Clunkmeister

I was wondering the same thing. If the join was decent, it shouldn't need any filler other than maybe a light mist of Mr Surfacer 500. We just have no idea whether this was done by the Tamiya folks or the Anigrand bunch.

Good to hear you're back, Carl. We'll try to keep the funny stuff away from you so you don't start with the gut laughs.

So, according to Sprue Brothers, my envelope will be here Friday. So, I lay out a panel and build it. I’m looking forward to this. Once the panels are done, that’s the only real impediment in the way. So awaaaay we go!

Phenomenal work, as usual, Sir. This is one of my favorite German subjects. You’ve done her proud!

Probably. Beautiful unpainted PE and open holes for gauges

Well, Sprue Brothers just got 200.00 of my hard earned $$$ for 6 WW2 USAAF cockpit sets, 6 Allied early jet sets, and a 1/48 placards. I still say that for what these things sell for, the B-36 should have come with the instrument decals in the kit.

For as evil as she was, she was pretty darned cute. When she smiled. Which wasn’t often.

You'll be in our thoughts and prayers, Carl. You’ll be on the mend and back to normal soon enough, so take it easy and do everything exactly as the medical team request. That way, you don’t have Nurse Ratched smack the side of your head too often.

Yep. It’s a chore, but if I’m going to do this, then I do it right. I don’t expect two or three will ever get finished, so I may as well go whole hog

The engineer's desk in miniature looks like the control room from a 1980's nuclear Power Plant, seriously. There's plenty to see under the greenhouse, and I think the two man engineer's station will be much more visible than the traditional instrument panel. The instrument panel has a big glare shield over it as well, so there's plenty of detail possibilities here. Then there's the soda counter with three milkshake makers, a fountain, and an attached laundromat and bandstand, all with La-Z-Boy recliners to sit down in.

So I find myself prepping and fitting some crew area parts into the fuselage, and here we find what is probably the most popular xpensive kit sold by a mainstream manufacturer to be lacking such simple items as instrument decals. Yes I’m still fuming over that. We’re given a beautiful PE panel and engineer area, but are left with big gaping holes for the instruments. For a thousand dollar kit, that’s unforgivable. The good news is that everything really, really fits nicely so far.

Agree with everything said here. Just relax, build, visit, have fun, and feel free to show off the talents you have. I know I’ve become a much better builder than I dreamed possible by just learning from everyone here.

So here I sit. Becalmed. Going nowhere. Drifting with the long, slow rollers, with no cloud in sight. In the days of sail they’d man the boats and start pulling, hoping to go somewhere they’re not. Trying not to lose the Weather Eye, but I fear I’ve lost the urge for anything these days. I’ve started several, am close-ish on the truck and Hurricane, but after putting a few bodies in the ground these last few weeks, I’ve just lost the edge. I just want to cruise around in my pickup with The Guess Who playing at eardrum rattling levels. I’m not used to losing it like this, but who knows.

Same as with an OV-10, I expect. There's plenty of engineering 'decisions' with this one. But that huge greenhouse gives the super detailer a ery visible place to go all AMS on this. On a side note, apparently there's a new build or rebuild on these using a pair of big PT-6A's so they're coming into the 21st Century a bit. It'll change the lines of it a bit, but it'll certainly look good. This is an aircraft that should have sold hundreds more copies, but it never did. A thoroughly capable and potent light attack bird. And seriously cool looking, too.

Did someone say Falklands campaign? We really need one of these in 1/32 it’d be so bloody cool it’d reek of coolness

1/48 is great for the B-36, nothing smaller

Tony, I TOLD YOU SO!! LOL It seriously sucks the life out of you.

I just Spit. All over my screen After reading Harv's and Rog's comments.

LOL. of course, but to do something like that and make it worth a man's while, you'd need something close to that to make it work financially. That's a year's work assuming you use every single minute of your free time. Assuming 200 hrs of work at 20/hr, that's 4K in labor alone.

If I would be asked to build, say, a model of the T-28 that a guy withZERO model skills soloed in when he was a kid, that’s cool. A tidy little sum could be made, assuming you’re building a kit that falls together. me it’s be T-28s, John would be Corsairs, etc, etc. That’s the kind of thing you could charge a flat rate and see if the guy bites. But a copy of my RCAF Lanc, at any kind of decent rate, would easily be 10K plus. Big $$££¥¥€€ no matter where you live.

Exactly. That’s why the KH builds are fun. Straight OOB except for having to close up the entire thing to guard against handling damage. But dealing with a list of custom demands, no thanks. And in the end, when you add up the time you have in it, it adds up to you making abut .12/hr. I’d be better off picking up and returning discarded beer bottles v

Mark, I tried it and thoroughly hated it. Part of the joy of building is building a subject I love for myself or for a close friend. But there’s always an exception, and mine is that I do the odd build for Kitty Hawk because I really like the subjects they choose to kit.

Awesome collection, Carl. My favorite? Simple, the traditional Mk.V, simply because it’s a ‘pure’ short nose Spitty, with more in common with the original concept than not. I also have a serious affection for the bubbletop versions, both Merlin and Griffin powered. After seeing Peter Castle’s award winning bubbletop racer, I have similar thoughts get, but in 1/32. My least favorite Spitfire? Most definitely that hideous abomination foisted upon an unsuspecting and gullible public by Triumph. I once owned one, and it was truly a horrible experience. So much so I considered trading up to a Yugo. The people who dreamed up that thing should be keelhauled then locked in the Tower of London forever.

Threw some paint on it today, and that XF51 OD green is dark! I’ll need to lighten it up now, but I think under a camera lens, it appears like a black-green

I’ll second that motion! that one’ll live in infamy.