Clunkmeister

Old holey knit?

Was that the Iconicair Sea Fang wing I saw on your bench?

All of the above, plus a Boeing 247 and a C-46.

Awesomeness, Carl. That’s a great kit, but believe it or not, I’ve never built it yet. I hear it’s a real sweet kit.

Don, this is looking amazing, man. I knew you were talented, but daaaang!

Raffle Entrants Hubert Smitty BlrWestSiR TJTX Sir Desmond Glazebrook [Cat]CplSlade Bill_S Winnie GusMac Krow113 Harv 1to1scale Pardelhas FME erk Leitch144 Drifter Lestab Gaming Dragon32 Cranky Craftsman BiggTim Maru! (Yay!) Seiran01 The Dude Danny VM GRAND PRIZE: Winner’s Choice of: one new Wingnut Wings Lancaster kit, or one new Wingnut Wings Handley Page O/100 or O/400 heavy bomber kit. This prize will be drawn at the end, after all prizes have been awarded. The winner will be notified by PM on LSM and must notify me of their choice, at which time I’ll arrange shipment from the nearest distributor to the winner. Failure to notify me within two years will result in a consolation prize of a 1/700 scale Fokker Dr.1 being awarded. Gifts Clunkmeister: Winner’s pick of any WNW in stock single engine kit. Clunkmeister: ZM choice: Ki-45 or Hs-129B Hubert: Doyusha A6M2 package with a resin Pascal Huguet Rufe conversion. Smitty44: $100.00 gift card to any hobby shop of the winner’s choosing. Sir Desmond Glazebrook: 1/35 Meng self Auf-1 propelled howitzer Sir Desmond Glazebrook: 1/32 Hasegawa Ki-84 Sir Desmond Glazebrook: Verlinden book detailing scale aircraft Sir Desmond Glazebrook: 1/32 Hasegawa F6F Hellcat with a boatload of cool AM GusMac: Trumpeter Bf109-G2 Tropical TJTX: Special Hobby Tempest Mk2 TJTX: Eduard 109E-3 Profipack with Werner’s Wings V.14 Dübendorf racer conversion. Bill_S: Revell 1/32 J2M3 Jack Bill_S: Doyusha 1/32 Type 93 Akatombo Bill_S: Grand Phoenix Productions P-38 Lightning cockpit set BlrWestSiR: 1/32 Eduard Bf-109E-4 ProfiPack 1to1Scale: 1/35 Tamiya M4A3E8 Easy Eight (Korean War) FMEerk: 1/35 2 1/2 ton 6x6 water truck FMEerk: Two reference books. Luftwaffe 1935-45 markings and camouflage and US Army Air Force fighters. (Part 2) Krow113: Special Hobbies 1/32. X-15A-2 with ground dolly. Pardelhas: Dragon 1/35. Panzerfähre fährendeck mit gepanzerter landwasserschlepper Harv: 1/32 Special Hobby Tempest Mk.V Hi-tech Harv: 1/32 Hasegawa Mitsubishi Raiden prototype [Cat]CplSlate: Squadron/Signal Walk Around for the EA-6B Prowler [Cat]CplSlade: 1/32 markings for F-16C Golden State Griffins by Twobobs Aviation Graphics (32-033) suitable for the Hasegawa, Academy, or Tamiya F-16C kit. Specific markings for 2 planes, S/N 84-1318 and 85-1404. Danny VM: 1/32 Trumpeter IL-2 on skis The Dude: Academy MH-60G Pavehawk GusMac: Sky's decals F-4 Kurnass.

Ho Ho Ho Ho... Ok, this time of year again, folks! Our Christmas raffle went over well last year, except that one or two got missed with a gift. I take that responsibility on myself, and I’ll ensure it does not happen again. I’ll go over the rules and once again, attempt to keep it simple. So here is rundown of rules so everyone is refreshed and aware. For those who participated over there, you'll see a couple minor rule changes implemented by me just because I can. 1. Anyone who wants to enter to win may do so, IF, they are an Active Member of LSM as of right now. (November 17, 2019 1610 hrs CST) 2. Active Member is defined as anyone who has contributed to LSM by posting two posts to LSM within the last calender year. I though of making it a WIP requirement, but decided exactly 10 seconds ago to nix that idea. The whole idea here is to promote a feeling of Christmas Spirit and maybe get people posting more. So let’s make this fun! 3. Enrolling: Entering the raffle is easy. Just post "I'm in" and I'll mark you down. You do not need to contribute a gift to win a gift. 4. Gifts: You're welcome to contribute a gift to be included in the raffle. It’s absolutely not required or expected and you do NOT need to contribute a gift to be part of the raffle. 5. Impropriety: To avoid any sense of impropriety, I am going to ask that all people who feel led to contribute gifts to please verify your gifts as listed correctly. Anything LSM related is good in my book. Aircraft and AFVs, supplies, AM, tools, etc, are all OK. I would suggest that if you're giving a bunch of little AM bibs and bobs, or things like magazine collections, think about including them as a package. It makes my job easier when it comes to keeping track of who gave and won what. 6. More Impropriety: As the organizer and overseer of this operation, once again, I will NOT be eligible for any gift drawings. 7. Giving something is cool, but there is no right or wrong. Some give kits, others a resin set of wheels or #11 blades, or decide not to. If you feel led to, then do, cool, if not, then there is no big deal. 8. But remember, if you offer a gift, you're responsible for the shipping charges to the winner. 9. Gift givers and winners are to contact each other in a timely manner and winner must provide shipping information so the giver can get the package in the mail. 10. This is a fun Christmas Raffle, guys. If you pledge a gift, please make every effort to get it out in a timely fashion. 11. I will attempt to update the prize list and the names of those who entered the raffle on a daily basis. If there's more entrants than gifts, not everyone will receive a gift. If there's more gifts than entrants, then some will get more than one. 12. Drawing: Christmas Day in the USA, because that's where I live, and I work the day before, so the Aussies and the Kiwis gotta wait an extra day. Sorry guys! Pretty normal stuff, eh? I think this oughta be a fun thing and I really hope everyone has a good time with this! Ernie

