I have LP-21 Italian Red ready for when I get there. Been using it for the hinomaru on WW2 Japanese planes. I love all the Ghibli films but Porco and Howls Moving Castle are my two favorite. I would really like some nausicaa models though if I can find them.

Oh, interesting! I hadn't heard of any nose cone issues, but I can see it being a problem if you build out the radar. I think it took a little bit to get it to fit nicely IIRC, but it didn't get recorded. I'll also admit to not really doing a lot with 3rd party stuff generally speaking, but I did almost get new exhaust cans for this one. I had heard that the ones in the kit aren't the best.

@@fenrismodels I did not build out the radar, and yeah it was a year ago so I could be remembering wrong. I do remember being disappointed getting a Tamiya kit that is typically shake and bake and having to do far more filling and such than I wanted. I did use magnets to attach all the stores so I could paint them later and maybe swap them out if I wanted. I wish they kept the Eagle with the turkey feathers as it is a cleaner look. So to that I really like the way you did yours. It's also a really neat 'call back' to the way the plane was originally designed. Of course, as long as you are happy with it that is the most important thing. I don't always do 3rd party add ons. I do like mixing in some scratch building to put my own mark on a kit. I happened to find the resin exhaust at a model show so it was too easy to not grab it up lol. I like your style, I tend to do more weathering on my kits, so I'll need to check out more of yours to see if I can not "over weather' hehe

@@gamerleveldad1397 I'm glad you like it. And it's worth saying that weathering is a highly personal touch. While I don't necessarily weather my own kits, that doesn't mean I don't appreciate the time, love, care, and attention to detail that goes into the process. It's just not my "art style", if that makes any sense 😅 Because to me, at the end of the day, modeling is an art form just like any other. No style invalidates any other style in this hobby no more than it does in any other art form.

Haha I believe that! Though I've had some pretty good Revell in the past a time or two. Might be interesting to compare the two kits, actually... 🤔

Thank you for the kind words! I think I'm quite happy with this for jets, at least the 1/48 stuff. I should give it a go at least once on some 1/72 kit at some point, just to compare

@@jodinegolchin5045 thank you for the kind words, I'm Glad you enjoyed it! Starting to think I would do more modern aircraft haha!

Haha I'm glad I'm not the only one that struggled with that! Loved what you did with yours, btw!

Not really, but a good number of them *are* needed to fit Marco in there. If you leave him out, some of it is more visible, but even then some serve are locating tabs and structural support for the upper fuselage half. I'd recommend taking a look at what all is there and all of the connection points. I'd wager you'll want to use most if not all of them. You just might not need to paint them is all.

Thanks! It's was deff a fun kit, I am glad you enjoyed the build!

Thank you so much! I did enjoy it, despite how long it took lol. I'm not fully one for jets comparatively per se, but I'm warming up to them as model kits

Thank you! I hope you enjoyed the video!

Thanks! I had a lot of fun with it... even if it did take me almost 7 months to finish haha!

It might be the Midway kit, then? I would have preferred that one I think. Same kit, but decals/schemes included are closer to what I am planning on doing with this one haha.

Very nice!!! I'm seriously contemplating picking up one of those just for fun. I will say, be very mindful with the struts portion; it's a bit tricky and fiddly to get it to go in nicely.

I'm deff looking forward to the build haha!

I love the way it looks, there's a reason its so well loved haha

Yeah, I was happy to see that too! I meant to make a comment on it, that's a good shout! Thanks!

I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm looking forward to building it certainly, it looks like a good solid build!

I definitely look forward to that

Thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Look forward to seeing the hold video for it soon!

The word I was actually looking for there was "casemate". Superstructure is also fairly correct, but casemate was the specific item I was looking for. (I assume you are talking about 3:05)

I'm glad you enjoyed the unboxing! I do plan on starting this kit here soon and making a video on it, so keep an eye out for that one sometime in the next few weeks! The US Interior Yellow Green you are talking about is Zinc Chromate. There were two zinc chromates, both a "yellow-green" but one is more yellow and the other is more green. The yellow zinc chromate never was used in cockpits; some kits have it listed as the paint, but it wasn't really used. Even green zinc chromate is kiiiiinda questionable, as it was similar, but separate, from US Interior Green (another yellow-green green). The big thing about yellow zinc chromate is, it was quite cancerous to work with. Fun fact there, additives were... added... (that feels odd to say) that helped to inhibit this, which changed the paint color to a greener hue. Completely tangential to your point, but I guess I just felt like adding it haha 😅

Whatever the colors used, it's unfortunate that Testor's Model Master is no longer widely available.

@@garydaniels5495 Yeah, sadly Rustoleum discontinued the line when they bought out Testors in the mid-2000's 🥲

Haha that's fair! Maybe I should grab the Revell one and do a side-by-side 🤔