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Martin Oostrom
I sense a preference for WWII armor and stuff 😄
Very nice place you got!

Rui S
Hi Martin, Thx for your words, and yes, nowadays only 1/35 & 1/32 WWII Kits😉

John Thomas
Nice work area

Rui S
Thx Thomas,
I´m hoping my new man cave will be better organized😉

Thomas K.
interest! 🙂

Rui S
Thx for your interest, Thomas,

Nathan Dempsey
Nice workspace.

Rui S
Thank you Nathan.
I've still a lot of work to finish My man cave🙂

Rui S
Hi James. Thank you for your Nice words. The collection got Much bigger since😉

Michael Hickey
Awesome Man Cave and stash.👍🙂

Rui S
Thank you for your Nice words Michael.

Mathieu
Cool place to hang out !

Rui S
Thank you Math. My new man cave is Almost ready i Will take new photos and start modeling again. I hope.

Urban Gardini
Nice to see mate!

Holger Kranich
Yeah, nice to see your cave!

gorby
I'm always interested to see where others work (well, play really). I'm rebuilding my workspace as well at the moment, I'll post some pics when it's done.

Rui S
Hi mates, thank you for your words.
@gorbygould, i hope your play pode Will be ready soon🙂

Alec K
Very nice room 👍

Treehugger
Are those RGB bulbs on the ceiling?

Treehugger
Nice to see a clean floor, makes it easy to keep the floor clean, as opposed to having stuff cluttered all around the floor.

Arnaud Hascoet
Hi! Nice cave and collection! Does your air-brush compressor come from Ali-Express? They sell the same one. Is it good or not?

Rui S
Hi mates,
@ Alec & Roland thank you for your Nice words, apreciated.
@Treehugger, no i think they are osram classic 6500k E27 led value A60 9w =60w cool white 806lm:

google.com/search?q=..imgrc=jv4UmI6z25LORM

As to the floor the colour is good but i wish it add smaller rectificated joints, but that's wat i got so i just try to have footers all the way arround to avoid Losing smal flying pieces.
@ Arnoud, most of My new stuff came from evelbay. This compressors machines are all from China and then several brands give them another name.
It's working well but still i have to test it much more.

Rui S
Thx, Spanjaard. Slowly its getting there😢

coporado
What a nice place to be/ work/ relax. Looking at your stash there´s a lot work to do in your cave 🙂

Richmond
Re: compressor, looks similar to the HSeng I have, quiet, cheap at only 190 AUD, and, so far, reliable.

Günther Decock
Mooie werkruimte en nog een stash voor een tijdje. Zit met hetzelfde probleem 🙂. 👍

Rui S
Thank you mates for your Nice comments, much aprecaited.

@Coporado, it was a storage room, so there are two problems, one does not have natural light or the other does not have running water, but that's what you get. now it is a little different, as I moved the drawer modules over the drawing board.
the stash is much bigger than what i will be able to chew, thanks to evilbay.

@Richmond, Yap another evilbay buy. No problems whatsoever with it.

@ Gunther, the only thing I'm m missing now is a sprayboth. I'm thinking building one myself😉

Richmond
I think Plasmo built one from scratch but a work colleague said you have to carefully select the electrical /mechanical parts as they can ignite the fumes

Michael Moerkens
Good looking workplace Rui, with a well originised stash. You can spend many happy hours there 🙂

Rui S
Thanks you very much for the heads up 👍. I'm thinking using a WC fan...

coporado
Rui, everything is well organized and you made it really nice place to work. For having natural light you might find appropriate lamps on the market. Daylight has a range of 5000 - 6000 Kelvin, which these lamps should cover. You can get them for around 20 EUR. I´m happy with 2 lamps providing that range. Particularly for figure painting I love it. Concerning the airbrush both a bathroom/ WC fan is great. You may just put it behind a filter of a kitchen hood. I did mine the same way, putting it in a wooden box and attached some LED stripes inside around the painting area.

Rui S
Hi Coporado, I'm quite happy with my led lights. I have 3 on the celling, two on the drawing board, and a third (hot and could each with ajustements) in the magnifying glass that i always use because I am seeing worse and worse and I already use 2.5 glasses. i Was talking more about an inclosed space without a glass window.
As to the booth, yes that's what I'm planing and use a conduit directly to the ventilation grilles on the left

Rui S
New Layout. Now on the left there is place to a spray booth. One day, one day

Jakub Krzysztofiak
clean and tidy very nice

Rui S
Thanks Jakub. Also a never ending WIP. 😄

Guillaume Blanchet
Nice setup and impressive Stash!

