Clunkmeister

Hey Rog, I’m sure if you’ve done so yet, but if your going full bore new bench area, consider HobbyZone organizers. It was the best thing I ever did. I spent a few hundred dubious (so I thought) dollars, and assembled an area that actually keeps this notorious clutterbug semi organized. Mis en place, as they say. But have no fear. I’m still a slob. They haven’t invented organizers for everything else yet.

Rog, I remember a Revell 110 kit that confounded all my attempts to make it right, and this may very well might have been the one. Then the Dragon 110, just after it came out, but before Brett Green wrote an addendum to those workd famous instructions. You know, the ones that were illustrated by a toddler in crayon? That kit, after 3 weeks of ill fitting hell, hit the far wall of my hobby room at about Mach 3, and I scared my wife because I started loudly cussing in German like a Bundesmarine sailor using strings of words I hadn't even thought of in 30 years. There wasn't enough filler in all of the DFW. area. Not one of my finer moments, but that thing well and truly wound my clock spring. Oh, and then there are the joys of builder error. Like the stunted growth version of an Eduard/Werner's Wings 109 V-14 racer. After some overexuberance while sanding, my brilliant self ended up with a fuselage about a quarter inch too short. I finished it anyway, without fixing the error, but that thing looked comically stupid. That one fell victim to an unfortunate shotgun blast.

Yeah, the goodness happens on the outside with these ones.

Hahahahaha! My kinda young lady! I like that. Any lady who can talk the advantages of the 605, 603, 601 in comparison to the 213F has the keys to my heart.

Good point! Never thought of that. And I have all the Belcher goodies and a Hasegawa kit for it, too. That stabilizer’s broken loose again. See if you can’t lock it down.

The Iroquois Class would have to be 1/48 at a minimum, Carl. It didn’t go in, just impacted on the surface! Story of my life

Tony, does Draw decals have a listing for what you need? Or is it something you'd be cool using masks for? Masks open up huge possibilities, and ooooh the realism

Scott, I haven’t been able to squeeze into my class A’s in 30 years. But I ever find a tent, I’ll swipe some fabric and get some new ones tailored.

Rog, stories like that young lady are what makes this hobby special. Around here, modeling is a bit of a nerd sport I dare to say. We try to spread it to the younger generations, but many just prefer the Xbox or Playstation. Hasegawa 190s, 109Fs, and Zeros are kits that are great for newbies, no doubt. But this An-8, if not for it being a model for someone else, would have been binned a year ago.

I'm not ashamed to say it, but Tony's Corsair is head and shoulders above my Lanc, and I'm not being humble. It's just a better executed build with a ton fewer mistakes. It was the best aircraft of any scale bar none, in my semi learned opinion. My Lanc was in Conversions so it didn't compete against his, but notable is that neither of us won "best aircraft". The two big awards the Lanc won were visual impression awards, not judged awards. It's a real head scratcher why here in Texas, 1/32 seems to get so little love from modelers. It's the scale to get serious into detailing and build an actual aircraft replica, not just it's external physical form. Remiond me to remember to get armor pics next time. We're a dual interest site here.

I've never tried a Hasegawa Emil. thanks for the Pro Tip, Rog. Oh, and pics or it didn't happen.

Amodel An-8. The only game in town if you want to so obscure Russian transports in a decently large scale. This is one of their older kits and it shows. It's better than vacuform, but not by much. Fun fun fun

Oh yeah! 1/72 would be a great scale for a new tool USS Ticonderoga.

Thank you sir.

Check out the high tech scoop. A block of plastic. Yeah baby! Note to self: 1/72 sux.

Do you ever wonder why you agreed to something? OK, so let’s have some fun with this one. We all have that ONE build, that one single box of misshapen plastic that looks like it spent 3 weeks roped to the back of a camel while traversing the Serengeti on it’s way to your home. Or possibly dredged up from the wreckage of one of the Spanish Armada.... let’s see ‘em. OK, I’ll start. This has to qualify as one of the worst kits I’ve ever had the misfortune to build and it easily wins the award as far as I’m concerned. . It was obviously designed by a person in the former Soviet Union who still holds some deep seated resentment towards the West for winning the Cold War. The individual responsible has cleverly hatched this sneaky plot to drive us Imperialists insane. After an on again-off again two gear long melodrama, I have arrived here. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING fits. Not even close. The fuselage is a devious 12 piece affair designed by a 1959 Party Worker who wanted a new Chevy Impala and had to settle for a wood wheeled bicycle, and better yet, to to make matters worse, it was all warped, with rounded edges, bevels going the wrong way, and sink marks to end all sinkmarks. So hairdryers, oiling water, stretch presses, and a Cat-o’-nine tails were all employed to straighten it out. The wings looked like sun a shrunken fiberglass diving board, on the equator of Venus. One half of the tail had gone AWOL, and the decals were seemingly brought to you by Rand McNalley. The bonus? Nacelle #1 will need only half a quart of Apoxie. Invest in Evergreen now. You’ll get righ on what I’m going to need to buy. I think a couple nights of this, then back on the SOD.

The next Lanc conversion...

Too bad. I’d have loved to come out and attend. We have family there, and oh man is it the most boring drive in the world from here to there.

Like the Germans took a Brit design and tried to help it. Pro tip: it didn’t help.

Jerry, it would have been great to have seen you. Do you have any events in Armadillo?

I plan an Antonov Airlines An-22 using the Amodel 1/72 kit. It’ll be huge. I’ll need to print the emblems and mask the rest. If we had a 1/32 An-2, I’d be doing many more. In the meantime, it’s Septemeber Fury and a TCA or BOAC Lancastrian

Dale, I’m still actually working on it and haven’t called it finished yet. Hopefully by next week.

Hmmmmm. I’ve never experienced that phenomenon. However, I use MM enamel and acrylic, Tamiya, acrylic and enamel, MRP, and Gunner. I don’t use Vallejo. However, I do use MMP, and when using it, I use their system to prime to finish.

Yessir, the model sits absolutely level.