I much appreciate it, fellas- happy new year!

Thanks, Randy!

Well, I've had a lot of bench time, and Had some serious back and forth with this build!  One thing I did realize was that I left poor Radu Brinzan out in the cold after he was nice enough to send me a set of his IAR 81C decals.  What a dope I am!  I did use them instead of the kit decals (which do look very nice, BTW) They were a treat to apply- judge for yourself. 

I won't go into the issues with dullcoat blushing and bad material interactions, but it's all coming out in the wash.  I had so many pics in my camera that I'm breaking it into two installments- here's Dodging Bullets, Part 1-

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