Clunkmeister

I actually like that idea believe it or not.

Frank, I’ve always struggled with the GSB aircraft. Monochromatic results often result with me despite my attempts at modulation. You’ve so far perfectly nailed “the look”!

This almost makes a man want to ditch hiss FAA bird plans. Stunning turnout so far.

Bloody marvelous, Cees. I’m still shocked at the (lack of) surface area on those fins. It’s not hard (in retrospect at least), to predict stability issues. Cracking build, sir.

Agreed there, Phil. The movie was a bit far fetched even for me. I know some mountain folk, and they’re fine honest folk trying to make a living. Like anywhere, there are outliers, but for the most part, really decent people.

FM104 often flew with open intakes so I went and opened them up. There’s pictures both ways, but If I can find PE screens I’ll use them, otherwise I’ll leave them open. Either way, doing the work to open them is worth it. The kit parts are solid and not much more than a blob of plastic. Update: Ordered the Eduard set 'Just in Case'

Mark and Tony, you’ll need to give me pointers. I have several of these and have never built one. Or a D.l I keep going back to the aircraft with a massive web of rigging. :/

Back when Moby Dick was a minnow

Been a bit of a day. Family issues, but we got a bit of building done as well.

It’ll put hair on your chin, buddy.

Little work needed to hollow these out.

Yeah good to talk to you again, Sir John Fossil!

To quote The Eagles, it’s “Aaaaaalready Gone!”

OK, so it’s the cabin air heater inlet, but they definitely aren't on 104, so now what?

Oh well, I build off what I see in reference pics, and this is my only picture showing the inboard leading edge, and they are clean on FM104 here. Another thing, FM104 had, at one point near the end of her operational life, a much more painted over greenhouse, and a lightning stripe that extended much farther forward. I chose to build the version depicted in THIS photo, simply because I like the look better than the fully painted canopy greenhouse.

Thanks Maru, it’s good to be building one of my favorite aircraft. It takes awhile on my builds because we sit around and talk about the weather here...

Certainly could be it, yes. But they’re not present on FM104. Hmmmm But THIS ship has a different style of inboard wing air intakes.

Must remember to attach that form I whittled out into a possible facsimile of the rear view camera. Being that I have no close up pics of it, I basically SWAG’d the whole thing.

So that item I eliminated on the wing, what,.... might it be? I Ass-U-Me that it was either a light or a camera. Possibly a gun kill camera for the wing mounted 50s?

Martin, now THOSE are cool!

Good deal. They are not on the 10MR, so it’s all good.

Now, an over abundance or silliness can result in stupidity. Such as here. There are many pics of FM104 without screens on the carb intakes, and with HK giving us simple blobs of plastic to represent these scoops, I took it upon myself to hollow them out. Great, and yes, they look pretty good, except idiot here installed the inner ones on the outer nacelle a month or so ago. I thought, “dang, these fit like crap!” Until today, when oops, the ones for the inner engines don’t fit. And then I noticed the shapes are different too. So, I managed to pop them off without screwing them up, and now I can put them on the proper nacelles. Yes, they have totally different shapes. Inners (formerly the otters) are black, correct outers are unpainted Well, I’ve never claimed to be the brightest of bulbs or the sharpest tool in the chest, and this certainly proves it. But, onward we trudge, confident in the knowledge that they DID manage to teach monkeys to fly spaceships, so there’s hope for me yet.

And WTF are parts K28? Yeah some clown will tell me it’s for the degaussing cables...

I loved it so much, I did both sides for good measure. Now of course, somebody will dig up a pic showing them there and I’ll go ahead and reconstruct them.