Clunkmeister

Thanks Cees! I’ll break out the riveter then and add some square dimples.

Nice finds! Those early battleships are cool. Back when naval designers still thought in terms of broadsides, etc. the fully swiveling main battery was still an idea yet to be hatched.

I’m always looking for cool kits of important milestone aircraft, and here’s two more for the bench. Yes, I have a soft spot for civilian transports, and both these kits need plenty of kitbashing and scratching... just my thing. The big Farman has been on my list for a long time, and was a potential scratch build candidate. But then I find this Azur kit. Looking at it, it appears accurate enough in shape, but seriously rough moldings in the box. A scratchbuild might still be in the offing. And the little 247... a real bridge between Fokker, Stinson, and Ford airliners to the modern day. Sometimes I wonder if Hubert and I are the only ones who love this kind of stuff...

And then, wheels for my I-16 build.

Oh goody! Upon our return from exile, we have found some goodies in our mailbox. Wheels for my truck have arrived. From a super secret location in Soviet Canuckistan.

Inner gear doors appear mighty bare.... My Spidey-sense is tingling. There’s subterfuge afoot....

Good grief, Gazz! That look phenomenal! I’ve been building WW1 stuff for years, and even today, my stuff doesn’t come out that nice.

Nice choice!

I keep looking at those rough hand painted crosses and numbers over the Zimmerit. And we are always so precise....

All the beautiful structural tubing and oil tanks in the outboard nacelles is invisible when built, so like every other unneeded thing, I leave it out.

The bench is getting its familiar rubble look back as I go crazy on this thing.

More silliness. Correcting the radiator outlet ramp oops. Brought out the drill, followed by the Sprue nippers. The first one took an hour, the second took 15 minutes. Two down, two to go.

My CZ was on my hip, though. Copperheads and Cottonmouths are always an ever present threat. Also Timber Rattlers

Got back early enough to pay our respects to those who Served and didn’t return.

We drove 20 miles to the Red River and found the best fried catfish in Oklahoma. The view overlooking the Red River Valley.

Joy and I took a few days of “Us” time. No internet, no phone, no models, no other family, no TV, nothing. Just the two of us in a log cabin 175 miles southeast of northwest, in the middle of nowhere. We told exactly three people we wouldn’t be around, and one of them is on this site. To put it as nicely as I can, we needed this. We both h work 12 hour days and needed this. A few pics of our backyard.

It’s pretty bad when he’s the laughingstock of the USA as well

No moss growing on your bench, Tony! looks good!

Maru, over here we take a similar approach, but it usually results in the perp expiring from acute lead poisoning. 124gr at a time.

Eyes of the beerholder you mean. martin, you mention something that's been on my mind of late. We're losing our WW2 Veterans at very high rate now, and sooner than later, they'll all be gone. Every single one of them. Men I grew up knowing as hardworking members of society, we watched them age before our eyes, and now they're almost all gone.

You can't go wrong with this, especially if stenciling is still visible. So far you've gotten about 10 answers, which is pretty standard for mid 40's LW paint questions. Good luck, Tony. rest assured that no two people will agree, but there comes a time where you just need to pick up the ball and run with it.

I’m already doing September Fury and a PBY... Not sure I’ll have the time. Of course I’d love to do a Canadair CT-133 Silver Star as well. THAT would be a good foil candidate.

Smitty, you got me there. Yes, my sentimental favorite, BY FAR, is Miss America. She has to be the most famous P-51 racer of all time. Are we sure that engine is a Rolls? it's painted Caterpillar yellow

The only reason I can think of is "Because they can". I had someone key the side of my 55 Crown Victoria one day. No reason for it, it was just parked at a grocery store and someone decided that it made sense at the time. I guess some people just get a thrill out of destroying other people's hard work.

I remember Steve Hinton's crash like it was yesterday. John Crocker in "Sumthin Else" was in the lead and Hinton in "Red Baron" was trying to catch him. It was a helluva race, the best I had ever seen, actually. Just the fact that a Griffon engined Mustang couldn't catch a Merlin, in retrospect, should have been a clue that something was amiss.