Jeff's Escaping Eagle****Finished****

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You are making excellent progress on this little gal.
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Great progress. That leading edge is odd looking, not one one usually sees.
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You are right Fred. Late war fighters, especially the Ta-152, had it. The link provided on the first page shows pictures of the actual airframe with the wavey edge but not as pronounced as I did. I have gone back this morning and touched it up. By the way, I used craft scissors to get the wavey edge. Cutting Tamiya tape.

Thanks for looking. Keeping me fired up.
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fredk wrote:Great progress. That leading edge is odd looking, not one one usually sees.
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Incidentally, this is the scheme I'm going to do on my last '109!
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Another update. This time most of the painting is done. A little more fuselage mottling is needed. Pure semi-defense scheme.

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Thinking pretty good thoughts at this point.
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She looks sweeeeet Jeff, very well done camo work.
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Nice work all round Jeff.

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Very nice, Jeff!
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Love the paint work. It's really looking the business.
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Thank you everyone. Good crowd cheering me on.
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jssel wrote:Thank you everyone. Good crowd cheering me on.
I don't think I'd want to see them with their poms poms out though :ha: :ha:
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Scary thought. A real thread buster.
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Glossed up tonight. Decals tomorrow.
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Got up early today so thought some decalling before work would be appropriate.

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You will note some decal film showing on the upper wing. The setting solution as yet to fully dry and I was impatient to get the pictures taken.

Let's see if I am right at noon today when I stop home for lunch. Keeping fingers crossed. Anoth reason to never dispose of paint mixes until the model is done. :ha:
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Its looking good so far.
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