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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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    Tony, I sent you a pic on the seatbelts
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    Sprue Brothers should carry them
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    Bill, one thing you have going for you is Wingnut’s almost ‘perfect’ plastic. It glues easily and neatly.
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    The King of Kool.
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    The cool is strong in this one...
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    Yeah, one solitary man builds 98% of the world's supply of Corsairs.
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    I agree with everyone here. I dropped a T-28 when I was loading up for the Nats. Broke all three landing gear clean off, wiped out the entire underwing stores, and cracked the seam on the spine. The model had been ready for a couple weeks and I was going to just look at it and see if there were any misses. I tossed it in the bin, went to the Nats, and when I returned, pulled it out and suddenly the problems didn't look so bad. It was repaired in a couple easy sessions.
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    Yep, and a see a couple spots around the pit I need to touch up. Tsk Tsk
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    What a fun build! This is a brand new kit, and I ordered one the moment they hit the market. It’s been a very long time since I’ve enjoyed building a model as much as I did this one. It was built OOB including kit seatbelts and all the kit PE. It all fit, and fit well. The decals got a workout with the corrugated surface, but settled down nicely with a couple applications of Micro Sol. Comments welcome.
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    Tony, Harold’s goodies should be here in a day or two and we can meet up. It’ll make a huge difference. On one of my SEA builds, I used two figures, both dressed in OD fatigues and wearing boonie hats. I made them similar to what the Spec Ops guys wore. Casual and laid back. Both were climbing in, one was an African American. To me they looked perfect. I think the VNAF pilots wore flight suits though. Looking forward to more
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