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A 1996 birthdate makes a Botany Bay/DY class(es) contest logical. Since that's too confining, how about "First starships"? >using an electromechanical system to light the Millennium Falcon's engines with a motorized system to pull a light bar closer to the exhaust to make it brighter... Ha...

Thanks for the acetone reminder! I've cleaned superglue from my fingers with it so many times I'd come to think of it as (relatively) "harmless." >Can you splice just the sub bay into the 8 window bottom? or just trim down the 4 window bottom where it starts to diverge from the 8 window fi...

Thanks. "Take it slow" is a definite, for sure. I...hadn't thought of trying just a bit at a time, but it occurs to me that supergluing is reversible (just add fingernail cleaner). So if the end result was awful...back to the building board!

Again, thanks!

Few years back, Moebius was kind enough to send me a 4-window Seaview's prow underside and flying sub bay. No doubt somebody in customer service nearly died laughing at my idea of kitbashing an 8 window with flying sub. And yes, the FS bay fits just right under where the observation deck floor would...

I'm planning on making (not for sale) a custom name for the THANK YOU GREAT GODS OF THE COSMOS Galileo kit: hand drawn, scanned as a png file, reduced after copying into MS Word (I'm a...image manipulator of minimal technical skills). In re: the "fuzziness" of inkjet printed waterslide dec...

GREAT! thanks!

Thanks to both! Now for the killer: whatever "sticky" mask is used, can it be peeled without first "outlining" its shape (on the overpainted kit) with an X-acto?

I picked up a Lindberg Snark the other day (check "Ollie's," if they exist local to you; great deals), but find myself fearful of the MANY complex white stripe decals to be applied over a red-painted kit. So I wondered: what if I applied a white base coat, decaled over that, painted over t...

I haven't a spare, but I do a suggestion. Google "Herpa landing gear" and you'll find some 1/200 scale jumbo gear for die-cast display models. A bit small, but perhaps close enough for use.