Clunkmeister

I've gotten lucky. Bought a few at the Nats in Phoenix. $25/each, then got an extra at Hobby Town last month, then this boxing with Free n' Easy yesterday.

Go to the Home Depot and buy a handheld shower sprayer attachment. It's a Home Improvement, a handy little device, costs about $30.00, and can be used as your own personal handheld bidet. Anyone who's one any hard time in the Army or Marine Corps knows what's it like to get deployed to a FOB or LP for months on end. You've never experienced "dirty" until you do a few 1, 3 or 6 month deployments top one of them. Creature comforts are less than ideal for getting you set for a night on the town, but folks, implements and supplies needed to wipe and clean one's exhaust pipe and reheat if you're so equipped are all quite freely given to you by mother nature herself. If it ain't prickly or covered in ants, go for it. May I suggest baby bunny rabbits. (seriously soft fluffy fur) as a fine example of a field expedient form of personal hygeine.

Jeff, that's so incredibly Canadian. It's not an adjective, a verb, or a pronoun, but instead, a good ol' plain NOUN. "Better go to the store and buy some ass wipe." Like I said, it's so bleedin' Canadian. Thanks for the memory and the chuckle.

Jeff, it makes the B-52 look like a toy. It's absolutely massive in every way. The two I've seen are the one at Wright Pat, and the one in Omaha. If you can make a Nats in Omaha, we usually all get out to the SAC Museum, and it'll blow your mind, man. A B-52 is a bit smaller than a B-36 but is much less massive and it looks like a kids toy beside the 36.

Exactly what I thought, Iain. it looks like a Sukhoi color. But the original looks like good ol' US interior green in the bomb bay and a slightly darker? variation in the cockpit. maybe camera light tricks. In one pic it almost looks like an RAF interior green.

The steering wheel is exactly that: nosewheel steering. Most modern transports have a version of that

Yep, although I wasn’t aware of it and thought Revell USA was no more. It IS the German plastic and it is the same kit that is almost impossible to find in the USA. But with different markings. And the box isn’t end opening, either.

So I think I’m safe. I had used interior green, and although I will modulate it slightly, I think I’m on the right track here. The big interior areas are the bomb bay and it seems a bit brighter of a green than the crew areas Thoughts?

However the Wright Patterson Museum Bird, an (I believe) unrestored bird, shoes something entirely different:

Hey folks, still working on the cockpit area and I was stopped because I was doing dome serious research on this. The cockpit and crew areas in Pima bird that was restored by Convair is painted in a very pleasing grey-blue color that’s different from all I’ve seen around. Now, I was under the impression that interior green was used, but like any good ol’ senile guy, I questioned myself. Here’s the Pima bird’s pit:

LOL. You know it. It ain’t the guys. We’ll use corn cobs and newspapers if needed. I ain’t fragile.

I went t the local supermarket to buy a few groceries, and just for kicks I walked down the hand towel and toilet paper aisle. Absolutely none left. The truck comes every three days and the shelves were full this morning. According to the manager, within an hour of them opening today, they were sold out. About 10 people came in and bought out the entire store. Not cool. They need to put limits on amounts. I’m all set, but others maybe not.

Old time Mexican/US/Canadian box style

I expect some may have seen this, but I had absolutely no idea. Some different schemes.

i have no clue, Hubert. I assumed it was because of airport facilities and US Customs inspections areas. Maybe it's all political, but I sure hope that isn't the case. We all need to work together on this one.

Yep, things are moving quickly here as well. Texas hasn't done anything here as of yet, but nationally, incoming flights from mainland Europe have been suspended for March. People will now need to connect through Britain. Something to do with health screening? That's going to be a huge pain in the posterior for business travellers, but hopefully health screening at just a few airports will help identify if someone is infected. So we have Gatwick, Heathrow, Manchester, Newcastle, Birmingham, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. Did I miss any? Things are going to get pear shaped for a few weeks.

This is just getting stupid. I went in March and bought an entire trailer load, so I'm good to go. (pun intended) Because everyone here knows I'm full of the dark brown smelly stuff, so I need plenty. Plus, me arse is a bit wider than average, so, well, y'all know. Seriously, there was still plenty at my local Brookshires.

Looking spot on so far. Welcome, and it’s good to see some more builds progressing.

Ugh! A month or two of pain will get us through this. I hope. It might be best for all societies to limit travel for a bit. Who knows, I’m not an epidemiologist

Of course bear in mind that during the Spanish Flu epidemic, we had almost no modern medical miraqctles like we have today. True modern respiratory therapy and treatment didn't exist yey. We were barely one step past using bellows to blow tobacco smoke into a guy's arse to ward off Influenza. I'm by no means saying ignore it all, I'm just saying that common sense precautions such as proper personal hygiene, restricting unnecessary travel, and avoiding large congregations go a long, long way. Much will be difficult to accomplish, especially in this Nation where people just hop into their automobiles at a moment's notice and travel all over the place. In the USA, people don't take kindly to having their personal freedom restricted.

Peter, I think the landing gear squat is perfect for a loaded aircraft. So the fact that you're hanging the drop tanks is a good thing I do really like the unshrouded exhaust as well. I feel that those were much more prevalent than we've been led to believe. Just looking at the minor little differences really reinforces how much of an evolution the D model actually was. Little changes everywhere. This model is a true window into history. I can think of no higher praise, Sir.

Amazing work, Peter. I read about your Mad Moment and smiled. Hey, we all have them, and they're sobering moments for sure. Like when you have something all jigged up and the epoxy happily curing, and one walks past an hour later and find out how much your supposedly secure jig.... wasn't. With corresponding results.

We have several model shows coming up locally. In a week we have Shreveport IPMS doing Rivercon in April, then Tulsa, then Grapevine with Scalefest in July. The Nationals are at the very end of July. I completely expect this to be done and finished in June, if not before, but again, who knows. I will not let media hype slow me down. Over 10,000 per year die from the Flu every single year in the USA, and that's never worried me before. When my ticket gets punched, I'm gone like a cool breeze, so all's good. Although we need to be aware, I absolutely refuse to be drawn into the hype. WHO and CDC just declared it a panedemic, so we'll see

We have our first ceases in Frisco, Tx. 20 miles from me, 10 miles from my 79 year old Father in Law.

Cees, amazing work here. That grey thing looks all the world like Grandmother's Chesterfield. Complete with plush pillows. Flower pattern?