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Jeff, that video brings back memories, although you could usually replace the trees with drifts of white stuff..

Martin, those Czechoslovak trees and mountains get taller in the fog. In Qu’appelle, Sask, there was a many hundreds of ft high microwave tower that stood about 500 yds north of the main East-West Trans Canada Highway. Every year it seemed, it’s guy wires would claim a Cessna, Piper, or Beech when they were scud running to Regina, following the highway in a snowstorm. After bad snowstorms, there were always airplane parts scattered all around, along with the inevitable occupants and personal belongings. I have no idea how many airplanes that tower took down over the years until they relocated it farther north about a mile. I think it took a family being killed to wake up the politicians. That bloody tower almost claimed me as well. Probably 3 weeks after getting my fresh new Private Pilot License, I got caught in the crap coming back from Brandon. Yep, 400 ft, stay to the right of the road, and oops, I remembered the tower in the nick of time and straddled the road until past the town.

Pressure’s on Nige now to steer us clear of icebergs. And Phil, feel free to dive in anytime. My Lanc build is starting this weekend. Build thread as well, so here we go.

John, I may not always comment, but seriously man, your Corsairs are getting better and better. They’re just stunning, man, truly stunning. I’d love to see your take on a Tamiya A6M to go with the Corsairs. I’m being drawn to one myself. Personally, I’m looking forward to the big Airfix ‘Cat...

Not this one. Bratwürst is grilled on low heat with a bucket load of patience. And as for the he big Colt Peacemaker, I prefer a ‘72 New Army in 45 Colt with the loading gate cutout.

Dad was a Radar tech and also worked with the Height Finders. Mom was what they called a “Fighter Op” or similar. She was one of the ones around the big plotting board moving aircraft emblems around with those long wooden sticks while the Brass stood on the balconies looking down. She later moved to GCI once the plot boards were obsolete. Not that the RCAF was big on GCI. The bomber interceptors carried back seaters with their own radar. We moved all around. Pine Tree Line, Mid Canada Line, and D.E.W. Those were back in the days of mhaximum effort where everyone, even us kids knew the reason we were there, and a big computer system called S.A.G.E. It seems she antiquated today, but then, Cheyenne Mountain and North Bay were the hubs of freedom and we were the spokes. Voodoos, F-106, and BOMARC were the hammers. Hard to believe they actually thought the manned interceptor was all but obsolete.

Trying to teach a native born Texan how to cook German sausage is like trying to push a string.

This is looking great! Ivan and Martin are priceless treasures when it comes to super secret spy pics of jets. Sorry for your loss, Scott, a T-6 will kill you dead faster than you can blink if you allow it to. Regarding Moon River, I'll leave that one to Andy Williams. I tried it once many years ago at a gig, and, well, just put it this way; Moon River doesn't go well with someone who's been singing Blues and DooWop all night long! LOL. I rest my case. But keep up the work here, man. Everyone needs another good MuG Killer.

I've been told my entire life that I'm pure German, and I had no reason to doubt it. I've met all my Dad's relatives and there's absolutely NO doubt about his heritage. But my Mother's side was mostly a mystery, they were quiet about it, but they all said German. Someone accidentally said "Bohemian" when I was in my teens, and they got immediately corrected. However a couple months ago I was bowled over when my Mom let it slip that her family was Russian with a bit of Belarus and only one German picked up along the way when they were fleeing Russia through Germany in the very early 20's. Somehow, my Great Grandmother ended up with some German in her. This whole news was a big surprise and it answered alot of questions. My parents were both RCAF and being any kind of Russian ties those days while in the depths of the Cold War was seen as very bad thing. Especially since they both worked on the big Distant Early Warning radar arrays on Stations scattered all over Canada and the top half of the USA. Now I know why I was raised on a diet of borscht, sauerkraut, and homemade perogies. These Russkies get around. Sneaky little beggers they are. But it helps explain unquenchable my thirst of and tolerance for copious quantities of Spirit. So yeah we took the test. Joy's came back, and no surprise to us she is over 80% American Indian with the final 20% Western European and a bit of Sub Saharan African. I'm still waiting...... CIA probably has it now, LOL

Actually Williams Brothers is one of those Companies that keeps getting resurrected. They have a line of esoteric aircraft kits as well. 1/72 transports and bombers, such as the Martin B-10, Curtiss C-46, Douglas World Cruiser, etc, and 1/32 Golden Age racers. Gee Bee Model R, Wedell Williams, caudron racer, Laird Super Solution, etc.... Great kits, actually As of a couple years back, they were producing kits.

Yeah, but in a good way. A pint sized Jaguar, but it punches way above it's weight. They've served well and supposedly a new version is in development with more powerful Rolls-Royce engines. The initial series used Rolls Vipers. I've liked this aircraft since being exposed to it in the Jugoslav wars.

I’ll just leave this right here. Like a Jaguar, with a Serbian and Rumanian twist Me likee the Eagle

Very very nice, Nige. Looking forward to your review, sir!

Carl, I agree completely with John, ditch the kit engine mounts and scratch your own. On the engine, if you’re closing the cowl, you don’t need all the rigamaroll on the backside of the engine. You can’t see any of it. And try doing the engine without valve covers. I don’t think you need them, and you can’t see them. They don’t fit well either, so save yourself the trouble. I sanded mine almost completely off. Just make sure to align the engine, nose ring, cowl pieces, and cowl flaps by careful trial and error. You’ll be surprised how well it fits if the engine is on correctly. If it doesn’t fit, you’ve done something wrong. When it’s right, it literally falls together and gives you a better high than hitting a grand slam.

Happy Happy Happy!! I hope you have a great one, man!!

Trumpeter P-39?

Like a bean bag chair... Not even close to being as bad as the La-Z-Boys in the Hobbycrap 1/48 CF-100 though. And yes, I see Derek on FB everyday. We’re all chuckling at each other’s goofy stuff.

Thanks, Insurely appreciate it! Bill, as always, your opinion is most valued. Thanks

Not quite as insane as yours, Phil, but close I think. I've actually really thinned it down and really only have stuff I WILL build, mostly WW1 stuff and resin. The only other stuff are models of things I love, a few early jets and WW2 fighters

Yup. It was high time.....

Hmmmmm. More work ahead. A box from SprueBrothers snuck into my office

Martin, this is AWESOME, man!! Wow! I've always loved the Beau, but have never built the old Revell kit. I'm loving what you're doing with these old Jurassic mouldings.

I don't care what anyone else says, but that's FUNNY!

This is turning into quite the project. I decided to assemble the stuff first, then swap out the bench. Plenty of modules yet to put together. And I even dug up a few half finished, long forgotten about projects.

Thanks Harv. Now on to the RCAF Lanc and a Kitty Hawk kit for the Nats