Kickin’ arse and takin’ names, Martin! Keep it up, Brother! Im living it through you, man. Living my dream too, man.

Mumbling to myself though, Phil. Making 1/48 instrument panels make me remember why I don’t model that scale. And I’m only working on the fire control system. Still engineers and pilots panels to do. Ugh! Why can’t I just build normal models like everyone else in this world?

Neat. I love it. That’s a big projectile.

Yeah me too. That’s a part of the early war that’s all but ignored. Manchuria as well.

Dale, just take the locator pins as a good humour suggestion. Most line up, but a few don't. Like the ones for the lower fuselage insert below the fin.

The Beau with the Tamiya treatment would be a real treat. And JohnB might give us more Beaus than were built by Bristol's in the first place.

Dale, I’ll echo your list but chand the Skyraider to an Aichi Seiran. I love the Skyraider, but we already have a superlative offering from ZM. And as it just me, or does Tamiya’s 48 Skyraider seem to build up with a flat wing?

Thanks Rob. Yes the casting blocks are massive on this thing. If you see the deepness of the cut from the end, that's the throad deepness of the deepest razor saw I have. In other words, almost 2 inches. Like I said, IT"S HUGE. I always try to wear a respirator olus I vacuum myself off completely after each session. My wife gets VERY angry if I track resin dust all over he nice, clean house.

700 Crowns for a C-47??? Good bloody gravy! I trhink I paid somewhere around 650 DOLLARS for mine. I'm not sure if I'll ever splurge on a B-52. It depends on the B-36 and how she goes together. I'm waiting for the B-47 myself.

I use a simple Red Ryder BB gun against garden pests and invasive Sparrows. My biggest pet peeve ever is having bird droppings all over my stoop, and I've used fake snakes, fake owls, fishing line tied up around the prime real estate on my ledges, noisemakers, smelly stuff I spray on, but they still build. I'll knock the nests down as they're being built, and most eventually get the hint after two or three demolitions, but once or twice a year, there's always one..... and they get taken out by the BB gun. I don't like doing it, but if they are left to their own devices, they'll invade.

Phil, thank you so, so much for those pictures. I'm absolutely floored by the quality of the work that gets shown at Telford. You folks have some of the most talented builders in the world in the UK, plus you can also pull from all of Europe as well. Absolutely outstanding, and I've now come to the conclusion that I MUST build a Raiden in NMF. That Kingfisher diorama is easily the coolest I've ever seen, anywhere, anyplace, ever. If the quality is as good in person as it appears in your pictures, it's a show winner for sure. The table full of Mugs was something else as well. WOW! I saw somewhere else some pioctures of what looked like an HPH C-47 built to a flawless standard. Have you any idea who built that? I'd love to know. And that armor! I'm not really an armor guy, but those looked positively REAL.

GTG. That’s short for Good To Go.

Your GTG

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So far I’ve done some base color application to the interior in Interior green, Nd now we go to some lightening and a minor bit of chipping. From what I’ve been able to tell, these were the Free World’s nuclear strike force for 10 years, and they were kept fairly pristine. They were heavily utilized but received heavy maintenance to help the cause. So weathering will be minor and very sparingly applied.

So the instruction book would have me build the wings first, but I’m having none of that. Models begin with the interior, and that’s how it is in my world. I've been picking away at this for awhile, anyone who builds resin knows that it’s 90% fitting, cutting, carving, sanding and fitting, repeat as often as needed. The biggest offender so far is the nose gear bay. It protrudes into the lower deck area, and HPH will have you cut off the Mother of All Casting Blocks to get it to fit. I’ve been at this thing for a couple hours and I’m still hacking away at it. It’s too long and deep for a razor saw in one swipe, so I go at it slowly. I refuse to do the Dremel thing as that’d be the moment I slip and ruin an expensive resin piece. This nose wheel well is one huge piece of resin. This may be 1/48 scale, but these are massive components. These things dwarf anything on the 1/32 Lancaster or B-17

Just peed down my leg....

Nahh, I’m just a major investor. But I’ll encourage Mr. Castle to continue doing what he does. He inspires me.