Rui S
Thanks you Guillaume. My stash is more like a collection, Because I Will never finish all those kits bought mainly in evelbay😉

Logan Eden
Good Morning, Rui Thanks for sharing the photo's of the Man Cave - Work area. For modellers, it's great to see how others have things set up. Looks like a place that a craftsman can enjoy the Art of Modelling. Catch Ya, Logan Post Script: Thanks for the comment on my Sherman.

Rui S
Thx, Logan. And yes, I also like to see Mates Man caves and their setups.

hammer
I especially like the precision modeling tool in workbench picture #11, in front of the gold statue. Sometimes you need a little something special when a model just won't go together. Lol

Rui S
@hammer, LOOLLL, I knew that I have a gold statue (offered by my young sun in fathers day). But precision modeling tools, I don't have many, so I had to look and you made me laugh.Thank God I haven't had to use it on any model, yet 😄

DAVID C
Que buen lugar para relajarse! Que envidia sana... ???
Una pregunta, veo que tienes muchas maquetas de la marca ITALERI que tal calidad son? Yo solo hize el tanque FURY y fue bastante malo. Un saludo

John Thomas
Nice modeling area.

Rui S
Thank you mates.
@DAVID, não me posso queixar, mas luz exterior e água corrente seria óptimo 😉
Eu gosto bastante dos Italeri, já fiz o Elephant, o RSO, o Opel Blitz e seu atrelado, todos eles tiveram a sua dose de scratch build, mas isso também faz parte do gozo do hobby, certo?
São kits mais antigos que não estão ao nivel de detalhes dos kits actuais, mas lembro-me de ver obras primas feitas com italeris, por exemplo por Verliden e outros mestres 😉
Já para não falar numa óptima relação qualidade/preço ...

Kerry COX
Rui. Image 12 has me a little concerned mate. ! What the hell is a 500g rubber hammer used for when you model. ???? :-O
I know that some parts don't go together as planned, but wow, a hammer. ??? 😉 LOL

Rui S
Obrigado Jorge, sinto que ainda há muita coisa a melhorar na funcionalidade do posto de trabalho, mas com o tempo e prática vai_se compondo a coisa. O prazer foi meu.
@ Kezza, you made me lough a lot with your funny comment. The hammer was handy when I was mouting the cabinnets, but it's still there just in case 😄

Urban Gardini
It's there for that Pioneer 2 kit in the future...

Kerry COX
I must admit Rui. I do understand the hammer now, having had to use something similar when I put my IKEA display cases together, but the sight of it did raise some alarm bells here. hahahahaha 😉 👍

Rui S
@ Urban, I'm not sure wich pioneer 2 kit, you are Talking about???
@Kezza, no stress, at least for the time beeing LOL 😉

Urban Gardini
The one you'll buy in error...

Rui S
Ahh, that One, it Will have to wait, because I'm trying hard not to buy anymore kits 😉

Urban Gardini
ROFL

Rui S
Thx Mona, glad you like it. it's a bit changed since.

Kerry COX
It's great to have things all organized, all within easy reach and bright. ! Your a great modeller now Rui, but watch how much you improve now things are, "As they should be". 🙂 🙂 🙂 👍 I have just done the same thing Rui, and I really have got more enthusiasm than ever before to do what I like to do,

Rui S
Thanks Kezza. Yes I understand what you mean, and I can add that with work and practice, there is always more to improve functionality 😉

Bruce Huxtable
More glass cabinets filling up? I'm liking all that space you have given yourself. ?

Rui S
Yap, I've one that isn't shown here, but yes, I will need more.

Mike Kryza
Really a very nice cave, Rui! 🙂

Rui S
Thank you, Mike. I can't complain 😄

Phil M
Its way too clean haha....amazing!

Bruce Huxtable
Can't quite see what's on your bench, Rui ?

Rui S
Thx Phil M, yap. It's always Clean between builds.
@ Bruce, at the moment you can see it in my album:
Somewhere in/arround Rostov, 1941 | Album by mig (1:35)

BetterTimes-Henry
Really nice work space and impressive stash! You keep it nice and organised, ready for new projects.

