Clunkmeister

Definitely use the bronze gear. The SAC white metal gear is soft and worse than the kit gear.

Gazz, that 262 is sublime

Nice, nice builds on the benches. WOW!

Tony, one other thing on this kit.. It needs nose weight. LOTS of nose weight. Yes, it has weights included in the kit, but it needs easily 2.5 X that amount. We’ll talk on flap modifications later.

Jeff if I’d have caught him out with hair like that, I’d have marched his arse right in to the base barber. Of course I was Army and any hair at all below the cover was verboten.

Sterling Mk.lV SMG. I was a radio operator so often carried a room broom but we all carried our fair share of the MG belts.

Interesting take on the Roden struts, guys. I can see the issues you’re talking about, and it makes sense. WNW struts always were keyed and have solid attachment points. Roden’s are like all others, thin locators with little area for glue to grip. i use Monofilament line almost exclusively. It adds so much strength to the build, it’s not even funny. My Felixstowe and possibly the Gotha would have collapsed in on themselves long before now. My Gotha survived a three day trip to Oregon and the same back, in the trunk of a car, none the worse for wear. The Felix made it to Omaha from Texas and return. No issues. I’m a FiRM believer in the virtues of mono line. Pre rigging the top wing ShOULD help reduce the risk of knocking the wing off....

What happened to that 1911? Looks like it got pimped in South Central L.A.

There's nothing wrong with the Roden DR.1. It's actually a really decent little kit. You can do what many do to the WNW kits, and replace the prop with Proper Plane, use a resin engine or Wingnut engine sprue, use AM guns, and Pheon and Aviattic decals. I really didn't see how much better the Wingnut DR.1 would actually be. The Roden is nice. Plus, if you want to go whole hog, Squadron put out an "Encore" version of the Roden kit with resin goodies and different decals. They offered both the DR.1 and an F.1 kit. My take? "slightly" less crisp moldings, a bit of extra flash, some parts no show perfect right off the sprue, and absolutely atrocious decals. Roden decals are, in my opinion, hideous. Every time I've tried to use them, they nuked themselves in the water. Plus, they flake up and I could never get them to apply well. Technique, maybe?

Yes I know. I may need to change it a bit because it sure looks black in the pics. I used Alclad exhaust manifold paint with a bit of copper and stainless added, followed by various hot metal clears and sepia. It sure looks black in the pics..

You’re the expert, Harv. The only aircraft I ever really studied the load on was the toilet bomber Skyraider

So I’m giving it just a tiny bit of life, a used, not abused look. A few streaks, then tomorrow some powder rubs, and then a light overall brownish filter.

Digitus defectus manipulum

Now that’s my kind of Thud. NMF and loaded for bear Good old iron bombs.

Something surreal about the wheels being below the round down and the tailpipes almost on the deck....

I was thinking Harv could put up a picture of when he was in, posing with Artaxerxes.

Good grief!! Martin, this place is populated by Jarheads!!

I had no pics of me (one didn't generally run around taking pictures of oneself) until a couple guys sent me a few. Most were on R&R, but they sent one or two while in uniform. Was a pasty faced cold blooded, no nonsense gut at one time. About a year after this pic was taken, I transferred to a training batallion and did a tour as a DI. This one was taken in 1982 on a Reforger fun get together. LOL

haha. My bench usually looks like a disaster area.

Hubert, we both may need to check references, because on the P-11 instruction sheet, the little nubbie on the brake drum is shown facing downwards, not up. I went on faith that the instructions were correct, but maybe they're not? Now I'm goping to study it as well.. LOL But so far, this looks stellar, and I think I might just follow your lead on this one, Just stunning work so far.

I really feel what we need to do is that these are stellar kits. I have close to 100 of them, I know, stupid, but we all buy what we love, even if it meant eating mac and cheese for awhile. I have a couple that are half finished SOD sitters, and getting them done will be a priority here.

I'd give much for a beautiful Vigilante. The most beautiful Navy jet ever built. And yes, the Hawkeye...

I just hate a disorganized workbench, and this one’s driving me insane. Plus, that Panther has been languishing for over a year and it’s high time to get with the program.

Perfect!