Clunkmeister

Happy Thanksgiving from the great State of Texas, y’all!

My fastest build time wise was a KittyHawk T-28B that I built straight OOB other than belts. I did it in 6 days. Then a Tamiya A6M2 I knocked out in 3 weeks. Tamiya P-51D in a month. Hasegawa 109F in a month or so. I’ve gotta be an odd duck. This’ll sound crazy, but I find Tamiya kits boring. They’re perfect. I got half through my Birdcage and placed it on the SOD. Resin’s more my game, but too much of that fries the brain as well.

The list is getting a bit longer. woohoo!

I agree. My use of hyperbole can be and often is,.. extreme-ish. But my point remains, given the number of experten out there, plus the number of wholly original or just softly restored examples out there, there are no reasons to miss on this just do the legwork. As for LW subjects, I don’t understand the hostility. 109s or 190s always bring out the haters, andyet, as was mentioned before, especially in 109s, they’re all different.

Truly a stunning exhibition of artistic excellence!

Me three. I’ll buy at least 2 or 3 sets myself

‘Arry Tate’s back!

http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/product?productid=3197 Halberstadt and RE.8 duelist set.

To me a quick build is 24 hours on the bench, completely OOB except maybe for belts an decals. That oftentimes can mean a couple weeks to a month for me, depending on free time, of which I have very little. The F-5 is a recharger of the batteries for me. I was getting a bit burned out. Some can build quicker, not me.

Nyet! It was done by the proletariat as a service that will benefit the collective.

Well, with all the 190s out there, and the recognized experten in the field, there should be absolutely no reason whatsoever a 100% accurate model can’t be produced.

I’d have woken up there after being kidnapped, and trust me, my pants would be sagging from the immense load. It might come as a surprise to you guys, but I’m scared of heights. Not thousands of feet, but the 40-60 feet that over an embankment, or the edge of the Grand Canyon. I’m a believer in technology. Airplanes were built so we don’t need to go stand in such stupid spots.

And here’s some dimensions of the rear panel in mm for the Europeans among us, which appear to be most of us.

Here’s the decals. Front and rear pits with console decals, and panel decals. These decals have had one light coat of MicroSol, no going over whatsoever since dry. As you can see, they performed extremely well. I’m going to go over them with a sharp #11 and then hit them up again. Maybe the scopes needs some transparent green over gunmetal?

So unfortunately, last night I had already placed the decals, so there’s no going back. As of Saturday, this model has been spoken for. A gentleman wants it for his display, wants it stock OOB, except I can have my choice with seatbelts. So, Sundowners it is, box stock, and my old standby of HGW belts.

Yes, as soon as I arrive at La Casa I shall do so.

Freedom Flyers flew war Veterans for free. It looks like that’s what they were doing when the incident occurred.

That was my plan. If I build another I’ll have the left over decal. And so far, it’s building up very, very nicely

That’s the issue we all run into. Unless you’re retired or independently wealthy, finding time is always the biggest challenge.

Phil, my left knee was keeping me up. Signs of age. LOL. So I bellied up to the bench.

And there it is.

Uh oh. Malfunction at the junction. Decal fubar for the USMC version. Here’s both sides of the original decal sheet. They gave you two of the same side And both have the lettering backwards in the Red Star. Oooops! And here’s the one corrected side given, with the corrected lettering. So you’ll need to fix the lettering and Red Star. So typical Marines! First into battle, all gung ho ready to fight like maniacs, and missing half their kit....

I can fake it well enough with a bit of plastic and some well placed wires.

Moving right along...

Did Martin tell you how that started? Yes, Mug-28 Kavorknik