Clunkmeister

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

I feel blessed! The F-5F made it safely to Virginia for the Old Dominion Open, where it was displayed by Kitty Hawk in their vendor area. It looks a bunch better than I remember.

Carl, that’s looking stunning, man. Good grief it’s gorgeous

AK sprays better than Gunze Mr. Color? I’m sold on that stuff, so it’ll take much convincing.

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Interesting perspective. I think I would have been up there with your Dad, sitting on the roof and watching the show. You don’t think about such things as an errant bomb or blast shock when you’re a young boy. But if I were your Grandfather, I’d probably have tanned your backside as well.

Well with the F-5F done, onward we go, this time with a total renovation of my hobby room. We have a massive immovable gun safe on one end, so space is at a premium, so, I bought a sturdy steel framed 8’ work table, which I’ll bring in tomorrow. But tonight, I spend a bit of time assembling a few HZ modules. There are many of these, so this will be a fairly lengthy process.

Thanks everyone, I really appreciate it. It’s a great little kit full of potential. Other than the canopy catching me unawares at the very end and somewhat spoiling the result, it was an absolutely painless build. My thoughts on the canopy. Both hoods are designed to be displayed open. Both come with full internal structure in both plastic and PE, and the lift mechanisms are beautifully detailed and complex looking. As a result, closing the hoods is impossible after they’ve been built up. Of course, I built them up to pose open. But literally on the last day of the build, the light went on in my head that Glen wants closed canopies. That meant taking fully detailed, painted, decaled, and weathered canopies and somehow stripping the entire structure out without scratching or breaking them. Then, fitting them to a model that was built with no regard to the fit of the canopies. Some minor trimming of the rear ejection seat, fuselage rails and rear bulkheads. Just the fact I was able to mostly accomplish this, to me is a testament to the canopies themselves. I’ve cracked multiple Tamiya and Hasegawa hoods and theKitty Hawk ones worked well. A bit of an accident on one lower rail, but nothing huge. Talk about builder error. I committed the first moral sin of modeling: forgetting how it was to be displayed. If I’d have remembered, the hoods would have been on early as well as being masked and painted along with the airframe. Thanks for watching y’all! Glen will have this at the Kitty Hawk display this weekend in Richmond, Va.

Martin is the man! He has many little tricks....

Now, I build one my way. Fix the little inaccuracies and open the bloody canopies