Clunkmeister

Met Mike Swinburne this afternoon for Tex Mex, raided Ernie’s stash, then beers at a lovely brewery. He then pulled two beautiful kits out of his sleeve: the brand new Westland Sea King, and the still warm from the mold machine Fairey Gannett, both by Airfix and both in 1/48. Pics to follow, but ooooh what nice stuff Airfix makes today. If you’re an FAA fan, this year has been a VERY good year.

Carl, if you want one, let me know. I can order one here and then post it to you privately. Not an insurmountable problem. Our British friends do this all the time for us uppity colonials.

You sir, need a good ol’ Texas sized slap on the hay-ed

Kind of a captive audience. Of course you have LIRR.

What’s amazing is how effective it was, though.

Loving this build. I’ve always had an odd attraction to this anachronism. In WW2, it looked like a relic from the Great War. HUGE, slow, light firepower, and able to cross almost all barriers. I’ve had Churchill kits several times, but building 2 thousand or more identical bodies would have sent me straight to my jug of special stuff to drown my frustration. Like many, if one came out in 1/16, I’d be a taker.

Nice! Looking really decent so far. I built the ZM kit years ago, and enjoyed it. It’s quite the real beast. I have one of these in the stash to use on the Fisher Models family edition Skyraider conversion, and I’m looking forward to giving it some love. I’ll be watching this quite closely.

Oh I know. Ibe travelled up and down the LIE many times. Insane. I’d come from Carteret, NJ to visit friends in Islip, and it was a real roll of the dice 20 years ago. Can’t even imagine today.

Another pic. Gotta finish the props, weather them, add gear doors and the post gunsight. Then I’ll put her up, let her sit a month, come back, and giver her a once over for missing stuff. Fix those, and we’re done. I expect this’ll be at a local hobby shop come January.

Lots of light reflections, but it looks really nice. I like it

Almost there.

Get ‘em while you can, folks! If it’s as good as their G-14 it’ll be one heckuva kit.

We have Fire Ants, Coyotes, Bobcats, Cougars, Wild Hogs, Copperheads, Cottonmouths, Rattlers, Coral Snakes, sharks with giant laser beams, and scorpions big enough to carry you off whole. Plus the chupacabra. Heck, we might even have Drop Bears for all I know.

Let it dry and then it vacuums up. We get invaded by crickets every year. They get literally everywhere. Cricket parts and pulp is a miserable fact of life every October. Every spring, we get June bugs by the millions. They’re here about 6 weeks, and then gone.

This enemy somehow got behind the lines and was pursued to where there was no more room to maneuver. All attempts at close quarters engagement failed, as the enemy was agile and wiley. After several attempts were made, a carefully planned high altitude strategic bombing campaign was developed, and through the use of a specially developed Mk. la eyeball sight unit, thick body wash was dropped from dizzying heights, the invader was eliminated. There was concern about any initial near miss causing the enemy unit to quickly move under cover, but the first glob was a very near miss, entangling one side. Subsequent globs eliminated the threat, and a Mop Up unit was then employed to sanitize the area. My wife was quite relieved that carpet bombing was not called for this time.

Once I have a completed model, I’ll see how it looks, but right now it seems More than good

I’m in with this amazing resin kit. 1/32 Supermarine Attacker, by Iconicair. Having built this Company’s Seafang, I was so impressed that I immediately bought an Attacker and will build it in the New Year. So I’ll now offer up another to one lucky winner. What’s not to love about an early FAA carrier jet. And a taildragger, too!

If you were missed, please let me know Because there were more prizes than people, a few folks won twice. Prizes: 1. Revell Germany 1/32 Arado Ar 196A-3 donated by Smitty44. Won by Winnie 2. 1/35 Border Models Tiger 1 Early Production or $75 USD card donated by BlrwestSiR. Won by Artful69 3. $100 AUD gift voucher donated by Artful69 Won by Telepatu 4. $100 CAD gift donated by Winnie. Won by Scotts GT 5. 1/32 Rodent PT-17 Stearman donated by ScotsGT Won by HubertB 6. 1/32 Eduard Bf-108 profipac with a boatload of AM donated by Hubert B. Won by Fran 7. $75 USD Gift Card donated by mark31. Won by CANichol 8. 1/32 Iconicair Supermarine Attacker, shipped straight from Iconicair. Donated by Clunkmeister. Winner GusMac 8.5 1/48 Tamiya F-35B donated by Clunkmeister. Won by Seiran01 9. Complete 10 year collection of nail clippings, toe jam and navel lint sculptures. donated by Clunkmeister. Won by James Hatch 10. $75 USD gift card donated by GusMac. Won by Smitty 11. 1/32 Trumpeter SBD-1/2 Dauntless donated by Fran. Won by Peterpools 12. 1/32 Italeri F-35 A Lightning ll donated by Peterpools. Won by BlrWestSir 13. 1/48 Hasegawa F-16c Fighting Falcon with some real one of a kind cool looking decals that'll be a real hit with our younger model crowd at the shows, donated by Telepatu. Won by Winnie 14. 1/35 TBMP T-15 Armata by Zvezda donated by C.A. Nicol. Won by Mark31 15. 1/24 Airfix Spitfire Mk.lX donated by Seiran01. Won by C.A. Nichol Grand Prize drawings: There are two grand prizes. The first is a choice, depending on how you describe Large Scale. The second is a traditional LSM. 1. Choice of a large “SCALE” model 1/144 Revell An-225 Mriya, OR a “LARGE SCALE” model ZM FW 190A.4. Won by Telepatu. Please let me know which you wish, and we’ll ship direct. 2. 1/32 HKM A-20G with full Zotz PTO decal set. Won by CANichol. Will come straight from Sprue Brothers. Please advise your address Merry Christmas everyone!

Welcome back! We’ve changed some, but not so much. We have a very active armor group here that is most prolific! We’re all looking forward to seeing more of your work, Sir!

One other thing on the kit nosegear, or any nosegear for that matter. The nosegear, through design, has to be added when you build up the nosewheel well. Which means it’s sticking out through almost the entire build. I’ve broken mine twice already, and put it all back together. Life goes on. If your careful, you’ll make it through 95% of the build before you break it. 😂

Peter, the kit nose hear is MORE than strong enough. The nose gear is very lightly loaded once the kit is complete. The noseweights supplied are perfect for the task. Just make sure you install both sides. I do recommend Brassin wheels for this one, as well as Quinta or Airscale the kit panel is, ummm, iffy. And use HGW belts. PE belts SUCK

As good as the B-24 was over Europe, it was outshone in a Europe by the B-17, that had its perfect mission there. The B-24 out shone the B-17 in almost every other theatre of operations, though, from sub Hunter/Killer, to the MTO, CBI, and of course, the PTO where it absolutely came into its own. The B-17 wasn’t even close.

I dunno, man. I’m now faced with running my business full time again, so my bench time will be somewhat limited. We’ll see, right? 🤣

Those tires are hilarious. Maybe on a DC-3, yes, but even then it’d wiggle around on the mains so much as to be unsafe as all heck!

Now THIS is interesting…. Great work so far!