Rui S
Thx BetterTimes, at the moment I've only one new project going.

Marder III
Jealous ! great set up
Wait till you have collected that many kits, they start overflowing to other rooms for storage 😉

Lenny Li
I noitce the white PC speakers next ot the window - must be at least 20 years new!

Rui S
Thx mates.
@ Jonn, the idea was good but they are not very adjustable any more, because the joints are in poor quality plastic. But they work.
Glad you like my dios, your comment is much apreciated. The autumm One is not finished yet. I intend to add a horse (already Started) and some figures... One day... 🤔

@ Marder III, Thx but don't be, this is a storage room 3 stors down from my apartment... But ofcourse I can't complain.
I'm not interested in (well, interested I would be, but making an efort not to) buying more kits now and I've been able to do that, for some years now. So...
Now what I want, it's to take the boxes out, build them and ocuppy the same space with dios 😉

@ Lenny, hehehe, you are right, they are old (like the majority of my stash), but they still work just fine 😄

Sebastian Spluszka
Great workshop !!

Simon Nagorsnik
I wish I had such a nice workplace 😣

Rui S
Thank you mates, it has ups and downs 😄 but I can't complain.

Villiers de Vos
An ever improving and expanding empire! 🙂

Rui S
Thx, Villiers de Vos. Improving yes, I hope so. Expanding 🤔 ? Not so sure about that 🙂

Kerry COX
I do hope you have a tread mill close by, or at least some where you can get to for some physical attention. ? As being more confined that most times, and sitting for longer periods of time, exercise is now your best friend. !

Sergej I
Nice cave! Love your stash aswel 👍 and great to see young blood helping 🙂

Rui S
@ Kezza, you are absolutely right, but I'm not a exercise fan, unless it his to Carry a big beer package 😄

@Sergej I, thx for your words. The Young is my older son, 21 now and did not repeat the experience, unfortunately 🙁 I Will have to handle my stash Alone 🤔

Viacheslav
realistic)

Rui S
Thank you Viacheslav

Chan Li
Haha, I'm jealous that you have a grown up son, my destructive two year old boy captures 90% territory of my home and my dog and me share the rest 10% on balcony, was creepy freezing out there!

Rui S
Hehehe, you have to enjoy him now, because no time your son Will be in school, and you Will miss the time he was the sovereign 😉

Kerry COX
Rui. I whole heartedly agree with you and your thoughts about being a dad.
My boy had the attention span of a gold fish at four, but now, he is a petty officer in the RAN. Go figure. !
But sharing those formative years I would gladly do again.
BTW, your man cave look like it is a relatively dust free area. Yes. ?

Rui S
@ Kerry, Yap that's it, thx for the suport 😉
My cave has a ventilation grille on the right, that overlooks the sidewalk. the street doesn't have a lot of traffic, and I put an acrylic on the inside, but even so... not completely free from dust and not a big problem. I don't have to clean it often, Why do you ask?

CaptGPF
I loved the pic of your son helping out the most - it's a great bonding exercise - and more importantly, it keeps the hobby alive! 😀. I've managed to get my wife and daughter to participate in a build with me, but still working on the last kid! 😱

Jennifer Franklin
I am envious, you had a fantastic space, and now you have an even better space.

Lukas Muller
I envy you Rui because I work on a 78x52cm table. This is Kingdom for me 😄

Mr James
So impressed with how clean and tidy and very organised 🙂

Rui S
@ CaptGPF, I wish I could say it worked, but no, after this kit, he didn't do any more, apparently I couldn't motivate him enough 🙁
@ Jennifer Franklin, Thank you for your words, but in fact the previous space was indoors so it had better conditions, this one is in a storage room and therefore has less natural light but the worst thing is the lack of water, so to wash my hands I have to climb 3 floors, but I shouldn't complain, as this is my own space and of reasonable dimensions 😉
@ Lukas Muller, I understand your envy, so I can't complain. But the most important thing is to have mojo, because any space will do 🙂
@ Mr James, Only between buildings, because I stop to clean and tidy up before starting the next one. During, it is more or less desorganized chaos. 😄

Anthony lfk
Rui, i really envy your special model workshop...its only a dream for me.

