Clunkmeister

This will be aweome, Doc! Just remember that if you're going to make the leaking German as a tanker, be sure to use the smallest of the three appendages. For tanker realism and all.....

I KNEW I’d seen that style before!

Fruil. I'd enjoy armor if it wasn't for the b@#%y tracks!

Noice!!!!

Well, it could have 5,000 guns in it, though....

I’ll have to look, but I seem o recall the framing being very vague on the kit bubble. Not positive, just a feeling. But hey, we all knows where it goes anyway, so no biggie.

Repeat these words, my friend. QUICK, EASY, OOB, BUILD. Though shalt not modify, super detail, add buckets of AM, and/or go insane on detail in any way, shape, or form, notwithstanding mangled fender and maybe metal barrels. Build it quick and have fun. It’s a quick break from the insanity of crazy aircraft builds. Cheering you on, Цомраде Скуиррел Цхасер

Looking good so far. Were you able to find an aftermarket canopy or are you going to use the kit vac canopy?

There may be 25 parts in the entire kit. A brilliant kit!

Huh?

Some good news.....

Yep, they have you build entire structure for outboard engines, complete with oil tanks, and then seal them up behind the firewalls.

One of these is enough... But now I make cheats. I’m not of “Use every part in box” Club. Empty promises?

Humbled resin perfection.

Even the An-22 is almost 3 ft long in 1/72

An-225 in 1/72 for the WIN!!!

IL-76 series are beautiful aircraft.

Brilliant work, Wouter! I've seen the finished pictures, but for the first time I read all the way through the steps of construction. Your problem solving skills are extraordinary! Legendary perhaps?

OK, I get it. Yellowstone was neat, although the fact that were driving around on the floor of a 60 mile wide paper thin lava dome never quite left my conscience. The awesome power of nature sitting right underfoot is very apparent there. Come to think of it, one road we were on had the pavement turn liquid about 4 hours after we passed by. Apparently a fissure opened up and melted the roadway. the folks on the other side had to backtrack for a 100 mile detour to get around.

Old Faithful is in Yellowstone. That's not Jackson Hole, is it? We saw Old Faithful 5 years ago.

Sort of like Chattanooga being an inexpensive place to visit. Unless of course there's 10,000 rabid plastic model hoarders coming to town in August

Nope, McGeehee's catfish in Marietta, Ok. We found this place quite by chance a number of years back. They had a grass strip for small planes, and we dropped in to see what the fuss was about. We got fed like kings, so we made sure to come back at least once a year. A couple years ago their strip got flooded, then they turned it into a hayfield due to rising insurance costs. So now, you have to drive, and it's kind of out of the way to get there. Helicopters still drop in fairly often though, so they still get some air traffic, but when we flew in a couple times there must have been 40 planes there on a Saturday afternoon. Good times, and the best fried catfish within 1000 miles.

Well I was certainly late to the table on this one. Thanks for posting, Smitty! memorial day, as we know, is not to thank a Vet for his Service, but to pause and honor those who gave it all so the rest of us could live.

Umm, yeah. At first I didn’t know of what you were speaking. Oops.