Clunkmeister

Me too, Peter, me too! It’ll be the only 24th scale kit I’ve ever looked forward to.

Hey John, I’ve said it once, I’ll now say it again. This build is seriously stellar, man! Have you heard anything about the big Airfix release and when to expect it?

OK, here’s couple shots with a bit of lighting on it. Definitely lighter, and I think it’ll lighten up a lot with a flat coat and in actual sunlight. Thoughts?

Phil, agreed. The Luftwaffe might have had a hard time getting a bead on that. It must have hurt their eyes to look at it. Send in the colorblind pilots! I’m thinking those who flew there took a lot of good natured ribbing from the other crews. But what a crappy job, flying the most beat up, clapped out, barely hanging together piles of junk in inventory, that if not for needing an assembly ship, would have long before become a source of spare parts. Id expect some of those barely wheezed themselves into the air, and the airframes were so bent that they crabbed along half sideways. With B-24s, they talk about “The Mushers”, which were aircraft that were rigged wrong at the factory and couldn’t get up “on the step” where the Davis wing was efficient, instead they just mushed along, nose high, needing more power to keep up with the others and drinking their fuel as a result. I expect that’s what these things flew like.

hehe. Phil, you, Sir, crack me up!

I’m considering lightening the lightest grey a bit more still. It’s definitely too grey, although it looks good in person. I might take it out in the sunlight to see how it looks. Maybe mist it in white tinted Future to lighten up the entire thing It these are the color call outs I found. I don’t necessarily trust KH or any kits color call outs. These colors I got off a VFC-111 site and I used Gunze paint

Ivan, there are two schemes for this aircraft, a tri tone grey, and the blue camo. I’m doing the tri tone grey because Glen wanted OOB. There’s the grey scheme... And the blue... Same jet, different camo The model as it sits If anything, my light grey is too grey, although it’s much lighter in person.

Oooh, nice choice, Mike. Finally someone's bringing out the Big Iron! I have the Rudel G boxing with the cannons, and a bit of AM including brass barrels. I've always wanted to build it, but other stuff kept getting in the way. Great choice of subjects, and I'll follow this with interest!

Taxidermy gone wrong. You're supposed to use preservative, Martin. Or did you just Frankenstein the dear departed cat that your dog just dug up in the neighbor's yard?

Pimp my Ride!

hahahahaha. Poor Drifter, all alone down there, so far away he can't smack our heads when we make sport of him.

I remember poking holes through them with hot needles to make "bullet holes". Of course I went way overboard and in the end they looked like ground targets at a gunnery range.

Myself as well, Hubert, but I have a cunning plan. being an ex civilian freightdog, I can attest to civilianized C-47s in various state of loading/unloading, littering the ramps at many northern airports. They'd leave enough space between them for other DC-3s to get by, but you were pretty much screwed in anything with longer wings. If you ever wondered what many of the better equipped airports in Northern Canada looked like, the bottom pic just about nails it perfectly. Lambair at one time was a huge player in Northern aviation. As a kid, I remember their DC-3s and C-47s everywhere. They were about done by the time I flew up there, but they sold everything to other operators. I expect the Eagle Eyed among us have already spotted the Viscount hiding behind the C-47. Air Canada was also a major customer for the larger Vickers Vanguard.

Shep Paine was HUGE inspiration to me, as well as many others of my generation. When I bought my first 1/48 Monogram B-17, I remember being absolutely enthralled by the included color folders showing his amazing work. Mr. Paine, above all others, inspired me by showing me what was actually possible with that box of plastic on my bedroom table.

Yup, an HPH kit. And I can testify that HPH has come a long way.....

I have likes for sale....

hahahahahaaaaaa

Bottom one was on my doorstep today.

No armor for me it turns out. My year is full. I made the decision to cut the hole in the fuselage for the spotter’s window to force my decision on schemes. Now I need to fill all those side windows. As much as I love wartime schemes, I really think different is good here.

I’ve never heard of that before, hmmm. Was Harv here? Did he use all the likes up? I hope James or Jeroen can answer this as I never knew we had a finite amount of likes.

Looking great, RyN. I’m taking tips from this build for when I eventually attempt mine.

Oh crap, let the love fest begin. 243 years and STILL Looking for a Few Good Men.

Looking great, John. I wish a P-40 excited me because I have a few in the stash, but I’m a round engine guy.

To me, The Next Generation is as good as the original. Patrick Stewart made that series, and if I was doing he casting, I would have never in a million years cast a noted Shakespearean actor in the role of the Captain. But someone did, convinced Patrick Stewart to do it, and made the best of the bunch, IMHO. Every bit the classics as I he original series. The takeoffs from Next Gen were, to me, poor attempts that fell way short.