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    Carl, it's a beautiful kit.
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    OH BOY!!! Wumm, a couple of us here off site were talking about the Ki-45 and how we need to stick a few together. I built the pair of engines. That's as far as I got. For now.
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    Thanks Lothar! It's a definite fun build for me that's a huge departure from our IT MUST BE EXACT aircraft and armor builds. So I'll work on this as the notion hits me, and right now, it's hit me. I'll definitely try to plank the hull and maybe copper the bottom before taking much of a break, but we'll see. It depends on how badly I mess it up.
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    Smitty, it's a cool little distraction for a bit. I'm incredibly stressed out these days and so is Joy. The less paint fumes in the house right now, the better
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    The first planking looks to be a no brainer. Just make sure the hull form is fair with no lumps or bumps and after steaming, the planks should lay right down. The trick is making sure the individual planks are cut down to match the narrowing and curve of the hull at the ends. I don't have that skill yet, although many can almost eyeball it. Trial and error will work for me, but this is a cool side project for me.
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    I always thought they looked OK with the original V-8, but they look spectacular with a nicely cowled Lycoming or Continental flat 6. plus, it gives the underpowered 108 a real horsepower boost as well.
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    No, not really. I expect it’s an acquired taste. I don’t find it particularly attractive, but it’s certainly historical, and if you ever see one, they’re certainly unique. It’s a mid 30s light 4-5 seat general aviation craft that was decades ahead of its time when released to the public. It’s claim to fame being that it was a very competent cruiser at the time new aircraft looked like WACos and Beech model 17s. Oh, and it also fathered the 109. It was such a good design that it was produced for years in France after the war, with various engine installations. I believe there have also been several halfhearted attempts to restart production using modern American engine and propeller combinations, but that has gone nowhere. Today, it’s just an led airplane design that has been eclipsed by many others over the years. Half the issues for me are that people painting them up to look like 109s, and in that form, they’re downright ugly. But as built, they ain’t bad.
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    And then, plenty of sanding, followed by shaping the gunport patterns. I still need to suck it in on the bottom edge.
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    Then attach the stern counter.
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    Once in awhile, someone catches me unawares. BiggTim has, on occasion, chastised me for not, every now and then, building in wood. Then, during one of my infrequent sojourns into the drunken bliss of homemade corn whiskey, a member here dared me to actually build a meaningful model of an historic ship..... in wood. Any other time, I would have blurted out “get stuffed” or something similar, at that moment of reduced faculty, I agreed. Three weeks later, this is sitting on my doorstep. Game on.
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    And we form he stern counter. A thorough wetting in hot water for a few minutes, followed by an overnight of sitting, taped to a Mr. Leveling Thinner bottle gave me a nice concave curve.
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    Then some filler blocks to flesh out the shape around the keel.
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    So the first thing that becomes immediately apparent is that this is not even close to being in my wheelhouse. The entire thing is wood. Pine, aircraft ply, pine, pear, and boxwood. Plus the main bullheads are MDF, so they’re heavy. The frame is then planked, twice. After that, the hull bottom gets coppered. Then, after that excruciating effort, we get go rig the thing. What could possibly go wrong? Started the main fuselage, I mean hull, and it all fits together nicely.
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    Once in awhile, someone catches me unawares. BiggTim has, on occasion, chastised me for not, every now and then, building in wood. Then, during one of my infrequent sojourns into the drunken bliss of homemade corn whiskey, a member here dared me to actually build a meaningful model of an historic ship..... in wood. Any other time, I would have blurted out “get stuffed” or something similar, at that moment of reduced faculty, I agreed. Three weeks later, this is sitting on my doorstep. Game on.
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    Are the wheels similar to a 109 style, or more of a low pressure civilian style? Im glad the prop is ok because i placed an order a few weeks ago with Henri Daehne and it’s too soon to bother him again.. LOL.
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    Couldn’t resist. Oh fart! Now I need to find a nice 1950s civil scheme.
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    Has anyone picked one up yet? It’s $50.00 at Sprue Brothers and I’m sorely tempted, just not 100% sure on quality yet.
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    I think it’s just the angle. In person, it looks correct to me. Plus when you look at the various finished builds out there it looks right to me.
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    You sound like me. Wishful thinking. Err drinking that’ll we’ll get it for the “steal it” price.
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    Just introduced a year or so ago as well. A Blackhawk derivative.
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    If the plastic release is even close to as nice as the resin kit, it's going to be a sure winner. The HPH kit gives you the option of deploying the rear gun or keeping it stowed, and I hope infinity gives us the same option.
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    Yep, I’ve got them in my ZM kit, but I plan on using them. Carl, you need to contact me. Regarding the grand prize from Christmas. I kinda fizzled out, man. We’ll devise a cunning plan for a substitute.
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    Keep it coming! We’ll have two of these being built here!
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    I’m certainly going to go back and rework a bit here and there, Hubert. In person it looks great, like not burned metal, but the camera does kill some of it. The fuselage is quite monotonous as well in he pictures, so I’ll probably overdo it a bit with the tonal modulations so it shows better here. This is a shelf model and not destined for the contest rooms. If seems I do most of my building for the web these days. But I really just needed to call something done... ha
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