Rui S
Thank you Anthony. Apreciated having this space is Great but also important is the good old mojo 😉

Ade
Wow, now that's what I call a workspace! I have a kitchen worktop lol

Rui S
Thx Ade,
Yap, can't complain, but at least you have plenty water available 😄

Randy Kriegel
Nice work space, looks neat and organized.

Rui S
Thx mate. Mostly in Inbetween builds, I can say that 😉

Олег
I also want a good workspace ( but for now, as it is)

Kerry COX
When do you move in Rui. ? 🙂

George Williams
Nice colour but you may have a little sanding to do.

Martin Oostrom
Those sms paints are a bit hot

Mat
Thanks George and Martin. Pretty new to all this so ordering some fine grit sandpaper and watching some tutorials 👍

DerMattes
Das schau ich mir an, following 🙂

Goldman
Interesting, didn't think it is a 4x4. Never see these type of tires in any kit before. Looks like a really unique model

Qwertzel
Revell used this type of tires often on fire trucks. You can find them on the MAN HLF 20, MB DLK, MB LF 20/16, MB TLF 24/50 and MB HLF 20/16.

Neuling
Looking forward ...............

Goldman
The cab looks really nice. What paint did you use for the blue floor of the rear crew area? Interesting effect.

Qwertzel
I used Revell Aqua Nr. 54 with a matt varnish, but I think my varnish spray can is almost empty, wich creates this effect

Curtis Caden
You certainly went above and beyond with your paint scheme. I am impressed. Keep up the good work.

Goldman
Taking shape really nicely. The blue and black strips do look good

Qwertzel
Honestly, the top strip is also blue but very dark. It's the Revell Aqua 54, but thank you very much, Goldman!

Goldman
Congratulation for completing this model. Nice collection of fire vehicles.

Roland Sachsenhofer
These four pictures begin a project that should result in one of the largest models I have ever attempted. Not the biggest - the 1:32 Liberator holds my record here - but close!
However, the impressively large box contains surprisingly little and, also surprisingly, large components such as the fuselage, wings and tailplane are already assembled. Incidentally, these are made of fibreglass and require their own treatment.
These parts are also stable and clean. A bit of filling was required, as the traces of glue and filler on the seams are very rough and show air pockets. This will now be sanded, the cockpit sawn out and the windows drilled - well, modelling a little differently than usual! 🙂

Gergő Takács
This looks like a cool project! Following.

Treehugger
The panel lines look ok I guess. I mean, I would be happy with those panel lines.

Mr D
Like it , nice project.
I'm working on the Beriev Be-6 Armoured Flying boat,
Revisiting a kit after 33yrs.
All the best with yours...😃👍👍

Robert Podkoński
A true behemoth it is. I will surely follow this build with utmost interest!

gorby
Looking forward to seeing this take shape. 🙂
I believe the last Mars had it's final flight two weeks ago.
Youtube Video
Youtube Video

Nathan Dempsey
Oh my another giant. Following 👀

Robert Podkoński
BTW. Do we see the finished Fairchild in the background, Roland?

Roland Sachsenhofer
I am very happy about all your interest! In fact, I also started this project because of its topicality; the pictures of the last flight of Hawai Mars are always a heart-warming pleasure; this one in particular, thanks Gorby for posting it!

Today I drilled the openings for the windows in the fuselage; I determined the diameter of the holes from kit glass parts. They seem a bit big to me, but we'll see. As I'm not going to use the clear parts from the kit, but want to make them with Klearfix, I could reduce the diameter quite a bit.
The next steps will be to finish sanding the fuselage seams - now only the top side has to be done - and then to glue the wings and stabilisers to the fuselage. To do this, I'm cutting solid steel rods to length, which I'll glue in place with a two-component adhesive.
The Mars should be ready by mid-October: I want to take it to the Euromodel in Ried, Upper Austria.

