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  1. Clunkmeister
    Well folks, Kitty Hawk throws me a slight curve ball. This is to be a display model at hobby shows, so it’s gotta be closed up. Open canopies, speed brakes, etc get broken constantly when picked up and handled at shows. That nugget of information completely slipped my mind during the build, so here we go. Yay. Because the kit is designed to have the canopies open, two guesses what that means. And the first guess doesn’t count. Yep, the canopies don’t fit! Oh, they fit the openings just fine, but the kit gives you all the scale goodies such as inner canopy rails, latch mechanisms, lifts, locks, everything. So, not only does all that go away, but the scale thickness of the plastic canopy means the rear canopy hits the top of the rear seat. By about 1/32 of an inch. So, out come the trusty nippers and #11 for some creative modeling. Heheheeeee
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    Nothing ventured, nothing gained, my friend! Next Kitty Hawk kits for me to build are the OS2U and the big ol’ Sabre Dog. But I never saw myself building this one, so who knows? Maybe I’ll snag me a Mirage or an F-5 recce Bird when they hit the streets. I like the kits. OOB yes, and maybe a few details are generic or not for your exact chosen prototype, but even OOB, they’re challenging enough to make the build enjoyable and not robotic. The coolness of resin without the headaches and resin dust.
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    I really like it. Not an armor guy, but I think I might be able to stomach his one.
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    Or by having to wear bib overalls and a straw hat.
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    Agreed, but as it’s OOB, on they go. Maybe finding a John Deere, Caterpillar, or M.A.N. Logo might help?
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    Almost there. OOB build, and it looks like an F-5: it looks fast and it’s pointy at the front. Tomorrow, on go the canopies, position lights, nozzles, and sensors, etc. I’ll then call it done and in the mail on Monday.
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    Awesome Hannover, Sir. What time period would this Polish kite depict? Obviously postwar, but late teens, early twenties or mid twenties?
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    Ron, the B-17 has plenty of shape issues, the most obvious being the nose cross section. The top of the nose area should be flattened, but the kit depicts it as round. That throw off the shape of the windscreen bottom where it meets the nose section, and alters the shape of the top of the panel. There are several threads on fixes for this, both here on LSM and on TOS, but it is somewhat "involved". There are also numerous other little niggles that Nige would be much better versed on than me. I have the kit, and will build it. To me, it looks quite like a B-17, and that's fine enough with me. Other guys here would slap my head for uttering such craziness, but to each their own. Nige is the guy to talk to on these kits, and like the Lanc, he worked up quite the list of things to make the big Fort 100% correct.
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    Go for it Jeff! Do they have any future plans of making this aircraft airworthy?
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    Well, if you want the problem fixed under warranty, get in, go for a drive, and blow a couple power shifts with your right foot glued to the floor. You might get an input shaft or even a complete transmission as a bonus.
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    Good to have you back, Harv. Now get building!!
  12. Clunkmeister
    Valve or injector noise? Maybe chain noise?
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    Make sure there’s no coolant in it. I’d change the oil again and run the engine, get it up to temperature and let it run. Then change it one last time.
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    Milky oil isn’t cool. Where’d the water come from?
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    Yes yes yes yes!! I’ve been looking for a decent one for years. An old girlfriend had a Lada Fiat style Sedan that thing was the only car that would start when it was -40 outside. And the heater would melt your skin off at -40.
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    Yup. It was the single worst piece of kit the CF bought in my entire time in Service. Slow, unreliable, unstable, top heavy, and don't forget how it was prone to starting grass fires if left sitting with the engine running for a minute or more. Like when, for example, you were acting as a repeater station and you needed to charge the batteries. Plenty of German fields went up in smoke due to that pile of crap. It's the ONLY Army car I've ever known that literally fell apart from the recoil of Ma Deuce.
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    Now Martin, Though shalt not ride around on performance tires in the dead of winter. Keep it safe in the garage until the snow's gone, then go find Ronnie when he's out in his Vette and show him a clean set of Ford taillights.
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    Yup, I saw that after I looked closer. But German jeeps give me the shivers, all because of that piece of crap Iltis. Typical Canadian Army Generals vetted by a hippie led Government that refused to spend money on it's Military. We were offered the G-Wagen as well as the Humvee back then, but they much preferred a cheap throw away piece of junk. They would had been better off leaving us with our hodgepodge of worn out Jeeps. An M2 BMG would shake the Iltis to pieces, they rusted almost immediately, and they'd just up and quit running for no reason whatsoever, no warning, nothing, just poof, you're walking, and lugging all your stuff plus your mounted MG and all it's ammo. And in the end, after the Iltis fiasco, guess what? They went and finally bought G-Wagens like everyone else in the modern world.
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    Oh good grief! When they took our old Jeeps away from us we all thought they’d issue us Humvees like the US forces were getting, but somebody got paid off and they gave us these horrible VWs they called Iltis. They were truly World Calais Galloping Pieces of Schitt The shape alone of that thing brings back bad memories and gives me the shakes . The shape alone of that thing brings back bad memories and gives me the shakes . Even a Kubelwagen would have been better, and if they absolutely insisted on buying German, why not G-Wagens like everyone else with a real brain bought.
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    As usual, I look into one of Cees’s builds and find myself picking my jaw off the floor. Un-bloody-believable is all I can say. Blown away!
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    Nige, we're counting on you, Brother. Don't lead us all to doom. The pressure's on now.
  22. Clunkmeister
    Lots done but didn’t quite finish. Still need to drop the seats in place, mount canopies, dullcoat followed by lights
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    Next lamp oil burner will be Aero-Vodochny L-39 or Mug-15. L-39 is the best looking jet ever made, by any Nation, ever.
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    That little Yuck should go together nicely. KH kits are decent, but have their little foibles. At times, the guy writing the instructions gets dyslexia and reverses part numbers on handed parts. But it’s usually easily caught. I love challenging kits, and this kit is far from challenging. It’s just a nice, easy build. The challenging part is the research, because it almost seems like no two Nations F-5s were optioned the same.
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    Scott, that 66 looks like it was pretty tough. Awesome save, man.
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