Clunkmeister

Was thinking the same thing. With a Jenny or DH-4 in a farmyard, stationary engine putt putting away powering a long belt to a small grain mill or cotton gin. There are plenty of these around, local to me.

Yes. They’re extremely strong.

Gazz started it, now I’ll all into this racer thing. Im seriously considering a long distance racer. Like a trophy for a transatlantic dash based on toad rally rules, not all out speed. A postwar 88 with a couple of 2800s and smoothed out of all bumps, lumps, and protrusions.

Back at it doing the details and finishing her up.

Oh heck yeah! Now let’s make it a racer...

I hear you, my friend. So, I’m reading up on chrome plating fiberglass.

Yet every time we crack open a beer can or Coca Cola, we’re probably sipping from a recycled 109.

On the farms here, that type of engine is called a "hit and miss" engine, or a "stationary engine". Great review, Sir, great review.

Exactly! Anything goes, there's no hard and fast rule.

SEPTEMBER FURY!!!

Gazz, we need a clean shot of the bottom!

I can say that it’s the Kitty Hawk kit. Martin was raving over it.

Gorgeous and well deserved result, John. Amazing work!

I’m thinking we all do. You folks see the world of modeling differently than I. All I’ve ever thought is to create a complete miniature totally believable aircraft model as seen through the eyes of a pilot walking up to go flying. You guys take it way past my vision. I’m often left speechless in awe.

Gazz,that, sir, is darn near flawless in execution. Gorgeous, gorgeous build! It must, of course, be placed on the FB page. Yes, it inspires. I’m looking sideways at an HPH P-63 right now.... Now, Herr Gazz, go grab one of those one or two dozen Hasegawa 109F’s I know you gotta have, and start filling holes. Come to think of it, a smoothed out, faired in, slightly clipped wing, 88G with a couple of 2800’s swapped in would be one heckuva decent long distance racer.

Well said. What’s not to love. A ready made mayhem machine.

I’ve been seeing that at the Nats for three years now and I’m looking forward to it

Imperial German version.

Looking awesome, Mark. These Hobbycraft P-51A's have SO much potential with just a little care and attention.

Two turning, two burning, two smoking, two choking, and two unaccounted for.

I'm waiting for HPH to release it. Let me put it this way, there's room for one big Boeing jet bomber, and I'm NOT buying the B-52.

They just released an Fi-103 V1 Buzz Bomb. That's a superb kit!

There needs to be some, yes.

I’ve been wrenching my remaining 74 brain cells, thinking of a companion build for my Lanc that would have real Texas connection. Sabre Dogs have been done ad nauseum, and so have Tex Hill’s and Jack Ilfrey’s Birds. Besides, I like building bombers and transports, not so much scouts, pursuits, and fighters. So I stumped around, looking for the most Texas of iconic Texas aircraft, one that had to have a definite Texas connection well beyond flying for a Texas squadron or being flown by a Texan. So, we decided on the only aircraft that is insanely more ostentatious than a big aluminum, white, and orange Lanc is the B-36 Magnesium Overcast, built right here in Fort Worth. 10 engines! Only in Texas would something this crazy be dreamed up and actually built! 6 turning and four burning, as they said. Or, as they also said, Two turning, two burning, two choking, two smoking, and two unaccounted for. A magnesium, white and shiny aluminum RB-36. Oh heck yeah, baby! The ultimate stash queen, hiding as investment models worldwide. What better than to turn a $1000.00 stash queen into a worthless built model? C’mon guys, this just gotta be done! The overlooked high flyer that was the only US strategic bomber that never once had to drop a bomb in anger. Right up till the day it was retired, it was for all intents and purposes, untouchable. Decent SAMs weren’t developed yet, and there wasn’t a fighter that could reach it. The reworked "featherweights" routinely cruised at 55,000 ft+, sometimes pushing 60,000 ft., and crews stated it could go much higher. That’s U-2 territory! And then there’s the real reason for that huge wing. It could carry the US’s heaviest nuclear bombs right to Russia and return to its base. Nonstop. Unrefueled. For shorter ranges, it could carry over 80,000 lbs of bombs. Long range she could manage 10-12,000 lbs. Yes, it was a maintenance nightmare, but the Russians were terrified of it and it was the perfect deterrent in the days before the ICBM, and was only knocked off its lofty perch by the new B-52. If the B-52 hadn't eventually successful, we might still have re-engined B-36s plying the skies. The B-36 only served for about 11 years, but such was the state of the race back then that the huge part time jet was eclipsed by a smaller 8 engined full timer.