And yes, In fact, the more or less finished Fairchild F.91 had to serve as a scale model in the background! 🙂

Thomas Mayer
Du bist echt eine Bau-Maschine, Roland! Und immer kommt etwas sehr schönes raus! 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Danke für die Einschätzung, Thomas! 🙂

Roland Sachsenhofer
The construction of Mars is progressing: I'll show you a few construction steps in a little 'time lapse'. Attaching the wings and tailplane with 2k glue worked well; the materials could be sanded smooth and fine afterwards. However, the brittleness of the fibreglass caused some difficulties; parts kept splintering off and had to be filled, sanded and re-engraved. As I always do the whole thing standing up, wearing a mask and under running water, this always turns into an almost athletic exercise 🙂 But now it seems to be over and the Mars is ready for its first encounter with colour... I took the two crew members under the cockpit canopy to make the proportions clear and to keep my options open for presenting the finished aircraft - who knows, maybe it will take off or fly?

gorby
It's a bit of a monster! 😮
Doesn't look like an easy build but you seem to be beating it into shape. 🙂

Robert Podkoński
You're the brave man, Roland, not me...

DerMattes
Das schau ich mir weiter an 🙂

Mr D
Looking good Roland 👌
Be a nice bird when she done, pilots look smart 👍👍

Cuajete
Wow... an unusual and gigant model... It seems like fiberglass is difficult to handle.
Great job so far, Roland!

Michael Kohl
Na, da hab ich doch auch nen Blick drauf

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you very much for your motivating feedback and your interest, mates!

Łukasz Gliński
I have to follow that behemoth 👍 I don't think I'll ever find enough space to build one myself 😄

Thomas Kolb
My goodness, your models are just getting bigger and bigger! I cannot wait to see it finished!

Finn
Looking interesting, I'm in

Ray Loch
Following as well. Just saw its retirement flyby and landing in Pat Bay, Its Huge.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Fortunately, the Martin Mars has reached the stage where the colouring and surface design will be the main thing; so far I've been 'plugging holes' again and again: the fibreglass surface proves to be quite brittle, damage is difficult to putty, and when re-engraving the lost panel lines it quickly happens that it cracks again under the carefully guided scalpel blade - and a new hole has already appeared. The new pictures show a few such construction sites, for example at the bow under the cockpit glazing or on the back of the fuselage between the wings.
But, all in all, in retrospect it's all half as bad, now I'm looking forward to the paintwork!

Thank you, mates, for your interest and feedback! Ray, I would have liked to have experienced that too!

Ben M
👀🤯

Cuajete
Roland, I was unaware of these problems with fiberglass and it is a shame that these kits are so expensive considering the quality of these materials. I think the worst is over. You can feel proud of the work done so far. The effort was worth it. Go on!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Those are encouraging responses, yes, Cuajete, I think so too. Thank you both for your interest and comments!

Mr D
How big is the model??
Is it cast in fiberglass because it's to big for injection molding??
Nice to see the update 😁👍👍
The vent in behind the cockpit done now.

Mirko Römer
That's what you call a project!👍

Nicolas
Cool project, following.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you friends! The Mars as a 72 model measures 84.5cm in wingspan and has a length of 48.5cm: huge, but not so huge that it couldn't have been made into an injection moulded model. The B-24 Liberator from Hobby Boss in 1:32 that I built this spring, for example, was significantly larger and yet still injection moulded.

What is now proving to be a challenging issue is that the acrylic paint I used does not seem to want to adhere properly to some parts of the resin fuselage and wing panels, even though I have meticulously and accurately cleaned the surfaces. And another thing: after I sprayed a first coat of white paint on the fuselage today, something became apparent that hadn't appeared before: the resin surfaces are covered with small air pockets, i.e. holes.... 'Much enemy, much honour' as they say in German! 🙂

Ben M
What are you using for primer? I almost always use tamiya spray primer as it usually adheres even to challenging surfaces. I have had trouble occasionally on some resin surfaces where I've resorted to krylon plastic compatible spray paint as a primer.

Roland Sachsenhofer
That's a good question, thanks for the tips: I used glossy black acrylic paint here as usual - it actually looked quite good until yesterday, after a few days drying time, I started to mask off the black areas on the undersides of the wings....
I think I'll just carry on with Gunze and Tamiya acrylic paints - and touch up where necessary.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Der aktuelle Zustand der Mars in Weiß hat noch nichts mit der finalen Oberseiten-Farbe zu tun, sondern bildet nur die Basis für das Rot der Unterseiten. Aktuell erstrahlt die Mars sogar in leuchtend Gelb: Dies sollte die Leucht- und Deckkraft des folgenden Rot noch weiter stärken. Der Aufwand wird allerdings dadaurch erhöht, dass immer wieder Spachtel- Schleif und Gravierbedarf auftaucht: die Resin Oberflächen sind äußerst uneben und voller kleiner Lufteinschlüsse, ein echter Jammer. Aber ich bin zuversichtlich, dass mit der steigenden Stärke der Lackschichten auch die raue Oberfläche etwas mehr Geschlossenheit zeigen wird!

