Clunkmeister

Yup!

Thanks to Smitty and an early morning tip, I snagged this on eBay for less than MSRP. Red Baron is easily my favorite Mustang racer, followed by Precious Metal and Sumthin Else. I built one a few years back, then gave it to a friend and it’s in his case now. I’ve always wanted to do the ultimate air racer again, this time for me. The incomparable Griffon engined RB-51. I was heartbroken when she got dumped, but maybe she’ll one day rise from the ashes to grace the skies again.

I'm a sucker for dark brown eyes. I fall deeeeeep into those eyes.. OK said too much.

Wumm, I remember reading all about the lost Mustangs that were recovered and brought out of the test sites in Australia. Blew my mind! The US Military had Service Members out in the open during the Nevada and Bikini tests. I’ll never, ever, EVER forgive the US Military for what it did to the Prinz Eugen. The last surviving German capital ship. Can you imagine her as a museum today?

There are rumors of Canadian nuclear accidents in the early days of the 40s and 50s when Canada was at the forefront of nuclear research. The labs were up north on the solid rock of the Canadian Shield, so they were inaccessible to the public. Rumors leak out, but mouths were slammed shut then and records are buried deep today. Canada was once at the very pointy end of nuclear weapons and power research.

I know. That kept running through my mind the entire time. There are good kids in the military today, but other than them, it’s all about ME these days. Those guys who went under the reactor core to drain the reserve pools. Unbelievable. My mind then races to another name. The Kursk. My blood runs cold over these men dying due to simple bureaucratic bungling and finger pointing.

Printing, I mean, on an inkjet

Well, if worst comes to worst, I can try drawing them and copying onto decal paper?

Not sure. I’ll check. Jeff, I emailed Canuck. There’s a message up that he sold all his screen printing equipment. He might not me doing any more decals. If anyone knows a guy with an ALPS, 1/72 could be scaled up and printed in red onto clear decal paper.

Noice!!!

I sure love those dark skinned, long haired island girls. Little shivers.... OK, gotta stop this, I’m old and cranky.

I watched the first two episodes. Apparently the only ones out? The bravery of those men and women is mind numbing. They willingly gave their lives to save their families, and by extension, a good portion of the world. And they did this all in the face of mind numbing bureaucracy that did all it could to justify its existence by inventing new rules, regulations, and red tape. Sort of like here.

Sir Rod Stewart is a world class model railroader and a Master Modeler who could go up against the best work any of us here are capable of producing. He builds ALL his own models, every single one of them. The people who did this need to be found, boiled in oil, and then drawn, quartered, and then used as chum. That is many hundreds of thousands of ££££ damage there.

Brilliant!

I’ve seen pics of real Lancs both with and without them. This one doesn’t have them

I’m finding some cool stuff in my stash.... These, of course, were widely distributed throughout Normandy and all throughout the Reich.

Rob, I agree on the Alclad, with one exception. I used it to do the NMF on my Tamiya Mustang, and I sprayed it over the Alclad black base. (I'll never use that stuff again. It dried in about a month). I was able to mask different panes and spray off tome Alclad panels within a day, along with the glare shield, wingtips, etc. I was extrelely careful about detacking my tape, and didn't encounter one single issue of lifting Alclad. Why? Maybe the base I put down? I have no clue, but I walked away impressed with Alclad.

Yeah, just saw that. But you only see a bit of one leg, not all three

I used Alclad over black with my RCAF Mustang, and I hit it with MM dullcoat afterwards. It dulled the finish to a very realistic worn aluminum look for me. I wanted used, but not abused.

Gaz, not to worry. I have a 1/48 B-36 in the que and I’ll be leaning on you for help.

The engine side panels are smooth one piece panels back to the firewall, so fill flame damper slots with spruce, fill panel lines with stretched spruce mash, then slather it all with putty.

OK, first blood, Y’all.

Yep, I know nobody else. Crap!

Oh this oughta be good. A bunch of airplane nerds building armor. What could possibly go wrong?

FUBAR