Mr D
It's come along way 👌👍👍

Łukasz Gliński
Oh man, that is bigly yuge indeed 😄

Cuajete
You're doing very well, Roland. Don't be discouraged.
Kopf hoch! 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Sapperlot! I only wrote the text in German yesterday: here it is in English:
The current state of the Mars in white has nothing to do with the final upper side colour, but only forms the basis for the red of the undersides. At the moment, the Mars is even shining in bright yellow: this should further enhance the luminosity and opacity of the red colour to follow. However, the effort is increased by the fact that there is always a need for filling, sanding and engraving: the resin surfaces are extremely uneven and full of small air pockets, a real shame. But I'm confident that as the thickness of the paint layers increases, the rough surface will also show a little more unity!

Thank you very much for your encouragement and motivation! Yesterday I mentioned that Mars has now been coloured yellow as the last stage before the red - here are the pictures!

Cuajete
👌

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you Cuajete!
....and now in red! It's getting really exciting for me now. Not just the question of how I'll manage the masking for the white upper sides, but above all whether the colour under the adhesive strips will stay on them or - hopefully - on the model when I peel them off!

Cuajete
I'm sure it does, Roland. That Mars looks great and the red color looks great.
Is the stand underneath included in the kit?

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you! Yes, that's him. Doesn't necessarily look much, but is very useful when building

Mr D
Hi Roland 👋.
Is it heavy? Being fiberglass ?
I've read about the difficulty you had with Glass resin!
My dad used to make parts for race bikes ....and air bubbles very hard to avoid! Also cutting against the grain....tends to pull other strands.
Your getting to a better stage now and it's coming on nicely now...
I thought it was the Goose at first glance.. earlier in build.
Good luck with rest.👍👍

Arseny K.
I just love it! Respect

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you both! Somehow it is really comforting and above all interesting that I am not alone with the problems with the fibreglass surfaces! Yes, the construction is fairly heavy, but above all it needs enough 'air space' above the workbenches when it is swivelled to get everywhere with the airbrush! 🙂
Well, the 'Spruce Goose' is still a dream - but one with a chance of realisation!

Roland Sachsenhofer
The time has come! Now the layers of paint under the masking have to prove that they can adhere to the fibreglass surface and want.... prognoses say it will all be possible! In the meantime, the white has been applied to the surfaces, which definitely looks good on the Martin Mars.

Cuajete
Great, Roland! 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you for encouragement!
I would like to show you the condition of the Martin Mars this morning: The red and white areas survived the masking quite well, only small areas had to be touched up with brush strokes, but the black areas on the undersides of the surfaces, on the other hand, remained generously on the adhesive tape. I masked them again straight away - I now trusted the red areas surrounding them - and sprayed over the black, applying a first coat of glossy clear varnish over everything in the same session. Now I have to break up the red and white edges on the fuselage with a cloth, well, the white always builds up beautifully... Maybe I can try out the decals tomorrow!

Agnius
Interesting project! Following

Zbynek Honzik
It looks spectacular, Roland! Fingers crossed and looking forward to seeing the result. 👍

Cuajete
I agree with Zbynek Honzik 👍

Mr D
Very nice 👌
The hard work is being rewarded now 😁👍👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you very much for your encouragement and motivation - much appreciated! I'm all the more pleased to be able to show you the Martin Mars with decals! The decal material was anything but easy to apply and in some parts - with the red stripes - it broke into numerous stripes, but I'm all the more pleased to be able to show you the pictures of a reasonably well-marked Martin Mars! The engines and floats have been under construction for some time now and will soon complete the Martin Mars as it approaches the finish line.

Cuajete
Looks really great, Roland! 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you Cuajete!

Dave Burgess
Interior completed with photo-etch. A few touchups to be made. Wings & tail surfaces attached. Just need to mask canopy then we're ready for airbrushing.

Dave Burgess
White primer and gloss white applied; Waiting for a few days for paint to cure properly before beginning decalling.